Euro Division LXV

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The Enrique & J from 5ive League
 
FC WHU Do You Think You Are - Gregers
Bilbao - Afro
Would you dance, if Ajax you to dance? - Sodhat
Southampton FC - Marky
PSV - GSC
Sport Club Corinthians Paulista - Nando                                                                              
Lille - Trebs
 
Glad t'be bach - Hero
 
FC Basel - cherriesfna
 
FC ZwagAtletico - Zinedine_Ze_Zebra
 
The Nodge - Olly
 
Fool 'em FC - Azzy

He can head the ball. He can tackle well. He has some pace. He can read the game on occasion. What he's never had is a decent CB partner, as Keown did with Adams.

Koscielny is a good partner. He's also better than Vermaelen.

Maybe not Mertesacker so much.

I've never bought that Vermaelen is a good defender. He has never been that impressive defensively. He had the hype in his first season which was purely done to his goalscoring as far as I could tell.

The goals dried up, the focus switched to his defending and he had suddenly "turned" into a bad defender.

I'm with Sod, Koscielny has always looked better to me and I would much prefer him in my defence than Vermaelen

Koscielny isn't a suitable partner for Vermaelen though, they're very similar styles of CB. Mertesacker is a better style of partner for both, but he took an age to get settled.

Morning

Why should Kos be the suitable partner when he is the better CB if the two? Like Afro said Vermalen was rated because of his goal scoring in his first season.

I never said he should be, I'm just saying that Vermaelen was never going to play well with Kos alongside him. If memory serves, both were pretty dreadful at the time. Mertesacker was very poor when he came in, but him and Kos are now a decent partnership. Vermaelen is totally expendable if they get a replacement.

It's probably inevitable that it will be Kurt Zouma or some other French wunderkind.

Van Ginkel out for the rest of the season. Tough break for the kid.

I'll always remember Simeon Jackson putting Vermaelen on his arse at the Emirates (before wildly blazing his shot wide to remind us this was Simeon Jackson not Lionel Messi)

The Kos/Mertesacker partnership works quite well

What are you guys' best songs of the year so far?
I'm considering my own top five as of right now.

In no particular order;

Imagine Dragons - Radioactive
Daft Punk - Get Lucky
Robin Thicke - Blurred Lines
Macklemore - Thrift Shop
Michael Buble - It's a Beautiful Day

Don't judge me on Buble, it's a great song...

Baauer - Harlem Shake was a narrow 6th

That Thrift Shop song was on literally 4 out of 5 film trailers last time I went to the cinema

I couldn't name one song from this year. I stopped listening to the radio when Chris Moyles left Radio 1 last September. Not even heard of Imagine Dragons, Robin Thicke or Macklemore.

Hold Me - Tom Odell
Diane Young - Vampire Weekend
The Wire - Haim
Bad Habit - Foals
Walk Like A Man - Ruen Brothers

For now.

That's a good choice Marky, I prefer can't hold us down by macklemore over thrift shop.

Azzy Mahmood wrote:I couldn't name one song from this year. I stopped listening to the radio when Chris Moyles left Radio 1 last September. Not even heard of Imagine Dragons, Robin Thicke or Macklemore.

I keep hearing Chris Moyles on TalkSport, doing a Travis Perkins commercial filled with double entendres

None of those three acts/artists were known before these songs, I think they were all debut hits. Worth listening to though, even if you give each song a YouTube listen.

I don't even know any of them Sodman.

I'd have two of those five.

Imagine Dragons - Radioactive
Daft Punk - Get Lucky
Bastille - Pompeii
Frank Turner - Recovery
The 1975 - Sex

sodhat wrote:Hold Me - Tom Odell
Diane Young - Vampire Weekend
The Wire - Haim
Bad Habit - Foals
Walk Like A Man - Ruen Brothers

For now.

I know none of those.

Avicii - Wake me up.

Marky wrote:I keep hearing Chris Moyles on TalkSport, doing a Travis Perkins commercial filled with double entendres

Yep, he said he wanted time off from radio, and that he'd never do cheap voiceovers on adverts. Bloke be desperate for cash

Azzy has a funny taste in music judging by the Music Cup we did on here

Hero wrote:I'd have two of those five.

Imagine Dragons - Radioactive
Daft Punk - Get Lucky
Bastille - Pompeii
Frank Turner - Recovery
The 1975 - Sex

Could have easily had the last two on my list too. Really like Frank Turner's album.

VivaPaulScholes wrote:Avicii - Wake me up.

Good call.

I saw Avicii on New Years in Las Vegas.

Never heard of the bloke before that.

sodhat wrote:

Hero wrote:I'd have two of those five.

Imagine Dragons - Radioactive
Daft Punk - Get Lucky
Bastille - Pompeii
Frank Turner - Recovery
The 1975 - Sex

Could have easily had the last two on my list too. Really like Frank Turner's album.

I also prefer It's Time by Imagine Dragons

Radioactive is better.

Tag Team - Whoomp! (There it is)
UB40 - I can't help falling in love with you
Snow - Informer
Dre - Nuthin but a G thang
Snap - Rhythm is a dancer

Sodhat is like that bloke I hated years ago who thought the Kaiser Chiefs "I predict a riot" was nowhere near as good as "Oh my God".

Marky wrote:Sodhat is like that bloke I hated years ago who thought the Kaiser Chiefs "I predict a riot" was nowhere near as good as "Oh my God".

I actually bought that album

Except I legitimately only liked I Predict I Riot from it.

And Hero. That song is too popular, I now hate it.

I've never listened to the Kaiser Chiefs. Are they good?

No.

I utterly despise the Haim song, especially due to Xfm playing it, it's not Indie/Rock, it sounds like Shania Twain meets the Wilson Picketts.

How dare you.

They're good, but I could name quite a few similar bands who were better in the same era.
 
Fratellis, Arctic Monkeys, Kings of Leon, Franz Ferdinand to name four off the top of my head.

Remember The Kooks around that time too?

They tailed off.

The Kooks, and Klaxons as well. I wasn't massively keen on those two though.

In fact, the only Klaxons song I remember is their cover of Grace's "Not over yet".

Klaxons still get some radio play

I remember Hard-Fi too, I used to like them but they seem to have pulled a Kooks.

The Magic Numbers. There's another band who's success disappeared as quickly as it appeared

sodhat wrote:Azzy has a funny taste in music judging by the Music Cup we did on here

I played two rounds

I couldn't name one song from this year. Is Titanium by David Guetta this year?

Hard-Fi were terrible.

Anyone remember Semisonic or The New Radicals?

Azzy Mahmood wrote:
Is Titanium by David Guetta this year?

You golden oldies  

Even I know Titanium is from about 2 years ago Grandad

Double posted sorry!

Afro wrote:The Magic Numbers. There's another band who's success disappeared as quickly as it appeared

Well, McDonald's isn't cheap.

I did already answer you Bull

Azzy Mahmood wrote:

sodhat wrote:Azzy has a funny taste in music judging by the Music Cup we did on here

I played two rounds

I couldn't name one song from this year. Is Titanium by David Guetta this year?

Yeah and then you quit because you hated every other song!

True. I hate most music it has to be said.