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The Numbers Game – The Charge From the Back

18 February 2011 1140 comments
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With a break from Premier League action this weekend, we’re presented with some breathing space to allow us to take stock and assess strategies for success for the remaining Gameweeks.

This season has seen the evolution of template midfields and attacks with the same names rotation across thousands of Fantasy squads. As a result the defence has become a key area for differentials and while clean sheets have been hard to come by all season, the quest for defenders who can return attacking points and Fantasy Premier League (FPL) Bonus, remains a key one.

In this latest Numbers Game article for Members, we take a look at the Gameweek OPTA statistics gathered over the past four Gameweeks to analyse those defenders who have offered the best potential in these areas.

Mark Mark created the beast. He's now looking to tame it.

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  1. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
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    14 years, 11 months ago

    Fat frank terrible pass to malouda and then dreadful chip attempt

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  2. Hated, Adored but never Ign…
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    F*ck off Lampard. Useless pass to Malouda then rubbish shot, GET HIM OFF

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  3. Sess!
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    What are these morons doing, do they not want to score?! Got money on this and could really do without chelsea playing next gw!!

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  4. badker
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    14 years, 11 months ago

    what way has the chel v eve game to finish for chelsea to miss a gw?

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    1. Manky Yanc
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      14 years, 11 months ago

      Chelsea win

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      1. badker
        • 16 Years
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        extra time and penos?

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        1. Marknlard
          • 16 Years
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          What would that have to do with it?

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    2. Syd.
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      a chelsea victory

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    3. Hated, Adored but never Ign…
      • 16 Years
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      Have a guess, probably the one where Chelsea have another cup fixture.

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    4. Hated, Adored but never Ign…
      • 16 Years
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      5-2 to Everton.

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      1. Namtab Nomolos
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        lol

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  5. Gargamel
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    • 16 Years
    14 years, 11 months ago

    Don't worry, Malouda will score a tap-in soon

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  6. Attila the Bum
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    • 15 Years
    14 years, 11 months ago

    I have an Excel question, just making a ticker (yeah sad git and all that but I'm a little hungover and bored), how do you make a column 'sticky'? (oo-err)
    Basically when I scroll horizontally I want the first column (team names) to always be on the left hand side of the screen.

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    1. Keep calm and hoof me the b…
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      14 years, 11 months ago

      click one cell to the right of where you want to fix and then go to view and freeze pane

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      1. Attila the Bum
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        Ah good stuff thanks!

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    2. Akers
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      14 years, 11 months ago

      What Excel you got?

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      1. Attila the Bum
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        14 years, 11 months ago

        Sorted cheers Akers, its the 2007 one.
        One thing I've realised by making this ticker is that picking Irish players is even stupider than I first thought.
        They hardly play early on
        πŸ˜•

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        1. jamsiep
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          14 years, 11 months ago

          It's all about stocking up on the Kenyans... They play twice inside the first six matches!

          Steve Tikolo and Peter Ongondo ftw!

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          1. Attila the Bum
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            14 years, 11 months ago

            Totally, didn't really have time to do one yesterday but if I had it'd have Ongondo at least
            Australia, New Zealand, Bangladesh and Kenya are the only sides playing twice by the 25th.

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        2. Locarno
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          This is cricket, Attila. Picking Irish cricketers is like picking Brazilian rugby players.

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          1. jamsiep
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            Obviously Eoin Morgan aside.....

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          2. Attila the Bum
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            I know, but they can do alright now and again for cheapy cheaps. Allows me to have ridiculously good players like Tendulkar..... who then do fudge all.

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  7. jamsiep
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    This isn't actually too dissimilar to every Lampard performance for the last ten years.

    We just haven't been given a penalty yet.

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  8. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
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    If everton do they miss a gw??

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    1. Boom!!!
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      no.

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  9. badker
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    14 years, 11 months ago

    why did cahill go off after 70mins?

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    1. Boom!!!
      • 15 Years
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      not 100% fit πŸ˜•

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      1. badker
        • 16 Years
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        ty

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  10. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
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    Goal disallowed fellaini

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    1. gooner dave
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      Good call though.

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  11. Locarno
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    OFFSIDE! Gutted.

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  12. Hank
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    14 years, 11 months ago

    Awwwwww, screech πŸ™

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  13. Sess!
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    Ooooh, close, very close

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  14. Syd.
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    14 years, 11 months ago

    Birmingham: Doyle, Carr, Johnson, Murphy, Parnaby, Fahey, Bowyer, Hleb, Beausejour, Jerome, Martins. Subs: Foster, Larsson, Gardner, Phillips, Bentley, Zigic, Mutch.

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  15. Hated, Adored but never Ign…
    • 16 Years
    14 years, 11 months ago

    How many fouls is Coleman allowed to do?

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    1. Akers
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      14 years, 11 months ago

      Every time you whinge about him his foul allowance increases.

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      1. Gargamel
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        • 16 Years
        14 years, 11 months ago

        πŸ™‚

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  16. The Stock
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    14 years, 11 months ago

    BBC Homepage has 'FA Cup - Don't miss a move'. With a picture of Torres playing in Chelsea colours. Who is cup tied. Ffs.

    And they wonder why we're bamboozled where our license fee goes with regards to sport.

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  17. ⭐ Bemba_Da ⭐
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    Extra time then

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    1. Syd.
      • 16 Years
      14 years, 11 months ago

      They would be better off just going straight to pens..

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  18. Attila the Bum
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    • 15 Years
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    Replay. Good news for Chelsea πŸ™‚

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    1. Locarno
      • 15 Years
      14 years, 11 months ago

      Huh?

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      1. Attila the Bum
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        That's where it is heading isn't it?

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        1. The Rock
          • 16 Years
          14 years, 11 months ago

          extra time - pens, thats where its heading!

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          1. Attila the Bum
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            • 15 Years
            14 years, 11 months ago

            Never mind, probably killed a few of my more useful braincells last night. πŸ™‚

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    2. jamsiep
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      14 years, 11 months ago

      Such noobery.

      That's out that stumping.... Harbhajan wicket. πŸ˜€

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      1. Locarno
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        14 years, 11 months ago

        Got Dhoni as skipper, so hope you're right.

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        1. jamsiep
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          14 years, 11 months ago

          Just remind me, how well did he bat? πŸ˜‰

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          1. Locarno
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            14 years, 11 months ago

            He was padded up! Should get a few points for that.

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            1. Boom!!!
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              14 years, 11 months ago

              hehe.

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      2. Phil BCFC
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        πŸ™‚

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        1. Cheggers
          • 16 Years
          14 years, 11 months ago

          πŸ˜†

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        2. Attila the Bum
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          Hi Phil

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    3. Akers
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      14 years, 11 months ago

      http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/51124000/jpg/_51124631_torres2_466x260getty.jpg

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    4. Marknlard
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      14 years, 11 months ago

      They're having a 30% re-replay now.

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      1. Attila the Bum
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        πŸ˜†
        Just got Soccer Saturday on in the background to soothe the hangover, thought they said it was heading for a replay.

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  19. Locarno
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    14 years, 11 months ago

    Anelka coming on.

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    1. jamsiep
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      14 years, 11 months ago

      I'm watching the cricket anyway. Far more interesting.

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      1. Boom!!!
        • 15 Years
        14 years, 11 months ago

        +1 πŸ™‚

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  20. Demí
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    14 years, 11 months ago

    Junaid Siddique out- Bowled by Harbhajan singh (15 pts) and stumping by Dhoni (20 pts)

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    1. Locarno
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      14 years, 11 months ago

      Harbhajan bowling well. But he's such a dislikeable little turd, I couldn't put him in my team.

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      1. Attila the Bum
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        • 15 Years
        14 years, 11 months ago

        Didn't go for any of the Indian bowlers, just Tendulkar and Sehwag

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      2. Locarno
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        14 years, 11 months ago

        Glad I threw Hasan in there, though. Run out, wicket, seven runs so far...

        Just gutted I read somewhere that Kohli might be rested, so got rid of him.

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        1. Demí
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          14 years, 11 months ago

          i had to pick between kohli and raina. Was impossible to tell before the game which one of them would start, and it's just sods law that i chose raina

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  21. Damo.
    • 16 Years
    14 years, 11 months ago

    On a stag bender last 2 days, come home an put on the telly, Chelsea still sh!t. Reality check ftw.

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  22. Gargamel
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    • 16 Years
    14 years, 11 months ago

    Hilarious dive from Baines. Immediately realized it was a shitty one and got up and ran away with a smile.

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  23. jamsiep
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    Sorry, why isn't that yellow for diving? Because he admitted to it?! Pathetic.

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    1. Mulder
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      +1

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    2. jamsiep
      • 16 Years
      14 years, 11 months ago

      Next time Ivanovic does a last man foul, hopefully he'll admit that it was a foul, and he won't get a card. πŸ˜•

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      1. Akers
        • 16 Years
        14 years, 11 months ago

        Wow, that's dim even by your standards.

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    3. Akers
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      Er, yes. He didn't appeal for a foul, and made it absolutely clear that it wasn't one.

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      1. jamsiep
        • 16 Years
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        Bullshit. He blatantly dived, realised he was already on a yellow, so tried to get himself out of it.

        Yellow card all day long.

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        1. Akers
          • 16 Years
          14 years, 11 months ago

          No it isn't.

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          1. jamsiep
            • 16 Years
            14 years, 11 months ago

            Why the hell not then?

            Did Baines dive or not? Yes he did.

            Is the punishment for a dive a yellow card? Yes it is.

            Am I right? Yes I am.

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            1. Akers
              • 16 Years
              14 years, 11 months ago

              WRONG.

              "Diving (or simulation - the term used by FIFA) in the context of association football is an attempt by a player to gain an unfair advantage by diving to the ground and possibly feigning an injury, to appear as if a foul has been committed."

              As Baines was clearly not looking for an advantage, it's not a dive.

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              1. Scar
                • Fantasy Football Scout Member
                • 15 Years
                14 years, 11 months ago

                Diving in itself is an attempt to gain an unfair advantage...

                I have not seen the game, but whatever a player does after he has dived can not "undo" anything.

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  24. Demí
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    14 years, 11 months ago

    Shakib to get a cheekly little 50 anyone ?

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    1. Boom!!!
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      14 years, 11 months ago

      he is the best all-rounder in the world ,he should get atleast 50... πŸ˜‰

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    2. Locarno
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      That would be very nice.

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  25. jamsiep
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    14 years, 11 months ago

    First time since '99 that we've failed to score 90 minutes in three consecutive games.

    Go Carlo, please.

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    1. Akers
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      14 years, 11 months ago

      I hope Ancelotti keeps his job.

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      1. Hank
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        14 years, 11 months ago

        I hope he doesn't. Let the Roman circus continue.

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    2. Attila the Bum
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      14 years, 11 months ago

      Who would you realistically want as manager?
      By realistic I obviously mean you won't be getting Mourinho back, Fergie or Alan Pardew πŸ˜‰

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      1. jamsiep
        • 16 Years
        14 years, 11 months ago

        Bielsa. πŸ˜‰

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      2. Hated, Adored but never Ign…
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        Dunga

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  26. Locarno
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    14 years, 11 months ago

    I met Stephen Hawking the other day and said: 'Do you know that most people think you're American because of your computerised voice?'

    'Tell me something I don't know' he replied.

    And that was me f*cked.

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  27. IAmTheWalrus
    • 16 Years
    14 years, 11 months ago

    arghhhh

    the streams of everton chelsea are showing hamburg bundesliga game because of extra time!... balls

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  28. BobB
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    • 16 Years
    14 years, 11 months ago

    Why was Timmy Cahill taken off?

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    1. Syd.
      • 16 Years
      14 years, 11 months ago

      He was shit

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  29. Mulder
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    Lampard ffs you've had 1000 shots and nothing to show for it

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    1. Rasping Drive
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      He's turned into Kolarov.

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  30. arfa
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    same Lampard,the only thing missing is a penalty or huge deflection.

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    1. jamsiep
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      +1

      Said the same thing earlier! The Lampard myth has been one of the greatest in the history of football.

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      1. arfa
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        yep.its amazing how he has got away with it for so long.
        and he scores as im typing,so he is the hero again

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