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Because he won't join our national team in Estonia for the match on Tuesday, he will not be released by the Belgian FA to play Saturday for Everton. (as reported by Belgian newspapers). He's having his wisdom teeth removed today, Dick Advocaat, Belgian manager, wanted him to reschedule so he could come to Estonia. Fellaini said he couldn't because then he'd have to wait another 2 months to have them removed. Pretty harsh, but it's part of the new ethic Advocaat is trying to impose.

To be fair, I'd prefer it if the big teams make the WC .. just makes it more exciting. That's why I hope the French make it, and why I'm really glad Italy equalized in Ireland.

in unrelated international football-news : Fellaini had a very good game against Turkey.

Welcome Across the Pond. Hope you like it here.

aha thanks .. for the record English isn't my mother tongue, only 3rd language really. So there's no need for crying .

What's the correct way to write 'airplane' or 'ass' then? (Genuinely don't know, TV taught me US English ).

Didn't want to get involved here, but that line made me laugh.

From every other aspect but the financial one, I love the decision to give it to Rio. But I don't get why they give it to cities that are capable of going bankrupt over it.

Since your son was born, Fellaini has started every game .. :guiltysmiley: .

Lol the Rodwell one is so wrong.. Whoever made this wasn't given enough time or resources, or just isn't very talented. Surely it's Heitinga they're going for there.

Injuries, injuries and more injuries .. so who does what needs to be done? our combined top scorers from last year ! And that's the only thing I want to remember about this game .

I like Howard but this is the rankings I would choose : Cech Reina Van Der Sar Schwarzer Friedel Given Jaaskeleinen Howard .

What happened?

Link works fine for me, Bill. (You have to copy/paste the complete link to your address bar). It says that Pienaar is set for a speedy return.

Well if we remain in all competitions we're in right now, there will be enough playing time for everyone! ... So we need to keep it going until Mikel is back.

Difference is, those thousands world wide are probably more or less randomly chosen so it's hard to act against that. Specifically targeting football players is something that can be remedied and therefor causes more outrage. Besides I don't think it's a good argument to compare the UK to the whole world. I would hope there's less robberies in the UK than in say Guatemala.

Something different but I didn't want to start a new topic. This is truly disgusting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwZIb1YL028 .

And three bookings on our side, none on theirs.

Second half is where we missed Phil Neville ... Portsmouth started playing really aggressive and Neville is the man who would have matched them .. He would have kept our midfield alert and this game wouldn't have been as tough. Howard was excellent .. Yobo was the best player in an average Everton defense .. Fellaini was the best midfielder but really should have been taken of with about 15mins to go (I was hoping Hibbert was coming on for him with Heitinga shifting to CM).. Saha did what he had to do, well done.

How to cheat as a goalkeeper. . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZruHwl3MHaU .

Religulous. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0815241/ Very interesting and funny, though undoubtedly offensive if you're religious.

The Assistant Referee was standing right there next to Diouf. He must have certainly heard it if Diouf said "Fuck off white boy". At that point he must start frantically waving his flag to get the referee's attention and Diouf should have gotten a card for that. Therefor I doubt if he said anything of that sort.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/sep/22/manchester-united-goals-stoppage-time Revealed: Manchester United get more injury time when they need it • Guardian study shows added time to turn round home games.

"Busacca was photographed sticking his middle finger up at Young Boys fans who insulted him during their team's Swiss Cup match at third division FC Baden." http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=678394&cc=5739

midfield of : pienaar - fellaini - rodwell - arteta - billy ?