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So what's going to be different from the last few years' efforts? The addition of Peter Crouch??

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The addition of Wayne Rooney. You must have heard of him, surely?

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Ah yes. The one player who will change England from being quarter-final losers in to World Cup winners??

Even I'm not that ambitious!

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Agreed he's one of the best Strikers in the world england would have won Euro
04 if he hadn’t got injured.

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Well, I don't think we'll win it, but having one of the world's best players in the side can't hurt. Remember we had Heskey alongside Owen against Brazil in 2002.

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Naturally I'm full of admiration for Rooney but the additon of him won't win it alone - the firepower is there (apart from when Crouch is up front) but I don't see it in the rest of the team. Beckham isn't the player he was 5 years ago (not that England came close to winning the World Cup - or anything - back then) and Rio is hardly firing on all cylinders. The Chelsea connection of Cole/Lampard/Terry (along with Rooney) is the only thing I think England can base their hopes on.

You still won't win though :D

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Bernabeu bosses plot January bid...........

NOTW

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Ooh, credible media source. Not. I'd possibly swap Henry for Fernando Torres, come next year. Him and Reyes are a top pairing. But how much better to have all three *drool*. OK, a man can dream.

http://www.sportinglife.com/football...l&TEAMHD=spain

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Bye Gary.

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Oh dear. :sorry:

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Which is odd, because I could have sworn that Argentina weren't in the North American group ;) :p:

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Argentina are currently top of the South American group

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Which has probably got something to do with them being a South American country, which was sort of my point :erm: ;)

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Yup :)

I'm more than Confident england will be a different side come next summer. :)

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To be honest I reckon if Rooney hadn't got injuried in Euro 2004 England would have won it.

I was at the match on Saturday, great atmosphere. Pity about the result. When we went 2-nil down the fans were singing "We're going to win 3-2" We nearly did it as well. Should have had a pen when the keeper brought Healy - if the Welsh one was a pen - that incident was a stone wall one.
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They also beat Brazil a couple of months ago.

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That was a great game better than some of the Resent england ones i reckon
If NI have got here act together sooner. thay may well be comeing to germany
To i can't wait for all the great football that's going to be played next summer.


The Mascots i kid you not. !

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Well, November the 12th, you'll be able to judge England against Argentina as we'll be playing them in a friendly in Geneva!

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Why Geneva oh i see Argentina can't Invade that. :D

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Neutral ground and I think it's a test run for abig game as they will be jointly hosting Euro 2008.

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Indeed. :tu:

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How have Argentina got away with co-hosting a European tournament?



;) :disturbd:

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think he was talking about the Swiss who are co-hosting Euro 08 with Austria

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:erm: I know ;)

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Hmm I have just noticed that we are almost a quarter of the way through the season already, premiership wise that is, and poor old Everton have only scored once all season and that was away from home :Yikes:

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That's just bad poor form :Yikes:

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Hard to believe that Everton finished 4th last season and qualified for the Champions League

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Under 21's latest, England 3 Poland 1 :tu:


An Omen for tomorrow maybe :erm:

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Nop england Aren’t that good. :)

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Don't forget we beat them in their own back yard.

btw U21's is now 4 - 1 England :tu:

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That's when me Actually played football thou. ;)

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Woodgate strikes again :D

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:rofl: that's hilarious and the guy wants to play in the world cup i think not. :rofl:

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Anyone see that funny news report that say Woman know more about football
Than men. :rofl: :rofl: :eek:

Edited

here it is

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Link

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Blatter's in a world of his own half the time i wish he'd just keep mute :mad:

Oh dear we may not get are game with Argentina after all. :mad: :td:

Turkish threat to England friendly

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Go on Bolton.............

HT Chelsea 0 Bolton 1 :hyper:

Latest: Chelsea 3 Bolton 1 :mad:

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Something needs to be done about Chelsea. There must be something illegal in Abramovich's fortune.

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:bigcry: I need a drink

World Cup Qualifiers
 

As an English person and and England football supporter I would like to say how disappointing it is that Wales, Northern Ireland and Eire have not qualified.

I always hope they do well - Good luck for Euro 2008.

I would also like to say how thrilled and delighted I am that Scotland have not qualified. But I hope their recent run of 1 result helped lift them above the Faroe Islands in the world rankings.

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No no no no no no no :mad:

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Gives marky a beer there's always next week. :)

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The game IS at Stamford Bridge - not many teams are going to get points there. Bolton have a pretty good record against Chelski so here's to the return fixture :)

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Cheers drinks :beer: :mis: :beer: :drunk:

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That can't be right final score say West Brom 2-1 Arsenal I'm seeing things Right. :eek:

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Bwahahahaha!! :D

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I’ve bet £25 on a portsmouth win. :D :tu:

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I bet £100000 0 that bolton lose :rolleyes:

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FT Sunderland 1 Man Utd 3 :tu:

Spurs go 2nd :Yikes:

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Ah well, no Arsenal fans on CF for a week or so then :D

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Indeed thay only seem to come here when thay are winning :D

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BORO V PORTSMOUTH


TEAMS:
Middlesbrough: Schwarzer; Parnaby, Riggott, Southgate (Capt), Pogatetz, Maccarone, Boateng, Doriva, Queudrue, Rochemback, Yakubu. Subs: Knight (gk); Bates, Mendieta, Hasselbaink, Viduka.

Portsmouth: Ashdown; Priske, O'Brien, Stefanovic (Capt), Griffin, O'Neil, Viafara, Vukic, Taylor, Robert, Silva. Subs: Westerveld (gk); Vignal, Skopelitis, Songo'o, Todorov.



Wityh these 3 on the subs bench (Mendieta, Hasselbaink, Viduka.) I hope Boro are going to give Portsmouth a very hard time.

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SPURS 2nd
yes
yes
yes
yes

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forest won too :woot:

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Leics first away win for a loooong time :)

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So Nugget what you think about the Derby later :)

yesman don't worry oxford lost too :hugs:

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We have not won away from home this season yet, I am getting used to the let downs :(

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Na Im here graceful in defeat :D

Again na some of us die hard long term fans are here no matter what :D

Not afraid to say a **** poor performance from us today and thats it end of.

Unlike some who will blame the lack or performance due to the absence of Henry, Campbell, Cole, Van Persie and Hleb.

Admittedly there were a few good saves from Kirkland but as an Arsenal fan another **** poor performance from us and we have not won away since May.

Grrrrr title is in the bag for Chelski again but at least we have consolation that they again have pretty much bought it not won it.

:D

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Agreed - and I think it's amazing at the number of Chelsea supporters in denial who still won't admit they bought the title - but isn't it funny that their success seemed to coincide with Abramovich buying the club....

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Funny man u fans still going on about chelsea buying the title yet 2 years ago man u were in a spending league far apart from the rest of the league and in that position themselves.

One good thing about chelsea winning the title, man u **** dont win it :D

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Being in a spending league apart from the rest and buying success are two VERY different things! Was there ever a season where United previously had very little success and bought a handful of very expensive players and won the title the very next year?

Clue: No.

Yep! However buying the title as opposed to winning it kind of takes the shine off the achievement, don't you think? :)

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That's the mancs for ya!

Any club would buy the best players possible if they had a blank cheque,
getting them players to gel and the right manager to do it is the tricky bit.

The mancs need to realize that time is up,the good players have gone and Ferguson's luck has ran out.
How much did he buy Veron and Ferdinand for?

Well done Chelsea, i hope they kick ass until we (Liverpool) are ready to challenge them.

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I am not a fan of one team been untouchable tho if at xmas chelsea is played 18 won 18 I will be dissapointed.

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No mention of the fact he pushed the defender prior to his header then :rolleyes:

Yahoo Sport

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I'm not sure I can wait that long :)

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Oh Dear another one :rolleyes: this time it is a boro' player

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Cheeky git! :(

Mind you,we wont be able to play for laughing if Everton get relegated. :)

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Being a Scouseland fan, you have good experience with that sort of thing, haven't you - remember Dagleish leaving? Coinciding with the once-powerful Liverpool becoming a bunch of also-rans and staying that way for the best part of the 90s.

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DALGLISH leaving wasn't our downfall,Souness taking over was!

Shankly,Paisley,Fagan and Dalglish all left strong teams,
will Ferguson do that?
He should have left years ago,now he'll get the American boot if they don't win anything this year.

Mancs live in their own little world,they need to wake up.

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Who's been a bad boy than :mad:

Xavier suspended after drugs test

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C'MON!!!!!! We've finally beaten those blue monkeys from the other side of town :D

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Daglish left a strong team? Like that did them any good....

He went to Blackburn and won them the league.

He was more to do with scouse success than the team he left.

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...err,i didn't say he wasn't!

I said our downfall was due to Souness, getting rid of the players and changing too many things in the routine at Anfield.

Still don't know what your point is!

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What a joke this is - Link

It was a Disgraceful challenge and Rob Styles said it should have been a red card when he saw it after the game. Its another ridiculous intervention by Fifa.:mad:

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Man Utd 0 Lille 0

That has to be one of the worst United performances I have seen in a while, not one to look back on methinks..............but

Cambridge United 3 Chester City 0 :D LDV Vans trophy though :erm:

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See you in the next round of the Vans Cambridge. :D :handshake

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For a start it's evidently out of your grasp....:angel:

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It looks like Forest didn't make it though, but I guess it won't bother nffc to much.

Perhaps the competition ought to be renamed, it might have a bit more attraction.

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Indeed tis a silly name for it :) that really was a shock win for oxford we’ve never Won in this competition :Yikes: oh when is the draw for the Next round. :D

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I am sure that the "lesser" clubs use this competition as games for trialists etc, still, it raises much needed revenue for the less well off clubs.

As for the draw, I am not sure, even their own web site is not up to date, Woking who beat Forest tonight are classed as 250/1 to win it :D but that might have been last season, I can't see Forest in the list http://www.ldv.co.uk/trophy/html/news/news03.htm

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Suppose it's clear that Megson cares more about the league- like to have won though, although I'd take promotion over a cup run. Not that we'll get either...

Bopp and Weir-Daley at least got on the scoresheet... team of kids and Gary ****ing Holt. Joke.

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Oh nice :D ya the website is just a bit out of date. :disturbd:

why are you lot in the North side of the draw last i knew Cambridge was just up The road. :erm:

Darren Fletcher??? why?
 

I am a Man Utd fan, but why o why does Sir Alex persist in playing "Darren Fletcher" what does he bring to the team? last night for example we had Smith and Fletcher in what looked to me as deep holding roles, am not the manager but i would imagine we only need one player doing that? Smith did good job but Fletcher just chased shadows and screwed up simple passes. :mad:

right, any other Man Utd fans out thier wanna throw in your thoughts; in my opinion it should have been park/rossi from start instead of Fletcher.

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I reckon that Defence and forward line is Ok, but the Midfield should be like this
Ronaldo,
Park,
Smith,
Scholes.

They can all pound forward, but smith now can play the holding role as well - Keane - as good as he is, is not as fit as he is either.

I agree that Park should have been on infront of Fletcher

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i only put Keane in cause he still pulls out the performances otherwise i would put smith in. i don't know about Scholes and Ronaldo. . Ronaldo makes strikers/forwards do double runs cause he beats players then tracks back and trys to beat them again he should gain a yard then wip it in! and Scholes hasnt been same player for last 2 seasons. he has faded more than keane has in my eyes.

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Park was only back from South Korea.

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yeah i know that. . but he didn't look tired for last 10 minutes hes was on! these are supposed to be professional atheletes. . he could have played him or Rossi what am getting at more is that why o why does Fergie persist in picking Fletcher i just don't c what he brings to the team??????

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AC Milan have given a contract to Paolo Maldini's 9 year old son Christian.

Assuming he makes it and plays for the first team, would this be the first time that 3 generations (Paolo's father was captain of Milan) have played for the same club?

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Just wondering when Man United decline is complete, are we gonna have fans whittering about the good old days for years to come ? ;)

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Probably - after all, scouse fans have been doing that very thing since the heydays of the 70s and 80s ;)

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:eek:

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0...199627,00.html

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bah, was going to post that in a separate thread - good job i checked. stealing all my glory...

not that i care to be honest, i don't like manchester united and think he is a cocky git, but a lot of my girl friends won't be happy... :erm:

wait for the "string em by the sack" brigade to arrive :D

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Probably a load of rubbish. Guy I work with is friends with Gillespie - he and his family went through hell when he was falsely accused.

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Ronaldo just doesn't seem the type, although that's no real indication.

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What a Result for Chelsea tonight also weldone liverpool.

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...and May 2005,we should get a few years out of that one! :)

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i have to agree but we dont know him personally but it seems footballers are being targeted for obvious reasons.

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Don't forget the draw for the FA Cup First Round is this Saturday :) oh i wanna Forest. :D

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Agreed, and if he is innocent, which I have no doubt that he is, he might think "I have had enough" and go back home, It is possible a transfer request could be on the horizon, which would be a concern for Man Utd.

I just hope it doesn't come to that.

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I'm not going to make any Comments about the Ronaldo case untill it's legally sorted out one way of the other. :)