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Reminder that managers can add their 1m bonus (or 1.5m for Trebs)

Trebs now has three jobs remaining:

1. Rumour Mill
2. Manager of the Week
3. Sheep on Friday

Where do peeps think I can improve my PAOK side?

Glad Valdivia got some lovin

I'm gonna leave the rumour mill as optional, think all managers can share that responsibility.

You can improve your PAOK side by selling me Stones. That gives you plenty of scope for improvements.

I can promise you even greater scope for improvements if you sell me Stones.

You've got some Stones coming in here saying that.

Clearly Luis Suarez's goals should be discounted at this world cup.

Thus England beat Uruguay 1-0 and draw with Costa Rica to take 2nd in the group.

So who wants to sell me a centre back then?

You guys are far too lenient, I expected Azzy to throw the book at him. The man has had many chances before, embarrassed a respected Football Club with his behavior he needs at least 5 year ban. It's time for the Footballing Bodies to take extreme action against extreme behavior it's the one way they're going to listen to it. Suarez can sort out his problems while he is banned I can bet you any money when his wages are reduced and he is not playing anymore hello become sane again.

I haven't been racist or bit anyone I deserve some recognition oh wait that's expected of people.

I disliked Suarez so much but I still wanted him to be fit for the World Cup but now he has crossed the line.

You did molest a woman in a Chinese restaurant though.

Holymiky wrote:So who wants to sell me a centre back then?

Get in on the John Stones bidding

Two embarrassing moments in the Italy-Uruguay game:

1. Suarez bites Chiellini, rolls around like Sweeney Todd has just removed his teeth with pliers

2. Diego Godin scores. You know, the guy who should have been sent off against England and therefore suspended for the Italy game.

On the sly, FIFA are giving huge support to the South American teams. I bet they never banked on Suarez's stupidity.

That was accidentally and it was a long time ago, I've forgot about that.

When it's my turn to do voting Azzy you did say that you'll do sheep right?

VivaPaulScholes wrote:That was accidentally and it was a long time ago, I've forgot about that.

She hasn't

She hasn't had pork balls since

Afternoon Im on a training course so wont be around til evenings   

was delighted with my point Expected people to see Pirlo & Cabella and go instant win

Fernando wrote:was delighted with my point Expected people to see Pirlo & Cabella and go instant win

I expected Trebs to see Drogba and say 'at least one goal'. Was surprised to see two though, given his struggles of late. Be that as it may, my defence was woeful so he was hardly challenged   

Trebs has the force of will to look past Pirlos beard.

I don't.

VivaPaulScholes wrote:That was accidentally and it was a long time ago, I've forgot about that.

When it's my turn to do voting Azzy you did say that you'll do sheep right?

I did, and I will. I am a man of my word.

Speaking of which, I think I will keep Buffon. Fair is fair. Unless you want to run Sheep on your week and we'll forget this ever happened?

TheSecondComing wrote:

Fernando wrote:was delighted with my point Expected people to see Pirlo & Cabella and go instant win

I expected Trebs to see Drogba and say 'at least one goal'. Was surprised to see two though, given his struggles of late. Be that as it may, my defence was woeful so he was hardly challenged   

Yeah I decided just to cross the ball a lot seemed wise. Diabate is a tank aswell    Anyway back to the course I go   Trainer is fine ass Asian Chick though

I'm still so happy I won, streller is my hero

Good man Azzy, I'd rather lose Buffon than run sheep. You can keep him.

I'm going to need a league vote on that, it's an advantage to me that wasn't open to other managers. I won't keep him unless I'm told to.

Ms, Afro and Sodhat voted that you keep him depends on the rest.

I'm inclined to say you'd have to buy him for around TM value, but open to other opinions.

Actually I vote that I have Buffon and I do Sheep on your week.

I have no shame

Tbh, I'd prefer altogether that only cash/player exchanges (of a reasonable value) be used in transfers.

Well if you are being completely serious about it then I agree.

Players should only move teams if it is by a normal transfer, not via bets or similar.

I think we had that rule in the previous leagues

The old RVP/Huntelaar bet me and viva had established that rule I think when I took Hamsik off him

Jake Livermore becomes Hulls record signing.

Watch out world.

I knew this would have happened before. What was the Hamsik bet?

TheSecondComing wrote:I knew this would have happened before. What was the Hamsik bet?

Viva thought Huntelaar would outscore RVP at euro 2012, so it escalated to a bet that whoever won got to take a player from the other

That was before RVP was a Man Utd player too. And Viva would constantly refer to him as a "c*nt".

Then he signed for United and his tongue vanished up his Dutch rectum.

What kind of bozo makes that bet? It's like saying Rickie Lambert would outscore Daniel Sturridge

It was when RVP was an injury waiting to happen, whilst Huntelaar was banging them in. Just before his eyes fell out.

I'm pretty sure I had a bet with Nick Fury where I ended up taking Toni Kroos off his hands

Well he ain't wrong

Guess who's starting a 9-5 job on Monday!

Moi

Not sure whether I'll be on here during the day cos of it tho

Hey guys, read through all the posts today. A couple of yous asked for feedback, if anyone else wants a bit more other than what featured in the match report I'm happy to provide it:

Miky, you completely lost out in the midfield, with the strange tactics and the players at CM not good enough to challenge.

Olly, I'm a big fan of Valdivia, and I think your defense struggled against the two strikers, and you are in desperate need of a striker.

I won't be able to do Sheep on Friday, I am at work, so it's not possible. So somebody else needs to step in if you want Sheep. I'm not going to do the rumour mill unless I really have to and then I will?

You don't really have to.

http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2014-06-25.html


I've held off on writing about soccer for a decade -- or about the length of the average soccer game -- so as not to offend anyone. But enough is enough. Any growing interest in soccer can only be a sign of the nation's moral decay.


(1) Individual achievement is not a big factor in soccer. In a real sport, players fumble passes, throw bricks and drop fly balls -- all in front of a crowd. When baseball players strike out, they're standing alone at the plate. But there's also individual glory in home runs, touchdowns and slam-dunks.


In soccer, the blame is dispersed and almost no one scores anyway. There are no heroes, no losers, no accountability, and no child's fragile self-esteem is bruised. There's a reason perpetually alarmed women are called "soccer moms," not "football moms."


Do they even have MVPs in soccer? Everyone just runs up and down the field and, every once in a while, a ball accidentally goes in. That's when we're supposed to go wild. I'm already asleep.


(2) Liberal moms like soccer because it's a sport in which athletic talent finds so little expression that girls can play with boys. No serious sport is co-ed, even at the kindergarten level.


(3) No other "sport" ends in as many scoreless ties as soccer. This was an actual marquee sign by the freeway in Long Beach, California, about a World Cup game last week: "2nd period, 11 minutes left, score: 0:0." Two hours later, another World Cup game was on the same screen: "1st period, 8 minutes left, score: 0:0." If Michael Jackson had treated his chronic insomnia with a tape of Argentina vs. Brazil instead of Propofol, he'd still be alive, although bored.


Even in football, by which I mean football, there are very few scoreless ties -- and it's a lot harder to score when a half-dozen 300-pound bruisers are trying to crush you.


(4) The prospect of either personal humiliation or major injury is required to count as a sport. Most sports are sublimated warfare. As Lady Thatcher reportedly said after Germany had beaten England in some major soccer game: Don't worry. After all, twice in this century we beat them at their national game.



Baseball and basketball present a constant threat of personal disgrace. In hockey, there are three or four fights a game -- and it's not a stroll on beach to be on ice with a puck flying around at 100 miles per hour. After a football game, ambulances carry off the wounded. After a soccer game, every player gets a ribbon and a juice box.


(5) You can't use your hands in soccer. (Thus eliminating the danger of having to catch a fly ball.) What sets man apart from the lesser beasts, besides a soul, is that we have opposable thumbs. Our hands can hold things. Here's a great idea: Let's create a game where you're not allowed to use them!


(6) I resent the force-fed aspect of soccer. The same people trying to push soccer on Americans are the ones demanding that we love HBO's "Girls," light-rail, Beyonce and Hillary Clinton. The number of New York Times articles claiming soccer is "catching on" is exceeded only by the ones pretending women's basketball is fascinating.


I note that we don't have to be endlessly told how exciting football is.


(7) It's foreign. In fact, that's the precise reason the Times is constantly hectoring Americans to love soccer. One group of sports fans with whom soccer is not "catching on" at all, is African-Americans. They remain distinctly unimpressed by the fact that the French like it.


(8) Soccer is like the metric system, which liberals also adore because it's European. Naturally, the metric system emerged from the French Revolution, during the brief intervals when they weren't committing mass murder by guillotine.


Despite being subjected to Chinese-style brainwashing in the public schools to use centimeters and Celsius, ask any American for the temperature, and he'll say something like "70 degrees." Ask how far Boston is from New York City, he'll say it's about 200 miles.


Liberals get angry and tell us that the metric system is more "rational" than the measurements everyone understands. This is ridiculous. An inch is the width of a man's thumb, a foot the length of his foot, a yard the length of his belt. That's easy to visualize. How do you visualize 147.2 centimeters?


(9) Soccer is not "catching on." Headlines this week proclaimed "Record U.S. ratings for World Cup," and we had to hear -- again -- about the "growing popularity of soccer in the United States."


The USA-Portugal game was the blockbuster match, garnering 18.2 million viewers on ESPN. This beat the second-most watched soccer game ever: The 1999 Women's World Cup final (USA vs. China) on ABC. (In soccer, the women's games are as thrilling as the men's.)


Run-of-the-mill, regular-season Sunday Night Football games average more than 20 million viewers; NFL playoff games get 30 to 40 million viewers; and this year's Super Bowl had 111.5 million viewers.


Remember when the media tried to foist British soccer star David Beckham and his permanently camera-ready wife on us a few years ago? Their arrival in America was heralded with 24-7 news coverage. That lasted about two days. Ratings tanked. No one cared.


If more "Americans" are watching soccer today, it's only because of the demographic switch effected by Teddy Kennedy's 1965 immigration law. I promise you: No American whose great-grandfather was born here is watching soccer. One can only hope that, in addition to learning English, these new Americans will drop their soccer fetish with time

Looks like the Luis Suarez defense force got a late flight from Liverpool to Natal

Anyone else think we should abandon this league and start an American football league after reading that?

I like how a sport requires either humiliation or big risk of injuries

The Ander Herrera saga might be the funniest one ever.

All we need is for Moyes to get a job and swoop in for him.

That piece looks like it was written by Azzy if he was American.

Manager of the week - Cherries
For putting in a great tactical display to get a good win, and to go towards his Neymar fund.

Take a well earned £1m.

What a surprise. Trebs hands Cherries an extra £1m because he let him have Diaz on the cheap.

#fix

#youshouldbeashamed

#my£1misgoingtoVivaregardlessofhiscontribution

#nowimgoingforthelongesthashtageverwhichiscompletelypointlessbutheyhowhatcanyoudothisplayaknowsnolimits

I'll be handing in tactics on Monday, see you all then.

Cherries and Trebs had already agreed a deal and price, and Treb's had asked him to confirm before you offered more.

In all previous leagues I have been in that has been considered a done deal and the runners would have made cherries honour his deal with Trebs anyway.

My thoughts are that you were just too late and cherries did the correct thing