*Official* English Football Season 2005-06

[BoyBrumby]

Don't worry we all know your wearing white really....three teams?? That's just cheating man!

All diff comps, TBF: one in Premier League's site, one in Sportal & one in my work's one based on Telegraph.

 

[twctopcat]

All diff comps, TBF: one in Premier League's site, one in Sportal & one in my work's one based on Telegraph.

Should still be the same one in every comp - bunse permitting. You gooners just never play by the rules....

 

[Scaly piscine]

Hopefully Jenas will score an own goal, before he and Defoe have a punch up and they both get sent off. That would be quite handy for the FPL.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Should still be the same one in every comp - bunse permitting. You gooners just never play by the rules....

Hey! You've just made my irony-ometer explode!!!

 

[twctopcat]

Hey! You've just made my irony-ometer explode!!!

Truth hurts dont it?

 

[aussie]

Has anyone noticed my inconspicuous abscence? I'm absolutely hopping mad at United's performances, absolutely awful, especially after a pleasant surprise and a decent start. I've said it a few times and I'll say it again. Fergie out!

unfortunately i'm begginning to feel that way myself.....

 

[roseboy64]

attempting to clear the ball but just ballooning it up over the area, and once it came down after all that time it ended up in the net, should have been an easy clearance for a "worlclass defender" but rather ended up in being a goal.

I didn't see that. Unless you're talking about before Scholes' error?

 

[roseboy64]

Has anyone noticed my inconspicuous abscence? I'm absolutely hopping mad at United's performances, absolutely awful, especially after a pleasant surprise and a decent start. I've said it a few times and I'll say it again. Fergie out!

Who would you have replace him? I suppose you want him to go out there and score too because unless i missed something United have created chances but somehow can't seem to hit the back of the net. It's only van Nistelrooy that's scoring. Scholes looks a shadow of his former self. Wonder how he'll go fo rthe rest of the season.

 

[Sir Redman]

Ey! Go Gamst and Norway!

They had a Kiwi captain, so we'll take the credit thank you very much.

 

[Craig]

Well if the EPL is boring and you have access to it, watch the Italian game instead, the title race is hotting up and there have been some surprises already, and as a matter of fact in the first four rounds the average was 2.6 goals per game compared to the 2.1 in England.

And of course Chelsea just go for the 1-0 win and not play positively and sometimes as it can be said it can be pretty boring. Lately I am finding the Spanish game (been watching it heaps because ESPN have been showing it instead of Serie A) to be pretty exciting.

It is a good thing though that my local team actually play a 4-3-3 formation (not like Chelsea's).

Here is something to read: http://www.goal.com/NewsDetail.aspx?idNews=88999&idSez=12

(some of the comments are worth reading but a lot of them are just rubbish and I ignore them)

 

[sledger]

I didn't see that. Unless you're talking about before Scholes' error?

i was.

 

[Barney Rubble]

Who would you have replace him? I suppose you want him to go out there and score too because unless i missed something United have created chances but somehow can't seem to hit the back of the net. It's only van Nistelrooy that's scoring. Scholes looks a shadow of his former self. Wonder how he'll go fo rthe rest of the season.

Scholes has been awful for the last three years, I'm glad he retired from international football - if he hadn't, Sven would have yet another midfielder to play in every single game regardless of form or fitness.

The common assumption seems to be that van Nistelrooy is hitting good form again - in fact, he's not playing any better than he was last year, he just happens to have received a few more lucky bounces and deflections this season. He only ever scores tap-ins, which everyone knows and which he's been doing for years, but he gets in the right positions a lot, and this year, despite the lack of crosses for him to get on the end of, the ball seems to be falling to him in the six yard box more often. His general play - i.e. linking the forward line together, holding up the ball (that's pretty much all he does) - hasn't been anything special at all.

 

[Tom Halsey]

Agreed, Scholes hasn't been up to much for a while. Infact, van Nistelrooy aside, no-one has - although I'm encouraged by van der Saar's start.

 

[Barney Rubble]

Agreed, Scholes hasn't been up to much for a while. Infact, van Nistelrooy aside, no-one has - although I'm encouraged by van der Saar's start.

Yes, van der Sar has (rather ironically given that he came from Fulham for only a million, and the rest supposedly are worth tens of millions each) been United's best player by a mile this season. Although I can't help thinking that once Cristiano Ronaldo gets a few more games under his belt and a bit more match sharpness he could end up carrying the side's attacking intent for at least a while this year. Last year was really his breakthrough year for mine - cementing his place as a definite starter for Portugal and United, now he has to push on and prove he is capable of shouldering the responsibility of being a key player for a team that claims to believe it can win the title.

 

[BoyBrumby]

I actually think Park Ji-sung (sp?) has started ok too. I didn't see much of him at PSV (maybe Broncoman could fill us in?), but he looked useful in the CL semi against AC(admittedly it was his foul-up that cost PSV in the end). Certainly a better signing than (titter) Kleberson or (guffaw) Djemba-Djemba.

 

[Tom Halsey]

Certainly a better signing than (titter) Gilberto and (guffaw) Cygan, too.

 

[Barney Rubble]

A very good signing, actually - one of the better ones Fergie has made. No-one talks about the fact that Fergie actually has a distinctly mediocre record in the transfer market - he's made a load of big-name signings that anyone with half a brain could have made, but he's made a lot of duff ones (and not of the Damien variety, either) recently as well.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Certainly a better signing than (titter) Gilberto and (guffaw) Cygan, too.

I'll give you Cygan, but Gilberto's quality. Not his fault he broke his back last year!

Or should I mention Bellion, Saha, Forlan, Smith.....

 

[Barney Rubble]

Smith.....

He wasn't that bad a signing - but there's never any point in signing someone if you're going to go and sign two other guys who are better than him straight away anyway. Now Keane's too old, and Fergie's both too poor to buy Ballack and too stubborn to admit he was wrong to sign Smith - ergo, Smith ends up playing the Keane role, and throwing away his international career.

 

[BoyBrumby]

He wasn't that bad a signing - but there's never any point in signing someone if you're going to go and sign two other guys who are better than him straight away anyway. Now Keane's too old, and Fergie's both too poor to buy Ballack and too stubborn to admit he was wrong to sign Smith - ergo, Smith ends up playing the Keane role, and throwing away his international career.

Don't rate the little thug at all, sorry. A forward who can't score in a brothel (unlike certain other ManUre strikers ) is slowly being transformed into a midfielder who can't tackle.