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well done to Liverpool for reaching the final.. great to see Chelsea loose.. they rested players against Bolton and draw that game and still loose to Liverpool

just hope we have a ref with as much common sense as the one last night who doesn't make an bookings

if we learnt anything from the AC and Everton game it's that we need to keep the ball in their half and attack attack attack and not defend

hope Rio and Vidic play

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True to the scouse/ scally stereotype :rolleyes:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/m...de/6615493.stm

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Shame people are still under the above impression!!

It was a great night in Liverpool last night, lets hope we have the same outcome in Greece.

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Doesn't suprise me at all, it was probably a Liverpool fan aswell :rolleyes:

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this lal Leanardo could go far in management he reckons AC who are a goal down on aggregate and have to score will attack :D

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...pe/6606877.stm

didn't see that tactic coming

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I'll bet the scally's who tried to burgle Duncan Fergusons whist he was at home a couple of years don't try it again. :shocked:

Its also rumoured that Britain is to give the Elgin Marbles back to Greece, in the sure and certain knowledge some scally will nick them back again,:D

Jim.

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Put £10 down on the over @ 1.95

Hopefully plenty of goals tonight

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I think more probably an Everton fan, but that doesn't make any difference - **** is **** no matter what part of the country they come from.

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2-0 to Milan

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Have Man Utd turned up yet

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Nope

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It's a poor performance so far I have to say :(

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This is not good :(

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very poor performance and we didn't get going all night did we even have a shot on target ?

Great save from VDS in the first min but that was hit straight at him.. felt he could have done more for both goals but then so could the defense too

third goal wasn't his fault as that was 1-1 so the striker should always get that

apart from Scholes who else had a good game ?

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hey Russ is quiet :P

it happens Russ... manure just aint good enough ;)

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You missed the post 2 before yours then? :D

It may happen....but not in the next three weeks :)

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Such a shame ;)

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Wheyhay! Nae luck all you Mink Who "fans", the real red machine will just have to represent the premiership instead.

Your not really Champions league final quality anyway.

Mon the pool!

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Very disappointing. Utd just weren't at the races. Milan wanted it more and were by far the better team.

Hope there will be no hang ups on Saturday.

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If we're not what does that say about Liverpool ;)

Team.....Played.....Points
Man Utd....35.........85
Liverpool...36.........67

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I blame global warming, did you see the weather, we have got used to playing in warm sunshine,:)

Poor performance but credit to AC Milan excellent display from them.

Jim.

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That shows we've had a poor season in the league. We're still in the CL final though. Again.

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When did you last have a good season? Tell me when you won it last where did you finish?

Its always an advantage when you can "throw" league game's to rest you players before a big game. ;)

Even Rick Parry admits he'd rather Liverpool win the Premiership than the Champions league.

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how ironic that this years champions league final will be contested by anything but champions (and not for the first time).
AC Milan shouldnt have even been in the competition to start with, due to all the match fixing shennanigans, and as for liverpool, when was the last time they were league chanmions? 19 bloody 90.

the sooner we get back to only league winners entering this competition the sooner we'll see a more exciting premiership race involving more than 2 clubs in england!

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Yes isn't it..........

But hey........ you made it to the final. Good Luck !

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...pe/6612821.stm

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That the Champions league, being the biggest league in Europe, has been Liverpool's focus all season and Man Who and Chetski have been left the scraps.

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Wow - its Jose's Italian counterpart, who would have guessed that he may use psychological tactics ahead of the final.. Stunning move by the italian master there, never seen that one coming.

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HAHAHAHA

Focus? Scraps?

HAHAHAHA

If the premiership is the scraps then why does Rick Parry, you do know who he is don't you, say that the premiership is the big prize for Liverpool?

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It's natural that England's most successful club would be disappointed in not having won the top domestic trophy for so long however recent consistent European success is a more than adequate substitute

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I would agree.

And what would a team rather win - a domestic league or the Champions League?

The Champions League is, IMO, the biggest prize in football outside the World Cup.

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I quite agree, however they won't kill the cash cow, look at the out cry when Platini muted 'only' allowing the top 3 to qualify

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Not according to Parry..

Do you really think any Liverpool fan wouldn't swap their season for ours?

Every Liverpool fan I know, given the option of winning the league or the european cup this season would take the league.

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Not according to Fergie, didn't he describe his Euro win as the pinnacle of his career?

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i think to the fans the top prize is to win the league.. managers can view these things differently as Fergie grew up seeing the European Cup Final at Hampden Parkin 1960 and so had wanted to win it ever since then hence his comment

well done to Liverpool they beat all the teams they had to after the group stages and got to a well deserved final

we played rubbish last night and could barely pass to our own men and got beat.. fair play to AC, whatever the rights and wrongs of them being there, there played better than us and beat us

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I think he was more likely referring to the treble.

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Difference of opinion then, i would prefer the CL and a Chetski fan who i know (and who now owes me 20 quid) thought the same thing before we put them out.

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Not so sure he was, after all does Mourinho refer to himself as the special one because he won his domestic league or because he won the European Cup? Didn't Matt Busby describe winning it as the 'highlight' of his career

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i have to say i think winning it now is alot easier with the group stages where you can loose games, i.e Celtic this season, plus with teams in England, italy and Spain you only need to finish in the top 4 to get back in next season even if you have to qualify for it

last night also showed why i can frustrated with Giggs... he just went through the motions and didn't do anything, although neither did any of the others, he's done that too many times in the past few years

Vidic clearly wasn't fit and maybe if he had gone off after 20 mins we might have done better

O'Shea couldn't pass the ball all night and he does that too often at RB and really didn't look United quality

Smith should have come on at HT.. stick him in midfield and he would have have given us some more bit and hunger

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Fergie said he has done that throughout his career, turned up for one game in three, were is exact words, that said he, like Ronaldo and Rooney are tolerated because they have to rare ability to turn matches around on their own and that is the difference between Man U and Chelsea imo

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I think you are only saying that cause Liverpool havent won the premiership since 1990.

You can win the champions league by avoiding or losing to all the big names in the early stages and having to raise your game for a semi.

I'm a chelsea fan, don't get me wrong I am gutted that we didnt make it to the final (or even win it), but that does not hurt as much as not winning the premiership ( I haven't conceded this yet but its very likely we wont win it now). The premiership is the biggest prize in English football.

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Our injuries and amount of recent games played really showed last night, all credit to AC Milan they really wanted the win and played superb! They looked fresher, played quick attacking football and in the end deserved the final result.

Unlike Liverpool who are only in one competition and are miles off the BIG 2, we can't afford to rest players at the weekend, this really showed last night.

A few quality signings in the summer should help us next season

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and so it rumbles on, people don't seem to realise you get what you deserve, the only people to blame for Wigan and Fulham's plight is themselves

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...em/6620393.stm

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do you know what the Fa are going to do ?

my understanding is that the fine is for the league games but they also played Tevez and JM in the cup and so there is meant to be FA action too

in typical FA style they said they would do nothing at all until the Prem League had looked into it and then copy whatever they did

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After watching Masch playing for Liverpool I really don't know why West Ham didn't play him. Is it that DMs these days are a luxury item for teams that dominate possession? But for teams that are being dominated they find themselves swamped and unable to assert their game?

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With the money at stake, I think decency and principals go out the window... They just descend on West Ham like lions or vultures.

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No idea, they'll probably kick us out of next years competition

Terry Brown, the guy is a multi millionaire and an accountant by trade, it beggars belief that he is so stupid, we had to endure years of his incompetence and just when you think the bar steward has gone his biggest goof comes to light, the blame for this lies firmly at his door, although it has to be said nobody comes out of it smelling to good, when we signed them we all knew that MSI owned a fair chunk of them, so why did the powers that be allow the transfers to go through in the first place? Do they not know their own rules?

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And he is right, I can't see AC Milan making the same mistake as last time ;)

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Unbelievable,

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...td/6621789.stm

He comes straight from the Peter Risdale school of no shame, incidentally, did anyone hear about Risdale 'thrusting' a glass of champagne into Hull chairman Adam Pearson's hand, to celebrate the relegation of Leeds, despite the fact I hate Leeds it made me feel a little queasy, did he have no affection for the club?

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...ed/6625751.stm

Good riddance

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seems a cheeky way to get round the rules though.. liquidate the company through the summer and then sell it to Ken bates who is there already.. that way they get a 10 point deduction this season and not next season

hope they get relagated from League One too

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I am not so sure about that, they are on the brink imo, they have no assets to cover their debts, no ground, no training ground and no players that are worth anything, those that are worth a few quid can be picked up for peanuts now they are in administration anyway, the only thing keeping them going is the clubs history and it's fans and as I said earlier I hate Leeds FC but I still wouldn't want to see them go under

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Sounds a bit like Cambridge United.
Who owns Leeds United football ground ?

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Amazing for a club who were league champions 15 years ago.

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i think with no assets the company gets wound up and then Ken Bates can buy it for a pound

they sold the ground and training ground to someone think it might be property can't remember now but it's not them

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And all the poor b******s owed money can go and whistle for it.:rolleyes:

Jim.

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In order to come out of administration they must settle all football related debts afaik. So it isn't a complete get of jail free card. ;)

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Bates has formed a different company though Julian, so maybe settling all debts might not be the case.
Had it been the same company, then I am sure that all creditors get together for a meeting with the administrators, then are offered say 30p in the pound, if all agree then the "old" Leeds United continue in business.

I stand to be corrected though. :disturbd:

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Giggidy giggidy goo :D :D :D

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very poor performance and what VDS did after the pen is why i don't like him as a keeper.. they had loads of players in our box and he was just going to do a week punch straight to them.. not get the ball off the pitch, in his hands, or up the field but a weak punch to the city players.. he got away with it but again it was poor keeping

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Looks like Brizzle are up, just hope we avoid the team who put 7 past us. I'd like either Yeovil or Swansea and at times, we've been "set to face" both.

As for W Ham... lol

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Swansea 3-5 Blackpool with 4 for Andy Morrell, sounds good - and Showboat Scouse missed a penalty as well.

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Judging from the time of the post, your post could have been too soon ;)

I'd thought that you would somehow moan about VDS... ;)

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Well, we do avoid the Latics.

P
GD
PTS


1 Scunthorpe 46 38 91

2 Bristol City 46 24 85

3 Blackpool 46 27 83

4 Nottm Forest 46 24 82

5 Yeovil 46 16 79

6 Oldham 46 22 75


Yeovil v Forest Fri 11/5 19.45
Forest v Yeovil Fri 18/5 19.45

Oldham v Blackpool Sun 13/5 12.15
Blackpool v Oldham Sat 19/5 18.05

Final at Wembley Sun 27/5 at 14.30

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I see that Michael Ball is picking up the slack from Barton and Thatcher.

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suppose that had fallen to a city player and they had scored.. he did the same at Everton and could have put us 3-0 down and he punched the ball to a Reading player too.. if we had lost that game too where would we be in the title chase

that's what VDS does and that's why he isn't good enough for us.. he gets away with these things but he's not exactly going to improve on those things as he gets older

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Just as long as it doesn't let us down over the next 2 weeks :D

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Yes, funny that, it's almost as though it's instilled into them by "Psycho"

---------- Post added at 19:21 ---------- Previous post was at 18:54 ----------

Here's the stamp on Ronaldo

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1w...-on-ronaldo-mu

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does that mean you agree some of his goalkeeping isn't up to standard ?

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No it means we're in squeeky bum time, so all mistakes need to be kept in check :D

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I think that you need some perspective ;)

He had just saved a penalty, which if he hadn't, it would have made it so much harder to win the title, yet you moan about the way he came for the loose ball. If I remember rightly, he did punch it clear and didn't land at the feet of a city player. You could suppose anything...suppose Ronaldo row z'd the penalty. Nil - Nil. What if eh?

I'm sure that I saw Rooney row z'd a shot. That could have cost us the title...lets get rid of him. ;)

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Sherer, VDS is probably the best keeper since Schmeichel and he had his faults, but anyway...

Only one more point needed to clinch the title, or a draw would do tomorrow at the Arsenal V Chelsea game.

It is a pity that after all the goings on in the Serie A that AC Milan were allowed to continue in the Champions League competition, however that is a poor excuse for a poor United display last Wednesday, AC Milan are a quality side.

Predictions for the end of this season.

Premiership - Man Utd (although it is still possible to lose)
Champions League - AC Milan (As long as they don't make the same mistake twice)
FA Cup - Chelsea ( Only because of all the cheating that goes on in that team, Drogba and Ashley Cole spring to mind)

Your thoughts ?




---------- Post added at 23:33 ---------- Previous post was at 23:03 ----------

Oh dear.....

Maybe it's over already....

http://football.guardian.co.uk/break...611156,00.html

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Damn

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Won't be a points deduction, the Premier League have set a precedent with the west ham ruling.

Sounds like rubbish anyway. The article says the deal was done in Feb. As the transfer window was closed then it wouldn't take effect until it reopened. Plus its in the NOTW.

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Err, we stopped Nicky Southall from playing against us after we F/Ted him (u/c) to Gillingham. Same when we bought Chambers from Northampton, he wasn't allowed to play for us against them.

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Blackpool are steaming ATM, and the Latics have gone off the boil, it will need a big improvement to make to Wembley.

Jim.

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Thought as much...

Oh yeah and Bramble>>>>Bouhlarouz :)

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I've got a funny feeling that ManU fans are going to celebrate tonight....

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:cleader: :cleader: :cleader: :cleader:

Champions ! ! !

:cleader: :cleader: :cleader: :cleader:


:hyper: :hyper: :hyper: :beer: :drunk: :D

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WOOOHOOO!

Wonder if we will get a guard of honour!

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class management over deep pockets gotta love that. Love or hate Fergie there is a reason he has been a manager for the same club for so long

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well done to ManU.... hope that next season it'll be better again for us (arsenal) as this season we have either suffered from too many injuries or not enough experience.



and yes I know these are bloody excuses ;) :P

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Congratulations to Man U (mainly for stopping Chelsea winning the league ;))

Next season its ours :)

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Jeez, Arsenal don't half faff about with the ball...shoot at some point...please!

I feel dirty now, after wanting them to win.

Oh, well CHAMPIONS :D

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Giggidy giggidy goo!
Giggidy giddidy goo!

The dilusional ramblings of the Arsenal fans (some of whom gave up posting in here a long time ago) in the early stages of this thread has cheered me up no end :D

The Premiership title, back to it's spiritual (and natural!) home :D

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Yep, well done United :tu::tu::tu:

Just Heard that Glenn Roeder has been summoned to St James's Park.

I guess it could be curtains for him.

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yeah but Russ the main question is how long is it going to be there ;)

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We've proven we're able to retain it :)

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Winkers! ;)

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Roeder resigns :rolleyes:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...ed/6630751.stm

Big Sam next anyone ?

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Arsenal, in recent years, have shown us all how to retain the title ;)

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Let's hope their little blip as being taken seriously is safely behind us :D

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BREAKING NEWS: Arsenal win something.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...en/6632373.stm

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Am looking forward to Sherer's critique of Kuszczak's performance ;)

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yeah i have to say i'm looking forward to getting VDS back in goal for the weekend

very bad performance from Kuszczak. Been on a few other sites and it seems everyone is having a go at him but did he make any mistakes VDS hasn't made this season, flapping at crosses, poor decisions, stupid punches .. very VDS esque except one has a few league titles and European Cups on his CV and one doesn't

still on the basis of last night VDS is better thank god Kuszczak didn't cost us a goal.

Just hope Foster is better next season. Maybe it's our GK coach that's the problem

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A new tribute to the late great Bobby Moore :tu:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6645619.stm

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot..._2/6641793.stm

yay

Nottingham Forest scored a penalty in each half to take a giant stride towards the League One play-off final.
Kris Commons put Forest ahead, calmly slotting home from the spot after Nathan Jones felled James Perch.
And Perch made it 2-0 with two minutes to go, striking his spot-kick confidently into the corner after Jack Lester was upended by Terrell Forbes.

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Congratulations, I hope you make it to the final and get promoted :tu:

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A goal and a half

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltEaUSTiIZQ

Swedens premier division - Allsvenskan

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agree with you there m8,do you think he meant it or did he trip,next thing you know he'll be on loan at west ham!! ha ha.

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Sanchez quits as the Northern Ireland Manager...

...and Fowler leaves Liverpool.

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you need to get freeview m8,saw this on sky sports at dinnertime ;)

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Has it been posted here before?