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*Official* English Football Season 2006-07

Tom Halsey

International Coach
From listening to Spanish pundit Graham Hunter this afternoon his take on the sale of RVN slightly differs from that take. According to Hunter (who had a conversation with a member of the Man United board), Ruud was sold because they (the club) thought he was losing it somewhat and that he was going on downward spiral. A downward trend which could see him becoming European Golden Boot winner...
I can't see that being the case, given that his scoring ration last year was as good as it ever was, and all he was every any good at was scoring goals.
 

roseboy64

Cricket Web Content Updater
From listening to Spanish pundit Graham Hunter this afternoon his take on the sale of RVN slightly differs from that take. According to Hunter (who had a conversation with a member of the Man United board), Ruud was sold because they (the club) thought he was losing it somewhat and that he was going on downward spiral. A downward trend which could see him becoming European Golden Boot winner...
I can't see that being the case, given that his scoring ration last year was as good as it ever was, and all he was every any good at was scoring goals.
Agreed with Halsey on RVN. Had to be something else.
 

roseboy64

Cricket Web Content Updater
Fellas, really who follows La Liga here?. Can't believe nobdoy has mentioned one of the most dramatic days in football in a while. I was in the ardale almost all day with my girl and i made sure i was up to date with the scores.

Messi's hand of god is pretty much an dead ringer of Maradona's goal againts England & geez RVN's is sale to Madrid is probably the second worst deal behind the acquisition of Veron.
Was rather exciting. Watched the Madrid v Zaragoza match yesterday with insets of the Barca and sevilla matches occassionally. Was shocked when Madrid equalised around the same time Espanyol did. Meant for Real to win it IMO and I want them to mainly because of Beckham.
 

aussie

Hall of Fame Member
Agreed with Halsey on RVN. Had to be something else.
Seconded to that, but the reason its was a bad sale is that even if something had gone wrong he was barely having his first bad run ever for United & the fact that looking at United formation for next season, the regular talk is that United will adapt AC Milan's christmans tree formation, but that may not suite United since Rooney is not such a great target man which is true to a level, but TBH its not United will be playing too many long balls up to him anyway. But given that another striker will be bought but i can't but regret the fact that SAF sold him to real now..
 

Tom Halsey

International Coach
the regular talk is that United will adapt AC Milan's christmans tree formation
If that happens I'll shoot someone.

United is synonymous with the 4-4-2. Yes, that's a bit of a naive way to play if you want to get anywhere in Europe nowadays, I'd still rather see us use it as a template and buil off that. We play best with the 4-4-2.

Last season, we won the league largely down to playing 4-4-2 regularly for the first time in ages (this is before March-April time). When we abandoned this attacking policy against the European giants (read: when we bottled it) we didn't look all that.
 

roseboy64

Cricket Web Content Updater
Seconded to that, but the reason its was a bad sale is that even if something had gone wrong he was barely having his first bad run ever for United & the fact that looking at United formation for next season, the regular talk is that United will adapt AC Milan's christmans tree formation, but that may not suite United since Rooney is not such a great target man which is true to a level, but TBH its not United will be playing too many long balls up to him anyway. But given that another striker will be bought but i can't but regret the fact that SAF sold him to real now..
The style of football's better without him. No regrets IMO.
 

roseboy64

Cricket Web Content Updater
If that happens I'll shoot someone.

United is synonymous with the 4-4-2. Yes, that's a bit of a naive way to play if you want to get anywhere in Europe nowadays, I'd still rather see us use it as a template and buil off that. We play best with the 4-4-2.

Last season, we won the league largely down to playing 4-4-2 regularly for the first time in ages (this is before March-April time). When we abandoned this attacking policy against the European giants (read: when we bottled it) we didn't look all that.
With the players brought in and the size of the squad it'll be hard to see how he'll play everyone. He's the one in charge though and there'll be players leaving so....
 

Craig

World Traveller
For any of you Brits who may be interested, Serie A is back on channel 5 for next season. I would imagine aussie would be happy by this.
 

gio

U19 Cricketer
Would that be Channel 5 in Australia or Channel 5 in the UK?

I long for the day when Serie A returns to terrestrial TV.
 

BoyBrumby

Englishman
40 signs summer is here

Was just e-mailed this. Found it vaguely amusing.

1) Thierry Henry is off to Barcelona.

2) You keep checking the internet to see if you've signed someone. You just did it now.

3) And again. 4) The Mailbox is half as long as normal.

5) Thierry Henry is off to Real Madrid now.

6) ManUre release a new kit.

7) Football pundits find themselves shoehorned into covering other sports.

8) As do football journalists.

9) Someone English is cheered all the way to the fourth round of Wimbledon from Henman Hill or Murray Mount or somewhere.

10) Actually, Andrew Murray's ****ing Scottish, isn't he? Let's not cheer for him.

11) Sue Barker sits there and tells you it's a "Great British summer of sport".

12) You end up knowing the names of half the footballers' agents in the Premier League.

13) Old pros are forced to play football as satellite TV desperately scrabbles around for material.

14) Spurs target a top-four finish.

15) Your skin has gone a funny lobster colour and hurts.

16) Golf seems interesting.

17) Everyone gets excited waiting for the fixture list. Ooh, we play every team twice! Once home and once away! I can't wait!

18) You actually start to miss Alan Hansen.

19) Cricket is the new football.

20) You try to convince yourself that the awful player linked with your club has just been misunderstood in the past.

21) And as for those players you've never heard of, well, best check their stats on Football Manager. That'll work.

22) You start to fancy Clare Balding.

23) Sky Sports News is even duller than normal.

24) Fernando Torres is linked with a move to the Premiership. (Note: In previous years, this role was regularly filled by Benni McCarthy).

25) You tell yourself staying up all night to watch the Copa America and MLS is normal.

26) It's Liverpool's year.

27) You suddenly realise you've got a wife and kids and that you haven't spoken to them for nine months. And they hate you.

28) You contemplate seeing if you can find your old Subbuteo set in the loft.

29) You persuade your family this year's holiday should be in Norway just so you can watch live football. Brann are top, you know, and Odd Grenland have only won once. Fascinating.

30) You persuade yourself the Intertoto Cup is really great.

31) You start craving cold lager at 10am every day.

32) You get so desperate that you start watching Eurosport 2 in the hope some football comes on.

33) You find yourself travelling 100 miles on a bus to watch the youth team's reserves playing a pre-season friendly.

34) You realise it's 3pm on a Saturday afternoon and you're holding your missus' bags in Top Shop. And even though she's trying to talk to you, all you're thinking is 'Ooh, I remember when Top Man used to sponsor Leeds'.

35) You love being top four or hate being in the relegation zone. Even though the league is entirely alphabetical.

36) You breathe a sigh of relief when you realise pre-season friendlies start in the first week of July. Because watching your out-of-shape side play Stevenage is just great, isn't it?

37) Newcastle sign 15 players. Only one of them is a defender.

38) You start to work out how many players it would take for your side to break into the Big Four. Then you think how great it would be if you somehow won your first ten games and managed to stay ahead of the rest and be in with a shout of the league.

39) You convince yourself it's worth sticking a quid on it at 2500/1 odds. 50p, at least.

40) You put the other 50p on ManYoo getting relegated at 7500/1. Anything's possible, right?
 

Magrat Garlick

Global Moderator
29) You persuade your family this year's holiday should be in Norway just so you can watch live football. Brann are top, you know, and Odd Grenland have only won once. Fascinating.
Quite correct. (At least until the next round of games on Sunday.)

In case of severe abstinence symptoms, I recommend a trip to Aspmyra to watch Bodø/Glimt. There's nothing quite like a July clash with Sparta in 10 degrees, rain, and gale force winds on astroturf.
 

GIMH

Norwood's on Fire
Ha! So much for all Tranmere's "We are not scousers, we're from Birkenhead" chanting. :p
We're not scousers :p but my Dad is from Liverpool so I guess that'd make me a half-scouser :)

As much as I always deny being a scouser (born in Birkenhead, always lived in Wirral, support the Whites) I'll always stick up for em.

Though the yawn was [IN JEST] :)
 

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