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Agggh keep the ball Arsenal

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Criminal to concede two goals in the last 5 minutes.

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Phew!!!!! A relief.

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nervy game. our away record/performances in the CL needs addressing.

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City lost then?

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Its 3 points at the end of the day though thenry.:)

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Yes King Colin won't be happy.

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I had an accumulator on all 8 CL games tonight...damn AC Milan not being able to beat Anderlecht at home!! Cost me big time.

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Giroud should of scored tonight :(

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2012/09/10.gif

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Isco scored 2 for Malaga.. why oh why did we not do a double swoop!

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Yet another person screwed by Berlusconi..

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Looking at twitter, Berlusconi had a very busy night...

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Scottish football needs a strong Queen of the South:D:D:D



Champions league tomorrow :D

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SuperAllygoesballisticRangersareattrocious :D

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I see the city fans were singing about Munich again tonight. I wonder if there will be any media coverage of that, after all the media coverage of what (didn't) happen at Old Trafford at the weekend.

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Find some of the after game interviews hilarious.

Mancini dubs the Crouch goal at the weekend 'Something from the NBA'

Come off it Roberto, If it had been Tevez doing it you would be fine and that's what annoys me. His players can spend the season diving around penalty areas but as soon as one dubious decision goes against him he's furious.

Since when has football been about feeling contact and going down? Hearing a pundit say the player is entitled to go down after feeling some contact is an absolute joke. If the contact is not sufficient enough to take you to the ground then it is a dive! that's all there is too it, have we come to a stage of accepting diving now or something? I'm sick of seeing replays of penalty decisions been based on contact and hearing commentators claim ''well he's been touched so it's penalty'' and more recently hearing ''Welbeck took a nick there he should have went down'' Commentators encouraging players to dive? Am I hearing thing's right?

It's laughable to see ultra-slow motion replays zoomed right in to see a tiny nick on a guy's shin. Seriously if you have to go through all that then you know it's a dive for heavens sake. Doing this week in week out makes it completely acceptable.

Football is turning into a debt-ridden horrid sport. Used to be tactics involved attacking, how to defend a certain player and what to do from set pieces.

Seems like the modern tactical sheet runs along the lines of.

- If you get a knock in the box, go down
- If you come under a hard challenge, feign injury in an attempt to get the opponent booked.
- Waste as much time as possible in the dying minutes when we are winning by laying on the ground with a sore leg (1 Metre from the touchline)

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I enjoyed the man city game. I couldn't understand kompany ducking, but equally thought Hart should have saved

I think (hope) man City will improve.

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Yes there's still plenty of hope yet as at least you have got your hardest game on paper out of the way.:)

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I was impressed plenty of positives to take from the game, it'll hurt for a couple of says and then the players will feel that way to. kompany didn't have the best of games either.

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He does it to a lot of defenders, but Ronaldo made Kompany look very average on so many occasions last night. I also thought Joe Hart had a very poor game. Yes, he made a few saves, but they were all saves you would expect your goalkeeper to make. He should have done a lot better on the second and third goals. For some reason ITV seemed to think he played a blinder and could do no wrong. He also did himself no favours in his post match interview imo...

Well done Bradley Wiggins
 

Well done Everton beating united in a game that many said they couldnt win

cant believe they dont have any supporters here had it been as expected there would have been shouts from all over.

Mod edit - post moved - can't see what this had to do with cycling :confused:

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The Chelsea game didn't disappoint tonight for a neutral. Stunning second goal by Oscar.

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We need to learn how to take penalties, 3 in a row missed now. Nani should never be allowed near a penalty again.

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Totally agree.

What should also happen is any player stuttering his runup should forfeit he spot kick. :)

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Also if a defender is 3 yards inside the box it should be re-taken ;)

Rarely the referee puts these rules in to practice.

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Its disappointing for Chelsea to drop two points in the end though and they might rue that.

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for anyone who managed to miss it..

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How are you enjoying the young boys of liverpool Den?

i mean football sense, before anyone says anything :D

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bet Den not happy it's 2-2 im watching Newcastle game

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It's hard to judge the liverpool youngsters on this game..young boys (of bern) are like jekyl and hyde.

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Well at least we won eventually in the end after about 3 heart attacks.:):D

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http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/news/p...152353772.html

3.5million a year to 100million a year!

If this passes the FFP rules there is no point in having them whatsoever...

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Never been a huge fan of Fergie but for what its worth he has gone up several notches imo for this

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19681043

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Yes l would have to concur with you totally on that.

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Premier League clubs to meet next week to discuss spending controls

http://www1.skysports.com/football/n...nding-controls

:tu:

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No surprise there. I mean how else are they supposed to win anything?

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Sounds like bitter Man utd fan :)

Perhaps clubs should perhaps create more debt instead

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I cant believe how many times we are giving the ball away. Now we have been punished for it. Not good at all.

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I presume you are at match?..or is it radio gaga :)

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A bitter football fan. Debt is not necessarily a bad thing as long as it is serviceable. Using instant wealth to buy immediate success is where my issue is when the funds are not earned through results.

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Watching it live online. ;)

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Funds earned through results?

Is that how Man Utd did it through the years?

I thought it was titles and trophies earned through results.

So if Man Utd do worse, does that mean you haven't earned your money?

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Utd's debt wasn't serviceable. Its taken a few 'miracles' to get a grip of things but thats alongside the fact that Utd are a massive cash cow.

Football clubs should be run in a responsible manner full stop. Its way too lazy using some form of sugar daddy.

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Yess. Ricky boy.

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and now 2-1 :)

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Well worked goal by Clyne.

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it is always the supporters of clubs without sugar daddies who complain. :)

The only way you can ever have a truely even playing field, is if you have every team only allowed to spend the same set amount of money

I suspect that if that happens, the premiership will become dull

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woooohooooo!

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lol..i was waiting for it :D

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Yes. That's exactly how it works.

Broadly speaking, a team gets its money from winning things which can then be invested in the team. Unless the name of the team rhymes with Garsemal.

Thanks.....you've just backed up my point. The debt IS serviceable otherwise United would have gone under by now. The reason they're still going is because, as you say, United's brand is a cash cow.

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Wrong on both counts.

Firstly I'm not complaining because we haven't a sugar daddy, Arsenal have 2. We could very easily get Usmanov on the board and have Gazprom bank roll us in sponsorship. I'm not going to now say thats wrong, I don't care about clubs finding ways like sponsorship via ownership connections. Football is heading towards commercial madness and what UEFA have put in place in FFP will only push clubs further that way as it is doing now so to me that fight is pointless but thats exactly it. Stop being lazy and find ways to generate cash. What does need to be implemented is clubs having the ability to survive the next 5-10years, thats tricky. Billionaire owners will not be able to bank roll the club constantly through their own connections. Clubs will have to find other ways like PR, perks, whatever to balance it out. With that then comes responsibility that one has to take running a business. Fans also come in here to make sure the long term is safe, supporter trusts need to be given some form of support from the official. At the moment or what was is just spend silly amounts here there and everywhere with the owners cash, thats irresponsible.

Sponsorships come in on a 5 year contract, that will decrease in the near future just like player contracts of 5 years are slowly dying out. Commercial madness is whats coming which is fine as thats growth overall not growth for a select few even if the top teams gain more monies.. somethings better than nothing.

Your second point of having the same amounts of cash to spend is pointless and indeed dull. What I've posted above is whats to come not this sort of gag.

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penalty

RICKYYYYYYYY

Masterclass second half.

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:rolleyes:

thats not to say a few miracles have had to come about to get a proper grip on things.

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'Miracles' as you call them happen in any business of that size. I've never been in favour of the Glaziers or how they run the club but if the books have been balanced correctly then no laws have been broken.

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Chevrolet? bit of sly dealing? :angel:

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another very poor display from sunderland only one good thing again another goal from super Fletch 4 in 3 games

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If by 'sly dealing' you mean 'legitimate sponsorship' then yes, that's exactly what it is.

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The guy who signed it off got sacked Russ :LOL:

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....and your point is?

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self-explanatory is it not ;)

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Happy days are here again for you Julian.:)

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It's early doors Den but if Ramirez plays like that week in, week out we certainly won't be staring down the relegation barrel. :)

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Saints sign Artur Boruc on a free transfer until the end of the season. Once an impressive keeper for Celtic.

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:D

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No it isn't, utd broke transfer record after transfer record when they hadn't won the league for decades. I don't have any problem with sugar daddies providing they have their own cash and aren't the children of gun runners, its just about the only way a club will break into the champions league clique.

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You really think a team's only source of income is from winning the league?

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Everyone ready for a good singsong this afternoon? :) :disturbd:

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I think it will be a marvellous advert for football and tolerance, featuring the whole stadium linking arms singing Auld Lang Syne. :)

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The media are demanding all United fans cry during the minutes silence to show real solidarity and for Evra and Suarez to hug it out before kick off...

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Steady on, this is Liverpool Vs United!

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Yes it is but the main thing today is for everybody to the remember the Hillsborough 96.

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Great tribute well done everyone at anfield heres hoping for a great match to go with it

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That's what you attempted to imply...

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i don't think that was a red card offence, poor show by ref, buckling to Man Utd players pressure

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Diving in, studs showing. Its a miracle Jonny Evans didn't get his leg broken there. Red card all day long.

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I thought he went for the ball, and other leg came behind evans after force of tackle turned him
And i thought evans went in with same force..50-50 ball

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oh, and the only difference, Man Utd players shouting to get liverpool player sent off

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Strange as the Sky sports presenters said Evans showed his studs just as much and said he should have gone as well..

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I thought it was only at Old Trafford that United can get other players sent off?

Anyway, Jonjo Shelvey will now get a 3-match ban. He'll miss West Brom, Norwich and Stoke. All 3 clubs have appealed to get the ban overturned.

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It seems that it isn't only old trafford that Man utd players dive, it was a good one by valencia.

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Liverpool have played well today and yet have nothing to show for it.:(

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Yes, and Van persie gets a yellow for a shocking tackle...very biased by ref

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Well nothing surprises me about another bout of inconsistent refereeing.:td::(

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lol true

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Here we go, 5 minutes of 'Anfailed Overtime'.

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My my Russ is in good form today.;):D

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Manchester United have won more Premier League games at Anfield than Liverpool have this season :)

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Wow, the bertie is on form today...


We didn't play well today, so that's a great win for us.

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i like a balanced opinion. From the BBC site

Mark in jammy Manchester via text: "Speaking as a United season ticket holder, we were as jammy as a jam doughnut covered in extra jam and sitting on a bed of jam."

:D

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...but we still won ;)

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yes, :(

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Sounds like he was very consistent in his bias to me :shrug:

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Well statto's certainly in good form today.;)

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Yes one lucky away win followed by yet another.

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Very happy with the result today :D:D

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I am sure you master are but please remember to keep your rowdy servants in their place please.;)

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It's still a win, something that your team would love to have this season ;) :D even Southampton have won a game ;)

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Fans were really good overall - apart from some utd fans singing " Where's your famous Munich song " :(

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Alas Southampton should have won another game against your lucky lot.;)

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We still won though ;) You seem to think that you have to be unlucky to be able to win a game

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Arsenal have made a good start to the match

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Spoke too soon...

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Arsenal still need a new keeper it seems.:td:

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Good result really. Kind of feel we could have won it. However getting a draw at the home of the Champions is quite good. We've now played Stoke, Liverpool and City away now.

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yeah not a bad result. when will Gervinho step up.

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don't think he is good enough for Arsenal

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I thought Jenkinson played well. When he first got into the team i didn't rate him at all, but he has improved a lot recently.