*Official* English Football Season 2005-06

[Barney Rubble]

Ahem.

Number of Englishmen in Liverpool's CL final XI: 2
Number of Englishmen in Arsenal's likely CL final XI: 2 if Ashley Cole recovers in time

Arsenal are no less English than Liverpool. It doesn't matter who represents the team, an English side is an English side. They play in England, the vast majority of fans are English and the heartbeat of the club is English. Try telling any of the fans they have no right to be proud of what their club's achieved because their players are foreign.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Yeah I was impressed by Wenger actually, though part of me is thinking he is trying to make up for his disgraceful comments on Saturday.

Speaking of which of the FA done owt over this yet?

 

[Tom Halsey]

Arsenal are no less English than Liverpool.

And they're both immensely disliked by me.

 

[luckyeddie]

Oh and how bad was chief poseur tonight?

Return to home for a lot of the CDMs.


That OK Eddie?

A little subdued really.

For about the first 80 minutes, he never touched the ball - Arsenal were just playing one-up big boot. He made a huge mess of a free kick and that was that really.

 

[luckyeddie]

Yeah I was impressed by Wenger actually, though part of me is thinking he is trying to make up for his disgraceful comments on Saturday.

What was he whingeing about? I missed it and of course am just too lazy to search for it.

 

[BoyBrumby]

What was he whingeing about? I missed it and of course am just too lazy to search for it.

We had two players injured, They played on & scored. Wenger basically accused them of cheating. Bit OTT, poor sportsmanship at worst.

 

[Matteh]

I know the team that conceded that goal ended up winning 3-2 and it was against a north-east side, maybe Darlington or Carlisle (without looking). It was the first goal of the game, so this should help you track it down anyway.

Carlisle - the now promoted, and likely title winners of Div 3....were losing to Mansfield Town til they scored in the 92nd minute

 

[steds]

What was he whingeing about? I missed it and of course am just too lazy to search for it.

On Saturday? About an Arsenal player going down injured in the build up to Tottenham's goal and Spurs playing on.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Number of Englishmen in Liverpool's CL final XI: 2
Number of Englishmen in Arsenal's likely CL final XI: 2 if Ashley Cole recovers in time

Arsenal are no less English than Liverpool. It doesn't matter who represents the team, an English side is an English side. They play in England, the vast majority of fans are English and the heartbeat of the club is English. Try telling any of the fans they have no right to be proud of what their club's achieved because their players are foreign.

Big football clubs are just companies - some are just more obvious than others, like Manure for instance. I don't see why I or anyone should feel great attachment to a company particularly. Fans and the 'heartbeat of the club' are irrelevant because they're companies - they difference they make to the company is minimal. I like to see English players do well, but if a team like the CDMs or Liverpool barely has any English players I couldn't give a toss really (apart from the fact that Liverpool 'won' on penalties anyway, which is just completely lame really) and I said as much in the 2004-2005 thread, so yea the CDMs are no less English than a barely English side.

 

[Scaly piscine]

We had two players injured, They played on & scored. Wenger basically accused them of cheating. Bit OTT, poor sportsmanship at worst.

Two CDMs players collided with each other, one got up immediately the other looked he was getting up before going back to the deck. Carrick dawdled on the ball a bit while he was looking up for players to pass to - this is about the only time where the player being down could have made any difference, two quick passes followed and Davids got down the side and the resulting cross was tapped in at the back post.

CDMs' chief also called them liars.

These days I think teams should just carry on playing when players are injured - players deliberately stay down to stop the attack, as the CDMs experienced tonight. Obviously the exception is if a goalkeeper is down. The game goes on anyway when a player is off getting treatment.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Two CDMs players collided with each other, one got up immediately the other looked he was getting up before going back to the deck. Carrick dawdled on the ball a bit while he was looking up for players to pass to - this is about the only time where the player being down could have made any difference, two quick passes followed and Davids got down the side and the resulting cross was tapped in at the back post.

CDMs' chief also called them liars.

These days I think teams should just carry on playing when players are injured - players deliberately stay down to stop the attack, as the CDMs experienced tonight. Obviously the exception is if a goalkeeper is down. The game goes on anyway when a player is off getting treatment.

As I said previously re the T*ttenham goal, my only gripe was that Davids appeared to be offside when he received the ball.

Ultimately it's the referee's job to ensure player safety, in this case he deduced (correctly IMHO) that neither player was seriously hurt. Wenger's comments were borne out of frustration.

 

[Barney Rubble]

Big football clubs are just companies - some are just more obvious than others, like Manure for instance. I don't see why I or anyone should feel great attachment to a company particularly. Fans and the 'heartbeat of the club' are irrelevant because they're companies - they difference they make to the company is minimal. I like to see English players do well, but if a team like the CDMs or Liverpool barely has any English players I couldn't give a toss really (apart from the fact that Liverpool 'won' on penalties anyway, which is just completely lame really) and I said as much in the 2004-2005 thread, so yea the CDMs are no less English than a barely English side.

I always wondered who you actually supported - is the answer no-one? If not, I've probably just missed something somewhere.

 

[marc71178]

Who was the guy in some second division team that kicked the ball into his own face and it deflected into the goals, hence resulting in him scoring an own goal?

I caught it on the TV here - what a classic!

 

[roseboy64]

I always wondered who you actually supported - is the answer no-one? If not, I've probably just missed something somewhere.

I think he has a liking for some lower division team.

 

[luckyeddie]

I always wondered who you actually supported - is the answer no-one? If not, I've probably just missed something somewhere.

Scaly's a Scrabble freak, therefore the team he supports ought to be St Johnstone, the only side where he can play his 'J'

 

[simmy]

Arsenal through after the most dull game in history. Final should be imcredible

 

[Craig]

Dunno why the vegetable is bothering to watch West Ham v Middlesbrough, he'd never lower himself and pick a player from outside the big teams anyway.

Which is why he has picked the likes of Stewart Downing, Andy Johnson, David James (especially when he was in the old Div 1), Keiran Richardson (remember he was at West Brom when he was first picked) and many more?

 

[Craig]

Never in any doubt.

Nah, seriously my hands are ****ing shaking as I type. Riquelme really didn't fancy it, did he? The great white hope of Argentina is a bottle-job!

Bring on AC!

Don't they have to beat Barcelona to do that since Barca won 1-0 at the GM, San Siro last week?

 

[BoyBrumby]

Don't they have to beat Barcelona to do that since Barca won 1-0 at the GM, San Siro last week?

I said it more out of hope than expectation. I'd far sooner play a team with the oldest back 4 ever than Barca.

 

[Pedro Delgado]

I caught it on the TV here - what a classic!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1csQG0ZciFQ

That's class.