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Surely those sort of requests should be made to the FA and the FA should then make a ruling.

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Yes, that would happen, but i think both sides need to agree on it, there is not a very good reason for the match to be moved, just an extra day of rest for the United players, so the FA cannot force the move of the fixture on City. United are just asking whether City would be happy about it before asking the FA.

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Why? The other team has to agree to it, as it does affect them.

This isn't something that Utd have invented you know...other teams, in the past, have done the same thing.

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great second half display but United if only we had done the same in the first half after going 1-0 up.

Very bad defending but felt VDS could have done more for the first goal, even Andy Townsend said the same at HT. It was VDS who kicked the ball so far up the pitch it was ahead of all our players and that was how AC got the ball to score

With the comedy defending he had very little to actually do and the second goal wasn't his fault, one on one the attacker should always score and he made a good save after that and even got the ball off the pitch too

Heinze looks a liability at centre half when he has played there and if we play like that at the back then AC will score but i think we have goals in us too

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Plus the Derby is on TV. Moving it could have meant City losing TV money.

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I know Kaka is one of the best players in the world but there's no way 1 man should have been able to take on 3 Man United defenders and score. That second goal was an embarrasment. Heinze looked like he was in with a slim change of challenging for the ball but his efforts were foiled by Evra's @rse flying in to him at 100mph.

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It was one of those moments that if we go through we will look back and laugh, but if we don't go through it will be seen as the moment that put us out.

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Now that's not quite what Townsend said now is it. I seem to remember he said, he was a little surprised someone of the quality of van der sar was beaten like that. But...........on the replay, he did say that, as Kaka shot, van der sar's legs were off the ground, so how can you adjust yourself in that case ?

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yes but isn't it a keepers job to have his feet on the ground to dive down and make a save ?

He did cover the near post this time though so that was an improvement and on both goals we could have done better defending. the second goal maybe he could have done more but one on one the attacker should score and VDS never should have had to make a save so can't blame him on that one at all.

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Goalkeepers tend to do that a lot, so they can shift their weight onto which ever side they have to dive. You have to give Kaka credit for a good finish, he was too quick for heinze and van der sar.

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yes it was a good finish, just hope he doesn't do the same next week :-)

Heinze seems to be a bit of a liability at centre half and poor defending cost us for both goals

VDS did make a good save in the match and had very little to do for most of the match

roll on the weekend.. hope we get a good result then too

i'm looking to download last nights and the 7-1 anyone know anywhere good to get these from ?

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so... Milan only need a 1-0 at home to go through. But then, so did Roma and we know what happened then.

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Linky

I wonder how many more genuine supporters will be priced out next season. Football will be supported by hooray henrys soon.

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14% is quite a hike, but to be expected I suppose due to our greedy American owners, no doubt other foreign owed premiership clubs will follow suit. :(

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We need these super rich owners so clubs can compete though :mad:

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That is a hell of a fine

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...td/6594613.stm

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although I don't want them to go down , Accrington Stanley and AFC Wimbledon got docked points for the same thing and Bury got kicked out of the FA Cup for the same thing

the 5M is still less than they would have lost had they been docked points and went down

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They all have to abide by the Football league's rules though, so you can't really compare them

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true i didn't think about that when I wrote it

I don't want them to go down and would rather have them in the prem league but you can see how some clubs lower down will feel it's one rule for the rich and another for the poor

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Your probably right, however did you notice that they have cancelled Tevez's registration as well, I don't think we'll be able to resign him in time for the Wigan game

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didn't notice that and that will hit you hard.. what is strange with this is that JM has gone to liverpool and they have no problems if WHu didn't own him that how could he sign for Liverpool ? isn't that how the whole thing started

Tevez has been playing some good football for you and loosing him will hurt more than the 5m fine .. would rather they let you keep him all season at least then it's fairer on all the other clubs. what happens to teams that beat you now yet lost to you earlier when tevez was there ? seems better to let him stay all season and stop those aguements before they start

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WHU are pretty much down anyway. 3 pts adrift with 3 games to go when you've not been picking up points for much of the season, I can't think it will make much difference, especially seeing they have Wigan, Bolton and Man U in their 3 games. I can't see them getting three points, let alone three more than the other sides.

I don't get why nothing's happened to Liverpool though? Didn't they just buy JM's registration from W Ham so could only buy what WHU owned? So isn't he still owned by a third party? So why are they not being fined too? Or do only the big clubs get away with it?

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I remember the 1988-89 season, John Lyall's last in charge, bottom all season then won 8 out of the last 10 games, including beating a pretty good Forrest team IIRC, in fact the only teams we lost to were Everton, who were playing for cup final places and Liverpool who were going for the title, so I think I'll wait until we are actually relegated before chucking in the towel in, just like then

JM's transfer must be legit because of the amount of time the league took to verify it, besides isn't it a loan deal?

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Phew

But the Premier League has now ruled that Tevez can see out the season.

A West Ham statement read: "The actual registration of Carlos Tevez has not been called into question and he remains a West Ham United player approved by the Premier League.

"Carlos Tevez is available for selection for the rest of the season, including Saturday's game against Wigan Athletic."

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Managed to snag meself an England vs Brazil ticket from the looks of it. Got an email saying i've been successful anyway.

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I don't. I was born in 1983, would have been about five.

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Anyone elses heart rate just got back to normal ? My ticker was going like a steam train in the last few minutes :erm:

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Huge slices of luck for Utd today!

Has the title just been decided? We've seen that Fegie celebration before. The bookies think so anyway, they have Utd at 1/33 and Chelsea at 12/1.

If Utd beat Man City next weekend and Chelsea don't beat Arsenal then its all over.

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Leeds 1 - 0 Ipswich latest score.
;)
Leeds aren't going down i'm telling you !

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I bet Mourinho will say that Phil Neville's goal was fixed ;) :rofl:

Come on Phil, you don't play for us anymore ;)

Leeds are down !
 

I'm in shock. Leeds get a draw and get relegated.
:Yikes: :Yikes: :Yikes:
I bet it's going to get ugly in the ground on the way out.

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Not mathematically... ;)

Needs them to win by 6 goals & Hull to lose by 3 goals for them to avoid the drop though!

Ridsdale lets them down again... :D

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They are just about to restart the game for another 30 seconds.

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Oh yes they are.;)

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Russ B, you know that I told you not to gloat too soon the other week, well here is a prime example of why you should not do it ;) :D

---------- Post added at 17:39 ---------- Previous post was at 17:34 ----------

Not a bad day for me today. As well as Utd winning/Chelsea drawing results, I made a yankee bet, with a few quid and that came in :D

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Drinks are on Mal.:cool:

Good day for my three;) teams today, United, Oldham and Rochdale all won. Oldham make their play off chances better and little Rochdale beat the runaway league leaders to boost their late run to the play offs.

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Cambridge win 1.0 we stay up hooray

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:beer: ;)

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Plus United will get a guard of honour at Stamford Bridge ?
Like United gave them last season or the one before.

I can't remember now, plus it might not happen anyway yet.

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Yep, was there, game was a bit stale though, but at least they survived the drop :tu:

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28 April 2007 17:02

1 Scunthorpe 45 35 88
2 Bristol City 45 22 82
3 Nottm Forest 45 24 81
4 Blackpool 45 24 80
5 Yeovil 45 14 76
6 Oldham 45 21 72
7 Swansea 45 19 72

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Cannot believe that Man City have not scored at home since the new Year.:shocked: it will be just like them to break their duck next weekend, still if they get one United will just have to get three, when did United last keep a clean sheet?

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:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

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The man with no name ^^^ ;)

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That's odd - I posted that :erm:

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At first, I thought that it was someone who had there account removed, but there username would remain, just not so prominent.

Ghost posting...

---------- Post added at 23:13 ---------- Previous post was at 21:27 ----------

A rumour for you all...

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Good day for Man U, I just hope we don't play for a draw next weekend. We tend to come unstuck when playing for a point. :erm:

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I'd hope that even if we were not in the chase for the title, we would play for a win next week ;)

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I'd like to think so, but am just looking at the fact that a point may be what fergie might be looking at. Bearing in mind, we need 4 points, because of the superior goal difference. He probably already has 3 points chalked up for the West Ham game.

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Well, as he's admitted to having dual accounts, there's only one course of action open to the site Admin.

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You mean to put all our eggs into a match against a club that has a history of mucking up our title chance? ;)

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Not at your place we haven't, that FA cup win was our first victory there in over 30 years and we haven't won there since either I don't think

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I am not counting our chickens until they have hatched. You're still fighting against relegation. You need the points, so you are going to want to get something from the game.

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Pretty sure your team's fate will have been decided by then anyway, draw at Chelsea and that is that really

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I agree with TheDaddy on that point, that was at upton park. Old Trafford is a lot different, despite West Ham's plight.

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Utd have a way of make us wait ;)

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Arsenal do the business for you and you might not even have to wait, added bonus of course, it would really annoy Jose :D

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We haven't won it, until we have won. West Ham are in a position where they need the points to stay in the Premiership, so unless they get relegated before the match, they are not going to just "turn up". Before that, we have to play City, who despite being dire this season, will play 100% better and then go away to Chelsea.

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That would depend on who Wenger hates the most, Fergie or Mourinho ;)

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We had nothing to play for the other times either, in fact we had already been relegated on one occasion, that's the thing with football as you have pointed out, there is no such thing as a sure bet

Hmm close call perhaps but then has Fergie ever called him a voyeur :D

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There is definitely no such thing as a sure bet with football ;)

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Wenger.....Wenger....I seem to remember he manages some insignificant team? :D

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Leeds to be relegated from the Championship to League One - who'd have thought????

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They will bounce back. It might take a long time now, but they will be back.

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It's a sad day when clubs as big as Leeds are in what used to be called the Third Division but the way in which the football ££Ã ¡Ãƒâ€šÃ‚£Ãƒâ€šÃ‚£'s are divi'd up these days it's going to be almost impossible to come back from there.

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Good riddance, it's what those *******s deserve, the scenes at the end of the match yesterday were disgusting, they should be playing conference football next year let alone League one football.

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I couldn't agree more, but am merely trying to second guess fergies thinking here. And I'm pretty sure, he will expect to beat West Ham at home. You know me, I never count my chickens, you end up looking foolish. :D

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The funniest thing is that Everton get £500,000 if United win the title from the Rooney transfer. I wonder if the Everton chairman told the players their wages will go up next season if they lose :rofl:

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Well I agree with you about *******s in football (and anywhere else for that matter) but blaming the club or the majority of the fans for the behaviour of a minority may be going a bit far.

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Sam Allardyce has resigned from Bolton.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...rs/6605673.stm

That came out of the blue, but good luck to him for the future he's proved he's a top manager. :tu:

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Just been hearing on R5Live that Leeds UFC are apparently likely to go into administration later this week. Not looking good now.

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not had a chance to post since the weekend but great result for us and things are looking good but we still have AC on weds and City on Sat so we not there yet

can't blame VDS for the first goal as the ball was heading straight for his hands.. still not sure whether to blame him for the second goal.. Wes got turned far too easily which didn't help VDS but should he have been beat at the near post ? The ball was going at 75 mph so even if he got a hand to it not sure if he could have done alot .. as it was my B'day on Friday i will let him off as i can't blame him for every goal we let in and it was a great strike

what did annoy me about VDS was when they took a corner he came off his line and got no where near the ball.. they got a free header but put it wide.. if they had scored the whole game could have been different.. these are the sorts of things he does all the time since he joined us and this is why i don't think he's a good keeper.. he did the same sort of thing at Fulham too .. it never made it into the MOTD highlights and the papers won't print about him doing that either so alot of fans who don't have Sky wouldn't know about it

just hope when we play AC it's the team from the second half that turns up and not the one from the first

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Congratulations to two former Man U players, Sunderland & Birmingham are promoted.

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God, I hate Birmingham - bunch of blue monkeys, the lot of 'em :mad:

Congrats to Sunderland though :)

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I had a feeling Derby would bottle it on Sunday.
Bet365 were giving 5/2 on Palace which I thought was pretty generous so stuck a tenner on them. Nice little £25 profit.

If Utd beat city at the weekend and Chelsea don't beat Arsenal, I wonder if Chelsea will give the Utd players a guard of honour at Stamford Bridge.

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New Bolton boss

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...rs/6606553.stm

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All together now.

He's fat, he's round, he bounces on the ground.............

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Thought this article was very funny...

How to bluff your way to the top of the game

Few of my faves..

— Any player being filmed leaving a team bus must ensure that he is wearing headphones and carrying a small Louis Vuitton wash bag.

— When a player is judged offside and still shoots but doesn’t score, he must pretend he knew it was offside all along and didn’t really try to score at all. On the other hand, if he does score, he must act “outraged” and “robbed”.

— Any striker who is more than five yards offside must still either wag a finger or launch a tirade of expletives at the flag-bearing official.

— Keepers must use the special adhesive power of saliva by spitting into their gloves as much as possible during games. They should also kick the soles of their boots against the post at least three times in each half.

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That just reminded me of school - I guess that was said all over the country. :D

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:LOL: It was a bit of a childish post from me, but what the hell, I remember my youth very well. :D

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I preferred the won we reserved for Ron Atkinson :D

He's bald, his round he can't fit in the ground it's a Ron

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Ah well, it just gets worse for poor Joey. :dozey:

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The Ji Sung Park one is still my favourite.

"He shoots, he scores, he'll eat your labradors" :D

jim.

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Come on Liverpool!!

*goes off to scrub his mouth out with carbolic soap...

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:tu:

It'd be fantastic if all they win is the league cup

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This is what i posted in another forum.

Im a Man Utd fan, i want Chelsea to win. I want Man Utd to beat Chelsea at there ground and win the premiership by doing it. I want Man Utd to beat Chelsea in the FA Cup final and i want Man Utd to beat Chelsea in the champions league final. One can only hope.

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You do realize (spelling?) Chelsea are unbeaten at Stamford Bridge this season.

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Looks like the game is going to penalties :erm:

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And? Doesnt mean its going to make the game any easier or harder than it already is.

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How can you want Liverpool to win?
Jesus it would be unbearable if they did win it again.
If Utd get to the final I want to play Chelsea. Could you imagine losing to Liverpool in a European cup final?

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Because I want Chelsea to end up with an extremely frustrated Chairman and manager. For all their millions, I want them to end up with little or nothing.

And as for Liverpool? They've failed to get a result against us twice this season and I'd expect the same again.

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3rd time lucky? ;)

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Look at Mourinho :D :D :D

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Typical Liverpool, success based on Penalties AGAIN!!

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Where's your quadruple now Maureen? :D

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Anyone notice in his post-match interview how much Mourinho sounds like Borat?

Is nice :D

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You mustn't know many Liverpool fans. My phone hasn't stopped bleeping with messages. Dread to think what it would be like if they beat Utd in the final.

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I live in South Wales - I'm surrounded by scouse fans, and none of them want United in the final :D

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:grind: :knock:

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To give Gazzae his due he did say "Know" Liverpool fans :D

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Well tough me and ten's of thousands of others aren't very happy with the way you and the 'world's greatest chairmanâ„¢' ran the club, I'd be very shocked if you had any reputation left for the independent enquiry to besmirch, now **** off back under your rock

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...td/6613497.stm