[Merged] The Football Thread 2005/2006 Season

[sherer]

saw him play a few times Forlan has loads of skill and is a very good player he just wasn't suited to the English game.. with more time on the ball on Spain he is showing what he can really do

[BBKing]

because of the long term success they had for a decade

This prompts me to do something pointless and add up the success of top flight clubs in the main competitions over the last five years (Premiership, FA Cup, League Cup, UEFA Cup, Champions League). Seasons 2000/2001, 2001/2, 2002/3, 2003/4, 2004/5.

In alphabetical order:

Arsenal - 2xPremiership, 3xFA Cup
Chelsea - 1xPremiership, 1xLeague Cup
Liverpool - 2xLeague Cup, 1xFA Cup, 1xUEFA Cup, 1xChamps League
Manchester Utd - 2xPremiership, 1xFA Cup
Middlesbrough - 1xLeague Cup
Blackburn - 1xLeague Cup

So the long-term success is rather in the past, Liverpool and Arsenal have each won 5 trophies in the last five seasons, so presumably everyone should hate them now?

"I have heard there is interest in me and that Arsenal have been to watch me," Forlan told the News of the World.

He'd heard it from the Sun, thus making it a circular story and worthless. We'll have Torres, please.

[pedantic]

The last time I checked a decade was not five years. Now post some updated info for a decade.
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And just to add..........I never said the last decade, I said FOR a decade.

As in 1993-2003 now post the success during that period, and let's compare shall we

[BBKing]

Thanks for proving my point, which was that Man U are *still* hated even after five years of not being the top dog or anything like it, which suggests that the hatred for them is not entirely derived from their success on the pitch, and possibly looking elsewhere, perhaps at the manager or captain's attitudes.

Liverpool aren't still despised for being top dog in the 80s, after all, so if you change your manager, your team and have ten years of being rubbish, the hatred might subside into a mere slight dislike. Start now, is my advice, there's no time like the present.

Originally Posted by sherer

saw him play a few times Forlan has loads of skill and is a very good player he just wasn't suited to the English game.. with more time on the ball on Spain he is showing what he can really do

Agreed !!!!!!!!
So, it makes you wonder why Arsenal want him, if the story is true that is.

[pedantic]

Originally Posted by BBKing

Thanks for proving my point, which was that Man U are *still* hated even after five years of not being the top dog or anything like it, which suggests that the hatred for them is not entirely derived from their success on the pitch, and possibly looking elsewhere, perhaps at the manager or captain's attitudes.

Liverpool aren't still despised for being top dog in the 80s, after all, so if you change your manager, your team and have ten years of being rubbish, the hatred might subside into a mere slight dislike. Start now, is my advice, there's no time like the present.

Five years is nothing in terms of it still being fresh in the memory of bitter football fans such as yourself. And having lived in the east end for more than a year, I can say that arsenal are hated with a passion. Why.....because of their success, and the fact that arsenal fans enjoy to ram it down the throats of rival supporters.

This report is very amusing


The Times

[Russ]

Do you think he's hinting at a possible fetish of Wenger's? I mean, most of us have heard the story about which way he 'swings' but accusing him of getting off on 'watching' people?? Whatever next??

This guy has to be a Chelsea fan.....

It has not, by any means. It has been written in the sky over Old Trafford for a good two years now. Of course, there have been cul-de-sacs of optimism. Wayne Rooney has produced prodigious performances. Roy Keane has ransacked the years, plucked at his memory, and delivered remnants of leadership, physical and moral, enough to overpower, say, Arsenal. But then that is another story of lost horizons and ebbing power.

The Independent

[Chrysalis]

Man U are hated because they are Man U, live with it

[Russ]

Substitute the second 'Man U' from that with "the most successful British club in the last 15 years" and you'll have a point.

[sherer]

George Best isn't he only famous footballer in hospital at the moment

probably the greatest ever player has been in hospital for the past few years.. nice article on him below.. shame the book isn't in English

http://www.uefa.com/magazine/news/Ki...Id=357946.html

i've got the 6-3 match on DVD and the whole team were just on a different planet to us that day

[gazzae]

Roy Keane's Rant Over Boro Loss Pulled Off MUTV

Keane carried out his brief to analyse the Riverside debacle in the regular 'Plays the Pundit' programme at United's Carrington training ground this lunchtime.

It is thought the veteran Irishman, currently sidelined with a broken foot, offered his usual blunt assessment of United's tepid performance, but it appears Keane's condemnation was too vicious for some senior members of the Red Devils' hierarchy, who ordered the half-hour programme to be scrapped.

http://www.football365.com/news/story_167423.shtml

It is thought the veteran Irishman, currently sidelined with a broken foot, offered his usual blunt assessment of United's tepid performance, but it appears Keane's condemnation was too vicious for some senior members of the Red Devils' hierarchy, who ordered the half-hour programme to be scrapped.

They say the truth hurts, it's a shame it never went out first.

[pedantic]

Originally Posted by Chrysalis

Man U are hated because they are Man U, live with it

Yep ! Another half witted reply, from someone who has been on the "we hate man u" bandwagon for so long, they don't know why.