*Official* English Football Season 2008-2009

[roseboy64]

Fair point there you made.

 

[grecian]

Well done Curzon Ashton, result of the day.

Humiliated as I am, wish you luck for the rest of your FA cup run. Sounds like they wanted it more.

Off to a darkened room, where I can sob uncontrollably.

 

[Matteh]

Means i can now rip into my friend for being worse than Mansfield, even if we did lose 3-1.

 

[Neil Pickup]

Well done Curzon Ashton, result of the day.

Humiliated as I am, wish you luck for the rest of your FA cup run. Sounds like they wanted it more.

Off to a darkened room, where I can sob uncontrollably.

Take solace in the fact that you're not heading for being reminded of this at least 480 times on Monday morning by 11 year olds.

I want to stab myself in the eye.

 

[superkingdave]

Loved it tonighht, can't really expect to get oldham games out here, so the next best thing is to watch the red scum lose

 

[Matteh]

Haha West Ham vs Everton.

West Ham were well on top for 80 minutes, 80-85 Everton score 3.

 

[sledger]

Thrilled with the result today, though on a different day the result could have been different. Not going to get into the debate over whether or not Man Utd deserved to draw or not, because at the end of the day they didn't do enough to get the result, that said, were it not for the poor finishing of Bendtner Arsenal would have won by a greater margin. Though Abou Diaby had a very good game today, he and Nasri were two of the best players on the pitch today, very pleased. Even Silvestre had a decent enough match, just a shame that so many points have already been thrown away against lesser sides.

 

[sledger]

That was in the past. Nothing won for four years and not likely to win anything except maybe the Carling Cup this year. That side that went unbeaten has only two remnants now and I don't think Fabregas played much if at all then. To be considered is that none of the other top teams were much to write home about that season. Pretty sure that was before he started bringing in players on the cheap as that team was filled with experienced players who were bought at market price during that time. It's only been since Chelsea had Abramovich that Liverpool, Chelsea and Man Utd have started paying lots of money for players.

The league has certainly improved in quality of players since then so a lot harder for teams to go unbeaten. Not to mention that the top teams are much better now than they were then. Well done by Arsenal that season as they took advatage of the situation and were a great team then.

Wenger definitely is a great manager and lots of chairmen would love to have him. No one should have a job for life though and be devoid of criticism. Fergsuon has achieved much more than Wenger and has his fair share of criticism, some of it well deserved as is some of the criticism Wenger and Arsenal have received.

The Arsenal team out there today was much different than the Arsenal team of most of this season so obviously the criticism helped.. Otherwise they would have been as soft and fragile as they have been before. That being said Man Utd almost did the same to them as Tottenham did as they were the same in the last few minutes and were lucky not to drop two points again.

Again, "Any club chairman who wouldn't give him a job for life would be a fool", is a ridiculous statement. At which other top club is the manager guaranteed a job for life? At which other top club is the manager not to be criticised? At which other top club is the managed assured of his job even if he wins nothing for years on end?

F*** me, put it all back in your pram.

 

[GIMH]

BTW rose, Curzon isn't Dean's brother

 

[Matteh]

Haha Rose, fool.

 

[Neil Pickup]

I like the fact that the Curzon abuse is now directed away from us. Thank you Jamaica for providing us with such foolishness.

 

[Barney Rubble]

Again, "Any club chairman who wouldn't give him a job for life would be a fool", is a ridiculous statement. At which other top club is the manager guaranteed a job for life? At which other top club is the manager not to be criticised? At which other top club is the managed assured of his job even if he wins nothing for years on end?

Erm, your own club springs to mind there. It's pretty much the only other top club in Europe where the manager has done such a good job over such a long time. Aside from that, look at lower clubs where the manager has had such relative success that he's effectively been given a job for life - Dario Gradi at Crewe and Guy Roux at Auxerre spring to mind.

 

[GIMH]

Crewe are *****, that's all, Dario Gradi can GAGF

 

[Barney Rubble]

Crewe are *****, that's all, Dario Gradi can GAGF

Can't wait till we get relegated again. Looking forward to the lower leagues, almost exclusively because I'll be able to exchange relevant banter with you if we end up in the same league.

 

[GIMH]

Possible that we'll go up this season tbf, though no more than possible

Always had a good crack with some of the Pompey lot, that bloke with the bell and bugle used to **** us off no end though, it'd be a dire midweek game without 4 Pompey fans, and 5000 cold, pissed off and quiet Tranmere fans and he'd be standing on the old Kop ringing his bell

 

[fredfertang]

Can't wait till we get relegated again. Looking forward to the lower leagues, almost exclusively because I'll be able to exchange relevant banter with you if we end up in the same league.

Now that is real mateship that is

 

[Barney Rubble]

Possible that we'll go up this season tbf, though no more than possible

Always had a good crack with some of the Pompey lot, that bloke with the bell and bugle used to **** us off no end though, it'd be a dire midweek game without 4 Pompey fans, and 5000 cold, pissed off and quiet Tranmere fans and he'd be standing on the old Kop ringing his bell

Haha, Westwood. He's a ****, but we love him.

Now that is real mateship that is

It's easier to get bored of Premiership football than you think.

 

[GIMH]

I dream of seeing us in the Prem, just to do it though. Lower league footy is a strange one, the whole objective of it is to get out of it, but you know that if you achieve your goal, it'll never be as good as what you have currently. Stepdad followed Chelsea home and away in the late 80s, wouldn't dream of swapping it for watching them nowadays

Being a lower league fan, it's like the English Football version of the American Dream

 

[fredfertang]

It's easier to get bored of Premiership football than you think.

Not after two seasons it's not

 

[fredfertang]

After a lifetime grubbing around the lower divisions what was amazing in the prem was how you instantly lose all interest in what happens in the other divisions - now back in the championship it's back to looking up at the prem and back over your shoulder again at the others - quite literally a pain in the neck!