Football Talk 2006/2007 Season

[TheDaddy]

Originally Posted by gazzae

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.

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

[sherer]

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

[gazzae]

Originally Posted by TheDaddy

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

I think he was more likely referring to the treble.

[TheBlueRaja]

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.

[TheDaddy]

Originally Posted by gazzae

I think he was more likely referring to the treble.

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

[sherer]

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

[TheDaddy]

Originally Posted by sherer

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

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

[Saaf_laandon_mo]

Originally Posted by TheBlueRaja

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

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.

[AndyIggs83]

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

[TheDaddy]

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

[sherer]

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

[gazzae]

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?

[punky]

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

[TheDaddy]

Originally Posted by sherer

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

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?

Originally Posted by TheBlueRaja

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.

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