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*Official* English Football Season 2007-08

roseboy64

roseboy64

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Good job by Fulham. Like Aex McLeish but he came into a tricky situation and confident he'll get them back up. Reading lost the plot late on in the season. Fulham I'm glad they're still there because I like Dempsey and McBride.
 
Neil Pickup

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FTR, not a penalty, much as I'd've liked it to have been, but the biggest bottle ever not to send Ginge off. I challenge even Xavier to suggest Scholes should've stayed on the pitch.
 
roseboy64

roseboy64

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Didn't see a few minutes and unfortunately it was in those few. Was surprised to hear of a penalty claim and Scholes deserving a second yellow.
 
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Tom Halsey

International Coach
cpr said:
Dont get the Glazer hate tbh. Yeah prices have gone up, they do every year. Who can forget Martin Edwards blaming the season ticket increase on Roy Keane's new contract. That was classy.

As for securing the collateral for the purchase against the club, its no different to a person buying a house with a second mortgage, then renting it out and using the rent payments to pay off the mortgage, making a tiny profit plus the increase in property price. Its a common business practice, so long as theres a football team doing well, the clubs safe. With a club utds size (and global money power), it'd need a fair few crashes of Leeds proportions to ruin us, and lets face it, if we end up going down and going bust, then we've done something seriously wrong on the pitch.
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I'm no Edwards apologist, but prices were a lot better under him, they have risen disproportionately under Glazer.
 
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Tom Halsey

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What was already a very good day got better when the City result was announced.

Shame Reading went down, would have liked Coppell to stay up, but you can't have everything.

Everyone who said Wigan and Bolton wouldn't be giving a **** can take back their comments, as Wigan certainly did and from what I hear Bolton did too.

WRT decisions... not a penalty, Scholes should have undoubtedly gone, these decisions even out over a season anyway.

Seventeen gone, two to go.

Champions. :)

Now to Moscow.
 
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GIMH

GIMH

Norwood's on Fire
BoyBrumby said:
Fair play, as I said. The best team over the season has won the title, it would take someone more churlish than me to dispute that.

Pleased for Fulham, they looked absolutely gone at one stage, but if you win your last three games you give yourself a chance. Also not a bad time to be playing Pompey either, what with the FA next week.
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Fulham got a pre-CL final Liverpool late last year as well. If your team gets them towards the end of next season, you might be in for a final!

Thought Tyler was a Woking fan btw
 
sledger

sledger

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sad at reading going down, but tbh they cant complain, they have been very poor, and Fulham have completely deserved staying up.
 
Craig

Craig

World Traveller
What happened to Birmingham? For a while they looked like a secure Premiership team and now they keep jumping between divisons.
 
cpr

cpr

International Coach
What i love about yesterday is City, nothing to play for bar the fair play standings, and they go get a man sent off after 15 minutes? Has that blown them a shot at Europe (and hysterically let Fulham in?)
 
BoyBrumby

BoyBrumby

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Neil Pickup said:
FTR, not a penalty, much as I'd've liked it to have been
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Tom Halsey said:
WRT decisions... not a penalty
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I don't want to be a hard-on about this, but I've now seen it four times from behind the goal & it's a clear penalty for mine. Both my morning papers agree too:

Mirror:

Bruce's side should have been awarded a penalty in the 22nd minute when Rio Ferdinand stuck out an arm to divert a goal-bound shot from Jason Koumas. Replays seemed to confirm Ferdinand's intent.

Guardian:

The Wigan manager, Steve Bruce, was incensed, too, that a penalty had not been forthcoming early in the match when Rio Ferdinand moved his arm into the path of a Jason Koumas drive.
 
roseboy64

roseboy64

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Craig said:
What happened to Birmingham? For a while they looked like a secure Premiership team and now they keep jumping between divisons.
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Club was supposed to be taken over but it dragged on. Bruce's contract wasn't going to be renewed by the new owners so he left. Then, the bid failed and they had to brign in McLeish to try something. From what I've heard the failed takeover and it's length caused problems which put the club in turmoil.
 
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