Talk Football Here... - Part 1

[InTheHood]

Originally posted by BB fernzy
I've always rated Yildirim, shame he's having a poor season.

As you said you really need to pick up at least a point to keep your chances alive in the UEFA cup, Parma will be a difficult game away though.

We're out :whistle:

And now Man City want Afonso Alves :nono:

[InTheHood]

Originally posted by BB fernzy
England's non leauge England team beat their dutch counterparts 4-1 tonight at Burton Pirelli stadium.Goals from Kieran Charnock of Northwich, Craig Mackail-Smith of Dagenham and the two Stevenage strikers Steve Morison and George Boyd.

:whistle:

:pat:

:joker:

[Dan_]

Originally posted by InTheHood
Originally posted by BB fernzy
I've always rated Yildirim, shame he's having a poor season.

As you said you really need to pick up at least a point to keep your chances alive in the UEFA cup, Parma will be a difficult game away though.

We're out :whistle:

And now Man City want Afonso Alves :nono:

I saw that! Didn't you win your last game in the UEFA Cup 1-0?

Man City must have a scout at your games, first Samaras and now Alves :rolleyes:

[InTheHood]

Originally posted by BB fernzy


I saw that! Didn't you win your last game in the UEFA Cup 1-0?

Man City must have a scout at your games, first Samaras and now Alves :rolleyes:

Yep, too little too late :shocked:

Well, if they can find a few zillion :hello:

Home to Excelsior tonight. A nice win for Christmas please.......Afonso to score :thumbs2:

[dogs]

I went to Aston Villa and man u today first half good 2 half very bad.
Are goalkeeper is very bad.

[Dan_]

Good away win for Stevenage today against Weymouth.1-0 with the goal from Jon Nurse :hello:

[Jay]

Went to the game to watch 9 minutes then it was abandoned.

[Lauren]

2-0 to Sunderland.

Grant Leadbitter top of team sheet :thumbs: Amazing how far he has come, cos I knew him when he was about 16, and now he's scoring almost every game.

Nice one.

[Z]

¬____¬ The Hammers thrashed 6-0 today... oh dear :(

[BigSister]

Accrington *finally* won at the start of a new year too

[Dan_]

Big win for Boro today, 3-2 over Aldershot.2 fairwell goals from George Boyd and yet another for Steve Morison takes us up to 9th.

[Siouxsie]

Sunderland won 2-0:elephant::elephant::elephant::elephant:
Newcastle good result 2- 2:banana::banana::banana:

[InTheHood]

Heerenveen in 6th. UEFA Cup a realistic possibility again, if we hang on to Afonso.

We want 9.5m for him (yes pounds!), which is likely to put people off, although, a bid of around 4m will likely get him

[InTheHood]

Nice easy match tomorrow - away at PSV :sad::bored::conf2::cloud:

[BigSister]

Accrington finally won tuesday *faints*
Got Wycombe tommorow though

[InTheHood]

About to be tonked by PSV :blush2::pat:

[BigSister]

well we drew and went up aplace in the process

[Dan_]

We beat Cambridge 4-1.Goals from Nutter,Beard,Binns and Morison.

10 games ubeaten and upto 8th place, pretty good considering our start to the season.

[Siouxsie]

:dance::dance:Sunderland won today against sheffield yippeeeee

[Dan_]

On the verge of the play-offs now then?

[BigSister]

wooooo yay stevange won thanks dan

[Tanser_Man]

Get in there, Mr Young from Watford's agreed to come to the Villa! Hopefully showing ambition as we are doing we will attract yet more class players. I do think £9.75mill is steap but you have to pay that sort of money for up and coming england internationals.

[Dan_]

Good signing, he's from Stevenage and I think he still lives here but proably on the move now.

[InTheHood]

PSV 3-1 Heerenveen :bored:

Not bad considering played with 10 men for 76 minutes after Jong A Pin was sent off

[SiMoN!]

oldham lost 2 in a row now
but 1 of them was to wolves

but were still going up

[Dan_]

That attitude will just come back and bite you in the arse :laugh:

[Tanser_Man]

Carew for Baros is happening apparently.

Carew from what i remember of him at Valencia is a much more prolific Peter Crouch so i'll be made up if that happens. Baros has been pish for Villa this season.

[Tanser_Man]

Confirmed.

What a scoop!

[Slartibartfast]

You're getting Ashley Young as well, thats some pretty shrewd buys from the Villa (and also the next Man Utd!) manager. :tongue:

Always liked Martin O'Neill, always good to see a northern ireland boy doing so well.

(I'l be more than happy when he takes over from Fergie :tongue:)

[James]

Walter Smith has signed Ugo Ehiogu, 34 to add to David Weir who is 36.

We're giving youth a chance.

[Tanser_Man]

Originally posted by Slartibartfast
You're getting Ashley Young as well, thats some pretty shrewd buys from the Villa (and also the next Man Utd!) manager. :tongue:

Always liked Martin O'Neill, always good to see a northern ireland boy doing so well.

(I'l be more than happy when he takes over from Fergie :tongue:) #

M'ON is not going anywhere! Manure had there chance, he's ours now!

Two very ambitious signings and talk of another striker/ midfielder before the window closes, really looking foward to the summer now where we are supposedly going for world class players.

Luke Moore's back from injury and Martin Laursen... be like a new team against Newcastle a week on Wednesday!

Bardsley had an amazing debut for us btw...

[Dan_]

We have signed Mitchell Cole from Southend for a 5 figure fee, very happy with that signing.Getting a classy player from a championship club cant be bad and shelling out some of the cash we got for Boyd shows amibition so credit to the chairman.He also posted the news article at gone 2am :laugh:

[InTheHood]

Play at home to Heracles tonight.

A game we should win (but probably won't :shocked:)

Afonso to score whatever the result :wink:

[InTheHood]

Hurrah! 5-1 :thumbs2: Afonso netted 2 :thumbs2:

[Dan_]

Nice win there ITH.Where are you in the table now?

[Red Moon]

Southend Utd couldn't train because bad weather for their game against Spurs today. It would seem they had a game of rugby instead of playing football.

I hope they remember what game they are playing later today or they could be the first team sent off in the history of the FA cup.

[Dan_]

Lol.

Did you ever get to see Mitchell Cole play for Southend then Red?

[Red Moon]

No I didn't.

I think it might have been a bad idea playing rugby we lost 3-1. We didn't play badly and we did have them worried at 2-1 for about 10 minutes until they scored another goal.

The lads played well and they didn't give up, and it was an exciting game.

If we played like that every saturday wouldn't be at the bottom of the table.

Oh well...... at least we beat Man Utd this session. That's more than many clubs have managed.

[Tanser_Man]

Great goal from Rooney today, exactly why we need him fully fit for the european championships next year.

[Dan_]

We drew 1-1 away at Gravesend, I'd have taken that before the game.They have been a real suprise package this season.Morsion got his 23rd goal of the season :thumbs2:.Why we started with Luke Oliver upfront is beyond me, just because he's the same height as Peter Crouch it dont make him as good as him.

We signed Damien Batt from St.Albans and all, good fullback that adds depth to our squad.

[InTheHood]

Originally posted by BB fernzy
Nice win there ITH.Where are you in the table now?

Still 6th. Top 5 have a bit of a gap :sad:

[InTheHood]

Originally posted by BB fernzy
We drew 1-1 away at Gravesend, I'd have taken that before the game.They have been a real suprise package this season.Morsion got his 23rd goal of the season :thumbs2:.Why we started with Luke Oliver upfront is beyond me, just because he's the same height as Peter Crouch it dont make him as good as him.

We signed Damien Batt from St.Albans and all, good fullback that adds depth to our squad.

How old is Morison?

That's alot of goals, with not being in February yet.

[Dan_]

Originally posted by InTheHood
Originally posted by BB fernzy
We drew 1-1 away at Gravesend, I'd have taken that before the game.They have been a real suprise package this season.Morsion got his 23rd goal of the season :thumbs2:.Why we started with Luke Oliver upfront is beyond me, just because he's the same height as Peter Crouch it dont make him as good as him.

We signed Damien Batt from St.Albans and all, good fullback that adds depth to our squad.

How old is Morison?

That's alot of goals, with not being in February yet.

He's 23.Started off at Northampton and never really got a chance but still scored a few goals but they released him and he ended up at Bishops Stortford and scored about 9 goals in their FA Trophy run and overall about 30 in 50 games.We signed him for £10,000 at the start of this season and he's never looked back and he's only played 29 games, he played 2 and scored 2 for Stortford so 25 overall this season.

Luton were meant to be interested but we made it clear we wouldnt sell as we had just sold Boyd to Peterboro for £260,000.I wouldnt be suprised if he did move soon though, scores with both feet and his head so not much more you can ask.

[Dan_]

Originally posted by InTheHood
Originally posted by BB fernzy
Nice win there ITH.Where are you in the table now?

Still 6th. Top 5 have a bit of a gap :sad:

That's a shame,good luck for the rest of the season.

[blinkinlovely]

It's bad finishes I fear!!! I support a team perilously close to going out of the league altogether ................ fingers are crossed they survive to see another league 2 season!

[BigSister]

im same BL but hopefully we can support one another and we wont both go out

[Dan_]

Originally posted by blinkinlovely
It's bad finishes I fear!!! I support a team perilously close to going out of the league altogether ................ fingers are crossed they survive to see another league 2 season!

Let me guess Grimsby or Torquay fan?.

Relegation to the conf might seem bad but it's not a bad league and you'll get to see your side win more :laugh:.

[InTheHood]

Originally posted by BB fernzy

He's 23.Started off at Northampton and never really got a chance but still scored a few goals but they released him and he ended up at Bishops Stortford and scored about 9 goals in their FA Trophy run and overall about 30 in 50 games.We signed him for £10,000 at the start of this season and he's never looked back and he's only played 29 games, he played 2 and scored 2 for Stortford so 25 overall this season.

Luton were meant to be interested but we made it clear we wouldnt sell as we had just sold Boyd to Peterboro for £260,000.I wouldnt be suprised if he did move soon though, scores with both feet and his head so not much more you can ask.

Could still make it in the league then. Form Stevenage have shown, could reach playoffs.

Looks like Dag & Red for the league!

[InTheHood]

Originally posted by BB fernzy

That's a shame,good luck for the rest of the season.

1 PSV 56
2 Ajax 48
3 AZ 47
4 FC Twente 44
5 Feyenoord 42
6 SC Heerneveen 36
7 Roda JC 32
8 NAC 32

TOP SCORERS

21 AFONSO ALVES Martins (SC Heerenveen, 1p)
16 Blaise N'KUFO (FC Twente, 4p)
15 Danko LAZOVIC (Vitesse, 3p)
15 Danny KOEVERMANS (AZ, 1p)
13 Jefferson FARFÁN (PSV, 3p)
11 Shota ARVELADZE (AZ)

[Dan_]

Originally posted by InTheHood
Originally posted by BB fernzy

That's a shame,good luck for the rest of the season.

1 PSV 56
2 Ajax 48
3 AZ 47
4 FC Twente 44
5 Feyenoord 42
6 SC Heerneveen 36
7 Roda JC 32
8 NAC 32

TOP SCORERS

21 AFONSO ALVES Martins (SC Heerenveen, 1p)
16 Blaise N'KUFO (FC Twente, 4p)
15 Danko LAZOVIC (Vitesse, 3p)
15 Danny KOEVERMANS (AZ, 1p)
13 Jefferson FARFÁN (PSV, 3p)
11 Shota ARVELADZE (AZ)

Alves quite far ahead of the others then :shocked:.

Feyenoord suffering from the loss of Kuyt and Kalou then, is Dennebom still with them? I'm suprised to see Twente doing so well.

[Dan_]

Originally posted by InTheHood
Originally posted by BB fernzy

He's 23.Started off at Northampton and never really got a chance but still scored a few goals but they released him and he ended up at Bishops Stortford and scored about 9 goals in their FA Trophy run and overall about 30 in 50 games.We signed him for £10,000 at the start of this season and he's never looked back and he's only played 29 games, he played 2 and scored 2 for Stortford so 25 overall this season.

Luton were meant to be interested but we made it clear we wouldnt sell as we had just sold Boyd to Peterboro for £260,000.I wouldnt be suprised if he did move soon though, scores with both feet and his head so not much more you can ask.

Could still make it in the league then. Form Stevenage have shown, could reach playoffs.

Looks like Dag & Red for the league!

Yeah we have really turned it around of late, shame the last 2 results werent better otherwise we'd be in a play-off place.We havent quite sorted out the side since Boyd left, the two players who have been tried upfront have not really made the desired impact and I cannot say it suprises me as both are basically target men and with Morison leading the line so well there's no need for someone else dominant in the air to be there.I don't know why we've brought in Mitchell Cole unless he's going to take Boyd's role as we already have two good left wingers.

I have to say I'm suprised Daggers are where they are, outside bet for the play-offs was all I said before the season but they really work hard as a team and some really talented young players.Would have been interesting had Craig Mackail-Smith gone along with Blackett to Peterborough though as they'd have had to replace both with lower league signings and they may not have worked out.

CMS still may go though from what I have heard, Sunderland rumoured to be interested and he really is a cracking player's, prior to joining Daggers himand Blackett were at a club just up the road from me Arlesey who my PE teacher played for at the same time as them.We had the chance at signing the pair of them but our old manager turned them down, worst piece of judgement from him other than releasing DJ Campbell for nothing.

[InTheHood]

Originally posted by BB fernzy

Alves quite far ahead of the others then :shocked:.

Feyenoord suffering from the loss of Kuyt and Kalou then, is Dennebom still with them? I'm suprised to see Twente doing so well.

Feyenoord are poor this season :laugh: The team I dislike the most :thumbs2:

Denneboom? Never played for Feyenoord, he played for us for 5/6 years - now at NEC

Wonder who you are thinking of :puzzled:

Today we signed Cecilio Lopes, joint top scorer in the division below..........and loaned him out to Sparta Rotterdam :whistle:

Rob Friend also was loaned out to Heracles

[InTheHood]

Originally posted by BB fernzy

Yeah we have really turned it around of late, shame the last 2 results werent better otherwise we'd be in a play-off place.We havent quite sorted out the side since Boyd left, the two players who have been tried upfront have not really made the desired impact and I cannot say it suprises me as both are basically target men and with Morison leading the line so well there's no need for someone else dominant in the air to be there.I don't know why we've brought in Mitchell Cole unless he's going to take Boyd's role as we already have two good left wingers.

I have to say I'm suprised Daggers are where they are, outside bet for the play-offs was all I said before the season but they really work hard as a team and some really talented young players.Would have been interesting had Craig Mackail-Smith gone along with Blackett to Peterborough though as they'd have had to replace both with lower league signings and they may not have worked out.

CMS still may go though from what I have heard, Sunderland rumoured to be interested and he really is a cracking player's, prior to joining Daggers himand Blackett were at a club just up the road from me Arlesey who my PE teacher played for at the same time as them.We had the chance at signing the pair of them but our old manager turned them down, worst piece of judgement from him other than releasing DJ Campbell for nothing.

Isn't Mitchell Cole related to Joe Cole.........or Joe's sister is Mitchell's other half or something (and the surname is just coincidence)

Mackail-Smith has now left Daggers :shocked: Oxford slipped up again though :shocked:

:laugh: @ releasing DJ Campbell :whistle:

[Dan_]

Originally posted by InTheHood
Originally posted by BB fernzy

Alves quite far ahead of the others then :shocked:.

Feyenoord suffering from the loss of Kuyt and Kalou then, is Dennebom still with them? I'm suprised to see Twente doing so well.

Feyenoord are poor this season :laugh: The team I dislike the most :thumbs2:

Denneboom? Never played for Feyenoord, he played for us for 5/6 years - now at NEC

Wonder who you are thinking of :puzzled:

Today we signed Cecilio Lopes, joint top scorer in the division below..........and loaned him out to Sparta Rotterdam :whistle:

Rob Friend also was loaned out to Heracles

Ali Boussaboun was who I was thinking of oops.I see they have Pierre Van Hooijdonk, suprised he's still kicking around at one of the big dutch sides.

Talking of Denneboom,he is always good on pro evo lol.

[Dan_]

Originally posted by InTheHood
Originally posted by BB fernzy

Yeah we have really turned it around of late, shame the last 2 results werent better otherwise we'd be in a play-off place.We havent quite sorted out the side since Boyd left, the two players who have been tried upfront have not really made the desired impact and I cannot say it suprises me as both are basically target men and with Morison leading the line so well there's no need for someone else dominant in the air to be there.I don't know why we've brought in Mitchell Cole unless he's going to take Boyd's role as we already have two good left wingers.

I have to say I'm suprised Daggers are where they are, outside bet for the play-offs was all I said before the season but they really work hard as a team and some really talented young players.Would have been interesting had Craig Mackail-Smith gone along with Blackett to Peterborough though as they'd have had to replace both with lower league signings and they may not have worked out.

CMS still may go though from what I have heard, Sunderland rumoured to be interested and he really is a cracking player's, prior to joining Daggers himand Blackett were at a club just up the road from me Arlesey who my PE teacher played for at the same time as them.We had the chance at signing the pair of them but our old manager turned them down, worst piece of judgement from him other than releasing DJ Campbell for nothing.

Isn't Mitchell Cole related to Joe Cole.........or Joe's sister is Mitchell's other half or something (and the surname is just coincidence)

Mackail-Smith has now left Daggers :shocked: Oxford slipped up again though :shocked:

:laugh: @ releasing DJ Campbell :whistle:

Yeah Mitchell Cole is the partner of Joe Cole's sister, proably got to know her through being at West Ham at the same time as Joe.

Mackail-Smith is meant to have been told he had to go to Peterborough because of pre-contract agreement and Daggers wanted the money in the end.Craig's dad wanted him to go somewhere else after the uncertaintity at Peterboro.

Oxford really do look a poor side at the moment, after that defeat away to Gravesend which ended their unbeaten start to the season they just seem to have plummeted, clearly nobody is really that scared of them and even when they were doing well people were saying they didnt look that great just a solid side who won mainly because of late goals/penalties which all seemed to come through Yemi Odubade.When we played them the defence and midfield was slow and easy to breakthrough and even when we went down to 9 men we still almost won the match.

We also let Sam Sodje go to Margate for peanuts and now he's in the prem.I questioned the release of Campbell and sale of Sodje at the time and looks like I've been proved correct.

[Dan_]

We have signed Paul Hakim from St.Albans so that is the striker that we needed now for another central midfielder.

[BigSister]

weve got stuart fleetwood on loan from hereford some porteguise defender and some polish un19 goalkeeper from bolton

[Mike]

We just re-signed Nicky Southall from Nottingham Forest which has come as a shock because he has probably been their main player over the last two seasons and also chips in with plenty on goals....................great to have him back.

[Red Moon]

Southend bagged Irish forward Richie Foran from Millwall for £200,000.

And we aren't bottom any more :thumbs:

Thank you Leeds for not scoring as many goals as us lastnight.

[Dan_]

Good signings there Mike and Becca.Southall is a shock seeing as he was in Forest's side at the weekend and Fleetwood's a very good striker and has been in Hereford's side most of the season.

We have signed Daryl McMahon from Leyton Orient, a central midfielder who played most games last season when they won promotion from league 2 but he's found himself out of the side since october so should be a good signing.

[BigSister]

Yeah i was v surprised by that hes only on loan though for amonth

[Mike]

ITALIAN FIXTURES OFF

All games in Italy have been postponed following a policeman's death at Palermo's Sicilian derby with Catania.

Italy's game with Romania next week has also been postponed by the Italian Football Federation.

The police officer was killed in clashes between both sets of fans outside Stadio Massimino before and after the match.

The dead officer is believed to have been hit in the face by an explosive thrown by some fans.

Italian Federation commissioner Luca Pancalli and sport minister Giovanna Melandri made the decision to call off action over the weekend as a result of the tragedy.

"I have demanded a stop to all activity of football in Italy," Pancalli said in a statement. "Enough is enough.

"It's a situation that I cannot speak of. To lose your life at 38 is incredible. This is not a sport.


"The football tournaments will remain suspended until we solve the violence in our football.

"It's unacceptable that such incidents happen in a country like Italy."

The game itself was marred by crowd trouble with the second half held up for 30 minutes after tear gas was thrown onto the pitch.

Palermo won the game 2-1 with two controversial goals and Catania president Antonio Pulvirenti wants the game replayed and has blamed Palermo fans for the trouble.

"Clearly the incidents were provoked by the Palermo fans when they entered the stadium," said Pulvirenti.

"Before then, nothing had happened, but they started causing trouble and as the images show threw tear gas onto the pitch.

"They were well-organised and came here in order to cause trouble. We feel penalised and will appeal against the result so that the match will be considered void.

"We've been punished for less in the past and demand the same treatment.

"I was on the field and, if you look carefully, the section where the tear gas came from only had Palermo fans in there.

"The officials saw what happened and will take action."

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What does everyone think on this? i think the Italian Federation commissioner is right to do what he has done and he is spot on with everything he says, no one should have to lose their life because of football violence but this guy was 38 years old, probably had a wife and kids waiting at home, stronger action needs to start being taken IMO.

[Lauren]

More should be done than just postponing games. The route of the problem should be nipped in the bud.
Thanks for the article.

[Tanser_Man]

Italian football is a farce, Hooligans, bungs, match fixing... could it possibly get any worse for them!

Anyway, Aston Villa vs West Ham tomorrow. The real Claret n Blue army against the light blue and pink brigade!

Could be a goal feat!

Maloney to start? Can't wait! I'll be there at a full house Villa Park!

[Dan_]

They may well end up playing infront of no crowd if they dont control the stuff happening over there.Racisim is also an issue in Italian football :rolleyes:.

[Dan_]

I hate refs :mad:.1-0 up away to Morecambe in the trophy after another goal from Morison on the stroke at half time and our whole team worked hard but a penalty was scored on 94 minutes, very harsh.

[Tanser_Man]

Carew on his home debut, great atmosphere nearly a sell out!

Ashley Yound looks immense, he reminds me of Ian Wright, Pace... a thunderous shot and small/weedy.

[Siouxsie]

we won today hawaythe lads 2 nil against coventry:dance::dance::dance::dance::dance::dance: :dance::dance:

[The_Hitman]

Some top goalkeeping on Match of the Day tonight.

[InTheHood]

Originally posted by BB fernzy
Ali Boussaboun was who I was thinking of oops.I see they have Pierre Van Hooijdonk, suprised he's still kicking around at one of the big dutch sides.

Talking of Denneboom,he is always good on pro evo lol.

Boussaboun has joined Utrecht on loan :conf2:

Hooijdonkey is still going, albeit usually a sub. He's about 63 though now :laugh2:

pro evo? Never played it :blush2:

[InTheHood]

Originally posted by BB fernzy



Yeah Mitchell Cole is the partner of Joe Cole's sister, proably got to know her through being at West Ham at the same time as Joe.

Mackail-Smith is meant to have been told he had to go to Peterborough because of pre-contract agreement and Daggers wanted the money in the end.Craig's dad wanted him to go somewhere else after the uncertaintity at Peterboro.

Oxford really do look a poor side at the moment, after that defeat away to Gravesend which ended their unbeaten start to the season they just seem to have plummeted, clearly nobody is really that scared of them and even when they were doing well people were saying they didnt look that great just a solid side who won mainly because of late goals/penalties which all seemed to come through Yemi Odubade.When we played them the defence and midfield was slow and easy to breakthrough and even when we went down to 9 men we still almost won the match.

We also let Sam Sodje go to Margate for peanuts and now he's in the prem.I questioned the release of Campbell and sale of Sodje at the time and looks like I've been proved correct.

Mitchell looked half decent when in League 1

Didn't CMS go to Darlington or someone?

Still, it's D&R or Oxford it seems.

Oxford were okay at beginning of season......Duffy was it scoring loads of pens?

So basically, anyone released by Stevenage, should be snapped up, as they are Prem bound :laugh:

[InTheHood]

Originally posted by Mike
ITALIAN FIXTURES OFF

All games in Italy have been postponed following a policeman's death at Palermo's Sicilian derby with Catania.

Italy's game with Romania next week has also been postponed by the Italian Football Federation.

The police officer was killed in clashes between both sets of fans outside Stadio Massimino before and after the match.

The dead officer is believed to have been hit in the face by an explosive thrown by some fans.

Italian Federation commissioner Luca Pancalli and sport minister Giovanna Melandri made the decision to call off action over the weekend as a result of the tragedy.

"I have demanded a stop to all activity of football in Italy," Pancalli said in a statement. "Enough is enough.

"It's a situation that I cannot speak of. To lose your life at 38 is incredible. This is not a sport.


"The football tournaments will remain suspended until we solve the violence in our football.

"It's unacceptable that such incidents happen in a country like Italy."

The game itself was marred by crowd trouble with the second half held up for 30 minutes after tear gas was thrown onto the pitch.

Palermo won the game 2-1 with two controversial goals and Catania president Antonio Pulvirenti wants the game replayed and has blamed Palermo fans for the trouble.

"Clearly the incidents were provoked by the Palermo fans when they entered the stadium," said Pulvirenti.

"Before then, nothing had happened, but they started causing trouble and as the images show threw tear gas onto the pitch.

"They were well-organised and came here in order to cause trouble. We feel penalised and will appeal against the result so that the match will be considered void.

"We've been punished for less in the past and demand the same treatment.

"I was on the field and, if you look carefully, the section where the tear gas came from only had Palermo fans in there.

"The officials saw what happened and will take action."

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What does everyone think on this? i think the Italian Federation commissioner is right to do what he has done and he is spot on with everything he says, no one should have to lose their life because of football violence but this guy was 38 years old, probably had a wife and kids waiting at home, stronger action needs to start being taken IMO.

Italian football is a complete shambles.

All grounds should be shut for the rest of the season at least

[InTheHood]

Drew 1-1 @ Groningen on Friday, not a bad result as Groningen are decent.

Afonso scored, again.

New signing Cecilio Lopes, who we farmed out on loan the same day we signed him, scored on his Sparta Rotterdam debut :thumbs:

[Dan_]

Originally posted by InTheHood
Originally posted by BB fernzy
Ali Boussaboun was who I was thinking of oops.I see they have Pierre Van Hooijdonk, suprised he's still kicking around at one of the big dutch sides.

Talking of Denneboom,he is always good on pro evo lol.

Boussaboun has joined Utrecht on loan :conf2:

Hooijdonkey is still going, albeit usually a sub. He's about 63 though now :laugh2:

pro evo? Never played it :blush2:

Hooijdonkey must be trying to compete with Sheringham for being the oldest player in a top league.I remember they always used to go on about his free kick skills,conversion rate was low lol.

[Dan_]

Originally posted by InTheHood
Originally posted by BB fernzy



Yeah Mitchell Cole is the partner of Joe Cole's sister, proably got to know her through being at West Ham at the same time as Joe.

Mackail-Smith is meant to have been told he had to go to Peterborough because of pre-contract agreement and Daggers wanted the money in the end.Craig's dad wanted him to go somewhere else after the uncertaintity at Peterboro.

Oxford really do look a poor side at the moment, after that defeat away to Gravesend which ended their unbeaten start to the season they just seem to have plummeted, clearly nobody is really that scared of them and even when they were doing well people were saying they didnt look that great just a solid side who won mainly because of late goals/penalties which all seemed to come through Yemi Odubade.When we played them the defence and midfield was slow and easy to breakthrough and even when we went down to 9 men we still almost won the match.

We also let Sam Sodje go to Margate for peanuts and now he's in the prem.I questioned the release of Campbell and sale of Sodje at the time and looks like I've been proved correct.

Mitchell looked half decent when in League 1

Didn't CMS go to Darlington or someone?

Still, it's D&R or Oxford it seems.

Oxford were okay at beginning of season......Duffy was it scoring loads of pens?

So basically, anyone released by Stevenage, should be snapped up, as they are Prem bound :laugh:

Mitchell's fitness is not the best at the moment so he's been coming off the bench the last 2 games, looks a pretty good player.

Sod knows what's happening with CMS, his agent and dad wanted a better move for him but he'd already signed for them anyway and now he's saying if they force him to stay he will quit football and work for his dad.Way to wreck someone's career.

Yeah Duffy has scored about 10 penalties lol, he was another one released by us after playing the grand total of 30 mins.

Ryman prem bound alot of them more like lol.Most of the silly releases were down to Wayne Turner and Graham Westley, pair of pillocks.

[Jay]

Aldershot 1-0 Grays

Poor performance from us played well first half, lucky we got all 3 points goal came in the 86th minute from Jonny Dixon.

[Dan_]

Stevenage beat Morecambe 3-0 in the Trophy after extra time.Goals from Morison, Nurse and Miller.

[BigSister]

yay glad you both won:dance:

[Red Moon]

Southend 5-0 QPR

Southend win again.... bye bye Leeds...... we are going up the table !

[Mike]

Well done to Southend that was an awesome performance.

[Dan_]

Crikey, that's a great win.

[BigSister]

wow great win red although after the chinese fiasco you had a good chance tonight:thumbs:

[BigSister]

we won 2-1 against barnet:thumbs::dance2::dance2::dance2:

[Lauren]

Plymouth 0 - 2 Sunderland.

Away game too. :cheer2:

(In your face, Sol!)

[Siouxsie]

Sunderland 2 Plymouth o and we were away from home Plymouth looked tired Nearly a premiership club again:cheer::cheer::cheer::cheer::cheer::cheer:



Sorry Sol :wink:

[Siouxsie]

we must have been typing that result at the same time lauren

[SiMoN!]

:cheer2::dance2::cheer::cheer2::dance2::cheer:
:cheer2::dance2::cheer::cheer2::dance2::cheer:
:cheer2::dance2::cheer::cheer2::dance2::cheer:

COME ON OLDHAM
COME ON OLDHAM
COME ON OLDHAM

[Siouxsie]

Haway the lads Haway the Lads:dance2::dance2::dance2::dance2::dance2::dance 2::dance2::dance2::dance2::dance2:

[InTheHood]

Originally posted by BB fernzy

Hooijdonkey must be trying to compete with Sheringham for being the oldest player in a top league.I remember they always used to go on about his free kick skills,conversion rate was low lol.

Usually his freekicks hit the wall and when he scored, it was because the walls split :joker:

[Lauren]

Originally posted by Siouxsie
we must have been typing that result at the same time lauren

Haha! :wink: And we both mentioned Sol too :hugesmile:

[InTheHood]

Originally posted by BB fernzy

Mitchell's fitness is not the best at the moment so he's been coming off the bench the last 2 games, looks a pretty good player.

Sod knows what's happening with CMS, his agent and dad wanted a better move for him but he'd already signed for them anyway and now he's saying if they force him to stay he will quit football and work for his dad.Way to wreck someone's career.

Yeah Duffy has scored about 10 penalties lol, he was another one released by us after playing the grand total of 30 mins.

Ryman prem bound alot of them more like lol.Most of the silly releases were down to Wayne Turner and Graham Westley, pair of pillocks.

Well you won 2-1 today, did Cole play?

So is CMS at Darlo, Peterborough or Daggers?

Oxford still can't win.........no-one wants to win the league. Gravesend and York are looking dangerous at the moment.

What's with Garry Hill? I don't know the whole Weymouth story, but similar circumstances to Hornchurch? Loads of cash, and now none?

[InTheHood]

Heerenveen home to Vitesse at 6.30. Will be a decent test for us, but expect a 2-0/2-1 win with Afonso netting of course :thumbs:

[Dan_]

Originally posted by InTheHood
Originally posted by BB fernzy

Mitchell's fitness is not the best at the moment so he's been coming off the bench the last 2 games, looks a pretty good player.

Sod knows what's happening with CMS, his agent and dad wanted a better move for him but he'd already signed for them anyway and now he's saying if they force him to stay he will quit football and work for his dad.Way to wreck someone's career.

Yeah Duffy has scored about 10 penalties lol, he was another one released by us after playing the grand total of 30 mins.

Ryman prem bound alot of them more like lol.Most of the silly releases were down to Wayne Turner and Graham Westley, pair of pillocks.

Well you won 2-1 today, did Cole play?

So is CMS at Darlo, Peterborough or Daggers?

Oxford still can't win.........no-one wants to win the league. Gravesend and York are looking dangerous at the moment.

What's with Garry Hill? I don't know the whole Weymouth story, but similar circumstances to Hornchurch? Loads of cash, and now none?

He did indeed and set up a goal by running from his own half just passing players with ease before sending in a great hanging cross for Miller to head in.His girlfriend was there, seems a nice girl.Good win for us and means were are just 3 points off the play-offs.1st goal was a fantastic strike from 25 yards but the punch out was awful.

CMS saga carries on,he did play for Peterborough today though as a sub.

Oxford really are lucky to have had such a great first half of the season, they just dont seem to be getting more than the odd goal.Gravesend are funny really, doing so much better than expected but when we played them at home they looked poor but away they were all over us and we just scraped a point thanks to some great goalkeeping.York have not had the best form of late but a 4-0 win will do wonders for them.Grays and Halifax sinking and to think they were in the play-offs last season.

Garry Hill and his assistant Kevin Hales were sacked and all the players put up for sale as a cost cutting measure, the chairman made very silly financial decisions and was relying on bigger crowds, longer cup run and to perhaps sell off one of the players for a 6 figure sum but none of this really materialised so they got rid of Hill and Hales and most of the first team players went.Lee-Barrett went to Coventry,Wilkinson to Havant, Logan, Elam and Tully to Exeter, Smith to Hereford and El-Kholti, Eribenne, Downer and Howell to Grays.

[James]

My team lost 2-1 in Tel Aviv. We'll turn it round in the second leg... maybe. :conf2:

[James]

Bolton just equalised in injury time there. Looks like extra-time. Don't know what to watch now. :conf2:

[Dan_]

Handy that, gives me some footie to watch.

What a miss by Adebayor!

[James]

Ljungberg has scored.

[Dan_]

3-1 to Arsenal, harsh on Bolton.

[Mike]

Don't support Arsenal but what a joy to watch, Rosicky and Hleb in the first half were amazing the ball just sticks to their feet like glue, Bolton made a better game of it in the second half but you could see as the game was stretching in extra time they were going to get caught out by Arsenal's pace and it didn't help having a player sent off either.

[InTheHood]

Originally posted by BB fernzy
He did indeed and set up a goal by running from his own half just passing players with ease before sending in a great hanging cross for Miller to head in.His girlfriend was there, seems a nice girl.Good win for us and means were are just 3 points off the play-offs.1st goal was a fantastic strike from 25 yards but the punch out was awful.

CMS saga carries on,he did play for Peterborough today though as a sub.

Oxford really are lucky to have had such a great first half of the season, they just dont seem to be getting more than the odd goal.Gravesend are funny really, doing so much better than expected but when we played them at home they looked poor but away they were all over us and we just scraped a point thanks to some great goalkeeping.York have not had the best form of late but a 4-0 win will do wonders for them.Grays and Halifax sinking and to think they were in the play-offs last season.

Garry Hill and his assistant Kevin Hales were sacked and all the players put up for sale as a cost cutting measure, the chairman made very silly financial decisions and was relying on bigger crowds, longer cup run and to perhaps sell off one of the players for a 6 figure sum but none of this really materialised so they got rid of Hill and Hales and most of the first team players went.Lee-Barrett went to Coventry,Wilkinson to Havant, Logan, Elam and Tully to Exeter, Smith to Hereford and El-Kholti, Eribenne, Downer and Howell to Grays.

Another win today at Grays :thumbs:

Oxford and Daggers both won, so did York.

Grays and Halifax :shocked: Although Halifax won today

Weymouth chairman was a bit optimistic then :whistle: Do they have any players left? :joker: Or is it the chairman's family playing for them these days :joker:

[InTheHood]

Heerenveen don't play until tomorrow. Big home game v Twente.

Hopefully Afonso is fit, was injured and taken off at HT v Vitesse last week

[~Kizwiz~]

I see Red is being quiet on this thread :laugh:

Maybe that's because my team beat his team 4 - 0 today! :whistle:

[Red Moon]

No Comment...... other than:

They cheated

They gave us the bigger goal and moved it to the other end at half time. Then there was the glue they used to stick the ball to their boots and the laxative they put in the water in our changing rooms.

And I still want a drug test on the whole Sunderland Squad!

[sol]

:banana: :dance2: :cheer2:

Quarter finals here we coooome! :bigsmile:

[Mike]

That was a great result for your lot Sol and yet again Scott Sinclair gets on the score sheet.

[~Kizwiz~]

Originally posted by Red Moon
No Comment...... other than:

They cheated

They gave us the bigger goal and moved it to the other end at half time. Then there was the glue they used to stick the ball to their boots and the laxative they put in the water in our changing rooms.

And I still want a drug test on the whole Sunderland Squad!

Ooooooooh your just a little miffed..... we were the better team today :bigsmile:

[Red Moon]

Originally posted by kizwiz
Ooooooooh your just a little miffed..... we were the better team today :bigsmile:

And I forgot to mention the referee was on your side too. That is why we got more yellow cards.

We should drug test him too!

[Siouxsie]

4 nil
haway the lads

[Red Moon]

Originally posted by Siouxsie
4 nil
haway the lads

All on performance enhancing drugs... test the lot of them.

[Siouxsie]

:shocked::shocked: no no no red wrong there

[Red Moon]

Originally posted by Siouxsie
:shocked::shocked: no no no red wrong there

I'll wait for the results

[Siouxsie]

:thumbs2::thumbs2::thumbs2::whistle::whistle: we are on the up :banana::banana::banana:

[Red Moon]

Originally posted by Siouxsie
:thumbs2::thumbs2::thumbs2::whistle::whistle: we are on the up :banana::banana::banana:

May be you're in the right place. Last time you went up you didn't do to well.

[Siouxsie]

we won we won we won :laugh2::laugh2::whistle::whistle::whistle::joker: :joker::dance2::dance2::dance2::dance2::dance2:

[Red Moon]

but you can't the away from the past..... If you go up you will be straight back down

[Siouxsie]

no way we are on the up :cheer2::cheer2:

[Red Moon]

Somehow I don't see it.... your in the division you belong in.

[Siouxsie]

sexy football:love::love::love::love::kiss:

[SiMoN!]

:bawling::bawling::bawling::bawling::bawling::bawl ing::bawling:

were not top anymore

:bawling::bawling::bawling::bawling::bawling::bawl ing::bawling:

[Siouxsie]

Sunderland rocking to the top:dance::dance::dance:

[Red Moon]

Originally posted by Siouxsie
sexy football:love::love::love::love::kiss:

That is rather random. Care to enlighten us?

[Siouxsie]

dont need to Im just happy for my team

[Red Moon]

Originally posted by Siouxsie
dont need to Im just happy for my team

Remember all the teams you beat on the way up.... you lose to on the way down.

[Red Moon]

Originally posted by SiMoN!
:bawling::bawling::bawling::bawling::bawling::bawl ing::bawling:

were not top anymore

:bawling::bawling::bawling::bawling::bawling::bawl ing::bawling:

You get back to the top soon..... you know you will.

[Siouxsie]

we are still on the way up and im enjoying the moment


whats your average home crowd by the way ??

[Red Moon]

How many can your ground hold..... what is the percentage of seats you fill.

We are a Division 3/4 side.... you think you should be in division 1.

And we beat you 3-1 at home.

And when was the last time you beat Man U?

[Siouxsie]

when was the last time you played man united

you still aint answered my question :thumbs:

[Red Moon]

This year we beat them 1-0.

Our ground holds 12,000..... average gate 10,000

and now you answer mine.

[Siouxsie]

47,ooo it can hold

[Red Moon]

and the average gate?

[Siouxsie]

30,ooo

[Red Moon]

So as a percentage we fill more seats.

End of.... (thank you Maxwell)

night night

[Siouxsie]

football is about money

our stadium is cooool

night night

end of :wink:

[Jay]

Southport 1-0 Aldershot

We dominated from start to finish and yet some how we manage to loose.

[Red Moon]

Originally posted by Siouxsie
football is about money

That is why Sunderland will always be in lower half of the premiership or in the upper half of the Championship.

Southend is moving to a new 22,000 seat football stadium including 114 bedroom hotel, conference facility, associated food and drink outlets in a few years time. That should allow us to generate enough money to stay in the championship once the ground is built.

[Jay]

Originally posted by Siouxsie
when was the last time you played man united

you still aint answered my question :thumbs:

But Sue to be honest you have spent nearly 2 million on players in the january transfer window were as Southend have had hardly any money to buy with.

[Red Moon]

It was a bit more than that:

Anthony Stokes [Arsenal - Sunderland] £2m
Carlos Edwards [Luton - Sunderland] £1.5m
Martin Fulop [Tottenham - Sunderland] £500,000
Stern John [Coventry - Sunderland] Undisclosed

While Southend:

Richie Foran [Motherwell - Southend] £150,000

[Sophii3x]

I hate football.. why do people like it?
It's boring and pointless!
But if I had to support a team, it would be Swansea City

Rugby is MUCH better:hugesmile:

[Jay]

Originally posted by Sophii3x
I hate football.. why do people like it?
It's boring and pointless!
But if I had to support a team, it would be Swansea City

Rugby is MUCH better:hugesmile:

Football is much better, but if you like men cuddling each other then that's up to you. :laugh:

[Sophii3x]

Originally posted by Jay
Originally posted by Sophii3x
I hate football.. why do people like it?
It's boring and pointless!
But if I had to support a team, it would be Swansea City

Rugby is MUCH better:hugesmile:

Football is much better, but if you like men cuddling each other then that's up to you. :laugh:

At least there is action in rugby. I love it when they tackle and hit eachother on the ground.. it's funny:laugh:

Any 3 year old can kick a ball around!

[andybigbro]

I Support Rangers anyone else

[Mike]

Originally posted by andybigbro
I Support Rangers anyone else

Pretty sure James is a Rangers fan.

[Lauren]

Sunderland need the 3 points at Birmingham City this weekend.

[Dan_]

Originally posted by InTheHood
Originally posted by BB fernzy
He did indeed and set up a goal by running from his own half just passing players with ease before sending in a great hanging cross for Miller to head in.His girlfriend was there, seems a nice girl.Good win for us and means were are just 3 points off the play-offs.1st goal was a fantastic strike from 25 yards but the punch out was awful.

CMS saga carries on,he did play for Peterborough today though as a sub.

Oxford really are lucky to have had such a great first half of the season, they just dont seem to be getting more than the odd goal.Gravesend are funny really, doing so much better than expected but when we played them at home they looked poor but away they were all over us and we just scraped a point thanks to some great goalkeeping.York have not had the best form of late but a 4-0 win will do wonders for them.Grays and Halifax sinking and to think they were in the play-offs last season.

Garry Hill and his assistant Kevin Hales were sacked and all the players put up for sale as a cost cutting measure, the chairman made very silly financial decisions and was relying on bigger crowds, longer cup run and to perhaps sell off one of the players for a 6 figure sum but none of this really materialised so they got rid of Hill and Hales and most of the first team players went.Lee-Barrett went to Coventry,Wilkinson to Havant, Logan, Elam and Tully to Exeter, Smith to Hereford and El-Kholti, Eribenne, Downer and Howell to Grays.

Another win today at Grays :thumbs:

Oxford and Daggers both won, so did York.

Grays and Halifax :shocked: Although Halifax won today

Weymouth chairman was a bit optimistic then :whistle: Do they have any players left? :joker: Or is it the chairman's family playing for them these days :joker:

Good away win that was, shame I couldnt go due to the flu :sad:.It sounded like we played well though, Fuller with a 30 yard volley, nice way to get your first goal and yet another one for Morison.Moving onto Stafford tomorrow night and we need to keep this run going but we are meant to be resting players, hopefully that wont bite us in the backside.

Oxford with another penalty I think, without them they'd be lost.

Weymouth have about 7 players left from before the transfer window and have just promoted youth teamers/signed trialists and they work hard but just lack the quality to win games it seems.The chairman should be ashamed.

[BigSister]

oh i know over grays halifax whoever said that im quite shocked

[BigSister]

oh i know over grays halifax whoever said that im quite shocked

[Dan_]

Grays just seem to have the inability to score at the moment, to go from a side that scored over 100 hundred goals last season to this this misfiring side it quite shocking.

[Dan_]

Yay, we beat Stafford 3-1 tonight.2 goals from Morison and a first goal for Mark Hughes with a 30 yard free-kick.

[Jay]

Cracking win for Liverpool last night 2-1 away at Barcelona and they fully deserved it. Good result for Chelsea aswell.

[Mike]

Yeah two decent results last night, hopefully now all our teams can get wins in the home ties.

[SiMoN!]

i am sure they can do it at home aswell - as long as the dont let lots of goals in

but they scored away so that good

[Dan_]

I see that the final of the conference play-off final will either be at Stoke's Britannia stadium, Wolves-Molinuex stadium or Coventry's Ricoh Arena.

[Jay]

Originally posted by Dan_
I see that the final of the conference play-off final will either be at Stoke's Britannia stadium, Wolves-Molinuex stadium or Coventry's Ricoh Arena.

It will probably be at the Britannia stadium not that we have much luck there :rolleyes:. Be nice to play and either 3 of the grounds if we made it.

[Mike]

Britannia stadium is a lovely ground, been there a few times before, would like to go to the Ricoh some day but can't see Gills playing Coventry any time soon.

[Lauren]

Sunderland 1 - 0 Derby at the moment, Connolly scored a penalty. Currently HT, I reckon we can keep it up, maybe score a couple more.

[Lauren]

Woo, an amazing 90 min goal by Liam Miller! :thumbs:

Thats Sunderland 2-1 Derby!

Nudges us up to 4th on table.
:spin2:

[Dan_]

Great result, won me a bet :thumbs2:.

Semi final place for Stevenage after beating Salisbury 3-0.Goals from McMahon,Slabber and yet again Morison.

[BigSister]

drew 2-2 with lincon even after our new goalie got took off. Hes from liverpool you know i hope hes ok

[Siouxsie]

up yours Red:tongue: Haway the lads :banana::banana::banana::banana::cheer2::cheer2::c heer2:

Sunderland yet another win

[Siouxsie]

Originally posted by Jay
Originally posted by Siouxsie
when was the last time you played man united

you still aint answered my question :thumbs:

But Sue to be honest you have spent nearly 2 million on players in the january transfer window were as Southend have had hardly any money to buy with.


we are on the up

We got loads of money lol and a brill stadium:thumbs2::thumbs2:

[Lauren]

Originally posted by Siouxsie
Sunderland yet another win

Apart from the draw last game we seem to be having a good spell of wins :thumbs: Just a few more and we may even get top of Championship.

[Siouxsie]

:dance::dance:Rock on Sunderland
You could be right there Lauren:thumbs:

[Siouxsie]

Originally posted by Lauren
Originally posted by Siouxsie
Sunderland yet another win

Apart from the draw last game we seem to be having a good spell of wins :thumbs: Just a few more and we may even get top of Championship.
just to beat westbrom next week away and we should be promotion certs:thumbs:
roy keannnnooooo

:thumbs2::thumbs2::thumbs2::thumbs2:la la la la la la la...la la la la keeenoooooo

[Jay]

Aldershot 2-2 Rushden goals from Grant and Dixon for us.

We was 2-0 up and still managed to draw the game our chance of making the play-offs have gone now it isn't good enough.

[Siouxsie]

he Coca-Cola Football League Championship Table
24 February 2007 16:58
P GD PTS
1 West Brom 35 23 63
2 Derby 34 9 63
3 Birmingham 33 18 61
4 Sunderland 35 16 60

[Dan_]

What a crazy carling cup final.

[BigSister]

crazy doesnt sum it up Dan. Hope terry gets better soon though

[Dan_]

Yeah, very nasty knock he took.3 red cards and fans chucking celery, never seen stuff like that lol.

[BigSister]

do you know why they were chucking celery i dont and i want to know

[Dan_]

I've no idea,why would you even have celery at a football match? hot dogs, burgers and pies yes but celery wtf?

[BigSister]

lol i know its really random oh well maybe somebody else might know
Glad to see Terry is out of hospital too

[SiMoN!]

Arsnel are such bad losers

or just losers

there shouldent be classed as n englisg team - they should be french

[Red Moon]

2-2 and we gave a penalty away in stoppage time. What a mistake boys.

Shame on you Southend Utd.

[Dan_]

That turned out to be a pretty good FA Cup game between Reading and Manchester United, shame Reading were totally awful for the first 10 mins and that formation just seemed to play into Uniteds hands and it was always going to be an uphill task to even take it to extra time but they had a real go and came so close but United really did get complacent.

[Red Moon]

Congratulations to Birmingham.

Thank you for helping make sure Southend gets to play Leeds next session.

[SiMoN!]

:sad::sad::sad::sad::sad::sad::sad::sad::sad:

oldham have lost 4 in a row

[Siouxsie]

:dance::dance: Sunderland rock. We are going up as champions :dance::dance: Won 2 1 today :dance::dance::dance::dance:

[Dan_]

Should have bet on you winning again today lol.

Stevenage's unbeaten run comes to an end away to Oxford, too many players had off days today and we need to step it up against Woking tuesday, at least Morison and Miller will be back.

[Jay]

Crawley 1-2 Aldershot

Goals from Pritchard and Dixon didn't play that bad but could of done better but managed to get the 3 points.

[Mrluvaluva]

Anyone watch Soccer am on Sky Sports?

[Siouxsie]

yep me:hello:

[Lauren]

I watched Sunderland today in the pub. ANOTHER amazing win!

[Siouxsie]

you plonker Lauren Thats ma girl:tongue:

[James]

Hibs 0 Rangers 2, at least Celtic can't win the title in the Old Firm match now, hehe. :tongue:

Cracking game between West Ham and Spurs there. West Ham 2-0 up at half-time, Spurs get it back to 2-2, then West Ham score again in the 85th minute but Spurs score twice more before then end to win.

[SiMoN!]

half time liverpool 0-0
that good because if it stays like this they willl be in the next round


me thinks anyway

[James]

Liverpool have been the best side in the first half.

[SiMoN!]

thye should be like 3-0 up

they have been unlucky

[SiMoN!]

nooooooooooooo

1-0 mow

liverpool need to keep onto this

[Red Moon]

well done Liverpool... is the score the same now?

[Dan_]

It was a nervous night for me what with following Liverpool and supporting Stevenage.

The Liverpool game was very good and they were class in the first half but just couldnt get that goal that they so richly deserved and then the sucker punch with Barcelona scoring but they always seemed pretty comfortable with everything else that Barca threw at them.

Stevenage totally dominated the first half by the sounds of it and go the vital goal after good work by Nurse and Morison who opted to pass when he could have shot but showed he's not selfish and Mark Hughes stroked it home and then the 2nd half Woking threw everything at us but it was mainly long balls and great defending from Gaia and Henry restricted them to hardly any chances and we do the double over the rivals for the first time in lord knows how long and some of the other results went our way and at one point they all seemed to be going our way but a couple of late goals got Morecambe a draw and wins for Exeter and York :mad:.Ah well I cannot complain at a win.

[InTheHood]

Ajax 0-1 Heerenveen :thumbs2::cheer2::cheer:

No Afonso at the moment either, so after a couple of bad results, this was more unexpected than usual.

The brawl in the Inter/Valencia tie :whistle::rolleyes:

[Dan_]

What a numpty that David Navarro is,sucker punch then running off :bored:

[BigSister]

:thumbs: I think by your report Dan you beat woking if you didnt then just ignore me
We drew 1-1 with Bristol rovers scored in 90th min adraws ok but now we need to find afew wins from somewhere:sleep:

[Dan_]

It's been a tough season for Accrington really, losing your 2 best players has kept you near the bottom, a draw with Bristol Rovers is a decent result but as you say you need a few more wins yet.How many games you got left?

[BigSister]

erm im not sure i think 10 ill go and look

Yep 10 left 9 after saturdays match

[Dan_]

Oh right not long at all then, we have 13 league games and two in the trophy, first time conf has been behind the league at this stage of the season.

[sol]

I found out today that Argyle are going to be on BBC1 on Sunday! :bigsmile:
I'll deffo be watching!

[Dan_]

Yeah, all the quarter finals are on tele I believe.Three on BBC and one on SKY.

[Siouxsie]

Haway the lads we can beat Barnsley :dance:

[Dan_]

1-0 win for us at Grays.First goal in a Boro shirt for Santos Gaia :D.Over 1000 Stevenage fans at Grays today and they were certainly in full voice, could barely hear the commentary at one point.Still the 2nd leg at home next saturday to get through but it's great to have the advantage and a step closer to the final at wembley.

[sol]

I can't wait for tonight! I'm well excited! :bigsmile:

Anyone else gonna be watching our game?

[Jay]

Yeah i will be should be a good match and the shock is on considering Watfords league position.

[Siouxsie]

\yet another win for the lads :cheer2:

[Jay]

Chelsea 3-3 Spurs

How Spurs drew this game i will never no, they looked in control when they went 3-1 up they had so many chances to the kill the game off in the second half, but fair play to Chelsea they never gave up and got a replay out of it.

[sol]

Yeah I started watching from the end of the first half. It was a great second half and I wanted Chelsea to draw / win cos if Plymouth get through I want us to draw them! :bigsmile:

[SiMoN!]

hope Plymouth win - be good for thye to get in the next round


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OLDHAM WON 4-0

[sol]

Originally posted by SiMoN!
hope Plymouth win - be good for thye to get in the next round


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OLDHAM WON 4-0

Me too Si, congrats Oldham! :thumbs:

Not long nowwwwwwww! :bouncy:

[SiMoN!]

lol sol
i think you will go down 1-0

then win 3-1

[sol]

Originally posted by SiMoN!
lol sol
i think you will go down 1-0

then win 3-1

Lol I wish.
Oh well, I think we played very well but we just couldn't manage to find the net despite chance after chance after chance. :bawling:

[Dan_]

Chelsea vs Spurs was a cracking game, the amount of space in the Chelsea defence was unbelievable but I felt Jol made a mistake in taking off Berbatov and bringing on Mido who looked well off the pace.Robben's dive was laughable.

Plymouth were unlucky, a draw would have been the fair result with the amount of chances they created but great performances from Shittu and Ben Foster just kept Plymouth out.Nice to see Barry Hayles play again.

[Diablo]

Celtic 0 - Rangers 1.. :banana:

too little too late though.. :bawling:

[SiMoN!]

Originally posted by sol
Originally posted by SiMoN!
lol sol
i think you will go down 1-0

then win 3-1

Lol I wish.
Oh well, I think we played very well but we just couldn't manage to find the net despite chance after chance after chance. :bawling:

lol bad luck

they did well ot get that far

and got them some money

[Jay]

Could be a Man Utd and Chelsea Fa cup final, if they both get through their replays then Chelsea will play Blackburn and Man Utd will get Watford.

[Siouxsie]

Big match for us tonight
The black cats need to win :hugesmile:

[Emilee]

:hello:

[Lauren]

2-2.

Just got back from the match.

Stoke scored first, with a rather pathetic goal. Sunderland equalised almost instantly, and then just before halftime Stoke took the lead with 2-1.
First half was better played by Sunderland, so many chances missed unfortunately. But excellent play.

Second half went a bit down for Sunderland, still had many chances and lost them but a late goal saw Sunderland equalise, so wasn't too bad of a game.

[Dan_]

3-1 win for Stevenage tonight, 1-0 down at half time despite hitting the bar,post and having shots cleared off the line numerous times and Southport scored with about their only meaningful attack of the game.We equalised through Jon Nurse not long after half time.Santos Gaia was then sent off so we played with 10 men for the next half hour but managed to score 2 goals in injury time via Mark Beard and Steve Morison to get a vital win.

[Jay]

Newcastle are out of UEFA Cup after loosing 2-0 0n the night and going out by the away goals rule, pretty pathectic performance from Newcastle to be honest they created 2 decent chances through Martins and Parker and also Parker had a goal ruled out but to be honest they didn't deserve to go through.

[Dan_]

They were very disjointed, just seemed to lack the drive to push them forward to get another goal and they seemed almost over awed by the whole occassion.AZ had so much time and space and it was all too easy for them, you could just see a second goal was coming.I felt sorry for Martins tonight, no service at all and had to go deep to even get the ball.

I see Luton have sacked Mike Newell.He did a very good job for them up until just recently and that was down to selling off the key members of their squad from last season and replacing them with a lot lower standard of player.I think him being as outspoken as he was counted against him in the end, first chance they got of sacking him really.I got to hear him most weeks on local radio as Stevenage are covered by the same station as Luton and he did come across as a very difficult guy to speak to and many a time he'd get angry at the presenters so I can see him upsetting the chairman should he be questioned on results etc.

[Lauren]

Originally posted by Jay
Newcastle are out of UEFA Cup after loosing 2-0 0n the night and going out by the away goals rule, pretty pathectic performance from Newcastle to be honest they created 2 decent chances through Martins and Parker and also Parker had a goal ruled out but to be honest they didn't deserve to go through.

Hahahahaha. :laugh:

[Dan_]

Huge game for Stevenage today.2nd leg of the FA Trophy and we just need to avoid to defeat for a place in the final at Wembley.I'm as excited and as nervous as I was for the play-offs.

[Jay]

Originally posted by Dan_
Huge game for Stevenage today.2nd leg of the FA Trophy and we just need to avoid to defeat for a place in the final at Wembley.I'm as excited and as nervous as I was for the play-offs.

Why? Grays are rubbish lol

Should be an easy win for your lot.

[Dan_]

Originally posted by Jay
Originally posted by Dan_
Huge game for Stevenage today.2nd leg of the FA Trophy and we just need to avoid to defeat for a place in the final at Wembley.I'm as excited and as nervous as I was for the play-offs.

Why? Grays are rubbish lol

Should be an easy win for your lot.

It was certainly not easy and Grays were proably the better side over the 90 mins but we did them in extra time.

We looked totally shagged for the first half and barely tested Grays defence and we had Julian to thank for keeping it at 0-0 but then they took the lead though Alex Rhodes after he cut inside and shot straight into the bottom corner.After that we kinda got back into it with Morison causing them problems but Julian make some great saves to keep us in it.Cole and Dobson came on and gave us alot more pace down the wings and both almost scored but it went into extra time and I was so nervous but Hughes chipped in a free-kick and Oliver didnt even have to jump to head it in, crowd went bezerk and then with almost the last kick of the game Morison won it then knocked it past a defender before calmly finising just to top things off and a trip to Wembley awaits :cheer2:.

I've almost lost my voice now and I'm exhausted lol.

[Siouxsie]

Originally posted by Lauren
Originally posted by Jay
Newcastle are out of UEFA Cup after loosing 2-0 0n the night and going out by the away goals rule, pretty pathectic performance from Newcastle to be honest they created 2 decent chances through Martins and Parker and also Parker had a goal ruled out but to be honest they didn't deserve to go through.

Hahahahaha. :laugh:



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Come on sunderland !!!!!!!

[Dan_]

2nd loss in a row for Stevenage, this time to Alty 1-0.I'm in disbelief at how we managed to not even draw this game, totally dominated and got caught out by a scrappy goal :sad:

[BigSister]

We won again Dan 2-0 Cav strikes again for 2nd time in a row against hereford

[Dan_]

You're doing pretty well lately, that lad you've got on loan from Liverpool,Godwin Antwi has shored up your defence.You heard anymore on the points deduction you might be facing?

In other news Luton have appointed Kevin Blackwell as their new manager, felt he was sacked too early by Leeds after getting them to the play-off final last year, may well get his hometown club out of trouble.

[BigSister]

I think its friday we find out
Yeah my dad went on saturday he said hes really good we got 3rd choice gaolkeeper from liverpool on loan surname is martins but you can get him on our fantasty league

[Jay]

It's our managers last game tonight as he's leaving for personal reasons :sad:

Done a good job for us in his first 3 seasons he got us to the conference and to the Conference play-off final in 2004 and got us into the play-offs in 2005.

[GiRTh]

Who do you support Jay?

[Jay]

Originally posted by GiRTh
Who do you support Jay?

Aldershot Town :laugh:

[GiRTh]

From the conference.

What kind of personal reason could your manage have? I bet he's been caught doing something he shouldn't have. Or someone he shouldn't have.

[Jay]

Nah his wife is seriousley ill she has been for a while.

[GiRTh]

OK proper reason then. How are you doing this season?

[Jay]

Not to good midtable at the moment without a win in our last 5 games, had a good start we was second at one point but then we went 8 games without a win.

But pretty confident we will win tonight.

[GiRTh]

Mid tables OK. Always next year. I live right by Hucknall Towns ground and 'enjoy' watching them every now and again. I love conference football.

[Jay]

What leauge are Hucknall in?

Yeah i think the conference is a great leauge, each week you have a tough match as the teams get better each season.

[GiRTh]

Hucknall are in the Conference North. They're terrible. Hard to call it semi-professional.

You're right about the teams in the conference. Clubs like Halifax, Cambridge and Oxford are quite big clubs and the standard gets better every year.

You ever thought of following a bigger club or is it a home town thing?

[Jay]

Halifax and Cambridge are in a relegation battle at the moment, be unthinkable if either got relegated.

Are you safe from relegation? There always next season i guess you have the whole summer to get it right.

[GiRTh]

Mid table respectability or mediocrity, depends how you look at it. Hucknall will always be in that pack I don't see them getting any better.

I'm surprised the big clubs in the conference are doing so badly.

[Jay]

Yeah teams in the conference at the moment are very good, you got the littlier clubs in the conference like Gravesend and Burton Albion who are in touching distance of the play-offs.

[GiRTh]

Burton are a good team. I have friends who watch them. All down to Nigel Clough and Gary Crosby. I'm surprised a bigger club haven't poached Nigel Clough he's got to be one of the better young managers around.

[Jay]

Yeah he has done a great job there, they are only still part time footballers aswell quite amazing what he has done there.

[GiRTh]

true. I reckon he could manage 2nd or 3rd division but the same managers seem to get all the jobs.

[Jay]

Yeah he could do, he always said though he would start at the bottom and get the experience he needs, who knows though he could Get Burton up to leauge football.

[GiRTh]

Maybe right. I'd like to see him poached though like David Moyes or Sam Alladyce - well Sam was hardly poached but you see what I mean - I want him to land his dream job.

[Jay]

Yeah im sure he will in a couple of years if he doesnt go up with Burton.

[Dan_]

I think Nigel deserves a bigger job and all,always impressed with the way his Burton side have played against us and they have progressed very well over the last few seasons, building the squad each year but they really have relied upon the likes of Aaron Webster, Darren Stride and Ryan Austin over the last few years.

[GiRTh]

Who do you support Dan.

Is that Carrie Underwood in your banner? Who are the others?

[Dan_]

I'm a Stevenage fan, currently listening to us playing York.

It is indeed Carrie Underwood.Others are from left to right-Melina Perez(wrestler),Craig Dobson,Mitchell Cole and Mark Hughes-all Stevenage players and Floyd Mayweather JNR.