I'm looking forward to Leeds ending Luton's 100% record on Saturday.


:'(

I'm hoping Luton get promoted.My dad supports them, would be really strange seeing them in the premiership.

Morientes has been recalled into the Spanish squad along with Alonso, Garcia and Reina. Good news for Liverpool as his can only do wonders for his confidence as he hasn't been in the squad for over a year and his brace on wednesday proved he's still got it.

also, although they are bigger underachievers than ourselves, Spain for the 2006 World Cup anyone?

the words hell and no come to mind. the world cup has brazil written all over it!

People say that everytime, 'spain for the world cup 'spain for the euro championships' they may have good individual players, but as a team they're aload of shit.

Indeed.

Then again our squad isn't looking too bad. With the exception of Mr Crouch, the players who are potentially going over the Germany are about as good as any England team since Italia 90.

Lets hope for a semi at least

Apart from that friendly against England, when the Spanish lads passed rings around them.

Any team who can boast Xavi Hernandez and Xabi Alonso in central midfield has a chance. They can just go 1-0 up then keep the ball for the rest of the game.

Nah, no point even talking about Spain winning it, they'll only blow it again. Though to be fair, they were screwed against South Korea in 2002.

England have a great chance of winning it next year, or would do if they had a manager with some tactical and motivational know-how.

Was that friendly between england/spain the one with all the racist chants stuff?

They definately got screwed against korea though, but they've had plenty of other chances to win tournaments and they always blow it.

England always have a chance, it would help though if the manager wasn't only in it for the money.

he's not, he's in it for the women !

Yes

Rooney also tried to impale Casillas on the fencing

:lol: Rooney is violent chav scum

Well first he gets the money, then he gets the women.:shifty:

Chaps, FC Hellas has been entered in the TPWW Fantasy League. :cool:

1 day till the start of the new season, im confident my fantasy team will walk away with the tpww league.

I am the opposite. My team is bollocks and I think I'll finish last.

...do you get relegated if you finish last in the Fantasy League? :shifty: :lol:

Aside from his goal against Newcastle, that was the best thing he did last season :y:

:o @ Everton's defending for the 0-2.

West Ham-Blackburn has so far been a shithouse game to watch.

Murphy and Defoe have both scored :cool:

:eek: @ Reo-Coker's goal

Dickov's off. That didn't take long.

Good to see Blackburn have cleaned up their act :roll:

:lol:, however, at Savage being shoved into the advertising boards in the first half and no yellow card resulting

:cool: Start saving those pennies Harvey :yes:

3-1 West Ham fulltime

Hammers off to a winning start then. 3-1.

I win

ahahahaha word

Fuck off Dickov and you too Savage you pair of useless cunts. :lol:

and Emerton :'(

Lord knows why that cunt is still considered in our national team

Can't cross for shit
Can't defend for shit

WHY THE FUCK IS HE THERE?!?!

Oh, probably cos we don't have anyone better. :o :lol: :lol:

Seriously though, should be interesting seeing how Ahmed Elrich goes for Fulham this year. I rate the lad, hopefully he can replace Emerton at right-mid in the national team.

Also, lol @ abusing Elrich to his face whilst he was taking a corner in front of me about a year ago when he was playing for Parramatta against South Melbourne, and now seeing him playing in the Premiership. :o :cool:

Fuck sake, we should've won that game, they were shit

We made so many simple little errors that if we'd not made, we would've buried them 5-0. We had so many good things about the performance, but no killer touch. We shoved Cisse out on the wing, when he should've been in the middle, and we took off Morientes when we need his presence.

Lord only knows why we are selling Baros, we better be getting Owen, because there is no excuse for selling him.

We need a right winger signed and sealed by next saturday, and we certainly need a centre back, because as great as Hyypia is in the air and at tackling, his lack of pace is gonna be a liability by the end of the season.

Benitez, Moores and Parry need to sort themselves out and conjur some money out of thin air ASAP.

Darren gayboy Ambrose got sent off.

I always thought he couldn't hurt a fly :$

Oh yeah I'l make my season prediction now too. About a day too late I know :p.

1 Chelsea
2 Arsenal
3 Man U
4 Liverpool
5 Tottenham
6 Middlesboro
7 Bolton
8 Everton
9 Newcastle
10 Man C
11 Villa
12 Birmingham
13 Charlton
14 Blackburn
15 Fulham
16 West Brom
17 West Ham
18 Portsmouth
19 Sunderland
20 Wigan

We're going to catch the Gunners cold tomorrow, I can feel it! 0-1 to the Toon. :D

That's what you get for signing Newcastle defensive rejects :$

:( Wasn't thinking with the Dream Team stuff.

I dropped a load of the players on my subs bench, for players who would probably be better, and a couple in my first 11, and then they took 16 points off.....which will be deducted next week.....

I'm currently joint top.....next I'll be joint bottom :'(

lol yes I've made a few changes, -8 points :$ Having said that I've still got 4 players playing today, so shouldn't be too bad :D

Jenas got sent off

I have to agree, it looked worse than it was due to the way his legs ended up scissoring Gilberto, and the fact Gilberto stayed down

I'm so sick of people saying Wigan are the new/next Wimbledon. Bullshit. Wimbledon didn't have a fucking millionaire bankrolling them and their stadium. Wimbledon were a completely self-made success story.

Ref was an absolute joke today. I'm not saying we were going to win at all or even that the result was going to be different but he made some shocking simple errors and the sending off of Jenas was a fucking joke.

Did Jenas get the ball - Yes. Did he take him from behind - No. Was it two footed - No. Could the Ref even see - No.

Absolutely baffling. Lets hope it gets over turned.

Fucking cruel at Wigan there

Wow, Wigan Athletic took Chelsea to the limit. If not for Hernan Crespo in the 90th.....

LOL fuck off Wigan. Hernan :cool:

I'll bet that twat who lobbed the ball over the bar when they were breaking 3 on 1 feels like shit now :lol:

Johansson I think...he missed another chance only a few minutes before too.

He'll have some nightmares

Also nice to see a lethal Senegalese hitman have one shot on target all game.

lol

I felt bad for Wigan, then i remembered the shit crowds they were getting for the past two years, so they can fuck off. They're not a terrible side though.

Also, Paul Dickhead getting sent off :cool:

Arsenal totally dominated the possession, but rarely looked threatening - like the Chelsea game. Arsenal have problems when the opposition parks the bus in front of the goal, and I couldn't see a goal coming.

Aliaksandr Hleb was outstanding, and has already settled into the team - he could've scored too. Surely, he has to start against Chelski.

Darren Bent has replaced Andrew Johnson in the England squad too, which isn't a bad choice.

Whats up with all the hate for wigan in this thread? They were unlucky and played well, so what if they're supported well financially?I don't see why that should be held against them, they have a good manager i think.The only thing i hold against them is that most of the fans aren't real football fans, but that is nothing to do with the team, i hope they do well.

As for newcastle, i didn't see much of the game today(just some of the highlights) but from what ive heard the ref once again showed us that the refs do infact give decisions in favour of the big three in the premiership, it's so obvious these days it not even funny anymore. I'm glad it wasn't a 5-0 thrashing or anything though.

Graeme Le Saux is a bummer and shut his arsehole ie his face.

Alright then. By the way, anyone know the current tpww league standings?I'm 13th in the overall fantasy football league, so i imagine i'm near the top of this one.I can't login at the moment though because it says 'there are too many members logged in' which is ridiculous.:roll:

If your who I think you are your joint top on 30 points.

I've got nothing against Wigan as a team either, they did well and were unlucky in the end, but it's the fact that they gained so many "fans" just because they're in the premiership. They probably more than doubled their average attendance from last year, and i'd have thought watching your side rape teams on the way to promotion for lower prices wouldn't be so much worse than that.

But yeah, they're not as terrible a side as people make out, certainly won't go down as easily as most have said.

Newcastle looked pretty well organised for the mostpart, didn't offer much going forward mind.

With me......until they update it :'(

Actually, having seen my points for the week, I'll end up with 39 after the transfers go through....so I might be mid-table.

I logged onto the fantasy thing sometime late last night and the points had been updated from Sunday's games, huge difference in almost everyone's points total.

-edit- Just checked and league viewing is disabled til later in the week :| Top of the league was like 55 points or something though.

I think I racked up a few this week. Benayoun, Terry, Lampard, Henry and Crespo should get me a few points. Riise, no.

That's me :cool:

That's weird, because in the proper league i have about 43 pts, though ive made 5 transfers now, and thats now cost me 16 pts, but they're for the long term. My team name is 'Chapman_FC'.

For those curious the transfers ive made are:

Toure in For King
Reo-coker in for Reid
Bent in for radzinski
Sheringham in for stead
O'shea in for heinze

That should all change when someone called Micheal Owen arrives.;)

Who ? Was it Zenden ?

Ah, here we go.

Fantasy football rankings Week 1

1 Team Carradonna 55
2 Leicester McCity 53
3 diocentri City 50
4 I hate Mackem FC 49
5 Inter Milan Mandaric 48
6 Ogentbh 46
7 Chapman_FC 43
7 Hells Satans 43
9 Bollock Burgers 42
9 Wolves 42
11 Hellraisers 41
12 FC Hellas 40
13 Fulham Road XI 38
14 SupermarketSweep 32

6th will do for now

Get in i'm in 4th place :shifty:

ROFL Ogentbh

:lol: @ FC Hellas, great start you cunts, already near relegation zone :mad:

I presume they'll be changing Jenas's points since his red care was rescinded?

:D Not bitter.

That would be Trap.

2nd will do for me at the minute.

I love Crespo, what a fucking goal, sure did brighten up the journey home afterwards. Gotta feel sorry for Wigan, their fan were pretty good for part of the second half, they starts singing "Whats it like to be outclassed' and 'Who needs Mourinho, we've got Paul Jewellio". Then they started singing "here to see Wigan" to us so we replied with "here for one season" to them .

In the pre-match entertainment they had these four people walk round the ground singing pop songs, and they sung Made in the USSR when they got in front of the Chelsea fans.

Hernan

MMM - Camara skinned Terry, how many people have you seen do that?

Owen - De Zeeuw was quality :$, I regret nothing though, he was shit for you lot.

Not enough love for Pascal Chimbonda

I'm just happy my forward line in The Sun Fantasy Football is Crespo, Henry and Bent :D (I left Crespo for Shearer on our one).

What was the boro V Liverpool score?I still don't even know all the scores because i was out on saturday afternoon/night and slept most of sunday.

0-0. Ehgiou got a red card though.

i'll probably be near the relegation zone now, only the first week though.I ain't making another transfer unless i get an injury.

This new rule about tackling is fucking stupid.How can Campo's tackle not be a red card when he clearly didn't get the ball but Jenas got sent off when he clearly got the ball? I wish they would stop changing the rules, the amount of red cards in the first week is not surprising considering they changed it, especially when they only changed it about a week ago i heard.

WHAT!!>?!?@?@:? Why wasnt I invited to the league.

Everyone was invited.You can still join, the link to the site is somewhere in this thread, a few pages back i think.

OK me and TL were discussing this in a topic that was pretty offtopic, so I'm bringing it here. Here was the last reply

I guess you are right but I don't see how it is working. There are tons of teams, yet only 4 can win.

Well what I don't get, is if only 4 teams have a chance, then what hapens to the other 34982947 teams? No doubt nobodys going to want to see a team who has no chance of "winning it all". Wouldn't they lose fan support, lose money, and if you're losing money what is the point of even having the team? It makes no sense.

Well what i didn't mention before was that, the top four teams get a place in the Champions League, the 4th spot is usually the one that mid/lower-table teams are after, everton finished 17th(one place above the relegation zone)the season before last and finished 4th last season, so if they qualify into the CL they will get about £30m or something i think, depending on how far they get that will determine how much of that money they will get.

Just incase i didn't make that bit clear btw the 3rd and 4th place teams have to play one match to qualify for the CL.

Then the 5th and 6th place teams qualify for the UEFA cup which is another european cup, only lower in status/money but it's good enough for the mid/lower table teams.

Obviously teams will lose money, but they do get a certain amount, but if you don't finish high enough you don't deserve the same amount of money as the champions do you?As for support, usually if teams go down they lose SOME support naturally, but most premiership teams sell out week in/week out.There are some well supported teams in the lower leagues, even non league football gets appreciation.I support Hendon who play in the Ryman Premier league for example. I also support newcastle in the premiership even though we havent won anything for about 50 years, and i still would even if we got relegated.

With all due respect to NF, do you think you are seriously going to convince any American sports fan our league system is better (even though it totally is)?

Also, its about building your squad up, the depressing thing at the moment is that Chelsea have a Russian billionaire who brought thme a couple of seasons ago, and they can spend as much money as they want and surprise surprise they won the prmeiership last year aswell as the league cup, it wont last though because everything falls eventually.

There are also other competitions for lower league clubs which i didn't mention, and they can get money from fa cup/league runs to, there's always a few shocks in the cups when lower league teams somehow beat the premiership teams, but i ain't hiding from the fact that there are deginately some teams struggling for survival, some have even collapsed.Most are insecure though.Ther eisn't really anything you can do about it, it's mainly due to ITV fucking up football finances in this country.They stupidly splashed out loads of money on the leagues below the prmeiership and though everyone would buy there new digital thing like sky have to see it, the clubs spent the money before they even ahd it and that's mainly why they're insecure financially.

right right right

I just can't imagine gonig into a season knowing no matter how good you play their is nothing you can do to "win it all"

I'm not trying to say it's better, i'm just explaining how it works.

No of course not, nothing you say can make me think soccer is better than football, nothing I say can make you think football is better than soccer ect.

I was just confused to how it all worked and it kinda went on from there

I'm not trying to say it's better, i'm just explaining how it works.(but i agree, it is better:cool: )