It is now time to switch to a new Money AM football blog as the world cup is now over and we all look to the future.....World cup 2010 is over, Bravo Espana, and Forlan, once again and bring on the new season !.....I never expected the last thread to be such a success...thanks all.... so this new one might go on for years without the need to edit the title...we shall see...

hmmm...not so sure dil...look at how many games he played in 2009/2010in the premiership...a massive 23 hardly even a first team regular never mind the first name on the teamsheet...so outstanding for the last year the stats would suggest not

http://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/players/first_team/garethbale.html

also spurs nearly sold him last close season

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1201067/Spurs-wasting-Gareth-Bales-talents-Id-love-bring-Ajax-insists-ex-Tottenham-boss-Martin-Jol.html

give me sergio ramos any time as i think he would eat neville and wes brown alive which bale was incapable of doing...

hey maybe i am wrong and i hope i am. However seems usual premier league hype...but if your exposure to football is sky and the sun then go for it...he is the best player in the world...as was rooney

even charlie adam can look good in 2 games

as i say i am undecided...maybe he will turn out to be a legend...all i am saying is try and look beyond the hype...CC seems unable to but waddya expect from an englishman :-)

Usual drivel I note over the last 20 odd postings about the relative rankings of Gerard and Lamps - still who cares ?

and how anyone can knock Bale is beyond me - a quality player even if he's playing for Spurs

Come on Swansea

lol , uck off Jeff ... off out now to watch us batter them :-)

Swansea were 11/4 at Corals. Trust you made some money there jeffmack???

Hils - Oh dear!..... Scousers (old, thick or otherwise) 2 Cockney Shite ( and they were) 0 :O)

I'm going to end up getting sky....miss all these great games....

Geordies LOL Scots with their brains taken out!

rf....you can get them all free on tinternet

CC,

Yes, they missed Lampard and Essien yesterday. Being without one of those players is bad enough, but it's a big problem when they're both out against a big team like Liverpool.

Zhirkov and Ramires are not there as replacements yet imo.

Required Field,

Here's an early Christmas pressie for you.

Hils , they aint missed Lampard and nor have England. Flog him to Real while he's still overvalued would be best option imo.

I couldn't care less whether England miss him or not, Dilbert. I prefer it when Chelsea players don't get called up for international duty.

But Chelsea have definitely missed him though.

I think chelsea are not as good as liverpool on sunday 7th of november,would that be about right ?

Hils - Chelsea were poor, Liverpool were not that great. Strange don't you think Torres's miraculous return to form, didn't want to know against Everton other week. Maybe the smell of a Russian cheque book wafting in his nostrils perhaps? Torres and Gerard in blue and send Lampard back to West ham, go on you know you'd love it. :O)

"I prefer it when Chelsea players don't get called up for international duty"

reason number 87 in....... the why women should concentrate on corrie and not football handbook

yours truly
Ginger "told you gareth bale was over rated" gibberish

The thing that irritates me most in English football is when the goalie gets hold of the ball and boots it upfield anywhere...now Schmeichel of Man U was very precise with his dishing out of the ball....but now most of the keepers just bang it anywhere...now I know that you cannot always start from the back because the other side would push you back, but some improvements of ball distribution are necessary in the UK....just take a look at the old Bayern Munich of Franz Beckenbauer's day....from the back going forward was excellent....

Thanks Hilary...shall investigate further...

"against a big team like Liverpool" .... your aving a laff , ask Blackpool :-)