Football Talk 2005-2006 (Soccer)

[Cactus Sid]

I am so happy for West Ham United tonight, because they were unbelievable. Ok, they are gonna be gutted that we won it, but damn it, they deserved to win it.

Granted, the 3 Liverpool goals were class and the 3 West Ham goals lucky, but that doesn't disguise the fact that every one of those West Ham players played their absolute hearts out today, and gave everyone a Cup Final that will be remembered for a long time, and they should be proud of themselves tonight.

My opinions of Harry Kewell had changed up until today, but facts are facts.....we don't need bottlers at our club, and he can fuck right off

[Rob Ban Fan]

<font color="#ff6600">Marlon Harewood didn't, he was shit.</font>

[Boondock Saint]

So it was pretty kick ass? Figures. Sonuva bitch bastard.

[Wengerland]

Why is there one rule for Kewell and one for everyone else? I mean players pull up with injuries all the time. Alonso asked to come off and got a good ovation but with Kewell there's always these 'oh look, the gay girly-hairstyled cunt has bottled it again' comments.

[Mr. Monday Morning]

So it was pretty kick ass? Figures. Sonuva bitch bastard.

Check mininova.org in the next couple days, no doubt it will be torrented. Worth going out of your way to watch.

[toxic rooster]

Why is there one rule for Kewell and one for everyone else? I mean players pull up with injuries all the time. Alonso asked to come off and got a good ovation but with Kewell there's always these 'oh look, the gay girly-hairstyled cunt has bottled it again' comments.

The Champions League final last year didn't help his cause, especially because apparently he sprinted across the pitch to his teammates when they won the shootout.

I was a bit surprised to see some of the same things were being said about Kewell this time. He's come a fair way this year, and there seems to be some genuine concern about his injury this time. I'm hearing he's already been ruled out of our friendly with Greece next week.

[Mr. Monday Morning]

Apparently Kewell injured himself running out for the 2nd half. I mean, come on.

[toxic rooster]

Glenn McGrath injured himself treading on a cricket ball while fucking around at training.

Shit happens.

[Mr. Monday Morning]

McGrath was playing football, funnily enough. And that was a combination of things. There's no indication that there were any extenuating circumstances here.

Seriously, who the fuck injures themselves while running out onto the pitch. Has anybody ever sat him down and told him about warming up and down properly or what.

[Flair Wooo]

FA CUP CHAMPIONS!!!!!!! :D

[Flair Wooo]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[Rob]

McGrath was playing football, funnily enough. And that was a combination of things. There's no indication that there were any extenuating circumstances here.

Seriously, who the fuck injures themselves while running out onto the pitch. Has anybody ever sat him down and told him about warming up and down properly or what.

Nah. They have however told him the best way to make £40k a week playing the role of a professional footballer and doing the absolute least amount of work possible for that money.

[Flair Wooo]

Gerrard is a fucking legend by the way! If we need any player at the world cup it's a this guy!!!

[Rob Ban Fan]

Gerrard is a fucking legend by the way! If we need any player at the world cup it's a this guy!!!

<font color="#ff6600">You'd have thought so, but y'know, his 23 goals this season are meaningless cos some of them were scored against TNS.

That and the fact Sven will tell him to do a holding job, sitting just infront of the back four against teams like Trinidad (to help negate the threat of the mighty Stern John) and he won't be able to get forward at all.</font>

[Flair Wooo]

Simply amazing - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU4lnQCAV_8&search=Liverpool%20fc%20fa%20cup%20final

[Flair Wooo]

http://img478.imageshack.us/img478/5438/westspammers9qs.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Boondock Saint]

ROFL

[Rob]

Perfect example of fucking idiots not leaving at second the full time whistle goes.

[Rob Ban Fan]

<font color="#ff6600">Its a joke really. I imagine I would be horribly gutted if that happened but not enough to sit there crying for ages.

Not least because it would fucking do my nut in sitting there watching 30,000 scousers celebrating.</font>

[Rob]

I'd want out of the stadium immediately. Sitting in my seat knowing the cameras will focus on my face arse crying like a two bob bitch and having the clip shown on TV forever would not be something I'd be too fond of happening.

Just go outside and punch a scouser. That will solve everything.

[toxic rooster]

I guess it could be worse - you could be a fat shirtless kid watching your team go down crying with "LEEDS TIL' I DIE" written on your chest and the cameras cutting to a shot of you every 10 seconds for the whole second half.

Scarred for life.

[Rob Ban Fan]

<font color="#ff6600">Actually that kid ended up getting to meet his favourite player and got a signed shirt from him as a result of that.

However his favourite player was Alan Smith, who promptly went and signed for Manchester United. So needless to say that kid didn't like him anymore.

I remember it being on Sky Sports News.</font>

[toxic rooster]

I wouldn't remember the shirt.

I would remember the emotional scarring.

[Mr. Monday Morning]

Australia
Mark Schwarzer (Middlesbrough), Zeljko Kalac (AC Milan), Ante Covic (Hammarby); Michael Beauchamp (Central Coast), Craig Moore (Newcastle United), Lucas Neill (Blackburn Rovers), Tony Popovic (Crystal Palace), Mark Milligan (Sydney FC); Marco Bresciano (Parma), Tim Cahill (Everton), Scott Chipperfield (Basel), Jason Culina (PSV Eindhoven), Brett Emerton (Blackburn Rovers), Vince Grella (Parma), Stan Lazaridis (unattached), Josip Skoko (Wigan Athletic), Mile Sterjovski (Basel), Luke Wilkshire (Bristol City); John Aloisi (Alaves), Harry Kewell (Liverpool), Archie Thompson (PSV Eindhoven), Mark Viduka (Middlesbrough), Josh Kennedy (Dinamo Dresden)

Um...what? :|

[CSL]

Australia
Mark Schwarzer (Middlesbrough), Zeljko Kalac (AC Milan), Ante Covic (Hammarby); Michael Beauchamp (Central Coast), Craig Moore (Newcastle United), Lucas Neill (Blackburn Rovers), Tony Popovic (Crystal Palace), Mark Milligan (Sydney FC); Marco Bresciano (Parma), Tim Cahill (Everton), Scott Chipperfield (Basel), Jason Culina (PSV Eindhoven), Brett Emerton (Blackburn Rovers), Vince Grella (Parma), Stan Lazaridis (unattached), Josip Skoko (Wigan Athletic), Mile Sterjovski (Basel), Luke Wilkshire (Bristol City); John Aloisi (Alaves), Harry Kewell (Liverpool), Archie Thompson (PSV Eindhoven), Mark Viduka (Middlesbrough), Josh Kennedy (Dinamo Dresden)

Um...what? :|

<font color=white>Another marvel of the Wanderers...</font>

[CSL]

<font color=white>:lol:

Newcastle have gone and confirmed Roeder as the new boss.

I give him 18 months before he's gone</font>

[toxic rooster]

Zeljko Kalac (born December 16th (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_16th), 1972 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972)) is an Australian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia) football (soccer) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_%28soccer%29) goalkeeper (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goalkeeper) of Croatian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croats) descent, who currently plays for A.C. Milan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.C._Milan) in Italy's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy) Serie A (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serie_A). He is nicknamed "Spider" thanks to his height (2.02m) and large armspan.
He is an Australian international (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_national_football_team), though he has spent many years as understudy to first Mark Bosnich (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Bosnich), and more recently Mark Schwarzer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Schwarzer).
He joined Milan in the summer of 2005 on a free transfer, after his previous club A.C. Perugia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.C._Perugia) was demoted to Serie C1 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serie_C1) for financial troubles. Other clubs include Roda JC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roda_JC), Leicester City (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leicester_City_F.C.) and Sydney United (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_United).
Despite only making three 1st team appearances at Leicester City, his final




Is there an issue?

[toxic rooster]

Despite only making three 1st team appearances at Leicester City, his final appearance was as a substitute in the 1996 Division One playoff final, coming on as a substitute during the final minute of extra-time. Being so big, Leicester manager Martin O'Neill believed that Kalac would be able to save penalties during the shootout. But then Steve Claridge scored with the last kick of the game, literally 20 seconds after Kalac had come onto the pitch, and the Foxes were promoted to the Premiership.



He was warming up to be brought on for the Uruguay shootout right in front of us, and we were telling him to fire the fuck up. But Hiddink left Schwarzer on, and here are the results:

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[Mr. Monday Morning]

He is a Wolves and Pompey reject, that is the problem.

[Rob]

Poor guy.

[Mr. Monday Morning]

How the fuck he is at Milan I'll never know. Was Steve Ogrizovic not available?

[Boondock Saint]

Looks like FSC is playing the FA final tonight at 11. Not the same when it's not live, but since it's supposed to be good, gonna check it outttt.

[Flair Wooo]

john aldridge commentates for radio city liverpool and he's off his head ,brilliant for istanbul but this was quite good as well. :D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFT0APOecWM

steve gerrard, gerrard
he hit it from 40, yard
he make my **** ****ing hard,
steve gerrard, gerrard :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuKYArwIV_I&search=Radio%20City%20Steven%20Gerrard%20John%20Aldridge%20Liverpool%20West%20Ham%20FA%20Cup%20Final %202006

[Mr. Monday Morning]

Looks like FSC is playing the FA final tonight at 11. Not the same when it's not live, but since it's supposed to be good, gonna check it outttt.

Don't forget Champions League final tonight

[Dazz]

<font color="#ff6600">Its a joke really. I imagine I would be horribly gutted if that happened but not enough to sit there crying for ages.

Not least because it would fucking do my nut in sitting there watching 30,000 scousers celebrating.</font>

Imagine the Champions League semi finals then, getting locked in at Anfield after the match to avoid trouble, listening and watching 40,000 of the cunts celebrate :(. How stupid can their stewards be, keeping us there 15 mins to avoid trouble, because the scousers are really gunna be queueing up for the exits.

Anyways I disagree about the first part, I'd have stayed there to watch the trophy being lifted, even if it's not my team I'd never leave the stadium before seeing it lifted. As for the crying, you'd be suprised, I know your shower won't do anything that matters, but it does really get to you. I was almost in tears when Liverpool beat us in the semi's, same with the Monaco game the season before, just sat in my seat feeling gutted really, watching the Monaco fans celebrating.

[Mike the Metal Ed]

Zeljko Kalac (born December 16th (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_16th), 1972 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972)) is an Australian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia) football (soccer) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_%28soccer%29) goalkeeper (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goalkeeper) of Croatian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croats) descent, who currently plays for A.C. Milan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.C._Milan) in Italy's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy) Serie A (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serie_A). He is nicknamed "Spider" thanks to his height (2.02m) and large armspan.
He is an Australian international (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_national_football_team), though he has spent many years as understudy to first Mark Bosnich (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Bosnich), and more recently Mark Schwarzer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Schwarzer).
He joined Milan in the summer of 2005 on a free transfer, after his previous club A.C. Perugia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.C._Perugia) was demoted to Serie C1 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serie_C1) for financial troubles. Other clubs include Roda JC (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roda_JC), Leicester City (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leicester_City_F.C.) and Sydney United (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_United).
Despite only making three 1st team appearances at Leicester City, his final




Is there an issue?

His first appearance for Leicester was a league match against West Brom in Division 1, Leicester won 3-2, but should have won it easily if it wasn't for Kalac's general crapness at crosses, repeated in a 3-2 loss against Bolton in the League Cup. It's essentially what we currently have in Paul Henderson, but worse. In fact most of the City fans missed Steve Claridge's winner in the Playoff Final because they were too busy staring at disbelief in Kalac being brought on.

He's meant to have improved a lot since then though, otherwise I couldn't see AC Milan signing him as #2 keeper.

[Rob]

Is he even the #2?

[Wengerland]

He is since they loaned Abbiati to Juventus. They've also got the Greek no.2 but Kalac has been on the bench and played in the cup games, conceded 5 against Palermo i believe.

Figures, he was fucking shite.

[Flair Wooo]

Come on arsenal!!!

[Flair Wooo]

Henry should of scored!

[Cactus Sid]

Lehmann Sent Off, Giuly has a goal ruled out

Makes no sense, we had the same thing in last years semi, but the "goal" stood, and Cech stayed on.

As for The Arse, 4-4-1.....not really that much different to what they had, so not the worse thing in the world when you have Thierry Henry up front

[Mr. Monday Morning]

Way to ruin Europe's biggest game you dickhole ref.

Oh well, he won't be on the list for much longer at least.

[Cactus Sid]

Campbell gets his napper to an Henry Free Kick and sticks it in the Onion Bag

The Arse lead against the odds

[Mr. Monday Morning]

It might end up being great, but for a different reason.

SAVE by Almunia

[Cactus Sid]

The ref is fucking shit

Almunia just pulled off an amazing save, pushing an Eto'o shot onto the post

[SammyG]

Halftime, Arsenal 1-0. Barca needs to exploit the man advantage they have. You know Arsenal is lockin down on defense now.

[Rob]

Are they fuck! Arsenal won't change tactics at all. That's how Wegner is.

Ashley Cole is having a blinder. He needed to step up and he has proved he is a big game player. Put Sol Campbell man to man on Eto'o and it's all good.

Come on Arsenal.

[Flair Wooo]

Nice one rob. Like to see ppl suporting the english teams ..even though your scottish Lol

I stand to win 400+ quid though if it's a draw so come on the draw then arsenal extra time :D

[Flair Wooo]

Come on arsenal!!!!

[Flair Wooo]

Henry got booked what a load of shit!

[Mr. Monday Morning]

Has Almunia never heard of kicking towards the corners? Good grief.

[Flair Wooo]

Come on arsenal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Flair Wooo]

OMG THAT'S TWICE HENRY!!!!

[Mr. Monday Morning]

Goal is definitely all on Almunia. Keeper should never be beaten on the near post.

[toxic rooster]

He got nutted that time

What happened with Lehamnn?

[Flair Wooo]

That sucks! COME ON ARSENAL!!!

[Mr. Monday Morning]

Well, that's probably that. Nice try Arsenal. Has to go down as a tainted victory though due to the shocking refereeing.

[toxic rooster]

Barca just playing keep-away now. Arsenal can't do a thing about it either, their defence looks really tired.

[Flair Wooo]

I feel for the arsenal fans :(

[Flair Wooo]

The ref is a disgrace

[Mr. Monday Morning]

The postmatch Henry interview by Geoff Shreeves was magnificent. Basically chewed out the ref, called Deco and half the Barca team women for diving, and questioned where Ronaldinho was all night.

Marvellous.

[Cactus Sid]

Geoff Shreeves or Thierry Henry said that?

[Rob]

Disgrace wasn't the God damn word... it was BULLSHIT! Henry played shit in my opinion but fucking fair play to him. He came out on Sky Sports and called a spade a spade. Said the ref had a shocker and probably had a Barcelona shirt on! And he probably did. Wenger's tactics maybe a bit meh but fucking hell! Arsenal fans feel proud of your team because you played TWO men down most of the game.

Never seen a ref be so one sided. Absolute fucker. I feel like Man United just lost. Fuckers!!!

[Rob]

Just spoke to my brother who is a Gooner on the phone. He is pissed but straight away he says "you sound more pissed off than me". FUCKERS!!!!

When promo of the year is announced in the Observer, I'm voting for Henry~!

Geoff Shreeves or Thierry Henry said that?

Watch Sky Sports News. That's all I'm saying.

[Flair Wooo]

Yeah i'm a pool fan but i'm fucking pissed for them right now! They didn't deserve to lose like that NO WAY!

[Rob]

Nice one rob. Like to see ppl suporting the english teams ..even though your scottish Lol

I stand to win 400+ quid though if it's a draw so come on the draw then arsenal extra time :D

I supported them because my brother does and I remember the feeling when United won it. I would have probably supported every other English team other than Chelsea and Liverpool. I wouldn't have cared for them though. Wouldn't root against them.

FUCKERS!!!! :mad: :rant: :mad: :rant:

[Flair Wooo]

Ok you suck!! :D Lol

[LK]

Wonder if Thierry will ask Bobby "what's French for sour grapes?"

[Mr. Monday Morning]

Also fair play to Henry for singling out Larsson for praise, who absolutely did change the game.

[McDoogle]

That ref was brutal, absolutely brutal. Im glad Barca won but jesus christ what a terrible game. Ronaldinho just stunk.

[Rob]

Wonder if Thierry will ask Bobby "what's French for sour grapes?"

It's sour grapes if you bitch when you lose fairly.

This ain't no sour grapes.

[LK]

Maybe but there's something awfully hypocritical of him having a go at Barca players considering the way that Arsenals goal came about.

[Butch]

One pissed off Gooner right here :( :'( :nono:

[Flair Wooo]

I feel you dude :(

[toxic rooster]

One of the linesmen got dropped for being caught in a Barca shirt before the game.

Perhaps the ref should have as well :o

[BCWWF]

Barca was the better team, of course they were going to score some goals when Arsenal let them set up and attack the whole second half. Anyway, that red card should have been counted as a goal and the game should have been totally different.

Last thing, Henry's cross on the Arsenal goal was so good. Is he considered one of the top free kick takers right now? Just kind of sucks that the free kick came off a terrible, terrible flop.

[Y2Ant]

That Henry interview after the match was fucking immense.

"I don't dive because i'm not a woman"

Shame Deco can't say the same. :(

[Y2Ant]

...and speaking of Henry, looks like he's decided his future at last:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/a/arsenal/4996270.stm

not surprised, never saw him going to Barca personally

[Butch]

:love: :love: :love: :love:

In all honestly, regardless of me being an Arsenal supporter, this is absolutely fantastic news for English football. Premiership just wouldn't be the same without him.

[LK]

That Henry interview after the match was fucking immense.

"I don't dive because i'm not a woman"

Shame Eboue can't say the same. :(
Fixed

[Rob]

He never said he was signing a new deal did he?

[Mr. Monday Morning]

Thierry Henry has ended months of speculation about his future by signing a new four-year contract with Arsenal.

Is there something unclear about that sentance? :wtf:

[Mr. Monday Morning]

Didier Drogba wants to quit Chelsea and leave the Premiership behind because he is sick of being labelled a cheat.

The Ivory Coast striker, who is going to the World Cup this summer, has been involved in a number of incidents in the last couple of seasons which has led to him being labelled a diver.

Now the 28-year-old, a £24million signing from Marseille two seasons ago, has had enough. "It's not a joke. I want to move on and avoid all the pressure and scandals here," he told The Sun.

Drogba added: "Those things hurt my feelings. I want a place I can play freely without any drawbacks.

"You should know what a player goes through with so much pressure."

Drogba said he will only move to a club in the Champions League and is eyeing up a move to Italy.

"I admire AC Milan. But anywhere I go, the Champions League will be there waiting for me," said Drogba.

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I can imagine Kenyon on the phone trying to convince Milan to do a part-ex deal, Drogba for Shevchenko :rofl:

Oh, update

Didier Drogba is set to have his feelings hurt once again, after Jose Mourinho said there's no way he's leaving Stamford Bridge.

Drogba told The Sun "I want to move on and avoid all the pressure and scandals. Those things hurt my feelings," but his plea will fall on deaf ears as far as Jose Mourinho is concerned.

"He has two years left on his deal and we consider him to be not negotiable," said the Portuguese.

"He has no chance of leaving. He has to play for Chelsea."

Mourinho insisted that if the player was unhappy, he would be allowed to stay at Chelsea and rot.

"If he plays with happiness, fantastic, because we get the best of him. If not, he doesn't play. It's his problem."

Mourinho added that AC Milan are in exactly the same situation with Andriy Shevchenko, a target for the Blues:

"As for Shevchenko, we would like to bring him, but he's a Milan player and he has a long-term contract with them.

"Milan have the power, like we have the power with Drogba, and my feeling is that they don't want to sell and they will keep him.

"I like the player and I would like to have him - but a lot of clubs want Drogba and they can't have him."

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ROT ROT ROT

[Flair Wooo]

The guy's a load of crap!

[Rob]

Thierry Henry has ended months of speculation about his future by signing a new four-year contract with Arsenal.

Is there something unclear about that sentance? :wtf:

Didn't click the link. Went by what was on Sky Sports News. So he signed then eh. Cool.

[packt up]

Felt hella sorry for Arsenal earlier in the week. Referee referee....

Glad Henry is staying and lol at Drogba wanting to leave. What a pussy.

[toxic rooster]

I love the way Mourinho deals with want-away players.

It must be nice to know you're still expendable when the club has spent 24 million pounds on you.

[Mr. Monday Morning]

Glazer's had another stroke. Put the voodoo doll down, Harvey.

[packt up]

Drogba rotting in the reserves = ratings

[The Mask]

glazer has a stroke, arsenal lose to barca, leeds don't get promoted so i can laugh at downunder, and i meet deadman inc. this week has been immense :love:

[Rob]

Glazer's had another stroke. Put the voodoo doll down, Harvey.

I never had a problem with the Glazers personally. I am more than willing to give them a chance before I knock them and so far they are doing alright.

[Nervous Ferret]

Yo, is Fifa World Cup 06 any good

I dunno if any of you guys have played it or not, but it is only like 25$, so may get it

[Mr. Monday Morning]

All the FIFA games are glossy shite.

Pro Evolution Soccer > everything else. It might be called Winning Eleven over there though I can't remember.

[Nervous Ferret]

ok

I trust Mr. Monday Morning more than the rest of you "cunts" put together

[toxic rooster]

He's right though, PES5 is the best football game.

I think everyone here probably agrees except RBF

[Cactus Sid]

It took fucking ages but I just put Togo, Ghana, Angola and Trinidad on it :cool:

Apparently Tomas Rosicky is having a medical at Arsenal..... decent player, but a strange one with Gilberto and Fabregas in the middle, unless they intend to play him off Henry.

[Mr. Monday Morning]

I'd imagine he'll possibly be Bergkamp's replacement rotating with Van Persie, yeah. Assuming Pires goes Reyes would probably be shifted left wing, Ljungberg right, and then Hleb can do backup to both of them.

[Rob]

Rosicky is quality. Shame is he going there.

[treen007]

damn damn damn, another year in the crummy "championship" Leeds really needed to go up this year. anyone see the game? I heard they played like shite. :mad:

[toxic rooster]

They would have gone straight back down anyway.

[packt up]

Rosicky...Nice going Arsenal he'l be a good player no problem. Undisclosed fee...really curious to know how much they paid. I would guess around 10m but probably wrong.

[CSL]

Undisclosed fee...really curious to know how much they paid. I would guess around 10m but probably wrong.

<font color=white>Around £7m</font>

[Ogen]

Arsenal just never release a fee about who they sign. Papers will call it undisclosed for a bit then say around 10-15 then pick 12 and all will stick to it and it will be gospel.

Rosicky is class he'll be great for them

[Mr. Monday Morning]

Yeah I've seen £7m reported as well, bargain at that price.

[Wengerland]

damn damn damn, another year in the crummy "championship" Leeds really needed to go up this year. anyone see the game? I heard they played like shite. :mad:

That is true.

I personally can't see them using Rosicky as a second striker as he doesn't score too many, maybe Wenger's reverting to 4-5-1 after it's success in the champions league/the fact that Adebayor isn't very good.

If not then just for the depth i guess. But good signing.

[Mr. Monday Morning]

Maybe he doesn't score too many because he hasn't been played as a second striker :shifty:

[diothoir]

damn damn damn, another year in the crummy "championship" Leeds really needed to go up this year. anyone see the game? I heard they played like shite. :mad:

I don't think 3-0 was deserved, but they were never going to score. :'(

Gonna be harder to get up this season too probably.

[BCWWF]

US looked AWFUL tonight, lost 0-1 to Ghana. I'm not sure if it had something to do with being on a football (American) pitch, but the movement and control was just awful. Remember France 98.

[Mr. Monday Morning]

Wait wait wait...they played a team they're going to be playing in their actual group game? :wtf:

[toxic rooster]

Morocco buddy.

Close, but not quite Ghana.

[treen007]

They would have gone straight back down anyway.

More than likely yes, but the financial gains of a year in the prem would have been immense. Love that top tier TV money. Leeds deserve better than the championship, bunch of cunts ran them into the ground! I will forever curse the names ridsdale and o'leary.

[Rob Ban Fan]

<font color="#ff6600">Before I went out to Greece I stuck everything in my PaddyPower account on Barca to win. Then we watched the game on a big screen while on a pub crawl and I was the only person there supporting Barca. I went fucking MENTAL when Beletti got the winner.

People chucked ice cubes and water at me and some rat faced little slag goes to me "ooh i hope your parents are proud of you for being a fucking spick supporting little prick." But I was fucking loving that.

I have fucking always loved Beletti.

The rest of the night I just kept going up to bar staff and going "Kostas Chalkias! Theo Zagorakis! Giannis Skopelitis!" and getting high fives off them :cool: </font>

[toxic rooster]

spick?

[Dazz]

<font color="#ff6600">Before I went out to Greece I stuck everything in my PaddyPower account on Barca to win. Then we watched the game on a big screen while on a pub crawl and I was the only person there supporting Barca. I went fucking MENTAL when Beletti got the winner.

People chucked ice cubes and water at me and some rat faced little slag goes to me "ooh i hope your parents are proud of you for being a fucking spick supporting little prick." But I was fucking loving that.

I have fucking always loved Beletti.

The rest of the night I just kept going up to bar staff and going "Kostas Chalkias! Theo Zagorakis! Giannis Skopelitis!" and getting high fives off them :cool: </font>

How much did you win? And I thought of you when Belletti scored, as I remember you bumming him last year when I told you (rightfully so) that he is shit and a diving little cunt. You should have started chanting HELLAS HELLAS HELLAS. Also, you don't even like Kostas Chalkias.

I was in the Students Union for the game, and from the off sung 'Vieira Fucked off and so will Henry', then Arsenal fans started singing, gave me abit of banter about needing a hair cut; Then when Lehmann got sent off I did the old Dambusters complete with gestures, and ten German bombers, when Arsenal scored I started singing 'can you hear the Arsenal sing' as they were so fucking quiet, and the bouncer threatened to chuck me out :|. Later on in the half they started singing quite abit though.

Anyways the best part was later on when this one shit fan on the table in front of me was annoying me like he had done all match, he was a terrible fan and I called it before kick off, whenever the Arsenal fans sung he stood up clapping, trying to join in but not knowing the words (Even to that Oh to be a Gooner song) so I started singing 'Have you ever been to Highbury have you fuck' to him and my mates joined in, whilst we all pointed at him, he just stood there like a dickhead with four fingers up as if to say he'd been there four times, his mates turned round and started having a go at me asking me who I supported (two of them had Arsenal shirts on) to which after a great solo rendition of 'CHELSEA! CHHAAMPIONS!' I started singing to the shit fan 'If you don't know the words then queiten down', and kept singing it to him as he stared it me, whilst I gestured for him to sit down whilst cupping my ear with my other hand, if he'd started a song about 1/4 of the union would have joined in, or at least his mates would have, but he didn't, he sat down after a while. After it got to 2-1 I went up right behind his table and started singing 'Shit fan, gives us a song' for ages and he just ignored me :cool:. He left after about 87 minutes, and I didn't see him again till we were upstairs, so he didn't even watch the end of the match :wtf:.

Needless to say, I shat all over this shit Arsenal fan, only spoiled by the birds who were watching the game with us kept telling me to shut up because it was out of order, dickheads.

[Mr. Monday Morning]

French police are hunting burglars who used gas to knock out Patrick Vieira and his wife and daughter during a raid on the family home near Cannes.

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For some reason that's just hilarious :$

Dundee have appointed Alex Rae as their new manager.

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GO ON MY SON

[Rob]

He can't be any worse than the fucking mick we just got rid of.

[Cactus Sid]

If the Home Office can let Illegal Immigrants work for them, they better let Mark Gonzalez in the country, because he looks absolute quality,

[Rob]

If the Home Office can let Illegal Immigrants work for them, they better let Mark Gonzalez in the country, because he looks absolute quality,

That won't happen because it would actually make sense. If Gonzales was Somalian or some shit he would walk in though.

[Nervous Ferret]

Is Morroco any good?

[Rob]

Only thing they are good for is smuggling drugs into Europe and stealing everything in sight in London.

So that's a no.

[Mr. Monday Morning]

Morocco are one of the better African nations, but they're not great by any means.

Still, cheer up you US guys. Ghana lost to an amateur league Austrian team.

[BCWWF]

It wasn't like the US wasn't getting the breaks or something, we just looked bad. There wasn't order to the gameplay, like somebody would be taking it up the side and nobody was open in the middle to pass to, so the player would just lose the ball. It happened over and over.

[Rob Ban Fan]

spick?

<font color="#ff6600">It is a racial term for Mexicans I think, but i spose gets applied to Spaniards too.

The ice cubes they chucked actually hurt but I wasn't bothered, and the water was just ridiculous. I just held my arms out, smiled and let them do it, thinking "we're in Greece, its fucking boiling, and you just paid about 2 quid for that water you daft whore."

I wouldn't have really cared but none of the people were even watching the match properly apart from when the goals were scored, and they didn't give a toss or have a clue about football.

They were fucking ugly, rat faced little slags anyway. My mates abandoned me to go and sit with them and support Arsenal and pass ice cubes between eachother's mouths but I kept my resolve, sat there all on my own and loved it when they won :cool:

They all kept fucking coming over and going "oh, why don't you just come and support Arsenal with us?" and I was like "cos I have a bet on and I like Barcelona more." and one of the birds was like "i'm Spanish and i'm not supporting Barca, so come on" and I was like "okay...well i'm English and i'm not supporting Arsenal, so..."

Couldn't have any fucking decent banter or sing any songs cos they were stupid slags who would struggle to name 3 Arsenal players.

Saw one other Pompey fan while we were out there and just gave him a quick "BLUUUUE ARMY". And saw a shit load of Newcastle fans. We were walking to a bar and saw a pissed one and I just shouted "WHO PUT THE BALL IN THE MACKEM'S NET?" and he put his arm round me and went "O'BRIEN, O'BRIEN". Didn't see any Chelsea fans or Arsenal fans or Liverpool fans though. Saw a load of Watford fans after their playoff win though.

Saw one United fan and asked where he was from and he went "guess" :$ Stick a pin in an atlas ffs :$ </font>

[Rob Ban Fan]

<font color="#ff6600">And Dazz, Beletti is fucking quality. Better than any of your shower.

And he's scored the winner in a champions league final, which is more than Glen Johnson has done.

Just admit it Dazz, you have a team full of bottlers and as soon as Roman gets bored you'll have to sell Stamford Bridge to Asda and you'll end up ground sharing at Loftus Road. Terry will slap in a transfer request straight away and be off to join a big club like Spurs. You'll sign Tugay on a free transfer and he'll end up being your best player by a mile and you'll long for the days when you used to have players like Jody Morris as you slowly drift towards the championship.

Beletti is fantastic.</font>

[Flair Wooo]

So how much you win? Put on? Odds?

[Nervous Ferret]

yeah HISPANIC = Spic

[diothoir]

And Dazz, Beletti is fucking quality. Better than any of your shower.

And he's scored the winner in a champions league final, which is more than Glen Johnson has done.

Just admit it Dazz, you have a team full of bottlers and as soon as Roman gets bored you'll have to sell Stamford Bridge to Asda and you'll end up ground sharing at Loftus Road. Terry will slap in a transfer request straight away and be off to join a big club like Spurs. You'll sign Tugay on a free transfer and he'll end up being your best player by a mile and you'll long for the days when you used to have players like Jody Morris as you slowly drift towards the championship.

Beletti is fantastic.


LOL :'(

[Rob Ban Fan]

So how much you win? Put on? Odds?

<font color="#ff6600">I dunno, whatever small amount I had left in my account, and the odds were shit, evens.

But that is not the point.

The point is that watching football in pubs/bars is shit cos people who don't have a clue act like wankers.</font>

[Flair Wooo]

I got 13/8 at h/t :D WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[Boondock Saint]

More than likely yes, but the financial gains of a year in the prem would have been immense. Love that top tier TV money. Leeds deserve better than the championship, bunch of cunts ran them into the ground! I will forever curse the names ridsdale and o'leary.

If anyone needs that money it's Reading...RIGHT Mr. Monday Morning? :$ :shifty:

Them or Rushden & Diamonds, simply because of their name.

[toxic rooster]

Marco Bresciano's shot went out for a throw.

[Rob Ban Fan]

<font color="#ff6600">I was just reading the News of the World from sunday to see what I missed while I was away and they had a big 2 page interview with that fat Jabba the Hutt lookalike who is currently managing Bolton. And they had his England world cup team and suprise surpise it was 4-5-1, made to look like a 4-3-3 with Crouch upfront on his own :mad:

Thank fuck he didn't get the job. </font>

[Rob]

Where were Rooney and Owen? What was the team actually? Just curious.

[yianni]

Australia vs Greece a shit game. Australia won 1-0 and played very well, I reckon they will be the surprise packets at this year's World Cup. Greece couldn't have given a fuck tonight and it was clear they were out here for a holiday.

Mike Reilly was the referee, fuck he's a wanker in real life too. :lol:

95,000 people for this game in Melbourne (my city) and it was only a friendly! An amazing crowd with the game being Australia's last one on home soil before the World Cup, plus with Melbourne massive Greek population (biggest Greek community outside of Greece)

Pics:

http://cache.gettyimages.com/xc/71046049.jpg?v=1&c=MS_GINS&k=2&d=17A4AD9FDB9CF193CC300C081D9F47006AED7E712D4CC58594907E4904541829

http://cache.gettyimages.com/xc/71045878.jpg?v=1&c=MS_GINS&k=2&d=17A4AD9FDB9CF193CC300C081D9F47006AED7E712D4CC585CE8DE7A4F315697A

http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2006/05/25/hhhgreecefans_wideweb__470x258,0.jpg

AHAHAHHA that last pic is one of my mates, the fucken idiot :lol:

[Rob Ban Fan]

Where were Rooney and Owen? What was the team actually? Just curious.

<font color="black">.............</font>Robinson
Neville Terry Ferdinand A.Cole
<font color="black">....</font>Lampard Carrick Gerrard
Beckham<font color="black">....</font>Crouch<font color="black">.......</font>J.Cole

<font color="#ff6600">I assume he was working on the basis that Owen and Rooney wouldn't be fit.

That or he's just a fat idiot.

Make your own mind up.</font>

[Cactus Sid]

Morientes has signed for Valencia

Hope it all goes well for him, he wasn't exactly a success for us, but you could see he was trying his hardest and I'd rather a player tried his hardest and things didn't work out than not trying at all.

[Mr. Monday Morning]

If anyone needs that money it's Reading...RIGHT Mr. Monday Morning? :$ :shifty:

Them or Rushden & Diamonds, simply because of their name.

Actually their owner is a multimillionaire :o

But keep up the spirit :y:

[Boondock Saint]

When I actually get to see their games, they better be pretty kick ass. :mad:

[toxic rooster]

I heard flares were like a 4 grand fine last night :lol:

[Rob]

<font color="black">.............</font>Robinson
Neville Terry Ferdinand A.Cole
<font color="black">....</font>Lampard Carrick Gerrard
Beckham<font color="black">....</font>Crouch<font color="black">.......</font>J.Cole

<font color="#ff6600">I assume he was working on the basis that Owen and Rooney wouldn't be fit.

That or he's just a fat idiot.

Make your own mind up.</font>

I'll go with the latter.

[yianni]

I heard flares were like a 4 grand fine last night :lol:

Yeah and pitch invading a $6000 fine. Didn't stop these 2 guys wearing Ballack t-shirts invading though. :lol:

95,000 to a meaningless "soccer" friendly, in the middle of the AwFuL season. The AwFuL are shitting themselves. The sleeping giant of Australian sport has awoken. In fact Im making a new fucking thread on this, just to shit Y2C off.

[Cactus Sid]

Shevchenko is leaving Milan

Still have a feeling one of the Spanish clubs might try to hijack the Chelsea bid.

[Rob Ban Fan]

<Font color="#ff6600">Don't join Chelsea, Sheva. They will ruin you, like they've ruined Crespo :'(</font>

[Rob]

He is going to Chelski. It's obvious.

[Flair Wooo]

Lets hope he plays the same as crespo :)

[Rob Ban Fan]

<font color="#ff6600">Lets hope that Chelsea put him upfront with Crespo and give him a chance to score goals, so him and Crespo can rape every defence and get 60 goals between them, like they should. Instead of having to play upfront on their own in a formation not made for strikers :$

Sheva is the man, he deserves better :$</font>

[Rob]

Why would I hope that? I hope he breaks his neck in his first day of training.

[Rob Ban Fan]

<font color="#ff6600">No Rob, thats not very nice. Sheva is the man.

I can live with your praise of Quashie, but not the Sheva abuse, he is fantastic. :(</font>

[Rob]

Yeah he is. And hence why I don't want him playing in West London.

[Rob Ban Fan]

<Font color="#ff6600">Well no, me neither, since Chelsea will ruin him, he'll end up getting rotated with that fucking idiot Drogba, playing upfront on his own and get about 9 goals whilst some absolute tart like Bobby Zamora some how gets 15 purely because he gets a run in his team or something, prompting idiots and the press to give the immense Sheva shit that he doesn't deserve about how he can't hack it in the English game, meaning he gets sold for about £6m to Spartak Moscow or something at the end of the season.

Don't go Sheva, its a slippery slope.</font>

[Wengerland]

Whilst i'd rather he didn't go to Chelsea, the prospect of Shevchenko in the premiership is rather mouthwatering.

[Cactus Sid]

Anybody watching SoccerAid on ITV?

Pretty annoying stuff, Maradona keeps getting the ball and laying the ball on absolutely perfectly, he hasn't wasted a pass yet, yet they haven't mentioned it :mad:

[Rob]

Liverpool ace Mark Gonzalez has been thrown out of the Chile squad for a breach of discipline.

Gonzalez and Reinaldo Navia were axed from the squad by Chile coach Nelson Acosta after breaking rules during their European tour.

The pair were sent home from the trip after the coach caught three girls in their rooms 24 hours after their friendly win over Republic of Ireland.

It has also been reported that both players were drunk, but Gonzalez has protested his innocence and insists he and Navia did nothing wrong.

"There has been a misunderstanding. As you can see I am famous in this place and three girls came to ask me for an autograph so we went up to my room and then we stayed there talking," said Gonzalez.

"Suddenly Acosta arrived and he didn't like that I was there with these girls.

"On the other hand I want to say that it's not true that Navia and I were drunk.

"That is something invented by someone that wants to make trouble."

Chile captain Luis Jimenez revealed the rest of the squad did not agree with Acosta's decision to axe Gonzalez and Navia.

"We don't agree with the decision of Acosta but we have to respect it," said Jimenez.

"This has been something very hard for the team and I hope that we can recover from this as soon as possible."

[Cactus Sid]

Gonzalez :love:

Of course, this is where he slips below the "70% of games" rule and doesn't get his work permit.

So you know, if that happens and someone firebombs the home office you know where to look

[diothoir]

I dunno about this guy but about 20 references sprung up to some Brazilian called Kerlon signing for Man Utd.

411 have a link to him doing the 'seal dribble' - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6Yj7GoXPZw

Anyone know anything about him?

[Ogen]

Hes the next big Brazillian thing and that seal dribble is rediculous once he gets it on his head hes guarenteed a free kick he just can't be tackled fairly so he does that near the box and hes either running through or getting a dangerous free. Gets the utter shit kicked out of him every week doing it.

[Cactus Sid]

I dunno if its that clip there, but there is one where some guy basically kicks him in the head and gets sent off....pure genius.

[The Mask]

pure genius til he moves to us and becomes a one trick pony ;)

[Dazz]

<font color="#ff6600">And Dazz, Beletti is fucking quality. Better than any of your shower.

And he's scored the winner in a champions league final, which is more than Glen Johnson has done.

Just admit it Dazz, you have a team full of bottlers and as soon as Roman gets bored you'll have to sell Stamford Bridge to Asda and you'll end up ground sharing at Loftus Road. Terry will slap in a transfer request straight away and be off to join a big club like Spurs. You'll sign Tugay on a free transfer and he'll end up being your best player by a mile and you'll long for the days when you used to have players like Jody Morris as you slowly drift towards the championship.

Beletti is fantastic.</font>

wow, Beletti has now done one thing of significance ever, remember last year when he helped but Barca out with the own goal against Chelsea? Johnno's never done that, Don't remember Beletti chipping one, skinning another and smashing a beaut in against Blackburn either. Or the last time he threw you a winners tee-shirt off a bus in a parade.

As for Abramovich leaving, you should be looking closer to home, and worrying about Gaydamark leaving you in the shitter. Would be brilliant if you ever ground shared with Southampton, neither of your chairmen have any grasp on your 'hate filled rivalry' and I'd piss myself if it ever happened.

[Cactus Sid]

pure genius til he moves to us and becomes a one trick pony ;)

I was referring to the guy who kicked him in the head

[Rob]

I miss Dazz.

[Rob Ban Fan]

wow, Beletti has now done one thing of significance ever, remember last year when he helped but Barca out with the own goal against Chelsea? Johnno's never done that, Don't remember Beletti chipping one, skinning another and smashing a beaut in against Blackburn either. Or the last time he threw you a winners tee-shirt off a bus in a parade.

As for Abramovich leaving, you should be looking closer to home, and worrying about Gaydamark leaving you in the shitter. Would be brilliant if you ever ground shared with Southampton, neither of your chairmen have any grasp on your 'hate filled rivalry' and I'd piss myself if it ever happened.

<font color="#ff6600">I do remember Belletti scoring that own goal. I seem to remember Barca absolutely shitting all over Chelsea for about half an hour, only for Duff to some how break away, put in a cross and Belletii put it in while trying to clear it. I also remember Barca then went on to win that and that dirty, cheating cunt Drogba got sent off for a blatent foul on the keeper and none of your fans or bitter manager could take it so you started a hate campaign and made him retire from the game. I'm sure that earned you a nomination for the FIFA fair play award.

You then won the second leg, where the only things worth remembering are Ronaldinho scoring easily the best goal of the game, which probably left you crying into your pie thinking "we'll never get anyone half as good as him" and then John Terry blatently fouling a Barca player before getting the winner.

I also remember that then you went on to fail to score against Liverpool for 180 minutes and spent months crying about a goal where the ball clearly crossed the line by an absolute mile (after your big dodgy Czech keeper had cynically tried to pull down Luis Garcia in the box.)

I think Liverpool went on to win the champions league that year, for the 5th time, a feat Chelsea have yet to do. Still, you beat them in the league cup eh (thanks to a Gerrard own goal) :rofl:

And i am gonna have to think about this one for a while...fluke goal away to Blackburn...or winner in the champions league final...HMMMM, well, i think Belletti JUST edges that one.

Now Dazz, stop it. I think I have just about proved that Belletti is better than Glen Johnson. Although thats not difficult, its like saying winning the lottery is better than having hot cooking oil thrown in your face.

I'm sure you have some referees to be making death threats against for making perfectly acceptable decisions, so i'll let you get on with it.

Also, did you see Zola miss that open goal and fail to score past Jamie Theakston? :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: </font>

[packt up]

LMAO RBF

[Rob Ban Fan]

England striker Andy Johnson will complete his £8.5m switch from Crystal Palace to Everton on Wednesday.
The 25-year-old is likely have a medical on Monday or Tuesday before signing a four-year deal worth around £40,000 a week.

<font color="#ff6600">FOR FUCKS SAKE</font>

[Rob Ban Fan]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006230548,00.html

:$

[Rob]

Owen = God

[Rob]

Simon Jordon rules. You can always trust him to cut a great promo. Everything about the last hour on Sky Sports News has been hilarious.

[CSL]

<font color=white>So Chelsea have signed Kalou. Shame. He's a decent player and he's gonna do jack shit</font>

[Rob Ban Fan]

<font color="#ff6600">Glad Fatty Lampard missed that penalty after Gerrard's blatent dive.

Stay on your feet you cunt.</font>

[packt up]

Wow Carragher and Hargreaves over Carrick...

[Rob]

<font color="#ff6600">Glad Fatty Lampard missed that penalty after Gerrard's blatent dive.

Stay on your feet you cunt.</font>

I love you. :kiss:

Between, John Motson, Mark "I don't know if I'm Irish or English" Lawrenson, Alan "fucking turncoat" Hansen, Ian "Michael from LOST" Wright, Lee Dixon and Gary Lineker, their comments on that blatant fucking diving from that cheating little scouse cunt as well as their pure bias made my stomach fucking turn. For anyone English who every questions why the Scots, Welsh and Irish fucking hate this team and don't understand why after this then you never will.

Despite that, as an outsider looking in, here is my honest opinion on that team.

- David Beckham is BY FAR the best player in that team and yet half the country is aching for him to be replaced by Aaron Lennon or Walt from LOST, oh sorry, Shawn Wright Phillips (when he is around). He was the only English player who bothered showing up in the first half and yet they spoke about replacing him at half time.

- Holding midfielder debate. MAKE UP YOUR FUCKING MIND!!! Stop playing people out of position. Do Brazil, Argentina, Italy, etc play people out of position just to accomadate players (minus the Del Piero thing at the last World Cup which failed also)? Owen Hargreaves got 45 mins in his natural position for England for the first time in forever and does anyone think that for fucking constant abuse he gets is helping the guy? Funny how everyone mocked Phil Neville for years and yet he should be walking in that team right now. No, not Michael Carrick. Goes back to the thing about playing people out of position. Had that turnip head had enough sense to play people in positions before now, we probably wouldn't even be having this discussion.

- Theo Walcott = Not good enough. You probably wouldn't have noticed this listening to the BBC team last night who talked about him like he was Pele. My brother (the Arsenal fan) was giving me the "he is only 17" argument a minute ago. BULLSHIT. He is old enough to pick up thousands of pounds a week and to play with the big boys so he is old enough to take abuse. He hasn't showed me anything in the last week other than he has a bit of pace which I already knew. Feel a tad sorry for him because he isn't good enough for the Premiership (or he'd have played by now) so how can he be good enough for the World Cup.

- Get Jermaine Defoe and Phil Neville in the squad ASAP. Rooney isn't goona play so adding Defoe goes without saying at this point but Neville has to be in not just for the midfield role but to cover his brother at right back since they obviously haven't thought about Gaz getting hurt until now.

- If I were English, I'd be praying for Alan Smith right now i.e someone who can play holding midfield roles and is a proven striker is who isn't a midget like every other choice other than Crouch.

[Dazz]

<font color="#ff6600">I do remember Belletti scoring that own goal. I seem to remember Barca absolutely shitting all over Chelsea for about half an hour, only for Duff to some how break away, put in a cross and Belletii put it in while trying to clear it. I also remember Barca then went on to win that and that dirty, cheating cunt Drogba got sent off for a blatent foul on the keeper and none of your fans or bitter manager could take it so you started a hate campaign and made him retire from the game. I'm sure that earned you a nomination for the FIFA fair play award.

You then won the second leg, where the only things worth remembering are Ronaldinho scoring easily the best goal of the game, which probably left you crying into your pie thinking "we'll never get anyone half as good as him" and then John Terry blatently fouling a Barca player before getting the winner.

I also remember that then you went on to fail to score against Liverpool for 180 minutes and spent months crying about a goal where the ball clearly crossed the line by an absolute mile (after your big dodgy Czech keeper had cynically tried to pull down Luis Garcia in the box.)

I think Liverpool went on to win the champions league that year, for the 5th time, a feat Chelsea have yet to do. Still, you beat them in the league cup eh (thanks to a Gerrard own goal) :rofl:

And i am gonna have to think about this one for a while...fluke goal away to Blackburn...or winner in the champions league final...HMMMM, well, i think Belletti JUST edges that one.

Now Dazz, stop it. I think I have just about proved that Belletti is better than Glen Johnson. Although thats not difficult, its like saying winning the lottery is better than having hot cooking oil thrown in your face.

I'm sure you have some referees to be making death threats against for making perfectly acceptable decisions, so i'll let you get on with it.

Also, did you see Zola miss that open goal and fail to score past Jamie Theakston? :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: </font>

Glen Johnson is going to go on to acheive big things if he sorts out his attitude, he can attack and defend. I remember him coming on at the Nou Camp and not putting a foot wrong, he was class that day, and he doesn't dive. How you are glad Lampard missed the penalty because Gerrard dived, yet bum Belletti who behind Deco is their worst diver is beyond me.

I also remember going home and away to the 2nd leg, quarters and semis of the Champions League, can't think when you last did that, by 'you' I could mean Portsmouth or you personally, Pompey haven't even done anything remotely of significance in your lifetime :rofl:. And you wouldn't even travel on your own to Wigan to see your team avoid relegation, yet I travelled there by myself, sat there by myself, spent £100 overall, just to see us play a team everyone thought at the time were shit and going straight back down. And yes the sitting by myself does have relevance, you refused to go to the Liverpool cup game the other year at Fratton Park because you had no one to sit with, you're a joke mate, Me > You. You proved in the fantasy manager thing you know fuck all.

Zola :(

And it was Baros that Cech took down.

[Rob]

Oh you aren't taking that Owen are ya?

[Mr. Monday Morning]

I love you. :kiss:

Between, John Motson, Mark "I don't know if I'm Irish or English" Lawrenson, Alan "fucking turncoat" Hansen, Ian "Michael from LOST" Wright, Lee Dixon and Gary Lineker, their comments on that blatant fucking diving from that cheating little scouse cunt as well as their pure bias made my stomach fucking turn. For anyone English who every questions why the Scots, Welsh and Irish fucking hate this team and don't understand why after this then you never will.

Despite that, as an outsider looking in, here is my honest opinion on that team.

- David Beckham is BY FAR the best player in that team and yet half the country is aching for him to be replaced by Aaron Lennon or Walt from LOST, oh sorry, Shawn Wright Phillips (when he is around). He was the only English player who bothered showing up in the first half and yet they spoke about replacing him at half time.

- Holding midfielder debate. MAKE UP YOUR FUCKING MIND!!! Stop playing people out of position. Do Brazil, Argentina, Italy, etc play people out of position just to accomadate players (minus the Del Piero thing at the last World Cup which failed also)? Owen Hargreaves got 45 mins in his natural position for England for the first time in forever and does anyone think that for fucking constant abuse he gets is helping the guy? Funny how everyone mocked Phil Neville for years and yet he should be walking in that team right now. No, not Michael Carrick. Goes back to the thing about playing people out of position. Had that turnip head had enough sense to play people in positions before now, we probably wouldn't even be having this discussion.

- Theo Walcott = Not good enough. You probably wouldn't have noticed this listening to the BBC team last night who talked about him like he was Pele. My brother (the Arsenal fan) was giving me the "he is only 17" argument a minute ago. BULLSHIT. He is old enough to pick up thousands of pounds a week and to play with the big boys so he is old enough to take abuse. He hasn't showed me anything in the last week other than he has a bit of pace which I already knew. Feel a tad sorry for him because he isn't good enough for the Premiership (or he'd have played by now) so how can he be good enough for the World Cup.

- Get Jermaine Defoe and Phil Neville in the squad ASAP. Rooney isn't goona play so adding Defoe goes without saying at this point but Neville has to be in not just for the midfield role but to cover his brother at right back since they obviously haven't thought about Gaz getting hurt until now.

- If I were English, I'd be praying for Alan Smith right now i.e someone who can play holding midfield roles and is a proven striker is who isn't a midget like every other choice other than Crouch.


To be fair you can't hold every English person responsible for the BBC being shit. I don't know anyone who thinks the licence fee is value for money. As for Ian Wright...well, he makes me wish for Jamie Redknapp. Yeah, digest that for a moment.

There's no question Beckham is the best player in the team but in the last few years his form slumped badly, at least for England, compared to what it was. Around 01-02 he was pretty untouchable. But he was voted midfielder of the year in the Liga, and that takes some doing when you look at who plays there, so if he can stay fit and in form we'll always have a chance of some big lunk like Campbell actually not having a goal disallowed (although he probably used up his one against Barca)

And the whole Walcott age thing is ridiculous, just like it was ridiculous when people were using Rooney's age as an excuse when he was going barmy and losing his head every other week. I'll say the same thing now that I said then - when did you ever hear anything like this when Michael Owen was that age?

[Rob]

To be fair you can't hold every English person responsible for the BBC being shit. I don't know anyone who thinks the licence fee is value for money. As for Ian Wright...well, he makes me wish for Jamie Redknapp. Yeah, digest that for a moment.


I don't hold every English person responsible for the beeb being shit. It just makes me hate the English national team even more. And that is my right as a jock :D Think about it like this. My girlfriend is English, our child will be English when he/she is born and I still have nothing but absolute hate and venom for this team. That's how much the media winds me up. Honestly, I'd love for my friends to experience a World Cup win because I'm obviously never going to. I supported Portugal because a couple of my best friend hail from there. I swear on my life though I would rather cut off my cock than follow England. I need to get some Brazilian friends I think.

I'd take Redknapp over Wright in a heartbeat. I think he did alright on Sky this year.

[Rob Ban Fan]

<font color="#ff6600">The commentators and analysts were proper getting on my tits during the game yesterday, Jesus.

Motty: "Did Walcott play with Crouch at Southampton?"
Lawro: "umm....yep"
Motty: "well he definatly did, out of all the people on the pitch he's the only one he played with."

No he fucking didn't, Crouch left at the end of the 04/05 season and Walcott didn't make his debut until the 05/06 season against Wolves, they never played with eachother once.

And the way they all fucking attributed blame to Hargreaves for the goal. "He should've closed him down quicker." he was about 40 yards out for fucks sake, every so often players are gonna pull goals like that out of their arses but not often, and its hardly his fault.

True he's done fuck all in an England shirt, but as you say its cos he's never been played in his prefered position, but I honestly think its harsh to blame him for that goal.</font>

[LK]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/chelsea/5035604.stm

No point in having a Premiership season now

[Rob Ban Fan]

<Font color="#ff6600">oh Sheva why :(</font>

[Rob]

<font color="#ff6600">The commentators and analysts were proper getting on my tits during the game yesterday, Jesus.

Motty: "Did Walcott play with Crouch at Southampton?"
Lawro: "umm....yep"
Motty: "well he definatly did, out of all the people on the pitch he's the only one he played with."

No he fucking didn't, Crouch left at the end of the 04/05 season and Walcott didn't make his debut until the 05/06 season against Wolves, they never played with eachother once.
</font>

There's no way I'm ever gonna question you especially with you being my new hero and all.

But there was a pic in the paper the other day with Crouch and Walcott playing in the same team :(

[Mr. Monday Morning]

Walcott made his debut against us at the beginning of last season, so I dunno where that pic came from. Maybe the reserves.

[treen007]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/chelsea/5035604.stm

No point in having a Premiership season now

you're right there, is there any discussion on how to keep the league competitive? the top teams are pulling away from the pack at a staggering rate.

[toxic rooster]

I would suggest a salary cap, but it would never happen. You know, being illegal and all.

[The Mask]

i wouldnt say the top teams are. chelsea are.

[Rob Ban Fan]

There's no way I'm ever gonna question you especially with you being my new hero and all.

But there was a pic in the paper the other day with Crouch and Walcott playing in the same team :(

<font color="#ff6600">Like Kirky said, Walcott made his debut against Wolves (Wolves should've won but for that cunt Antti Niemi) at the beginning of the season becoming the scummers' youngest ever player and Peter Crouch moved to Liverpool last summer. So maybe it was a reserve or pre season game or something :p but they have definatly never played a competitive game together.

I dunno if they'd even have spent that much time in training together, since Walcott was part of the youth team that got to the youth cup finals that season, so presumably he'd have been training with the accademy still.

Plus he used to be a winger but Harry Redknapp converted him to a striker early last season, so I dunno if him and Crouch would've exactly been strike partners anyway.

But the point is Motson and Lawrenson are cunts.</font>

[Dazz]

If Sheva breaks his leg playing for Ukraine, I think I might cry. Looks like United no longer hold the top three transfer fee's :(. We should have given them Gallas and got some money off it, he'll be there by August so we may aswell get it out the way.

[CSL]

Walcott made his debut against us at the beginning of last season, so I dunno where that pic came from. Maybe the reserves.

<font color=white>It was in one of Southampton's 1st friendly's of the season, before Crouch got sold to the Scouse</font>

[CSL]

http://uk.sports.yahoo.com/060601/2/k131.html

<font color=white>Looks like Joleon is on his way.

Now I'm not a Wolves fan but living like 10 minutes away from Molineux, I do have a soft spot for 'em and would really like to see them do well. It's just that after this deal goes through, they are well and truly stuffed. I feel that they're gonna slide into mid-table obscurity unless they change stuff real quick, starting with 'Oddle.</font>

[Mr. Monday Morning]

No shit.

We basically need half a team. If we get £5m for Lescott, and Reading are stupid enough to spend a couple million on Seol, we might be able to get a decent core together to add to what we have. I don't trust Hoddle to spend the money wisely though. Nor do I trust Moxey to actually give him any of it.

[Danny Electric]

Someone should tell Portsmouth that D'allesandro is worth paying four million for.

[Rob]

<font color="#ff6600">
But the point is Motson and Lawrenson are cunts.</font>

That's a very good point.

[Rob Ban Fan]

Someone should tell Portsmouth that D'allesandro is worth paying four million for.

<font color="#ff6600">Portsmouth know, but at the same time we also know that our chief executive is a lying tosser.

We'll either lose out on D'Alessandro or we'll be told by Peter Storrie that he has signed for 3 years, only to find out 3 months later that he's actually only on loan, with an option to buy and loads of other shite he failed to mention. Ala Laurent Robert "he's 100% ours...actually wait sorry, he's only on loan".</font>

[Rob]

I'm now officially pissed off at Man United's lack of transfer movement right now. Okay it's early days because Chelsea are on their way to signing a whole new team by the end of the World Cup.

Right now, I'd take Seba Veron back off them.

[Flair Wooo]

Yeah let utd use up what little of a transfer budget they have on bringing back veron :D quality! :D

Liverpool to finnish above man ure next year no doubt!

[Rob]

Veron will leave Chelsea for less than £2 million I guarantee it. He is worth whatever he goes for anyway.

And I'll bet you £50 right now United finish above Liverpool.

[Rob]

£12 million pure profit for a player that never kicked a ball for us? I'll take that all day thanks. David Gill > Peter Kenyon.

[Cactus Sid]

With the money Kenyon has behind him, I don't think he's gonna be too bothered

[Rob Ban Fan]

http://www.tpww.net/forums/showthread.php?t=46560

<font color="#ff6600">I dunno whether or not its cos people just didn't see it or cos they're not interested, but surely some more people wanna join that. Theres only like 7 people doing it so far, of which only 3 of 4 of them are people who regularly post in this thread.

Its yahoo, so the scoring is a bit gay compared to most other fantasy football competitions, and you get points for shots and your keeper making a save. Plus theres no budget, but you have to pick a squad of 23 with a maximum of 3 players from each country. Then you can pick your own formation out of 3-5-2, 4-4-2, 4-5-1 and 3-4-3. Doesn't even take that long, cos unlike with most fantasy football things, you don't have to sit there working out which 3 players you are gonna pick with only £2m lefft to spend.

So come on :mad:</font>

[Rob]

I'm in

[toxic rooster]

I only put 15 in my squad, cos I was in a rush.

How do I add more :@

[Mike the Metal Ed]

Select initial Roster ;)

[Flair Wooo]

Are you scotland in disguise :D

[Rob]

I'm still waiting for you to back up your mouth.

[SammyG]

England 5-0 over Jamaica. Meh. LOL @ Crouch's gay robot dance though.

[Flair Wooo]

I'm still waiting for you to back up your mouth.

How you mean?

[toxic rooster]

We only beat Jamaica 5-0.

We're screwed :(

[Flair Wooo]

6-0 we beat them.

[toxic rooster]

I heard.

[Rob]

How you mean?

Scroll up.

[Flair Wooo]

Oh thats a deal right there rob!!!! Like taking candy from a baby!

[Rob]

It will be. Just ask Kirk (sorry mate, I had to do it once).

[Flair Wooo]

Put your msn on :D

[Dazz]

Veron will leave Chelsea for less than £2 million I guarantee it. He is worth whatever he goes for anyway.

And I'll bet you £50 right now United finish above Liverpool.

It's really weird, we either recouped £3million after the first year and the same after the second, or £6million overall off of Inter Milan. Thats the figures in the financial records we have to release for being a PLC or some shit.

No-ones really sure if he is still our player or if he has been sold but the club just don't want the embarrassment of publically admitting what a terrible signing it was. Pretty sure he is offically Inter's player now, also Jarosik is and always has been on our 'first team page' on the offiicial website http://www.chelseafc.com/article.asp?article=249900&Title=Squad&lid=Navigation+-+Players&sub=Squad&nav=players&sublid=

It's all a bit baffling really.

And Liverpool will finish above you mate.


Also RBF, that fantasy league thing looks shit, start one hear http://fantasyfootball.metro.co.uk/ and I'd enter it, but you can only have two players from a country, four after the knockout stages and a limit of £100 million, so I'll understand if it's too hard for you :y:, you'll probably only embarrass yourself again.

[Rob Ban Fan]

<font color="#ff6600">*here

And i didn't start the other one, i was just passing it along so more people would join. Perhaps if you had posted that 3 days ago we wouldn't be in this situation. Jesus Dazz.</font>

[Dazz]

Well start this one off and I'll join.

I suppose thats an incentive for you to keep this bollocks one you have going, at least if you finish third from bottom again you can say you came fourth :rofl:

[Rob Ban Fan]

<font color="#ff6600">I only finished 3rd bottom cos I had Andy Cole (injured), Heskey (out of form) and Yakubu (out of form) upfront and never bothered to transfer them out, with Lampard as my captain while he was being shit all the time.

If I only had my time again I would transfer those 3 out, get Henry, McBride and someone else cheap in, make Henry captain and would probably do a lot better.

I was too busy worrying about the threat of relegation to play fantasy football really :( get off my back.</font>

[Rob]

You shouldn't be able to make transfers during the season anyway. You can't in proper football.

And Dazz - Veron is definately a Chelsea player. Just read an interview where he said his agent has gone to London to discuss his future with Kenyon.

[yianni]

30 mins in, Netherlands 1 Australia 0. Van Nistelrooy goal

[toxic rooster]

fuck a duck, it's on already?

You cunt, now I have to walk to the teev

[toxic rooster]

Viduka shouldn't take another penalty

1-1

[yianni]

Farcical penalty kick, the ball hitting the post a few times and rebounding everywhere until Cahill finally put it away

Schwartzer is fucking on FIRE tonight! The cunt is saving everything

[toxic rooster]

It's a good thing, too. Look at our defence.

Brazil will be salivating.

[yianni]

Wilkshire you stupid cunt. Down to 10 men.

[toxic rooster]

I think the Dutch will be regretting this friendly. van Bronckhorst, Cocu, Snijder etc.

They won't agree to play us in a friendly again.

[toxic rooster]

Not the best time to lose your head, Wilkshire

[yianni]

We're playing better with 10 men.

Wilkshire just cost himself big time the stupid cunt.

[toxic rooster]

van Basten and the Dutch fans don't know where to look. Completely outclassed us tonight, and even with Viduka's awful penalty we're level.

That offside trap before was comical.

[toxic rooster]

They actually lifted a fair bit after Wilkshire went off, but how on earth did we get a draw out of that?

What's even better is that it may mean Dooks never takes a penalty again.

[yianni]

Great result...a 1-1 draw against Holland in Rottendam with 10 men for the last half hour.

Schwartzer pulling off about 12 class saves out of his arse to save us

[toxic rooster]

AHAHA this is where Zelic ended up?

[yianni]

The cunt should stop whinging about Paul Okon and Frank Farina and stop living off that goal against Holland in the Youth Championships in the early 90s, and fuck off back to Sydney Olympic. :D

Nah seriously though he was one of the most gifted players in his time.

[toxic rooster]

Remember that time he scored from like halfway and nearly 5 seconds later:

"Ned Zelic....AND THAT'S A SHOT!"

[yianni]

:D

[packt up]

Pretty funny when friendlies get nasty. Luke Wiltshire Boro reject.

[CSL]

And Dazz - Veron is definately a Chelsea player. Just read an interview where he said his agent has gone to London to discuss his future with Kenyon.

<font color=white>He's signed for Estudiantes (boyhood supporter) and I believe it's a free transfer as well.

And they're still gonna be shite, especially with fuckin' Simeone in charge.</font>

[CSL]

<font color=white>Wayne Rooney kicks ball.

Fuckin' country goes apeshit.

Retards.

Then again, he did look quite sharp...</font>

[Rob]

Was Rooney injured or something?

[RoXer]

I have him in my fantasy team. Is he playing or not?

[Mr. Monday Morning]

Probably not gonna play the first 3 games, although nobody really knows at this point.

[Boondock Saint]

Set my DVR to record all the games this weekend. What do you all predict to be the best ones, since I doubt I'll have time to watch them all? I'll defintely be watching the England one, prolly Germany too.

[Rob]

So is Rooney injured?

[Mr. Monday Morning]

At this point the pick of Friday-Sunday IMO is Serbia & Montenegro vs Holland

[Mr. Monday Morning]

Whoops, Cisse broke his (other) leg

[toxic rooster]

unfortunate

[SammyG]

Fucking SICK leg break. Look at this!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5LFqJOj03k&search=cisse

[Y2Ant]

ewwww

[CSL]

At this point the pick of Friday-Sunday IMO is Serbia & Montenegro vs Holland

<font color=white>0-0, you watch.</font>

[Rob Ban Fan]

<font color="#ff6600">To be honest, all the weekend games look alright, I personally wouldn't bother with Poland vs whoever and Sweden vs Trinidad.

I probably will watch them both, mind. Since I have nothing better to do. But if I was picking and choosing, I wouldn't bother with them.</font>

[Rob Ban Fan]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/5061302.stm

<font color="#ff6600">Fuck off you fat cunt.</font>

[diothoir]

18 teams my arse.

More teams in the premeirship I say. (Leeds :'()

[Cactus Sid]

Fucking Cisse..... should stop drinking Malk, he's fucked up all the plans for the Summer.

Karma I guess, act like a cunt, get all you deserve.