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crackerjack

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A quite simple test would be to ask -would any other club offer him the job?
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Great news, assuming he now has to relinquish his MOTD pundit's chair. It's about time he put his arse on the line.


Slightly clunky England win tonight. a useful reminder that we're still not the world's greatest team (England need these things are after every couple of wins). Rooney brilliant, everyone else kinda so-so, except Cole, who was wobbly.

It'll do.
 
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scottdisco

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baboon2004 said:
I think Barca are gonna get stopped by Bayern. Classic European logic - the most free-wheeling team in the competition run up against less talented but better organised opposition, and don't even reach the final.

My favourite example is Juve-Real in the 2003 semi. Real played the best football I have personally ever seen in the first half of the first leg vs United, but Juve stopped them in Turin with (as I remember) a monumentla performance by Nedved.
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interesting point.

Barca are the team Ferguson has rightly picked as the one he is worried about (presumably not discounting his Premiership peers) but as already said, their defence is a tad wobbly.
i'll just stick to hoping the irresistibility of their strike-force powers them through (no offence British crew, but i'll take any non-English winner over the Prem lot, in particular the northwest two and CFC.. :p , writes an embittered City fan, of course)

i saw Bayern beat relegation fodder Karlsruhe the other week and it was sort of embarrassing sometimes how far Ribery was ahead of a lot of his team-mates: Bayern were deeply unimpressive, and i couldn't even say they knew how to organise.
pretty poor.
(of course these are just observations of one game and the only other Bundesliga game i saw this year was their late win against Hoffenheim, which could hardly be a worse match.)

Newcastle fans!

write your congressperson!

no to the cockney mafia!

made up!

etc.

Weymouth's youngsters have the best hair in the Conference and the worst form.
 
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IdleRich

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Maradona said that every goal was a stab in his heart - the knife of God maybe?
Anyway, I didn't think that England were that impressive. They put together a few fluid moves in the first half but they weren't doing it often enough to really force the issue as illustrated by the fact that both goals came from dead balls.
In the second half they relaxed a bit - not unreasonably perhaps given the number of chances that Ukraine created - but taking your foot off the pedal in an uncontrolled way like that is dangerous I reckon. A really shit goal they gave away as well and after that they were lucky to win. Rooney was lively but... I don't know always frustratingly not finding the crucial final piece of the jigsaw.
 
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slim jenkins

El Hombre Invisible
I think England are strong except in terms of goalkeeping - heh-heh - and attack...I mean... Crouch? And Heskey's in front of him in the queue? Christ! Other options: small fast men who are largely ineffective. Rooney needs taming - he's like a rabid dog. But castration might be going too far.

I turned over for Alan Whicker at half time. Much more entertaining/interesting/stimulating.
 
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baboon2004

Darned cockwombles.
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Bolivia 6-1 Argentina!

Altitude sickness is the new long ball...
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Jesus. What a result. Credit to Maradona for not blaming altitude though, as the article says - 9 out of 10 managers would've.

Wow.

ENgland were dull as always (except away against Croatia, when for 30 minutes they were the best team of all time. That Lampard disallowed goal was just about the best thing I have ever seen).
 
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scottdisco

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i was watching the old SSN here yesterday seeing the scores change, when they went to the Southampton match, Saints have just conceded another, and i forget who was watching it, Tony Cottee or someone it wasn't Le Tiss.

anyway, just after the man on the panel had finished his wrap-up the camera flicked over to Le Tiss before going back to Jeff Stelling, and the look on his face, oh my gosh, the poor fella. he looked up to the heavens and you could see worry cross his brow, oh my stars.

very tight there, eh Hucks?
 
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crackerjack

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Just been watching yesterday's MOTD.

Shearer's post-match interview was embarrassing. Conducted by Lineker (the usual commentator interview not good enough for Sir Al, obviously), it was like an extension of the usual studio sofa banter. His appointment is starting to look like reality TV (Faking It, perhaps?), where the underqualified and unprepared go into a pressure job with the sole demand of making good telly (which it isn't). His main concern was letting everyone know he would be back - in the MOTD studio, that is.

What an utter wanker.

For the first time ever, I really, really hope they go down.
 
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scottdisco said:
i was watching the old SSN here yesterday seeing the scores change, when they went to the Southampton match, Saints have just conceded another, and i forget who was watching it, Tony Cottee or someone it wasn't Le Tiss.

anyway, just after the man on the panel had finished his wrap-up the camera flicked over to Le Tiss before going back to Jeff Stelling, and the look on his face, oh my gosh, the poor fella. he looked up to the heavens and you could see worry cross his brow, oh my stars.

very tight there, eh Hucks?
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Far too tight. We keep losing to teams with nothing to play for. Bugs the frickin hell out of me - why won't these people just roll over and die for us?

Re Saints. I would quite like them to go into administration and take a ten point penalty (tho apparently it wouldn't apply this year, so bah) because it would make things much easier for us. I've got no issues about us "staying up on our own merits" or any of that crap. Our merits are miniscule. However, it seems unbelievable that Southampton could go out of business. How is that even possible? How can you sell +-£30m worth of players in 5 years and still be a similar amount in debt?

This brings us neatly back to the start of this thread - how are football clubs so badly run that a year or two's bad results now imperil their very existence?

And I want Newcastle to go down, too - as do a lot of Toon fans I know. They would welcome the chance to rebuild, apparently, though I would advise them to be careful what you wish for.
 
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don_quixote

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wanting your team to be relegated from the premiership is absurd. utterly absurd. those reasons are baffling. your team will be absolutely fucked. look at leeds for christssake
 
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don_quixote said:
wanting your team to be relegated from the premiership is absurd. utterly absurd. those reasons are baffling. your team will be absolutely fucked. look at leeds for christssake
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Yeah, I agree, hence be careful what you wish for. I want them to go down so I can go to St James Park next year with them and it'll be a laugh.
 
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crackerjack

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This is interesting.

United have only got half a team out.

Ronaldo and Giggs (to some extent) look dangerous, but the defence is inadequate, Carrick is sluggish, Tevez is ready for bed and there should really be laws to prevent a mismatch as cruel as Ashley Young vs Gary Neville.

Prediction: United to step up for the 2nd half, slowly crack it up and get the winner with 8 mins spare. At the moment they're 2nd best by a distance.
 
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scottdisco

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shame to note that Brum and Wolves are the finest that the second tier of English footy can offer the punter, and they are both fucking shite.

(though as a man with residual West Brom sympathies i must say bravo Blooz.)
 
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crackerjack

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Only saw the 2nd half, but Porto looked good. gather in the 1st they were very good (or Utd very poor).

Either way, nice one
 
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