*Official* English Football Season 2006-07

[Magrat Garlick]

Henrique Hilário.

Hilarious...

 

[aussie]

Seaman 96 > Robinson
G Neville 96 > G Neville 2006 (slightly)
Adams > Terry
Southgate > Ferdinand
Pearce > Carragher
McManaman >>>>> Parker
Gascoigne = Lampard
Platt >>>> Carrick
Anderton > Ashley Cole (as far as left wing is concerned anyway)
Sheringham > Crouch
Shearer > Rooney, slightly.

fair enough, but that wasn't a full stenght England side in Croatia, with everyone fit the best XI would be:

Robinson

Neville
Terry
Ferdinand
Cole

Gerrard
Lampard
Hargreaves
Cole

Rooney
Owen

I'd presume that Seaman, Adams & Gascoigne were better than Robinson, Ferdinand & Lampard at their peaks, not sure about the others.

 

[aussie]

Some interesting premiership games today, United were brilliant especially in the second half although i must say Baines has looked brilliant of late, the gunners had a stroll nice to see Walcott getting a start, Liverpool still stuttering a bit, Chelsea won but obviously they will be hoping that one of Cech or Cudicini are fit for the BIG clash vs Barcelona & the presence of Mascherano & Tevez don't seem to helping West Ham at all.

I guess Gareth Barry deserves to be called up after another top performance today but unless England come good its no big deal.

 

[aussie]

Come on, Barry’s nothing more than a decent Premiership pro. Also where would he feature? We already have a left midfielder who has no pace or dribbling ability and left back is out of the question considering his defensive aptitude.

true but at least the bloke is performing, Downing is young hopefully he can get better no need exposing him to international football where he looks out of depth & when he does bad the media crucifies him and it dents his confidence.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Just back from New Highbury. It's a seriously impressive stadium; "big" is the adjective that most comes to mind.

I was seated right at the back (row 33 of 33 in the uppermost tier) & still had a perfect view. It shows what can be achieved when the money & the will is there.

Game was pretty run-of-the-mill TBF; Watford game but limited & Arsenal never really got out of second gear. Theo looked quality whenever he got the ball, pace always scares defenders & he has it in abundance. Hoyte's not quite up to the job tho, sad to say.

My favourite chant was an interesting variation on the old "one man went to mow" regarding our ex-left back which may or may not be slanderous so I'll refrain from sharing, but this ode to every Arsenal fan's favourite pasta dish ran it a close second. To the tune of That's Amore:

When the spurs start to cry,
'cos they didn't qualify,
That's lasagne

Incidentally, certain posters may be interested to know that three times the travelling Hornet fans bust into a chant of "Thierry Henry, Thierry Henry...". Nice to know some football fans appreciate class.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Just back from New Highbury. It's a seriously impressive stadium; "big" is the adjective that most comes to mind.

I was seated right at the back (row 33 of 33 in the uppermost tier) & still had a perfect view. It shows what can be achieved when the money & the will is there.

Game was pretty run-of-the-mill TBF; Watford game but limited & Arsenal never really got out of second gear. Theo looked quality whenever he got the ball, pace always scares defenders & he has it in abundance. Hoyte's not quite up to the job tho, sad to say.

My favourite chant was an interesting variation on the old "one man went to mow" regarding our ex-left back which may or may not be slanderous so I'll refrain from sharing, but this ode to every Arsenal fan's favourite pasta dish ran it a close second. To the tune of That's Amore:

When the spurs start to cry,
'cos they didn't qualify,
That's lasagne

Incidentally, certain posters may be interested to know that three times the travelling Hornet fans bust into a chant of "Thierry Henry, Thierry Henry...". Nice to know some football fans appreciate class.

There's a first time for everything, except that.

 

[Neil Pickup]

Well, on Monday the big clubs are drawn into the FA Cup as we see how the Fourth Qualifying Round will pan out when the Conference sides enter. Here's how the lowest-ranked teams left, at level five of the non-league pyramid (level nine overall) got on:

Ridgeons Eastern Counties Premier
Solihull Borough 1-2 WISBECH TOWN

Sport Italia Hellenic Premier
Bashley 1-2 HUNGERFORD TOWN

Polymac Services Midland Alliance
QUORN 0-0 Brackley Town
Kettering Town v ROCESTER
Bishop's Stortford 2-0 STRATFORD TOWN

Arngrove Northern League One
DURHAM CITY 0-1 Barrow
WHITLEY BAY 2-2 Blyth Spartans
Guiseley 0-1 NEWCASTLE BENFIELD BAY PLASTICS

North West Counties One
TRAFFORD 0-1 Harrogate Town

Sussex County One
Maidenhead United 3-1 WORTHING UNITED

However, the story of the round came from level six (ten) Haverhill Rovers against Kidsgrove, two levels above them. With three minutes to play they were a goal down, but Ant Banford and Marcus Hunt fired the Hamlet Croft outfit into the Fourth Qualifying round in front of 669 delirious fans...

Ridgeons Eastern Counties One
HAVERHILL ROVERS 2-1 Kidsgrove Athletic

 

[Matteh]

Even Blair is laughing at you now Scaly.

 

[Matteh]

Bishop's Stortford 2-0 STRATFORD TOWN

That's my local side out. Suprised they even made it that far tbh.

 

[grecian]

Just back from New Highbury. It's a seriously impressive stadium; "big" is the adjective that most comes to mind.

I was seated right at the back (row 33 of 33 in the uppermost tier) & still had a perfect view. It shows what can be achieved when the money & the will is there.

Game was pretty run-of-the-mill TBF; Watford game but limited & Arsenal never really got out of second gear. Theo looked quality whenever he got the ball, pace always scares defenders & he has it in abundance. Hoyte's not quite up to the job tho, sad to say.

My favourite chant was an interesting variation on the old "one man went to mow" regarding our ex-left back which may or may not be slanderous so I'll refrain from sharing, but this ode to every Arsenal fan's favourite pasta dish ran it a close second. To the tune If That's Amore:

When the spurs start to cry,
'cos they didn't qualify,
That's lasagne

Incidentally, certain posters may be interested to know that three times the travelling Hornet fans bust into a chant of "Thierry Henry, Thierry Henry...". Nice to know some football fans appreciate class.

Sounds a great day Brumbers, glad you had a good time.

I was at the theatre of crass commercialism in about the 98th row, and though it was the greatest day of my footballing life, I could hardly see owt, other then in the last 10 minutes that cheating git diving everywhere.

 

[steds]

Ah, as sure as night follows day, chief poseur scores against rubbish like Watford.

As much as he'd like to play Chelsea every week, it's pretty hard for him to, given the transfer window and all...

 

[sledger]

the gunners had a stroll

sounds like they were stretched at times and were let off by awful watford finishing actually, but nice to see walcott get a run out, sounds like he did well, but didnt get to see motd.

 

[BoyBrumby]

sounds like they were stretched at times and were let off by awful watford finishing actually, but nice to see walcott get a run out, sounds like he did well, but didnt get to see motd.

Not really stretched as such, just some terribly half-arsed defending at times.

 

[sledger]

somewhat surprising really as since gallas has arrived its looked a lot better, was hoyte in to replace eboue? and did clichy make an appearance?

 

[roseboy64]

by the way that he isnt as good as people make out, hes not bad, but hes overweight, has a tendancy to punch perfectly catchable crosses and such like, and chris kirkland when fully fit is far better.

Looks to me like he's just big not overweight. What's wrong if he punches instead of catching? I'll look at Man Utd v Wigan match soon and see how I rate Kirkland. From the little that I've seen he's nothing special.

 

[Neil Pickup]

Looks to me like he's just big not overweight. What's wrong if he punches instead of catching? I'll look at Man Utd v Wigan match soon and see how I rate Kirkland. From the little that I've seen he's nothing special.

Catching ends the danger. Punching postpones it.

 

[marc71178]

Henrique Hilário.

Quite a funny name that!

 

[Scaly piscine]

Looks to me like he's just big not overweight. What's wrong if he punches instead of catching? I'll look at Man Utd v Wigan match soon and see how I rate Kirkland. From the little that I've seen he's nothing special.

He might not look special (do good keepers ever over a short period?), but he's better than Robinson in my opinion. You have to remember Kirkland is like 6' 6" so he'll get to things other keepers don't (and maybe not getting to low shots on occasion too) as well as being a bit more imposing. Trouble is if he's injured so often as he is then it's disrupting to a side to have to keep changing keepers.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Catching ends the danger. Punching postpones it.

Yep, as happened with Macedonia's first goal.

 

[marc71178]

I was seated right at the back (row 33 of 33 in the uppermost tier) & still had a perfect view. It shows what can be achieved when the money & the will is there.

To be fair when I went OT we were back of the highest stand and had a perfect view.

Didin't stop it being the worst ground for atmosphere I've experienced.