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  1. Ser Barristan Selmy
    This immediately makes me think of Pirlo and Xavi. Both can play the hollywood pass but often keep things simple and control play from the middle of the park. You just do not tend to get such players in the UK, but Barry was such a player. I can't think of a player England have had like the above. Lampard and Gerrard are great players but are more about driving play forward and assists/scoring than the more deeper controlling of a match. Who else is there? Michael Carrick? Nowhere near Fergusons ability. Jack Wilshere perhaps? Yet to live up to his potential. Going off at a tangent here! PS - Paul Scholes is probably the obvious answer. Preferred him as an AMC in the late 90's though but he became a quality deeper player that could completely control a match.
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    We had a great team in 02/03 that would have been very welcome in the last 8 of the CL but as I detailed in my OP, I believe his performances at Birmingham where in a horrific side he out passed Fabregas, Lampard and Gerrard, he showed how talented he was. And that was when he was way past his best.
  3. Ser Barristan Selmy
    I can't see McColl and King ever working well together. Shared ownership/control of a football club just does not work aside from the likes of Barca which is entirely different and still boils down to singular elected leadership. Everyone wanted shared ownership/control after Murray and Whyte but I just knew how dire it would be. It's even worse. At least when Murray and Whyte were in control we did not have board members recording each other when they were pished saying they wanted to punch them. And also constantly leaking board room details to timmy. Absolute mess.
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    In the thread of world class players I found myself thinking about the standout players we have had in recent history and he stood out to me and always will. Nobody will ever say he was world class or even close to it. However, in the 02/03 season he was pretty much as great a player I've seen us have and he also showed his ability at a young age in Europe. The Bayer Leverkusen manager famously said he was worth £15m. After us he went to Blackburn and struggled in a poor side that was going nowhere, particularly after selling their star asset Duff to Chelsea who helped fund the move. A collision with Gary Speed resulted in a dislocated knee cap that held his career back massively but Ferguson still had what I believe is still a record streak of man of the matches on the trot (5, 6 or 7 was it?). He came back to us and just wasn't the same player but had a performance at home to Porto (3-2 win, was it in 04/05??) that was unbelievable. He was strangely anonymous in many games though most likely down to poor man management but he went to Birmingham and soon became a standout again. He was in a very struggling side but stood out in many matches, particularly at home to Liverpool where he bossed the game and was man of the match. I recall Martin Tyler waxing lyrical about him in that match. He had hugely impressive pass completion stats at a terrible team as detailed here http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1323450/Barry-Ferguson-pass-master.html I just feel that it's a shame what became of his career. I wish he stayed at us for 03/04 and I felt he should have held out for a better move. At that point he was better than 95% of Premiership players. He's the only real standout Scottish player of the past 10 or so years and I just wonder if he had the benefit of Spanish, Dutch or Argentine coaching, he might just have realised his potential.
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    Have sent a PM to Frank Blin on linkedin to ask if he is still likely to be joining us . The guy is involved in a senior capacity in 4 or 5 business at the moment (according to Linkedin). He is just what we need. Get that idiot Stockbridge to fuck I say !
  6. Ser Barristan Selmy
    Spain at 11/2. Tempting to bet big on that. Don't fancy Brazil's chances at all.
  7. Ser Barristan Selmy
    Well Columbia are much better and ranked number 3 so why not. Falcao, Rodriguez etc
  8. Ser Barristan Selmy
    Frank Blin just accepted my friends request on Linkedin .
  9. Ser Barristan Selmy
    A shared ownership has worked so well for us this past year.
  10. Ser Barristan Selmy
    Andy Little scored a better goal than the first one against Killie in the league cup at Rugby Park.
  11. Ser Barristan Selmy
    3 at the back works well for the odd Serie A team or Chile under Bielsa but 99% of the time a back four is vastly superior. 3 at the back is often something you see managers do when they are completely and utterly out of ideas. Man City were dire last season when they deployed it.
  12. Ser Barristan Selmy
    I don't really follow what you're saying there but Iniesta, Ribery, Nedved and Shevchenko have all won European player of the year in the past 10 years.
  13. Ser Barristan Selmy
    You will lose every game about 15-0 in FM with that. If you turn it upside down it looks like something we would play in Europe.
  14. Ser Barristan Selmy
    say what ?
  15. Ser Barristan Selmy
    Remember seeing him play against Brazil iirc in France 98 and thinking what an amazing future we had. How the mighty have fallen.
  16. Ser Barristan Selmy
    What did we expect from these half-wits? more the fools are us for not taking to the streets when we took on board a convicted fraudster and his brother after being almost killed by such types.
  17. Ser Barristan Selmy
    I don't feel the need to elaborate on something so evidently prevalent.
  18. Ser Barristan Selmy
    This country is completely and utterly fucked.
  19. Ser Barristan Selmy
    Possibly there's settings to edit. It's annoying though because hearing the ginger tramp randomly is a bit like watching those ghost prank videos on youtube where something loud and horrible jumps out at you.
  20. Ser Barristan Selmy
    this add on blocks the video but not the audio, which sort of defeats the point
  21. Ser Barristan Selmy
    But thanks, I've installed it on Chrome.
  22. Ser Barristan Selmy
    Dude firefox is so 10 years ago
  23. Ser Barristan Selmy
    I accept your apology.
  24. Ser Barristan Selmy
    Really does not surprise me. Hear a lot of terrible stories about him.
  25. Ser Barristan Selmy
    Well the guy is clearly nowhere near 80 and I doubt he supported the club when he was a baby either .
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