Matteh
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
He was the guy that got sent off for shoving an elbow into an American face right?
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*Official* English Football Season 2006-07
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The Baconator
International Vice-Captain
Yep, Mcbride as well. The ****
Tom Halsey
International Coach
Yeah. Roma have a lot of players with tempers actually, what with him, Totti, Mexes and the like. Wnding them up could prove fruitful, shame we don't have a Keane or someone any more.
EDIT: They're all one yellow away from getting suspended, too, apparenly. Excellent. Roma aren't exactly a stereotypical Italian side, they attack quite a lot, so I reckon we could get an away goal or two if we attack them back, particularly on the wings.
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Scaly piscine
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Can't believe how utterly halfwitted the BBC's pundits are. How do these morons even manage the conundrum that is putting trousers on in the morning let alone anything else?
Another ridiculous 'handball' penalty. How is it difficult to comprehend that has to deliberate? It's as clear as black and white yet the imbeciles still get it wrong. During the game you've got a guy who can't speak English banging on about how it hit both of his hands... what the hell has that got to do with anything apart from it being probably wrong anyway?
Good game tho, Carrick looked awful and some really nice deliveries and good workrate from Downing despite him being below par generally.
Another ridiculous 'handball' penalty. How is it difficult to comprehend that has to deliberate? It's as clear as black and white yet the imbeciles still get it wrong. During the game you've got a guy who can't speak English banging on about how it hit both of his hands... what the hell has that got to do with anything apart from it being probably wrong anyway?
Good game tho, Carrick looked awful and some really nice deliveries and good workrate from Downing despite him being below par generally.
aussie
Hall of Fame Member
Don't know if i'd term Pirlo, Xavi, Xabi & Fabregas holding mid-fielders TBH, they are more so deep lying playmakers since they achor their respectives sides play rather than break up opposition attacks.
aussie
Hall of Fame Member
His chances of returning to the national side are clearly not that low, especially if he can return from injury & put in good performances in the last phase of his Madrid career.
Jungle Jumbo
International Vice-Captain
Barca - Madrid is interesting, even if the quality of the football is dire. Barca have gone out with three at the back and too much flair in midfield yet again; how Oleguer is good enough to play for them is beyond me; Puyol is massively overrated as a defender. They're turning into the Real Madrid of the last few seasons.
Pup Clarke
Cricketer Of The Year
That really is a harsh and stupid statement.Hell I'd much rather be in Barcelona's position than Madrid's.They have they're weaknesses but are still way ahead of Madrid IMO.I'd be surprised to say the least if Barca in the next 1-2 years fall away as bad as Madrid did.
Pup Clarke
Cricketer Of The Year
TBH if Madrid win this game I wouldn't read much into it.It's the games against the mid table-lower mid table teams that is going to determine their season and they have a habit of drawing or losing against supposedly weaker teams.IMO it's if Madrid can build on this that will count.
Craig
World Traveller
Fabregas I would hardly say is a holding midfielder, and neither is Xavi, and Hargreaves, are you jumping on the bandwagon before when the majority of English fans thought he was rubbish and now the flavour of the month?
Would put Gattuso in ahead of the bottom three IMO (saying Fabregas is strictly a holding midfielder is like saying Steven Gerrard is one too).
Cloete
International Captain
**** off. You can't use one season in Europe as an example of how "brilliant" the Premiership is. Just look at last year, for example.Last year in the first knockout you had 3 Spanish teams, 3 English teams and 3 Italian teams. In the quarters were 3 Italian, 2 Spanish and 1 English. Semis were 2 spanish, 1 Italian and 1 English. Should we have said conclusively that the Spanish or Italian leagues were much better? Liverpool won in '05 and Man U in '99 but before that you had to go back to Liverpool's win in '84 to find another English team lifting the trophy. Spain's had '06, '02, '00, '98 for example. The Runners Up paints an even more clearer picture.
You can't just say that the English league has been the best for some time (particularly by simply alluding to one season of the Champions League as an example), because it's absolute unsubstantiated bull****.
Pup Clarke
Cricketer Of The Year
Pup Clarke
Cricketer Of The Year
Last year in the first knockout you had 3 Spanish teams said:
Craig
World Traveller
And they are all played at different paces as well. At the moment I watch a lot of Spanish football, because the times are pretty good for me. Although I hate the standard of ref's there, IMO it is shocking.
Pup Clarke
Cricketer Of The Year
I don't like La Liga either.Apart from the referees who are a disgrace and send off a player for breathing the time wasting,diving and general bad sportsmanship of La Liga make it a turn off IMO.Much rather watch a game played at high pace with good fair tackles like the Premiership.However with the introduction of so many foreingers the EPL is starting to get La Liga's bad points incoorperated into games.
