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Sauron
so cos lampard averages more appearances than gerrard(and almost every other player in the league), gerrard(and other players) are "HARDLY FIT TO COMPLETE A SEASON"? U are so POOR intellectually, u cant even PAY attention
That the writer said lampard has better positional discipline than gerrard does NOT mean he thinks gerrard lacks positional discipline. If u are the biggest fool on earth and ibime is runner up, does it mean ibime is not a big fool?
The writer himself CONCLUDED gerrard is better than lampard and u are saying only a ninny would say gerrard is better. What does that make the writer? The same writer whose comments u quoted to butress ur point.
Sauron was BORN FOOLISH, IS FOOLISH today, and will STILL BE FOOLISH when his great great grand children have "666" tattooed on their fore-heads

According to sauron, gerrard has "NO EFFICIENCY" and is "hardly fit to complete a season". . . If ur stupidity is converted to mega-watts, it will solve Nigeria's power crisis
when the writer said he would pick gerrard if pushed, he meant there isnt much to chose between them but gerrard edges it. A 5 star dimwit called sauron has taken it literally and is telling me its a hypothetical statement since the writer hasnt been pushed. Its obvious you are the one who lacks comprehensional skills. In short, the money spent on ur formal education should have been used to by raffle tickets

Gerrard's positional indiscipline is a myth. . .
I remember when McClaren insisted on playing gerrard and lampard together without a holding midfielder. Gerrard was the one who ALWAYS sat back and let lampard bomb forward. Now he's "tactically indisciplined" cos Rafa gives him freedom to roam behind torres and less tactical responsibility? Is it his fault he's versatile and strikes the ball so well he makes strikers green with envy?

Ibime
if u were any further off the mark, you'd be in anothe solar system. The writer didnt tell us how much better lampard is than gerrard before his verdict. He highlighted both players strengths. Of course, u have chosen to see what you want.
Yet again, the writer cites stats as the main thing lampard has over gerrard. And yet again i say stats are useless in football.
I'm still waiting for yall to compare iniesta's stats to lampard in any given season over the last 6 years. Is lampard better than iniesta? My enzymes are giggling

Sauron
the writer CONCLUDED GERRARD IS BETTER THAN LAMPARD. . . that is NOT what you have been telling us

Ballack's deal was 2 years. . . I was just yanking dyabman's cheap chain

Seems we've signed Sol on a free. . . First Sylvestre, now this. Who next, Martin Keown?

Joey will still get what he wants. . . We're talking about the same club that just gave Ballack a 4 year contract. Very soon, Terry will be on £250K weekly. . . The ball boys are prolly on £25K
Chelsea FC is a bad joke

Sauron
lampard makes more key passes than cesc? how gullible are you? I have eyes, i dont need actim to tell me who does what better with their obscure stats. Ok, who do you think makes the most "key passes" in the league off the top of ur scalp? Lampard? I laugh in lokomotiv.
stats are numbers. in football, numbers are bigger liars than the devil
gerrard>>>lampard, only a soccer-illiterate would dispute this!

ibime
i am not nateevs!
Gerrard hits a better set piece than lampard, but lampard has better players attacking it. Is it hard to grasp?
I remember 2 seasons ago, hleb played a key role in 50% of arsenal's goals. . . He was AWOL in the assists chart. Even without checking, i'm certain iniesta's stats in any given season pale in comparison to lampard's. Only a triple A lunatic like dyabman would tell me lampard is a better player than iniesta.
My heart goes out to anyone who needs stats to tell him how good a player is despite watching him play every 3 or 7 days.

Like i said b4, many of lampards assists come from set pieces(he takes like 99% of them), and is further undermined by chelsea's prowess in the air.
If you must bring up stats, cite the ones that are clear for all to see, i.e goals, passes, shots etc not obscure stats like "key passes". What exactly is a key pass? Is there a global definition or is it cooked up by the pot-bellied folks at Actim? How on earth did lampard make 124 key passes last season(3.3 per game)? I watch most chelsea games, no way in hell did lampard average 3.3 "KEY passes". It is heavily flawed.

Sauron
Are u telling me lampard is a better passer of the ball than cesc? Or that lampard delivers more significant passes than cesc? Either of them are laughable.
Using stats to portray lampard a better player than gerrard is just as ridiculous as castrol telling us henry is the best player in the world.

Sauron
lampard had 80% pass completion while cesc had 78%. It tells us as much as a fat pig's fart. Like nateevs illustrated with mikel and lampard, pass completion is useless if the passes are sideways & backwards. The number of killer balls cesc produces in one season is more than the amount lampard will manage in his entire career

how many players ranked higher than denilson last season? Did u forget to check?

If carrick is a better passer than lampard yet lampard continually murders him in just about every passing statistic, what does it tell us about actim, castrol etc?

Sauron
go and look up the actim index for last season and tell me how many midfielders ranked higher than denilson.
Let me ask u, who is a better passer of the ball, lampard or carrick?
statistically, who passed the ball better last season, lampard or carrick?
Statistics are useless in football!

Ibime
YOUR STATISTICS ARE RUBBISH!!
so lampard made 124 "key passes" and cesc made 63? I'm laughing in reverse with the hidden message: actim have lost the plot!
Cesc made 22 appearances, even if we scale it up to lampard's 37, it means cesc had 180 key passes. So lampard made 44 more key passes than cesc? Did they add the ones he made in his dreams as well? The season lampard makes 0.01 more "key passes" than cesc, Accrington Stanley will win the EPL by 99 points with 9 games in hand! Ur stats arent even worthy to be used to wrap boli

Ibime
a killer pass doesnt mean it goes to torres directly. . . I've seen Gerrard make defence splitting diagonals to kuyt/arbeloa countless times. If kuyt/arbeloa square the ball for torres to score, they get the credit for the assist, not gerrard(who unlocked the D), something stats will never tell you.
Carrick is twice the passer lampard is, He's nowhere to be found in ur stats.
Like 90% of lampard's assists come from set pieces. The presence of giants like drogba, terry, ivanovic, ballack, alex, etc in the box make some of lampard's atrocious deliveries look world class
from open play, the number of chances lampard creates in an entire season is the same amount players like cesc, iniesta, pizarro create in a single game. . . DISGRACE!!

Sauron
Lampard in a flat 4-4-2 is 10 times worse than Gerrard. Lampard needs AT LEAST two other CM's by his side to mask his inadequacies.
Gerrard is a far better passer of the ball than Lampard. He attempts more killer balls than Lampard, who only picks out passes Stevie Wonder could make, which is why Lampard has better passing stats.
As a matter of fact, the only thing Lampard has on his side is stats, which are EXTREMELY DECEPTIVE!
The same kind of stats that rank Denilson among the 5 best players in the EPL. . . The same kind of stats that rank Henry the best player in the world. This isnt basketball, in soccer, stats go out the window.

P.S. i have watched Lampard play 499 games and he's FAILED to dictate play in 500 of them.

Tkb
ibime said Rooney and Vidic are the only United players that can start for Chelsea

Dyabman
u are the perfect example of a world class mo.ron!!
Iniesta is the best midfielder on earth as we speak and you are putting him in the same class with Geovanni & Cahill?
What an id.iot!

Lampard cant even do anything Ibime listed except score. The most unforgivable of them being his inability to dictate play. A central/attacking midfielder who cant dictate play is a disgrace.
While Gerrard gets in the center of the action Lampard anonymously strolls round the field for 90 minutes waiting for his team-mates to win a penalty so he can score.

Since everyone is reviving the invincibles Sol Campbell, Patrick Vieira you too Better bring back Dennis Bergkamp

why not Pascal Cygan?

Worst performance of the season!!!!!!!!

the only consolation is Man Utd's imminent humiliation at St Andrew's  

Frank Lampard is easily the most over rated player in the history of football.

GOd of war 2 wasn't out 2 years ago, 2 years ago can also be called many years.

you sound confused. . . GEARS Of War 2 was released November 2008, that's 1 year and 2 months ago. to a cultured ignoramus like kosovo, this translates to "MANY years ago", u must be the life president of lala-land  

Konami is just the publisher of Metal Gear Solid, though they develop mediocre games

Kojima Productions was formed in 2005, Kojima and its other workers had worked for Konami previously. Konami is still it's PARENT COMPANY.
Should we take ur opinion ahead of the developers/publishers of the game? i laugh in your native dialect  

Does Konami know how to develop games? lol Cheesy,,  The developer is Kojima productions,

And who developed all the Metal Gear games pre 2005? Namco?

Liverpool have requested their game against the sp*ds be postponed.
Bloody Hell, i was looking forward to the game.

P.S. Why is there no match thread for it?

Vieira couldnt bench an off-form Cambiasso but he wants to bench Barry/De Jong. . . good luck!
I dont buy the "i want to play at the world cup" thing. . . The man is almost due for retirement, no one would begrudge him his valedictory pay-check

This game better live up to its hype. If not, Yamauchi should issue a public apology to PS3 owners and the devz of FM3

Oh, and GOW2 was not released "many years ago". . . Its LESS than two years old, but of course its been out for a decade in lala-land where you reside

The developers(Konami) of both games(MGS:Rising&4) have told us themselves Rising will look better and a nonentity is trying to convince us otherwise. . . Even the mad man in the village is laughing at ur buffoonery

Kosovo
of course, the visuals in KZ2 are great. . . But the overall game experience is only marginally better than KZ1, which was 5 star rubbish
How many times do you have to be told good graphics alone dont make a good game?

Kosovo
Kojima didnt say Rising would look better than MGS4, KONAMI did, so what are you on about?
Graphically, the PS3 & 360 are on the SAME LEVEL. . . If you cant understand that, i feel very sorry for you

A game CAN score 83 and still be disappointing. . . It all depends on the expectations before it was released, and the quality of its predecessor to an extent. Killzone 2 got high ratings but is the biggest disappointment in gaming history
However, ODST was nothing less than i expected, and it cant really be classified as Halo 3's successor, so i definitely wont say it was disappointing.

While i dont agree with some of the games on the list, RE 5 was DEFINITELY disappointing. Unlike ODST, it is a successor to a very good game in RE 4, and expectations were very high.
To put it bluntly, RE 5 was 80% crap and owes many of its high ratings to its impressive visuals. Any score hiher than 75 is generous.

The Dreamcast still remains my personal favourite console to date.
Shenmue, Soul Calibur & Power Stone changed my life not to mention Quake III & Unreal Tournament, Code: Veronica, etc. oh and Gut's Rage! not a classic, but who doesnt love the sight of a 50 foot blade dismembering monsters?
then there was online play and DLC. . . I remember downloading other gamers' uploaded content directly to my MU(this used to be like a very big deal). That was way back(like 99) when Nova were the only ISP i knew in Lagos.

Ahh, the good ole days. . .

@topic
We've heard this a million times and havent seen any tangible difference. Instead, multiplatform games on the 360 continue to murder the PS3 version(Bayonetta being the latest example).
I think "only impossible on the 360" would have been a better sales pitch

Is Sauron talking about the same club that couldnt raise money to buy a youngster AFTER the deal had been AGREED?!

Debo, HNIC, Slim,edo. . Have any of y'all heard anything abt a certain Oscar Cardozo. .?

i have watched Oscar a few times and I've been very impressed with him. . .
so much so i even signed him in Football Manager and he's been my top goal scorer in his first two seasons

he's tall, very strong, very good in the air(unlike our other forwards) and he hits a-helluva-dead-ball. . . if he strikes the ball any harder there would have to be extra nets on stand by when he plays

He should be a good buy if the price is right! IF!!