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Presumably OFFICAL 2015/16 Premier League - Leicester CHAMPS. Best Sports Story Ever

Think I'd go Ozil over Payet, but that looks about right. I'd probably throw Daley in there at left back even though he's played central defense, but can't argue putting that many from Leicester or Spurs in there. Has Bellerin been that good this year?
 
El Chupacabra said:
Think I'd go Ozil over Payet, but that looks about right. I'd probably throw Daley in there at left back even though he's played central defense, but can't argue putting that many from Leicester or Spurs in there. Has Bellerin been that good this year?
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Yes, but not as good as Ozil. Ozil is up for player of the year.
 
Demonbeck said:
Yes, but not as good as Ozil. Ozil is up for player of the year.
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Pet pedantic peeve, especially with the British press. Ö is effectively a shortcut way of writing Oe (dates from medieval times saving page space).

So it's either Özil or Oezil, and any good style guide will insist on that. The British press in particular is awful with this lazy asshattery.

Oh, and yeah Özil deserves to be in. He's been brilliant and Arsenal's end of season malaise shouldn't be held against him.
 
Ozil's been great, but I'm not going to the trouble of a bunch of extra key strokes for an umlaut.
 
vadimivich said:
Pet pedantic peeve, especially with the British press. Ö is effectively a shortcut way of writing Oe (dates from medieval times saving page space).

So it's either Özil or Oezil, and any good style guide will insist on that. The British press in particular is awful with this lazy asshattery.

Oh, and yeah Özil deserves to be in. He's been brilliant and Arsenal's end of season malaise shouldn't be held against him.
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Łëävę ït tõ å Špür tô rūíñ ä çömpłįmęńt.
 
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Ozil's been great, but I'm not going to the trouble of a bunch of extra key strokes for an umlaut.
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Then write it Oezil, it's just as correct (in older times the umlaut was literally an 'e' written on top of the other vowel ... over time that just got shortened into two slashes and now just two dots). The fact that the British press in particular renders his name as Ozil (or the city of Nürnberg as Nurnberg or Schürrle as Schurrle) is just sloppy and lazy. In regular day to day writing, a lot of German native speakers (especially if they don't have a German keyboard at hand) simply write the 'e' and don't use umlauts. And it's very important in German - "schon" and "schön" are not the same word and have completely different meanings. eine Tochter is one daughter, but die Töchter are multiple daughters. Just whitewashing it out when Anglicizing names is dumb, especially when it's something that has a standard form easy to use in English spelling.

His own personal website is http://www.mesutoezil.com for example. It's not hard :( (and btw - not picking on people in this thread, the problem is the dumbass style guide that British newspapers use for German, which means most English speakers now think his name really is Ozil).
 
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Off of the German grammar rant ... Toby Alderweireld has been amazing this year. He hasn't committed a foul since the 2nd of March(!) now. Here's how the top CB's in the PL compare in terms of fouls conceded for the entire season. Toby has been ludicrously good.

Toby Alderweireld: 9
Laurent Koscielny: 25
Nicolas Otamendi: 26
Wes Morgan: 27
Robert Huth: 31
Chris Smalling: 42
 
Alde...Alder... AldernotplayingatSouthamptonanymore


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I think I read a while back that the away was going to be black and the third was going to be something neon greeny, so they still might be coming out with a full kit in that same, or similar, keeper color. I really dug the NB keeper kits this season.
 
So ... Stoke have basically already started their summer holidays. They have given -42 fucks the past couple of weeks now.
 
Newcastle never seen film of Sturridge to know he's going to his left foot there?
 
MUFC XI: De Gea, Fosu-Mensah, Smalling, Blind, Rojo, Carrick, Fellaini, Lingard, Rooney, Martial, Rashford
subs: Romero, Darmian, Valencia, Herrera, Mata, Schneiderlin, Memphis

Everton XI: Robles, Stones, McCarthy, Jagielka, Baines; Besic, Gibson; Lennon, Barkley, Cleverley; Lukaku
subs: Howard, Hibbert, Oviedo, Mirallas, Deulofeu, Osman, Pennington
 
so pumped that I don't have any thing to do today so i actually get to watch a United match from start to end uninterrupted! first time in months
 
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