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Jose must have left the handbrake off when he parked the bus. 
The pressure will be on for Mourinho to win either the Premier League or the Champions League next year, any less and he'll most probably become the sacked one. Atletico were as excellent and as vibrant on the night as they have been all season, and Courtois is like a spider. It's going to be another wonderful final.
Valiant effort by the unwavering, perennially underrated commander in chief John Terry, who heroically played through the pain barrier to lead Jose's courageous gladiators with typical awe inspiring aplomb. In many ways though he lost the game he won the greater prize, the nation's hearts. His tears, in many ways, were all of our tears. And while we'll never know for sure it is 100% reasonable to assume that a fully fit JT and Lamps would have seen the boys over the line continues for another 2,000 words
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Sensational, Fred. 
what a great Game for the Final , Madrid - Madrid, hope Atletico wins..
Never realised what an uncanny resemblance there is between Louis Van Gaal and Harold from 'Neighbours'.
This stunning revelation makes that ol' Van Gaal dropping his pants in the Bayern dressing room story just that little bit more weird! Thank God dear old Madge wasn't alive to see it!
Anyone got an idea what the Richter scale reading was when all those Newcastle fans began their "protest"? Must have been like Godzilla trudging through Tokyo.
Hilarious to think of all those whom desperately tried to portray Giggs as some Gary Kasparov level brainbox because his "Yanited" did the unthinkable and beat Norwich, that infamously in form red hot soccer sensation. Woo woo, only a man who understands "the Yanited way" could've pulled that miracle out of the bag.
Don't let the door hit you on the way out, Cardiff. And as for you, Felix, the men in white coats are awaiting your return.
But I thought Giggsy was the new Guardiola!
In before the super-injunction!
The argument put forth last weekend by the likes of Redknapp and Yorke for Ryan Giggs PFM (proper football man) to be given the job full-time because he 'looks the part' was only slightly short of outright madness. Even as a daft laugh, it shouldn't really need to be said that a successful track record is preferable to decent tailoring.
Sniff.
So...Diego Costa will now be wearing blue???
Anyone got an idea what the Richter scale reading was when all those Newcastle fans began their "protest"? Must have been like Godzilla trudging through Tokyo.
Hopefully, the first item on the agenda for the next supporter's trust meeting will be to bring in a proof reader for the protest banners.
On 04/05/2014 at 11:54 PM, COP11 said:So...Diego Costa will now be wearing blue???
The £32m fee currently being bandied about sounds a bit low to me, you could nearly get Andy Carroll for that. 
With every passing week, the title race in Spain is getting wackier and wackier. Assuming that each of the top three win their next game and that Real also win their game in hand, Barca could potentially hand the title to Real by beating Atletico on the final day. I hope Atletico do it though, red and white stripes every time. Except Stoke. And Sheffield United.
I think it's gone up to 57 now. Some reports are saying he has already signed and some say he hasn't. It's anyone guess at this point. I think he should stay with Atletico.
As much as I love Barca, I would love too see Atletico win La Liga.
Mourinho will use him in such a way that he is isolated for all first halves and first bit of second halves <_<
Turning to friends in high places to improve our league position. Questionable if even his gaffer can save us now.
I guess this makes me a believer. 
If there's one thing I've learned over the course of this exhausting and relentlessly mental season of 2013/14, it's that predictions are a mug's game. Not that anyone (including Gus Poyet, I suspect) was actually predicting that Sunderland would be relegated, they were saying it as a point of fact and rightly so at the time. Indeed, the obituary I wrote for our Premier League status in this very thread not four weeks ago can still be found with only two clicks of a mouse. Now, we've secured safety with time to spare and in some style too, a magnificent run of five colossal results (at least three of which were completely mind-boggling) in as many games, and it's as if none of it even happened. A bit like when you come back home after a holiday and feel like you've never been away.
In spite of survival with this group of players, I don't think we should be fooled into believing that we can rely on the majority of them. More often than not over the last few seasons, they've been dreadful. To their huge credit, Poyet and his staff have created a platform, but they must work sensibly over the summer in order to build on it. I'll worry about that later though, first there's the small matter of all the usual showpiece finals and the World Cup to enjoy.
Manchester City's new £24m signing from Barcelona, Yaya Toure, is being paid an initial wage of £185,000. Holy. Mother. Of. Jesus.
Toure is not actually that great. He's not a creative genius who will get backsides off seats but a defensive midfielder who stops players who can. He may not even get a game for City, who already have four highly-rated players to fill that role - Patrick Vieira, Gareth Barry, Nigel de Jong and Vincent Kompany.
I can understand luring the sought-after David Silva to Eastlands for £140,000-a-week, but giving a quarter-of-a-million quid every seven days to a defensive squad player who no other club would have touched for that kind of money and whose name won't sell shirts, is insanity on a previously unimagined scale.
D'oh!
I believe in miracles
Since you Sunderland
You sexy thing
You sexy thing you
Manchester City's new £24m signing from Barcelona, Yaya Toure, is being paid an initial wage of £185,000. Holy. Mother. Of. Jesus.
Toure is not actually that great. He's not a creative genius who will get backsides off seats but a defensive midfielder who stops players who can. He may not even get a game for City, who already have four highly-rated players to fill that role - Patrick Vieira, Gareth Barry, Nigel de Jong and Vincent Kompany.
I can understand luring the sought-after David Silva to Eastlands for £140,000-a-week, but giving a quarter-of-a-million quid every seven days to a defensive squad player who no other club would have touched for that kind of money and whose name won't sell shirts, is insanity on a previously unimagined scale.
http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/opinion/columnists/brian-reade/Brian-Reade-Column-The-millions-squandered-on-Barcelona-reserve-Yaya-Toure-shows-Manchester-City-are-the-whores-of-world-football-plus-Barcelona-cash-crisis-article521641.html
D'oh!
As the kids would say, epic fail. I realise that a quick glance on social media makes a mockery of the idea of football supporters gaining wisdom and I may have to self-publish a book to nail the finer points but, in summary, I think 2010 was the beginning of the end of a more sincere form of Premiership exceptionalism; with a greater influx of alternatives becoming readily available as well as England being unceremoniously battered by a vastly superior team at the World Cup (rather than the usual tears at bedtime penalty arse ache), who's players didn't play in the "best league in the world" and whom weren't previously lauded/revered/known about to the lazier pen pushing toads and sofa botherers. Sky will of course always protect 'the brand' and click bait op-eds by nincompoops saying how Ross Barkley needs a special "deal" between the FA and Everton to "ensure" he becomes one of the best players in the world will continue to exist but the proverbial man in the street, the supposedly naive simpleton in his flat cap, the one who's supposed to be crying at that condescending vomit inducing "#youarefootball" advert, is actually highly aware that all of that is complete bollocks.
If only this gentleman had bothered to watch even a handful of Barça games, he might not have made such an utter, utter fool of himself.
Though perhaps the problem was that Yaya didn't play as much in his second year under Pep?