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Chelsea 3-3 Tottenham

What a game, pity that Spurs didn't wrap it up though

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...up/6415115.stm

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cracking game and Chelsea could have lost this game 6-1 if Spurs had taken all their chances

this shows the luck they have even when they play poor they still get a result and i can't see them being that poor in the replay even is it is at WHL

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Great game, what a poor ref though, was it eight or nine cards handed out, god knows what would have happened if it had been a rough game.:(

Jim.

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Just a reminder, Utd V Europe XI tonight on BBC 3. KO 8pm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/listin..._4288_6880_150

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The full Europe XI squad
Goalkeepers: Oliver Kahn, Grégory Coupet, Iker Casillas.
Defenders: Paolo Maldini, Jamie Carragher, Eric Abidal, Lilan Thuram, Carles Puyol, Marco Materazzi, Fabio Grosso.
Midfielders: Gianluca Zambrotta, Steven Gerrard, Juninho Pernambucano, Florent Malouda, Luis Miguel, Gennaro Gattuso, Andrea Pirlo, Bolo Zenden.
Strikers: Ronaldo, Alessandro Mancini, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Henrik Larsson, Robbie Fowler.

I'm sure Carragher, Gerrard and Fowler will get a good reception!

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How on earth did Fowler get in that team? Makes the whole thing a joke.

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:eek:

Anyone see Ronaldo's free kick???

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Probably due to being close by when other players pulled out.

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Yep, it's a shame that they don't happen so much when it really counts though.

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I thought it was funny that the BBC were still showing clips before the game of Ronaldinhio and Ronaldo amongst others who weren't even playing.

An excellent free kick from Ronaldo which was good to see :tu:

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Why is Larsson included in the "other" side? Suppose he's (just) left ure really.

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was a good game but it shows how much the ball moves in the air.. sure it's a great free kick but the ball is so light it can move two or three times giving the keeper no chance... as sucnh it is so easy to score this is why players dive all the time as a free kick is almost as good as a pen now.. if we had a harder straighter ball then it would be harder to score from a free kick and easier to score from open play and so there would be no point in diving.. just ask Pele and Charlton and they will tell you in their day they never wanted a free kick but wanted open play as they could score then

think the game also showed players like Park and Richardson aren't good enough for us... Rooney, Ronaldo, Neville and Giggs are needed for us and can't be risked getting injured.. Park isn't good enough so he can play 90 mins

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I thought Park had a good game - the cross he supplied for Rooney's goal was excellent. Richardson is the sort of player who'll get sold to a lower club and turn in to one of the greatest players at that level. Being a left winger I reckon he saw himself as Giggsy's replacement.

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well as i've said before i'm not a fan of Park.. sure he put a cross in but he also ran into other players too.. he puts in some work during games but he's not good enough for this level.. Fergie only plays him against Fulham and Charlton which says alot about what he thinks of him

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Oh yeah, he's not a key player but definately good cover when needed.

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About time to

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/6444083.stm

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Breaking News

Scotland in fifa top 16 shocker

Is it april 1st already. :D

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Hmm, that links taking forever, it's not women's football is it ;)

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Same thing, isn't it. :D

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/6452013.stm

The end of bore draws?

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No...it will give the lower teams, when playing the higher placed teams, more incentive to go for a draw, if they think that they can win it in the great equaliser...the penalty shoot-out.

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Another chance to see that free kick here

I thought Malouda's goal for the Euro XI was a great strike, and was also impressed with that Vich bloke who was partnering Larrson up front in the first half :tu:

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Whoever came up with that idea is a complete plonker. The argument against was put forward on 5Live this evening by a Scotsman of all people. Think it was Roddy Forsyth but not sure.
With that system it would be possible for a team to go through a full season without scoring a single goal in 'live' play, draw all their games 0-0 but win all their shoot outs. Another team could win all bar one of their matches 10-0 but lose just one game 0-1 and the team drawing every single game would win the league, somehow I think not gentlemen.:(

Jim.

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I just knew this guy would have some input sooner or later..........

I suppose it's a step in the right direction, as it is called "The Champions League" ;)
And easier for the French clubs also :)

The Times

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some of Platini's ideas are quite good.. the problem is no one has really asked the lower sides in the CL and other winning leagues that they want.. take B86 and FC Kaunus.. they win the league most years but they can't ever win the European Cup... what they should be asked is do they want to enter the CL and get some extra money.. or should there maybe be a two tier cup format with the lower countries in the co-efficients rankings going into that.. at least then they could actually win a trophy in Europe

having less teams from England, Spain and Italy is no bad thing at all.. interestingly it looks like Germany will fall down the rankings and lose a CL place to either Romania or Portugal

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Anyone going to the Wembley stadium community day ? Some pics would be nice, if anyone is. ;)

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Spurs vs Watford is on Sky Sports 1 right now, just started... Apparently Robinson scored a 75 yard goal :eek:

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Cambridge united drew again conference north here we come

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If they go down, I think the club will fold.
A Conference north/south club cannot sustain a £200,00 a year rent

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sadly i think you are spot on

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Any non-Arsenal fans going to mention the match today? :)

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interesting article in the Express.. a world exclusive so could be they made it up

it claims Roman is under pressure in Russia to sell Chelsea and scale down any money he is taking out of Russia

good game on Saturday.. Bolton were so rubbish Park scored twice :Yikes: shame really as then everyone will rave about him and think he is actually good

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I think the one he missed from a yard out before he actually scored is a better reflection of his talent.:(

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Shame I didn't see this post until now... I could have got you 4 free tickets from my work, if you'd wanted them. I didn't bother in the end, although my sister had some and gave them to a friend (who took his Mum). They had a great time apparently.

---------- Post added at 22:19 ---------- Previous post was at 22:19 ----------

ps - any Spurs fans around tonight?

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Israel V England Saturday 24th March - KO 18.30

The Squad.....


Goalkeepers: Robinson (Tottenham), Foster (Man Utd, on loan at Watford), Carson (Liverpool, on loan at Charlton).
Defenders: Richards (Man City), Ferdinand (Man Utd), Terry (Chelsea, capt), Woodgate (Real Madrid, on loan at Middlesbrough), Carragher (Liverpool), A Cole (Chelsea), P Neville (Everton), Barry (Aston Villa).
Midfielders: Gerrard (Liverpool), Hargreaves (Bayern Munich), Lampard (Chelsea), Lennon (Tottenham), Parker (Newcastle), Carrick (Man Utd), Dyer (Newcastle), Downing (Middlesbrough). Forwards: Johnson (Everton), Rooney (Man Utd), Defoe (Tottenham), Bent (Charlton).

I was almost sure Beckham would get the nod, but evidently not, but I see that McClaren still includes his old mate Downing :rolleyes:
Still, there might be more missing from the squad after tonights FA Cup quarter finals, but I am sure clubs like Accrington Stanley or Torquay United would only be to pleased to help McClaren out

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...ls/6462361.stm

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Bent has withdrawn and been replaced by Preston's David Nugent

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TBH I only knew about it a few minutes before posting that. Thanks for the offer though. :tu:

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England are dour anyway.

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Chelsea-Man Utd game moved to May

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...em/6472715.stm

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Hopefully there is some truth in this report........

:tu:

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Well this bit is true The midfielder, recently dubbed the best player in the world by his manager Sir Alex Ferguson

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Spot on there,;) he was in his own penalty area when he collected the ball, ran the full length of the pitch, exchanged passes with Rooney who chipped the Bolton keeper for one of United's four goals last Saturday, defender, midfielder, winger, striker, the full monty if you ask me.:cool:

Jim.

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Well, seeing as United have no game and Oldham Athletic don't play until tomorrow, it is down to my other team :p: :cool: to take the limelight. Stockport County recently set a league record of nine wins on the trot without conceding a single goal, at Edgely Park today Rochdale beat them 7-2, "Up The Dale" :D

Jim.

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England, one word - Rubbish

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...ls/6469805.stm

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Got to agree - another benign, ponderous and inept performance from players who seem unable to raise their game when it matters most. Yes Israel played defensively but the only thing England ever threatened was to send their supporters off to bed early!

I really don't understand the lack of passion apparent in the current England team but it might have something to do with the fact that Steve McLaren has all the flair, tactical awareness, charisma and leadership qualities of a stuffed shirt.

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How can you play a right sided central defender at left back, a right sided winger on the left wing and call yourself the England manager. :( Thankfully I spent most of the time watching the cricket and just dipped into the footie in between overs.:cool:

Jim.

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Steve McClueless really is Gary Megson in drag isn't he? So striking are the similarities in their style of play, general tactical awareness (hooooooooooo...ooof), awareness of playing players in position, love affair with 5-3-2, lack of desire to attack, play for the 0-0... oh and they're both ****e and have red hair.

Clueless fishface Platt really annoyed me as well; not only what he did to my club, but to the U-21s will always annoy me, not to mention the fact the guy talks **** and can't help it. Either that or he states the blatantly obvious.

As for the team - well, we all know there's nothing really wrong with the defence, but if playing Phillippa Neville (a player who despite being right footed has played countless times at left back) at right back, and Jamie Carragher (a right footer) at left back was not bad enough, then playing our most creative player Lennon at left mid certainly was - his workrate was not to be faulted, and he has pace and trickery in abundance, but that's all negated when he has to cut in! There aren't that many options, but again, playing both Gerrard out of position down the right, and Lennon down the left, is stupid when you could avoid it by playing Lennon right and Gerrard left, that way, you have only one! Or the unthinkable - dropping Lampard or Gerrard altogether (doesn't matter which, they're so similar, there's not really anything between them) and playing Downing and Lennon or even Lennon and SWP (there has to be an alternative to Downing!) at least then you have natural midfield width.

Andy Johnson is just pure ****. Well, in the international scene anyway, he just doesn't have it. We looked a lot better when Defoe came on, which was too late. As for hoofing it to little AJ and Rooney, fat hope. Useless. Where's Crouch?

If we don't hit 3 vs Andorra, McClueless has to go.

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My thoughts almost exactly :tu:

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Well, maybe not the bit about G M*gson or fishface but hey.

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Just been listening to Sir Clive Woodward making the point that creating a successful international team doesn't necessarily involve always picking the most talented players. His point was that to achieve success you have to select players who rise to the international challenge and drop those who can't live up to the job regardless of their fame, popularity etc. McLaren is staring failure to qualify in the face like a rabbit stares at rapidly approaching car headlights. He was never the right man for the job and the suits at the FA are solely to blame for appointing him. The only soultion to England's problems is to ditch him, drop some of the underperfoming primadonnas and play those who are hungry for success and passionate enough to represent their country.

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Poor old England.... snarf! :D

Scotland romped home to another victory again yesterday and were still above France and Italy in our group.

That could all change on Wednesday night though when we have to play Italy (if we win that one i might just start to believe in miracles).

COME ON SCOTLAND!

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I would drop Lampard to start with. He hasn't done much of any great significance for quite a while and whilst Gerrard has had a few real stinkers, overall I think he's the better player for England. Likewise Rooney, he's a great player but has underperformed since his injury and that can't be doing his confidence much good. If he's passionate about England and the great player I believe he is, being dropped will inspire him to try harder and rise to that challenge. Knowing deep down inside (as Beckham did under Sven) that he'll never be dropped no matter what isn't any form of motivation.

If you look at great teams like the NZ Rugby Union side and the Australian Cricket team they have something in common - imaginative, inspirational leaders and fierce competition for places which leaves virtually nobody in any doubt that they will be dropped if they loose form for a significant period of time.

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Injury time winner is hardly romping home is it, Scotland the only team whose ranking goes up when they don't play

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Rooney rages at McClaren after Israel flop

I wonder who McClaren would get to replace Rooney? A Downing lookalike no doubt :rolleyes:

Daily Mail

If this is true, then I get the feeling McClaren could be looking for a new job.

The end is nigh...........

Gus Hiddink should have been awarded the job imo

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I love wikipedia :D

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Well spotted ;) Not that I noticed that in the first place :D

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Just heard Graham 'Turnip' Taylor arguing that McLaren isn't to blame for any of this. No, that's right, he only picks the team and decides the tactics so he's not at all to blame is he :confused:

The team isn't performing and the tactics (if there are any) aren't working so isn't it about time that McLaren started earning his wages and did something about both Mr Taylor?

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Anyone should have got it instead of Second-Choice Steve - he was rubbish at Boro (one League Cup in 5 years), and he's rubbish now.

Just imagine what it could be like if the Press hadn't hounded Scolari before he actually got the job :rolleyes:

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Well, after the Scousers slagging of United for being American owned, look who might be next. :D

US tycoon in talks to buy into Arsenal

The spectre of a potential takeover is looming over Arsenal, the only English-owned club among the Premiership's top teams, after it emerged that an American billionaire is in talks to buy a stake in the London club.
Stan Kroenke, who is estimated by Forbes magazine to be worth more than $2bn (£1bn), is believed to have approached ITV about buying the commercial broadcaster's 9.9% stake in Arsenal. Kroenke Sports Enterprises owns the Colorado Rapids football team, the Denver Nuggets basketball team, and the Colorado Avalanche ice hockey squad. Mr Kroenke already has a link with Arsenal, having signed a marketing partnership with the club just last month. Under that deal, Mr Kroenke agreed to increase awareness of the British club in the lucrative US market.
After Malcolm Glazer's swoop on Manchester United and the more recent takeover of Liverpool by the American tycoons George Gillett and Tom Hicks, there has been intense speculation about Arsenal's future.
Shares in the club have soared in recent weeks amid talk of a possible takeover, fuelled by news that its biggest single shareholder, Danny Fiszman, had reduced his holding to less than the 25% needed to maintain a veto on any changes to the club's statutes. He sold 659 shares at £5,975 each - a near £400 a share premium to the market price at the time - to an unnamed investor. He now has a stake of 24.11%.

Arsenal shares - which are listed on the alternative Plus market, formerly Ofex - ended last week at £6,500, making the club worth £404m.

Arsenal sources maintain that any all-out bid would have to be at a significant premium, probably valuing it at upwards of £700m, because there is plenty of room for growth in the business. It has a young, highly regarded squad and is set to receive a windfall from the redevelopment of its old ground. The value of the new Emirates stadium, meanwhile, has yet to be reflected in the club's market valuation.

ITV has made no secret of the fact that its stake, bought in the late 1990s when media companies thought such stakes could help in the negotiation of television contracts, is regarded as a non-core asset. It also had a stake in Liverpool, which it sold for £17.4m when the deal with Mr Gillett and Mr Hicks was announced.

There have been reports recently that ITV has also been approached by the royal family of Qatar over the stake.

Arsenal supporters, however, are more likely to back the buyout of the Gunners by someone with expertise in sports who can help the club thrive, rather than someone who sees it only as an investment.

ITV refused to comment and no one from Arsenal was available.

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Unlikely, it would take nearly all of his wealth to fund the purchase and I doubt the clubs four main share holders, who already extremely wealthy, would sell if it meant mortgaging the club to banks and dodgy hedge funds

Seems to be no truth in it

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...al/6496951.stm

Foreign Billionaires
 

Now there are yet more foreign billionaires entering English football I wonder if all the Premier League fans and managers who've been enviously whingeing that Chelsea have bought success will ensure their new owners don't spend all their $ on hugely expensive players but plough it all into the grass roots of football and facilities for the fans. Somehow I doubt it.

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I don't think anyone would object to their new owners spending millions on new players - just as long as they admit any new success they cultivate was more down to money than hard work.

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Err hello

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...al/6496951.stm

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And your point is...what?

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Point is the main share holders don't want to sell and the Yanks don't want to buy

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Get your facts right, 88 minute goal, hardly injury time and we should have been 3 up after 20 minutes barring some excellent saves, we also hit the bar just before we scored.

England, the only team who's ranking goes down every time they do play.

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Oh yes two minutes left isn't leaving it late at all :erm:

Please if our ranking went down every time we played we'd be occupying territory similar to yours recently, on par with the footballing giants of Haiti and Canada

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Ok - and that's related to my post how?

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My mistake I thought you were being topical, what with the recent speculation over an Arsenal take over, I'll have to remember to make sure you just aren't ranting inanely next time before posting

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:shrug:

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:rolleyes:

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Better than a draw agains Israeal.... LOL... Muppet.

Wheres your Rooney now, Where's your Rooney now, nananananananana where's your rooney now.

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Here we go again.....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...td/6498147.stm

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They may as well just sell him, because that way it avoids the annual "Ronaldo to Real" circus in a similar way they pestered Vieira season after season (what happened to him?).

They could use the money to sign someone to play that position anyway. Especially if they extort loads and loads from Real.

Every player has their price, even to a club like Man U.

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The difference is we go to Israel and draw and it's a shock, you boys go there and get a draw and its a result, guess that's what separates the better team's from the minnows

Where's your ....erm ...... erm who plays for you guys that's any good again?

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No doubt the Arsenal fans won't be present for the duration of the day today. :D

Oh.....Far be it from me to drag up old posts but........

Neither of which turned up today, apparently. :D

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Man Utd 4 Blackburn 1 :) Latest


I have to say the following because it might be the only chance i'll get.....
Cambridge United 7 (Seven) Weymouth 0 :D

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I can see Boro losing. It's 2 - 0 to West Ham.

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Wolves 0 - Saints 6

And we're still not in the play off positions... :(

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And seeing as BB won't be around for a while, I'd best bookmark this post for the next time Arsenal do finally manage a win :D

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For a while this afternoon, I'd thought that you had put your foot in it ;)

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anyone a celtic fan

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There are a few about.

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there is 1 here today :) dreadful match for us... we need an experienced attacker when henry and van persie are out :(

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http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/...258491,00.html

Rooney invited some Arsenal players?

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:LOL:

So did I lol. It's not usually like me to post, until all the results are in, nearly slipped up there. ;)

Well, at least you posted, unlike some. *cough* BBKing *cough* carlingman *cough* :D

Having watched the highlights, I'd be more inclined to worry about the defending. A poorly defended freekick, and Crouch, of all people, turning a defender in the box, with consumate ease.

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Cambridge united 7 weymouth 0 and they won 4 nil last week also club funds sorted for 2 years .Maybe we will stay up for another year ?

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Hopefully.

Next week they are likely to get stuffed 7-0 though.

But as the Chairman keeps on saying, CUFC are the Manchester United of the Conference :rolleyes:

If that was the case, we would be top of the league :)

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Not on the day and late but us Arsenal fans are still here.

Nothing left to play for this season.

Well apart from looking smug at the end of the season when Chelski buy another title from Man U.

:D

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another lucky win the Chelsea at the weekend.. add in their win against Everton they won right at the end.. plus Wigan too

i hate that stupid board they put up for injury time.. i made it about 30 seconds but they put on 4 mins and scored in the second.. if that match was in the 70s it would have just ended on time or a token 10 seconds

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If I remember right young Wayne is quite fond of brawling himself

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At least you don't have to pay for someone to poision the Spurs first team again. Must save you guys some money. Every cloud, and all that... ;)

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He certainly is but whenver you hear on the news that a match has had some brawling in it, you automatically think of Arsenal :D

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Didn't that turn out to be the winter vomiting bug (yeah i know it was summer!) and it's likely one of the staff brought it in (probably caught it off a germ factory / kid lol) and they already had it before they went to the hotel?

The incubation period is 36 hours so that's possible.

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Time will tell. ;)

And you can put money on me quoting your post, should we land the sacred prize. :D

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Bit like when someone mentions knocking of old prostitutes, you automatically think of Wayne ;)

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More misery for Arsenal fans, their youth team lost 4-3 on aggregate in the FA Youth Cup semi final second leg last night.








Oh, nearly forgot to mention, they got beat by United.:D

Jim.

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Well yeah - but whatever he does off the pitch is his own business :D

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Bobby Charlton you really are a hypocrite, when it comes to pots calling kettles black, you are without equal


Real Madrid would like to sign the 22-year-old and Barcelona have also been linked to him, although Ronaldo has insisted he is happy at United.
"They link themselves to whoever they feel fit and it's not right," United legend Charlton told BBC Five Live. "I don't think it's a correct way to go about their business."

Wonder what his views are on Man Utds transfer policy then, earlier this season Owen Hargreaves was successfully unsettled, last season it was Michael Carrick, not to mention past transgressions involving Diego Forlan and Paul Ince etc

What does the old duffer want, one rule for them and another for everyone else

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...td/6519045.stm

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But Real Madrid link themselves to every single player that is playing well at any given time. If you look at the list of players linked with Real madrid compared to United there would be a huge difference, and i'm talking about players the club have stated they are interested in, not the papers. You have mentioned four players and they are four players United were and are actually interested in buying unlike Madrid who seem to do it to unsettle the player as in most cases they never try to sign the player.