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[Flab]

That's what happens when you have 3 first teams in your squad. Stop buying players for the sake of it. Sunderland should report M'City for fielding a weaken team.

[Flab]

After losses to Liverpool, Blackburn, Man Utd and Tottenham earlier in the season, people said we won't even finish in the top half of the table without Cesc and Nasri.

Just 3 months later we are back in the top 4 where we belong. What a comeback and and turn around from Arsenal.

You were all quick to write Wenger off earlier in the season now i think you should all give him his props.

Well done for scraping a win against QPR. You ****in legend!!!!!!11111!11111!1

[SirTomJones]

RVP gets injured Arsenal will struggle loads.

don't think the other top teams are so dependent on one player.

[El Fenomeno]

I don't understand how City can't be on top like Real or other 10 star teams work.
Get a real manager instead of more players, Manchester City.
I'm laughing my ass off, also great ref job.

Well, you got that right at least.


Same pissing thing happened last year at Sunderland, jammy feckers.

[Flab]

RVP gets injured Arsenal will struggle loads.

don't think the other top teams are so dependent on one player.

Newcastle United F.C.

[*OG Wenger*]

Has anybody seen the Brazilian's Douglas Costa, Jadson, Willian and Fernandinho from Shakhtar play?

I signed them for my Arsenal team on FM2012 and they are tearing **** up! Are they any good irl?

[???]

That's what happens when you have 3 first teams in your squad. Stop buying players for the sake of it. Sunderland should report M'City for fielding a weaken team.

I think Man City's upcoming match with Liverpool is more important.

[Smokin'J]

A "real manager"? As opposed to someone who led teams to numerous Coppa Italia and Serie A championships? Hey maybe we should ask Iain Dowie!

The guy has a defensive mind, with the offense he can use why not try to change it up a bit? The man could go 2-4-4 with all the backup he has, they only have 2 great defensive players anyway.

[squealpiggy]

The guy has a defensive mind, with the offense he can use why not try to change it up a bit? The man could go 2-4-4 with all the backup he has, they only have 2 great defensive players anyway.

You're talking about the Man City who except for the last few games were averaging three goals a game and put six past the reigning champions?

[project xxx1]

good read about the suarez report

IF you have neither the time nor inclination to read the Football Association’s hefty report on their investigation into the Luis Suarez/ Patrice Evra racism row, let me save you the trouble.

After two months and 115-pages, the entire case came down to one man’s word against another’s.

There was no evidence nor supporting witnesses to back up either player’s version of the events.

And in the end, the much discussed linguistic nuances of the word “negro” and its use in South American Spanish mattered little.

Language experts brought in by the FA concluded that what Suarez admits to having said – “what, negro?” – wouldn’t be considered offensive in his native Uruguay, but what Evra says he hurled at him would be.

So it all came down to who the three-man panel believed.

They decided Evra was the more credible witness, chiefly because his version of events tallied closer to the television footage of the incident than Suarez’s

It is worth noting, however, that while the Frenchman was allowed to give his evidence while watching the video of the confrontation, Suarez was not.

The FA report also claimed that the Manchester United player’s testimony was preferred because he remained calm throughout – importantly, though, he was not the one on trial.

As a result of the report’s publication, most media outlets are now presenting Evra’s claim to have been racially abused “seven times in two minutes” as fact when that is far from the case.

Unlike in a court of law, the panel did not need to be satisfied that Suarez was guilty beyond all reasonable doubt, working instead to a balance of probability rule. And the word “probably” can be found in plentiful supply in the report.

Essentially the Liverpool striker has been convicted on the hunch of three men.

Is that acceptable when a man’s reputation is on the line?

If Suarez used the word negro with the frequency and in the manner in which Evra alleges, he deserves every game of his eight-match suspension.

But that hasn't been proven, with only the two players aware of the truth. And try as the FA might to suggest otherwise, the report hasn’t changed that