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*Official* English Football Season 2009-2010

NUFAN

NUFAN

Y no Afghanistan flag
What an awesome night of football!

Man Utd helped us and we returned the favour in a big way which sets up the finish to the season nicely.
 
Craig

Craig

World Traveller
This Icelandic volcano could make some of the Champions League and Europa League Semi Finals in doubt as European airspace is still closed. Particularly Inter v Barcelona, as Italian airspace in Northern Italy is still closed. So either Barca might have to take the bus (train won't happen as the French are on strike, as normal) which would be a mission if there was one.
 
The Sean

The Sean

Cricketer Of The Year
Tom Halsey said:
The winners of the Prem this season, whoever it is, will have won it not because they are actually good but because of the ineptitude of their rivals. Chelsea are just astonishingly bad at times (by the standards of a side contending the title) and bearing in mind they are in front of us, the same description must apply to us.

Spurs should have won about 6-0, and I haven't seen our game yet but every account that I have heard of it is that it was dire.
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Been saying it for months and nothing has changed - we've been poorer than we've been for years for a lot of this season and it reflects on both Chelsea and Arsenal that they've been about the same. It's hardly surprising - United significantly weakened last summer and both Chelsea and Arsenal did little more than tread water. We've had this discussion before, but whoever wins this season's PL will be the worst League champions for...well, I don't know how long.

As for the game today - well the ecstatic ending aside we were pretty ****ing toothless. Again. And Citeh were slightly worse.
 
GIMH

GIMH

Norwood's on Fire
The Sean said:
Been saying it for months and nothing has changed - we've been poorer than we've been for years for a lot of this season and it reflects on both Chelsea and Arsenal that they've been about the same. It's hardly surprising - United significantly weakened last summer and both Chelsea and Arsenal did little more than tread water. We've had this discussion before, but whoever wins this season's PL will be the worst League champions for...well, I don't know how long.

As for the game today - well the ecstatic ending aside we were pretty ****ing toothless. Again. And Citeh were slightly worse.
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Since Blackburn in 95? They lost 7 games that season.
 
The Sean

The Sean

Cricketer Of The Year
GeraintIsMyHero said:
Since Blackburn in 95? They lost 7 games that season.
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That was in a 42 game season, remember. TBH though I've never been massively concerned with the "number of defeats" measure (number of wins / points always more important to me) but more with the general quality of our football. United have had a couple of sparkling runs of form this season with some excellent performances which have in a lot of ways masked the general mediocrity of a large part of this campaign - particularly with regard to our passing and possession, and command of midfield. United aren't a bad team, of course, they're a very good one - but two seasons ago they were a great one and there's no question in my mind that we're missing something, a spark. I will be ecstatic if we win the League after all this, but I hope if we do that it's not used as an excuse to ignore the shortcomings of the current squad.
 
roseboy64

roseboy64

Cricket Web Content Updater
Tom Halsey said:
England can forget any chance of winning the World Cup if Rio and Terry are their centre halves. Terry is absolutely ****ing dire atm and Rio has been largely poor lately.
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Rio's been decent TBF. Not outstanding though so you probably have a point.
 
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duffer

duffer

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
grecian said:
Yeah agree with this, and needed to quote to pointedly ignore the post below yours.

Yet, it's actually been a piss-poor Prem this year, everyone's building it up as the best in years, because of the competition, but it's actually a lot of **** trying to outwank each others, a bit like how I imagine boarding school to be. Oh and there's the pragmatic football of a lot of the lower teams, would you pay to watch Stoke, Wigan, Blackburn, Wolves or Hull? FFS Burnley are an attractive team in this league. I thought I'd stream a match to take my mind off the hell in plastic-scouse-land, but decided I couldn't give a **** about any of them. Fulham, 'pool, Everton are all pretty horrid to watch, and Wenger was right about Villa.

Load of crap, and normally I like the Prem, much prefer it to the crap ole days of football in the eighties, but this year is a shocking regression.
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Heh, outstanding.
 
GIMH

GIMH

Norwood's on Fire
Samuel_Vimes said:
if you want to know what's wrong with the PL, start here...
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Um, why?

Six defeats has always been regarded as the most defeats you should be looking at to win the top flight. And as Sean pointed out, that was the case when the season was 4 games longer.

The Prem's not perfect but let's not point to things that aren't there.
 
BoyBrumby

BoyBrumby

Englishman
roseboy64 said:
Rio's been decent TBF. Not outstanding though so you probably have a point.
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Depends how rigorous one's definition of "decent" is. If you mean "competent professional footballer" then yes, just about, but if you mean "international class centre half for top 8 country", then no. Whilst accepting he seems to be inconvenienced by his back he's looked slow (the way Gerrard, not a renowned whippet, outstripped him was frightening), positionally suspect and as prone to the eff up as he ever was.

The scary thing is we don't have any other serious options I can see.
 
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