DetroitBlue

Being an icon of Catalonia?

From playing with David Villa to Craig Bellamy, Adebayor, and Tevez. What a downgrade.

One, get out of the mindset of 4-4-2. Football has moved on from that. Earlier this season, I had to listen to a BBC radio stream for a Chelsea-QPR game. The commentators didn't have a clue as to what formation we were playing. The same for United at Old Trafford. Amusingly, England's best recent run came under Hoddle. Two, this foreigner argument is idiotic. Historically teams do worse when there's less foreigners around, like Italy in the 1970s. England didn't have much foreigners around back in the 70s yet couldn't qualify for the World Cup. Three, stop calling up crap like Heskey and Gareth Barry. Heskey is a joke and still surprises me that he hasn't been arrested for impersonating a professional footballer. Barry is average and isn't a holding mid whatsoever. Four, realize that the talent pool in England's a bit shallow at the moment. It's okay, happens to every country. And what amuses me a lot as well is the way English commentators spout on about Maka when the DM role has been around for ages.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/20...capello-chelsea

Cheers, hope things get better for Portsmouth. As for the celery, it's a Chelsea tradition, one that I quite like.

I am a journalist. A journalist's job is to cover stories. We're not public relations specialists, we're not patriots, and we're not press agents. If we find out that a prominent person is doing illegal things, we're going to report it and publish it. If we find out that someone famous says insensitive things, we're going to report it. The Mail is a newspaper, not a public relations agency. They are doing their job. The first thing I was taught when I went into journalism was act like you're being recorded at all times. Paranoid? Maybe, but when your actions are under a tight watch, you need to be careful. If the Mail did anything illegal or unethical I'd disagree with it, but as far as we all know, Jacobs probably just came up to the Mail and said this and that and boom, you have a story. Also, as far as we know she isn't a reporter.

To be fair a newspaper's job is to report, not act as public relations managers for the FA. As a journo myself if we learn of someone doing something questionable and it turns out to be true, we're going to report it. If anyone should be taking the blame, it's Treisman for being an idiot and not keeping it in his pants.

Just proves that Sp*rs fans, like their club will screw it up.

He's done it quite a bit actually. Most notably, Liverpool away.

As much as I hate international football and would love it if we told FIFA to go do one, I don't begrudge Drogba. Still pissed at the Ghana manager for pushing Essien and at the previous Ivory Coast manager for saying we gave them a tired Drogba. All I can say is f**k you, we pay his wages, you don't.

Unfortunately whoever's left managing us will be unfairly compared to Jose until they win something. Carlo included. I've gotten over Jose when he signed with Inter, but I will remember him. However, all this pining for him is like pining for an ex. There's a reason why you split in the first place. Also, if Carlo wins silverware, I'll be laughing given that there was a bit of an overreaction after a bad run of form on this site. Most notably the Blackburn game.

Really glad that those deluded f**kers got what they deserved. Karma's a bitch ain't it Farca? Fabregas and Gallas injured, gets better and better.

Mascherano's grossly overrated. Resorts to a lot of cheap fouls, resorts to the tackle when a simple interception will do, and doesn't solve problems before they become problems.

Anyone see the pass for Drogs' 2nd goal? Hell of a pass from Mikel. Pirlo-like really.