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No sympathy from me. He had opportunities and ****ed it against the wall. Now he starts again.

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Its still a sad waste of a life though and that is never good.

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Peter Odemwingie has been shortlisted for the Bang-On D'or award

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Yes it was rather foolish by him.:td:

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even i who hate Spurs cant defend that from Popov. splitting at anyone is disgraceful.

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Would imagine it would be more embarrassing than anything;)

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Absolutely shocking in my mind.:td::(

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:o: *spitting

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Again poor defending from the useless Agger.:td::(

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wheres your new boy Den? hes not on the bench

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Sturridge.:cleader:

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He is still waiting for his visa.

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good strike by Sturridge. was it a foul on Dzeko though? defender went in from behind?

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Some shot from Sturridge, seems to be blossoming at Liverpool

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that run leaving Nastasic for dead was something. real lively spark.

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l cannot understand why he was ignored at Chelsea.

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what a screamer:clap:

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What a goal that was

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speechless

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:bigcry::bigcry:

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One of the goals of the season.

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Come on Liverpool make it 2-3 please

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Mancini is an idiot. A defender for an attacker?

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that was for Gerrards Den. Sergy left me speechless. incredible stuff.

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:shocked:

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And why is that my friend?

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Ill settle for a 9 point lead

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Well we have had two very tough away games and have come out of these games as a team that is definitely progressing and l can't ask for more then that.

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Liverpool's performances last 2 games has been great

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its been ok. today was a good performance. we should of won Wednesday night.

ESPN Leverkusen 2-3 Dortmund

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Yes indeed but we still need a new defensive coach.

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Dalai Lama blesses Bantams for cup final! Let's hope it works...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-21314212

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Bradford will be converting if they win :LOL: I do want Bradford to win it :D

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Have Swansea got anything through the post? http://mob827.photobucket.com/albums...et/th_hide.gif

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Let's not :)

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No lets hope it does works as my closest friend is a Bradford man.:D

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Giroud with long hair :shocked:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BB7qVQnCUAIgLlw.jpg

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Gervinhos on his way back to London :fit:

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Mario scores for AC :angel: :LOL:

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I felt dirty cheering for the scousers today. They did the job for us today, would have been better if it wasn't for Reina. He has become very error prone, but i doubt much will be mentioned about that, if De Gea had made the same mistake though...

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or our keepers

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MOTD said "something of nothing". I say the FA need to call Owen/Stoke tomorrow morning..

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2013/02/13.gif

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Reina has indeed become a poor shadow of himself this season and this is his 5th mistake of the season so far so as well as needing a CB a GK is required as well.

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Something that's going to go on for some time.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21319807

Claims one match was fixed in England.

The fixed Champions League tie in England took place in "last three or four years";

Manchester United
Chelsea
Arsenal
Liverpool


Unfortunately it has to be one of the clubs listed, not looking forward to it being revealed.

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Yes l remember watching that last named game and some of the decisions made that night were simply shocking.

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The match fixed was 'in the last three to four years'. So it cannot be the Chelsea vs Barcelona game.

It will have to be United, Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool, Spurs or City.

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Not sure If I'm correct, the said game happened in 2009 so would fit in the time frame.

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Yeah, you're right. Seems longer! That would be massive if it was that.

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Was actually surprised myself and after posting I actually thought it was a longer time ago too. That's my bet at the minute but again it could be a simple group game in which the English team was already through.

Example being, one of the teams listed intentionally lost their remaining game because they were already through to the last rounds, losing to a much lesser team, so any ring betting on massive underdogs would have made quite a bit of money.

So many possibilities but it'd be even more destructive to the club if they threw a game in the knockout stages.

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And apparently they say this is the tip of the iceberg.

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this is a real kick in the teeth. ******s.

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What l want to know is what matches are involved in the match fixing.

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Is that before or after the games Den? :D

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l understand you now.:D

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remember Napoli throwing the game at Chelsea?

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It's very unlikely to be at club level. I.E A whole club throwing the game. The risks are too great and the reward too small for the club themselves, getting kicked out of the Champions League costs a lot more than winning a betting scam.

It will be an official or player who are told to help the bookies' favourite team win.

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That's open to question.

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you can't rule anything out Damien. Napoli was all over that game. Did they catch a bit of Arsenal fever instead?

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What is much easier to do is to plan a corner, throw in, or even a booking.

Remember THIS surfaced last year. :(

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I didnt know any teams from the Pakistan Football league qualified for Champions league ;)

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where did you pull that from?

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I won't rule it out but it's very unlikely:

1) Far too many people would have to be in on it. You don't want to increase the amount of people aware of illegal activity unless you have too.

2) The cost to Napoli of leaving the Champions League or being caught and expelled from the Champions League dwarfs however much you'll get in a betting scam. The risk/reward ratio is out of balance.

3) If you're the one organising the scam then why involved an entire club when you can just have one player do something dodgy.

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the attackers, 1 or 2 of Napoli's screwed up second half missing glaring chances to score. chances they would of scored first half.

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l think you are reading too much into that match buddy.

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watch the game again Den

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Plus they're Italian, not exactly from the land of perfect behaviour.

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Lets just wait for more information before coming to kneejerk conclusions.

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little stat to keep our hopes up. Arsenal have conceded the highest % of goals due to errors (44.8%) in Europe's top 5 leagues 2012/13, followed by Bayern Munich (42.9%).

imagen if we cut out the errors and got more not only from players featuring but those not offering nothing!

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Well thenry where there is discord may we bring harmony and where there is hope may we bring glory.:D

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nice but it doesnt happen on its own. 'go play' :no:

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Rumours abound that the English team involved was in the game Liverpool vs Debrecen.

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Yup a Danish newspaper is reporting it's the Liverpool game but Debrecen are being investigated for another game too.

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If it is effecting officials - wonder if anyone in the Premier League ?

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Everyone's running the Liverpool vs Debrecen story now.

Person in question is the goalkeeper Vukasin Poleksic. Supposedly the betting involved would have seen 3 goals in the match so it's hard to understand what actually occurred as Liverpool only scored one. We'll be waiting a while before we get anything set in stone.

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Thats how bad Liverpool are, they can only score one past a goalkeeper trying to let in three :)

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Alex Mcleish leaves Nottingham Forest "by mutual consent" after 40 days link

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My god he did not last long.:td:

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the new www.arsenal.com/home site sucks. i hate it. looks like a blog ffs. the old style was nice

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Damn, I fell for the spammage and went to look. :D

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Wycombe goalkeeper Jordan Archer attacked by fan.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21331488

Lets hope the supporter gets banned for life.

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Wenger did the design personally I heard.

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:fit:

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Dutch Midfield Star Will Not be Joining Arsenal.

http://www.footballfancast.com/premi...oining-arsenal

It seems your day has just got worse buddy.:)

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hardly, making something of something else... http://metro.co.uk/2013/01/28/az-alk...senal-3369753/

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Oh god. Please not the rumours again. The window has only just ended

*jumps out of a more literal window*

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nice knowing you mate.

Arsenal defender Bacary Sagna plays down PSG link
http://www1.skysports.com/football/n...-down-PSG-link

no contract renewal here i think

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Napoli striker Edinson Cavani is unaware of any interest from Arsenal, but says a move to Barcelona or Real Madrid 'stimulates the imagination'.

http://www1.skysports.com/football/n...senal-interest

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Sky Sports understands a host of Premier League clubs are tracking Athletic Bilbao's Fernando Amorebieta.

http://www1.skysports.com/football/n...ndo-Amorebieta

a move for him was reported in Spain but didnt happen window just gone

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Fergie and Moyes are killing Wenger with the budgets they have.

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What budget has Moyes got.:nono:

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That's his point. Moyes does well with a small budget.

I don't think it's a fair point as Wenger clearly over achieves relative to spending and either overachieves or mets the target when it comes to wages. They all sort of end up where their wage bill says they should, including Everton.

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top managers do better. Moyes is in that. Fergie well he's laughing at Arsene really. Wengers dropped off, simple.

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Chelsea and City spend more on wages than Utd. then comes Arsenal. City have recently risen so for the sake of this argument lets remove City so its Chelsea, Utd, Arsenal. Utd have consistently challenged for the title throughout the reigns of the billionaires coming in throwing money around. Arsenal have dropped off. Utd have invested. Arsenal haven't. Utd invested to get out of the huge debt they had mounting. Fergie delivered the goods after that investment. Utds stature and rep increased = more revenue. Arsenal have not had investment as heavily and when they have invested within means the players have dropped off. Fergie would not take some of the crap going on at Arsenal where players are not performing, pretty much half a named squad doing nothing? thats disgraceful. and if you want to look at wage spend work this one out, total up the resources those offering something are taking and you'll probably see our wage spend decreases so yes your right Wenger is overachieving. hes not overachieving if your looking at total spend.

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Arsenal did invest, they built a new stadium. Manchester United haven't invested in their debt, that concept makes no sense. The debt was put onto the club by it's owners to finance the purchase the club and in the last few years they've managed to reduce it via bond issues and the stock floatation. That isn't really investment. In fact United have 'invested' little. What they've done is continue thoughout using their massive revenue which has always been much higher than Arsenals.

United's income, wages and transfer spending are all higher than Arsenals. This isn't because 'they invested in their debt', it's because they've got a much bigger brand than Arsenal. Yet we've made inroads there, we're much more international since Wenger arrived. His era Arsenal team have gained massively in Asia and Africa especially. Only Liverpool and United are bigger names.

Yes he is.

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Anyway we know you think Wenger has lost it and I don't. No point rehashing the same argument again.

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Arsenal invested in a new stadium and have reaped the rewards in increase of revenue.

Utd did bond and all but they had repayments to make, that was clearly worked around so investment could be made into the team. Utd are a cashcow I know but please remember that has increased a lot due to the success Utd have had. The continued back to back cup wins done them no harm at all.

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I don't like listening to this guy but Balague: "Mourinho won't be at R.Madrid next season. The club is already talking with new coaches. PSG are the favourites to get Mourinho."

will Roman take him back?

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Abidal returns to training
http://www.fcbarcelona.com/football/...ns-to-training

great news.

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Yes it is indeed great news about Eric Abidal.:tu:

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England Under-21s Team: 1 Jason Steele (GK), 2 Adam Smith, 3 Jack Robinson, 4 Josh Mceachran, 5 Andre Wisdom, 6 Craig Dawson, 7 Tom Ince, 8 Jordon Henderson (c), 9 Wilfried Zaha, 10 Jonjo Shelvey, 11 Benik Afobe
Subs: 12 Tom Lees, 13 Declan Rudd (GK), 14 Nat Chalobah, 15 Will Hughes, 16 Henri Lansbury, 17 Jason Lowe, 18 Connor Wickham, 19 Ben Amos (GK)

Sweden Under-21s Team 1 Andreas Linde (GK), 2 Mattias Johansson, 3 Alexander Milosevic, 4 Filip Helander, 5 Tobias Malm, 6 Branimir Hrgota, 7 Joel Allansson, 8 Oscar Hiljemark (c), 9 Mathias Andersson, 10 Christoffer Nyman, 11 Mikael Ishak
Subs: 12 August Stromberg (GK), 13 Jonathan Azulay, 14 Emil Bergstrom, 15 Andreas Blomqvist, 16 Nicklas Barkroth, 17 Sam Larsson, 18 Amin Nazari.


England v Denmark (U19s) teamsheet
https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2013/02/57.jpg

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Brazil XI to face England tomorrow: Cesar; Alves Luiz Dante Adriano; Ramires Paulinho; Oscar Ronaldinho Neymar; Fabiano.

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Lewandowski to Bayern is close
http://www.spiegel.de/sport/fussball...-a-881548.html

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On the matter of the special one l think there is a reasonable chance he could return to Chelsea as Ancelotti will still be at PSG next season.

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Liverpool linked with Newcastle's Hatem Ben Arfa

http://www.koptalk.co.uk/20130206243...-ben-arfa.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2...hatem-ben-arfa

Would be nice if we can get him.

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Mamadou Sakho could move
http://www1.skysports.com/football/n...-in-the-summer

the guy fell off a bit, he was sitting the stands. anyway hes quality, i'd welcome him at Arsenal

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Barca want Mats Hummels in the summer
http://www.football-espana.net/28111...geting-hummels

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Yes indeed Hummels is a very good player and a move to a top european club is very likely.

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nice read..

Siem de jong – Captain of Ajax but a bargain signing in-waiting
afootballfanthinkingaloud.wordpress.com/2013/02/05/siem-de-jong-captain-of-ajax-but-a-bargain-signing-in-waiting/

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Louis Saha joins Lazio as cover for injured striker Miroslav Klose
m.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/feb/06/louis-saha-lazio-miroslav-klose

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Can't see de Jong going for anything less than £10M tbh and that's if Ajax would actually let him go. They'll no doubt already lose Toby Alderweireld and Christian Eriksen in the summer as they can be signed on a pre-contract although they'll probably move immediately for a fee rather than run their contracts down.

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England team to face Brazil (kick off 7.30pm) CONFIRMED England Starting 11: Hart, Johnson, Cahill, Smalling, Cole, Wilshere, Cleverley, Gerrard, Welbeck, Rooney, Walcott

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Spain v Uruguay ESPN right now. nice warm up (literally) before England v Brazil

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There's also Burkino Faso v Ghana on soon on ITV 4 or Eurosport HD.

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:LOL: keeper oh dear

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Borussia Dortmund coach Jurgen Klopp emerges as Chelsea's key managerial target.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/foo...al-target.html

He would be a excellent choice.

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ye brilliant :fit:

decent game on ESPN. 1-1.