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  3. Villa

    in Match Days

    Posted · Edited by Fearthainn

    I have a horrible feeling Barkley will be benched today and Osman will keep his starting spot. Hope I'm wrong!

     

    This. I seriously hope we're wrong though.

     

    I want:

     

    Howard

    Coleman Jagielka Distin Baines

    Barry McCarthy

    Mirallas Barkley Pienaar

    Lukaku

  5. Liverpool journey

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    If you want to explore the countryside around Liverpool as well there's plenty to see. I suggest the Formby Red Squirrel Reserve, 20 mins away from the city centre by train. I also like the Another Place sculptures at Crosby Beach, which is a couple of stops before Formby.

     

    Most museums in the city centre are well worth a visit, as is the Walker Art Gallery and Tate Liverpool. I also like visiting Croxteth Hall and park.

     

    North Wales, Chester, the Wirral could all be worth a day trip too. Relatively easy to get to even without a car. Just avoid Manchester and you'll be fine.

  10. Liverpool

    in Match Days

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    I'd prefer to beat them with him playing... But yeah I suppose we'll have a better chance if he's out. His diving can win them a penalty at any moment, not to mention he's likely to injure a couple of our players.

  12. The 5-2 diet. Anyone tried it?

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    Great result. 8kg's in a couple of months?

     

    Yeah I was quite happy! Although I suppose if you barely eat for 2 days out of 7 it's only to be expected that you'll lose weight. I found that on the other days I didn't really have any impulse to overeat as well which was good. On the 2 diet days I tried to save the calories for dinner, that way I wouldn't go to bed hungry and the next day wouldn't wake up wanting to eat the whole cupboard.

  14. The 5-2 diet. Anyone tried it?

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    I was 90 kg after my holiday in Portugal in the Summer (not really fat because I'm 188cm tall but the 90kg mark got me scared). Started following this diet in early July, by the end of August I was down to 82kg which is acceptable. Have stopped it as I was happy with my weight loss and quite honestly I don't think it can be healthy to starve yourself twice a week, haven't put any weight on since.

     

    So in my experience it can be good if you want to lose some weight relatively fast but I wouldn't do it long term. Those 2 days when you starve yourself can also be REALLY long. A balanced, reasonably healthy diet and moderate exercise are more than enough to keep you in good shape.

  21. Guardiola

    in General Football and Sport Discussion

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    Yeah I thought what I meant was obvious but I'll try to make it clearer :rolleyes:

     

    He must take the credit of course for finding the perfect way to utilise Messi (although let's be honest, he's good everywhere), for promoting players from the cantera, for taking advantage of the fact that they had been playing possession football since they were young, etc. These are no small feats. But people seem to credit him with creating this high pressing, possession based tiki-taka football that Barcelona are now known for, when this philosophy had been present at the club at all levels for years. Most of the players he started had already had years to gel as well (again, he knew this and that's why he selected them).

     

    As for Mourinho and "after that he was not exactly given chopped liver to work with". Well, no he wasn't, but like I said above it was on merit because he won the Champions League with Porto, and he was also given the Porto job because he did well with Leiria.

  23. Guardiola

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    Posted · Edited by Fearthainn

    I'd like to see him win a Champions League or Division title with a mid table side.

     

    It's great winning a race, but stick Michael Schumacher in a Lada and he will finish last. Stick them all in Lada's and my granny in a Formula 1 and she will be crowned World Champion at the end of the year. She certainly wouldn't be the best driver though.

     

    I look upon the Mourinhos and Guardiola's as fortunate. It is impossible to label them as the best without acknowledging their circumstances.

     

    Mourinho fortunate? You cannot be serious. Did you miss his time at Porto? They were 5th in the table when he got there and 3 years without a league title. He transformed them into Portuguese, Uefa Cup and Champions League winners with talent that he found in the Portuguese league. Or even Leiria before that when he took them to their highest finish in the top flight ever? Porto and Inter aren't Ladas, but they aren't Ferraris either. He got the jobs at Chelsea and Real Madrid on merit - not because he was fortunate.

     

    As for Pep you could say he was fortunate yes. He is clearly an intelligent manager and seems quite good tactically, although obviously it's difficult to assess his real skill when you manage Barcelona and Bayern. I do feel people give him too much credit for what happened at Barcelona. The real revolution at Barcelona started with Cruyff, Guardiola was just intelligent enough to use the talent available to him correctly and to put the right players in the right places.

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