Football

where did it all go wrong this season
we are now in a dogfight for 4th and a tricky one unless we start winning
i am sure pisti will put up one of my earlier quotes pre season but i really thought we might do it

...but then again with every team at the top loosing consistently at the minute maybe there's still a hope !!!!!!!!!!!! ;-)

loose kuyt i say and get in a good winger he's getting worse by the match all he does is run around energetically and give the ball to the opposition

get rid of rafa and his inability to buy any good players <20mill. babel = the new henry. kuyt= a great striker, so good we'll play him at right wing.

something is wrong somewhere. either rafa has no money to spend big, or cannot spot talent.

Maybe with mascherano out for a while he'll play Aquilani but he's starting to seem a bit like a Keane- maybe rafa just doesn't like him. He must really hate babel though, to pick dossena ahead of him...

Make no mistake Liverpool AND Man U are in serious trouble financially. Fergie's rubbish about having money but not wanting to spend to total rubbish. Just look at the squad he has come into this season with. When they trudged off the pitch after being tonked by Barça, in the past that team would have been totally rebuilt. They're skint just like us. We are pwnd by investment bankers in the States that do not give a fuck about either clubs or their histories.

I fucking hate the FA with their guff about right proper person's test for owning English clubs: Prove you aint fingered a 10 year old and you're in. The total farce of some cunt going to a bank and saying lend me money to buy that 'asset'. The bank say where's your money to secure the debt? They say, I wont give you a penny of my ca$h but you can have the asset if it goes tits up. This is a national disgrace- given our clubs have been established over a hundred years ago and their cultural importance.
No one ABSOLUTELY nobody would have said the Royal Bank of Scotland could have sunk.
If the global financial situation gets worse the best both teams could hope for is to become mediocre EPL teams.

(Just remember as far as Rafa was concerned he inherited a sack of complete shite and has rebuilt it and made it worth far more than when he started- all of this was done with board money equaling a net of £20 million/year, yet the value of the club has gone up to 500million. How the fuck are you meant to complete for titles on 20M/year??? Any extra income has been generated by himself. Funny, Wenger is endlessly praised for this wizardry - yet has won less than Rafa in the last 4/5 years, no?
In Rafa's first two years he won the Champions league and FA cup, then those cunt owners came on board. Surprise surprise it seems to be going tits up. I'm not giving endless praise for him (Rafa) at all he can be a twat but lets be clear before you remove him get rid of the cancer at the top of the organisation first. And please cut the talk of Morinhio being our savior!)

They need Vronin, Babel, Kuyt and Lucas holding the middle together.. that line up strikes fear into the heart of men.
They should top it off and get Pennant back, with maybe Keane on loan.

Its frustrating being an Arsenal fan when we have to resort to the "potential" argument and hold on to the fact we are a solid business.. but not a strong enough football team.. but fuck me! I don't even talk to my friends that are liverpool fans about football at the moment. i feel for them!

Wenger has failed to win since his refusal to spend big but has always been in the mix, consistant and moving forward. that works for me

if anyone wants to see a decent review of what the premiership means, read David Conn in the guardian.

I read somewhere (so possible bullshit) that liverpool and everton make approx £1 million per game premiership game on ticket sales compared to £20 million that man u make.

hmmm 20 million
that seems a bit high

for when £150,000 per week just isn't enough john terry taking £10K backhanders to show people round the chelsea ground

wanker of the highest order ... wonder if the tax man sees any of that ?

Anyone else noticed Roberto Mancini's eyebrows? Plucked to fuck!?!

i miss adios cuntos, looks like a tasty selection of fixtures coming up, lots of boot to be stuck in...

I'll be in the Effra from 12.30 if anyone fancies some SkySoccerBall™...

chelsea birmingham, will be a horrendous game.
but I may come out and see you since I didn't pop round yesterday

Anyone else noticed Roberto Mancini's eyebrows? Plucked to fuck!?!

He's Italian, he probably still lives with his mother.

He's Italian, he probably still lives with his mother.

I work with an Italian girl and she says there's a serious lack of independent men in Milan. They all seem to have been able to fund the most wonderful lifestyles because they're able to live with their parents. The girls are all independent, free thinking women, owning their places whereas the men are wrapped in cotton wool until they're about 40 (or so) and when they don't get married their parents have concerns over their sexual orientation. It may not be a strictly Milanese issue, but she can only speak from experience. Oh, and for the record, she's not a dog either.

Come on Leeds, you dirty pigeon-fancying freaks... ;D

so close....

and the alcoholic red faced jock moaning will begin.

What a great game of football, well deserved win... Come on Chelsea...

Fucking yes! Great match, they deserved that.

Leeds beat Man U, no added Ferguson time either..

That was fucking gubbins celtic.

yep. shithouse.

also - are any of you soap dodgers still up for AFC on the 16th?

Yesireee.