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I've been off the face of the earth, not just this thread (as stated in the happy forum) ;)

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Thank you Liverpool :D

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I know the answer, the is a missing link and I have posted it below.https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2011/03/66.gif

Liverpool Spank Manchester United, and Dirk Kuyt’s Hattrick (Goal Videos)

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Simples ... I'm not all that bothered about football. I'm just surprised at the sudden silence of those that are. :D

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just wish we made a better use of it yesterday but hey you cant have everything. Oh who's fergie going to blame today

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Its up to your lot now to do the work ;)

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Oh yah. You backed the wrong horse there. Sorry. This result only increases the likelihood of us choking like the bunch of chokers we are. Seriously, this is the chokeist team that ever choked.

Interestingly if we stay neck and neck with United you guys come down here to play us! So you may be United's best hope of stopping us! :shocked:

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I know, i've already spotted that - we'll just have to see how things pan out ;)

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It was just our charity donation...you've not had anything to be happy about for a while ;)

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Wonder what would happen if it was the last game of the season, Arsenal 1 point ahead of United who are winning 4 - 0 or something. Arsenal 1 nil up....Liverpool need to score to get a draw and hand the title to their good friends Manchester :D

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If it got that far then Kenny would do a fergie and rest his key players giving you a walkover.

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Hehehehe. Fun dilemma isn't it!

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Only just got back in from my Sunday afternoon game of squash. :cool:

Liverpool won deservedly, United looked like a side that had played three hard games in eight days and were missing the two of best central defenders in the league ( statistically ).

That said they should have been playing against ten men after Carraghers vicious assault on Nani, then again if he had timed his attempt to break Nani's leg a little earlier the dozy plonker wouldn't have been able to head the ball right onto Kuyt's head for the 2nd goal.:rolleyes:

Not a good day at the office but the last time Man U lost two games back to back was in 2009, guess who own the league that season.;)

Jim.

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After which fergie might just burst a blood vessel as he went ballistic to camera.:D

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Oh I don't know, the South African cricket team will give you a good run for your money in the choker stakes.:D

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I have to agree it was a bad one, i didn't realise til i saw it at half time and deserved a red. I don't think nani's antics afterwards helped. If he'd just stayed down without jumping back up, running after the ref and then throwing himself on the floor Jamie might have got the red we'll never know now.

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TBH there are many times that I would like to kick Nani myself.:rolleyes:

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Liverpool won and deserved it, but how Carragher stayed on the pitch is anyones guess. Here is a picture of what he did to Nani, i wonder if he will get crucified as Rooney did last week, because looking at the evidence he would certainly deserve it.

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2011/03/50.jpg

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I know it was more frustration having just handed us the second goal but I think some of his team mates were embarassed :rolleyes:

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With all the talk of referee decisions...

This one takes the biscuit :rolleyes:

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Come on Arsenal!!

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hope we are going to do it...but doubt it considering we have the ref against anything thats not Latin based language speaking.

van Persie sent off for a silly reason which in any other game wouldn't have been punished.
Szczesny injured :( dont know how bad....

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Arsenal are out - BUT to me the silliest sending off of Van Persie, beggars belief.

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Well look like Wenger got in a fight with him so that bodes well. Least it's Europe!

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Oh good. Van Persie is digging the hole bigger...

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The second card was a travesty but it was his own stupid fault he got the first one.:rolleyes:

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It was an awful decision but the way the game was going i don't think it had any bearing on the end result. Barca were by far the better team over the two legs.

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Ashley Cole would have shot his :D

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Agreed. I can't help think that Arsenal were a bit too negative though. They should have at least tried to take the game to Barca more. They hardly managed to come out of their half in the first half. Barca might have punished them for it, but they did so now as well.

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Erm, no, the exact opposite is true. We had just forced a corner and got an equaliser out of it, we were on our way through to the next round. RVP was sent off because he shot at goal when he was one on one with the keeper - it was offside of course but we were creating. That period was the only time we really looked like we could actually get a result.

Arsenal were merely 1 goal away from going through, yet having a player sent off (a striker no less) didn't have any bearing? What rubbish. They were a whisker away; just because Barcelona dominated play doesn't mean they walked it as the Barca/Inter 2nd leg last season exemplifies.

It's funny. Had Bendtner managed to score from his chance (by the way, just imagine RVP on the end of that instead) then Wenger would be hailed a hero and tactical genius, as Mourinho was last season. Arsenal were a miss control away from the next round and avoiding the wrath of hypocritical media and fans.

Why didn't Wenger just play defensively? That's why they lost!
Why did Wenger play defensively? That's why they lost!

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Maybe. However it's hard to feel cheated when Barcelona were so dominant throughout. If we had preserved that lead then it would have felt like a smash and grab. I would have taken that but I don't feel anything other than Barcelona deserved to go though.

Let's remember they had a blatant penalty turned down and a goal incorrectly ruled offside in the first leg.

Such is Football. You are often a kick away from glory or defeat. A teams performance is coloured by the result. At the end he didn't score. We mustered 0 shots.

However it's pretty clear that we played defensively and didn't keep them out. Inter did, what's more Inter were calmer when they did it and Barcelona didn't look like scoring whereas they did last night.

We were beaten by the vastly better side. A failure to accept that could lead us to spoil the rest of a still promising season.

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AC Milan deserved to leave this tornament, how many more of them were going to escape cards after deliberatly running into Spurs players.

Flamini should have been shown a second red, for his charge on Bale.

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COYS lets bring this trophy home.

:cleader::cleader::cleader:

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I think you may be getting ahead of yourself just a bit there. :)

Cracking result though :tu:

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You scored an flukey own goal and had a shot off target, yeah you were all over them alright. It was only a matter of time before you were once again camped in your own half after you scored whether you had 10 or 11 men on the pitch.

Yes, and if Messi had scored the four or five chances he had, if Adriano and Afellay scored the chances they had and so on, then Wenger would have been shown up and Barcelona would have walked into the next round by a huge margin.

I think Wenger got the tactics at the begining right by the way, Barcelona were just too good though.

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Who said anything about being all over them? Yeah, we certainly would have been camped in our own half again which is exactly why losing a man had an effect. Defending and holding up play with 11 is better than defending and holding up play with 10, that's not debatable.
Yes, and so by the same logic, Barca's first goal could be considered pretty "fluky" too.

Obviously Barcelona thoroughly deserved to win - they scored more and also had poor refereeing decisions against them. I have no qualms with the overall result. My point is that it doesn't mean playing with 11 couldn't have made any difference and the domination of play by a team doesn't mean they should or will get a result. Which is exactly as i said a year ago with Inter when the stats and dominance by Barca was almost identical to last night. The idea of "They dominated play, thus definitely were going to win whatever happened" is fallacy. With that attitude, we might as well have just forfeited (cue inevitable jokes).

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Arsenals performance was exceptional, historic in fact.

Record breakers :p:

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iadom... I really hope ManU will get Barca next round and see what you lot can do against them.

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based on how we have done in the league I would say we would get battered ever worse.

We may be top of the league but we have only really played well in about 1 game and scrapped the rest when we played badly or just played badly and drawn or lost

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Some might say that is the hallmark of a good team.
I'm not so sure. They have attacking flair in abundance and very uncharacteristically for Spurs, saw last night out defensively.

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I'm willing to bet that even if Barca do play and beat United that the Reds will have had a few attempts on goal, on or off target.:p:

Jim.

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Hang on, I thought it was always supposed to be United who get "Old Trafford overtime"?

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I hope that you had a good time, I know that I did ;) :D

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What a daft comment. I guess you missed a player receiving treatment for 6 minutes then. 8 minues, 30 seconds of injury time was played and if anything that was too little. Especially considering the fisticuffs after the two Scholes "tackles".

Speaking of which, if it was ANY other player (including other Man United players), they would have been sent off. But as usual the pathetic cult of personality which surrounds Scholes takes precedence.

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Wow, the sense-of-humour bypass always manifests itself when United win hey?

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True. If that had been a utd player down, it would have been Fergie time.

We deserved to win. We had the better chances are we were sound defensively.

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Your comment would be funny if it was even vaguely close to being pertinent and the need for long injury time wasn't patently obvious and undeniable. There's no humour in that.

No it wouldn't, it would have been a clearly required amount of injury time.

The whole point of the "Fergie time" joke is long injury time appearing from nowhere. Not a long break from a serious injury 5 minutes before full time.

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Yes it would. Any injury to an utd player would be called Fergie time. It happens to a non-utd player and it's normal injury time.

Anyway, nice diversion aside, good result for us. Deserved result.

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As I mentioned, humour bypass.

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It happens to any player and it's normal injury time. Only a complete and utter moron would consider it "Fergie time" if a Man United player had been stretchered off after long treatment a few minutes before the amount of injury time is decided. That would be so ludicrous and illogical not even the most pathetic of ABUs would start bleating on about "Fergie time". If you seriously think otherwise, then your victimisation complex must be even worse than Fergie and Wenger's combined.

Well duh. Who's implied otherwise? You're the one diverting attention away from your win by arguing about "Fergie time" and how everyone is so against you.

Not finding your poorly judged, illogical joke funny does not equate to a humour bypass. It means i don't think you're funny. It makes no sense. As i mentioned.

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United certainly deserved to win the game - something that couldn't be said about most of their games this season.;)

I do wonder what the purpose of scholes is... he has a happy knack of crazy challenges, it's almost as if fergie brought him on to crock an Arsenal player...;)

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To quote Paul Newman, "Some men you just can't reach".

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The thing is, Scholes has hardly ever injured an opponent, he just can't time a tackle most of the time. On all of the occasions today that resulted in free kicks or even bookings he actually got the ball first which is something he doesn't often manage.

Despite Wengers intimations of Scholes' dark side he has never maimed someone like that scouse thug Carragher.:rolleyes:

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The Fergie time jibe comes from occasions where there isn't a clear reason why there should be so much time.

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Which is kind of lucky. His tackles are no better, often worse, than Carragher's last week. Also getting the ball first doesn't mean much if the tackle is dangerous. There was no need for those tackles today, we were losing 2 - 0, down to 10 men, and not long to go. Why on earth go in like that? It was absurd.

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While we're still on the Fergie time thing..............when Valencia was seriously injured, they played 6 minutes injury time. It was at home to Rangers, with the score still at 0-0.

So Mal, where were the accusations of Fergie time then? If what you think is true you'll have no problem finding any.

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Well there are a lot of pathetic ABUs out there ;)

Well duh, not me. I didn't bring it up, did I? Wrong person ;)

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When Steve Bruce scored in the 97th minute always seems to be bought up as the classic example of Fergie time. It always gets forgotten in that game that the ref got injured in the 2nd half and had to be replaced.

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By the way what is up with that train station at Old Trafford? 3 small entrances, everyone shoving to get on, with some Mancunian git yelling abuse at every Arsenal fan he could see. 'Your ****', 'How do you feel supporting a peado' etc. Seems rather unsafe!

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Yet you haven't provided any examples of these ABUs to disprove your paranoia. Odd that.

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I didn't need to, to be perfectly frank and as you know, it's not something that I can prove is it, when I am talking to friends and other fans in real life. I don't record all my conversations ;)

That is what I was on about, people who just automatically say Fergie Time regardless of if it was justified or not.

After our game at Blackpool, after Rafael had been taken to hospital, I got that from other fans that I know.

Anyway, best to leave this argument before it gets nasty.

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Ah yes, no pundits, journalists, commentators, fans on internet forums etc etc. These moronic, pathetic ABUs just happen to be concentrated purely within your circle of friends and fans you speak to. Despite, in your own words, there being a lot of them. That's really unfortunate, i'm sorry.

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Yes, it's called real life. Thank you your concern though, it's much appreciated ;)

This is really getting childish now.

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MAN CITY/READING v MAN UTD
BOLTON v STOKE

I'm happy with that :)

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MCFC v MUFC at Wembley.. might grab a ticket for that myself.. Got the making of a great game

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Interesting planning (or lack of it) for the w/e of Apr 16/17

Man U v Man City - Wembley
Bolton v Stoke - Wembley
Arsenal v Liverpool - Emirates (Sun)
London Marathon (Sun)

If Man Citry get through to the next round of Europa Lge I believe that will mean the Utd - City game will be on the sunday (as City will be playing on previous Thursday).

Me thinks that Euston Station and the M6 are to be avoided that weekend!!

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At least the United fans will be local :D

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Wenger does move in mysterious ways I must say....

Arsenal are close to signing 41-year-old Jens Lehmann for the rest of the season

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/12735013.stm

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Saves bringing in someone who's third or fourth choice from another Prem team and not up to it on loan. Lehmann has played for the club before and played in the Bundesliga until last season. Wenger clearly thinks he can do it otherwise he wouldn't sign him. He'll probably only be cover for Almunia anyway, until the other keepers are fit.

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United win again "just". It has been the story of this season, getting results, but not playing as we know they can, I can't see United winning anything this season, their luck has to run out at some point.
Anyway, the next game in the Champions League is coming, bring on the Arsenal I say................. Oh !! wait a minute.............:D

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I cannot believe that Capello is seriously thinking about having John Terry back as captain, is an insult.

What he did to be stripped of the captaincy in the first place should have been made permanent, he is a disgrace to the game for what he did to Bridge, and shouldn't be captain again.

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I don't think Capello gives a toss either way now, laughing all the way to the bank.:rolleyes:

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I partially agree. What he did with Bridge was a moral problem but it was a team mate (who has since quit England) and by all means if it undermines his authority in the squad losing the captaincy is the right decision. But, Bridge has quit England and rightly or wrongly, the issue with him is no longer an issue and Capello is best judged, along with his staff, to decide what respect the squad have for Terry. Morality shouldn't matter there - I don't agree at all with what he did, it appals me but your personal beliefs don't come into it.

And if you're simply going to make an example of Terry for his off-field antics, and use it as a reason not to make him captain, then who can you turn to who is squeaky-clean? Let's not forget Ferdinand with the drug test (he did!) and I know he got off (insufficient evidence) but Gerrard was charged with assault or whatever in a nightclub. You could make extra-marital arguments equally against Rooney and Lampard, discounting them I don't see who you can give it to.

For me the role of captain is about respect of the squad and leadership on the pitch - if a player has that, he is the obvious choice.
It's the sign of a good side, because if you aren't playing well you need to take your chances to win, if you are, you have more chance of scoring.

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A Football Association tribunal has given Sir Alex Ferguson a five-match touchline ban for his comments about referee Martin Atkinson.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...td/9426939.stm

Could have a big impact on the title race and imo he has had it coming, as have others

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United get all the decisions don't they :rolleyes:

I guess someone at (sweet) FA HQ wants to make sure Arsenal win something this year. In any case SAF should just do what Murinho did and wear a hidden mic and earpiece from the stands.

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Bad night for British clubs, Rangers, Liverpool & Man City dumped out of Europa Cup.

Super Mario, what a complete wassock.:rolleyes:

Jim.

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I see Ballotelli has been taking lessons from de Jong. :Yikes:

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Theres definately something wrong with the bloke, he can't even manage put a bib on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAtYlc1BsK8

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Thats class, he really is a sandwich short of a picnic. :D

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:rofl: Yes

The ban was due to start on 22 March but will now begin immediately, as the Scot requested.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...td/9428177.stm

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Pathetic Performances from both City and Liverpool.

Another year of '' Money does not buy you silverware''

Anyone remember the Robbie Keane transfer to Liverpool.... Andy Carroll anyone? Would be amazing if he fails to score even 1 for Liverpool this season

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Carroll put a decent shift in last night and considering it's the first full game he's played since Christmas and only the second game he's been involved in the lad's done well. His striking partner had a very, very poor game as did the rest of the team.

Liverpool's net spend has been relatively low this season so the money buying trophies shot isn't applicable.

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Real Madrid v Tottenham

Inter v Schalke 04

Barcelona v Shakhtar Donetsk

Chelsea v Manchester United

Semi Final

Real Madrid or Tottenham v Barcelona or Shakhtar Donetsk

Inter or Schalke 04 v Chelsea or Manchester United



EEEKKKK

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No all Spanish final, could still be an all English or even all London final. ;)

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Its a really intresting draw. All 4 teams that are playing the second leg at home are very strong at home, especially Shakhtar. Theres a good possibility of an upset in my opinion. Its a shame two English sides were drawn together, but i'm confident :)

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You should have known I was referring to the city boys with the money shot.

All this hype over Dzeko and Tevez.. David Silva and Yaya Toure.

Where we you all last night? 10 men or not Fulham could have done better!

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ffs who let almunia back in both goals are his fault

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To be honest It's nice that some things don't change. We lost the last game against WBA in part because of his tendency to run out of his goal and then stand there stunned when he realizes what he has done. He does this quite a lot, good shot stopper but rubbish at everything else. He has run out of his goal a lot of times, he has no control of this area and instills panic in his defense and he fluffs at corners and crosses. I think he has blackouts when he runs out and suddenly wakes up when he is near the half way line.

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I have a feeling this will be the game of the tournament.

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what a error that goal keeper just did in the Ireland game. player took a free kick keep caught it but then droped it and robbie kean scored

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This must be the Telegraph's attempt at an April fools joke

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/foo...s-weekend.html

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:rofl: So true...

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Man u are 2-0 down to West Ham 0_o

2 penalties.

What a turnaround if Chelsea could win both the Champions league and Premierleague :p:

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Utd now 4-2 up. Rooney hatrick

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Great game to be fair!

Get in there Rooney! Shut up the haters

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Lol nice one Hammers.

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Might be better if it were Rooney that shut up ;)

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With a sideways glance at a certain person, ;):p:

I am completely disillusioned today, United come back to win from 2-0 down, Chelski & Arsenal both draw, the Latics score at last and the Dale hold Brighton to a draw.:cool:

Jim.

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It was good to notice that the Liverpool fans, whom most of, wanted Hodgson out, suffered to a team managed by him today. It must be a bittersweet feeling ;)

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I think its more important to 'Woy' that he beat us, I'm just gutted in general we lost :erm:

He wasn't a Liverpool manager, simple as that. From day one his body language was negative from the sidelines and it was even commented on today he spent more time in this one match in the technical area than in his time as manager for us.

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Rooney gets a hat trick, Ref cocks up on the penalty, then ruins it by swearing at the camera, he will get away with that (again|)

He is a spoilt little ++,

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I Agree. Give him at least a 10 match ban and a heavy fine!

He is bringing the game into disrepute.

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I don't remember Didier Dogbreath getting that when he did the same thing last season.