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Apparently he's offered to pay out Hodgson's loan...

The very same.

Saw The Church at mighty Milton Theatre (our local venue down here) on Saturday night. Such a great venue & only 200 capacity. All for $42.00 and they played for 3 and a half hours! Lovely.

Perhaps he's Octville in disguise. Go eat some spiders! I miss Octville.

Well we agree to disagree then on the 50/50 thing. Let's face it - football is a game of inches and microseconds and all players make mistakes in tackles and going for the ball at times. As for Neville's face holding and Moyes' comments....well that was a bit rich.

dkw he's never struck me as a dirty player or a hard man per se like Kevin Muscat. I think if you view the footage he was committed at the same time that Cech had secured the ball. Is that reckless in those circumstances? I don't think so. And yes I'm an aussie but that is a cheap shot & entirely irrelevant. Perhaps you don't remember me from the previous Ashes thread...

Imputations galore in there: the master, overlord sh*t probably takes the cake. Defo lawyer's paradise. Can't believe the ed. let this through - does the Sun even have in-house legal. Makes you wonder. Hope the Sun gets done for plenty - but we'll probably never know, out of court settlement, retraction & all that & other terms not to be disclosed. Roman must be so sick of it. If he does sell up who could blame him?

Horrible little f**ker? Is that based on that incident alone? Jesus. It was hardly a hunt was it. Probably at most deserved a yellow but that's it in my view. Tell me dkw, what's your view of a 50-50 concerning strikers/attackers and goalkeepers?

Not sleeping, not relaxed: maybe it's the fags he's missing. Go on Carlo, light up - maybe the answer to at least some of problems.

Long live the Ashes!

Or Kenyon's wife

I blame Kenyon

And just to spite us Aguero scores! Ath 2 2 Esp

This thread is becoming agueroesque.

Apparently Avram Grant may be available soon...

Ironic? About skilled, classy, gritty german footballers? Never.

Some balance at last.

Well I'm sure we're all glad for you for your complete certainty on the matter.

Nibs - the notion that he may have made a difference is as equally valid as the reverse notion don't you think?

Yes

Pithy summation Butch. And if there is a PR department at Chels at least it's consistent....

Inevitable really given that salary capping for the whole of Europe clubland would be difficult if not impossible to implement. In those circumstances what other options does Roman really have? Apart from the UEFA level playing field stuff (being the only real alternative to salary capping of clubs) which to be honest and notwithstanding what most of us think of the present UEFA heirarchy given their on-going bias against us, is the right step, it is trite that without the extra 15 to 20 odd thousand through the turnstiles each game, Chels will, over the longer term, not be able to attract the best let alone starting to pay back to Roman the substantial amounts he's invested in us. And I would've thought that over the long term, and should it proceed, it may be a long term stabiliser for ticket prices as well. As to whether it happens though....London Councils...a kafkaesque nightmare.

It might be nice if he could at least take our corners against Fulham - wouldn't need to come on exactly.

Spot on Nibs. Surely Carlo has seen enough of Ramires & McEachran now to know that the latter is better in every department and should start. No doubt they did their homework and targeted Ramires as the weak link today. And it worked to a tee. He looked like a schoolboy out there - even in the second half. More playing time? Not in this league.

Mikel