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*Official* English Football Season 2006-07

Matteh

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
aussie said:
can't know about everyone can i?, i'm sure if i asked people on this forum who Adidja Palmer is few if any could tell me, but its no issue...
Adidja Palmer is a big name footballer?
 

aussie

Hall of Fame Member
another impressive game for Gareth Barry, now if i don't see him in the friendly in Amsterdam, well i won't have pleasant words for Mclers..
 

Neil Pickup

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aussie said:
can't know about everyone can i?, i'm sure if i asked people on this forum who Adidja Palmer is few if any could tell me, but its no issue...
Worst analogy ever. We aren't posting in a DJing thread. We're posting in a football thread. And for that we expect a working knowledge of six-time Spanish Champions with 47 International caps.
 

PY

International Coach
And a target for United for a good two years as well.

And don't try and tell me you didn't google that name Neil. :p
 

Craig

World Traveller
Why is after scoring a goal and running up to the fans and hugging them a bookable offence? I mean Shevchenko and Ballack never left the field.

It was a good game that and I thought Pompey did defend well enough for a good portion of the game, certaintly if it had been against a weaker team (not calling Pompey weak, far from it, I hope you know what I mean) and their finishing was better Chelsea could have racked up 5.
 

Pothas

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
very strange game at Brentford yesterday. Managed to get their keeper sent off after 25 mins and had no keeper on the bench so a defender was in goal for the rest of the match(Chelsea think they have problems.) This resulted in a scuffle which envolved pretty much every player on the pitch. Gillingham scored the resulting penalty but then the bees hit back masivly with 2 goals to lead 2-1 at half time. Unfortunatly Gilingham managed to get an eqauliers. 2-2 but an eventfull game.
 

Matteh

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Mansfield 3 v 0 Wrexham

Can stop looking behind us at the small gap between us and relegation spots and more towards playoffs now.

What i learnt from yesterday's matches is that a) Daniele Dichio is still playing and that b) he's still scoring goals.
 

BoyBrumby

Englishman
Comedy marking from Liverpool for Scholes's goal. ManUre have been good value for it, in all honesty. A certain tubby little pikey continuing to disappoint tho.
 

Scaly piscine

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Craig said:
Why is after scoring a goal and running up to the fans and hugging them a bookable offence? I mean Shevchenko and Ballack never left the field.

It was a good game that and I thought Pompey did defend well enough for a good portion of the game, certaintly if it had been against a weaker team (not calling Pompey weak, far from it, I hope you know what I mean) and their finishing was better Chelsea could have racked up 5.
One of the excuses was that the fans all rush over to hug them and people get injured.
 

BoyBrumby

Englishman
Quality effort from Rio for their second. Great technique to bring the ball down & a lovely strike into the top corner.

I think that is pretty much that.
 

BoyBrumby

Englishman
Pothas said:
good to see liverpool failing once again, title hopes over for them already.
I'm no fan of Liverpool, God knows, but the Premiership badly needs to have something approaching a serious title race this year. I personally don't see one of the four best teams in the country being all but out of the race after only 9 games as a positive.

That said Liverpool looked very ordinary today, came looking to not get beaten & clearly lacked a plan B when they went behind.
 

Jungle Jumbo

International Vice-Captain
BoyBrumby said:
I'm no fan of Liverpool, God knows, but the Premiership badly needs to have something approaching a serious title race this year. I personally don't see one of the four best teams in the country being all but out of the race after only 9 games as a positive.

That said Liverpool looked very ordinary today, came looking to not get beaten & clearly lacked a plan B when they went behind.
As an Everton fan, I'm full of bias, but I can't help thinking that Benitez is living in ****oo land this season.

Gerrard is indisputably one of the best centre midfielders in the world at the moment, yet he remains stuck out on the right hand side. Benitez seems to think that his versatility (brought about because he is so strong in many different disciplines) means that he can play him out of position (i.e. wide right) to accomodate quite frankly poorer players down the centre of the park. Alonso looks well out of touch at the moment and offers little that Sissoko or Gerrard doesn't. Don't get me wrong - Alonso is a world-class passer of the ball - but surely he isn't good enough to play ahead of Gerrard. You build your side around your best players, not use their quality and adaptability as an excuse to play them elsewhere.

I feel going in with one up front was also a poor move. What sort of impression does that give the opposition. Kuyt is no proven goalscorer as yet either, and I don't think Crouch is really a classic targetman who can play alone.

If Liverpool are to become a world-class side, which they undoubtedly can, they also need to buck a trend that stretches back to the Houllier days in making poor signings. Rather than supplement their core players with some real quality, they instead bought Pennant (who wouldn't make several other Premiership sides' starting elevens), Fabio Aurelio, Gonzalez, Bellamy and Kuyt. Of them, IMO only Gonzalez and Kuyt are anywhere near top quality - Aurelio, Pennant and Bellamy are simply run of the mill. As much as I dislike the two, Wenger and Ferguson (the former in particular) have both made assured, thoughtful buys throughout their career with relatively few slip-ups. Benitez (although he is better than Houllier) appears to be buying two or three duff players for every successful buy.
 

Tom Halsey

International Coach
Excellent, another victory at the expense of the scousers, looking forward to watching the highlights of this. Shame that Arsenal are disposing of Reading comfortably though.
 

Pothas

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
BoyBrumby said:
I'm no fan of Liverpool, God knows, but the Premiership badly needs to have something approaching a serious title race this year. I personally don't see one of the four best teams in the country being all but out of the race after only 9 games as a positive.

That said Liverpool looked very ordinary today, came looking to not get beaten & clearly lacked a plan B when they went behind.
Well my hatred for Liverpool means im perfectly happy for a good race between the other big 4 clubs. It would also be nice to see someone else finnish in the top 4 at the expense of liverpool. That is still unlikely though.
 

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