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R.I.P Matt Gadsby who collapsed and died while playing for Hinckley United today. :(

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Yeovil 0-1 Grant Holt Roadshow - still top of the league, 19 pts from a possible 21 :)

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United were not at their previous best today, (I blame the international breaks), it might have had something to do with Spurs though, a draw might have been a fairer result, but I am not complaining :)

Right in the nick of time, no doubt Arsenal will be up for that one though.

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I am looking forward to tomorrow's game between the 'ammers and villa, it should be quite interesting.

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Yes quite a shock that, at only 27 years of age :(

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...nf/5331422.stm

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Anyone got any ideas as to who is going to be implicated in the Panorama bung scandal, I see Harry Redknapp has already been named but tbh as much as I like Harry that should shock no one ;)

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Elgin City have a 100% record in the Scottish Footbal League Championship Third Division. ;)

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I am off up The Abbey Stadium tonight to watch some head tennis.

It should be rivetting stuff.

In fact we are so bad at the moment, that even Crawley are above us in the table who had 10 points deducted before the season started.

U's are on the lookout for a new manager.
Any takers ?

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I will take the job ! lol

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Depending on what package they offer you surely ;)

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Only half time, a long way to go but, n:D f:D f:D c:D
One of my THREE teams doing well at the break.:cool:

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No comment........................................... ....on second thoughts,

"TOP OF THE LEAGUE, YOUR HAVING A LAUGH" :p:

Forest 0-Oldham Athletic 2.:D
Perhaps I will set my third team, Rochdale on you or perhaps the Mighty Reds 4th team.:rofl:

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We are still top though I'm not laughing tonight. Though Tranny and Port Vale did lose so that softens it slightly.

You support everyone so every time we lose it will be to one of your teams :LOL:

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Only three local teams that I have strong connections with, going back over many years. :cool:

Sods Law that Forest have to lose to one of them,;) Last season it was 3-0 home wins for Latics v Forest, Forest v Latics, every chance you will win 2-0 at Boundary Park.:)

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Well, that was a much better performance all round by United.

United done most of the attacking in the second half, which shows that things are beginning to turn around on the pitch.

It's a shame about the final result, but it was a well taken goal by Kidderminster.

Oh and Courtney Pitt was excellent tonight, a well deserved MOM

FT U's 1 (71 mins) Kidderminster 1 (89 mins)

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another bad result for Palace.. not very impressed at all.. thank god we got a few wins under our belt in the first few games.. trouble with Jordan as well is that we finally get a decent manager but he's already said take us up or you are sacked.. not a great environment to work in

we have a weaker squad than last year too so not really much hope anyway

on another note.. what on earth is the point of Ashley Cole releasing an Autobiography.. he's only about 26 and only part way through his career :Yikes: sure he's won a few league titles and cups but that's about it.. apart from reading about his time at Palace what else :D , apart from pure greed, is the point of releasing something now ?

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Refuses to make a comment about female refs ;)

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Suppose it's worth a try over here...the goal stands if missed by the ref and if it's a ref you don't like, they get suspended for good measure :) :D

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Entertaining match utd v celtic. Pity that the ref was crap though

Anyway 3-2 :hyper: :D

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...and Real Madrid lost 2-0...

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Giggs out for 3 weeks though. :(

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no giggs who has actually had a good season so far.. although it was never a pen last night

Park out too but then again he's rubbish. that only leaves is with Ronaldo and Richardson.. Ronaldo is hit and miss and Richardson is just miss :D

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Don't forget OGS.

Scholes is looking sharp again too.

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My Portugese ain't up to much, but apparently, here's the video...

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

Good old YouTube :)

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well neither of them are wingers though so we are going to be very narrow for the next few weeks.. just shows how small our squad is

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Doesn't Solshkjar play left wing for Norway, mind you that was before all his injuries ;)

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OGS can play on both the right and the left.

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Did anyone notice if the scorer of Celtic's first goal had his full name on the back of his shirt.:D

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He did, in very small print!

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Glad Spurs have won, him indoors will be chuffed :tu:

Wonder if now is a good time to mention that diamond ring I've seen oops:

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Good result for Derry City, 0-0 against PSG. Derry hit the bar in the first half and should have had a pen in the second.

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Yeah... :cool: Not amazing game, but good solid performance anyway. One goal up is still an advantage.

Annoyed me watching the game at 75% of its size. Anyone else have that? It wasn't letterboxed, it had black areas along all 4 sides of the screen, like it had been re-sized to 75% in proportion.

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How good was Huddlestone anyway? He was amazing. Lots of great young players, like King, Lennon, Huddlestone... Lennon has been amazing for England, as has King, but Huddlestone is a good England prospect for the future.

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I see Jimmy Quinn is your new manager.

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Yep, he should be quite a good appointment :tu:
He has all the right credentials, plus I understand he is a hard task master.
I am off up the Abbey again this afternoon, the U's are playing Stevenage, but Quinn does not actually take charge until Monday.

He hasn't appointed an assistant as yet, I am not sure who he usually uses.

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That's more like it, we are on our way up the table, watch out Oxford :D

U's 1 Stevenage 0

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I feel sorry for Wrexham, letting in 10 goals in less than a week, although, at least they got a couple back, today.

Grimsby cut it fine with 2 goals in the 90th minute, but will be grateful for the win :tu:

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I really don't like Saturday's like today, what was three or four Premiership matches, I know we should be grateful for all the dump trucks of cash tv chucks at the game but it just annoys me, I think there were three 3 o'clock kick off's today :mad:

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A lot of the matches tomorrow are team who played on Thursday in the UEFA cup, to give them a days rest.

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Oh yes, well remembered, personally I had tried to wipe Thursday's match from memory, if ever a team got mugged it was us.

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:sorry: Sorry about bringing up bad memories ;) :D

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Well it's.........

Link

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Roy Keane hails Chelsea Boss Mourinho.........

And even more importantly for united.....

As ever, I think Keano has a point.

BBC Sport

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Some shaky moments for United at half time - if this keeps up who knows, perhaps some of our errant Arsenal supporters will return to this thread!

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Yes, young Christian messing about with the fancy footwork really blew that one, didn't he?;)

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United aren't that religious, or do you mean
Cristiano :D

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Unlucky for United there, we should have wrapped that up easily. OGS came really close to taking care of matters at the end. Still, it was only Arsenal :D

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Utd only started to play after Arsenal scored. Rooney should have been brought off a lot earlier. Been disappointed with Rooney the past few months. People say he is still young but look at Fabregas - he's younger and he ran the show today.

Still well done Arsenal.

May I welcome to the Arsenal fans back to this thread. Whats that chant? You only sing when your winning? ;)

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We were crap today. :( Like Gazzae said, we only started playing after they scored...

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Bryan Robson has left West Brom 'by mutual consent'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...on/5355924.stm

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They think it's all over...........It is now !

Cya Doug ! :wavey:

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Big Sam's out of a job then....

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I don't think he'll be the only one, heads are going to role over this, about time football got it's house in order to imo

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His name has cropped up a LOT though...

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Wow, Sam is SO going down :erm:

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The one thing that intrigued me was the manager that got cold feet at the last minute, who was supposed to be a 'Biggy', the programme made a point of stressing that he used a French word to say he suspected a sting or a trap, how many French managers are there in the Premiership.;)

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i think the thing was the bigger clubs had obviously got there legal teams in here and they were all bleeped out.. Sam and Harry didn't have this protection and so the programme seemed to focus in on them which didn't really seem far

the programme seemed to say that managers will sign rubbish players just so they can get a kick back and a bung which seemed abit odd to me

i wouldn't put too much on that French word as i thought that came from the agent and not the manager

i can't see Wenger or any of the top managers taking a bung just to sign a rubbish player and get a few k when they get a few million a season.. it goes against their competitive nature.. sure they have all signed a few rubbish players in their time but then if you make enough dealings that's bound to happen

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that was never even looked into properly.. not a bung as such but David Dien payed the club several million pounds and effectively took ownership of the club.. they use the club so that they can put african players there for a few years to earn an EU passport and work permit and if they are good Arsenal then "buy" them

the thing was this was never even looked into properly.. owning more than one club is against FIFA rules but FIFA said the FA will have to look into this.. the FA did but only against THEIR own rules.. they said that as the belgium club didn't enter the FA Cup or premierleague then they hadn't broken FA rules and then it was washed under the carpet

i'm sure there are alot of dodgy deals going on here and stuff and i don't think anyone will ever get to the bottom of it.. as long as the game makes a fortune does anyone realy have any incentive to clean it up ?

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Football is corrupt to the high heavens. Everyone knows this with the amount of money floating around. It'll never be a clean sport. It just a case of being found out like the Italian clubs have found to their costs.

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Linky

Oh good !

Shouldn't take too long then. ;)

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I thought the program was a pile of crap. Rock football? Hardly.

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Didn't see it, cos it sounded rubbish...too much hype around the programme, hopefully the FA will realise that its time for them to earn there money and actually 'police' the game for once in their lives. As for Chelsea well lets not get started abt that :D

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on a different note http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...ed/5364772.stm and they won last night!!

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You didn't miss anything, it billed itself as the program that would rock football, so I watched and waited for the evidence, and waited, and waited. Still waiting now.

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I agree, no real bombshells were dropped, however the fact that Chelsea have incriminated themselves, makes the whole programme worthwhile ;)

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Yes, and this time let's hope it's going to be more than the promise 3 points deduction :)

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Relegation to the Conference would suffice :)

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I see that the premiership table has a familiar look about it :(

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We are still here. ;)

Bit like today then it was only Reading. ;)

Rooney is nothing but a spoilt brat where as Fabregas is pure class.

And we also sing when others are losing.

:D

:tu: Well an honest united fan now you don’t get many of them to the pound.

:D

Yes agree, United slipping backwards and Arsenal moving up.

:D

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That's the royal 'we' then ;)

So you're back now that Arsenal have started winning. Hmm, familiar...

Except we didn't lose to Reading :)

How many times has Fabregas been referred to as the 'saviour of the team' in the World Cup?

Arsenal fans who come on here when they lose are even more rare!

So, United above Arsenal then? Yep I'm happy with that!

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You only emerge from the undergrowth when you have won though ;) You can join in when you lose as well ;)

You get more than your lot ;)

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have to say we are worse of this season than we have ever been.. we were flatterred last year when we finished second and no one took a proper look at where the club is

very poor on Sat against Reading who have only just come up.. played poor against Watford too and so far we have only played weak teams.. we even played Arsenal without Henry and put in one of the worse showings of the season.. Celtic were full of journeymen and ex Div One players but they gave us a good run for our money

not one player had a good game on Sat and have to say Ronaldo was poor too.. can't see how everyone raved about what he did.. i expect more than that .. ok he scored but apart from that his general play was poor.. when even Gary Neville gives the ball away you know you are in for a bad day

we spent 18m on Carrick and were going to spend 18m on Hargreaves too so that's nearly 40m but we wouldn't buy Torres for 25m or Tevez and Mescharano for 30 for them both

we have a poor squad and no strikers.. we saw on sat that Saha can't last a full season due to injuries and Rooney can't play upfront on his own.. Solsjkaer is too old and not the player he was and Smith hasn't play for half a year and that was in midfield anyway.. apart from that we have no depth and some of the first team aren't even good enough

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I'm sorry? 4 straight wins?

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No need to apologise for beating some of the worst teams the Premiership has to offer.

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well it's not 4 straight wins now we lost to Arsenal

we may have won but that doesn't mean we put in a great performance.. Celtic who are basically a first division side nearly beat us.. Watford caused us loads of problems and we only just beat them and we couldn't beat Reading.. we faced a very poor Arsenal side, the only real decent side we have faced this season and we lost and couldn't do anything at all during the match

we've faced the worst teams in the prem so far and based on our current performances i can't see us winning the league.. we have no bench at all really apart from in defence we have no other midfielders to bring on or strikers and by jan when we can buy again it will be too late

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Yes it was, Arsenal would have made it 5.

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Enough of Man U and Arsenal - Villa are still unbeaten :shocked:

Bring on Chelsea, that's all I can say :disturbd:

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Hopefully United will hit some kind of form tomorrow in the away Champions League game at Benfica, but if they put in a performance similar to that against Reading & against Arsenal I don't hold out much hope of winning the match, let alone the group.

Rooney doesn't seem to be on song at the moment, but you write him off at your peril, plus we seem to be missing Giggsy's influence quite badly.

In fact, the whole team seems quite lethargic at the moment, and it puzzles me as to why.

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Kevin Bonds been sacked, I wonder if he will be the last?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...ed/5378844.stm

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In fact, Judging on the first half performance, it's quite pathetic so far

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Hairdrier needed.

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On the first half showing, if Benfica score first, it's goodnight Vienna. :disturbd:

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Anyone else noticed Rooney's ginger beard??

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He looks a bit like a young Malcolm Glazer :)

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United managed to grind out a fair performance in the second half, maybe it is that type of performance that will get them back on track football wise in the next match.

Nice to see Smudger make an appearance :tu:

Benfica 0 United 1 (Saha)

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:rofl:

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Oi there is more than one of us. ;)

Not back as I never been anywhere. :D

Well as good as. :D

About as many times as Rooney was for good ole England. :)

I am always about and take it on the chin. :confused:

Woo hoo 5 points in front and we have a game in hand an I may eat these words come Saturday but we have Charlton you have Newcastle, I know who my money would be on. :D

Well in fairness we do not lose that often.

:D

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wtg Grimsby, go one up after 16 minutes at home, end up losing 4-1 ...

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Don't you?

Funny, here is me thinking you lost over a quarter of your games in the premiership last season.

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as i said after the Reading game.. we may have won last night but the performance was very poor and we have no real depth in the squad.. already with about 5 games gone we have to have square pegs in round holes in the team

we can't play like that and keep getting results and we seem worse off than we ever were

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performances in europe, and for that matter, international football, are few and far between. The result is paramount, that's all supporters really care about. One reason. why I rarely get excited about football outside of premiership games.

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from my point of view the performance counts just as much.. yes European games are different but we have played poor against Watford and Reading and only played the poorest teams anyway.. we can't expect to play like that all season and win anything and ther are very little signs of improvement or depth in the squad

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A little harsh there !

You can only beat what's put in front of you, the exception being Arsenal. We were awful in that game, but I thought we were more than good enough against Reading, from the highlights I watched. The games we expected to win, we did. But let's not forget also, we beat Tottenham, who finished 5th last season, and who we failed to beat the season before.

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Whilst it is a sign of a good team to win when playing badly, I think it is generally accepted (unless you are Chelsea) that eventually you have to play well and win also

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In an ideal world, I would agree with that.

Unfortunately, the reality is a little different. To me, football is fast becoming, a "must not lose" mentality. I agree with you about Chelsea, but last weekend, even Benitez said he dislikes "open" games, and was annoyed with his teams performance. While we have coaches and managers, like Benitez and Mourinho (good coaches that they are) football will be more inclined to be result first - performance second. Sadly I see conbining the two, a declining art.

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The biggest game in History(for Derry) is on tomorrow night:
PSG v Derry City

Still 0-0 from first leg, with Derry denied a blatant penality, although 2 shots were cleared off the derry line; there is still a good chance we can progress to the UEFA Cup Group Stages.

http://www.fifa.com/en/mens/index/0,...ticleid=122678

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What actually happens on a 'homophobia training course'?

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Well it had to happen one day, he has actually had a good idea :Yikes:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/5386228.stm

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yeah about time too.. although this idea of removing players is a load of rubbish.. basically what he is saying is go back to the old idea of a replay match.. so not quite his idea there

no cup or tournament should end in a shoot out.. it should always be a replay.. the fitess and strongest team would win it then

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What happens if the replay is a draw?

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I like golden goal. That's how it should end. :tu:

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Yep, but there has to be a limit. If a game is nil-nil after 120 minutes who's to say we won't be sat there for another 120 minutes waiting for someone to score.

Penalties are the best way to settle a game.

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I disagree that penalties are the 'best'. I'd say more along the lines of 'most acceptable'.

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Yep they should just keep playing until someone scores, it would make time wasting interesting as well, the ref would sound like a school teacher 'it's your own time your wasting, I can stay here all evening' :)

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Why does there have to be a time limit, to keep tv happy I suppose, well its to bad really let them show highlights later are cancel a few repeats why should the best football events be finished with this lottery.

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To keep TV happy?

You want to be sat there till 2am until someone scores?

This happened in the NHL. A normal NHL game lasts for 3 Periods of 20 minutes. They played 6 overtime periods. In total that's equivalant to 3 games! When someone finally scored, not because of skill but because of a mistake due to tiredness the stadium was half empty.

Why are penalties a lottery? It takes still to place the ball where the keeper can't get it.

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Its a lottery because any player that calls himself professional can score from twelve yards out, problems arise in a match situation because even the best are effected by the crowd and the occasion, I wouldn't mind if the match went on until late as the fittest and most prepared would win through and if people have something better to do than watch the World Cup final because it over runs a couple of hours perhaps they should not have been there in the first place