Football

I went, partly because it was only £10, partly because I wanted to see Oxlade-Chamberlain. My god, what a bunch of whingers the Gooners are.

Their goal was pretty hilarious (although I think I was the only one in the West Stand that found it remotely amusing) and it made it much more of a spectacle than it might otherwise have been. Coquelin looked decent, the Ox looked fantastic in 2nd half (spent most of 1st half in right back position as Jenkinson was over-lapping a lot), but it was only a League 2 side.

It seemed as though Wenger had them 442 with Ju-Young up front with Chamakh, then back to 433 when Ju-Young went off, but most of the 2nd half it appeared to be 2-1-7. The boy, Chuks Aneke, if fucking huge! Built more like a rugby player!

Don't know about turning the corner, Fabianski was... worth the entrance fee alone, as long as you aren't an Arsenal fan...

I heard Coquelin played well, he was the only player to turn up against Utd, Ox is a real talent.

You wait till the spuds turn us over in a few weeks time, Arsenal will be just full of piss and winge for a good few months..

I don't join in on all that but i do get irate and have left one match early, most of the fans moan at the lack of commitment and acceptance of poor performances and i have to go with them, i was having a chat with our captain after our drubbing last night and he was going through the list of big name quality players that Fergie ousted from the Utd squad because of a bad performance on a big night, poor attitude or spoken out of line..

Berbie won the Golden boot but his performance against City in the Semis was enough for old blood nose to yentz the bug eyed bulgarian and make it clear he wants him out!

I love that. imagine being some 18 year old hopeful, training with a man with the talent of Berbatov and seeing him out of favour for one bad game.!! you would die for that shirt to keep you place. and look at Utds kids out there now.. training hard, working hard and never giving up..

The number of Arsenal players that gave up mid match is shocking, and it wont change until a man takes over the coaching and gets the drilled in the basics and fit, really fit..

You look at Ronaldo, he is like a Thai boxer on steroids with the legs of a race horse. look at him when he started at Utd. he made Damo look manly..
then take Theo Walcott.. he still looks like a 15 year old, i have seen more muscle in a Lyme Regis Rock pool.. why hasn't he manned up? got fitter, stronger etc etc. aimed for the peak at his sport??

@J man.. damn right, the best way to get over a knock like that is miss a few sitters and hack Ved.. never fails.. never fails

Don't know what to say about the tottenham game, less said, the better it would seem.

Mid table club?
Soon to lose their twitching manager over the Tax allegations?
Channel 5?
Wouldn't have won the cup anyway?
Can now focus on 8th place?

Mid table club?
Soon to lose their twitching manager over the Tax allegations?
Channel 5?
Wouldn't have won the cup anyway?
Can now focus on 8th place?

A bit like Arsenal, without the tax allegations and Channel 5 then ?

Paging Ronnie

A Great article on Man City here

Great ? The bloke seems the sort who still drones on about Bell, Summerbee etc. If the players were good enough they'd be playing (or starting for other prem clubs), they're not. Weiss couldn't hack it at Rangers, and Sturridge left for more money at Chelsea and would've had plenty of opportunities if he'd ever been fit.

David White played one game for England (under Graham Taylor) and Hinchcliffe (who was good) was sold to cunting Everton.

Alex Nimely-Tchuimeni may make it, but our future youth stars are probably not even at the club yet.

I heard Coquelin played well, he was the only player to turn up against Utd, Ox is a real talent.

You wait till the spuds turn us over in a few weeks time, Arsenal will be just full of piss and winge for a good few months..

I don't join in on all that but i do get irate and have left one match early, most of the fans moan at the lack of commitment and acceptance of poor performances and i have to go with them, i was having a chat with our captain after our drubbing last night and he was going through the list of big name quality players that Fergie ousted from the Utd squad because of a bad performance on a big night, poor attitude or spoken out of line..

Berbie won the Golden boot but his performance against City in the Semis was enough for old blood nose to yentz the bug eyed bulgarian and make it clear he wants him out!

I love that. imagine being some 18 year old hopeful, training with a man with the talent of Berbatov and seeing him out of favour for one bad game.!! you would die for that shirt to keep you place. and look at Utds kids out there now.. training hard, working hard and never giving up..

The number of Arsenal players that gave up mid match is shocking, and it wont change until a man takes over the coaching and gets the drilled in the basics and fit, really fit..

You look at Ronaldo, he is like a Thai boxer on steroids with the legs of a race horse. look at him when he started at Utd. he made Damo look manly..
then take Theo Walcott.. he still looks like a 15 year old, i have seen more muscle in a Lyme Regis Rock pool.. why hasn't he manned up? got fitter, stronger etc etc. aimed for the peak at his sport??

I don't buy this. Rooney monkeyed United around last year, and didn't suffer for it - because he's too good. Also I think the comparison between Theo & Ronaldo is a little fatuous. Are you saying that after spending several millions on London Colney, they're too tight to have got in some top sports scientists to figure out what each player needs? Not buying that, it's a bit like the canard that our back-room is doing something wrong because our players get 'injured all the time', whereas other clubs don't - complete rubbish, other clubs get the same number of injuries, but Chelsea & the Mans have bigger squads, so the injuries aren't so important.

Chamakh was getting untold stick from some fans around me, because they thought that he should scored a hat-trick and wasn't putting in a shift, yet he ran & ran all game, and laid up the ball countless times for his team-mates, had 2 or 3 on-target efforts that on another night would have gone in.

That goes for other players that get loads of stick - ok, Fabianski was pretty hopeless - but he stayed on the pitch and made some decent interventions - but there was a load of kids, and 3 brand new players out there last night, and the fans were booing them at 0-1. How does that help anyone? Why boo your own team? Laughing at someone else's ineptness I can understand, but booing your own team?

I just don't understand what the point of going to an Arsenal game is, clearly. There was me thinking it was so that you could support 'your' team and enjoy some great football, which, for the most part, we got last night. Ok, it was 'only' Shrewsbury, but still.

You look at Ronaldo, he is like a Thai boxer on steroids with the legs of a race horse. look at him when he started at Utd. he made Damo look manly..

Low blow.

We can't all have be as statuesque as you Pip...

http://www.derbycountyblog.com/the-week-that-was-5-east-midlands-derby-special/

Worth a read. If you can get past the digs at Forest, I think there's some validity in what's being said. 1-0 up, 1 man up, they should have played that win out. But failed. Is there really a problem in the team that prevents that?

less said the better...
damn good schooling.

ouch. so what league is this and where do you play? Barnes? me and jonny have been so taken with the success this season we fancy something with a competitive edge. Thinking more of a vets league than power league as we are so over young loud mouth wankers.

Kenny <3 Bellamy

good call cliveo 1-0 bellamy scorer

A PLAGUE on Owen Hargreaves!

Nice well executed dive there for WBA...

LOL Rangers

Fulham really are appalling. Even with Chris Foy playing for them and Chelsea down to ten men, they couldn't even think of creating a chance. Just unsubtle thuggery in the usual Sparky style. And what is with that ginger player with the orange boots? Totally wrong. And they took the full 8,00 allocation and only brought 4,000 leaving 4,000 empty seats which could easily have been sold. And their only songs are about Chelsea. What is the point of Fulham?

Oh and for only the third time in our history, we won a penalty shoot out.

Fulham really are appalling. Even with Chris Foy playing for them and Chelsea down to ten men, they couldn't even think of creating a chance. Just unsubtle thuggery in the usual Sparky style. And what is with that ginger player with the orange boots? Totally wrong. And they took the full 8,00 allocation and only brought 4,000 leaving 4,000 empty seats which could easily have been sold. And their only songs are about Chelsea. What is the point of Fulham?

Ok...
6,000 was the allocation. Even if there were 4,000 Fulham fans (there were more), we made vastly more noise than the 30,000 mute Chelsea fans. It was a bit embarrassing to be honest. Jol is in charge, you know that. Fulham reserves did struggle at times to create any chances because this was Chelsea reserves parked the bus with their remaining players. Racist.

and we thought you didn't care about us...

Sorry, hard to keep track of Fulham managers. When did Sparky leave? I suspect that Fulham can only have been heard among Fulham. As for "parking the bus", the attempts of goal figures speak another story. I note that you have no answer to the orange on ginger issue.

The Shed End takes 8,000. It was half empty.

Or half full. It depends how you look at it.

I'm forever the optimist. But then I have to be.

lolz

Sorry, hard to keep track of Fulham managers. When did Sparky leave? I suspect that Fulham can only have been heard among Fulham. As for "parking the bus", the attempts of goal figures speak another story. I note that you have no answer to the orange on ginger issue.

The Shed End takes 8,000. It was half empty.

Sparky left in the summer, looking for a managers job at one of the European giants which is his inalienable right as a very average PL manager.

Martin Jol is now managing Fulham.

Mark Hughes is unemployed after Alex McLeish pipped him to the Aston Villa job.

Sorry, hard to keep track of Fulham managers. When did Sparky leave? I suspect that Fulham can only have been heard among Fulham. As for "parking the bus", the attempts of goal figures speak another story. I note that you have no answer to the orange on ginger issue.

The Shed End takes 8,000. It was half empty.

Pot, Kettle >>>>>>>>>

The Shed End takes 8,000. It was half empty.

Sat Oct 15th, Chelsea v Everton. Got my ticket reminder this morning:

'.......hurry though, we have only been given 1,522 tickets!'

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Two bob twats!

Everton will onnly have asked for 1,522 tickets when they could have had 3,000.

Cheapskate melts>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Kenny <3 Bellamy

as well he should, was our best player last night, belting free kick.

Everton will onnly have asked for 1,522 tickets when they could have had 3,000.

Cheapskate melts>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Don't be a tit, I've been going to London away games for over 20years and we ALWAYS take 3,000k + when given them, even to fuckin Selhurst Park and The Valley!