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Swearing at the ref 'should' be a red card offence - if you play outside of the Sky 4 of course
I remember a few seasons back against Arsenal, McFadden got sent off, straight red for apparently saying "That's a fuckin shite decision" to the ref after awarding The Arse with a freekick
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The whole "respect campaign" is a complete farce, since the introduction of it there have been more incidents then ever before, managers and players of all teams involved.
I really don't understand why FIFA don't introduce the RFU rule of in binning players and only speak to the referee if you get asked, then again the majority of football players are so thick that they simply wouldn't comprehend these rule changes.
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doesn't look like a V sign, besides who does that now adays?! that died with the word Skill and Radical.
today its all about the bird
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A football club ceases to exist and what do the BBC have as thier top 3 sports stories...
- Shower of shit Graham Onions ruled out of a pointless test match
- David Beckham gets excited
- Two aging Pakistan cricketers don't like each other
Marco, you've actually made my day by saying that. They went under a week or so ago, but even then, the stories on the front page had nothing to so with Chester. I wrote a complaint to the BBC which read:
I find the lack of coverage towards the struggle of Chester
City F.C on the BBC television, Internet and radio based platforms
appalling. As the United Kingdom's leading public service and most
influential broadcaster, it should have been a priority to well publicise
the corruption and struggle surrounding the ownership of the football club.
If the BBC had chosen the cover the issue in more detail, it would have
certainly put pressure on the Football Association to rectify and save
Chester City F.C. I must conclude that the BBC has failed to inform and
educate the public on this pressing issue which has now gone beyond the
point of rectification.I wrote that when I came home a bit drunk, but I think my point is totally valid tbh.
This is what I got back from them.Dear Mr ******
Thanks for your e-mail regarding Chester City FC.
I understand that you're unhappy as you feel we've failed to report on the struggles of this team.
While it's not possible for me to find out exactly what coverage this issue has been given on our TV and radio programmes, I can assure you that we've reported these issues on our website:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/chester/default.stm
http://search.bbc.co.uk/search?go=homepage&q=chester%20city&tab=ns&scope=all
Nevertheless, we're guided by the feedback that we receive and to that end I'd like to assure you that I've registered your complaint about insufficient coverage on our audience log. This is a daily report of audience feedback that's circulated to many BBC staff, including members of the BBC Executive Board, channel controllers and other senior managers.
The audience logs are seen as important documents that can help shape decisions about future programming and content.
Thanks again for taking the time to contact us.
Regards
Craig Thompson
BBC ComplaintsI'm still not satisfied that they did enough. They were too busy going mental over Pompy, dramatising their situation, when really its nothing compared to Chester. I should have written to them earlier, but doubt they would have changed anything.
A football club, my fotball club, has gone out of business. Fans are left with no team. FFS, the F.A are cunts - Shower of shit Graham Onions ruled out of a pointless test match
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With luck some more teams will go tits up then the football world will realize it can't spend what it hasn't got.Also the F.A are wankers they expect clubs that are watched by 50 to100 fans to spend loads on fencing and paths and seats they are killing the game.I follow Wells City in the Western League and we have to spend loads of money that would be better spent on developing our soccer schools
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Watch the fucking nonce Breville hug a scouser, the thick fuck.
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ha, just fuckin with ya G. but bendtner getting a hat trick - that is proper taking the piss. after zamora and lucas he is the worst player in the premiership.
He now overtakes Michael cripple Owen as 2nd highest scorer in this years CL, which gives you an idea of the standard.
^^^ Strewth, an outing of the fucking dunces. Lucas is easy to blame, yet he's been one of the more consistent players for us this year (that aint saying an awful lot). You wanna pick on this season's form, Mr G would be better. Idiots.
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They should have had three already. Beyond Pirlo and Ronnie Milan are shit.
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He's right:
Forget Spurs, Liverpool, City and Villa, without so many injuries Everton would be leading the battle for fourth
Published 13:06 09/03/10
For some years now, many people who love football have been looking for a team that could come and challenge the established order at the top of the Premier League, a team that could defy the wealth of the big four to break that cartel, and offer hope to the average fan.
We’ve been looking for a Brian Clough and a Nottingham Forest, a team that can combine quality, spirit, intelligence, tactical acumen, experience and youthful exuberance to emerge from the pack and make a serious assault on the title without the aid of benevolent billions.
Obviously Manchester City don’t count here, because if they do manage to break the monopoly of the wealthy ruling classes at the head of the English game, then it will because they have thrown even more money at it than the big four. And while that would still be good in its way, it doesn’t offer hope for a fairer playing field.
So if the challenge is going to come at all, then from where? Step forward Everton, and David Moyes. In recent weeks, we have seen enough to suggest that given a huge amount of luck and a fair following wind, they could do some damage to the usual running order of the top four next season.
It is my belief, for what’s it worth, that had Everton not been crippled by so many injuries earlier in the campaign, then they would be ahead of the tight battle for fourth place that is unfolding between Spurs, Manchester City, Liverpool and Villa. Had they not lost so many key players, then I believe they’d have had a stronger team than all of those sides this season.
Of course, injuries are part of the game, but not at the unnatural level that the Goodison club has endured, with at one time 15 players out, and only seven fit senior players at the club.
But it is, in fact, those injuries that lead me to suggest (however haltingly, because I’m nothing if not a realist) that if any side are going to at least challenge the cartel then it is the Blues.
What we have seen over the past 12 months or so at Goodison is a series of players who were on the verge of joining an elite group, before injury cut them down, and left them on the sidelines for months and months.
It happened to Yakubu, just as he had broken a long standing Everton goalscoring record, and was beginning to suggest that he possessed the strength, pace and nose for goal that could draw comparisons with the very best such as Didier Drogba.
Then Mikel Arteta was injured, just as it seemed he was being talked of in the same breath as the most talented midfield players in the Premier League, if not the world. The Spaniard had matured to the point when there seemed no one more gifted than him, only again for the injury curse to strike.
Phil Jagileka found himself in the England team and mentioned in the same breath as John Terry after an outstanding campaign had brought him to everyone’s attention, so naturally enough, like Yak and Arteta, he picked up an injury that kept him out for a year.
Then Marouane Fellaini tempted the fates by producing the sort of performances which reminded experienced observers of Patrick Vieira in his prime. His reward was a ligament injury that will sideline him for six months or more.
What all these players had in common was that they had taken themselves to the verge of joining the elite players in their position, had put themselves into a position to be able to prove they could match the best. And then they got seriously injured.
But all will be back to full fitness next season, after tentatively searching for their level since returning, in dribs and drabs, since Christmas. Yakubu is miles off and may never rediscover that heightened level, and Jagielka has started only one game so far.
But Arteta showed at the weekend he is slowly getting back to a serious standard, and if he keeps improving then I can’t see many more gifted ball players than him anywhere in England. Fellaini too, is potentially a complete midfielder, and the pair could create a formidable partnership next season.
With Jagielka at the back surrounded by a talented, solid defence, and backed up by a brilliant keeper in Tim Howard, and with the likes of Jack Rodwell providing youthful potential, and Diniyar Bilyaletdinov set to take off next season (I’m convinced) then there really is something to get excited about at Goodison.
And that’s not just idle conjecture. Anyone who saw them outplay Manchester United and Chelsea, take Manchester City apart, or compete at the same level as Arsenal and Chelsea again on their own grounds, will know that what I’m saying is right.
But there is one rider, I’m afraid. If Everton really are to make a sustained challenge for a top four place next season, then they will need to find a top class striker, and it doesn’t seem Yakubu is ever going to re-emerge to fill that vacancy, no matter what potential he showed before he got injured.
Louis Saha has that sort of quality, but he doesn’t have a body to last the season, so somehow Moyes is going to have to weave the magic that saw him find the likes of Fellaini again, to bring in a striker who an guarantee 20-plus goals next season. And that’s not easy.
He may also need to find a back up striker too, and some top quality cover elsewhere, which of course presents a severe challenge to a club that is not exactly wealthy. But we are talking maybe three players in the summer, and if somehow Moyes can pull it off, then I truly believe Everton can be the team we have all been looking for to provide hope for the future of English football. -
If Birmingham City were owned by a billionaire businessman we'd be challenging for the title!
Oh...
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If Cech wasn't injured we would be leading the Premiership and probbably going through to the next round of the Champions League and have a good shot of becoming FA Cup finalists.
But he is injured and we are the only English side who hasn't qualifed for the quarter finals, only second in the league by the flimsiest of goal difference and facing an uphill struggle in the FA Cup.
Next season, however...
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What does lawrence llewllyn bowen know about football?
Oh. And this whole "if _____________ weren't injured they'd have_____________ by now" is quite possibly the most trite and cliched arguement in all sports in all countries.
Thing is though, most teams can cope with 3/4 even 5 players out for a month...6/8 weeks or . Since the start of the season and before we've consistently had 11+ of our best players out - effectively our best first team 'til about January! That's half a season and it's showed in our current form, so suck my balls
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If Van Persie was in form we'd have sewn the prem league up by now and had the league cup under our belt
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we have been in the top two of this table all season till the last month and still in with honours chances, Moyes should shut the winging and get on managing.
Wenger was playing the under 12s and a few from the ladies team for 3 months and still kept us 2 points off the top.. now thats a manager..
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Did we really expect anything else? Not only does he get away with being a consistent diver and cheat and beating fuck out of a geezer in a bar on CCTV....
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/liverpool/7408076/Liverpools-Steven-Gerrard-expected-to-escape-charge-for-V-sign-at-Wigan.html
Liverpool's Steven Gerrard expected to escape charge for 'V-sign' at Wigan
**The recriminations over Liverpool's defeat away to Wigan Athletic continued on Tuesday but they will not include a Football Association charge against their captain, Steven Gerrard, for allegedly flicking a 'V-sign' at referee Andre Marriner. **
By Jason Burt
Published: 7:49PM GMT 09 Mar 2010
Liverpool reacted quickly to deny the claim, which followed Gerrard's booking in the 82nd minute, after which he also mouthed an obscenity, for a heavy challenge on Wigan's James McCarthy during the 1-0 loss.
The FA, it is understood, accept Liverpool's version of events that Gerrard was not gesturing at Marriner. Indeed the midfielder was making the point that he had been brought down twice in bad tackles and there had been no sanction while he was annoyed at being cautioned. He was not specifically targeting the official.
Marriner saw the reaction of Gerrard, who captained England last week and could do without being attached to such controversy, and did not deem it worthy of further punishment while the FA have not asked the referee to reconsider the incident after receiving his match report and speaking to him.
While that will be a relief to Liverpool, and Gerrard, the defeat has left them floundering in sixth position and in real danger of failing to qualify for next season's Champions League. That would leave manager Rafael Benítez, who is still wanted by Juventus at the end of this season, in a perilous position and affect the club's finances.
The future of players such as Gerrard and, more pressingly, Fernando Torres, who will not want to miss out, and Javier Mascherano, who is unsure whether he wants to sign a new contract, would also be in doubt.
The club's decline drew a stinging rebuke on Tuesday from Dave Whelan, the Wigan chairman.
"Liverpool are in a mess," he said. "The owners, being American, I don't think they feel what we [as British owners] feel.
"We went to Anfield earlier in the season and there's absolutely no atmosphere and no heart at all. The supporters feel that and I think the players are starting to feel it."
With their season unravelling, Liverpool will now travel to Lille on Wednesday for the first-leg of their Europa Cup last-16 match. They may well be without Yossi Benayoun for Thursday's game after he missed training with an ankle injury.
Daniel Agger returns while the only positive news from the Wigan game was Glen Johnson's comeback, after more than two months out with a knee ligament injury.