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Because it's an international break so journalists have time to get bored and stir up baseless transfer rumours. My main recollection of him is that he was so fast and had so little ability that he had the amusing habit of simply running the ball out of play before he could get a cross in...

Sure, I didn't mean to phrase it as narrowly as I did.

I find that watching players is the most effective way of judging their ability. Weird, I know.

I have no interest in individual awards. I'm not going to get into an argument about how good a player Totti is because there is even less chance of people being reasonable about it in the current climate than there usually is.

These are dangerous arguments to make. By bringing up trophies won you leave yourself open to claims that Busquets is one of the best players ever. By bringing up the Ballon d'Or you are implicitly agreeing with who it is awarded to ever year.

Shhh. That doesn't make it such an exciting story. Nope.

De Rossi's injured. Florenzi is in the squad. Destro might be.

I'd have to move out of Scotland to have a chance. That's not going to happen in the immediate future.

Well the British press has found about about his antics and the club's reaction today, so expect the rumours to follow.

Indeed. If I hadn't been brought up with a strong attachment to Aberdeen, I'd steer well clear of it.

Yes.

With all due respect, you don't watch Scottish football.

Yeah, you'd just put that one down as a generally inadequate refereeing display rather than a particularly biased one.

No need to have competent staff at airport food and drink places. You've got a captive market and you aren't overly reliant on repeat custom. Can pretty much get away from anything with regards to shit service and extortionate pricing, I'd have thought.

And that is to be expected. Referees are human and are subject to external influences - whether that be from the people running the football association or simply not having the nerve to give Aberdeen a penalty in front of 50K+ Glaswegians. But the standard 'big club bias' argument can only...

You can break the pattern for a year or two here and there, but it is almost all about finance in the end.

Sure, but I think they have tended to be doing that in general in the last few years.

What is underperforming for Lazio? I'd say them being in and around the mix for the EL spots is where they should be. It's also worth remembering that Lazio were going out of business at the point Lotito took them over. I'd say he's done a pretty decent job of getting Lazio back to a solid...

Does he not run Lazio properly?

That's fine if you believe these teams are getting the favourable calls due to nothing more than good fortune. Or do you mean that being brave enough to bribe officials will bring you good fortune? :P