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Also add the fact most football fans having a world cup holiday would want to drink alcohol and in Qatar doing so is punished by flogging.

By putting personal profit ahead of the quality of the tournament. By organising the tournament in a way the majority of fans disagree with.

The 2022 world cup makes me angry because it highlights how corrupt FIFA is as an organisation, how football is not their top priority and that they disregard fans of the sport. As they run the sport which I care about a lot this troubles me. And that's before even starting on issues like their government employing cheap labour from countries like Nepal and putting them to work in unsafe conditions and dying in their hundreds.

I feel the same. However, it is frustrating to feel powerless to do anything in these situations so I guess I can see why some people might want to make a token gesture. The 2022 world cup makes me angry just thinking about it but I'll watch it. I really wish there was something that could be done to change it though.

Snafu became my favourite place to go out in Aberdeen, real shame that it's closing. It's been putting on loads of great DJs, I hope the promoters taking them there will be able to find a new venue to work with and keep these people coming to Aberdeen.

Is the "(spoilers)" really necessary in the thread title?

I think it's incredibly unfair to say that LeTissier was a coward or wasted his talent. By no means do I think that being a one team player is more respectable than not but I don't see a problem with him choosing to be one. I think it's easy to forget footballers are real people too. I personally would be attracted to the idea of playing in different leagues and living in various cities but I can completely understand someone not wanting to move their whole life to somewhere else when they have a very good life already. Also I don't think he lacked ambition completely he just didn't have the ambitions other people wanted him to have. It certainly doesn't diminish his own ability as a footballer. Definitely a premier league great.

In his prime I think he was a much better finisher than Cole. His career dipped earlier than it should have but his goals to games record is still not much worse than Cole's and he had that amazing midfield providing him with billions of opportunities.

Cole would come way below Shearer in my book. Also below the likes of Van Nistelrooy, RVP, Drobga, Fowler.

I think it's been better the last few season than it was for a while. There's usually at least one exciting match to watch each match day. The strengthening of German and Italian teams over the last few years has meant there's more competitive teams in the groups than before, even if the number who can realistically go all the way is about the same.

Something I learned yesterday which surprised me. After winning the Champions League in 1999 they only won one knockout match in the competition between then and the 2006/7 season. That's partly explained by a few of those years being when the format had two group stages and the first knock out round was the quarter finals. But still I'd forgotten how after finally reaching the top they seemed to slip significantly down the European ladder. Remember when the Champions League had two group stages? What a fucking awful idea.

Tugay would be in the top ten of players who could belt the ball in from 40 yards.

okay, easy. Stephen Glass Eoin Jess Peter Fear Albert Ferrer Keith Gillespie Ade Akinbiyi Matt Elliot Paulo Wanchope Benito Carbone Tony Warner Jason McAteer Atillio Lombardo Dean Windass Massimo Taibi Joey Barton Darren Anderton Taribo West Shaun Goater Marian Pahars Lucas Radebi Emerson Frank Leboef Henning Berg Tim Flowers Ruel Fox Is that 100? Honestly thought I said Shearer was in my consideration when choosing those five and he would comfortably make a top ten but I have no problems leaving him out of the five, even if he is the top scorer.

Shearer wouldn't get in my top 100!

I stand by my top 5. Scholes, Shearer, Dickov they can all just stand in the corner and cry about it.

No Ravinelli? Get out! And I thought Shearer would be one someone else would point out. But to be honest he never excited me as a player and I think he's a twat so he's not on my list.

A personal favourtie. It was because of him that I really started liking Chelsea around then. Some incredible goals.

Did you post that without seeing mine? 4 out of 5 the same. My list isn't in order btw.

Bergkamp, Henry, Ronaldo, Zola, Cantona That comes from a mix of objectivity and personal preference.

It took me a minute there to remember Larsson playing in the Premier League. Bergkamp would be an acceptable choice for best Premier League player ever, definitely top 5.

Does anyone ever watch full matches for a second time? I was looking for highlights of a match earlier and could only find the full match on youtube and I've noticed a few times that this is not unusual. I find it hard though to imagine that many people wanting to re-watch a whole game. I have done it once, the Germany - Italy world cup semi from 06. It is easily one of my favourite matches ever but even then I wasn't planning to give the whole thing a second go, I stumbled across the video and just kind of left it on while doing other things.

I'd tell that story all my life if that happened to me.

There's a fantastic interview with him in the first issue of the Blizzard which I have been reading (and enjoying immensely). In it he talks about how by the end of his career he was getting as much if not more satisfaction from those through ball assists than scoring himself.

I'd certainly be interested in knowing what really happened too. Henry's version of events would be interesting. He was excellent in Guardiola's first season but I always thought it was just a case of age catching up with him the year after and pep preferring other players. I'd never hear of there being other issues between the two. The messi thing is plausible but it seems just as likely that's the story Zlatan settled on afterward once Messi had moved into the middle permanently once he left.

Russel Anderson should have been in every Scotland squad ever announced since he made his dons debut. And Strachan is going to look realyl foolish for not picking Pawlett once he's the 2015 Balon d'Or winner.