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Official Football Thread 2006/2007 (Soccer)

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Reading would definitely deserve extra time. They won't get it though.

But they can take a lot of positives from this game. Couldn't have been any more wrong about this game - it was great.
 
3rd straight game where we are outplayed and somehow win...Better than last year when we were on the other side of that but yeah...
 
Mama Smurf said:
----------------Wave----------------
The ------ White - Flag -------- We
Surrender- We - Are - Blackburn's
-----------Bitch - Walcott-----------
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:lol :lol :lol

I think Walcott will start on the bench...he'll probably sub in for Alidaire, depending on how the game is going.
 
Here's my northern Premiership team. Why? SHUT UP.

I suppose I live in the south now, but I still feel like a northener. Someone choose a southern Premiership team to face it, these are the 10 most southerly teams: Arsenal, Aston Villa, Charlton, Chelsea, Fulham, Portsmouth, Reading, Spurs, Watford, West Ham. Pretend everyone's fit.

---------------------Given----------------------

Finnan------Nelsen-------Vidic-----------Evra

Ronaldo----Sissoko----Gerrard----Pedersen

-------------Rooney------Owen----------------

As you can see, I used as many northern teams as possible without compromising quality...4.
 
My northern team

---------------Reina------------------
---Finnan---Carragher---Agger---Riise
---Pennant---Gerrard---Sissoko---Gonzalez
-------------Kuyt------Bellamy-------

Ball boy: Cristiano Ronaldo
 
I just tried to put a southern team together. But I can't bear to see Arsenal players next to Chelsea players, especially if I have to type it.

Somebody else do it, I'm too weak.
 
My southern team would be all Arsenal and Chelsea except 1 or 2 Spurs' players, can't decide on one of them. But I can't manage both sides, this is a full-time job.
 
Lemme take a crack at it....

------------------------Howard----------------------
Spector--------Onyewu------Demerit-------Gibbs
Dempsey----Bocanegra-----Convey-----Beasley
-----------McBride---------Johnson*---------------

Ok, so that's Americans in the EPL, and Johnson is on loan from Wolverhampton at Leeds. And I'd like to have Reyna in the midfield, but he just moved back to MLS. Oh, and Gibbs (who plays for Charlton) is out with a bum knee right now. Work with me here...
 
I'll make a team with players from the premiership that dont play for the top 4

---------------------Given----------------------

Baines------Nelsen-------Dunne-------Richards

Lennon----Parker--------Cahill----------Dyer

-------------Bent------Martins---------------
 
Chelsea are believed to have agreed the summer transfer of Portuguese defender Manuel da Costa.

The highly-rated Portuguese stopper, who was actually born in France, can play anywhere along the back-line and has seemingly impressed enough at PSV Eindhoven this term to earn a move to England.

He only transferred to the Philips Stadion last summer from Nancy, but Chelsea have reportedly moved quickly to secure a deal for the 20-year-old.

Portuguese sources claim that a deal has already been agreed between all parties for the move, and is seemingly further evidence of the co-operation between PSV and Chelsea.

Numerous deals have now been concluded between the two sides in the last couple of seasons, which have seen the Dutch club benefit greatly from The Blues placing players with them - mainly South Americans who would not be eligible to play in England.

Only last month the two sides concluded a deal for Benfica star Alcides, which will see the defender arrive at PSV in the summer - a move which is reported to have smoothed over da Costa's summer switch to Stamford Bridge.

Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho has been left woefully short of defensive cover at times this season and he is seemingly determined to make sure this situation does not repeat itself.
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Hmm...
 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/internationals/6403761.stm

Blatter knocks England 2018 hopes

Blatter wants to see Fifa's rotation policy continued
Fifa president Sepp Blatter has raised serious doubts over England's hopes of staging the World Cup in 2018.

If Fifa's executive committee decides in December to maintain its rotation policy, the tournament will be held in either North America or Asia.

Blatter, in London to meet Chancellor Gordon Brown, said: "The executive must take a decision whether the rotation should include all federations.

"If the Americas are considered as one, then rotation would go to Asia."

The USA has indicated its intention to bid to stage the finals for a second time, while China has thrown its hat into the ring along with Australia.

Fifa's December executive committee meeting could decide to throw the competition out to all bidders.

Blatter said: "It may be that the majority of the Fifa executive committee where you have eight European representatives out of 24, can find the 13 votes needed."

The Fifa president said his personal inclination was for the rotation to continue to North America, with the USA, Mexico, and Canada all capable of hosting the tournament.
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That would be bullshit.

You can't rotate between every continent, that just wouldn't be fair. There are only ever three teams from N. America who could ever host it, and for two of them the majority of their population don't give a **** about football.

Meanwhile, you have Europe, crazy about football with the infrastructure to match and a whole bunch of nations who could host.

I mean, let's say the rotation goes from continent to continent (with Austrlia counted as part of Asia as I don't think even Fifa would be stupid enough to have them seperately), it'd go like this:

2006 - Germany
2010 - South Africa
2014 - South America
2018 - North America
2022 - Asia
2026 - Europe

So Europe would get it every 20 years. Let's just look at the big guys in Europe...England 2026, Spain 2046, Italy 2066, France 2086, Germany 2106.

A hundred year wait for it to be hosted in your nation again! And it's not likely to be even that "short", other countires aren't going to just sit back and let them big names take the WC. You can bet you'd have a couple of "Other" nations getting it in between, after all it's been hosted by the likes of Sweden and Switzerland in the past and you can bet Portugal, Holland et al are itching to have a go.

So it's probably more like:

England 2026, Spain 2046, Other 2066, Italy 2086, France 2106, Other 2126, Germany 2146.

You can't wait 140 years. You can't even live 140 years!

Meanwhile, the US are happily getting it every 60 years.

Just abolish the whole damn rotation system. Have some sort of rule in place that the same continent can't host it twice in a row and the same country can't host it less than 30 years apart or something.
 
The article wrongfully states that Alcides will be joining PSV in the summer, when in fact he's been with us for a month now and has already played several games, and he was already bought by Chelsea last year (and than placed at Benfica)...

Anyway, press manager of PSV Pedro Salazar has denied that Da Costa will be sold in the summer.

Also, greatly benefitted is quite the exaggeration. Next to Alcides, only Alex is on loan from Chelsea (he's a topdefender though).

EDIT: in response to what Lakitu posted.
 
wtf? this rotation is absolute bullshit. And South America and North America will be considered separate in the rotation? Might as well add Australia in and have it there every 20 years. Sepp is truly one of the biggest wankers around.

Maybe the FIFA should consider rotating their president every now and then and then maybe even be led by somebody who didn't just crawl out of a hole on some mountain in Switzerland 2 years earlier.
 
It's a political move by Blatter. The way I understand it (and correct me if I'm wrong) - he gets his power base from everywhere except for Europe, so this is his way of pandering to them. How much longer do we have to deal with this jackass?

My roommate and I were discussing it, and we were saying that it might actually be easier for us to watch games if it was in England, rather than the US where we live. :lol The travel distances are a bitch out here, and tickets for the US matches would be more difficult to get.

Regarding Arsenal - Blackburn. I'm going to go with:

----------------Almunia-------------------
----Eboue-Senderos-Gallas-Traore-----
----Hleb-Gilberto-Denilson-Freddie-----
-----------Aliadiere Baptista-------------

I think Clichy might be fit, but that's not 100%. We'll leave Moop on the bench for a late game sub. ;)

In other news - Fowler has met with MLS coach Steve Nicol about a possible move out here someday. Doesn't sound like it'll happen anytime soon, but maybe in the future sometime.
 
There's a rather...strange match on March 13th. It's at Old Trafford between Man Utd and a rest of Europe side, and the reason for it is this:

"The match celebrates the 50th anniversary of both United's participation in European football and the Treaty of Rome, which led to the formation of modern Europe through the Common Market."

Now to have an exhibition match during a crucial time of the season seems very strange to me. Here are the few known European players involved so far:

David Beckham (Real Madrid), Steven Gerrard, Jamie Carragher (Liverpool), Eric Abidal, Gregory Coupet, Juninho (Olympique Lyonnais), Ronaldinho, Carles Puyol, Gianluca Zambrotta, Lilian Thuram (Barcelona)

It sound like it could be good, but it'll be shit. Absolute shit. Last time we had one of these I think it was for the tsunami and I made the mistake of looking forward to it, but it was one of the worst games I've ever seen. No one wants to risk injury so they don't tackle, no one wants to get tired so they don't really run, there's no competitiveness because what's the point, and there are so many substitutions that the game becomes ridiculous.

...I'll probably watch anyway.
 
Lakitu said:
6-5 to Arsenal, 6 own goals by David Bentley thinking he's still playing for Arsenal.
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I can live with that. The next week is make or break time for Arsenal's season with this FA Cup tie, the Reading match on the weekend, then the PSV second leg next week. Hopefully they're up to the task.

I can't decide if I'm going to use a match tracker and keep an eye on the game while I'm at work right now, or just avoid all results until I get home and watch the game on TiVo without knowing the score.
 
My net keeps dropping, I'm worried I won't be able to see it live. I can watch highlights later if not, but that would suck. If I don't post I'm hiding from the score until I can see the game.

I reckon we'll win...5-0. Nah, if we win I'm sure it'll be only just and I wouldn't be surprised if it goes to extra-time.
 
Mama Smurf said:
There's a rather...strange match on March 13th. It's at Old Trafford between Man Utd and a rest of Europe side, and the reason for it is this:

"The match celebrates the 50th anniversary of both United's participation in European football and the Treaty of Rome, which led to the formation of modern Europe through the Common Market."

Now to have an exhibition match during a crucial time of the season seems very strange to me. Here are the few known European players involved so far:

David Beckham (Real Madrid), Steven Gerrard, Jamie Carragher (Liverpool), Eric Abidal, Gregory Coupet, Juninho (Olympique Lyonnais), Ronaldinho, Carles Puyol, Gianluca Zambrotta, Lilian Thuram (Barcelona)

It sound like it could be good, but it'll be shit. Absolute shit. Last time we had one of these I think it was for the tsunami and I made the mistake of looking forward to it, but it was one of the worst games I've ever seen. No one wants to risk injury so they don't tackle, no one wants to get tired so they don't really run, there's no competitiveness because what's the point, and there are so many substitutions that the game becomes ridiculous.

...I'll probably watch anyway.
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it is a bit strange, but it only adds to the prestige of the club and I think thats why they're doing it, the main players wontget much playtime anyway and they'll see it as a fun night kind of thing.

what a great lineup too. dunno wtf Carragher is doing there, must have been desperate. Shame we couldnt get torres and hargreaves too :D
 
hadareud said:
wtf? this rotation is absolute bullshit. And South America and North America will be considered separate in the rotation? Might as well add Australia in and have it there every 20 years. Sepp is truly one of the biggest wankers around.

Maybe the FIFA should consider rotating their president every now and then and then maybe even be led by somebody who didn't just crawl out of a hole on some mountain in Switzerland 2 years earlier.
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Australia joined Asia last year. The biggest country in FIFA oceania is now New Zealand, so they will not be in the rotation.

I CAN see USA getting the cup in 2018. Isnt USA 1994 still the highest attended and viewed world cup ever?

Canada wont ever get it because theure too small (population wise). Mexico is at a disadvantage because they already hosted twice. The rest of Concacaf is too small, unless FIFA will allow another joint cup... ie Costa Rica + Belize + Honduras + Guatemala.

To make everybody happy, the world cup should be in French Guyana. Concacaf + South America + European territory. Everybody wins!
 
hadareud said:
i am. Our season is about to fall apart in the matter of a week and a half
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Well you still got Champions League even though your 1-0 down on agg, you'll be able to get through that unless PSV defend like crazy.

And also the battle for third place with Liverpool.
 
Nuts. I'm sure Gooners will give Sendaros a hard go, but he didn't have a chance playing as right back. Hell, he barely has half a chance playing at center. :lol

Congrats to Mama Smurf though...Rovers did what they had to do, while we just couldn't bury our chances. Not often we lose three on the bounce...think it happened once last year for the first time in like a decade. So victory in the next two games will be imperative.
 
Lakitu said:
Well you still got Champions League even though your 1-0 down on agg, you'll be able to get through that unless PSV defend like crazy.

And also the battle for third place with Liverpool.
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Yeah, and I will be attending that game. But it's been a frustrating couple of days - I really hope our team is going to be up for it next Wednesday (and let's not forget Reading on Saturday).

not even worth talking about having two very good penalty shouts turned down in the first half and one stonewall penalty in the first game not given. In the end of the day we had the chances to finish it off in both games - Arsenal were punished for not taking them.
 
Yep, that's the bottom line...when you get your chances, you gotta take 'em. And based on our penalty taking at Bolton, we probably would've put the ball into the northern skies anyway. :lol

I do think Theo was fouled on the challenge that won Blackburn the ball that led to McCarthey's goal, and non-call kinda irks me a bit. But again, what can ya do? Just gotta put it behind us and get ready for Saturday.
 
YEEEEEEEEESSSSSSS!

We can definitely take Man City, and if we can just get that little bit of luck in the draw then we'll pick up Watford/Plymouth thenbeatmanutdinthefinal and it's FA Cup glory here we come.
 
Being an Arsenal fan... this last week has hurt. real bad.

Loss at PSV

Loss vs. Chelsea at Carling Cup Final

Loss at Blackburn in FA Cup 5th round replay


and that McCarthy goal stung really bad. We pretty much controlled the whole entire game till the 86th minute... damnnnnn it.

If we drop our next home game... i don't want to say what might happen in north London.
 
Just finished watching the match. :( Plenty of chances, but Arsenal looked like a squad with a lot of players that didn't quite have their touch or weren't quite fit yet. Baptista in particular is infuriating - brilliant one moment then awful the next. Not quite sure what to make of him.

Very disappointing - I hope they can bounce back soon. Reading will be up for it on Saturday after a tough loss on Tuesday.
 
Mama Smurf said:
YEEEEEEEEESSSSSSS!

We can definitely take Man City, and if we can just get that little bit of luck in the draw then we'll pick up Watford/Plymouth thenbeatmanutdinthefinal and it's FA Cup glory here we come.
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That bit about beating united was quite subtle! Knowing chelsea's luck in this tournament they will be the team that gets to play plymouth or watford.

I didnt watch the game but it sounds like arsenal were unlucky. I read that Graham "three yellow cards" Graham didnt give arsenal two blatant penalties. Its just not going arsenals way at the moment. If they dont beat PSV then its going to be one hell of a disappointment.
 
Here is a team made up of crap players that play for big clubs. Their description of Boulahrouz was funny.

Or insert just about any Chelsea right-back here. How is it that the world's richest club cannot find a right-back of any worth at all? Paulo Ferreira, Geremi, Boulahrouz, Lassana Diarra...all mid-table right-backs in a team with Premiership ambitions. Witness Boulahrouz' performance at the Nou Camp where he single-handedly gifted Barca two goals with some horrendously slack defending. He's nicknamed 'The Cannibal' - did he eat all the decent right-backs?
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:lol
 
Shinobi said:
Don't blame Wenger at all...the FA is just full of shit these days.
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of course what he's saying is correct - the problem is that the FA won't see it this way.

The refereeing situation has to be sorted out. I've been crying for video evidence for **** knows how long, but it won't happen. Referees and linesmen can make whatever mistake they want, they can lie about it - and they are not even accountable for it. They don't even have to face the press after games if they don't want to, but managers have to come out after emotional games and if they say one wrong word they are charged by the FA. It's a disgrace, but as long as football is run by a bunch of wankers nothing will change about it and they hypocrisy surrounding it is just ridiculous.

Not that you didn't know that, as you indicated with "the FA is full of shit", but I had to get it of my chest. Yet again :lol
 
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