Barclays Premier League 2013/14

Is it just me or does Gareth Barry not seemed to have aged a day in 10-15 years? he still looks exactly the same as when he was starting out at Villa in the late 90's/early 00's, even the same haircut.

James McCarthy looks like he's just been caught wanking.

And Ozil in your avatar can't help a peek.

Have you never spoken to an immigrant from a non-English speaking country before?

Anyway, this is one of those cases where I'll have to put on the big boy pants and point out that criticising another posters' grammar, asking if they have a learning disability and such simply isn't acceptable.

Your face is unacceptable

At least I'm not scared of showing it.

Yes, depending on what age they were when they immigrated they often have impeccable grammar.

I didn't mean it in a point and laugh way, I'm just offering it as a a genuine guess at why it might be so bad. Its your bad if you took it to be offensive.

Palace have announced their 25 man squad - and have left out two summer signings, Florian Marange and Stephen Dobbie. Owen Garvan and Aaron Wilbraham have also been left out.

The second part of my post wasn't directly aimed at your post, rather the whole discussion at large.

Some people struggle with writing for a variety of reasons, as long as they are making an honest attempt to be understood their grammar really shouldn't be a topic of discussion. After all this is an internet forum, not an English language class. If you want to have a go at someone, mock their opinions, not their syntax.

Given he was scored one League Cup consolation since joining, is Wilbraham being left out that much of a surprise?

Dobbie left out is a bit more surprising.

It's more that he's played in all of their PL games this season I think, and is now being left out, suggests absolutely abysmal planning. Garvan has also played quite a lot as well.

All three - Garvan, Dobbie and Wilbraham - have played in two games apiece and have featured in the squad for all three.

Either they have that much confidence in Barry Bannan or they've fucked something up.

2/10

Must try harder.

In other news come to Eurogamer at the end of the month and you can see

Alan Hanson is retiring from MOTD after the World cup. BBC

I quite like Hansen but I think it's good that he's moving on as his punditry had become quite stale in recent years. There are plenty of pundits worse than him still around though.

I changed my opinion on him recently, actually.

I think the problem is the format of Match of the Day, because you're showing so many games its impossible for them to have watched much more than the highlights themselves. So the analysis becomes shit, because they've got nothing more to go on than 'defender should have been stronger', 'striker should score there' the style of the show forces cliched analysis.

Compare that to a show with good analysis, Monday Night Football, the talking points of the weekends games have already been established, Neville (and Carragher) have a day in which to review the one or two games they are going to focus on, they can watch each game, in full, twice if they have to and then spot themes, tactics and battles that defined the game. It's easy for them to be insightful because they're removed from the action more.

I'm bored, who wants a completely accurate story of how Game became a fake ITK? Not some LadyArse shite. Fanny? KM?

Gis a go

It started very early into the transfer window, I'm gonna go a week or two in and Game (on his SenorJuego account) tweeted about how he was going to put a grand on Rooney to the Arsenal but he couldn't even through ringing whatever bet sites customer service. Naturally as an Arsenal fan I asked him "why the fuck are you betting one grand on Rooney to Arsenal? It's not happening". I've known Game for a while, found him to be a decent guy though he does come across to most as a complete bellend. He replied back by saying that he's heard Arsenal have a firm interest in Rooney and wanted to put some big money on it because he thought it was a realistic option. Out of curiosity I also asked him what happened with Supports Interactive and what have you & he said he has plans for a site in the works for an FM site, no OT or nout; just solely focused on FM.

So time passes and he begins to gain more and more confidence in the rumour, with numerous 'big' Arsenal twitter guys taking an interest to it and asking him to DM him and shite. Then begins the shitespouting. He said Rooney had a medical in Windsor (even though it's common knowledge that Arsenal apparently bidded 20mill for Rooney early on in the window which got rejected straight away; then apparently stopped their interest after a gentlemans agreement between Wenger & Jose). His follower account went upwards and upwards and within a week he went from 16 followers to about 250-500. Even I got some merely because some mongs followed whoever he was following & supported Arsenal. Then he changed his twitter handle to AbrokeDiaby. This was when the popularity shot up and gained about 2-3k followers before his eventual and final name change to WayneGooney18 where he hit a peak of about 5/6k+ followers. Between them times I DM'ed him asking what he's doing, because I was pretty sure he is a Geordie who supported Newcastle & reminded me of Greg from the first series of Geordie Shore. He said he has his 'sources' who backed up that Cesc, Fellaini, Rooney & eventually Suarez and Draxler were 100% signed and that he'd liked Arsenal for a while. Cute.

I couldn't believe the amount of attention he gathered, even my Arsenal mate asked me when I was in Malia "who is this AbrokeDiaby guy, seems like a right cunt'. He was correct. Fanny tweeted Game asking what he's playing at with no reply and it seemed like Game either had 100% confidence that these deals were happening or was plotting some over extensive promotional campaign to build up his new FM site coming out whenever.

I'm being honest here, Arsenal probably has one of the biggest fanbases on Twitter, with many being foreign and/or about 12 years old. Pair that with a guy who has good grammar & English skills then they'll believe anyone. One of them people being Game. Many fans knew he was bullshitting but there were actually people who took his word as gospel; fucking idiots.

He's deactivated his account on transfer deadline day, remember them followers stick to your account if you deactivate; so I'm expecting a random FM site pop up on my timeline within 6 months. There's also a fucking parody account made about him ffs: WayneGooney19.

Oh.

Based is? Sims?

Game was always a bellend, I dunno why people loved him so much.

Aye.

WEE SIMS

Who is Sims?

Have we met?

WEE CRANE

Probably when I was the most bias Arsenal fan in existence and thought we were gonna win the treble when I was about 14.

Sims.. sounds familiar.