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I got my first pair of footy boots from steve heighway's shop. They tried to flog me them horrible umbro numbers he wore, but I wanted adidas.

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on his/your tod comes from cockney rhyming slang tod sloane = alone he was a jockey famous jockey http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tod_Sloan_(jockey)

when the Khaladze deal was bounced we were still struggling to qualify for the next phase of the champions league. Now that obstacle has gone we are back in the transfer market. I believe these events are related. Each round of the CL is worth 2-3 million in gate/tv/prize money so even one round is a good chunk of change, and if the budgets have been prepared prudently it should be windfall.

lost to arsenal in 1950 and burnley in the mists of time

this is what rafa inherited Goalkeepers 1 Jerzy Dudek, 22 Chris Kirkland, 29 Patrice Luzi Carl Medjani, 2 Stephane Henchoz, 36 Jon Otsemobor, 3 Steve Finnan, John Welsh, 21 Djimi Traore, 4 Sami Hyypia, 15 Salif Diao, 23 Jamie Carragher 16 Dietmar Hamann, 18 John Arne Riise, 13 Danny Murphy, 28 Bruno Cheyrou, 17 Steven Gerrard, 25 Igor Biscan, 11 Vladimir Smicer 10 Michael Owen, 9 El Hadji Diouf, 20 Anthony Le Tallec, 5 Milan Baros, 24 Florent Sinama Pongolle, 7 Harry Kewell, 8 Emile Heskey, 26 Richie Partridge and a commitment to sign Cisse with that bunch he has had to compromise between buying the 1-2 world class players each year with the need to revamp the whole squad. Its a well made point that half of the first team are still those players that rafa inherited, but consider who has gone and what they've been replaced by across the whole squad and you can see rafa has done pretty well with the money he had available. I think he's now reached a position where he can go for 1-2 players a year and concentrate his budget rather than having to compromise so much as previous years. I've no arguament that Rafa has underachieved in the transfer market compared to Wenger, but in his first few years Wenger inherited a great defence and built the midfield and forward line by acquistion, its only in the second half of his arsenal tenure that we've really seen his youth policy kick in. I'm hopefull that what Rafa has put in place will deliver a smilar dividend for us in the coming years. The reserves under GH were really the stiffs, but now they look there is a genuine possibility that some of them may progress to the first team and we are out competing for the best teenage talent across the world.

I particularly like his use of the subjective phrase "once again showed" Without the exact details I cant take kaiser seriously

where are the stats to backup this assertion? without stats its a meaningless contribution.

this is getting silly, a midfield of gerrard, alonso, babel and benny is being dominated by derby. just want to get out of this game with the points.

voronin injured?

offside so wouldn't have counted

midfield seems to be playing very deep, only babel regularly getting forward.

carra volleys over and open goal from a corner. what a miss!

i linked from footy doctor and its listed as livefooty 7. I cant help you any more than that.

works ok for me using sopcast

where is kaiser when you need him? riise had his little chum harry kewell playing in front of him, and once again was at fault for the goal.

10 million for ashley young from watford to villa. I can't remeber anything bigger than that.

luis garcia on valentines day http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn6c31qUsCk

couldn't happen to a nice guy. Merry f***ing Christmas Lawrie. oh no wait a minute does this mean we'll have to put up with the soft c*** on FA Cup MOTD telling Hansen how he won the FA Cup. Can't wait for the day Jockie snaps and tells the soft c*** to shove his medal up his a***. AND he looks like f***ing joe90 in them daft bins an'all

on current form I'd take Milan, but as the fixtures are two months away they'll no doubt have improved, so Madrid.

Graeme Suness? crap manager who sold his story to the sun 5 years after hillsborough. I'd say that's pretty demeaning.

double post

alonso slices a clearance for a corner. easily cleared

we were caught out a few times, Lampard should have scored, but we showed good creativity going forward lucas in particular had a great chance that cech saved

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