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Man Utd and Toon ask about Owen

It's official: Real Madrid confirm that Man United have made calls asking about Michael Owen, though unfortunately for him, it's Newcastle who have showed the most "concrete interest". Owen himself says that's "mentally" prepared to stay at Real.

http://www.football365.com/news/prem...y_159084.shtml
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Kleberson makes Besiktas move

Manchester United misfit Kleberson has completed a £2.5mil lion move to Besiktas after passing a medical with the Turkish club.

The Brazilian World Cup winner was raised shoulder-high by supporters on his arrival in Istanbul on Sunday and quickly agreed personal terms to end his Old Trafford nightmare.

http://www.football365.com/news/story_159088.shtml

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Man Utd Deny Owen Contact

Ten minutes after Real Madrid claimed that Man United and Newcastle had both been on the blower about Michael Owen, an OT spokesman has insisted that they've done no such thing. So does that mean only the Toon are actually interested? Oh dear...

http://www.football365.com/news/prem...y_159084.shtml

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wel if we are denying it then he prob having a medical at Man U already :-)

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Ferdinand signs new Man Utd deal

Manchester United star Rio Ferdinand has signed a four-year deal which will keep him at the club until June 2009.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...td/4132562.stm

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finally.. lets hope we can get back to playing football and winning our trophy back

one thing i've noticed about Rio though is that when he needs to get stick in and use his head in corners etc when players boots are flying about he never does.. he always uses his feet up high instead

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I welcome that game, may the best team win. :D

ik

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Certainly did the last time :shocked:

I win against you bhoys next Saturday would be better than scoring Kylie and Angelina in the same night.

Hughes has said were NOT going to shut up shop and come and have a go, i need to rush back to falkirk on Wednesday with my Season ticket in order to secure one of the MEASLY 800 tickets we have been allocated in your 68000 seater stadium..

I mean - come on...




(No not the film stars - The two birds down the local Spar! :D )

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I would like to meet those birds from your local spar....... :D

800 is good for falkirk, you will never fill the seats...ken?!!!!! :D

ik

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raaaaaaaaangers...

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What about them?

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My fave scottish team. Nowhere near the Reds in terms of my personal allegiances though. :D ;)

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Well, we all have our flaws i suppose. :D

BTW ikthius - we could easily take 3000 to that game - we took about 2000 to Livi at the weekend and had more fans that they did - no exageration.

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Anyone know if Man Utd v Debrecen is on any tv channel tonight?

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BBC1, 8pm

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:tu: When did the BBC get champions league?

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Any channel can bid to show the qualifiers.

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I hope man utd get knocked out so we can see other british teams on itv1 for a change.

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As ITV only has Tuesday night games you'll see other british teams every other week (if not more).

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And conversely I hope Arse, Chelsea and Liverpool get knocked out so we can see good quality European football :)

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You're only saying that as you know that we will never be able to say that back to you about Leicester ;) :D

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:LOL: hooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooof

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:( I remember our year in europe getting promptly owned by athletico madrid :(
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That will be covskum now who have micky and our reject players.

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yeah yeah. Once hoooooof, always hooooooof. :D :stiffneck:

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bwhahahah at Russ D, tell me again, how many times man yoo won the European Cup in present form out of how many "goes" and the same for us ? ;) Bring them on!!! looking forward to tomorrow night.

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In 'present form'?? :rolleyes:

Let's face it, United play much more attractive football.

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We won it twice off one league title and three entries :p: ner

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But that not what I asked!!!!! :rofl: Milan played very attractive football but did it win anything ? ;) Anyways it's far too early to be baiting you really. Let's see how the qualifying goes.

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You won't bait us. You'll be too busy thinking up excuses as to why last season's winners don't get past the semis :D

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nice result last night?

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well depends if you support Man U, Everton or Rangers

still it's not over yet but if any team looses now they go into the UEFA Cup

thought Wisla Krakow had a great result last night coming from a goal behind.. interesting to see how Artmedia Bratislava do tonight after knocking out Celtic

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*ahem*

And lost 3 - 2 to Walsall last night ;) :p:

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well 'one' of my teams :p: , Oldham Athletic sit proudly at the top of Div 1:D

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Well, my team is currently second in the Premiership :D :p:

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Yeah but the ref was bought.

2-1 down with 1/2 hr to go and 11 men is achievable. And when Leitao was "fouled" he was already on his ass and the ball going past and out of play.

Not a penalty, and not a red card.

Had that not happened, we had ample chance to claw it back.

Merson shook hands with the ref after the game... wonder what he said?

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Well I heard walsall were on top at 2-1 and were looking for a 3rd anyway and you played better after you had the man sent off. So you by all means wouldnt have come back if you had 11 men. Of course I agree that ref mistakes suck and they all becoming all too common in the game.

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That is a good idea. Which team will be the first to change their name to Aardvark Athletic? ;) :D

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The red card has been rescinded...

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Brother Gary might be on his way out also.

Link

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Never rated the Nevs, dad stuck his oar in there.

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Glazer documentary on the take over on ITV now !!!!!!!!! for you man u fans that is :D

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Did not make pleasant viewing.:(

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this is a silly match whats it going to be 7 all :rolleyes:



Barclays Premiership
Aston Villa2 - 2
BoltonLK Phillips 4
S Davis 9
K Davies 6
I Campo 8

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Still 2-2 now though isn't it? How strange.

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and its finished 2-2 :shrug:

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And West Ham have won 3 - 0 !!! I'm still reeling from the shock! :drunk:
And I get to see the highlights on MOTD. :D

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to BR;

your mob had me worying at halftime.......

but we came good in the end.

CELTIC 3 - 1 FALKIRK

IK

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A good weekend, the trees losing consilodating their place in the lower leagues and covskum 4-0 thrashing.

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Hang on, Arse won, shouldn't the fairweather fans be flooding this thread?? :D

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well if you include the ref Newcastle were playing 12 men..

feel sorry for Wigan should have got a point at least from that game

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:cry: ;)

I was jumping around like a possessed child at half time, still it took a few wonder strikes from you boys to seal it.

Well chuffed about the performance though - that should put us in good stead for the rest of the season.

What about Hearts though - im beginning to think they could be in with a chance.

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Erm, no they didn't. They won 3 - 1.

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Well Hearts are playing well, and it is the start of the season, but they could be in with a challange.

But what about rangers........ ;) :) :angel: :p: :tu: :rofl::shocking::Yes::clap::woot:

Aberdeen 3 - 2 Rangers Ha ha
Ricksen :redcard:

ik

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LOL,
I thought you'd be chuffed with that :p:

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Sorry - must have been the effects of shock! I stand corrected and blame the BBC ticker, Mr Bubble. :nworthy:

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:)

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Football quote of the week.

From Stuart 'Psycho' Pearce (shouting at quiet fans) "Are you lot in a bleedin' library or what?"

You gotta love him. He's the next Cloughie or Redknapp in that respect.

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Psycho = legend.

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FOOTBALL TO SEDATE RIOTS

English football is being hailed as the cure for months of bloody rioting in Thailand.

Frustrated at an inability to end violence in the south of the country, the Government is to hand out 500 TV sets for people to watch the Premiership for free.

The televisions will be installed in village tea shops to enable those who cannot afford to subscribe to the satellite and cable services watch the games.

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0...413436,00.html

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I'm flying out to Denmark tomorrow morning to watch us give them a good pasting! :)

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I think not, after 68 mins.....Denmark 3 England 0
England are dire :(

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I hope you're Danish!

Danish Pastry-ing is occuring at the moment. It would be funny if it wasn't tragic (ok, it is funny, then).

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I gotta say, James is playing a blinder :td:

Game over 4 - 1 :mad:

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Bet our cricket team would have done better.

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Hey your avatar would have done better. :mad:

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Playing like a blind man, you mean. We'd be better off with Blunkett's dog in goal.
Goal. Keeper. Means. You. Keep. In. Your. Goal. It's not hard, you plank.

Still, it's only Wales next.

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:LOL:

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Yeah, I see what you mean. When you've got a woefully inadequate rugby team, you need to try and salvage national pride in some other way ;)

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Actually, he seemed to be playing like Blunkett without the dog..

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Tough opponents, those Slovenians. You were lucky to get nil. And please stop Hartson wearing skin-tight kit - it makes me bring my lunch up.

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Just got back. What a fecking diaster. First half was ok, but James was a complete t**t. Sole responsibility for 3 of their goals. His excuse about not preparing and warming up don't wash. He wa son the pitch with the other keepers over an hour before the game and at half time.

Rooney was fantastic. If we didn't have him we wouldn't be half the team we are normally. I have no idea why Joe Cole is in the team, talk about ineffective. Little dribbles, beating no-one and either a lost ball or a weak shot at the end. Was constantly out of position making Ashley Cole have to defend the entire left side on his own. Lampard didn't turn up and Rio Ferdinand... £120k a week, you're having a laugh!

Still, I can recommend Denmark as a place to go nice people, gorgeous women, nice clear roads with no speed cameras. Some bad things though, everything costs shedloads, a twix is about £1!! Steak and potato wedges, £16! Beer is between £4 and £6 a pint. Toll to get over a bridge.. £20!!
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Maybe he was closing his eyes when the Danish ran towards our goal, I was!

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sounds like you had a nice but expensive time apart from the result

keep meaning to go to Copenhagen. used to work in Sweden and had to change at the airport.. never got out to go to the city though

can't see why we didn't play Downing on the left as it was a friendly.. defence was rubbish and James isn't even good ebough for the prem..

Sven has no tactical ability whatsoever and can't see what he does for his 5M a year..

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You obviously didn't see the game then. Still, why let something as insignificant as 'the facts' get in the way of a good "Welsh team bashing" eh? :rolleyes:

I'll be sure to make the appropriate changes.....

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That's a bit unfair on BBJ* don't you think? Somebody you definately don't want to see wearing skin-tight kit is Neil Lennon (Sorry Lenny but it's true!!):p:



"There's only one Johnny Hartson, There's only one Johnny Hartson, He's got no hair, But we don't care, Walking in a Hartson wonderland"



*BBJ - Big Bad John to all you non Celtic fans.

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Celtic, erm, OK? Who was that rubbish team you got caned by in the CL?

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Your point being??

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3-1 Rangers. 2 men sent off for Celtic.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...em/4164472.stm

Ho ho ho :D

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You have to be past being demoralised by now.

Nottm Forest 0 - 1 Scunthorpe

What on earth is going on ?

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I don't know. We were very sharp in our possession and play, and still created nothing in the way of clear-cut chances. We need a striker.

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Leics were asleep in the first half 2-0 down to crewe, we thought back but could only get a point, considering we put maximum effort into defense pre season 8 goals conceded so far does not make good reading.
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Sods law I see marlon king hit form after he left forest.

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He'd never have fitted in. The fans hate him and he's not a hoofy Megson type player. Too lazy.

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Another narrow win for Chelsea today, unlucky Ol' Arsenal.....

And after narrowly beating Wigan by the same scoreline last week, it would seem that they really haven't got going yet, I think we could be in for another season like the last one, but I hope not for two reasons, and that is to make Kenyon eat his words, and Chelsea are pipped to the title by united :D

awaits the flack :disturbd:

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Chelsea have been very lucky so far, outplayed in 2 games.

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You'll find that most championship winning teams have their fair share of luck, it's part and parcel of football. I can't think of one championship winning team who never had luck on their side.

Regards.

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Well all of my teams, ( :p: to you know who) are doing well, Although Forest will get to play Oldham Athletic this season, they may miss out on playing one of my other teams, Rochdale could be swapping places with them.:D

The Reds have had a decent start as well.:cool:

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Poor Arsenal:LOL:

COME ON YOUR SPURS :D :D

LETS STAY AT THET TOP WHERE WE BELONG

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I was under the impression that Abramovich had bailed Chelsea out, i.e. paid off their debts, but, apparantly not according to this site, it was only a loan, (use the dropdown box for other clubs suffering financial difficulty) so if he loses interest their would be a few people out of work. ;)

Actually, I would not like to see that happen to any football club, but, anyone who employs Kenyon as a financial advisor deserves all they get.

If you hadn't worked it out, I just can't stand that guy, even when he was at united, talk about a milkman............

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bolton lost 1/0 :bigcry:

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That's pretty common business practice though, especially in football. I know it's what Doughty's done at Forest. Makes sense when you consider if we (or anyone) went into admin then he would be a creditor and entitled to some of his money back, or he could get return on some of his "loan" if financial circumstances warranted it. I also believe Doughty's only acting as guarantor to a lot of the debt- that's if he's not paid it off himself and loaned it back as rumoured over the summer. It's also done that way for tax purposes, it's not possible just to pump money into a business in the red I don't think so "loaning it" is a tax writeoff for ND/RA and a legit way to give the club money...

Don't care about Kenyon though. As long as the Russian keeps bankrolling the club and doesn't get busted by MI5 or whoever then it's a case of "we'll cross that bridge if/when we get to it" :D

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I read somewhere a while ago that Bramovitch was being investigated by Russian inteligence regarding his dealings in his home land, they have convicted some high profile buissiness men already, he happens to be on there hit list.

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Wow, no Arse supporters? Let's hope Wenger gets his hands on silverware this year or it looks like Arse will lose their Cableforum representation!! :D ;)

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Thought this bit of news was hilarious!!!!

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1509289.html

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Must be true then ;)

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Will be interesting to see how Smith gets on in midfield.

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he does well and always puts the effort in but he hasn't been brought up in that position at this level if you want to win the thing we need have proper cover for Keane

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You never know. Players can change position in their career with great success. The best example of this is Henry.

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Oh dear :D

I dont suppose you want to comment on this do you ikthius - you've been a bit quiet this week :p:? Thompsons tackle was outrageous and what was Lennon (aka Ginger snap) thinking?

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true but that was from winger to striker which is abit different than striker to holding midfielder

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Keane was never a Makelele, neither will Smith be one.

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hearts to win SPL this year? wonder what the odds are.

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Fluctuating at the moment i bet - tough call - the thing is if they keep playing like they are - who knows? Everyone keeps banging on about having to beat Celitc and Rangers though, but both those teams have dropped points recently to other teams and Hearts havent.

Early days yet though - when winter sets in and a few players pick up injuries then who knows what will happen.