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If Sunderland don't win, they are. Their next 6 fixtures are horrid bar Reading & Southampton, they've got to win those games.

Quite looking forward to Bradford/Arsenal, but more so because of the Tuesday Club podcast I listen to probably.

Falcao going to Chelsea :(

to be particularly excited about him signing.

Actually nah, I'd wet the bed. Ain't gonna happen though, certainly not in January.

<3

it'll just be great to see valley parade full again. the club's had a pretty awful 10 years and it's just good that something good's happening. i'm really excited

i can remember him scoring against us for chelsea more vividly than anything he did in a bradford shirt

but if Arsenal don't win the League Cup this year they should be disbanded.

Who was the last manager to win the League Cup and still be in their job at the end of the year? Fergie, 2006

I think Whinger does too. Should be reasonably strong side i hope.

Rubbish fact of the day.

the only manager to win at and etc.

I can't be expected to check every half-remembered fact I read about.

Today has been REALLY exciting.

Hmmm, I can think of a few reasons why that isn't necessarily a good or appropriate idea ...

he would have been in line for a huge ban had it not been for the specifics, which some on the disciplinary panel wanted to dish out anyway. Seeing as Barry obviously is gonna be found guilty, it should be interesting to see what the huge ban for swearing at officials actually is.

The Beckhams are there today with one of their unfortunately named brood. So, Beckham to QPR then.

Maybe David's going to China or Dubai or summat and the wife and kids don't fancy it? I'd wager that's more likely.

I just wanted to get involved in transfer gossip bullshit for once. However erroneously.

Fergie should have been sacked in 2008

ANSWERS

being all overrated again.

Andreas Christensen. 16 year old Chelsea centre back who was just named the Danish FA's under 17 player of the year.

I'm sure that Chelsea youth player has a great career ahead of him.

kind of annoyed

going to Aston Villa cos he wanted to play in Europe :(

Should've stayed here. We're beating Reading. Europe beckons

Really doesn't matter if he does something good now, or that he's had isolated moments of good in the past.

thank me later.

No-one wanted that

i believe
spirit

Arsenal fail to beat League 2 Bradford - funny.

Arsenal win, still_here gets giddy again - funny.

they seem to have done ok since

I think wilshere in particular was shocking tonight - bossed by league two midfielders. so many wasteful passes

Like printing money, shirley?

when this 75% tax rate comes into full swing?

Running out of options, really, isn't he, despite being a brilliant player.

Personally, i think if he came to England he'd be the Premier League's best player by an absolute mile. No idea why Man City have never bit, considering they could probably get him for less than they've been offered for Balotelli (€40m, from PSG, allegedly).

or how far Villa have fallen that the result at Carrow Road is a surprising one.

I was under the impression it was because they'd made a couple of dodgy summer signings and Mankini was having tactical brainfarts defensively? Are they having trouble off the pitch with Aguero, Dzeko and Tevez (again?), not heard owt.

Plus it's the League Cup (ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN etc)

A truly brilliant effort, not only to get a lead and protect it for almost 90 minutes, but also to stem the Arsenal flow once they did equalise. They're not gonna beat a team like Arsenal on penners, though, let's be honest.

to be a certain amount AFTER tax

That would mean PSG will be paying him over £40m a year as of next season, though.

Even with their billikings, not going to happen, surely?

we're so, so shit

Would still fancy Arsenal, tbh.

Arsenal out.

Well done Bradford!

congrats to bradford. shrewbie will be delighted!

Only caught the penos, but that is insane, well done Bradford!

Oh yeah, Wenger out etc.

about being used as a sub, despite the fact he's been given endless starts, is always shit, and is basically custom built to be a last-fifteen-minutes-attacking-substitution. Those chippy little post-match interviews he does don't do him any credit. Tevez has kept his head down recently to his credit, but is beginning to look disinterested in games not involving Ferguson and basically cannot ever be trusted thanks to who he is owned by, as you know. Aguero is fine as far as I'm aware, but he will always have half an eye on his eventual return to Spain. Balotelli is Balotelli.

This is pretty much par for the course for a top side, but put on top a couple of dodgy summer signings and Mancini having tactical brainfarts and the situation is uneasy. Bringing Ibrahimovich into this even in exchange for Balotelli (I'd love to know where you pulled 40 million from by the way- directly after the World Cup maybe, certainly not now or ever) would be nightmarish, a return to the Maddy and Bellend days.

the semis and final could be really, really triffic.

Still on for the treble

and on the occasions it has - KERCHING!

he's the white Drogba who doesn't fall down

Why not consider following the EDS instead, or joining me on my non-league groundhop for 13/14?

your boys took one hell of a beating

it's fun to have a bit of a moan now and then, and City do occasionally play some aesthetically pleasing football.

play the game, ffs!

i think they could do with a commanding centre-half and a ball-winner in midfield.

hope to god chelsea get taken to extra time and penalties however many miles away they are, and are even more tired / injured / forced to rest their best players

we might just be able to do it if they're lacking mata and hazard

Disband them!

arsenal always seem to manage to pick me up :D

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

speaking of Arsenal, the papers seem pretty certain United are first in line to pinch Walcott for £8 million.

why would we do that?

if he was happy to play as a winger, that would be a bargain, but Wenger isn't about to go and sell us another of his key players.

the Daily Express covered it here (heh) - http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/364264/Move-back-to-Manchester-City-could-be-on-cards-for-Nigel-de-Jong

Sort of sums up just how much research tabloid journos do.

Reminds me of last season when a club, think it was Arsenal, were being linked with a defender from Serie A. Talks had apparently already taken place between Arsenal and Inter Milan and terms had been agreed. The first comment underneath the article simply read "Not only did this player leave Inter Milan permanently last year, he also currently has a broken leg".

Don't know how they get away with it, really.

Bugger.

Still...ARSENAL!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20696090

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20700529