A box to box midfielder does. Ozil isn't a box to box midfielder. Played attacking mid/right wing for Madrid (hence the comment earlier that James replaced him, not Modric), played left wing for Germany in the World Cup, and this season for Arsenal has played either on the right wing (start of the year) and right…

"Or gave up 3 goals at home to a team that has averaged a goal a game all year?"

Ah yes, in that case Aguero is rubbish, one of either Reus or Pogba is rubbish after today, and Costa, Fabregas and Hazard? All fucking rubbish. Great point.

Ozil has been our best player since coming back from injury.

"If it hadn't been for the opportunity the schools gave them, we very well may have never heard of them."

Why would they adjust their limits to let more American kids come in and be worse than the veterans they already have?

Not a fucking chance. Euro and China teams have limits on how many imports they can bring in, so when it comes to 17-year old fresh out of high school or 28 year-old looking to play in China until the end of the season when he'll find a team in the NBA playoff hunt, even you probably know who they're going to take.

How many kids do you think professional teams in China/Europe are calling saying "hey we'll pay you to come play for us." How much 'development' do you think actually happens in D-League, where every single guy is trying to put up as many stats as possible to impress NBA teams in the hopes of a job?

The ones with Daryl Dawkins, Ahmad Rashad, Robert Parish were definitely good. Those old guys seem to talk with him since he watched those games and remembers names of their old teammates. The ones with the current NBA players are painful for the most part, he acts like he's buddy buddy with these guys and you can…

Him with Zach Lowe or Haralabob is great (btw if you like NBA you should be following Haralabob on twitter). He routinely comes up with terrible, bullshit opinions or, his favourite, FAKE TRADES! WHO SAYS NO ZACH TELL ME!. Those two guys will just say he's wrong or correct him now problem, and they both give zero…

Sounds like Doc puts about as much effort into reading Haberstroh's articles as he does into being a GM.

I thought about this as well. Definitely somewhat unfair, but if that wasn't the rule then there is an advantage to being the home team in the second leg as you get an extra 30 minutes on your home field in front of your home fans who may or may not influence referee decisions. I guess it's a situation where UEFA sees…

Just a shit Michael Carrick

There's a difference between snatching at the refs shirt and putting a hand on his shoulder...

Playing in a local men's league in Canada, come summer time a couple of the nearby Universities make their players go into it for conditioning in the offseason. It's a pretty competitive league (lots of ex college/university guys, some guys who played/playing overseas). We were playing one of the University teams,…

Hubie is great, I didn't appreciate him a few years ago because the whole asking questions he immediately answers thing got annoying, but I love him now. Any single day over Mark Jackson or Reggie Miller.

Best part of any Hubie Brown commentating job is when he gets into the wormhole of a variation of "okay well you say Zach Randolph is a bruiser, but then you say Marc Gasol is more of the higher post passer and then you say okay well how do you defend them? And then you say well we can't double down because Mike…

I don't know what they list Chris Paul at but he is not 6'3.

Berbatov scoring was a fucking guarantee, because that's how it works when you're Arsenal, but I was thinking a 3-1 win was most likely... I guess the players thought the same thing, didn't respect Monaco and their break, got our ass handed to us.

Hey Tom thanks for this massive jinx on Arsenal this coming weekend. Everton are definitely taking at least 1 point and Howard is going to stand on his head.