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Doesn't get anymore real than CCR ! :competitive: .

Creedence Clearwater Revival :rock: .

cahill will show schwarzer who's the best aussie in the prem .. 2-0 to us .. cahill both. couldn't care less about what happens to newcastle.

that would be great as a winger .. another player i've always loved on the wing is Joaquin .. anyone know anything about his availability? i wonder if pienaar would have the same impact playing from the right .. he's so good at cutting inside and creating things in the middle of the field. still wouldn't mind if there was a GK out there that could put some pressure on howard .. i think he's been poor quite a few games this season.

Player of The Season - JAGS Young Player of the Season - FELLAINI Players' Player of the Season - JAGS Goal of the Season - Fellaini scoring the 1-1 against ManU, placed perfectly in the corner, outjumping Vidic and Ferdinand and then celebrating by kissing the badge.. all after Rooney behaved like a wanker and Neville made the best tackle ever on Ronaldo.

have a good one Steve.. congrats.

boonen caught using cocaine -again- .. although it's not an illegal substance in cycling (it actually has an adverse effect on your conditioning) he is set to face criminal charges.. last time prosecution offered him a deal with strict conditions, which he now obviously broke by using cocaine again.. such a shame.. the pressure must have gotten to him.

what we need is a creativity from a healthy arteta, goal scoring from a healthy yakubu and our other strikers to remain healthy .. our youngsters -rodwell vaughan fellaini gosling- will be a year older (and better) next year .. our two top scorers this season are both our attacking midfielders which says enough about how hit by injuries our strikers were.. all we need is 1/ a right winger 2/ health 3/ another year experience if we can get those three, with the last being a given, a champions league spot is definitely ours to loose.

lol look at joey yobo go .. he just passed baadhi in the standings! couple more and anichebe is toast.

if that's true that's great news .. a right winger with a good cross! it's exactly what we need.. he's a decent player and on a free would make him a great great signing. i'm sure moyes will fix his work ethic.

voted Cahill for his hard work against Jenas ... disappointing game really.. could have caught Aston Villa... shame <_< .

the youngster (rodwell, fellaini and gosling) aren't as omnipresent in the game as you would have hoped..

glad neville is on RB ... we'll see a lot of good crosses coming in from that side now ... cahill and fellaini will get chances!

he was just ok at schalke .. maybe he got a lot better since then but i don't see much added value.. if he comes over we could move neville back to RB, seeing how poulsen is a defensive CM.

I would have to agree with that .. especially that Essien deserved a red card for that hard foul. The only penalty I can see is the handball by Picque .. which should also have been seen by the assistant referee and it definitely was a penalty.. Barca should have finished the game with 11 men.. Chelsea played 180 mins of defensive football, i think they could have scored 5 goals against that weak Barca defense if only they had attacked more .. I see it as a mistake by Hiddink. all in all, a Barca - ManU final is what one would call a dream final.

hm it's getting a bit out of hand.. http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id...gue&cc=5739 .

well they'll be rested for the FA cup final now <_< .. that'll be a tough game. it wasn't a red card, but one of those fouls certainly could have been a penalty.. especially the Picque handball.. didn't feel like the last one was a foul.

really hoping for a Barca - ManU final now .. in my mind the two best teams in Europe this year, would be an epic final.

I'm not all that up to date with what can be done with these kinds of forums, but is it possible to give a "Top 3" for each match?

haven't watched him too much this year with the spurs, but at PSV last couple of years he was a great asset.. I think he'll definitely will come good for them. i'm hoping we play better than the last couple of weeks and get a 2-0 win.. Jo and Jo.

Congratulations! Quite the milestone.

ok you're correct that football could be considered something different than a regular business. said commissioner has chosen not to see it that way. i'm also not advocating a united states of europe, but in the field of cross-border employment, the EU has the competence to decide. seems like people in different Member States haven't yet come to grips with the fact that a lot of legislation these days doesn't come from their own national parliament but are mostly measures toward market integration taken by the commission, council and/or european parliament. i don't totally understand why it's cheaper for for example Benfica to employ an Italian, than it is to employ a Portugese.. could you explain that, does that have to do with social security payments or something? in any case it must be because of national taxation.. so i'm guessing the fault lies with national authorities on that issue(?). same goes for the issue of getting EU-citizenship. The EU doesn't give citizenship, it's the member states that grant citizenship.. if Deco gets Portuguese citizenship, I as a Belgian don't have a problem with that although by Portugal deciding to give Deco Portuguese citizenship, him and me now share european citizenship.. If Ronaldo wants UK citizenship, how can you have a problem with that? If he meets the requirements and he wants to have UK citizenship, then who has the right to deny him? Portugal has a much stronger league than Malta, so inferior Portuguese players have to go abroad to get work, seems logical to me.. don't really see a problem with that.. The same with the Premier League. It's the best league in the world so every player -in the world- wants to play there. You even see an influx in foreign ownership of English teams. As a fan i would want to watch the best players possible regardless of their nationality. It's the reason why i follow the EPL rather than the belgian league. anyway i fully accept your premise that football teams could be treated differently, even though in my mind i don't see the added value of that... .. I don't agree with the comparison to NAFTA, in the field we are talking about a comparison to the USA is much more correct vis-a-vis the level of integration between different states.. and a californian not being allowed to play in NY would at the very least strike an american as an "odd" rule. This is the current state of EU law, like it or not.. .. It is however an anomaly to have different national leagues operating in one european market.. then you get problems like we're talking about now.. where development and investments don't always pay off for the teams due to the freedom of their players to choose where to go. anyway i'll shut up now, i think we've reached common ground .

so we need a system to avoid that .. hmmm well maybe we can start by giving each English player a 1 vote headstart just to make it work for efctaxi .. even our coach is scottish , where will it end? or here's what you could do : just have the MOTM as it is now, but don't count up the votes. Just register as "this guy won that week". Then at the end of the season, have a new poll. Give the data on who won different MOTM throughout the year, so people can remember how certain games went. That'll be the player of the year poll. I'm sure in this season, jags would win in such a scenario. So there's a system in which an English player wins, and Fellaini might not even crack the top 5.

well there's only Egyptian law to be considered .. i don't think Egypt has entered into any enforceable international agreements on this subject. But i'm sure FIFA or the African FA can ban them from international play if they think it's necessary. It is however the most ridiculous solution to a GK problem I have ever heard. .. and i hope the FA doesn't do the same thing seeing how England pretty much has the same problem.. I fear for Tim Howard .

God I hope this is true. I don't like Crouch at all and would much prefer Jo here. And if this means Man City won't be throwing money at Zigic or Pavlyuchenko, even better.