Everything posted by Soy Adrián
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Champions League 2015/16
It's hard to compare because a lot of players don't adapt well to the PL, look terrible and then go back home and do well again (Aspas and Soldado spring to mind). The way football was going in the few years before tiki-taka suited our league's style and happened to coincide with Real and Bayern being relatively quiet. Everything went right for the English game at the same time, it's easy to look back with rose-tinted glasses at the players who were doing well at the time.
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Champions League 2015/16
Wrong way round I think. Look at the teams that our mid-table and bottom half teams are competing with for signings - the TV money and the way it's divided means that our top teams don't have any easy games and their top players are tired or injured by the time the knockout rounds come along. Arsenal had their moments tonight but it's hard to see anyone keeping Barcelona quiet for 180 minutes. 90 maybe.
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Budget
Suagr tax is a clever distraction. Lots of strong opinions and isn't split by traditional party lines, so it's dominated the headlines while other announcements are far more significant.
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Indie/Alternative Album of Buzzjack's Lifetime
01 Arcade Fire - The Suburbs 02 Muse - Black Holes and Revelations 03 The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound 04 Linkin Park - Minutes to Midnight 05 The Killers - Sam's Town 06 Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not 07 Linkin Park - The Hunting Party 08 Paramore - Riot! 09 Sleigh Bells - Treats 10 Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown 11 The Gaslight Anthem - Handwritten 12 Arctic Monkeys - AM 13 The 1975 - The 1975 14 Foo Fighters - Wasting Light 15 Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare 16 My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade 17 Foo Fighters - Sonic Highways 18 Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum 19 Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds 20 Arcade Fire - Reflektor 21 Coldplay - Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends 22 Muse - The 2nd Law 23 The Killers - Battle Born 24 The Pretty Reckless - Light Me Up 25 Jake Bugg - Shangri La 26 Imagine Dragons - Night Visions 27 blink-182 - Neighbourhoods 28 The Gaslight Anthem - Sink or Swim 29 Florence and the Machine - Lungs 30 The Vaccines - What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? That was fun.
- 2016 US Election.
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Barclays Premier League
I'd find it really darkly funny if Chelsea were able to enact revenge on them and deny them on the final day. Couldn't see Mourinho celebrating too much from home if it meant giving the title to Arsene Wenger though!
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2016 US Election.
I would bite your hand off for a Cruz nomination. Tea Party politics is a known quantity so I can't see him shifting the debate to the right during the campaign in the same way that Trump could.
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Barclays Premier League
If I were Leicester I'd definitely want the league wrapped up before the final day. That game against Chelsea is looking rather ominous.
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2016 US Election.
He'd be an awful lot better at it than an actual Corbyn-type figure would be (because let's face it, they're really not that alike), which is why I'd be vocally backing him if he was still in with a shout of winning the nomination.
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2016 US Election.
Equally you could argue that Sanders is being propped up by young liberals who will vote Democrat no matter what, while Hillary is being supported by moderates who might think Trump could run the economy better. Neither is entirely accurate, but it illustrates why it's hard to say who would be a better bet.
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Barclays Premier League
Would Chelsea want Europa League football though? I think they'd rather make the semis of the CL than win the FA Cup.
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2016 US Election.
Regarding the whole "he's winning the seats that the Democrats actually win" - so? The Democrat membership will be markedly different in terms of demographics and views to the electorate as a whole in virtually every state. The swing voters who could win Ohio for him against Clinton aren't the same ones who would have to vote for him to win Ohio against Trump or any other Republican.
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Barclays Premier League
Tomorrow will be a big test for Spurs, without meaning to blow our own trumpets. We play Arsenal and Leicester back-to-back next month as well, and I doubt either will be particularly looking forward to it.
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Europa League 2015/16 Season
Well I'm delighted given that our FA Cup game against United will now be sandwiched by two games against Liverpool, with a Manchester derby the weekend after. Here's hoping for a replay.
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2016 US Election.
That's worrying, but Clinton's dirty laundry has had a lot more airing than Trump's so far.
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2016 US Election.
Sorry, would you be actually pleased by that?
- 2016 US Election.
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EU Referendum Discussion
The demographic time-bomb that would result from us turning away migrants from other EU countries and them returning the favour doesn't bear thinking about. Easy decision for me. Less than amused that the vote will be while I'm at Glastonbury, but it gives us an excuse to buy an EU flag.
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The FA Cup
Limiting ties to one replay makes sense - replays are part of the magic of the FA Cup but limiting it to one means that fixtures don't pile up but the smaller team will still always get a lucrative away tie. These proposals are dangerous and won't really help enhance the national team or how our teams do in Europe. The Premier League is too powerful and too competitive, reforming it somehow is the only way to achieve those objectives.
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By-elections 2015 - 2020
I'll be going over to campaign with old friends in Hillsborough. Not overly familiar with the seat but I'll be surprised if UKIP do better than in Oldham West.
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Adam Johnson SACKED by Sunderland
The club had to do it. It'd be interesting to know what the grooming charge consisted of - whether it was that he continued to text her for a while after they'd first met, for instance.
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Irish General Election 2016
There's a joke in there somewhere.
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The FA Cup
We had about six penalty takers on the pitch. Would have been spoilt for choice if we'd got that one in the second half. Even Owen said it should have been given!
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The FA Cup
Comiserations to all the Liverpool fans. We wanted to do you on penalties.
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2016 US Election.
Are we assuming that if the GOP moderates take it in turns to get a shock good result then it'll end up with none of them getting the nomination?