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Graciousness was never one of my strong point. FTOF! :p:

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Well Rangers are self-destructing and Hearts go through a new manager every few weeks so that could be a possibility. :(

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Whoohoo - Mon the St Johnstone - great result for them last night beating Rangers at Ibrox 2-0.

Pepe le goon will surely be in trouble now...

FTOF!

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Zidane on Family Guy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRWwmk-JjG8

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AWESOME

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He's obviously half-French, half-Scottish.

That was a Glesga kiss!

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Actually no it wasnt, a glasgow kiss is delivered as close to the bridge of the nose as is possible, with points awarded for accuracy and speed of decent (of the victim that is).

That was clearly to the chest. :D

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Latest: Arsenal 3-0 Liverpool :erm:

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which is a perfect score :D

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Madrid won 4-1 tonight. Ruud got all 4 goals, couple of crackers to

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Well it had to happen sooner or later......

BBC Sport

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Indeed

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Mike Newell has spoken out again, but this time it is not about bungs, but female officials.....

I think he is in big trouble this time :redcard:

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The rumour is that Pardew celebrated the goal by saying

"one up the **** , you ****ing French poofters"

Nothing wrong with that? :p:

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How wrong to get rid of dowie at least give him some time to turn things around. Sacked after 12 games and he is in the quarter finals!!!

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Bet Simon Jordan is laughing his **** off

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A big score could be on the cards here

Latest: Republic of Ireland 3-0 San Marino

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1-1 not a bad result

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England should have won. And they would have won if they had pressed a bit more. Holland were dire.

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I know its a friendly but England's inability to kill off poor playing teams is whats going to cost them dearly in competitions.

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hard to say as a dutchie but Holland was totally crap no unity in the team. also the defence has got more holes in it then a sif.

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Just thought I'd mention that Wales won 4-nil last night - you lot might have missed it considering how much coverage it was given in the papers today.

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they showed teh score and the cracking goals on the news this morning mate, prime time and BBC England too, lol

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Pity such an upset was over looked :D

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Nah, the truth must be told. No pace whatsoever. Apparently, Van Basten thought Holland played 'reasonably well' (Volkskrant). He must have been watching another game :rolleyes:

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But in the papers....?

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well there was a bit in the London metro and i didnt pick up another paper but im confident sun sport would have covered it.

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There was a match report in the Mail. Though, it was only Liechtenstein.

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Russ you are reading the wrong papers, there was a 3/4 page spread plus a picture of Koumas in the Telegraph, and it was only a friendly;)

jim.

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Not sure I said it wasn't covered in the papers - I'm just moaning about how much coverage it had, seeing as all the nationals are just that - nationals.

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yeps...lots of dutchies are saying SACK van Basten over the last couple of months. he has ruined the team a bit. ie Mark van Bommel and Ruudje plus some others.

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ow and Russ, congrats of having Wales beat some team for a change :P okay its Liechtenstein so not much of an effort needed there really

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So are we at the 'Sack McClaren' stage yet?

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wouldn't say sack him as i don't thik constant changes are the answer.. having seen him over a few games it seems that not alot has changed really.. we still the same team as we were under Sven so maybe part of it is down to the players.. i've said before that i've seen Lamps and Gerrard go for balls that in a club shirt they would get 100% of the time but in an England shirt they don't always get

wish they would hve played Aj more through the middle of even played a few long balls for him to run onto and hold up a job he did very at Palace

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well i find this good news

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...ea/6153658.stm

i'm sure if he had come to us we would have played him alot more esp and would have been better for his career

still his agent is got more money from the Chelsea move so i'm sure he's happy

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When you look back on his career so far, he looks more trouble than he is worth, I think you guy's had a lucky escape with that one

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A lucky escape and 12 Mill! Not bad.

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Yeah well the sun shines on every dogs ass, every now and then :p: :D

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Hmmmmm !

http://www.sportinglife.com/story_ge...al_111406.html

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This story is in the Star as well, although I would be quite shocked if you let Brown go tbh

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I'm still not sure Hargreaves is that good.

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That's alright neither is O'Shea ;), tbh I don't think to much of United's current recruitment policy at the moment, a rethinks in order if you want to challenge consistently if you ask me

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I wouldn't. Ferdinand and Vidic are the first choice pairing. Gabby can play centre back and there is Evans and Pique coming through.

O'Shea had a great first full season but hasn't performed since.

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agree that O'Shea has never been the same player he was in that first season where he could do no wrong.. in fact he's gone backwards

Brown has really improved and last season i thought he was better than Rio just seems he's not a star name so gets overlooked

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probably the greatest player of all time Ferenc Puskas has died aged 79

http://www.uefa.com/footballeurope/n...ss2005&att=app

also here

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/6155766.stm

he will be sadly missed.. will have to watch my DVDs of the 6-3 match with England and 7-3 European Cup final over the weekend

he will be sadly missed

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I'm not sure who's miss was the worst, Ronaldo or Yakubu. :disturbd:

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At least Yakubu had other players around him, it will all be forgotton unless Chelsea win the league by a goal difference of 1, dozy plonker.:(

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But........But.........But...............Ronaldo had a bobble. :erm: :D

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... until he fell over it

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I wonder what the future holds :shrug:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...td/6165822.stm

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I rest my case :(

Celtic 1 United 0

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Cracking free kick though...

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Come on the Hoops as they say in Rome :)

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I rest my case ;)

1 Manchester United 13 11 1 1 29 6 23 34
2 Chelsea 13 10 1 2 23 7 16 31

A draw at home and we are through. No biggy. We dominated the game and lost to a dive, it happens.

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the trouble is Celtic scored 2 against us at our place and gave us a good run for our money and beat us at their place.. we bought on match winners Evra and O'Shea :Yikes: :Yikes:

How on earth are they going to win a match for us.. Saha won't get 30 plus goals and Rooney is a scorer or great goals rather than a great goal scorer.. we have no one else apart from the midfield who are either a bit ageing (Giggs and Scholes) or a bit hit and miss (Ronaldo)

we could have got Tevez, who i'm sure would have been better with us than West Ham, or Torres for £20 but we were going to spend over £20 on Hargreaves !!!!

Celtic are made up of journey men and ex Championship players ( Paul Telfer :Yikes: ) yet they still made us work..

sure you can say we dominated a match but how many clear cut chances did we have.. how many saves did the keeper have to make ?

even watford and reading made us work hard this season and the only time we faced a top team we lost to Arsenal and beat a poor Liverpool team

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I think Chelsea are going to cuff you this weekend.

And if you think Benfica are "no biggy" your a fool.

If i was a Man U fan, id be crapping it right now.

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I think it will be a draw.

Guess I am a fool then.

If we can't get a draw at home then we don't deserve to go through.

Yeah life is terrible. I really wish I was an Arsenal fan.

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Who are about the only decent premiership team that you have played this season - you lost.

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So your saying Benfica are a pushover as you have admitted already that they are "no biggie" - i just want it on record.

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Very refeshing to see a Liverpool fan facing reality ;)

Wasn't it supposed to be your year again?

I am very confident that we won't get beaten by Benfica.

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Tbh I never expected the walk in the park some suggested, when have Celtic ever been pushovers, what I didn't expect though was Gary Neville's ability to see the future, apparently before Saha took the penalty, he went up to Neil Lennon and said 'his head has gone, he'll miss this' quite prophetic ;)

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yeah i've just read that too.. why Rooney didn't take it i'll never know

i've never liked left footers taking pens they just never seem to score as many don't know why

think that says alot about the team we have.. we had Rooney and Saha and maybe Ronaldo apart from that no real pen takers on the field

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Doesnt Saha shoot hard and accurately (usually) with both feet. I've noticed he scores some cracking goals with his right foot, and takes penalties with his left.

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Couple of people in work were saying that RVN would have scored it. I assumed they didn't see the highlights of the Real V Lyon game.

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Hmmm didn't he actually continue his fine scoring record for Madrid in that match though :)

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He also missed a last minute pen to win the game.

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He also scored four in a match the other week, I doubt Saha has ever done that, even when he was playing for his school side

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Doesn't that just sum them up? RVN is a goalscorer and thats it. Saha offers something different. He already has more assists in the premiership this season the RVN had in the whole of last season.

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sure he may offer something different but if Ronney and Saha can't score in a game then who will be bring on.. O'Shea ? yes he's a match winner isn't he

we have far too small a squad and outside the first XI there is very little depth and no real attackers to bring on

i don't rate Richardson at all and Ole is too old and been out for too long

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Trouble with that is you need some one to be sticking the ball in the back of the net to, personally I prefer goal scorers, they win you more matches than these flair players, I was listening to 5 Live the other night and the commentator said that RVN was sold because Rooney didn't play well with him, surely that say's more about Rooney's ability, world class players should be able to perform who ever they are playing with

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And Man Utd have scored the most goals in the league this season. 6 more than the second most.

I thought it was more down to Fergie wanting RVN to add more to his game and then being angry at RVN's attitude when dropped.

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Totally agree

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Didn't score any last night though, despite having most of the play, certainly in the first half.

Add more to his game, he scores goals, surely that's what he was bought for, not his tracking back or ability to spray 40 yard passes about. As for his attitude, well if the story's are true, it's a pretty poor professional that has attitude problems imo

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It happens.

It seems Fergie just didn't want a goalscorer. We will have to see at the end of this season if he was correct.

There was also the rumour of a bust up between Ronaldo and RVN.

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I really do hope that he is right, also that any transfer window buys don't destabilise the team

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think most of it was RVNs attitude which i think we all know at times isn't great and as gazzae said he did have an arguement with Ronaldo who is more one of the future than RVN

just a shame we never bought another striker and with Rossi out on loan who else do we have ?

seems so strange that we spent 16m on Carrick and then had over 20m for Hargreaves but we didn't even put in a bid of Tevez or Torres

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I have got a feeling that Tevez has an even worse attitude than RVN, why can't you buy Torres and Hargreaves, you are about 8 or 9 million up on transfers this season!

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Im not a Liverpool "fan" so to speak, i like to watch Liverpool. You see unlike almost all Man U "fans" i don't claim to be a proper fan just because i watch a few games on the telly or make the occasional game because a friend got them a ticket.

I would prefer to see Liverpool win over any other premiership side, but mostly, more than anything, i love to see Man U get beaten by anybody.

You could say im a true "anti-Man U" fan!

Hence the chat about the fact that you've only played one decent side this year and lost (Arsenal) yet you seem to think, as usual, your better than you are. (Makes the fall from grace all the sweeter though - reminds me of England)

Liverpool in the league are not playing well i admit, but don't really care all that much as im a Falkirk fan and the Premiership is just a wee bit on the side so to speak.

So - Mon the Chelsea!

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So you can only call yourself a fan if you go to every game?

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I'm not a Man U fan at all (I'm Spurs, although I have to admit I've been to Craven Cottage more int he past year than I have WHL.. :erm: ), but I really don't know how you can say -

Ummm, Man U are top of the league, three points & better GD than the current champions.... Also, if Arsenal are the only decent side in the premiership (which also doesn't really make an ounce of sense, with half the positive GD and 12 points less than Man U...), why aren't they winning it?

Man U have won the most games, lost the least (along with Villa - 1 each. which is less than Arsenal too.... ), how can they be thinking they are better than they are? Currently, they are the best?

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i'd have to say being a realist I don't think we will win the league this season.. sure we are top of the pile at the moment but I just can't see it staying that way.. we have a very small squad of about 13 players and some of them are over 30 and can't perform every game..

sure we have Rooney but he won't get 20 goals a season.. and Saha is overrated.. apart from that we don't have any other strikers.. our fringe players just aren't good enough witness the Southend and Copenhagen results.. plus we lost to Celtic who have players from the Championship there :Yikes:

we have a false sense of security which will lead to us not strengthening in Jan and slipping further behind

we struugled again Watford and Reading and lost to Southend, Celtic and Copenhagen.

We've played 2 top sides.. Arsenal and lost and Liverpool who can't hit the backside of a cow with a banjo away from home

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I am getting this strange sense of deja-vou, anyone but England anyone but Man Utd, good to see you using it for something constructive this time though ;)

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Why not?

He had a slow start to the season but his goals per game is at 0.70 (better than Drogba's - 0.62, Kanu - 0.62, Bent - 0.46) if he keeps that up it equates to 26 goals.

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i see Rooney more as a scorer of great goals than a great goal scorer.. too much of his play is done outsite the box for him to get that many goals.. for corners adn free kicks he doesn't even stand in the box !!

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Heading isn't exactly his strong point. In his entire premiership career he has scored 1 (one) headed goal.

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Nice to see BJ, the attention seeker posting again. Not heard from him since oooooooo lets see now..........before the Kilmarnock game. ;)

And after his 4 day depression binge, decides to post, because Man U lost. With yet another Attention Seeking post, your life needs sorting out BJ. :D

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And Bolton, who at the time were in 3rd position in the league, unbeaten at home and had not conceded a goal. Portsmouth who were in 4th position at the time. Oh yes and Liverpool . :p:

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Chelsea plot to overtake Man Utd ........

:rofl: Yeah right !!!!

Funny how Kenyon comes out with that quote just prior to Sundays match :rolleyes:

I found an article about Kenyon from a Chelsea fan, a bit dated, but, nevertheless true imo

Link

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True, it almost as if he knows him personally, I am actually quite angry after reading that, 'his customers', the arrogant winker, who does he think he is

Bolton Wanderers V Arsenal
 

which team will win whats your prediction on the outcome :disturbd:

my prediction is that i think Arsenal will win :help: :mad:

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Wayne Rooney has signed a contract extension with Manchester United that will keep him at the club until 2012. :hyper: :hyper:

BBC Sport

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Anyone else notice not many Arsenal fans about tonight?

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i think if bolton can get the same result against chelsea we be happy:)

but then again if chelsea do win us on wednesday bolton will probably go on a losing streak for about five games or so:(

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Bolton, 3rd in the Premiership, undefeated at home, no goals conceded....until,
Bolton 0-4 Man Utd. Today, Bolton 3-1 Arsenal....:D

I rest my case.:p:

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I suppose that we could become anyone but Falkirk fans, but to be honest, who would actually care about how Falkirk do? ;) :D

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well as i be a bolton fan:D


i am happy untill wednesday when we lose to Chelsea boo hoo unless we get a simlar result then i will laugh my head off and be a happy chappy:D

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Funny thing is though I don't remember that many being here when they beat you guys either ;)

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It was an Arsenal win; of course they were here even though it was the most unjust win in their club's history :D

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Didn't you say that about their FA cup win to :D (hmm may be you had a point there though ;))

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I don't know if you were a lurker then or not, but you should have seen them when they won the league in 2004. Coming out of the woodwork, they were...we are still here... ;)

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Lurk moi? :D, no I wasn't around then, I don't remember them getting to excited about the Champions League final though, good God I hate to think what I'd be like if the Hammers got there

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Don't worry about it, your alarm clock would probably wake you before the final whistle anyway. (Don't you just hate it when dreams end like that) :D