Yeah, loved last night's match.

So far today's Prem has had a bit of a goal drought, typical that one of the very few scored was against West Ham. We need to have a backup striker for Carroll. Maiga just can't do it.

Big pressure on Holloway in the up coming game. Should be a good one.

Don't know where to find a full recording but ill look for the highlights next time I visit the 21st century internets! (I have a list)

Well Ozil to Arsenal is a great signing. Fellaini has put a transfer request to Everton so he'll be gone soon. How much for is the big question.

Oh and West Brom have FINALLY got rid of the shit Odemwingie.

Oh and supposedly Man Utd have had an offer for Khedira rejected. How many offers for a player have they had rejected now?

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4 players signed on deadline day. Pretty happy with the purchases of Sessegnon and Morgan Amalfitano. Both could be good purchases. No idea why we payed 5 million for Anichebe, it could be a great signing or a terrible one but i'm fairly sure we could have signed a better striker for that price.

Hopefully we can start to improve now. Personally I felt Clarke should have been sacked after Sunday, it was terrible. If things haven't changed in 3 games, we should start looking for a new manager perhaps Gus Poyet.

well yes and no. have they got a striker, or is it another "all balls and no penis" setup like last year?

Haha. No, he just represents another very expensive testicle. Although Giroud's been a decent prick for them so far.

Nice bit of business for Everton too, keeping Baines (for more important I think than Fellaini) and getting Lukaku in on loan.

Meanwhile West Ham don't get anyone in, even though with Andy Carroll injured we now effectively don't have a striker. Losing out on Ba is a big blow, although we should've gone in for Anichebe too. It's hard attracting a striker though when they know that as soon as Carroll's fit they'll be warming the bench. Problem for us though is he's never fucking fit.


Apparently, if you draw a face on your kneecap, it looks remarkably like Ribery - unless you're black, in which case it looks like Jay Z.

expensive you say? then he finally spent the money he supposedly wasn't spending.

and have they gotten rid of that useless gervinho yet? he's the best defender the opposing team can have.

ps- sorry about your team's news.

Gervinho's gone to Roma. Ozil's a good buy and definitely the kind of marquee signing Wenger said he'd get, but I think Arsenal's big problems are in defence which, even with someone as up and down as Gervinho going, is now even weaker.

West Ham will be mid table if Carroll gets to play regularly but without him we're gonna be relegation fodder. Only ray of hope is a pretty strong defence and the possibilty of Karren Brady one day running topless onto the pitch.

but gervinho was an attacker! i mean, the utter shit kind of attacker who will take a ball from the opponent's goal line and kick it out towards the moon instead of scoring (hence "best defender").

i've never paid much attention to arsenal's defense since they seemed to do everything in the midfield though. maybe i should, but my tv prospects are dim for now. (on the other hand, my tests with earthen plasters are being successful). all i can do is read zonal marking.

and you, don't despair, there's still january and the chance that you can get a spare tire for your ex-liverpool loan. i hate it when a team gravitates around a single achilles heel.

Ah, quite right about Gervinho. Thinking of a completely different player.

It seems that Wenger pays even less attention to Arsenal's defence than either of us. It's always been a problem with him. When he first joined them he inherited one of the all time great defences, which his early success was largely built on, but he never really maintained it when the key players retired.

Oh, I kind of enjoy despairing about West Ham. They'll never win anything so worrying about lack of success is pretty pointless. All you can do is wallow in their absurdity while hoping it doesn't get so out of hand that they risk getting relegated again. Beyond that it's simply the hope that they might occasionally get a scalp over one of the bigger clubs. But that's about as good as it gets. Not complaining though. They're still a great team to support, just one that requires a totally different set of expectations than you'd need supporting the bigger teams. The nearest most West Ham fans get to Europe is taking the ferry over to Calais to load up on cigarettes. Still better than supporting Chelsea though.

And Obama's a fan, even though they're less 'Yes We Can' and more 'Realistically We Don't Have a Hope in Hell'.

Bayern getting in the spirit for Oktoberfest ... in lederhosen!



oh dear.

haaa haaaa haaaa haaaa haaaa haaaa haaaa haaaaa

priceless.

Just be thankful Klinsmann isn't designing the USA kit.

Just read that about Harry Redknapp early days at West Ham: how he picked an petulant fan to play for the team one day.
The story's fun and I think it is really well written, which makes it even better.
I had no idea this had happened.
Refreshing!
http://www.theguardian.com/football/...d-fan-west-ham

i just watched the supercup highlights. OH MAAAAAN! i missed something really good.

Always thought it was just an urban legend but apparently not. Great find.

I'm watching the USMNT game on Friday, but with NFL season kicking off tonight and this weekend, its not likely that I will be as into as as during the early summer. "Are you ready for some football?" FUCK YEAH!!!

Good win for England today. Moldova were awful but those are the kinds of games you can easily slip up on. Stopped watching in the second half to watch Ronaldo's hat trick against Scotland. Love him or hate him, the guy's incredible.

Costa Rica go their Eff You game today against USMNT, BUT, we were on a USA record setting 12 game streak so statistical odds were utterly against us. My philosophy about sports is streaks are bad luck, they bring about over confidence at best, and injuries at worst. When the Miami Heat were in their 27 game streak I was literally PRAYING they'd lose a game in there to mellow out. Look what happened? Dwyane Wade got his knees KNOCKED THE FUCK OUT, and went from shooting a career high 58% with 24 ppg to dropping down to bellow 50% with a pedestrian 16 ppg because of nagging injuries....

Speaking of getting knocked the fuck out, here are some great shots of Chicago Bears' QB Jay Cutler getting eviscerated last season ;)



















I got to be careful though. True story, three years ago I was watching a Bears game at my friends house, I trash talked about Chicago one time, and his sister literally ran up and punched me dead in the jaw, hard too, like a dude. I was shocked!! Needless to say, I don't diss the Bears around her, so I'll get it out of my system here