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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Nairaland Fantasy Premier League 2013/2014 by A40(m): 5:48pm On Aug 25, 2013
Zabaleta and Yaya Toure! Dammit man 8 pts gone for nothing
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Offical Bayern Munich Fan Thread: 6x Champions Of Europe by A40(m): 4:51pm On Aug 25, 2013
[size=14pt]ALCANTARA OUT FOR 7 WEEKS[/size]

This must be a sign from the Almighty Lord for Pep to return to the original template
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Nairaland Fantasy Premier League 2013/2014 by A40(m): 4:44pm On Aug 25, 2013
Stevie Wonder would do better than these EPL refs! That was a stonewall penalty for the Spurs
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by A40(m): 4:40pm On Aug 25, 2013
afrodoc: FYI i usually watch Bundesliga matches and always watch if its Bayern or Dortmund.
that a team plays fast paced football doesn't mean that ALL its players are faster than those of a team playing slower football. Reus,Aubemeyang,Kuba are the sprinters in that team. Gundogan contributes more with quick incisive passing and speed of thought than speed of his legs. when it comes to sheer speed i.e running from point A to point B ramires is faster and i repeat its not even close.
i noticed there is a tendency for you to hype everything bundesliga and denigrate everything else and thats very disingenuous of u
When did Aubameyang join Dortmund? Reus joined only last season so what are you talking about? Dortmund have been playing uptempo football for at least 3 seasons now! The likes of Gotze, Kagawa, and Gundogan formed the bedrock of such quickness

Gundogan is a ball winner, ball retainer and his energy and pace is what keeps Dortmund able to maintain such a high tempo. Ramires is not quicker abeg

What tendency are you talking about? Ninja pls you don't know me like that
Sports › Re: FORMULA ONE (F1 2013) Official Thread For 2013 Season by A40(m): 3:54pm On Aug 25, 2013
[quote author=Area_boy]indeed.. good driver he is but i reckon his age is getting to him. slow reaction time to the lights and starts poorly.

O well, next race, i hope vettel crashes grin grin grin grin grin[/quote]Lol he threw the competition a bone at Silverstone else the title chase woulda been over much earlier
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by A40(m): 2:46pm On Aug 25, 2013
ritchboy: Except I never said such, Brainlessav Moronovic! grin
Hahahaha no balls to even own up to your gaffes! Simon Peter has nothing on this douchegoblin
Sports › Re: FORMULA ONE (F1 2013) Official Thread For 2013 Season by A40(m): 2:35pm On Aug 25, 2013
[quote author=Area_boy]neither.. but i'll have even max chilton win this race rather than vettel..

I'm a kimi fan sad

where the hell does he find extra race pace from when webber is chasing his tail at the back? huh[/quote]Hehehe I woulda felt your pain if I was anti-Vettel too, it was a racing clinic out there

Webber is a poor starter that's his biggest problem
Sports › Re: FORMULA ONE (F1 2013) Official Thread For 2013 Season by A40(m): 2:28pm On Aug 25, 2013
SEBASTIAN VETTEL takes the Belgian Grand Prix
Sports › Re: FORMULA ONE (F1 2013) Official Thread For 2013 Season by A40(m): 2:21pm On Aug 25, 2013
[quote author=Area_boy]^^ how much is the lead? any chance of someone getting passed vettel? I'm sick of that little cvnt winning all the time angry[/quote]Hamilton or Alonso fan?

About 11 seconds! The gap is getting wider by the lap it would take something extreme for Vettel not to win this
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by A40(m): 2:18pm On Aug 25, 2013
ritchboy: There's nothing remotely subliminal about what I said, M0R0N! cheesy
Given your track record of idiocy and asinine statements its not suprising that you can't come correct! Mr Vela is as skillful as Messi. Ewu
Sports › Re: FORMULA ONE (F1 2013) Official Thread For 2013 Season by A40(m): 2:07pm On Aug 25, 2013
Kimi Raikonnen OUT!! And down goes his pts streak

[quote author=Area_boy]guys!!!!! whats going on? I'm at work and cant watch the race.. updates pls? who's in front? where is kimi? and hamster?

whats the prediction from race so far?[/quote]Vettel leading! Alonso 2nd Hamilton 3rd Kimi is out!

It just might rain towards the end
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by A40(m): 1:53pm On Aug 25, 2013
ritchboy: I refuse to get sucked in to a discussion with a band of m0rons who think Rosicky plays CM and Gundogan is quicker than Ramires tongue
Hehehehe mr Jack Wilshere is proven in Europe. Subliminals are for poosies! Come correct you wuss
Sports › Re: FORMULA ONE (F1 2013) Official Thread For 2013 Season by A40(m): 1:48pm On Aug 25, 2013
Looking like the Vettelmeister's race to lose! Super drive from Alonso but then again that Ferrari's race pace has never been in doubt
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Offical Bayern Munich Fan Thread: 6x Champions Of Europe by A40(m): 10:21am On Aug 25, 2013
Freiburg next
Sports › Re: FORMULA ONE (F1 2013) Official Thread For 2013 Season by A40(m): 12:21am On Aug 25, 2013
The Hamster with the 4th straight pole! Vettel 2nd and Webber 3rd

Raikonnen 8th Alonso 9th grin grin

There is talk of rain though so all hope is not lost MrBrownJay
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Offical Bayern Munich Fan Thread: 6x Champions Of Europe by A40(m):
nitlad: Hehehehe.... This never-do-well is still alive?

Sikiru the ässlicker, why are you making your already miserable life more tortuous for yourself? One would think you would be smart enough to spot and embrace the olive branch of euthanasia I offered you, but no, you are too busy with your primary äss-licking job to spot it.

Now the throes of dying the Nitlad way which I shall make you go through, will be fun for me. Your choice, not mine.
Hahahaha so after being rescued from your latest suicide attempt your first port of call is to come back for more bashing!

Be my guest! A-40 has always left you with cuts,lacerations,contusions and broken bones never mind the emotional and psychological damage I have wrecked on your person

nitlad: Give up already you foöl. You keep plunging new depths of idiöcy, making mockery of your sorry self with your every attempt to evade who you are, a drug addict. Why are you trying so hard to explain yourself to me? I be like NDLEA for you eye? grin Would it kill you to admit being a drughead? You need to 'come out' really, that's the first step towards rehabilatation, Sikiru the druggie. grin
The jizz-wallet is already copping pleas!
Hehehehe after highlighting your stark illiteracy to the ends of the earth you have been reduced to a babbling incoherent tub of goo!

According to nitlad's theory of illiteracy knowing the names of drugs make you a user of em

Your mother shoulda taken it up the a$$ the night you were conceived


nitlad: The saving grace for your family at the moment is the fact that they serve as fück buddies for my dogs (they are not totally useless afterall cheesy ) if not, I go don carry them do shooting practise tey tey. I assure you, your momma's fate shall be their lot too - cos one after the other, the dogs would rapë them all to death!
What a troll! Omo talika wey never chop wan feed dog?

Have you gotten that RPG yet? Ohh I forgot you are a pauper so rat poison would do

nitlad: Upping the ante was supposed the bring out the best in you nah Sikiru, but you continue spewing the same tripe over and over again.
I've not even gotten to beastmode yet and you are already copping pleas and extending olive branches! When I'm done with you you would burn down your village and massacre your entire lineage of social deviants


nitlad: I upped the ante but you fell short. The same way your father consistently fell short of providing 1 'meal' of garri and epa for his plagued family once a week. Even after using about 13 of your innumerable sibs for oogun owo, he is still miserable. He is the original oloriburuku. He's so much of an oloriburuku that even if Apple's stash of cash were to be expended on him, he'd still be miserable.
Hehehehe aren't your family popularly known as jebe jebe in your neighbourhood eyin te ma n je eba lai si obe. Hehehe iyaa ki n se omi obe

Didn't your younger siblings get burnt to ashes when they were caught stealing fish 4 years ago? Were you not supposed to be with them but couldn't make it cos you suffered from the chronic dysentry you acquired due to your frequent visits to your neighbor's dumpster? Don't let me put your business on the streets


nitlad: This is quite rich coming from a product of incëstuos inbreeding like yourself. Sadly, the mistake you are making is that, I'm not the one you should be trying this hard to impress with your Patrick Obahiagbon wannabe obsession, that should be reserved for your oga, Dayo. What you should however be doing is begging me for mercy, cos I am your Lord and Executioner. Just for the pricless fun of watching you wail in excruciating pain, I will stab your eyes, peel off two pounds of flesh from your tighs, force your feet up your rectum and have you gag on a diseased donkey's dong. I am heartless. cool So get your priorities in order, Sikiru.
You have spoken like the true son of abomination you are! Patrick Obahiagbon? Hahahaha what a simp! So what I typed was grammar to you? Well as a primary school dropout I'm not suprised you are in confusion already! Go read a book you illiterate son of a binsh and step up your vocab

I was supposed to pay your mother's dowry till I found out the puta was sh@gging my would be father-in-law grin grin so technically I'm your step-dad

nitlad: Lol, the abominable sod think say na by agidi and egungun ori. Nitlad is above all that, you witless gouted pig.
What's with your obsession with sëmen though. The only explanation would be your mum usually and forcefully emptied in your mouth the sëmen from the many used condoms of her customers after dem don knack am akpako. You have these semën lodged in the area your brain should be occupying, hence your fixation with it, you disgusting pud-whack.
Are you going to deny the only source of nutrition in your impoverished family? Don't you and your puta momma go around looking to fill your respective bellies with semen to help you sleep the night?

How many spoons did you have tonight? Or are you going to bed on an empty stomach grin

nitlad: Only that there are teams with more returns from Europe you pudsucking crotchstain!

However, Bayansh hold the uneviable record for loosing two CL finals in the final 3 mins. grin
STFU and suck a d!cck up till you hiccup you c0ck suckin son of a b!nsh! The UCL count between Bayern and Chelsea is still 5-1

One would think the other team earns a bonus UCL for winning in the last 3 mins! Your phoolishness is epic

nitlad: And that is where your mother comes in. She is a record holder in her own right. She holds the record for the most penentrated püssy ever! What a chippie.

That's why she's called the 'Go-to Hag' cheesy If anybody wan make sure say their dog can get it up, your momma was the point of call. She bin dey help dog breeders fellatë their male animals in readiness for copulatiön.
Booooorrrrrrrinngggg
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by A40(m): 8:58pm On Aug 24, 2013
Ibime: One good game is enough to prove yourself in the continent if you are an Arsenal player.

Don't you know Wilshere and Oxlade became "proven in the continent" after the clashes with Barca and Milan respectively?

At Chelsea, we have players who have produced several times in latter stages of Champions League that we are still trying to chase out of the club with sticks and stones.
Looool proving yourself must have another meaning! How can players who are yet to cross the 2nd rd of a competition claim to have proven themselves on any level? They are barely proven in the EPL never mind Europe
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by A40(m): 8:50pm On Aug 24, 2013
mithel: I am happy I stuck with my "dont sell Sturridge " opinion cry

If the guy bangs in a hat trick against us..I hope he jubilates madly sef...how people still want and feel nando is a better striker still beats me...are you guys sticking with that useless thought because you want to save face or what?? undecided it should be an insult to Sturridge comparing the donkey to him lipsrsealed

God dey sha
You guys really missed out on a talent! Why play a natural born striker on the flanks and expect him to deliver? For a half season that he was given the chance to play he scored in double digits by December! Fernandont Scorres has played for 2 full seasons in the league and cannot crack 8 goals! Its a phucking disgrace
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by A40(m): 8:31pm On Aug 24, 2013
afrodoc: Gundogan faster than Ramires? c'mon now even ur Bundesliga mate Dayo won't cosign on that. nobody talking abt technique,passing,intelligence etc when it comes to speed Ramires is clearly the faster guy and its not even close
Have you sat down to actually watch Dortmund play? Gundogan is one of the biggest reasons they are able to play at such a high tempo! forget hype and crowd mentality Gundogan is quicker

[quote author=da-whizkid]This guy dey smoke Kwale gbana.[/quote]Shut that se-men receptacle disguised as your mouth

nateevs: But how do you know this? Slightly nudging it. Every single human on earth who has seen Ramires know he is one of the quickest players playing the game now. The logic does not work.

Ritchboy is the third person in a row that doesn't agree with this.
What logic? In a mechanical team like Chelsea the few quick players are likely to stand out

Does Ritchboy work with the IAAF or what does his agreement prove exactly?
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Arsenal Fans Thread: The Red & White Army: 2025/2026 EPL Champions! by A40(m): 8:14pm On Aug 24, 2013
ritchboy: Rosicky almost never plays CM. What games have you been watching?



Mostly gra gra? You need a new TV... Wilshere is already proven "in the continent"
Which continent Africa or Asia? because its certainly not Europe
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Offical Bayern Munich Fan Thread: 6x Champions Of Europe by A40(m): 7:51pm On Aug 24, 2013
This penalty matter is getting out of hand! With the number of technically sound players we have I'm at a loss as to how bad we've become at taking penalties! Do we have to bring back Effenberg for goodness sake?

Gotze looked a bit match rusty which is expected but the quality was there!

Pep's substitutions where on point though the team is still lacking rhythm right now and we are getting by on the back of individual performances atm. Robben is playing out of his mind its like he feels he has a point to prove
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by A40(m): 10:29am On Aug 24, 2013
elampiro: Ramires has a certain ability no other EPL player has, only Yaya You're is closed to it. But Ramires does burst box to box faster than Yaya. That alone plus his dribbling abilities is enough to have him in a big team. Tiote doesn't have a selling point apart from his direct confrontations and energy.
Tiote is shyte actually! He is a poor man's Lassana Diarra
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by A40(m): 10:21am On Aug 24, 2013
ritchboy: Ramires/Hazard are clearly quicker than Ilkay/Gotze, but the latter are clearly the better players overall.
Ramires and Gundogan is still somewhat close with Gundogan slightly nudging it but Gotze vs Hazard? Hazard isn't even that quick to start with certainly not as quick as Gotze
Sports › Re: FORMULA ONE (F1 2013) Official Thread For 2013 Season by A40(m): 10:09am On Aug 24, 2013
Loool where is MrBrownjay? You and the jazz from your Baba ijebu will fail again! grin grin

The Red Bulls struggled early but came back strongly in the second practice its hard to point out the fastest car on the grid at this point because at the first practice Alonso was dominant! perhaps aided by the weather tho
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by A40(m): 1:30am On Aug 24, 2013
nateevs: So in two instances, A40 has attempted to compare Hazard's pace to Goetze's by using Dortmund's collective pace in counter attack as the yardstick. How does this help establish who is quicker?

Isn't this like telling me Gundogan is quicker than Ramires because Dortmund's counter is quicker than Chelsea's.
You actually think Ramires is quicker than Gundogan? Hahaha I've heard it all this evening

So you want to sit there and tell us collective pace of a fast break/counter does not give an idea of how quick a group of players are? Ok I'm getting you

Hazard quick? Even Ribery,Robben that are pushing their 30's are quicker than Hazard
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Nairaland Fantasy Premier League 2013/2014 by A40(m): 1:20am On Aug 24, 2013
lalaboi: Offcourse. .

You go deploy your one too? grin
Naah I should have cos I've made like 3 transfers already but its still a tad too early in my eyes! I want to hang on till like Week 5 at least
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by A40(m): 11:55pm On Aug 23, 2013
El Guapo: [color=#0066ff]Ninjas try to sound neat yet they spew the best shiits - A-40 Is a wittyshit on the loose.

Before he'd propound his 0% Sham Logic, he failed to get Investigative and dig from time memorial.

The Harris brothers, Peter Bonetti, Osgood, Bobby Tambling, Barry Bridges, Bert Murray, John Hollins, Ray Wilkins, Graeme Le Saux, Terry Venables, Jimmy Greaves, Charlton Cole, Terry, Kalas etc were/are our youth products and definitely talented great names.

WTF does that Urchin know about Chelsea?
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Hahahahahaha what an !mbecile we are talking about recent times and this phool is busy calling players that played while Gowon and Richard Nixon were in administration! are you this desperate? Bar Terry how many laurels were the dinosaurs you listed above able to win and what has been their impact on world football?

The drag queen thinks his ability to plagiarize and lift off Chelsea related articles from the internet means he is knowledgeable about Chelsea! How cute
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by A40(m): 11:43pm On Aug 23, 2013
nateevs: Is there another Goetze I don't know about?
Gotze is miles quicker than Hazard! Hazard ko Azadus ni

Go and watch Dortmund and see how they break forward at 300mph and go and compare it to what obtains at Chelsea then get back to me!


nateevs: I didn't join the debate. Just had to comment on the 'Zero' percent thing.
Even if na 5%, we still try. In 2/3 years, I fully expect Chalobah, Ake, Traore, RLC, Boga, Josh, Feruz to be in/around the first team.
Lool try indeed! You guys don't have no youth policy to brag about jare! Lool you go dey clinch Huth,Johnson (West Ham)even add Terry arugbo ojo join

nateevs: What you are discussing actually doesn't take into consideration the establishment of both clubs as European giants over the years. Chelsea had to spend money to get to where we are. There's no other way to do it. The good thing is while all that has been going on, we have been investing heavily in youth football. 10 years is just about right to begin to see the results.
This talk of Chelsea not giving time to young players will be over soon enough. Just like the "you have no history" is gradually fading away.
Of course there is nothing wrong with spending money I just took offense to that halfwit El Tarado being a simple minded schmuck that's all

jackbauersballs: You don dey Jones again this early evening abi? undecided
Hazard quicker than Gotze?? You need to fire your dopeman fastttt!!!! Osiso!! Go and watch Dortmund and see the fastbreak clinic he put up there over the past two seasons! Hazard ko inner-light ni
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Offical Bayern Munich Fan Thread: 6x Champions Of Europe by A40(m): 11:29pm On Aug 23, 2013
nitlad: This is to be expected... Na so you go buoy the ninny on even in the face of certain death. grin

I know you are tired and fed up of the shame that goes pari-passu with him.

Don't worry though, your boy Mr. Sikiru's end has come. His sudden untimely demise will be as a result of something horrible I go do to am.

A 4 abirun, woke ki o wole, oni lori aye mo. Emi Ika.




Damn, I'm on a roll.....
Of course on a roll down the avalanche of ignorance,annihilation and decimation

I would only be appeased when your head is on a spike like Ed Stark! A-40 similar to Idi Amin I'd put your head in a fridge
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Offical Bayern Munich Fan Thread: 6x Champions Of Europe by A40(m):
nitlad: Hahahahahaha grin grin

That has gotta hurt. grin Emi Ika cool

Why are you hyperventilating? I merely stated the obvious nah grin
Everyone and their dog is aware of the way you shamelessly feast on Dayo's dirty behind. I'm sorry, you can't drop the tag now - ässlicker.
Of course you be "ika" you are an ika to your momma wey you don repeatedly sodomize! Didn't you sire your siblings? Were you not sired by your grandfather? After doing my due diligence on you I discovered that you are an inbred hillbilly and you come from a long line of abomination no wonder your entire family tree suffer from every mental challenge known to man

The only obvious thing is that your mother should have swallowed that seed that brought an unfortunate noob like you to the world


nitlad: Your tepid attempt to exonorate yourself keeps roping you up the more. Only never-do-wells of your ilk have aliases for their favourite herbs, Mr Sikiru. You are a chronic drug abuser. Koyami lenu though, cos na the things wen born u na dem una resemble. Both the nonentities that brought about your unfortunate birth were rabid users themselves.

You are the major reason why one-night-stands should be outlawed! You epitomise shame and misfortune.
Whooa! It seems the dumb just got dumber! A-40 asks nitlad if he is under the influence of drugs nitlad with his only functional but diseased braincell phoolishly assumes that this means A-40 uses drugs. I'm sure you also watch Burn Notice and think you are a covert op or watch Suits and think you are a Lawyer.

You are the walking and breathing reason why inbreeding is frowned upon! No wonder your kin was banished from civilization. Do the world a favor today grab an RPG and massacre your entire lineage then do the necessary and end your pathetic existence as well

nitlad: Lmao... Damn simp, you trying so hard.

If you like punch your key board with the energy you use in boinking your mother's vaginä, it still won't stop me from plastering your face with eggs and make you walk the long walk of shame as it is my favourite pass time. cheesy

You shall continue to be a source of a shame and scorn to your cursed lineage. Oloriburuku omo iya aje.
Trying hard with a mentally challenged wimp like you? Binsh please! If sonning you was a sport then I'm Vettel,Brady,Jordan,Bolt,LeBron

This isn't the first time I have sent you running for the hills and it won't be the last

Paramedics are still excavating your posterior and trying to bring my size 48 out of that se-men infested black hole you phucking maricon!

nitlad: You are a foöl...... The only time you make any semblance of sense is when you have your cöck buried deep in your momma's cünt. Unfortunately, I had my rottweilers take turns to rapë your mother to death a couple of days ago, so we gon' have to try and live with your stupendous idiocy, till you are euthanized yourself!

There would not have been the need to cancel out any error if Meier's goal had stood. Do I have to open up your skull to get this in?
Looool the cursed product of bestiality is trying to save face! Are you not the halfwit that doesn't even know what a miscarriage means? When I'm through with you you would ingest ricin! And your aforementioned rottweilers would r@pe and defile your malignant corpse but that would not be before they mete the same treatment to the hypochondriac, schizophrenic jizzwallet you call mom grin grin

This cross-dressing drag queen has swallowed so much se-men he is bereft of any common sense! Robben's goal was legit! If you don't like it you can signify your grief by fellating on a herd of wildebeests



nitlad: There are clubs with more CL trophies. Only one club -Bayansh- looses CL finals in the last 3 mins or less. That has happened twice now, with one of those in their own backyard. There is no disgrace greater than this.
But neither Man U nor Chelsea can count themselves among them you sodomite! Only a petty loser like you would hold on to such losses when the said team came back to win the tournament the very next year! We have moved on and are the best team in Europe as we speak! Suck on that douchegoblin!
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Offical Bayern Munich Fan Thread: 6x Champions Of Europe by A40(m): 10:52pm On Aug 23, 2013
I thought we were the only ones that had been bitten by this chance missing bug! Dortmund had em by the freightliner boy

Reus was absolutely brilliant for BVB

This season go be serious rofo rofo fight for the title

Seems like Schalke are eyeing Podudski as well! They certainly could use a striker after their poor showing against PAOK

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