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chic2pimp: ONCE A DOOFUS ALWAYS A DOOFUS
The only thing those stats you posted up there showed is that Carrick is best passing Midfielder of three which was clearly obvious to the naked eyes anyways.

your brain has less cells than the number of your fingers.
in those stats, you can only pick out passing statistics?
you couldn't see how better carrick is with the ball(long balls, accuracy, etc).
you did not see carrick is difficult to dispossess and difficult to dribble?

you refused to see carrick commits far less fouls than the duo while still effective
in nullifying attacks, a very big plus especially in international tournaments.
you cannot see carrick is less likely to lose the ball in comparison to parker and mikel?

Heck Leon Britton probably has better passing stasts than the two of em'.
I still insist i'll put more faith in either of Mikel or Parker protecting my back 4 than Carrick.

and watch them bag red cards in the first 15 mins of a knock-out tie and effectively
stop the progress of your team in the competition. you are like 99% of the english
fans. brawns over brains is what you love. every fan loves a tryer. same people
who think dirk kuyt/andy caroll are better than berbatov!

If He was that good/great we won't be having this discussion about his exclusion from the national squad. It would have been a no brainer.
As a Midfielder Carrick is no better than Mikel Arteta.

and that is why england have not done well in any competition.
if his replacements are great/good - why haven't england won something with barry, gerrard, lampard, parker, etc?
the only time carrick played 90 mins for england, they sodomized germany in.........germany!

arteta is the 2nd best performer in arsenal this season. it's a compliment that
carrick is being compared to him rather than alex song or gareth barry!

dyabman: 25hrs to go . . .

i am buying a chelsea shirt later tonight in the city!

BlueDiva: ^^^^
Stats won't matter tomorrow when we lift the cup.

but you'd have a very difficult task to win the competition.
this is an away game for chelsea, bayern are playing at home.
they know that pitch like the back of their hand and there would
be more bayern fans from the terraces to the ball boys..........

makes me wonder why uefa are such cheats when it comes to england.
whenever the venue for the final ever comes to england, wembley
would be chosen. a stadium no football club uses. if it goes to germany,
spain, france, etc - the event would be held in the stadium of a football club.

i can't imagine if last season's final was held at old trafford, united woulda won it at a canter!

RuuDie: A midfielder with decent dead ball skills will be very welcome. . .

I say we scour the middle tier teams in Spain, Germany and Italy; forget big money buys and headliners - but if Real are willing, Lass should be a target.

this is why i want sigurdsson.

17 apps, 7 goals, 3 assists.
3.9 shots/game, 2.8 key passes/game
84.5% pass completion.

he is not 23 until september, a man utd fan by birth!
sigurdsson is the perfect partner for carrick as he looks fit.
he can cover up when anderson/cleverley/fletcher go on their perennial
injury vacation. he would be cheap as well. for £10m, he'd be a bargain!

Periwinkle: Mennnnnnn! wish i saw this post earlier! I booked BA for my family (wife and kid) to visit me by June early this month using my Visa debit card here in Manchester (route ABV-MAN through LHR;return). Any suggestions on what i should do? i have the e-tickets and booking reference. Should i DHL my card to wifey back in Abuja?

you don't have to do nothing.
if there's a problem, ba would have contacted you to answer
some simple questions for security checks. besides, their
payment system on their website is visa-verified. i think
you have passed the security check already. sit back and relax!

chic2pimp: You are a Doofus!
I'd rather have Mikel in front of my back four than Carrick.
And given the option of either Carrick Or Parker as my defensive Mid I'd also choose Parker.
But as England going to play a two man midfield or most likely three man, I believe Carrick as England's best passer of the ball should be amongst them.

Modern defensive Midfielder my foot. And yet Man united's weakest spot is still the midfield

scott parker
3.7 tackles/game
3.1 interceptions/game
1.6 fouls/game
1.2 clearances/game
1.3 was dribbled/game

1.3 dispossessed/game
0.8 key passes/game
59.3 average passes/game
89.5% pass completion
2.7 accurate long balls/game
0 goals, 1 assist

mikel obi
1.6 tackles/game
1.5 interceptions/game
1.3 fouls/game
1.4 clearances/game
0.5 was dribbled/game

0.7 dispossessed/game
0.4 key passes/game
49.5 average passes/game
90.2% pass completion
3.7 accurate long ball/game
0 goals, 0 assists.

angel michael
3 tackles per game
2.4 interceptions/game
0.7 fouls/game
1.6 clearances/game
0.8 was dribbled/game

0.3 dispossessed/game
1 key pass/game
73.1 average passes/game
90.1% pass completion
6 accurate long balls/game
2 goals + 3 assists.
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chimp2pimp, this is why we call you a charlatan!

mbulela: apart from Anderson and Giggs who is he better than?

fellaini better than anderson? are you high?
who is fellaini?

Yomieluv: When I look back at how my brother's wife treated me, Άπϑ other sibling,I can't but remember her sheer wickedness. She did everything to frustrate us from my brother's house,knowing fully well then that my parents had. Accomodation problem then. She was always nagging, Άπϑ complaining at †ђξ slighted provocation,reporting minor issues to my brother,getting angry at ♍Ɣ brothet,if ĦΣ didn't take her expected decision. She did all this us,but always pampering her own sibling. She serve me food attimes without meat,and I never complained to my brother..I wonder why she did all that.. Do anyone I̶̲̅n †ђξ house had such experience to share please...some women are hell to live with...

why is meat so important in food? as long as your belly is full, i really
don't see why nigerians attach so much importance to meat. you must be above
23, you have stopped growth so no amount of meat would improve your health.
matter of fact, eating meat would quicken your death.

forget the past and move on with your life.

chic2pimp: Nah the reason England fail is because the players are simply not good enough. It's that simple
Also having Carrick as the defensive midfielder would be suicidal. Tbh the same can be said for Barry. These players need the insurance of a solid Defensive midfielder. Although Carrick would have been the better option.
As England's best passer, Carrick should be playing in the centre Mid position and allowed to control possesion. Similar to what the likes of Xavi,Pirlo and Bastian do for their respective countries

another charlatan speaketh.....
having carrick as a defensive midfielder would be suicidal as opposed to who?
gareth barry? alex song? cheikh tiote? mikel obi? or who?

the job of a defensive midfielder is simple yet people think it's complex.
carrick's job is to screen his back four. provide a shield, nullify attacks
by either making tackles(zombies) or make interceptions(geniuses).
interception trumps tackles as tackles can result to a foul or even get
penalised with a yellow or red card.

in the whole of europe, only sergio busquets is better than carrick in the role of a modern defensive midfielder.

payless: I advise you to upload your graduation picture and I will go ahead and upload my degree certificate as soon as I get home this evening.

i don't engage in dickwaving contests. i would rather let
the neutrals decide themselves who has acted like a graduate
and who's acted like a spare parts dealer in alaba market.

my objective from the word go was to prove you are not
a criminologist and i have been able to prove that!
every other thing is purely academic.

payless: Here is one of the pictures of me on my graduation day few years ago. Post yours and I will go ahead and post my degree certificate here for everyone to see. You are such a clueless loon.

i am not a pillock like yourself.....
so i should just believe any dork in a graduation gown
sitting amongst white folks is payless?

come on....put your brain to use!

payless: That shows I am an enterprising person. I have two Night Clubs just opened in Nigeria. I have three high class unisex salon in Nigeria. I have car company here in North carolina. I have thousands of clothing items to sell in Nigeria because we had a safety seminar for a clothing item distribution company in North carolina in which I was given the opportunity to buy large quantity of items. By the way, I spent around $7000 buying those items and selling them cheap to Nigerians. To set the record straight, those items are brand new and not second items.

All the businesses I have are in existence today not only to make money but to create employment for other.


I need you tell me what is wrong with venturing into different trades.

walter mitty, don't you have 4 functional oil refineries in nigeria as well?
i have also been told you're ranked 117th on the forbes list.
the house of delusions is very cheap to build but drafty to live in.

denzel2009: Payless is the walter mitty of our time! [s]I have seen his pic, he actually looks like the guy in question[/s]

walter mitty: an ordinary, often ineffectual person who indulges in fantastic daydreams of personal triumphs

payless continues to delude himself that he read criminology in school and
he's now a criminologist working with a security firm and he makes mad pay.
whereas, the plonker sells second hand bras/second hand boxers to make ends meet.
what won't i see on this forum?

Effiko: http://www.sabotagetimes.com/football-sport/forget-ferdinand-manchester-uniteds-michael-carrick-is-the-glaring-omission-from-englands-euro-2012-squad/

yet you wonder why england continue to fail in tournaments - the failure
starts even before they jet out to the tournaments. who else does not know
carrick should have been the first player to be named in that midfield?
roy hodgson is a plonker and leaving carrick would cost him his job.

in the absence of wilshere, cleverley and paul scholes, the england squad
lack a decent passer of the ball. barry is a liability, parker is a henchman.
lampard and gerrard are relics. they don't bring anything to the table asides
their hit-n-miss hollywood passes that have cost england problems time and time
again.

england's pain is fergie's gain: we would have angel michael hot n fresh for next season.
this article on 442 magazine sums up what i have been saying about carrick for eons.
http://fourfourtwo.com/blogs/statszone/archive/2012/05/16/why-michael-carrick-should-start-for-england-this-summer.aspx
this article on 4-4-2 sums up michael carrick aptly.

denzel2009: Payless is the walter mitty of our time!

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payless: I unequivocally agree with you. You spot-on with your description of him. The guy is a nonentity. Ignoring this lunatic idiot is exactly what I've been doing in the last few hours. I think someone needs to put his leash back on. I remember a quote form the Great Mark Twain that says “Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”

be agreeing with yourself.
you think i dunno you have been hopping from one username
to the other to stroke your phallus?
you should be the life president of the association
of mental handicaps, you obnoxious twit!

jennykadry: Please it is wrong to leave an 8 yr old alone in the house.

i think it depends on the intelligence bestowed on the 8 yr old.

and yes, i will definitely buy a cheap phone for my child. it is very
important to know where my child is. kids are the most helpless group
in our society and it's difficult for parents to send out their precious kids
out there into the dangerous world. if i can't be with my child, for feck's sake
i should be able to talk to him at the touch of a button!

Sagamite: There are other providers like Starcomms etc now.
And more importantly an 8 year old should not be home alone.

even those ones are not as reliable as mobile phones....leaving
an 8 yr old alone for just few hours isn't that bad on a sunday.
feigning illness on sundays when i was a child to avoid the boring sermons
in churches was the norm for me....as long as there's a security man or
a gardener.....no biggie!

Sagamite: And a landline would not have been appropraite for that scenario?

Instead of being worried about armed robbers, I would be more worried about useless parents that can leave an 8 year old home alone.

how many houses in lagos have a functional landline?
you trust nitel that much?

One4me: @Payless:
Question is this: Does a the "School Cert Curriculum" have all these LAW Courses?

This "Coogaar" must be high on Horse Dung!

Just ignore and let him continue to openly exhibit his profound foolishness. He is "faceless" on the internet!

One4me

i predicted certain drugs were missing when you were an embryo.
payless is not a criminologist. he's a data entry officer and what
he does can be done by a secondary school certificate holder.
all it would take is a one-week induction process and the deed is done.

in the punditry of hard currency, your intelligence at best
would be the zimbabwean dollar....you are so poor in spirit
i doubt you have a moral compass. educate yourself, grab
a book and stop constituting a nuisance on the internet.

moremi2008: Just what I wanted. These two puppies are now barking at me!
When last did you get laid? You sound mad bitter and jealous because I can command a harem to serve my needs with a blink of an eye. It's not my fault that you're ugly and have zero charm.

what stupid harem? a harem of paraplegics like yourself?

Sagamite: We need some of that juice in Nigeria. Maybe not all, but fcking majority of it.

The country is full of lunatics.

I prefer Singapore's sanity to Nigeria's lunacy.

nah - we missed that opportunity in the mid-80s when doing
that wouldn't have raised any eyebrows. i mean - idiagbon's
military police were flogging adults who came late to work and pedestrians
who urinated in public got thrashed....in these days of youtube, twitter, etc
it won't be long before the imperialists invade that country like they did libya.

moremi2008: Too bad everything about your posts stinks of mediocrity. I am not impressed. Try harder. Let me know when you've graduated from the best Europe has to offer (not that people think very highly of Oxbridge these days) and have proved yourself in the marketplace. Until then, keep collecting e-trophies from your NL championships! I'll keep having a good laugh at your jokes.

if it stinks of mediocrity, why don't you just check out
other posts in the family section where you are the resident
expert in calculating women's menstrual period.

ignorant asshat!

Sagamite: You are itching for some intellectual thumping, aint ya?
The idiagbon policy raise me. It was not abuse, it was discipline.
Singapore policy would be perfect for retarded Nigerians, especially in Lagos.

singapore policy where if you spit in public you are fined $1000.
not flushing a public toilet gets you fined $150. that's not
discipline - that's anarchy! if they practise that in western
europe or nigeria, tongues would wag.

Do I think a typical 10 year old needs a mobile phone? Hell No!

Do I think their might be very rare exceptions where a 10 year old might need a mobile phone? Yes.

Is "it is better to be safe than sorry", or "I want to know where they are", a rare exception? No.

fair enough!

moremi2008: Hahaha! You've got nothing to teach me because you're not particularly bright (that's just the honest truth). If I wanted to "gain knowledge", I would consult a book written by an actual pro, read the Nytimes or WSJ, or use Google.

This argument is just a blathering ego-fest especially because your sparring partner, Sagamumu, has at least double your wit and intelligence (and that's not saying very much). It's not even a fair debate anymore.

PS - My ad hominem sniping serves its purpose well: keeping me (and a lot of other people) well entertained. Thanks for noticing.

i would kill myself if you are half as smart as my index finger.
but i am still alive cos you are not!

ranting like a kid suffering from photosensitive epilepsy does not
epitomise brilliance. you are a herb, a dirty one if i may add.

run back to that sty you crawled out from and lemme see road.
we are talking about intellectuals and this one is signalling.....arrant nonsense!

Sagamite: I am very happy with their idiagbon policy.

And I can guarantee you that it is the same idiagbon policies that the Indians and Chinese use for their kids in the UK/US and those kids excel. The teenage pregnancy kids are usually the kids raised with modern, funky policies and kids from single parenthood.

The Idiagbon policy mixed with a Sagamite flavour would be robustly reliable in raising a child. (Dead or Alive)

that idiagbon policy would constitute a child abuse here.
hell, it would even be adult abuse. i went to signapore and the place was as clean as heaven.
you're not even allowed to take food/drink to their underground trains. eat, drink but leave
your garbage outside the station.

Cater for all and sundry? Chineke! I am not talking about laws here. I am talking about parenting and I can guarantee you no immigrant child who cannot speak English would be in my household.

Who said anything about public prohibition? I talk about Olopaa arresting anybody for giving their child phone so far?

so do you think a child should carry a cell phone?
and if the child's lingua franca lacks any substance to aid communication,
what would you advise?

[quote author=tpia@]coogar let it go!!

sheesh!!

criminology is a lucrative profession in the US- stop acting like he was referring to a security guard position and btw nothing wrong with that either!!![/quote]but the dude here is not even a criminologist. look at his utterances,
his simple-mindedness and his inability to be communicate. if this
guy is really a graduate of criminology, i would question the integrity
of his school.

i've been a burger flipper in my younger days and I can say it anywhere.
okele gbigbe pel'alaafia!!!

younger days? after you graduated from college?
compare like for like.

must everyone carry cocaine in the name of trying to be rich?

i didn't suggest the dude should peddle drugs but when someone works as a
security guard and then lies online he's one big shot then there's a problem.
this was why i called him walter mitty!

Sagamite: I happen to have an ex-girlfriend that was Dutch.

If UK like, let them teach it like a Vatican education. They would still have high pregnancy rates because of their culture.

Culture is an intangible, holistic and complex thing that can not easily be replicated.

What my Dutch ex told me (and she did high school in both UK and Netherlands) is that in Netherlands they teach it as a science, in the UK, they teach it as a precaution (basically, use protection if you decide to do it).

And for the record, the Middle East and places like Singapore have a lower teenage pregnancy rate outside marriage than Netherland. And kids there are prohibited.

singapore is a nanny state. i would expect them to have strict laws about sex there.
their "idiagbon" policy won't work in the western world where human rights act have
done more harm than good. middle east is essentially an islamic state. i would expect
them the teenage pregnancy rate in this country to be low as well. however, name a country
in western europe or north america with the same low teenage pregnancy as netherlands and
you would be struggling.

I would struggle to integrate a child that can not speak a few words of Engligh in my argument with it feeling like I am boiling the ocean.

I would struggle to think of what proportion of 10 year olds in the UK, US and Nigeria that cannot say a few words of English to say they are going home.

It is insignificant and a waste of time in the grand scheme of things.

The confluence of a 10 year old immigrant kid that can not speak a word of English and ending up in a place where an accident happened, police blocked the road and he has no alternative road to reach home is too remote to even give a consideration or justify "10 year olds must then have personal mobiles".

the law must cater for all and sundry no matter how remote.
if we prohibit mobile phones in general, what would be the solution
to the immigrant kid whose mother tongue isn't english..........

Sagamite: Part of upbringing is not exposing a 10 year old to such. Not saying it is insignificant and say they will not look at it or it does not make them bad if they look at it.

actually, it's even better to expose them to such at 10.
netherlands do this to their kids and they have one of the lowest
teenage pregnancy in the western world. uk/usa who see teenage sex as a taboo
have one of the worst/highest teenage pregnancy rate in the whole world.

as we speak, the uk are looking at modelling their sex education like the
dutch who let their kids watch soft p[i]o[/i]rn in school as part of their education.
restriction often triggers curiosity - when you prohibit it, kids want to know
why it's prohibited and then learn the hard way.

food for thought!

This is what you said:

ok....substitute majority for minority.
your strict rule has to cater for the minority as well, don't u think?

moremi2008: This argument is neither useful nor entertaining. Abeg, take your gidigbo play to the politics section where people argue just to fill-up Internet space.

if you listen and learn, you would gain more knowledge on this discussion than your usual ad hominem sniping.