*Official* English Football Season 2008-2009

[GIMH]

Normally I'd agree Brumby, but the way it's happened stinks

Let's just hope Jester join them, Welsh ****s

 

[Pothas]

Yeah don't like this administration rule, feel really bad for teams like Darlington and especially Rotherham who have been penalised for the last few seasons.

 

[GIMH]

I was right behind the rule when it was first introduced, as what Leicester did in 02-03 didn't seem at all. Then Wrexscum were the first people to ever suffer from said ruling, so it seemed the perfect law.

Then all of a sudden we had a couple of things that showed up major flaws. First up Leeds stuck themselves in administration when they were already mathematically down, which makes a mocker of such a rule, and then we've seen teams getting whopping penalties (including Leeds tbf) that make a team's season pretty pointless. It seems to me that Luton would have been less harshly done by by demotion; they seem to have given a decent account of themselves in League Two in spite of the deductions that left them with no chance.

All this being said, I think the loophole that Dirty Leeds exposed has now gone as I am pretty sure I heard that if Southampton go into administration they won't suffer the deduction until next season; that makes sense, I don't know when the cut-off point would be - Jan 31st would make sense as obviously teams can't permanently buy any more players from there.

 

[GIMH]

Dav, I have won our season-long avatar bet! All that remains to be decided is how many weeks I own it for

Two months ago you wouldn't have thought it hey

 

[Jarquis]

Dav, I have won our season-long avatar bet! All that remains to be decided is how many weeks I own it for

Two months ago you wouldn't have thought it hey

What was the bet OOI?

 

[GIMH]

Whoever's team finished higher in league one would get to pick the other one's avatar. I am Tranmere, he is Oldham. However many points the difference, they have the avatar for that many weeks

dav currently has an avatar that I chose after we beat them at Boundary Park. Alas, he beat me about five or six in a row before then and no doubt normal service will be resumed next season (unless we go up)

 

[BoyBrumby]

Normally I'd agree Brumby, but the way it's happened stinks

Nah, **** 'em.

 

[GIMH]

Am sure you've done this before, but what makes you hate Luton so much? I mean nobody likes them, but you seem to be particularly unfond of them.

 

[Neil Pickup]

Yeah, its a well known fact amongst fans at games that you can generally count on Utds away support to be vocal and amongst some of the best going. Every time i've been away with them its been brilliant. The home crowd are just as good, just less fans get to see it from other clubs. The noise inside the ground never seems to translate onto the TV, be assured its rare OT is actually quiet.

Most 'fans' who take the 'Man Utd fans never sing' attitude, well the nearest they've come to seeing Utd live is a Ford Super Sunday Special (tm those *****s at Sky)

Was dead as v-line flares with pockets in the knees when I went.

Anyway,

Na na, na na, na na, na na, na na naaa, going up, going up, City's going up!!

8,183 at the Park today, pretty slow first half but awesome once we scored. 4,000 people in a bouncing terrace takes some beating.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Am sure you've done this before, but what makes you hate Luton so much? I mean nobody likes them, but you seem to be particularly unfond of them.

Symbolised everything that was rotten about football in the 80s: ban on away fans, plastic pitch, Tory turd for chairman.

Plus ****s beat us in '88 League Cup final with last minute goal, back when it mattered.

 

[GIMH]

Haha, yep, remember now, have read that very post a few times. The plastic pitch and the ban on away fans were shockers tbf

Kenilworth Road the strangest ground ever. Before I went there I never understood what people meant about going under someone's bedroom to get in, it's crazy

 

[Pothas]

Was dead as v-line flares with pockets in the knees when I went.

Anyway,

Na na, na na, na na, na na, na na naaa, going up, going up, City's going up!!

8,183 at the Park today, pretty slow first half but awesome once we scored. 4,000 people in a bouncing terrace takes some beating.

Yeah it's looking pretty good for both of us now, pretty sure even we can't lose it from here. Not got a bad run in have you?

 

[chalky]

chalky, I am supporting your boys BIG TIME today, do us proud

****ing gutted just spent the last 6 hours in the boozer drowning me sorrows.

We again give away 3 ****ing easy goals with mickey mouse defending whilst our best centre half gets played in midfield where he gets the runaround as he is too slow. We have half a dozen strikers on loan yet we play the worsk ****ing 1 in Keegan Parker For ****s sake there are better ****ing players in the sunday leagues. Yet the manager keeps Daniel Nardiello on the bench who has looked outstanding every time he has played.

We are still the top home goal scorers in the league yet conceded the most home goals so who does the manager sign a load of ****ing strikers on loan cos obviously that's where the problem is scoring goals.Did I mention we are the top home goal scorers? You can only ****ing play 1 of the strikers anyway as Joel Porter will always start up front as he is the best player at the club. So we have a load of ****ty strikers (Nardiello apart) on loan but no full backs which have needed changing for two years, a holding midfielder which we have needed since the start of the season and goal keeper who can kick, speak english & catch the fooking ball. Playing thecentre back in his proper position wouldn't be too bad either.

What really ****s me off though is the lack of effort, if you are **** but run your bollocks off I will shout for you all day, but if your ****, lazy, wear pink boots & think your next Ronaldo then you're not getting my support it's bad enough you get my ****ing ticket money you lazy ****.

Anyway Chris Turner has said he will put his house on us not getting relegated well as we are going down hopefully he loses his house & ****s off back to sheffield.

 

[chalky]

Yeah, its a well known fact amongst fans at games that you can generally count on Utds away support to be vocal and amongst some of the best going. Every time i've been away with them its been brilliant. The home crowd are just as good, just less fans get to see it from other clubs. The noise inside the ground never seems to translate onto the TV, be assured its rare OT is actually quiet.

Most 'fans' who take the 'Man Utd fans never sing' attitude, well the nearest they've come to seeing Utd live is a Ford Super Sunday Special (tm those *****s at Sky)

Being a hartlepool fan I'd never seen Man Utd live before but their fans were brilliant on Saturday, sang & chanted the whole game reaaly made the atmosphere best away fans I've seen to be honest.

Watched the Newcastle Stoke game in a titty bar in Sunderland which was an experience. Know some nice Alan Shearer songs now anyway.

 

[Uppercut]

Yeah, its a well known fact amongst fans at games that you can generally count on Utds away support to be vocal and amongst some of the best going. Every time i've been away with them its been brilliant. The home crowd are just as good, just less fans get to see it from other clubs. The noise inside the ground never seems to translate onto the TV, be assured its rare OT is actually quiet.

Most 'fans' who take the 'Man Utd fans never sing' attitude, well the nearest they've come to seeing Utd live is a Ford Super Sunday Special (tm those *****s at Sky)

I presume you make it to the Stretford End? The fans there are as good as any in the world. I went to the Manchester Derby a few years back, and the atmosphere was incredible. They didn't sit down or shut up for the whole game. Even when Shaun Goater equalised with five minutes to go there was only a few seconds of silence before they piped up again.

I went to the Fulham game earlier this year- the 3-0 win- and could only get tickets to the North Stand, and the fans were really disappointing. There was barely a single chant or song and great goals were met with polite applause. I felt like a kid with Tourettes at the opera. The reputation obviously doesn't apply to all United fans, but i can certainly see where it comes from.

 

[Pothas]

Only been to Old Trafford once and they were pretty quiet that day, to be fair though it was a drab 0-0 against Everton (just before Rooney signed for Man utd) and united team wasn't all that great. I was sitting with Everton fans who were fantastic though so that may have affected my judgement. United fans not the quietist or worst I have seen though, Fulham are quieter and I have never warmed to the atmosphere Chelsea.

 

[Loony BoB]

From a blog on manutd.com... "One of the journalists posed a question on the plane: name three players who've played at five clubs who have won the European Cup. Four of us struggled and could name just one - Ronaldo (the other one)."

This is doing my head in. Anyone able to give us at work a hand?

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Patrick Kluivert? I know he played for Ajax, Milan and Barca. I'm not sure if any of his other clubs have (PSV, Valencia, Newcastle).

 

[Pothas]

PSV have, won it with Hiddink in the late 80's

 

[Pothas]

Figo maybe?
Played for Real Madrid, Barcelona, Inter Milan, and Sporting Lisbon (not sure if they have won it) but that is only 4