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    Regarding his comments after the game, it's not for me to be offended or otherwise on behalf of the youngsters he slated. If it gives them a kick up the arse and improves them in the future when they get chances, he was right to do so, if it demoralises them and harms future performances he was wrong, and only time will tell. Don't care whether carrots or sticks are used, as long as the donkey moves.
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    To be fair, Carroll for £33m or Downing for £18m would still have been, well....trouble is putting it mildly. I see what you're saying and if Inter came back wanting us to double our offer we should give them the finger. But an extra couple of million, well it depends how much Brendan wants him I guess. Which is why I'm always a fan of a manager at least having input into negotiations, even if not conducting them personally, rather than being a head coach having players handed to him, or even saying to a DoF 'go and get him' and waiting for the result.
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    The face van Persie pulled when he slid across the deck after scoring his first goal for that lot. Although the fact it's found its way into Sky's intro thing doesn't help, otherwise I'd probably have forgotten it by now. De Gea as well, although I never noticed it when he was playing for Atletico. Maybe there's a pattern here.
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    Ah, the old 4th vs winning the cup debate. Apologies if I'm stating the obvious, but I don't think anyone sees 4th as an achievement, more as a means for facilitating further achievement, a stepping stone, means to an end, choose your phrase. If you told me we'd finish 4th one year, but finish lower the subsequent season (like Spurs), I'd take winning any trophy, FA Cup, League Cup, the sodding Charity Shield, over that. But we'd stand a better chance of winning things as a side established in the Champions League with the revenue and pulling power that brings.
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    In all fairness, as much as I hate the piss-stained twat, that bolded one I'd say is the manager's right and he didn't let it affect the team as he generally replaced them well, and wouldn't complain if our manager acted in similar fashion if it was appropriate so long the replacement was sound and the results kept coming. Agree with the rest though, if I remember rightly with the Preston loan recalls, didn't he not only recall his own players, but lean on his buddy Pulis to do likewise? Either that or it was an amazing coincidence:whistle:
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    While I won't be cheering them on or gutted if they lose by any stretch of the imagination, part of me wouldn't mind seeing Chelsea come through to win the thing (feel dirty writing that!) if only to open up an extra EL place, I know we should be focussing on doing as well as we can and aiming for top 4 or failing that 5th and the automatic EL league place, and that some people don't want to be in that competition at all, just how I feel. Wasn't best pleased after our late surge from Hodgson mediocrity to 6th was rewarded with, well, fuck all while Birmingham and fucking Stoke got to play in Europe instead. I know them's the rules and conversely got us into Europe last year after finishing 8th, and we could still do something in the FA Cup this year, but the more avenues to Europe at this stage of the season, the better.
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    I don't think time together matters all that much. Me and the ex attempted moving in together after two years. Didn't last very long, and at the time I was all like "too soon, we'll try again later" we never did. The two reasons it didn't work, 1) the place was tiny and it was impossible to get our own space, and 2) with hindsight, we were never that right for each other, as evidenced by our actual break-up (genuinely mutual) a year or so later. By contrast the sister and her other half moved in together in a matter of months, in a larger place, and are still together 3 or 4 years down the line. So my advice would probably be to give it a shot, and will probably help you find out, either way, whether there's a long-term future in it. So long as, if either or both of you are the type to enjoy and in fact need your own space from time to time, make sure this arrangement would allow this, otherwise, may be safer waiting until you can have this. EDIT: D'oh should have read the posting dates, hope its going well though!
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    Sold on the inho, bit worried about the first name though, shouldn't it be spelt with an F and one p? 'Philippe' sounds a bit too Frenchie for my liking. Abort. *In all seriousness, hope we get him.
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    Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother, generally whatever middle-of-the-road crap E4 pumps out around midnight on weekdays when lay in bed wanting to be tired. If my computer had a remote this would probably apply to me:
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    Chelsea's current manager > Moyes > Whoever Everton could get to replace Moyes. So for that reason, I'm in.
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    Off to Bayern in the summer according to BBC Sport. Puts an end to the Chelsea fans' wankathon over him going there. EDIT: Never mind, beaten to it by other thread.
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    They say that systems are only as good as the people within them, and West Brom's setup works very well for them, but then the Mancs set up works for them also, by all accounts Taggart leaves the details of training to his coaches, but still oversees everything, picks the team, dictates transfer policy and faces the cameras. My own personal opinion is that whoever picks the team, and is largely the most 'accountable' one (i.e. the guy who pays with his job when it goes tits-up), should have control and the final say over all footballing matters, even if they delegate a lot of coaching, scouting, youth setup etc. and don't actually do everything. So for that reason I went with Manager.
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    No butter, not required. I only butter toast and only then if said toast has nothing else on it. No sauce either, fuck that shit, the flavour of bacon is the most perfect thing on the planet and not to be fucked with.
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    Maybe require 3 under-70s along with the 2 U50s and 1 U30. Either that increase the required number for the latter two. Might be a pain for everyone to re-do their lists though.
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    Fair point, I had him too so I'll replace him. Thatcher Nelson Mandela Joao Havelange Ayman al-Zawahiri Robert Mugabe Ronnie Biggs Prince Phillip Tito Vilanova (U50) Bashar al-Assad (U50) Lewis Hamilton (U30)
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    Stella, Kronenbourg and Warsteiner are the 3 that get me. The latter doesn't so much give me a killer hangover like the other two, but sends me fucking loopy way beyond the realms of the levels of pissed-ness I'd expect from a ~5% beer.
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    Thatcher Nelson Mandela Ian Brady Ayman al-Zawahiri Robert Mugabe Ronnie Biggs Prince Phillip Tito Vilanova (U50) Bashar al-Assad (U50) Lewis Hamilton (U30) Bush to buy it on December 28th.
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    Bolton. Not sure if it's the Fat Sam effect from years back, or the amount of irritating C-list celebs that seem to have spawned from the place, but was chuffed when they went down last year despite having no real rational reason to be.
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    In Leeds city centre trying to grab a bite to eat on my lunch break today, there's like, a stand advertising that it is selling steak sandwiches. Not bad at all, could go for a bit of that after the morning I've had. Normally I make a point of asking for anything along these lines without any sort of sauce (even though I fucking shouldn't have to, by rights), but was in a rush and noticed a load of the usual disgusting crap like ketchup and some brown shit & white shit that some people choose to defile their meat with, and assume that as a result they're optional and I can safely get some fucking meat in some fucking bread, maybe with some token rabbit food that I can pull out and leave to the pigeons. So it arrives, accompanied with 'there's garlic mayo on there already but other sauces there if you want them'. THE FUCK?! MAYO? ON A FUCKING STEAK? Forget how disgusting it is in general. Actually let's not, it's a fucking vile smelling and looking invention that looks like infected jizz and probably tastes like it too. But to defile the king of foods like that, I'd much rather they'd have insulted my own mother in every graphic and gratuitous way possible. Fucking mayo on a fucking steak, what backwards child-touching distopia have I stumbled into?! It's 4:47pm, a good few hours later as I write this and I'm still fucking fuming.
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    That would be an ecumenical matter.
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    I cheat and cut the fat off and when the bacon's done (I do it first to get all the bacon flavour in the pan for other stuff to absorb) leave the fat in there for longer while frying the other stuff until it's all golden and curled up. Sacrilege?
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    Anyone see Slur's post-match interview on Sky last night? "Rafa Beni....Rafael had a good game", or something like that. Must have Rafa on the brain already.
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    I like to think I'm fairly reasonable and tolerant - a yorkshire pudding, like a hash brown or fried tomato, can be easily brushed to one side. I'll save my disgust for baked cunting beans, and to a lesser extent tinned tomatoes, or indeed any other liquid that isn't the innards of a fried egg that dares to touch my plate.
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    They do have the vigilante missions in most GTAs though, OK you're not an actual cop, and don't really witness any crimes (just chase down a car/bike driving around), and yeah that might be worth expanding on. I'm in a bit of a dilemma actually - I'm currently about 30% way through a San Andreas save, and I'm one of these people that likes to complete a game like this before moving on to something else, and at the rate I play it (or more accurately, the free time I'm able to devote), I probably won't be finished by the time this is released.
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    Might give that a try, they're already rotting in the reserves (to be fair Carroll obviously spent most of my game at West Ham so hasn't technically been "rotting"), although neither has come to me and said "I'm don't appear to be in your first team plans"...then me "OK I'll let you go", as happened with Carra. Might try going full arsehole on them and see if that works. I do remember in FM2012 Carroll's departure came because he was late for training one day, I fined him right up the arse and he got a massive strop, and we agreed a mutual termination after that.
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