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Nope, sorry, I've re-read your post, my post and still can't find any connection between the two. Did I say that there wasn't? Or are you just spending the day pointing out the mind numbingly obvious?

I'd forgotten about the Argentinian reaction. The first one steps on his boot when the ref is stood there and as the ref turns away the second steps on his foot. Wonderfully snide.

Yup, I think we are going to be going toe to toe with the Blues for the last European place (6th). Should make the Derby interesting.

Which is ironic as after watching the City game at home, I thought pressing as a unit a la Barca was a core component of the way we were going to play.

Having two midfielders who can defend is common sense. They don't both need to sit but they do both need to be able to break up play.

No, he was a decent but limited player who was effective at breaking up the play. Who does that for us now?

He's technically limited but alongside Lucas he did a good job of breaking up play. I think we have missed a player of his tenacity. Allen was supposed to be able to do that but either the instructions he has been given don't lend themselves to protecting the defence or he isn't a very good at it. Spearing got found out against very good players, not average ones. The Oldham game would have been right up his street for example.

That doesn't equate to the defence are struggling IMO. Those are general team issues. The midfield are struggling IMO, to be honest that has been a weakness since day 1. Letting Spearing go looks a mistake based on the lack of fight that our midfield offers.

Kvarme is probably the one you are thinking of.

That defence though bar one have played at the highest level for club and country. Two of them were the core of one of our meanest defences in the last 10 years. Reina Johnson Skrtel Agger Enrique Not a thing wrong with that IMO, stick Mascherano and Alonso in front of it and it would concede squat. Defence does not need fixing, it needs protecting. Defenders make bad decisions when they are continually put in difficult positions. We need to stop doing that.

THIS

I'll bring some humble and we can have a right cook off. Setbacks though sandwiching massive massive performances and massive massive victories. We were a cup team from February and rightly so. We have none of those distractions and none of those excuses this season. BR has inherited a worse squad though but he hasn't done that much to improve it IMO. Sturridge, yes, Coutinho maybe, Allen and Borini, not really. How much of that is his fault though?

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That is f***ing brilliant

I worry for the chances of his youth team though if naming 5 Chelsea defenders is described as some kind of technical insight though. As a neutral (as I clearly have become after last night), the Spurs, Arsenal, Chelsea fight is shaping up to be a good one for the CL spots. I'm not sure where I would put my money. Spurs are a one man team, Arsenal are mentally unstable and Chelsea are a bunch of c****.

In 11/12 we missed a hundred chances a game until RVP shat on us from a great height and all the players started only turning up for cup games. To be honest it was preferable to this season. You finally think that a corner is being turned and the same issues rear up and bite you in the a***. There is a reason that we haven't beaten a top 10 side, we can't beat teams that are any good. We can try hard, flutter our eyelids at a win, but we cannot close it out. Individual errors, gaping holes, whatever the reason, something is badly broke. Not if that manager gets you back in the Champions League it isn't. What is more damaging, sacking Rodgers now and having a complete overhaul of the playing staff and starting again? Being mid-table for the next 3 seasons despite spending £30m a season? I just don't see this fella building anything other than what he did at Swansea. Who saw Adkins out Pochettino in,? That must have been lined up for ages. We need a winner at the moment. We don't seem to have many on the pitch so we need one telling them what to do.

Incredible story that.

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We always said we were about 4 or 5 quality players off a top class first XI

Did Rafa sleep with your missus?

I think he fits in the 'you need lots of good players to win league titles' model. Best Newcastle player by a country mile when fit (yes even Cabaye). If they want to swap Carroll for him we should bite their hands off. He was involved in everything good that Newcastle did last season and the start of this season. His injury saw the slide begin. In short, he is great and exactly the type of player we should be looking at.

Born in Rio de Janeiro, on June 12, 1992, Philipe Coutinho is a curious case of the phenomenon of globalization in football. That's because just 16 years the boy sensation of San Gennaro had all right to go to Inter Milan so came of age. result of its impressive performance in the Brazil-based selections . precocious talent, the boy spent little time missed as a professional and left the capital in Rio, having charmed the vascaínos since the basic categories and made ​​nice with the shirt of the Brazilian national team in various ages, and arrive in Italy and conquer one of the biggest supporters of that country. Today, Coutinho is the future of Inter and also Brazil's Mano Menezes. Childhood and Mrs. Didi Philipinho, was known as a player, started early with the ball at his feet. Influenced by his parents, Coutinho was discovered by Mrs. Didi, grandmother of a friend from his childhood, after bursting in on a naked condominium where he lived in the north of Rio. was then that his Zé Carlos - athlete's father - decided to enroll the child in a school of futsal in the region and not repented. It was the Sergeants' Club of Rio de Janeiro, springboard to the hose team that would win the Liga Futsal in Rio de Janeiro. Philipinho, scorer of skirt steak, would soon be invited to play in Vasco. In his first season on the team cruzmaltino not made ​​ugly. It was the same protagonist Trophy Futsal League and bewitched club members, including calling the attention of leaders. The year was 2000, the same as the first team of Vasco won the Copa João Havelange - the Brazilian Championship season. 's sovereignty Philipinho on the court soon took to the fields and, in her first competition, and was featured scorer. Awards that left the coaching category ecstatic with the boy-revelation, which gave the club's base alvinegro a succession of state titles in the following years: 2004, 2005 and 2006. jumping quality The rise in base with shirt cruzmaltina would come in 2008, with the title of the 1st Brazil Cup U-17. "Little King" of juniors, Philipinho showed itself increasingly a complete player. It was the absolute owner of number 10 since 2006, the year he quit his attack and ventured into the middle, at the request of the technical committee. Retreated, turned and principal owner of the team name. Amid field, Coutinho no longer scorer to turn the master ball in Historic Hill. His memorable performances yielded the first summons to the Brazilian national team, and Philipe not hesitated and turned back protagonist. Firstly, helped Brazil become champion under-14 International Tournament in Spain. Then bi was the same cup, this time in the sub 15. Later, it was South American champion in that category as the great team player. In 2008, now as a juvenile, remained convened and winning titles - like the Nike International Friendlies Tournament - only to juveniles. among professionals The beginning was the coach Renato Gaúcho's Vasco when Philipe Coutinho was integrated into the main cast for the first time. It was September 2008, and the boy was getting used to living with the professionals. One proof is that next season has already started pre-season with them. During 2009, would have two major challenges ahead, the biggest of his career. Had to adapt to football with adults and still help the team alvinegro to return to the top division of domestic football. Just debuting and helping the team, who was champion of the B Series that year. In addition, he won the South American from Chile with the under-17 National Team. During the second tier of Brazilian football, the player has played 12 matches and gave Vasco fans an idea of what she would miss the following year, when it would move to Italian football. His main point with the shirt cruzmaltina was in early 2010, when he formed with Dodo attack and scored two goals against Botafogo in a 6-0 rout. Inter Milan Hired by Italian club in 2008, when he was 16, Philipe could not move to Milan because FIFA does not allow international transfers to minors. So just "borrowed" the Vasco to be able to wear the shirt of Inter. By assuming the club, Roberto Dynamite could not reverse this negotiation, forwarded by management Eurico Miranda. Thus, in June this year, Coutinho said goodbye to Vasco in the parade for the World Cup. Presented on 19 July at Inter, the young Brazilian had a triumphant start. Impressing everyone, Coutinho won the Italian club's supporters and fought for a place among the members of the team. Acting alongside "monsters" as enshrined Samuel Eto'o, the Brazilian showed personality from the start and won the crowd demanding neroazzurra. During the same year, confirmed the success of early stage when first called by the main Brazilian team coach Mano Menezes and also did not disappoint. After participating in training and Barcelona debut in a friendly against Iran, won a place among the holders of hopscotch and has established itself as one of the pillars of this new generation of national team aimed at the London Games in 2012 and the World Cup 2014. Before that, should participate in the South American U-20, in January. Sheet Name: Philippe Coutinho Correia Date of Birth: 12/06/1992 Birthplace: Rio de Janeiro Clubs who defended: Vasco and Inter Milan Selections base that defended: under-14, under-15, under-16 and under-17

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I don't think the excuse he used endeared him. I was only doing 80 and I was being chased by the press. Really, well you were actually doing 100. He comes across as a complete bellend, probably because he is.

I'm not sure this helped either http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/jan/29/ashley-cole-banned-speeding