***Offical*** English Football Season 2004/05

[marc71178]

If players don't commit fouls inside the box these things won't happen.

If referees called fouls in the build up there'd be no penalty.

 

[marc71178]

How the hell is that not a penalty?

Play should never have continued.

Then to add insult to injury the disallowed goal for a lesser offence followed by Manure going up the other end and making it 3-1.

Yet more points for the referee.

 

[marc71178]

They won't last a title race with that squad.

They keep getting results, and that's without help of the men in Black.

 

[Neil Pickup]

Back on FA Cup topic... Doncaster are the next visitors. Unfortunately, the BBC seem scarred by the last time they televised City and aren't coming anywhere near the Park.

Still, when United visit in the Third Round Replay, they'll be here.

 

[superkingdave]

Back on FA Cup topic... Doncaster are the next visitors. Unfortunately, the BBC seem scarred by the last time they televised City and aren't coming anywhere near the Park.

Still, when United visit in the Third Round Replay, they'll be here.

Think the same will happen with us after the direness of sunday's match

 

[Neil Pickup]

Think the same will happen with us after the direness of sunday's match

That one drove me to macroeconomics notes after 90 seconds.

 

[Tom Halsey]

Play should never have continued.

Then to add insult to injury the disallowed goal for a lesser offence followed by Manure going up the other end and making it 3-1.

Yet more points for the referee.

Um, if you're talking about Rooney's 'foul' then TV replays favoured Rooney.

Granted their goal should have stood.

 

[Tom Halsey]

If referees called fouls in the build up there'd be no penalty.

Significant delay from contact to the Newcastle player falling.

 

[superkingdave]

well that first half was atrocious, dont think Nicky Butt or David Beckham managed to find one of their own players once in that half, no one can claim to be playing well either though.

On a different note, it was also the most disgraceful performance i have ever seen from England in terms of discipline and dirtiness. Gary Neville seems to have some kind of one man mission to end Reyes' career and Rooney just has no intelligence. Spain's players are making the most of it but that's no excuse.

Hopefully we'll learn how to pass in the half time break

 

[superkingdave]

Oh and the BBC should be banned from showing football for as long as they insist on having John Motson as a commentator, he's just a complete muppet.

 

[superkingdave]

One consolation, Scotland are getting hammered.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Oh and the BBC should be banned from showing football for as long as they insist on having John Motson as a commentator, he's just a complete muppet.

I agree, I doubt whether the guy has ever played football in his life and seems to think saying meaningless random statistics and pointing out the obvious in someway compensates for this.

Less said about the game the better...

 

[Scaly piscine]

Also why does Beckham keep firing the ball 10-20 backwards to the English defenders...

 

[Langeveldt]

57 minutes gone.. Isnt 11pm in Spain already at the moment?? Late for a footie match!

 

[superkingdave]

On top of England's atrocious performance, having heard some of the disgraceful chanting from the crowd this half i wish this friendly hadn't of happened

 

[Scaly piscine]

The crap the Spain coach came out with was just as bad tho, I dunno what he said about Henry, but then he comes out with some crap about 'I know who is racist' when asked about by English press, and goes on about colonies and such as if Spain never had any themselves.

Edit: Here's the quote "I know who is racist. I remember the colonies. There are some who have run after them like wolves after prey"

 

[Langeveldt]

The crap the Spain coach came out with was just as bad tho, I dunno what he said about Henry, but then he comes out with some crap about 'I know who is racist' when asked about by English press, and goes on about colonies and such as if Spain never had any themselves.

The louts couldn't put them on a map if they had a gun to their heads...

 

[superkingdave]

TBH we probably should have left the pitch the chanting whenn Wright-Phillips gets the ball is absolutely despicable, something has to be done about it by UEFA/FIFA, not sure they'll do anything though

 

[Scaly piscine]

I think the only way anything will happen is if teams just walked off the pitch. Unfortunately the punishment would probably be meted out to England, knowing that FIFA have an England hating prat as main man.

 

[Langeveldt]

TBH we probably should have left the pitch the chanting whenn Wright-Phillips gets the ball is absolutely despicable, something has to be done about it by UEFA/FIFA, not sure they'll do anything though

Wow.. Absolutely disgusting.. Cole needs to be substituted, its getting to him badly, and it's not fair that he is out there