*Official* English Football Season 2005-06

[marc71178]

Fowler averages less than 0.5 goals a game - natural finishers would score more than that when given the clubs Fowler's been at (unless you mean he's a naturally bad finisher).

Yes, and how many games has he played with the various injuries etc that he's been plagued with in the last few years?

I think I'll take the words of people who watched him in his prime ahead of someone who seems to know very little about the game.

 

[PY]

Anything that ****es off Neil Warnock can only be a good thing.

Quote of the day without doubt.

 

[James]

Is Arsene Wenger an idiot or what in calling Alan Pardew & David O'Leary racists over the British players debate?

Pardew and O'Leary are quite rightly questioning Wenger what with Arsenal having a team containing no English players that took them through to the quarter-finals of the Champions League.

A British team made it through to the quarter-finals, yeah right.

 

[luckyeddie]

Is Arsene Wenger an idiot

I'd made my mind up by this point.

 

[Barney Rubble]

Facts of life mate.

Taxes, death and Pompey being doomed for relegation in season 05/06. Sorry to be the one to tell you...

*Starts praying even harder*

 

[Scaly piscine]

I'd made my mind up by this point.

I'd made my mind up slightly earlier than that.

As for marc's usually feeble offerings, if you're a natural finisher you would still get goals regardless and as he had no pace, strength etc. to start with carrying an injury shouldn't matter too much for someone like him.

 

[Loony BoB]

Just to further a point which it seems we're all happy to agree on... damned Arsenal.

Also notable that they have five players out on loan - four of them are English.

 

[luckyeddie]

Just to further a point which it seems we're all happy to agree on... damned Arsenal.

Also notable that they have five players out on loan - four of them are English.

As they said in a classic Monty Python sketch - "I've got three by the bin and the dustmen won't touch 'em".

Oh no, that was dead bishops.

 

[steds]

Just to further a point which it seems we're all happy to agree on... damned Arsenal.

Also notable that they have five players out on loan - four of them are English.

Who's Wigan's Jamaican?

 

[Loony BoB]

Midfielder Damien Francis.

EDIT: On a sidenote, which newspapers are actually reliable with the info they give out these days on football transfers etc? Or is it a case of "you never know until it happens"?

 

[Cloete]

Coventry 2 Sheffield United 0.

How great a result is that?

Great news

5 points adrift of Sheffield with a game in hand now! Still 9 games left for us to play though, including a game against the Blades. So I think we can do it

 

[marc71178]

As for marc's usually feeble offerings, if you're a natural finisher you would still get goals regardless

Never heard of a thing called match fitness?

Like I've said before I trust people who've played with him and trained with him and watched him rather than you.

 

[marc71178]

Great news

5 points adrift of Sheffield with a game in hand now! Still 9 games left for us to play though, including a game against the Blades. So I think we can do it

Ah, but next Saturday they come to "fortress" Ricoh...

 

[Craig]

I don't know exactly how good the Lille midfielders are (who as far as I can see have more newspapers linking them to Man U than any other), but I definitely agree that Carrick would be a great signing, from the few games I've seen him in.

EDIT: I'm also bias towards Carrick as I think that it's good to go for non-foreign players if possible.

If only British clubs (in particular English) didn't over-price their players so much we would see more British players running around. That said I find it a joke that Arsenal (and a few others to be fair) are only interested in buying foregin players who some frankly are not good enough.

 

[Craig]

I always used to think that Morientes was unlucky to be called worse than Raul.....but he's hardly done anything in the Premiership...

Read a stat a few weeks back that withthe goals he has scored in and the number of games played in the EPL and his transfer fee, it has cost Liverpool about £700,00 between goals! With that sort of money I can go buy a piece of land about 7 or 8 km from where I live, but to build a house it would cost a similar amount.

I don't know but could anybody see Valencia's David Villa coming to Anfield? He has been in good goal scoring form this season (though going into the Real Madrid game last night he has been through dry spell) since his move from Real Zaragoza and has even scored a brilliant goal against Deportivo last month or so.

 

[Craig]

Coventry 2 Sheffield United 0.

How great a result is that?

Great result considering the season your team has been having, a shout at aiming for a good top 10 performance in the Championshi[?

 

[Craig]

Whilst it is slightly off topic but in FM 2006 Warnock becomes the manager of England!

Don't think Pete would like that at all.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Midfielder Damien Francis.

EDIT: On a sidenote, which newspapers are actually reliable with the info they give out these days on football transfers etc? Or is it a case of "you never know until it happens"?

Almost all total testes. Your best bet is to buy The Observer on a Sunday. They have a "tales from the tabs" section where they report all the alleged comings, goings & stayings according to our esteemed red-tops, many of which are self-contradictory.

WRT Arsenal's over-reliance on foreigners, I agree it isn't ideal, but some of the anti-arguments are borderline racist. They're redolent of the "coming over here, taking our jobs" sorta crap that commonwealth immigrants faced on their arrival in the 50s & 60s. Wenger's only loyalty should be to Arsenal; he has no de facto duty to assist the English national team.

As an immigrant to the UK yourself I would imagine you would understand this point better than most; just suppose that your boss was constantly berated from rival bosses in your industry (whatever it is) for employing a New Zealander when there are Scottish men who could do the job too. Is it any wonder if he got a bit testy occasionally when he constantly has to defend an employee whose only flaw is his passport? If one can do the job (be it footballer or whatever it is you do) one's nationality should be an irrelevance.

 

[PY]

Whilst it is slightly off topic but in FM 2006 Warnock becomes the manager of England!

Don't think Pete would like that at all.

If I was a programmer, I'd have written it into the code that he gets sacked as soon as the game starts and can't find gainful employment anywhere else.

 

[Craig]

I might have missed something but where did this hate of Warnock and Sheffield United come from? Or is mainly Warnock?