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I think football and people's personal life should be kept separate. I don't think Terry should get a 1 match ban for sleeping with someone's ex. If it happens off the field, it should stay off the field.

Quite what Arthur is suggesting is something else entirely.

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I think we should make a special case just this once! Maybe the entire team should be forced to forfeit the next match and think about what they have done! Like detention.

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Ahh, penny has dropped.

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I can`t see John Terry giving Wayne Bridges misses a going over on the pitch! Would be much more exciting than the football though (especially if it`s Chelsea):)

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The problem is you can't be sure. You turn your back for a just a moment and BAM he's taken your wife. Players don't need that. :p:

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Seriously though. This was quite an obvious decision. A captain doesn't have much to do but he needs the respect of his teammates and help the teams morale and cohesion. Sleeping with another players ex-girlfriend who is also the mother of his child undermines that.

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I can't believe how a relatively minor situation has been blown completely out of proportion. An informal comment from the health minister has been dragged through politics, now Gordon Brown has chimed in and now people are questioning Platini about it.

Have people really lost their minds?

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Yup. Ages ago. I agree with the decision but it's over now.

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Anyone watching game on Sky. What was the song they just had before they went for the break. Something to do with rain.

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Just watched Wengers post-match interview, his excuses for losing today - 1. He has a younger side, 2. Having a lot of big games on the trot, 3. Not having as much recovery time.

He doesn't learn.

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Really because I heard him say that the defending from the corner and set-pieces were poor and that Chelsea defended well:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...al/8503223.stm

He is asked about the team as a whole and the tendency to lose to the big teams and it is then he talks about the youth of the side, and the poor fortune of the run in.

So you ignored the actual reasons he gave for the loss and choose to take out of context the answer he gave when questioned about the loss to big teams. Rather sad...Still well Done. You can now work for the Sun.

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I haven't taken anything out of context, he said all of those things didn't he? If he didn't want to be seen as being a sore loser he didn't have to say those things and also moaning about the goalkeeper going across his goal to take a goal kick :rolleyes:

It just amazed me how he can make the point about having a young side being a reason for why they've lost the last two games.

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Ok, i'll change my original post from excuses for losing today, to excuses for losing against the big teams (which includes todays games). I don't see how it's sad, listening to a post-match interview and picking up on a couple of points he made.

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Yes he said those things. Taking things out of context means you remove the context and portray a certain part of what is said as indictive of the whole thing. You said it was his excuses for the loss but you left out the part where he talks about the defending and the set-pieces.

In fact he didn't give the reasons you gave to the question of why they lost today. He gave in response to this question:

"You have sweep aside an awful lot of teams in this league yet over the last 18 months when you have played Chelsea and Manchester United you invariably have lost?"

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Because those points out of context make it look like he was blind to the awful defending of Arsenal and the great defending of Chelsea when he in fact mentioned those things. He just said he feels that on top of that, over the last 18 months, Arsenal's inexperience as been a factor against the top sides and that Arsenal were unlucky in the fixture list. Which there were. Both of these losses are not fatal if spread out but two in a row gives a big physiological blow.

It reminds me of the whole hassle over when he said Drogba does do much when what he actually said was he doesn't appear to do much but can then score two goals from nowhere.

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This is interesting:

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2010/02/81.jpg

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2010/02/82.jpg

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2010/02/83.jpg

http://hypebeast.com/2010/01/kehinde...life-lacelets/

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In slightly better news I managed to get tickets to Arsenal vs Liverpool Wednesday. Good side to teams doing bad: Plastics give up their tickets*

*Not that I have evidence that happened here.

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I see Liverpool fans showed their class again on the weekend, holding up a Steaua Bucharest 1986 banner taunting Everton fans because that was the year they were banned from the European cup, which Bucharest won. The reason they were banned? The Heysel disaster the year before. Some Liverpool fans don't know their own history, basically celebrating the fact 39 innocent people were killed.

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2010/02/80.jpg