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well the idea is in the area of employment to look at EU citizenship rather than which Member State you are from .. you could implement the 6+5 rule applying to non-EU citizens. from the EU's point of view a player of Sporting that came through the youth program of Austria Wien is the same as one that came through the youth program of Benfica, allthough one is portugese and one is Austrian they're both EU citizens and you can't discriminate amongst EU-citizens .. and that is my whole problem with the 6+5 rule, it takes away from the fact that the EU is in this process of unification and tearing down barriers to free movement and then FIFA tries to implement an new barrier amongst different Member States. to me it's the same thing as a player born in London not being allowed to play for Everton because there's already two guys from Ipswich and four from Birmingham playing for Everton. (although i do realize that for some people that might be taking it a step too far, it's just how i see the EU in the areas where it has been given exclusive competences).

Claude Debussy - Arabesque No. 1.

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would very much prefer him over either Crouch or Zigic .. 10m would be a good price if we have it to spend.

? .. Bayern isn't a team that can afford to mail it in for one year .. they gotta be there at the top evey year.. i don't think there's a chance in hell they'll let Toni or Klose go.. Podolski is most of the time a benchplayer for them so he's probably available.

only saw the second half, but based on that : pienaar.

enough luck involved with that one Good one peanuts.

how are we playing ? i missed the first half. from what Mike listed as our starting XI, looks to be the very best team we can field.

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i recognize the problem, i just have a problem with the solution fifa proposed. it's just such a serious breach of EU-law and i see no justification in the exceptions of art. 39 ECT.

well it's a ridiculous plan ... it goes against one of the core constitutional provisions of the EC treaty. i'm happy the commission made it clear that this is highly discriminatory and therefor illegal, if we would have had to wait for a European Court of Justice ruling the damage would have been much worse. anyway if they're so in love with the rule they can still apply it in non-EU states, if it works there maybe they can convince the Member States of the EU to take that whole "discrimination" thingy out of the treaties .

if bayern pick hleb that's a good deal for both teams . the best team in the world just got a little bit better.

in my opinion neither should play .. back to the no-striker team that was so successful in the middle of the season.. if we score a goal it's probably going to come off a set piece anyway. if we do play with the lone striker i fear we might be pushed into the role of just a counterattacking team which just hoofs the ball forward for Vaughan to run after .. winning the midfield battle is crucial and against a good side like chelsea, that probably means having 1 player more in that area than they do.

if you add fellaini to that team that got a draw at stamford bridge, then we're a better more dangerous team .. so logic demands we win the cup final that's what keeps me going at least.

that's a good idea. when i clicked on that tottenham forum link, the first thing that appeared in my browser was a google-ad .. that's definitely a bad idea.

Good one .. also quite like this one : The fact that I'm mortal is yet to be proven. - H. Mulisch.

i second that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Peterlin ... looks impressive .

good read .. i love amokachi .. was my favorite player of Bruges for a long time.

it's a shame .. because in reality he's exactly the kind of player we need to add to our squad in the offseason .. a rightwinger with a great cross.. just too bad that his off the pitch problems proved to be too much for him to handle.. best of luck to him.

only 3 to 4 ? at least if your grades aren't that good, you got a lot of room for extra effort . but i do sympathize with how your feeling, i've got to finish my masters thesis and i'm sick of it.

can't believe you both wouldn't include Ibrahimovic even on the bench .. Serie A players seem to be missing from both your teams .. It's a pretty good league, you should watch it more. anyway, still convinced though that even aaron's team with sneijder(??? ) would run over an all-offense, disorganized south american team.

yes the overall number of deaths will be much lower now than in 1918 .. however the reason young people died in that 1918 pandemic is because the better your immune system the more effect the influenza had .. that hasn't changed ... so while in total numbers there will be fewer deaths, percentage-wise there'll still be more amongst youngsters. not that this has much relevance in our world of today but i just found it interesting that immune system and dying were positively correlated .

current virus has the same subtype (H1N1) as the 1918 flu pandemic which mostly killed healthy young adults ... soon it'll be just you and Bill :-) .

---------------------------------------Casillas--------------------------------------- ----Bosingwa-----------------Puyol ----------Vidic-----------------Jankulovski-- ----- Ronaldo -------- Gerrard -----------------------Pirlo -------- Ribery ------- ---------------------- Torres ---------------------- Ibrahimovic ------------------- in my opinion this team would beat anything any other continent can put together. actually i'd love to see a game of this team against south america, could be the greatest game ever.