*Official* English Football Season 2009-2010

[sledger]

We got well beat, at home again, from Norwich yesterday.

You it's not going to be your day when our ex centre half (Mickey Nelson) who has been booed and taunted since the beginning of game, who was only playing because one of the regular centre halfs was injured, scores an unbelievable overhead scissors kick into the top corner about 15 mins into the game. When he played for us (which was only 3 months ago) he had all the skill & coordination of a epileptic rhino.

It wasn't all bad though one of the Norwich fans was leaning over the barriers giving the V's & w@*ker signs fell over the barriers landed on his head & knocked himself out so not a total loss of a day.

 

[aussie]

Saw Inter vs Milan @ a pub on saturday night. Didn't realize Inter bought Thigo Motta & Lucio. Real Madrid vs Barca/Inter would be the perfect CL Final this year.

 

[duffer]

Bloody hell Nic, you could've forever been my hero:

 

[duffer]

And a massive massive heh @ Aiden McGeady getting a second yellow for guess what?

Ban him, ban him!

 

[cpr]

Hehe, yeah Rooney kinda realised he'd got the diving header all wrong the second he attempted it, he just screwed his eyes up and braced for the boot he was gonna get, the look of relief when he opened them and found he was still alive was funny

Mind some referee's would've blown for high foot then! (happened to Berba opening day, free kick against him because the brum defender tried a header at thigh height and missed)

 

[duffer]

Haha the FA are going to apologise to Arsene for sending him off. Only acceptable solution imo would be to ban Dean and Probert forever.

 

[Craig]

Fiorentina made an official approach for Matthew Upson.

Be refreshing if Upson agrees to the move and why shouldn't he. They have Champions League football, he will be living in a beautiful city, enjoying an even more wonderful lifestyle and it's a completely new culture for him to experience.

More English footballers should be playing abroad.

As long as they don't make any Ian Rush type comments. Yeah I agree, Florence is a fantastic city and a lot of the locals who can speak English, speak it well.

 

[Craig]

Saw Inter vs Milan @ a pub on saturday night. Didn't realize Inter bought Thigo Motta & Lucio. Real Madrid vs Barca/Inter would be the perfect CL Final this year.

And Diego Milito

Everton agree £5m Heitinga deal - bbc.co.uk/sport

 

[Uppercut]

Wenger's having a wee moan about all his pretty little players getting tackled too much again.

BBC SPORT | Football | Premier League | Wenger fury at 'repeated fouls'

 

[duffer]

Remember being bemused during the match at how he wasn't booked. Think Arsene has a point about persistent fouling tbh.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Was a weird game, Saturday. It's not often a losing team get to so thoroughly patronise the winning team who happen to be champions in the aftermatch analysis, but the consensus seems, even amongst ManUre fans, that the better side lost.

It's an awfully long time since I've seen a United side looks so thoroughly average either. When you're relying on a soon-to-be 36 year old, even one of Giggs's class, for a creative spark you know times are hard. Still struggle to believe Fergie won't invest before tomorrow.

 

[Agent TBY]

Everton agree £5m Heitinga deal - bbc.co.uk/sport

Wow Heitinga. He's slow as, but he looked really solid the few times I've watched him.

We so need a whole new right side, though.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Wow Heitinga. He's slow as, but he looked really solid the few times I've watched him.

We so need a whole new right side, though.

Heitinga can play on the right, can't he?

Not sure it's a great idea to have a slowpoke wingback in the PL, admittedly.

 

[sledger]

Plays right back for Atletico reguarly iirc, not sure why the hell he would want to make the jump to Everton and abandon CL football, but fair enough, good signing for Everton all the same.

 

[sledger]

Remember being bemused during the match at how he wasn't booked. Think Arsene has a point about persistent fouling tbh.

Yeah so do I, the amount of times Fletcher and Evra got away with it at the weekend before finally being cautioned was bordering on stupid.

 

[Uppercut]

Was a weird game, Saturday. It's not often a losing team get to so thoroughly patronise the winning team who happen to be champions in the aftermatch analysis, but the consensus seems, even amongst ManUre fans, that the better side lost.

It's an awfully long time since I've seen a United side looks so thoroughly average either. When you're relying on a soon-to-be 36 year old, even one of Giggs's class, for a creative spark you know times are hard. Still struggle to believe Fergie won't invest before tomorrow.

I don't rightly agree. The better side is the side that scores the most goals, because scoring goals is the aim of the game in football. Arsenal fans used to be notorious for calling themselves the better side because they made more chances, as if actually taking the chances was an irrelevant part of football.

In any case, a key part of playing well in football is not making ridiculously ******** mistakes and giving away goals. Arsenal did this, twice, so I find it hard to say they played particularly well.

I don't think we have a great side this year, but neither does anyone else so it's not a massive concern. Chelsea look like the team to beat for me.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Plays right back for Atletico reguarly iirc, not sure why the hell he would want to make the jump to Everton and abandon CL football, but fair enough, good signing for Everton all the same.

Think Atlético might be short of cash. Spent bucketloads last year only to finish fourth.

 

[sledger]

I don't rightly agree. The better side is the side that scores the most goals, because scoring goals is the aim of the game in football. Arsenal fans used to be notorious for calling themselves the better side because they made more chances, as if actually taking the chances was an irrelevant part of football.

In any case, a key part of playing well in football is not making ridiculously ******** mistakes and giving away goals. Arsenal did this, twice, so I find it hard to say they played particularly well.

I don't think we have a great side this year, but neither does anyone else so it's not a massive concern. Chelsea look like the team to beat for me.

I am in partial agreement with this. However, I think there is a difference between saying "X were the better team" and "X deserved to win". Personally, I think that unless there is some factor that is totally against your control that costs you the result, then you will not deserve to win unless you do, and if you win, you deserve it, end of. However, I think there is still room for a team to be the best team on the field and lose. In all honesty I believe that Arsenal were the better team, and Man Utd were ordinary. However, as Arsenal did not take their chances and made mistakes that Man Utd capitalised on I would also say that they did not deserve to win. In other words, Man Utd deserved to win, but Arsenal were the better side, imo anyway.

 

[sledger]

Think Atlético might be short of cash. Spent bucketloads last year only to finish fourth.

Hmm, shame, but hardly unsurprising I suppose. Would have thought they could have cashed in on one of their other players for a bit of extra cash rather than sell one of their best defenders for a fairly modest price. I imagine Forlan or Aguero would have fetched a decent amount, though obvoiusly I doubt they would have wanted to sell either of them.

 

[BoyBrumby]

I don't rightly agree. The better side is the side that scores the most goals, because scoring goals is the aim of the game in football. Arsenal fans used to be notorious for calling themselves the better side because they made more chances, as if actually taking the chances was an irrelevant part of football.

In any case, a key part of playing well in football is not making ridiculously ******** mistakes and giving away goals. Arsenal did this, twice, so I find it hard to say they played particularly well.

I don't think we have a great side this year, but neither does anyone else so it's not a massive concern. Chelsea look like the team to beat for me.

Not even close to being true. Association football places a uniquely high premium on scoring, so it's the football code where upsets are most likely to happen because teams having more possession/chances can be beaten by (say) mildly dodgy penalties or own goals.

But for Foster's foot the game was 2-0 and over to all intents & purposes. United never really looked like scoring until we had to chase the game and left gaps at the back.