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Football Thread 2014/2015 |OT11| This Is Our Year!

inky

Member
About to watch 'Jack Reacher'. Wasn't this criticised for not sticking to the character's description in the book, lol

LOL

About as bland an action movie as you'll ever see. This might sound like a positive but it's kind of a negative for me: Rosamund Pike's cleavage was extremely distracting.

edit: dammit, beaten by Zabo.
 
The fact is, when we played 2 up front we won the league and haven't done anything since we switched to a lone forward.

Oh, see now this is a topic that interests me greatly. I personally don't think Arsenal ever recovered from giving up on a two up front formation. Suits their football so much more.
 

Yen

Member
About to watch 'Jack Reacher'. Wasn't this criticised for not sticking to the character's description in the book, lol
The books are basically pulp fiction. I read a few at school because they were some of the few 'adult'/non-YA fiction they had, and they're basically Die Hard-lite.
 

Blablurn

Member
Dat Higuain miss. Shiiiiieeeet.
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El Topo

Member
Maaaaaaan

The World Cup in Brazil was fantastic

Great World Cup. Plenty of exciting matches, an enormous amount of goals, some wonderful moments. Best World Cup in a long time, maybe the best since 1990.
Who can forget Spain getting whipped by Netherlands? Germany crushing Brazil? Ronaldo hitting Lahm from distance with pinpoint precision?
 

jtb

Banned
There's an awful awful lot I haven't seen. Enjoyed a few blockbusters, probably only loved two or three films.

Under The Skin is by far the best I've seen this year, and one of the best I've ever seen.

a poor man's (sci-fi) malick. it was alright.

theory of everything looks terrible
 

Blablurn

Member
2014 was a shitty year for Reus.

Damn.

The Dortmund failure.

That driving license accident

and of course missing out on the World Cup

God.

Must suck

You come back from your injury.

and you see into the eyes of Erik Durm who just became World champion

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Yurt

il capo silenzioso
Regarding Theory of Everything, what's the point of biopics if you're going to make shit up?!

What a time to be alive though, Scum. Tottenham going ham, Africa Cup. What a time.

he should support Juve too for Asamoah's sake

or hate us, for ruining and KILLING him
 

Zabojnik

Member
he should support Juve too for Asamoah's sake

or hate us, for ruining and KILLING him

We should start recruiting, Yurt. Juve-GAF needs to expand.

We have Bla on our side for now, but I don't trust him. He's too volatile, could turn on us in a second. Dat half-blood.
 
Oh, see now this is a topic that interests me greatly. I personally don't think Arsenal ever recovered from giving up on a two up front formation. Suits their football so much more.

It is what worked best for Wenger, I am guessing it is what he used at Monaco and in Japan. It is a system he used perfectly at Arsenal. Especially when he had pacey forwards such as Wright, Anelka, and Henry to work with. And of course the brilliance of Bergkamp behind them.

The team had stagnated for a couple of years, but instead of just finding quality replacements for the likes of Silva, Henry, and Bergkamp leaving, Wenger decided to go with youth and change his whole footballing philosophy. One up front and a change to possession football. It is something he clearly is not comfortable with because we have never looked right. We have played some beautiful football during these years, but nothing of any real substance. We can score and beat poor defences, but any top team with an organised defence has always caused us problems and shuts us out.

The problem with our one up top is that there just not enough players in the box. Wenger likes a forward who can drop deep and link up play, but that means the wing players have to get into the box, but they hug the sides too much.

I think Giroud and Sanchez would work well up front together. Giroud has great link up play and Sanchez is a very intelligent runner. Having two in the box would force the defence to play narrower and create more space on the wings for our wingers/fullbacks
 

Scum

Junior Member
What a time to be alive though, Scum. Tottenham going ham, Africa Cup. What a time.

YES ZABO!

Regarding Theory of Everything, what's the point of biopics if you're going to make shit up?!



he should support Juve too for Asamoah's sake

or hate us, for ruining and KILLING him

YES YURT!

Explains why Scum h8s barca.

Pls.

It was Pep's idea to sell Yaya, Eto'o and Keita.
Go back to bed, FF. 😒
 
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