Talk Football Here... - Part 1

[BigSister]

well there is you:joker: Hereford and Grays

[Dan_]

Fancy having a word to your manager to lose the game against us but win the other two :wink::laugh:

[BigSister]

No....:tongue: but yeah Grays is on April Fools day Herford is next Saturday

[Dan_]

Oh come on you've won the league anyway :laugh:

[BigSister]

oh no Danny boy not yet we havent but alomst there almost there.....

[Dan_]

You will have by the time we play you :wink:

[BigSister]

nope we have 2 win 4 more matches and trhat if we beat Hereford

[Legend]

Ahhhh 0-0 at home to Charlton! Not good, not good atall. :rolleyes:

We had soo many chanced aswell.

[SMC]

Originally posted by Legend
Ahhhh 0-0 at home to Charlton! Not good, not good atall. :rolleyes:

We had soo many chanced aswell.

Thats what Liverpool lack, a clinical finisher..Robbie Fowler when 100% fit will surely get you the goals but no striker in your team is a 25+ a season goal scorer

[Legend]

Originally posted by SMC
Originally posted by Legend
Ahhhh 0-0 at home to Charlton! Not good, not good atall. :rolleyes:

We had soo many chanced aswell.

Thats what Liverpool lack, a clinical finisher..Robbie Fowler when 100% fit will surely get you the goals but no striker in your team is a 25+ a season goal scorer

Fowler had a great chance at the begining.

They had the chances and took them but there keeper was just lucky today.

[Dan_]

Liverpool should sign Luca Toni from Fiorentina or Yakubu.

[Legend]

Liverpool are signing player after player who ends up playing 20 minutes of a game.

It's foreign player after foreign player. :joker:

[SMC]

Originally posted by BB fernzy
Liverpool should sign Luca Toni from Fiorentina or Yakubu.

Neither would be a bad signing especially Toni, Yakubu has the tendancy to be greedy a little and needs to lay off the pies a bit. I'd probably go for Dirk Kuyt of Feyenoord right now, Also i don't think Cameron Jerome of Cardiff would be a bad signing either

[InTheHood]

Samaras doing the business, good old Giorgios, we miss him :bored:

[Dan_]

Originally posted by SMC
Originally posted by BB fernzy
Liverpool should sign Luca Toni from Fiorentina or Yakubu.

Neither would be a bad signing especially Toni, Yakubu has the tendancy to be greedy a little and needs to lay off the pies a bit. I'd probably go for Dirk Kuyt of Feyenoord right now, Also i don't think Cameron Jerome of Cardiff would be a bad signing either

Kuyt would be a good signing, if he has a good world cup there is going to be a lot of teams trying to sign him and it seems very likely he will be leaving Feynoord in the summer. I've heard Liverpool have scouted Cameron Jerome but it would be a very big step up for him. I can see him proably going to a mid-table premiership side at first though.

[InTheHood]

The problem with Kuijt, or Kuyt (depending on where you are in the world ala van Nistelrooy and van Nistelrooij) is that alot of people back home think he's a small league player.

I personally remain unconvinced by him. He has the talent and would suit the more physical English League as opposed to the more technical Serie A/ La Liga, but he lacks ambition and when things aren't going well, will disappear.

He's worth a gamble, but one guy that will be a success in a big league would be Jefferson Farfan of PSV. He can play as a secondary striker or out wide. I doubt there is a better player in Holland right now.

[Siouxsie]

SAFC got beat YET AGAIN !!!!:sad::sad::sad:

[Jay]

Yeah looks like Sunderland are down now which is a shame because they do play some good football its just they don't score many goals

[Kore]

inthehood, are you dutch?

[Siouxsie]

Thats what shaggy (Neil) said play good football but cant get the ball in the net Lota good that is Id say:puzzled:

[Kore]

i hope man u beat wigan tomoro

[SMC]

Chelsea/Barca tomorrow baybee,

[Dan_]

Mick McCarthy been sacked by Sunderland, bit pointless when they are basically relegated already.

[SMC]

Yeah it is, Bob Murray is a twat and he should be blamed..he hardly made funds available for Mick

[Mike]

I think its very harsh on Mick, like you said SMC Bob Murray should be blamed.

[Jay]

Wigan v Man Utd tonight should be a good game then tommorow night its Aldershot v Accrington which hopefully i'll be going to see

i think its harsh that Mick has been sacked because he hasn't had the money to bring alot of players in and i no they have only 10 points but the ammount of games ive seen this season Sunderland have deserved more

[BigSister]

:laugh: Accrington staff members are on Radio 1 this week on the Colin Edith show:laugh:

[SMC]

Who cares about Acc Stanley really? bigger fish to fry, IE; Chelsea and Barca. United/Wigan....... Hull City/Whoever

[BigSister]

I care SMC and so does Dan:tongue:

[Jay]

Good luck for tommorow night BigSister even though it will be us who will need the luck

[BigSister]

thamks jamie i have a funny feeling though

[Jay]

You never no i suppose but i think it's going to take something special for us to beat you we have had a terrible season

[BigSister]

i think we beat you at start of season but you have got better since then

[Jay]

Yeah you did beat us we improved for about 6 or 7 games just before christmas but its our away form which has been bad only 2 wins away but i suppose we have a chance because we are at home and our home form has been pretty good this season

[InTheHood]

Originally posted by Kore
inthehood, are you dutch?

I've lived in more countries than i've had pants :laugh: Holland, Surinam, Carribbean, UK, US and so on :laugh:

Am I Dutch? Dutch Surinamese, although I have lived in England for many many years now. :tongue:

Think Hasselbaink, Seedorf et al, and that's me..........well not exactly me, but similar, only taller and not as good at football :laugh:

[InTheHood]

Sunderland sacking McCarthy :bored:

Was the best man to try and get them promoted again.

[InTheHood]

Wigan v Manchester United.

Paul Jewell has lost all of his meetings with Manchester United as a manager 0-4 apparently.

:blush2::bored:

[Siouxsie]

Sacked Mccarthy .............

[Jay]

Anyone see the Wigan and Man Utd game i can't believe we got the 3 points we were so poor in the first half and i think Wigan deserved atleast a draw

[BigSister]

Yeah I agree Jamie a draw would have been fair

[SMC]

Originally posted by jamie2cool
Anyone see the Wigan and Man Utd game i can't believe we got the 3 points we were so poor in the first half and i think Wigan deserved atleast a draw

Hmm your probably right, credit to Wigan they played well..wonder why Ferguson didn't start Ruud again?

[Jay]

I think somethings happened between Ruud and Fergie i could understand why he left him on the bench for the carling cup final as Saha had scored 5 goals in the competion before the final but tonight was a match we needed to win surely we needed our best players playing tonight

[SMC]

Originally posted by jamie2cool
I think somethings happened between Ruud and Fergie i could understand why he left him on the bench for the carling cup final as Saha had scored 5 goals in the competion before the final but tonight was a match we needed to win surely we needed our best players playing tonight

Agreed, Saha definately should of started the Carling Cup final, and i was happy that he did..but it was a little unfair not to play RVN, And i don't understand why he started on the bench tonight..he's our top scorer this season. Maybe Fergie showing a lack of respect to the opposition?

[Siouxsie]

what about Mccarthy ? sacked .....................:shocked:

[InTheHood]

Wigan lacked a final ball and a striker, or they would have won tonight.

When at 4-0 in the Carling Cup final, van Nistelrooij should have come on, but instead he blooded two new boys who had only been at the club 6-8 weeks. Strange decision.........either Sir Alex or RVN will not be at Man U next season, and I think it's Ruud who will be in Italy or Spain.

[SMC]

Originally posted by InTheHood
Wigan lacked a final ball and a striker, or they would have won tonight.

When at 4-0 in the Carling Cup final, van Nistelrooij should have come on, but instead he blooded two new boys who had only been at the club 6-8 weeks. Strange decision.........either Sir Alex or RVN will not be at Man U next season, and I think it's Ruud who will be in Italy or Spain.

Possibly, been linked with a Summer move to Milan but Ruud gets linked everywhere around this time each year so who knows?

[Jay]

I don't no why but we was 1-0 down then Ruud come on and we won 2-1 i think when Ruuds playing the whole team plays with confidence and i hope he starts Ruud on sunday when we play Newcastle

[Mike]

When you play against Newcastle i reckon Ruud should start in place of O'shea because you cant really drop either Saha or Rooney so the best thing to do would be play Rooney just behind the two strikers.

[James]

A bit unfortunate Wigan there - Man Utd only had one shot on target in the whole match, and scored two goals!

[Jay]

Well dissapointing night for me Aldershot 1-4 Accrington

[Dan_]

Did you manage to go to the game Jamie?

[Jay]

nah i didnt go because the ground is like 20-30 mins walk and it was tipping it down so i just stayed in and watched sky sports news

[BigSister]

aww Jamike but good for me though

[Jay]

Originally posted by BigSister
aww Jamike but good for me though

There showing the goals soon on sky sports news, well done another good 3 points for Accrington i think you have definately got this league now

[BigSister]

Yeah I saw it this morning:elephant:
They are on Radio1 again this afternoon

[sol]

Plymouth 0-0 Preston :dazzler:

[ThaGazBoi]

Arsenal through to the next round champions league.

*Dances*

[SMC]

Arse were quality it has to be said, Aleksandr Hleb was immense..saying that, all the Arsenal players played there part tonight

[Mike]

Well done to Arsenal, it was a great team performance in both legs.

[Jay]

Great result for Arsenal i hope they do well this year, and i can't believe we have gone from 4 British clubs left in to just the 1

[BigSister]

I know Jamie meh

[Jay]

Middlesboro v Roma tonight its going to a big test for Middlesboro but i think they can do it but they have got to defend much better then they usually do and with yakubu and hasselbaink upfront they have a chance

[Siouxsie]

1 nil to middlesborough when i last looked

[BigSister]

Yeah I think it ended 1-0 to boro too

[Jay]

Arsenal have been drawn against Juventus in the quarter finals this is going to be a really tough one for Arsenal but i think they can do it if they beat Juventus they will play the winners of Ajax/Inter v Villareal in the semi finals

[BigSister]

Does any1 know why Inter/ Ajax havent played yet

[InTheHood]

Inter/Ajax wasn't played as Milan were also at home this week.

Barcelona got the best draw. Benfica have knocked out 2 English sides, but neither were Chelsea.

Can see both Milan clubs, Barcelona and Juventus in the Semi's

[BigSister]

ah right thanks ITH

[Jay]

Great result for us we beat Dagenham 3-1

[Siouxsie]

cant even remember the sunderland score

:sad:

[Jay]

They lost 1-0 to Wigan

[Siouxsie]

might have guessed crap crap

[Jay]

They deserved something from the game they played really well again i thought just they can't score goals

[Siouxsie]

Thats it good footy but cant score (but thats what the games about jamie!)

[Jay]

Yeah i no but they had so many chances if they would have scored double more goals then they have so far they wouldn't be bottom

[Siouxsie]

they are so embarrasing
Think its our time to win :blush:

[Jay]

Man Utd v Newcastle Van nistelrooy is on the bench again Saha starts

[Siouxsie]

Newcastle fans are singing * Slands crap slands crap* in the crowd lol

[InTheHood]

Interesting afternoon.

Man United looked like they were going to make up a cricket score, after 12 minutes, but it ended 2-0.

Charlton won 2-1 v Boro, who put out a much changed team, 9 changes from the side who beat Roma.

Arsenal won 2-1 v Liverpool. Was closer than Arsenal would have liked missing so many chances, and Shabby Alonso was sent off for 2 late tackles. Gerrard made a backpass to Henry again!

But the biggest game is tonight, Juventus v Milan!

Oh and Heerenveen lost to Utrecht :nono: Ajax and PSV ended 0-0 :bored:

[Mike]

Who does everyone think will take second spot in the premiership then?

[Jay]

I think it will Man Utd because their 5 points clear of Liverpool with a game in hand and liverpool are out of form at the moment

[BigSister]

I still think its going to be Liverpool but I hope Man U as my dad wont be happy round where I live they are all talking about Blackburn might be in Champions League but think Arsenal will snatch it

[BB-Rocks]

Don't know if anyones already said this .. but ..

RIP Jimmy Johnstone

[InTheHood]

Great defence from Boro last night. A tiny club like Boro, deserves alot of praise for dumping out a European Giant like Roma, especially as they were falling all over the place at the sound of the wind.

Looks like it's down to Arsenal and Boro in Europe for England this season.

[Mike]

Yeah Boro were great last night.

Talk about cheats Roma were diving all over the place especially that Mancini.

[Jay]

It was a great result for Middlesboro and what a header by Hasselbaink

[Dan_]

Good to see 3 strikers scoring for Liverpool last night in that 5-1 thrashing of Fulham.

[CharlotteSometimes]

Originally posted by jamie2cool
I think it will Man Utd because their 5 points clear of Liverpool with a game in hand and liverpool are out of form at the moment

*Ahem* :joker:

[cc100]

Liverpool are still looking like being Chelsea's main challenger over the next few years.

[Jay]

Originally posted by CharlotteSometimes
Originally posted by jamie2cool
I think it will Man Utd because their 5 points clear of Liverpool with a game in hand and liverpool are out of form at the moment

*Ahem* :joker:

Lol ok 2 points then but we still have 2 games in hand

[CharlotteSometimes]

I wasn't suggesting that we'd beat them in the race for 2nd. in the Premiership. We probably won't, simply because they have far more home fixtures left to play in comparison to us. It was the suggestion that we're 'out of form' at the moment that I found amusing. We beat Arsenal, knocked manure out of the FA Cup, lost 0 - 1 away to Benfica (when our dominance of the game should've had the tie wrapped-up there and then, by a good two or three goal margin), beat Man City, drew with Charlton, lost 0 - 2 to Benfica (we deserved a draw at least in a game that should've been merely a formality), lost 1 - 2 to Arsenal (only because of a last-gasp fluke, in a game we deserved to win), beat Fulham 5 - 1 (it could easily have been double figures), and beat Newcastle 3 - 1 (it should really have been double that). I don't think many teams in any league would mind having a run of form like that. And we're not five points behind with manure having a game in hand, we're two points behind and manure have two games in hand.

However, once the derby is out of the way, we've not got anything too challenging left, on paper at least. And manure still have Arsenal (H) and Chelski (A) to play, and I can't see them picking up anything more than one point from those two fixtures. They also play Bolton and Spurs away, and I'd expect them to pick up no more than four points. So there's seven points for manure to drop.

Remaining fixtures and predictions:


Liverpool

Everton (H) 3
West Brom (A) 3
Bolton (H) 3
Blackburn (A) 1
West Ham (A) 3
Aston Villa (H) 3
Portsmouth (A) 3

manure

Birmingham (H) 3
West Ham (H) 3
Bolton (A) 1
Arsenal (H) 0
Sunderland (H) 3
Spurs (A) 0
Middlesbrough (H) 3
Chelski (A) 0
Charlton (H) 3


Liverpool 80 points manure 79 points :thumbs:

[Jay]

I did write that when they lost to Benfica then Arsenal

[InTheHood]

FA Cup Semi Final Draw:

Chelsea v Liverpool
Charlton/Boro v West Ham

Chelsea v Boro final :tongue:

[Jay]

I think it will be Chelsea v West Ham in the final

[BigSister]

Yeah prob same as Jamie but want Boro

[InTheHood]

George and Jimmy will ensure Boro will add a touch of Oranje to the final :tongue:

Along with Robben for Chelsea :tongue:

[Siouxsie]

come on the blues

[InTheHood]

Steven Gerrard sent off in Merseyside derby, and deservedly so, what a fool. Good job England have the more consistent and more reliable Frank Lampard for the summer.

:laugh: @ Phil Neville

[InTheHood]

Did not see the 3rd Liverpool goal or Neville red card, so can't comment, but thought Van der Meyde's red card was harsh, as he was looking at the ball the whole time, and Beattie and Crouch were jumping like that all match, Think Mr Dowd was looking to even things up after Gerrard's red

[Legend]

ITH, the third goal was great. Kewell scored a cracker! :wink:

And Van de Mayde's red card was totallyy jusitified i think.

But, i'm jsut happyyy that we won especially with Gerrard being sent off so early.

[SMC]

Up the Arsenal,

Gooners 2-0 Juventus, Great performance

[Siouxsie]

roll on the world cup:wink:

[Mike]

Originally posted by SMC
Up the Arsenal,

Gooners 2-0 Juventus, Great performance

Yeah it was a great performance from Arsenal.

Juventus were shocking.

[Jay]

Yeah great win for Arsenal great performance and now i really think they will beat Juventus in Italy and it also helps that Veria will be banned for the game

[Mike]

I went to Milton Keynes yesterday to watch Gillingham play we won 2-1 with two brilliant goals.

Here is a video of us all enjoying ourselves.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFc1FXYRyCc&search=Gillingham

[InTheHood]

Wow! is all I can say to Boro's performance.

Best comeback from any side in Europe for years. To need 4 goals and not only do it, but rip another side to tatters in the way they did was brilliant to watch.

[BigSister]

Yay go boro

[Dan_]

Altrincham have had 18 points deducted by the Conference and have been fined £1,000 for fielding an ineligible player earlier this season.

The ruling would put the Robins bottom of the Conference and would almost certainly mean relegation.

James Robinson was ineligible when he made 13 appearances for Altrincham this season, scoring four times.

Altrincham are waiting to receive the decision in writing before deciding whether to appeal to the FA.

Robinson, 23, signed for the Moss Lane club from Accrington Stanley last November when he did not have international clearance after a spell in Iceland.

The player left Moss Lane in February to join Richmond Eagles in Australia.

"The problem only emerged because he went from us to Australia," an Altrincham spokesman said.

"The first we knew of the problem was when they (Richmond) came back to us and said they had discovered he was still registered to play in Iceland when he signed for Accrington."

The Altrincham spokesman continued: "As far as the club are concerned, the manager Graham Heathcote, and the chairman both want to speak to the players before saying anything more.

"The appeal needs to be made within two weeks, so we are expecting written confirmation of the punishment very soon."

Disgraceful decision in my opinion, only a small admin error at a part time football club and they get deducted 18 points and almost certain relegation.

Sign the petiton-http://www.petitiononline.com/ab1bc234/petition.html

[BigSister]

I agree Dan and hope they dont get relegated esp I feel we had a part to play in it luckly we only got a fine as he only played in reserves and a lot of Accy fans have signed the pettition

[CharlotteSometimes]

I thought I'd better quote this one for posterity, just in case there are any accidental edits or deletions. :thumbs:

Originally posted by InTheHood

FA Cup Semi Final Draw:

Chelsea v Liverpool
Charlton/Boro v West Ham

Chelsea v Boro final :tongue:

Any chance of you swallowing your pride and admitting that you were wrong? There are plenty of other examples elsewhere in this thread too, but this one really is a keeper! :bouncy:


As for the match itself, yes, we were clinging on by our fingertips at the end. The substitutions seemed ill-advised, and we really had our hearts in our mouths until the ref finally blew the whistle for full time. But we beat them fair and square, and we were the better team for the majority of the match, too. Even the most appallingly inept refereeing display you'll see this season, Drogba's continually unpunished off sides and Robben's Olympic standard diving displays couldn't stop us taking what was ours - and where better to do it than in the home of the spent force? :bouncy:

Mourinho screwed-up big time with his inept team selection and inferior tactical nous, proving once again that even Abramovich's millions can't buy talent like Stevie Gerrard and Rafa Benitez, the world's greatest manager. :spin:


WALK ON! WALK ON!
WITH HOPE IN YOUR HEART!
AND YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE!
YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE!!!

[sol]

I heard about this issue with Altrincham, is the decision to deduct 18 points and a fine of £1000 confirmed or is it being awaited?

[BigSister]

its been confoirmed sol requirement of an appeal being made

[sol]

Originally posted by BigSister
its been confoirmed sol requirement of an appeal being made

Thats really unfair, I hope the FA are sympathetic, thats if they appeal.

[BigSister]

me2 sol because we were involved with it as well but because he wasnt in our first team we just got a fine they played him a few first matches and scored some goals so it could have been us

[sol]

Originally posted by BigSister
me2 sol because we were involved with it as well but because he wasnt in our first team we just got a fine they played him a few first matches and scored some goals so it could have been us

Yeah, I bet you're like phew :shocked:

[InTheHood]

Originally posted by CharlotteSometimes
I thought I'd better quote this one for posterity, just in case there are any accidental edits or deletions. :thumbs:

Originally posted by InTheHood

FA Cup Semi Final Draw:

Chelsea v Liverpool
Charlton/Boro v West Ham

Chelsea v Boro final :tongue:

Any chance of you swallowing your pride and admitting that you were wrong? There are plenty of other examples elsewhere in this thread too, but this one really is a keeper! :bouncy:


As for the match itself, yes, we were clinging on by our fingertips at the end. The substitutions seemed ill-advised, and we really had our hearts in our mouths until the ref finally blew the whistle for full time. But we beat them fair and square, and we were the better team for the majority of the match, too. Even the most appallingly inept refereeing display you'll see this season, Drogba's continually unpunished off sides and Robben's Olympic standard diving displays couldn't stop us taking what was ours - and where better to do it than in the home of the spent force? :bouncy:

Mourinho screwed-up big time with his inept team selection and inferior tactical nous, proving once again that even Abramovich's millions can't buy talent like Stevie Gerrard and Rafa Benitez, the world's greatest manager. :spin:


WALK ON! WALK ON!
WITH HOPE IN YOUR HEART!
AND YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE!
YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE!!!

Congrats, you deserved it......although the free kick for goal 1 never should have been, you were the better side against Chelsea for once :shocked:

As for bringing it up.........that reminds me.....:joker:

[InTheHood]

Originally posted by CharlotteSometimes
Nice one Middlesbrough, thrashing Chelski 3 - 0. :thumbs: I can't wait to see the highlights later, and Mourinho's excuses in tomorrow's papers. :bouncy:

You're welcome :thumbs:

[InTheHood]

Originally posted by CharlotteSometimes
and Mellor will no doubt prove the talent we've only glimpsed so far with his spell on loan at Wigan. Le Tallec is also playing well on loan this season, and there are few strikers in the Premiership at the moment that could match Pongolle's ability - his lack of height in the box is his only real flaw.



It's the Pongolle comment that has me in fits :joker: The other 2 are funny as well, but Pongolle :joker:

Sorry, had to be done :tongue: 1-1

[Legend]

Originally posted by InTheHood
Originally posted by CharlotteSometimes
I thought I'd better quote this one for posterity, just in case there are any accidental edits or deletions. :thumbs:

Originally posted by InTheHood

FA Cup Semi Final Draw:

Chelsea v Liverpool
Charlton/Boro v West Ham

Chelsea v Boro final :tongue:

Any chance of you swallowing your pride and admitting that you were wrong? There are plenty of other examples elsewhere in this thread too, but this one really is a keeper! :bouncy:


As for the match itself, yes, we were clinging on by our fingertips at the end. The substitutions seemed ill-advised, and we really had our hearts in our mouths until the ref finally blew the whistle for full time. But we beat them fair and square, and we were the better team for the majority of the match, too. Even the most appallingly inept refereeing display you'll see this season, Drogba's continually unpunished off sides and Robben's Olympic standard diving displays couldn't stop us taking what was ours - and where better to do it than in the home of the spent force? :bouncy:

Mourinho screwed-up big time with his inept team selection and inferior tactical nous, proving once again that even Abramovich's millions can't buy talent like Stevie Gerrard and Rafa Benitez, the world's greatest manager. :spin:


WALK ON! WALK ON!
WITH HOPE IN YOUR HEART!
AND YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE!
YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE!!!

Congrats, you deserved it......although the free kick for goal 1 never should have been, you were the better side against Chelsea for once :shocked:

As for bringing it up.........that reminds me.....:joker:

For ONCE? Let me cast your mind back to the semi-final of the Champions League 2005. :eureka:

I was $hitting bricks the last 5 minutes of the match today but we deserved it. :wink:

[InTheHood]

Originally posted by CharlotteSometimes


Remaining fixtures and predictions:


Liverpool

Everton (H) 3
West Brom (A) 3
Bolton (H) 3
Blackburn (A) 1
West Ham (A) 3
Aston Villa (H) 3
Portsmouth (A) 3

manure

Birmingham (H) 3
West Ham (H) 3
Bolton (A) 1
Arsenal (H) 0
Sunderland (H) 3
Spurs (A) 0
Middlesbrough (H) 3
Chelski (A) 0
Charlton (H) 3


Liverpool 80 points manure 79 points :thumbs:

Still as confident? :tongue:

Looks like you will be relying on Boro, Chelsea and Charlton :tongue:

[InTheHood]

Originally posted by Legend
For ONCE? Let me cast your mind back to the semi-final of the Champions League 2005. :eureka:

I was $hitting bricks the last 5 minutes of the match today but we deserved it. :wink:

Oh yes, the goal that never crossed the line. I remember now :joker:

Deserved the win, not the 1st goal, but it happens :laugh:

Talking of Champions League........to the tune of Liverpool's "We are the Champions, Champions of Europe"....... "We are Benfica, Lions Of Lisbon" :tongue:

Took out both Man U and Liverpool.......not bad considering the Portuguese League is poor and the English League is the 3rd best in Europe.

Not that I support Benfica, I just found it funny :joker:

[InTheHood]

Originally posted by BB fernzy
Altrincham have had 18 points deducted by the Conference and have been fined £1,000 for fielding an ineligible player earlier this season.

The ruling would put the Robins bottom of the Conference and would almost certainly mean relegation.

James Robinson was ineligible when he made 13 appearances for Altrincham this season, scoring four times.

Altrincham are waiting to receive the decision in writing before deciding whether to appeal to the FA.

Robinson, 23, signed for the Moss Lane club from Accrington Stanley last November when he did not have international clearance after a spell in Iceland.

The player left Moss Lane in February to join Richmond Eagles in Australia.

"The problem only emerged because he went from us to Australia," an Altrincham spokesman said.

"The first we knew of the problem was when they (Richmond) came back to us and said they had discovered he was still registered to play in Iceland when he signed for Accrington."

The Altrincham spokesman continued: "As far as the club are concerned, the manager Graham Heathcote, and the chairman both want to speak to the players before saying anything more.

"The appeal needs to be made within two weeks, so we are expecting written confirmation of the punishment very soon."

Disgraceful decision in my opinion, only a small admin error at a part time football club and they get deducted 18 points and almost certain relegation.

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13 Games?

No offence, but if a club plays an ineliglible player for that long, then punishment is deserved.

The question I ask: - Why did he take so long to realise this?

Also, had it been a big club (Chelsea, Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool), would the sentence be the same?

No.

[InTheHood]

Drew 0-0 @ Roda JC tonight in the UEFA Cup playoffs.

4 players booked too :nono:

That's me done for a day. I'll collect my abusive responses tomorrow :tongue:

[Dan_]

Originally posted by InTheHood
Originally posted by BB fernzy
Altrincham have had 18 points deducted by the Conference and have been fined £1,000 for fielding an ineligible player earlier this season.

The ruling would put the Robins bottom of the Conference and would almost certainly mean relegation.

James Robinson was ineligible when he made 13 appearances for Altrincham this season, scoring four times.

Altrincham are waiting to receive the decision in writing before deciding whether to appeal to the FA.

Robinson, 23, signed for the Moss Lane club from Accrington Stanley last November when he did not have international clearance after a spell in Iceland.

The player left Moss Lane in February to join Richmond Eagles in Australia.

"The problem only emerged because he went from us to Australia," an Altrincham spokesman said.

"The first we knew of the problem was when they (Richmond) came back to us and said they had discovered he was still registered to play in Iceland when he signed for Accrington."

The Altrincham spokesman continued: "As far as the club are concerned, the manager Graham Heathcote, and the chairman both want to speak to the players before saying anything more.

"The appeal needs to be made within two weeks, so we are expecting written confirmation of the punishment very soon."

Disgraceful decision in my opinion, only a small admin error at a part time football club and they get deducted 18 points and almost certain relegation.

Sign the petiton-http://www.petitiononline.com/ab1bc234/petition.html

13 Games?

No offence, but if a club plays an ineliglible player for that long, then punishment is deserved.

The question I ask: - Why did he take so long to realise this?

Also, had it been a big club (Chelsea, Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool), would the sentence be the same?

No.

Alty signed him in good faith after he was at Accrington, they would not suspect that he had not got international clearance seeing as he'd been playing for another English side albeit at reserve level. The player is at fault imo, he hid the truth that he had been playing in Iceland previously and just said he'd been released by Crewe Alexandra when asking for a trial at Accrington.

[Dan_]

:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: ****ing ref we had in the game against York today, he may even cost us a play-off place after his **** decisions. York scored a goal that our striker(Darryn Stamp) felt was offside and he said that to the linesman, the ref comes over does not even speak to the linesman and sends off Stamp. Then our manager complains about the decision and get's sent down the tunnel then we get a well deserved equaliser just before half time. The ref has to have a police escort down the tunnel at half time due to irate players and fans ready to flip their lid. So we are down to 10 men after 38 mins and trying to beat a side one place below us in the table with a clown for a ref who's ignoring handballs and giving free-kicks for nothing challenges, then he goes and top's it all off right at the end, York player goes down rolling around as if he has been shot for about 5 mins and as soon as he is put onto the stretcher he jumps right off, our captain has a go at the player and the physio and end's up getting a straight red card for it.

Worst.Ref.Ever. :mad:

[BigSister]

oh dear Dan stupid idiotic ref grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr:mad::mad::mad:

[Jay]

Well we drew 1-1 at home to Woking today it's getting annoying now we just can't win.

[CharlotteSometimes]

Originally posted by InTheHood
Originally posted by CharlotteSometimes
Nice one Middlesbrough, thrashing Chelski 3 - 0. :thumbs: I can't wait to see the highlights later, and Mourinho's excuses in tomorrow's papers. :bouncy:

You're welcome :thumbs:

What exactly is the misconceived comedic value you seem to have dreamed-up from this post? :puzzled:


Originally posted by InTheHood
Originally posted by CharlotteSometimes
and Mellor will no doubt prove the talent we've only glimpsed so far with his spell on loan at Wigan. Le Tallec is also playing well on loan this season, and there are few strikers in the Premiership at the moment that could match Pongolle's ability - his lack of height in the box is his only real flaw.



It's the Pongolle comment that has me in fits :joker: The other 2 are funny as well, but Pongolle :joker:

Sorry, had to be done :tongue: 1-1

Mellor got a knee injury one match into his loan spell and is facing the prospect of further surgery in the summer (he's already lost a year or so due to tendonitis in his knee). Pongolle is indeed a fine player who has shown great potential. I've actually seen him play in the flesh though, of course, rather than just from the comfort of my armchair. But strangely enough, I'm rarely consulted as to whether our players who are out on loan make the matchday squad or not. However, it's common knowledge to those who follow the game closely that teams other than those with the most depleted, threadbare of squads are loathe to play their loan signings unless it's an absolute necessity.

And we are talking about the same Pongolle & Le Tallec who Arsenal, manure and a host of other top European clubs tried to sign before Liverpool secured their signatures, aren't we? The same Pongolle who won the Golden Ball for the best player of the 2001 Under-17 World Championship? The same Pongolle who won the Golden Shoe as leading goalscorer (9) in that competition, including two hat tricks and a goal in the final, setting a new record for the competition in the process? And the same Le Tallec who won the Silver Ball at the same tournament? The same Pongolle & Le Tallec who scored 11 goals between them in the UEFA Under-16 Championship that same year?

"Sinama Pongolle, considered to be similar in style to Nicolas Anelka with blistering pace" (Soccernet).

"French playmaker of exceptional promise joined Sunderland in August 2005 on a year-long loan from Liverpool. Arrived at Anfield from Le Havre as part of a £6million double deal with striker Florent Sinama-Pongolle. Le Tallec's creative style of play has brought comparisons with the FA Premier League's Overseas Player of the Decade Eric Cantona." (PremierLeague.com).

I think you should ask your subs to start warming up. :joker:


Originally posted by InTheHood
Originally posted by CharlotteSometimes


Remaining fixtures and predictions:


Liverpool

Everton (H) 3
West Brom (A) 3
Bolton (H) 3
Blackburn (A) 1
West Ham (A) 3
Aston Villa (H) 3
Portsmouth (A) 3

manure

Birmingham (H) 3
West Ham (H) 3
Bolton (A) 1
Arsenal (H) 0
Sunderland (H) 3
Spurs (A) 0
Middlesbrough (H) 3
Chelski (A) 0
Charlton (H) 3


Liverpool 80 points manure 79 points :thumbs:

Still as confident? :tongue:

Looks like you will be relying on Boro, Chelsea and Charlton :tongue:


I predicted the results of 16 matches – a margin of error isn’t unreasonable. You made just one prediction, and so far you’re 50% wrong on that one. Not many people would’ve predicted Bolton’s sudden run of poor form and Arsenal’s capitulation, either. I see you didn’t bother to quote the first two sentences of that post, though – would that be because it actually makes your point rather redundant? Here’s a reminder anyway, just for clarity:

Originally posted by CharlotteSometimes
I wasn't suggesting that we'd beat them in the race for 2nd. in the Premiership. We probably won't, simply because they have far more home fixtures left to play in comparison to us.

Time to call your Academy Director and see if there are any exciting young prospects that can reverse your rapidly fading form, methinks. :thumbs:



Originally posted by InTheHood
Oh yes, the goal that never crossed the line. I remember now :joker:

Deserved the win, not the 1st goal, but it happens :laugh:

Talking of Champions League........to the tune of Liverpool's "We are the Champions, Champions of Europe"....... "We are Benfica, Lions Of Lisbon" :tongue:

Took out both Man U and Liverpool.......not bad considering the Portuguese League is poor and the English League is the 3rd best in Europe.

It was a goal, and only fantasists such as Mourinho would bother to claim otherwise. In any case, had the goal not been given, Chelski would've seen their goalkeeper red-carded and a penalty awarded against them. A moot point then, I think you'll find.

I much prefer; We won it FIVE TIMES! We won it FIVE TIMES! In Istanbul, we won it FIVE TIMES! You must remind me, though - I've forgotten all of those famous Heerenveen chants, recalling their numerous cup-winning heroics.

The Premiership is the best league in Europe, period (that saves me backtracking for an older post to quote, too). I’m not even sure if it’s necessary to bother looking for quotes, given that the competition seem to have been relegated with a handful of games still to play. :laugh:

[Siouxsie]

sunderland :nono::nono:What can i say !!!!!:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

[InTheHood]

Originally posted by CharlotteSometimes
Originally posted by InTheHood
Originally posted by CharlotteSometimes
Nice one Middlesbrough, thrashing Chelski 3 - 0. :thumbs: I can't wait to see the highlights later, and Mourinho's excuses in tomorrow's papers. :bouncy:

You're welcome :thumbs:

What exactly is the misconceived comedic value you seem to have dreamed-up from this post? :puzzled:


Originally posted by InTheHood
Originally posted by CharlotteSometimes
and Mellor will no doubt prove the talent we've only glimpsed so far with his spell on loan at Wigan. Le Tallec is also playing well on loan this season, and there are few strikers in the Premiership at the moment that could match Pongolle's ability - his lack of height in the box is his only real flaw.



It's the Pongolle comment that has me in fits :joker: The other 2 are funny as well, but Pongolle :joker:

Sorry, had to be done :tongue: 1-1

Mellor got a knee injury one match into his loan spell and is facing the prospect of further surgery in the summer (he's already lost a year or so due to tendonitis in his knee). Pongolle is indeed a fine player who has shown great potential. I've actually seen him play in the flesh though, of course, rather than just from the comfort of my armchair. But strangely enough, I'm rarely consulted as to whether our players who are out on loan make the matchday squad or not. However, it's common knowledge to those who follow the game closely that teams other than those with the most depleted, threadbare of squads are loathe to play their loan signings unless it's an absolute necessity.

And we are talking about the same Pongolle & Le Tallec who Arsenal, manure and a host of other top European clubs tried to sign before Liverpool secured their signatures, aren't we? The same Pongolle who won the Golden Ball for the best player of the 2001 Under-17 World Championship? The same Pongolle who won the Golden Shoe as leading goalscorer (9) in that competition, including two hat tricks and a goal in the final, setting a new record for the competition in the process? And the same Le Tallec who won the Silver Ball at the same tournament? The same Pongolle & Le Tallec who scored 11 goals between them in the UEFA Under-16 Championship that same year?

"Sinama Pongolle, considered to be similar in style to Nicolas Anelka with blistering pace" (Soccernet).

"French playmaker of exceptional promise joined Sunderland in August 2005 on a year-long loan from Liverpool. Arrived at Anfield from Le Havre as part of a £6million double deal with striker Florent Sinama-Pongolle. Le Tallec's creative style of play has brought comparisons with the FA Premier League's Overseas Player of the Decade Eric Cantona." (PremierLeague.com).

I think you should ask your subs to start warming up. :joker:


Originally posted by InTheHood
Originally posted by CharlotteSometimes


Remaining fixtures and predictions:


Liverpool

Everton (H) 3
West Brom (A) 3
Bolton (H) 3
Blackburn (A) 1
West Ham (A) 3
Aston Villa (H) 3
Portsmouth (A) 3

manure

Birmingham (H) 3
West Ham (H) 3
Bolton (A) 1
Arsenal (H) 0
Sunderland (H) 3
Spurs (A) 0
Middlesbrough (H) 3
Chelski (A) 0
Charlton (H) 3


Liverpool 80 points manure 79 points :thumbs:

Still as confident? :tongue:

Looks like you will be relying on Boro, Chelsea and Charlton :tongue:


I predicted the results of 16 matches – a margin of error isn’t unreasonable. You made just one prediction, and so far you’re 50% wrong on that one. Not many people would’ve predicted Bolton’s sudden run of poor form and Arsenal’s capitulation, either. I see you didn’t bother to quote the first two sentences of that post, though – would that be because it actually makes your point rather redundant? Here’s a reminder anyway, just for clarity:

Originally posted by CharlotteSometimes
I wasn't suggesting that we'd beat them in the race for 2nd. in the Premiership. We probably won't, simply because they have far more home fixtures left to play in comparison to us.

Time to call your Academy Director and see if there are any exciting young prospects that can reverse your rapidly fading form, methinks. :thumbs:



Originally posted by InTheHood
Oh yes, the goal that never crossed the line. I remember now :joker:

Deserved the win, not the 1st goal, but it happens :laugh:

Talking of Champions League........to the tune of Liverpool's "We are the Champions, Champions of Europe"....... "We are Benfica, Lions Of Lisbon" :tongue:

Took out both Man U and Liverpool.......not bad considering the Portuguese League is poor and the English League is the 3rd best in Europe.

It was a goal, and only fantasists such as Mourinho would bother to claim otherwise. In any case, had the goal not been given, Chelski would've seen their goalkeeper red-carded and a penalty awarded against them. A moot point then, I think you'll find.

I much prefer; We won it FIVE TIMES! We won it FIVE TIMES! In Istanbul, we won it FIVE TIMES! You must remind me, though - I've forgotten all of those famous Heerenveen chants, recalling their numerous cup-winning heroics.

The Premiership is the best league in Europe, period (that saves me backtracking for an older post to quote, too). I’m not even sure if it’s necessary to bother looking for quotes, given that the competition seem to have been relegated with a handful of games still to play. :laugh:

You post far too much :joker:

btw, Jonathan Soriano is another that was massive in the Under 17's, who, like many, has not yet made it. He made an even bigger impact than Le Tallec and Pongolle, who also haven't gone on and made the most of their potential.

Being great in the under 17's, means nothing.

I don't suppose you are old enough to remember Nii Lamptey, but he had the football world at his feet, but never made it big time. Also Cherno Samba was meant to be massive, & David Aganzo and Javier Portillo had better youth records than Raul. Now they are playing in Israel and Belgium respectively. Go figure.


Thing is, I support Heerenveen, where I have lived in my life, not a team where i've never visited the City. It's too easy to glory hunt, and something I will not do.

How is Cornwall this time of year anyway? :joker:

[InTheHood]

Originally posted by scooby
sunderland :nono::nono:What can i say !!!!!:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

You're going down? :tongue:

Always next season :wink:

[InTheHood]

Originally posted by BB fernzy

Alty signed him in good faith after he was at Accrington, they would not suspect that he had not got international clearance seeing as he'd been playing for another English side albeit at reserve level. The player is at fault imo, he hid the truth that he had been playing in Iceland previously and just said he'd been released by Crewe Alexandra when asking for a trial at Accrington.

I'm sure they will me more thorough with their research next time.

Where did they get 18 points from? Was that the number of points won by Altrincham when this lad was playing? Are the other teams going to be given the points?

[James]

If playing well at an under-16s tournament was an indication of how good a player was then Paul Dickov would be one of the world's greats by now!

That's all I can say. :hugesmile:

[InTheHood]

Originally posted by James
If playing well at an under-16s tournament was an indication of how good a player was then Paul Dickov would be one of the world's greats by now!

That's all I can say. :hugesmile:

:joker:

And we all know he's not very good :joker:

[BigSister]

no ITH we just got a fine because he didnt play in our first team
I dunno where they got the points from either

[James]

Accrington players were doing the Crossbar Challenge on Soccer AM yesterday. Don't know if you saw it?

[BigSister]

I did and I have to say we wasnt very good

[Di2001]

:shocked: OMG :shocked: West Ham are in the FA Cup Final

Come on The Hammers!!!!!!! :hello:

[Dan_]

Originally posted by InTheHood
Originally posted by BB fernzy

Alty signed him in good faith after he was at Accrington, they would not suspect that he had not got international clearance seeing as he'd been playing for another English side albeit at reserve level. The player is at fault imo, he hid the truth that he had been playing in Iceland previously and just said he'd been released by Crewe Alexandra when asking for a trial at Accrington.

I'm sure they will me more thorough with their research next time.

Where did they get 18 points from? Was that the number of points won by Altrincham when this lad was playing? Are the other teams going to be given the points?

I think the 18 points came from number of games he played for the club(14) and number of goals he scored(4) so a point for each making 18 deducted. The other clubs wont be getting the points as far I know, some managers may have something to say about that if it effects their team.

[Siouxsie]

Originally posted by InTheHood
Originally posted by scooby
sunderland :nono::nono:What can i say !!!!!:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

You're going down? :tongue:

Always next season :wink:

Hope we get Quinney :dance:

[Dan_]

Talking about the Alty saga on 5live now, got the Alty chairman and head of the conference on, interesting stuff.

[sol]

Can you keep us updated BB fernzy please :thumbs:

[Dan_]

Well no play-offs this season for Stevenage :sad:. I'm gutted but frankly we did not deserve to make them after the rubbish away form. Forest Green staying up with Tamworth and Scarborough down unless Alty's appeal fails and then Tamworth will be safe.

The interview with the Stevenage manager after the game was very interesting and he was very frank in what he said unlike he has been for much of the season with his over confident comments. He was also saying the club or the team rather than us, something he's not done before.With his contract up in a couple of weeks maybe he'll not get a new one and rumours going round he want's to buy a football club with Canvey being mentioned.Justin Gregory is also meant to be leaving.

[Legend]

Originally posted by Di2001
:shocked: OMG :shocked: West Ham are in the FA Cup Final

Come on The Hammers!!!!!!! :hello:

I wouldn't go expecting much of them now Di.... we all know the red men are gonna take the cup. :wink:

[John72]

Congratulations to Chelsea for taking the title.

:hello:

[Jay]

Well done to Chelsea, looks like Rooney is out for atleast 6 weeks hopefully he will play some part in the world cup.

[Mike]

Who is everyone putting their money on for the champions league final then?

[Jay]

Barcelona for me they just look unstopable at the moment so im going to say to 2-0 to Barce

[Siouxsie]

SUNDERLAND :elephant:

[Dan_]

Finally won a home game didn't they Scooby. I hear Quinn is looking to be manager aswell.

[No1MakosiFan]

I dont really like football, but if i had to support one team then it would be LIVERPOOL.

[Mike]

Anyone getting a season ticket next season? i just sent off the form for my Gillingham season ticket

[Jay]

anyone watching the UEFA cup final tonight? i think Boro will win it this year so im going for a 1-0 victory for Boro.

[BB-Rocks]

I sent of the form for my season ticket the other day

[Mike]

Yeah i'll be watching it Jay, i'm going for a 2-1 victory for Boro

[BigSister]

im going for a 3-2 win to Boro

[Red Moon]

Well Done to the boys at Southend Utd.... you had me on the edge of seat to the final week of the season.

And you did it!

[Siouxsie]

what about shearers testemonial ? did anyone watch it

[Kaz]

:hello: :hello:Good Luck for tomorrow, Liverpool!!!!! :hello: :hello:

http://www.uefa.com/MultimediaFiles/Photo/competitions/UCL/304894_MEDIUMSQUARE.jpg

You'll Never Walk Alone!

[BB-Rocks]

...

Kaz - as your Scottish hehe

You Celtic or Rangers??

[Kaz]

http://www.footballsouvenirs.net/images/products/ocbl.jpg

:tongue:

Have supported Liverpool since the glory days when they had the great Scottish players in their team ...... Souness, Hansen, Dalglish ........ legends! :laugh:

[Mike]

I think Liverpool will just nick it tomorrow - will be a decent game though, West Ham certainly won't be a push over.

[BB-Rocks]

Yay Kaz!!:hello::hello:

[Red Moon]

Talking about great players.... Southend utd were so lucky to have the Goat..... never a nicer man in football.

[Legend]

Ooooo Kaz i didn't know you were a fewllow red! :dazzler:

Going to be a great game tomorrow, and i'm very confident we'll win it. :bigsmile:

[Jay]

I got a feeling West Ham will win so im going 2-1 to the hammers.

[Dan_]

3-1 Liverpool, Harewood for the hammers, Crouch, Gerrard and Cisse for the reds. Come on Liverpool :hello:

[~Broccoli~]

I think it will be 1-0 to West Ham although will be a very tight match :spin2:
Although i think Chelsea deserved to be in the final :dance:

[dogs]

Come on WEST HAM COME ON

[~Broccoli~]

I hope West ham win although it would be liverpool as then they would have to play Chelsea AGAIN!!!!! in the charity shield

[dogs]

Come on cheltenham, come on

[Kaz]

*UPDATE*

Full time score in Scottish Cup Final ....

Hearts 1 - Gretna 1 ...... now in extra time :spin2:

Full time score in FA Cup Final ....

West Ham 3 - Liverpool 3 (Gerrard equalised in 90th minute!)

Also in extra time ..... my nerves are in shreds! :tongue:

[BB-Rocks]

I really hope Gretna win!!

*Fingers crossed!!*

[Kaz]

End of extra time in Scottish Cup Final ....... still 1-1! :laugh:

Penalty shoot-out coming up .............. :shocked:

[BB-Rocks]

Im nervous!!

[BB-Rocks]

Hearts jsut scored a penality!!

Arrrrgh

[BB-Rocks]

Gretna scored!!

WooHoo:bouncy::bouncy:

[BB-Rocks]

Hearts scored!!!! AGAIN!!!:mad::mad::mad::mad:

Gretna failed to score!!!!:mad:

[BB-Rocks]

If Gretna miss this .. its over!!

[BB-Rocks]

Hearts won!!

Im raging!!!

[Kaz]

AWWWWWWWW. http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/midi/traurig/a045.gif

Never mind - it was a great game and Gretna did wonderfully well to get the Final, never mind almost win it! :laugh:

Well done, wee Gretna! http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/midi/froehlich/a023.gif http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/midi/froehlich/a033.gif

[BB-Rocks]

Ive turned the tv off, im not watching them get the cup:bawling:

[Kaz]

Penalty shoot-out in FA Cup Final too ........................

.......... feel sick ........ http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/midi/konfus/a026.gif

[Kaz]

http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/midi/froehlich/a036.gif Y E S S S ! ! ! http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/midi/froehlich/a036.gif

http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/midi/froehlich/a049.gif http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/midi/froehlich/a049.gif Congratulations, Liverpool! http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/midi/froehlich/a049.gif http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/midi/froehlich/a049.gif

Steven Gerrard deserves a knighthood .... what a player! http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/midi/froehlich/a013.gif

[xWee-Babezx]

Poor Gretna!

[Mike]

Liverpool win on penalties.

Got to say what a game that was, shame it had to be won that way really.

Definately one of the best finals i've watched in some years.

[BigSister]

ditto Mike and poor Grenta one of Acxcringtons players played for them last season so wanted them to win

[Jay]

What a cup final that was, feel sorry for West Ham after going 2-0 up and then 3-2 up.

[Dan_]

What a fantastic final, best one I have ever seen! Liverpool never do it the easy way do they lol. I always thought when it came down to penalties Liverpool would win as Reina's really good at saving penalties.Reo-Coker,Gabbidon,Gerrard and Sissoko were all brilliant.

[Kore]

lol i was on the top floor in the tallest building in cardiff stuck there cos i was working, arghh. it was a good view from up there seeing all the fans and massive limos etc tho. really nice view from up there.

cos it was a saturday floor 23 (which is the canteen was empty) but had a packed lunch. the match was awesome.

what a way to say farewell to the millennium stadium fa cup wise.

[Red Moon]

It's a shame that it won't be held there again. The people of Cardiff and the Millennium Stadium have done a great job over the last few years.

I'll miss the place on the telly.

[dogs]

iT was da best final ever hope next season is as good as this one bring on da world cup...............

[Jay]

Whose going to be watching the Barcalona v Arsenal match? i really hope Arsenal win but i can't see them beating Barca, im going for a 2-0 win for Barca.

[Mike]

I'll definately be watching the game and cheering on Arsenal but i just feel Barcelona and Ronaldinio will be too good for Arsenal, im going for 2-1 Barca.

[Dan_]

1-0 to Arsenal, Bergkamp with the goal.

[BigSister]

i think Arsenal 1-0 win 89/90th minute Henry to score

[steve-g]

Well english clubs appear to be very lucky when it comes to champions league final games,
Manchester United back in 99- 2 goals in last minute
Liverpool 05- came from 3-0 down and won on penalties
perhaps Arsenal may do something like that?
who knows
its going to be a great game and i cant wait
an hour till kick off:colour:

[Kore]

arsenal to get nailed 3-1

im still in work at the moment, im off to the pub in 5 with some mates to watch the match.

have fun guys :wavey:

[xWee-Babezx]

have fun kore:wavey:

[cc100]

Half time in Paris, currently Barca 0 Arsenal 1. Sol Campbell scored with a great header.

I tip Arsenal to get another on the break from Henry.

[Dan_]

Arsenal bit unlucky to lose,being down to 10 men for that long was always going to tell against a side as good as Barca, have to say though the ref had an awful game and I doubt he'll be given another high profile game again.Well done to Arsenal for getting as far as they did and putting in a good performance and wel done to Barca on the win.

[Mike]

I totally agree with what Thierry Henry said at the end the ref was a total joke, the amount of times Puyol and Marquez fouled him and never got booked was unbelievable - fair play to Barca in the end though.

[THE_JUNK_MAN]

great game made up Arsenal got beat........sorry Arsenal fans but I am.....

[Kore]

jus come back home from tha pub in cardiff. good match fairplay. the pub was supporting both teams. :bigsmile:

[*PlayGirl*]

Missed the match...AND the highlights :devil:

Can't believe Arsenal lost ... we got cheated!!!

[InTheHood]

The ref was just as bad for both sides, but Ronaldinho was the big disappointment, he was very poor.

Roll on June 09

[Mike]

Yeah can't wait for the world cup to start.

[Red Moon]

Who cares about the world cup... bring on the championship.

Southend Rule...... lol

[InTheHood]

Netherlands are going to win the World Cup, so England fans, don't even bother entering :joker:

Actually, we're in the toughest group, we may not even get out of it :joker:

[InTheHood]

Originally posted by Red Moon
Who cares about the world cup... bring on the championship.

Southend Rule...... lol

Only one Freddy Eastwood :joker:

[Red Moon]

Originally posted by InTheHood
Only one Freddy Eastwood :joker:

What a star.... lol

[InTheHood]

Shame 'The Goat' retired

[Red Moon]

The Goat was such a nice player... one of the best in the game.

It would be hard to find a better person. Eastwood did so so well from learning from a true gentleman in the game.

I'm glad we had him, he add so much to the team and it was the whole team that won the title.

And we had a great manager too!

[CharlotteSometimes]

Originally posted by InTheHood

You post far too much :joker:

Being great in the under 17's, means nothing.

Thing is, I support Heerenveen, where I have lived in my life, not a team where i've never visited the City. It's too easy to glory hunt, and something I will not do.

How is Cornwall this time of year anyway? :joker:

I actually corrected all of the nonsense that was spread over five posts in just one.

They're not in the under 17's any more, and both spent last season at Premiership clubs - the finest league in Europe. And the fact that Arsenal, manure, et al were desperate for their signatures suggests otherwise, in any case.

It's easy to distance yourself from an impossibility, of course.

I've really no idea. Why not ask one of your imaginary patients? And then you could ask James to trace my I.P. with my blessing. Or perhaps you'd prefer scans of my ticket stubs from Anfield, along with my bus tickets home afterwards, too? I'd be more than happy to post those each week for you, of course. Awww, it must really bruise the ego to lose a debate about football hands down to a girl, huh?

[InTheHood]

Originally posted by Red Moon
The Goat was such a nice player... one of the best in the game.

It would be hard to find a better person. Eastwood did so so well from learning from a true gentleman in the game.

I'm glad we had him, he add so much to the team and it was the whole team that won the title.

And we had a great manager too!

Yup, does alot of charity work too :thumbs:

Next season will be a challenge. Good Luck :thumbs:

[Jay]

Well done to Watford they are up into the premiership after beating Leeds 3-0.

[InTheHood]

Hurrah! Well done Watford

[Mike]

Congrats to Watford - Glad they won, out the two teams they definately deserved it more IMO.

[BigSister]

well done watford Leeds beat Preston so didnt really want them to win

[Dan_]

Well done Watford, got some really good young players and a good young manager. I think they can stay up with a couple of signings in key areas.

[skelo4eva]

leeds didnt show up tpday another year in the championship:bawling::bawling::bawling:

[BigSister]

aww im sorry just ignore what I said there

[InTheHood]

Catania one win away from Serie A :hello:

Considering 13 years ago, they were in England's equivalent of Conference North/South (Divison 6) that is quite an achievement.

[InTheHood]

Rosicky to Arsenal, Tonetto to Roma, Rui Costa to Benfica, Spackman new manager of Millwall, Aguirre new coach of Atletico Madrid, Heynckes new coach of M'Gladbach, Diego Ribas to Bremen.

Busy couple of days in transfer market.

[Mike]

Gillingham signed two players from Southend on Monday...

Red your a Southend fan - What are Mark Bentley and Duncan Jupp like?

[InTheHood]

Gills also signed Dean McDonald from Ipswich, a young striker.

[Mike]

Yep, thats 5 new players in a week..

Roll on August 5th.

[InTheHood]

So far we signed Will Johnson, a young Canadian, another Canadian Rob Friend will arrive from Molde near the beginning of the season, in the meantime he stays in Norway, and also a young Spaniard called Recoba is joing us :spin:

Hopefully we can hold onto the Drost bro's who are hot :spin:

[Dan_]

Still waiting for Stevenage to appoint a new manager.

[Dan_]

Altrincham had their appeal against the deduction of 18 points for fielding a player without International clearance. They lost the appeal and will be relegated to Conference North :sad:.There's a website will full details of the e-mails that the Forest Green Rovers press officer(Colin Peake) sent grassing them up and basically telling the conference officials and the FA to punish them and asking for the other conference clubs to support him.

[CharlotteSometimes]

I saw a feature about that on the news recently. It does seem to be a ridiculously harsh punishment, and the grounds for it dubious, to say the least. Is that the last opportunity they have to appeal, BB f?

Anyway, I wanted to ask you what you thought on the Cisse situation. I don't know if it was reported nationally or not, but there was an article about him in last Saturday's Liverpool Echo. He's apparently made a 'come and get me' plea to Marseille (a week before, he was saying he didn't want to leave and expected to still be on the books at Liverpool next season). It was always highly likely that he'd leave during the summer anyway, but he seems to have pretty much guaranteed his own exit now.

So, how much do you think we'll get for him? The Echo were suggesting £8 million, but I can only see him going for that if he has a decent World Cup. And who would you like to see us sign? Yakubu and Darren Bent seem likely options, but I'd definitely go for Bent from those two. I think he's got slightly less time left on his contract than Yakubu, he was signed for less, and Charlton have something silly like what, 9 strikers on their books (if you include Jeffers)? Then there's Charlton's managerial situation, and the opportunity for silverware and European football we'd give him, plus his chances of breaking into the England squad would be greatly enhanced, too. And because he's English, we wouldn't be a striker short at important times because of international duty, either. Middlesbrough don't seem likely to part with Yakubu easily, and he seems quite committed to them, in any case.

[Mike]

I keep hearing different things about Cisse, one minute hes happy and then the next hes not, if he is going to go though then i'm sure Rafa will be hoping he has a decent world cup that way you at least get a bit of money for him. As for who you bring in i reckon Darren Bent would be a good signing, i was always suprised when he signed for Charlton to be honest and looking at his goal tally he could easily get goals for Liverpool and lets face it hes a better play than Peter Crouch in my opinion, his pace is unbelivable - he leaves defenders for dead all the time.

[CharlotteSometimes]

I just edited my post about that! :laugh: He said a week before the article I mentioned that he was happy and didn't want to leave. I don't like his reputation, anyway. He's far too controversial off the pitch, and he puts the club in a bad light.

[Dan_]

Originally posted by CharlotteSometimes
I saw a feature about that on the news recently. It does seem to be a ridiculously harsh punishment, and the grounds for it dubious, to say the least. Is that the last opportunity they have to appeal, BB f?

Anyway, I wanted to ask you what you thought on the Cisse situation. I don't know if it was reported nationally or not, but there was an article about him in last Saturday's Liverpool Echo. He's apparently made a 'come and get me' plea to Marseille (a week before, he was saying he didn't want to leave and expected to still be on the books at Liverpool next season). It was always highly likely that he'd leave during the summer anyway, but he seems to have pretty much guaranteed his own exit now.

So, how much do you think we'll get for him? The Echo were suggesting £8 million, but I can only see him going for that if he has a decent World Cup. And who would you like to see us sign? Yakubu and Darren Bent seem likely options, but I'd definitely go for Bent from those two. I think he's got slightly less time left on his contract than Yakubu, he was signed for less, and Charlton have something silly like what, 9 strikers on their books (if you include Jeffers)? Then there's Charlton's managerial situation, and the opportunity for silverware and European football we'd give him, plus his chances of breaking into the England squad would be greatly enhanced, too. And because he's English, we wouldn't be a striker short at important times because of international duty, either. Middlesbrough don't seem likely to part with Yakubu easily, and he seems quite committed to them, in any case.

Yep it's the last chance they had to appeal, they obviously deserved a punishment but 18 points was always too harsh for me. I find the actions of Colin'rulebook' Peake rather pathetic.

Cisse has always hinted at going to Marseille then saying oh I've got a contract at Liverpool and I want to honour it. I'm not even sure what he want's. As for how much we get for him I agree that £8 million was a pretty high figure but if he does have a really good world cup I can see us getting that for him and obviously there would be more interest in him. If he just has an average world cup I think he may go for a similar figure as Baros did, maybe even less. I'd like Darren Bent to replace him if he does go,he's clearly shown he can make the step up to premiership level and his a better all round player than what Cisse is, I expect with Charlton without a manager he'd be looking to move now.I see we are also after Kuyt, I have not seen a great deal of him so I'd say Bent's the best option.

[BigSister]

im disgusted over althringham IMO and i feel really sorry for them:mad:

[CharlotteSometimes]

It really is extreme. Hopefully they'll be able to turn things around as quickly as possible.

Yeah, we've been linked with Kuyt on and off for a while now, but this time he claims we've already made an offer. His goal tally is very impressive (71 in 101 games), but that's in a much weaker league of course, and his tally drops to 1 in 4 for international games. It seems we could find ourselves in a bidding war with Newcastle for his services, which isn't good considering that they have a tendency to bid silly money to ensure that they get their man. And apparently it's going to take a lot for Feyenoord to let him go, given that they rejected a £10 million offer from Everton last year. We need 2 strikers anyway, so there's not going to be too much left in the kitty if we pay out as much as that for one player. Morientes' agent said yesterday that he's not going anywhere, too.

[Dan_]

I hope Morientes does go, he's just not suited to the English game and as he get's older he'll only get worse. I'd proably get rid of him and just play Sinama-Pongolle more, I've always been impressed with him.

I see that Daniel Alves might be coming from Seville, he looked class in the Uefa cup final but we've already got Finnan and Kromkamp for right back.Hopefully we can get a right winger in quickly.

[sol]

Oh no Altrincham have been relegated - I dont know who was originally relegated but I bet they're relieved

[BigSister]

i think scarborough are being reinstated

[CharlotteSometimes]

Originally posted by BB fernzy
I hope Morientes does go, he's just not suited to the English game and as he get's older he'll only get worse. I'd proably get rid of him and just play Sinama-Pongolle more, I've always been impressed with him.

I see that Daniel Alves might be coming from Seville, he looked class in the Uefa cup final but we've already got Finnan and Kromkamp for right back.Hopefully we can get a right winger in quickly.

Yeah, it's a shame that he didn't make the grade in the Premiership. I did enjoy watching him play, though. Even though his goal tally for us was poor, his ball control at times was a joy to watch. He seems to have lost his place at the World Cup as a result too, despite his excellent record at international level. I'm not sure if Pongolle will be back or not. Blackburn have said that they'd like to sign him on a permanent deal. He's definitely a player with huge potential, but I like Mellor, too.

Kromkamp is supposedly on his way from Anfield already. I'd like to see a few signings soon, though. I was expecting a few before the World Cup started. I'd love to see Wright-Phillips at Anfield. There was a rumour that we were about to sign him for £14 million, but I can't see us paying that for a midfielder. Chelsea aren't likely to be very keen to do business with us, anyway. But his dad certainly dropped some heavy hints during the FA Cup Final coverage that it was a strong possibility.

[InTheHood]

Originally posted by BigSister
i think scarborough are being reinstated

Has another club quit the Conference then, as Tamworth were next in line.

Did Canvey quit as they said they might?

[Dan_]

Originally posted by InTheHood
Originally posted by BigSister
i think scarborough are being reinstated

Has another club quit the Conference then, as Tamworth were next in line.

Did Canvey quit as they said they might?

Yep Canvey quit a couple of weeks ago now because their chairman/manager pulled out his funding and went and took the job at Chelmsford.

[BigSister]

oooooh didnt know that so thats why they were next as I was confused because I thought Tamworth would be next

[InTheHood]

Tamworth and Scarboorugh very very lucky.

[InTheHood]

England B were rubbish. No hope in the World Cup with that as backup, although will be rooting for England as a 2nd side :thumbs:

[Mike]

That was an embarrasing result.

[BigSister]

I didnt even know they were planing:shocked:

[Dan_]

Morientes left Liverpool for Valencia, that happend quick.

[Dan_]

Ben Foster the Watford keeper is now on standby for the England squad.

[InTheHood]

Foster has had a super season, and could easily be ahead of Carson, who isn't commanding enough yet, although behind Paul Robinson, the England GK situation is quite shocking.