Re: The Football Thread - 10/11 (II)

by G.Wood Wed 20 Apr 2011, 01:08

Was it Sir Alex who put the hole in the Wembley wall?

by horace Wed 20 Apr 2011, 01:32

beamer wrote:Arsenal may not be capable of winning this title but this United side are more than capable of handing it to them. Or even Chelsea, who have been "out of contention" for a few months and still aren't playing well...

...aye ...pomgolian soccer in crisis

by beamer Wed 20 Apr 2011, 17:47

horace wrote:
beamer wrote:Arsenal may not be capable of winning this title but this United side are more than capable of handing it to them. Or even Chelsea, who have been "out of contention" for a few months and still aren't playing well...

...aye ...pomgolian soccer in crisis

But when you look at the Champions League, it shows every team in Europe is sh!t apart from Barcelona!

by WideWally Sat 23 Apr 2011, 19:14

I told you Torres was worth all that money.
couch

by JKLever Sun 24 Apr 2011, 02:00

Can we ban the word 'Norwich' please. Ta.

by WideWally Sun 24 Apr 2011, 17:53

A great day for Arsenal supporters!

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by WideWally Sun 24 Apr 2011, 17:56

8 May 1971

Definitely not 24 April 2011.

by Chivalry Augustus Sun 24 Apr 2011, 19:07

Another trophy-less season for all style, no substance Arsenal. Had plenty of the ball against Bolton, but in truth, never looked like winning the game - even when they had players running through on goal in one-on-one positions. Bad decisions were made, extra passes were taken, and the athletic but weak looking defenders didn't do much defending. Even when the Bolton attackers were standing in front of them.

Daniel Sturridge looks a good player though. Shame he's got to get in front of £50m Torres - you suspect he wouldn't get picked even if it was a question of merit. Abramovich will just tell whichever foreigner he has appointed that he has to play Torres. Or Shevchenko. Or whoever else he has spent too much money on recently. Hopefully Sturridge gets another season on loan at Bolton, or else moves to another club perm.

by LeFromage Mon 25 Apr 2011, 00:51

I'm sure there was a particularly handsome genius on this very thread some months ago who predicted that their "championship challenge" wouldn't even see them finish runners up...

They've lost the plot. It's all gone France at the last World Cup, where everyone was mental and juiced up on their sense of entitlement, based upon nothing more than a fading memory of a previous life as a winning team, a decade earlier.

All that's left at Arsenal these days is Wenger's delusional burbling that everything is great and they're basically just one more day away from turning the corner.

I wonder if the new owner (or majority stakeholder, if that's what he is) will recognise that this era has bottomed out and put the increasingly Domenechian Wenger out of his misery before he turns to faith healers and shamanic limbo dancing.

by lardbucket Mon 25 Apr 2011, 03:57

Wender's going all Ted Dexter in his methods?

by JKLever Tue 26 Apr 2011, 21:53

United as good as through to the final at Wembley.

How the farq did Schalke beat Inter?

by LeFromage Tue 26 Apr 2011, 21:56

Spuds beat Inter, remember. And scored three against them with ten men.

More to the point - how the flid did Inter win the Champions League last year? Mourinho really must be the mutt's nuts.

by spangler Thu 28 Apr 2011, 12:59

The Mutt's Nuts with a muthaflumper of a persecution complex

by Paul Keating Thu 28 Apr 2011, 13:03

saw messi's solo effort against madrid. Two words to describe it. Sexual healing.

by Brass Monkey Thu 28 Apr 2011, 13:12

Barca are diving little girly weak-boys though. Plus, he's now had three Chump's semi-finals with three clubs against Barca and all have involved one of his club's players getting sent off.

by Chivalry Augustus Thu 28 Apr 2011, 14:52

When you see Barca regularly, they don't often cheat like that. Last night, they fought fire with fire. Mourinho set his team up to play anti-football from ball one, and Barca tried their utmost to stop Real from stopping them. There was a lot of diving, much of it cynical, but Real players were involved in most of the worse incidents, including a stamp from Marcelo which went unnoticed and a karate chop from Adebayor that merited red far more than Pepe's efforts. Barca tried and tried again to play football, and kept the ball for about 80% of the match. They deserved to win by quite some distance ahead of a Real side that, despite costing £billions, is still set up with a losing mentality against a side with the quality of Barca.

Money can buy you footballers but it can't buy you the style and education that the players coming through Barcelona's youth system possess. Real Madrid's starting line-up last night must have cost hundreds of millions, but they played like Crazy Gang Wimbledon then whined afterwards when they got the result they deserved. Nobody seems to understand what Guardiola meant when he called Mourinho a trophy-winning manager, but I'd have thought it was fairly obvious - Mourinho's teams will only be remembered for what they won, the teams he creates are not great and they're not memorable.

That's why everybody remembers Mourinho more than the teams themselves.

by Henry Nolonga Thu 28 Apr 2011, 17:02

What about the diving the Barca players were doing against Arsenal, they weren't playing anti-football. They just don't like it when someone tries to get the ball off them and their response is to fall to the ground like they've been shot in the face when the opposition remotely touches them. Bunch of pansies. United should start practising with 10 or 9 men if they get to the final.

You can see why exactly Alves needed to be stretchered off after that Pepe challenge.

Oh and have i mentioned how much i dislike Busquets? That guy is an embarrassment.

by JGK Sun 01 May 2011, 01:54

Stoopid cheating Chelsea.

by skully Sun 01 May 2011, 02:07

Hehehe, aye. No way Lampard's "goal" was a goal. Sir Arsehole was in the stands and was probably spewing, although the Scum are still 6 clear. I hope the Arse kick the sh!t out of Manure next game. Cool

by WideWally Sun 01 May 2011, 15:59

Arsenal defeat Manchester United & the title race really hots up. The Man Utd v Chelsea game next week will be huge!

by Henry Sun 01 May 2011, 17:27

Too late for Arsenal. They still need to win pretty much every game and hope that Man U and Chelsea f*ck up.

by JKLever Sun 01 May 2011, 20:52

I see Fergie is up to his Jedi mind tricks again, saying Chelsea have a big chance.

by Zat Mon 02 May 2011, 05:13

Once again, Spurs get stiffed by the officials in a crunch game.
If they finish 2 points out of Euro qualification, they should take legal action against the ref and linesman in that Chelsea match, seeking redress for the loss of earnings from a Champions League campaign next season.

by skully Mon 02 May 2011, 05:24

JKLever wrote:I see Fergie is up to his Jedi mind tricks again, saying Chelsea have a big chance.

PMSL at Fergie. Bitchin' about the Owen "penalty" but ignoring the blatant Scum handball in the box that was turned down. What a stinky Scottish git he is.

by Henry Mon 02 May 2011, 05:45

It's why Ferguson and Wenger have a secret admiration. They see themselves in each other.

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