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Yeah, it all feels very familiar but Mourinho actually has a point this time. There seems to be a disconnect between his transfer plans and the board. He wants to create a team in his image with hard working players that will fit his system. However, the like of Willian and Perisic are not...

Soz, it was a rare chance to show off. :whistle:

Actually the opposite, McGuire is an English mistranslation, the Maguires ruled Fermanagh before the Ulster plantation and it is still by far the most common surname in my native county. But yeah, overspending on players based almost entirely on World Cup performances alone rarely goes to plan...

:pond: Nilsson isn't being hypocritical because he hasn't (to my knowledge) criticised clubs for spending extortionate amounts of money on individual players. Klopp has. The Mourinho v Klopp net spend stuff is interesting, but Klopp has changed tact in the last 7 months, these signings are a...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3714526/Jurgen-Klopp-slams-spending-100m-player-Manchester-United-complete-Paul-Pogba-signing-day-football-m-not-job-anymore.html Ignore that it's The Daily Hate, those were his words two years ago. I think Klopp has accepted that this is the...

http://www.onefootballforum.co.uk/index.php?search/29961/&q=Karius&c[users]=Pagnell&o=date Who's going to be your whipping boy next season? I have my eyes on Lovren, with a sneaky amount of criticism for Mane. :animatedf:

Ha, you're right about this government having no plan, but I think any potentially good government with a plan might be hampered in the future if they are forced into multi-party coalitions by the polling method. Though Scandinavia suggests otherwise, probably depends on the country. Nice that...

Definitely jt.

PR would have given UKIP an 11% share of the seats in the Commons half a decade ago. Change your mind? :p Coalition governments would become the default in PR, so it's a case of having more representatives from smaller parties in a position of power (good) vs the government not being able to...

Can't see anything but another dominant campaign from Manchester City, but Liverpool should be clear cut second favourites given their signings in the last six months and their form since VVD. It's genuinely depressing.

No one said the statistics are meant to be ground breaking in their predictions, more that they can help accurately evaluate a player's performance. In this instance, xG is a much, much better means of evaluating player/team performance than shots saved or goals against which were previously...

Hindsight is 20/20. It's not a mutually exclusive arrangement mate, I'm not sure why you are so vociferous against this statistic. You have scouts for the eyeball test, that will always be the main way players are evaluated. Statistics are then used to support team/player evaluation and can...

Useful article showing the benefits of expected goals and how it can help predict and evaluate performance (pretty spot on about Man Citys weaknesses last summer and Chelsea's regression to the mean, using expected goals as a reliable predictor)...

xG is a very useful stat. If a player has a good goals against relative to the xG his defence faces, it implies the goalkeeper is saving a lot of gilt-edged chances. It's also a much better metric than shots, shots on target and even sometimes goals when determining the flow of a game (which...

He's joking to point out the absurdity of me bringing up atrocities that happened a long time ago. Don't worry yourself fella.

The republican contingent of Northern Ireland dislike the British significantly more than the vast majority of the Republic of Ireland. You are far more likely to receive a bitter reception in the north, fwiw. Even in Belfast. ---------- But yeah, back on topic. I would love a joint tournament...

It was a direct response to his needless comment, otherwise I wouldn't have brought it up. This post is far more antagonistic than mine, I was merely pointing out the hypocrisy of such a notion. And it is quite blatant that he's a strong unionist based on his previous posts. I don't know what...

They will take our retweets, but they will never take our freedom.

Might have been one of the other Britain First posts you've shared.