:lol:

Keane is the man.

Vieira is a two bob cunt.

ashley cole's dive in the third minute is hilarious. ball hits keane and falls out to cole is the box, keane comes steaming in as if to go for the tackle, and stops short aout a foot away as cole hits the ground. masterstroke by keane there too :'(

At least the ref wasn't enough of an absolute cunt to fall for it.

LOL at that. Fucking diving whinging cunt that Cole is. Keane is the fucking man.

WHAT ARE YA DOIN PICKING ON GAY NEVILLE BOY. PATRICK VIERAS 6'4 BOY

Arsenal 2-0 up in the 18th.

Freddie with the first :love:

Close game at Villa Park.

Pretty dissappointed from today's game, given Crewe's form after Ashton left and our recent good run i was expecting a win. Jordan Stewart was poor, and Joey was quite bad too. De Vries has to start soon because we're much better with him playing instead of Scowcroft, and Hughes looked good after coming on. Nalis came on at half time but was taken off with about 15 minutes left, so i don't know whether he'll be here next season.

West Brom are probably down.

Birmingham :nono:

Bloody Mackems making us play shite on TV :rant:

Also, even though he plays for Birmingham, Pandiani :love:

Everton got a point which wasn't really deserved, good finish by Bent though.

Southampton played very well but it counts for nothing unless you get the wins, as City found last year :(

Beautiful result really.

Everton get a point, which doesn't do them a whole hell of a lot of good, and Harry gets fu</>cked over in the last minute, I love it.

Chelsea tied 0-0 with Man City which means Man U gained 2 points on Chelsea :y:

WOW GLAD IM NOT A NEWCASTLE SUPPORTER THEY R SHIT

I bet Mackem would agree with me.

David James and Richard Dunne were immense today.

Be interesting to see how long Robben's out for because they seem to struggle for goals, or as many as usual, without him.

Robbie Fowler wants to take a page from Richard Dunne's book.

Does anyone remember why Boston were deducted points this season?

I thought they were deducted points last season, and not this. Anyway, it was for financial irregularities.....not for tapping up players as I think you wanted to suggest.

Yeah, just checked, it was last season. They didn't tap up players, but they got done for illegal payments to agents, back handers and such and such.

James's save was fucking quality. Such a fantastic shot stopper if only he wasn't so prone to rediculous fuck ups.

FAT FUCKING SCOUSER
YOUR JUST A FAT FUCKING SCOUSER

(Not you, Rob, I meant Robbie, aye?)

And yeah they love Dunne at Citeh, they were singing about him quite a bit.

Pleased that us or Citeh didn't sing the Matt Busby song, what with it being the aniversary of the crash on the day we played them, added to the fact we sung about Hitler gassing the jews the other week, I really thought one of us would :$.

Crewe's fans were the first (to my knowledge) to taunt us about the ground share, singing "YOU'RE NOT LEICESTER ANYMORE". Other than that they were shit though.

Crewe are rediculous, they are 8 points from playoffs, and they sell the top striker in the league, who was winning games for them for the whole season, they have no replacement whatsoever and now they are shit again. You cant tell me Dario couldnt keep Ashton for another 4 months?

Not just that, Why did he go Norwich, who are going down anyway, when he could have gone tottenham where he would have got just as much first team action?

rant over, I just dont like seeing my local team fuck up.

How's the Matt Busby song go?

Find it on a website, i'm not going to type either of them.

Come on Dazz, don't be a cunt.

Who'se that lying on the runway
who'se that dying in snow
it's sir matt busby and his boys
and their not making any noise
coz they can't get their aeroplane to go

:|

There's another one about having ice on the wing of the plane, but it is complete rubbish.

http://www.farette.com/Pics/judas%20boohoo.jpg

:lol:

I just caught the tail end of a conversation on Talk Sport. Thought they said it was for tapping players.

I don't think they should deduct Chelsea points anyway. I don't want any excuses when we win the championship :D

I am still thinking you will win it.

Hands down the (2nd) best moment of the season.

They wont get deducted points, we didn't over the whole Ziege thing.

Number one - Neil Mellor against Arsenal :)

LOL @ RBF

:mad:!

You knows it :cool:

Note: :mad:.

:D

Looks like England will be playing that 4-5-1/4-3-3 formation tonight, Wright-Phillips on the right, Rooney down the left and Owen up front. Becks, Lampard and Gerrard in midfield and then the rest pretty much picks itself, Gary Neville and Ashley Cole at the back with Carragher and Brown, as they're the only one's who are fit. Probably Robinson in goal.

Owen
Rooney

Downing Gerrard Lampard Wright-Phillips

^
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:rant:

Greece must win their World Cup qualifier in Athens against Denmark tonight. COME ON HELLAS.

<TABLE cellSpacing=5 cellPadding=0 width=355 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD class=NewsTitleBig>Greece think only of victory
Wednesday, 9 February 2005</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE cellSpacing=5 cellPadding=0 width=355 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD>Tickets are on sale for the 2006 FIFA World Cup finals, but as European qualifying resumes tonight, continental champions Greece face a tough task if their fans are to have a team to watch in Germany.

Denmark visit Greece
Barely months after their UEFA EURO 2004™ triumph in June, Greece began their Group 2 campaign with defeat in Albania and draws with Turkey and Ukraine. In November they beat Kazakhstan 3-1, but still only lie fifth ahead of their meeting with second-placed Denmark in Piraeus.

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Denmark are unbeaten, and if they win will be four points ahead of Greece with a game in hand. Home coach Otto Rehhagel, whose side overcame a similarly slow start to EURO 2004™ qualifying, is well aware of the importance of the encounter, saying: "We have a very difficult match ahead and we must lift our performance considerably in order to achieve the win. We are only thinking about victory - there is no other result in our mind."

Duo out
However, centre-back Michalis Kapsis has a back problem and striker Dimitrios Papadopoulos a thigh strain, leaving both sidelined. Sotirios Kyrgiakos and Konstantinos Katsouranis are vying for Kapsis's regular starting berth.

Olsen bullish
Denmark themselves are without injured defenders Martin Laursen, Thomas Helveg and Claus Jensen while winger Jesper Grønkjær is suspended. Despite those absences, coach Morten Olsen, who has lured Per Nielsen out of international retirement for the match, said: "I think you have a better chance of a result when you have an experienced team - where all players have been there before and know the way you play - and that is what we have."

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I'm fairly sure Sven has some serious thing going on with Beckham behind the scenes, thats the only reason I can see for him still being there. That midfield is something else.

You're lucky we released him as a schoolboy. I was impressed when he scored for you the other week on a televised game and he looked pretty good last ngiht too

Hey Yianni, I brought my Greek flag to uni with me, to hang out the window, but now I am back home for a few days so I can't do it, nevertheless I am supporting your boys tonight.

<font face=verdana size=3 color="#ff6600">Chalky :love:

is he gonna play, or be on the bench? :(</font>
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Beckham is having a good season and has been England's inspiration in the past. Form is temporary, class is permanent, and Beckham's international class isn't in doubt. I'd have replaced him at Euro 2004 when he was looking unfit and jaded, but he's got to be given every chance to find his form for England again.

People think all you have to do is stick an in-form Premiership player in a national team and he'll suddenly be able to cope with international football. Look at the state of Wright-Phillips tonight against a second string Holland side: he was shit, from what I saw.

Mind you, I was watching the Ireland game mainly. Andy Reid was brilliant, and Duff tortured them. I'm confident for the games against Israel. If we can get 6 points out of those, I'm certain we'll qualify. I'd be happy enough with 4, though. Israel will be tricky to play out there. At home, I fancy us against any side in the world.

The quality of Duff's crossing is something else. No tricks like Ronaldo kept trying all night, just worms past defenders and sticks in fantastic crosses. Robbie Keane should really have notched a goal. Good win, though, in a pretty well contested game.

Brian Keff plays friendlies just right. He sticks with his first choice side and bloods one or two players who are on the fringes of the 11, without fucking the system around or plugging anyone into a position they don't play. He made 4 or 5 changes tonight without the shape changing at all, really.

Sven just seems to pay lip service to Premiership form by handing out caps to every Tom, Dick and Player of the Month. Also, Owen Hargreaves is fucking terrible.

Wright-Phillips wasn't that bad overall. Made a couple of jinking runs. There were worse players on the pitch.

Andy Jonhson, for one. England have four better strikers, there's no real point in playing him unless we're riddled with injuries. Especially on the right, where he looked like Christian Bassedas' mongy nan. I'm sure Sven only brought him on there because he realised he wasn't even going to get a chance up front and felt sorry for him.

Well they won. Ole ole ole ole Hellas Hellas :love: :D

The goals were scored in the first half by KING THEO ZAGORAKIS (first international goal) and a penalty from Angelos Basinas. Poor defending and lack of communication up the back from Nikopolidis gifted Denmark a goal in first half injury time and the 2-1 scoreline remained for the rest of the game. From the highlights we were absolutely outstanding in the first half and should have buried Denmark but were a bit sloppy in the second period and had to rely on some decent saves by Nikopolidis to grind out the win.

The win promotes us to 2nd in Group 2, with a game in hand over Ukraine who are in first place. They had a 0-2 win over Albania and are 6 points ahead of Greece now. The advantage we have is that we have already played them away from home and we managed with a decent result, a 1-1 draw having come from a goal down. So we have Ukraine at home for the return fixture and if we win that game we'll close them up. Next game up for Greece is next month away to Georgia then a home game against Albania. We really (and must) win these games convincingly and set ourselves up to finish at the very least in 2nd spot. Still, we have yet to play Denmark and Turkey away so it will be difficult.

Just quietly, recently whenever we've had Collina as the referee we've always won (Euro 2004, Denmark game). Good omen, UEFA should keep him reffing our games for the rest of the campaign. :lol:

Naw I think he was on the bench. Nikopolidis is first choice keeper, though I heard he was a bit clumsy and his bugger-up was the result of Denmark's goal to pull them back to 2-1. Luckily we held on for the important win.

Wright-Phillips wasn't that great really, but he was worth the chance. Pretty annoyed at Sven for playing Johnson out of position though, but, again, he was worth a game given his form. Pretty dull game in all, only positives were Wes Brown and Carragher at the back.

YES :love: :heart:

"From the highlights we were absolutely outstanding in the first half and should have buried Denmark but were a bit sloppy in the second period and had to rely on some decent saves by Nikopolidis to grind out the win."

wow yanni, you should get a life dude. how much time you spend on that article? enjoy writing blocks of shit that no one will read? talk about something interesting, like porn if you want interest.
--> Dickhead <--

Don't be shit on purpose.

I dunno, if you don't try different players then you'll never know, and that's a plus point for having friendlies. It's a win-win thing really, as the players (eg Andy Johnson) form is good then they deservedly win a call up, then if they play well everything's fine, if not then at least the national coach would have learned that the player in question is not up to international standard.

At the end of the day, the only judgement you can make on both of them is from 30 minutes of football.

Johnson was played out of position. He's not Bellamy (bad example I know) who has pace and can cross a ball, Johnson is an out and out striker and he should've played there.

From what I've seen, Downing hardly touched the ball, and in 30 minutes of an incredibly poor, slow paced match, he was hardly gonna have the chance to shine.

Not really sure about the match as a whole as I was watching Ireland as well.

Did Alan Maybury get on for Ireland? :cool:

There's no point trying different players unless you try to fit them into the system you intend to use for competitive games, with the players you intend to use.

Like I said about Brian Kerr: he gives other players a chance, players who are pushing for a place in the line up or who are young and need experience, but he doesn't fuck up his system. The players play in their best positions and the positions they would take in a competitive game.

It means you don't end up with 8 or 9 lads who don't know each other, playing for half an hour out of position, with nothing learned about them or their ability at international level, or about the system as a whole.

Sven just uses it as a chance to throw out caps, not realistically look at players who are going to do the business.

No. I don't expect he'll figure much when Finnan and Carr are fit. Ian Harte may get back into the fold too, so that might limit his opportunities altogether.

Yeah i agree with that, don't get me wrong or anything, i wasn't defending the decision to play Johnson out of position but i just feel he deserved his chance, given the number of goals he's scored for a struggling side. I reckon Sven only used that system to keep the SWP fans happy as he could play on the right, and to keep Beckham in, i don't expect him to use anything other than 4-4-2 in competitive games, so his mistake really.

Johnson may not be in the same league as Owen as a forward, but it's taking a look to see how he copes incase Owen is injured or something.Then again you can just look at Everton, sold their best player last summer but it's worked out for the good of the team and if Johnson or whoever helps the team better than Owen, regardless of who's better, then that is my main concern.

But yeah, Sven knows he's not going to drop Owen, Rooney, Beckham e.t.c, so friendlies may aswell be used to give potential left midfielders 90 minutes to stake a claim from an England point of view, everything else apart from the central defensive pairing is done.

Sven has made England friendlies meaningless. They weren't always like that, and other nations take them seriously as warm-up and preparation games.

Sven will have learned nothing about Andy Johnson out on the right wing.

Johnson and Downing deserved their call-ups. Both have been outstanding for a while. Downing since he broke into the Boro' line up and Johnson for the last two seasons. The fact that Johnson has scored 15 goals in a Crystal Palace team fighting not to get relegated is outstanding.
Sven once again showed that he is a dick, fair play to Marco Van Basten for trying new players in friendlies and giving them a proper run out. Johnson and Downing should have been given more time on the pitch and Johnson was played out of position when he came on. You could see the frustration on his face towards the end. Just as long as crappy Vassel isn't given another call-up then all is well.

:y:

Sven has totally pissed me off, actually seeing a Palace player play for England and he gets played out of position. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

Darius Vassell hasn't been the same since he became lead singer of Bloc Party.

Jesus shitting christ, I'm well behind with the times, I have no idea whats going on really. Group seems pretty tough, I'd have said Denmark, Turkey and you lot would be fighting it out, supruisd Ukraine are there. Looks like it's gunna be hard to get through, maybe I should burn my Greek flag if you are going ot piss it all up.

Hargreaves is shit, Wright Phillip's played a shocker, Beckham needs to fucking listen to me and square some fre kicks for Lamps, Rooney or Gerrard to smash, the only one that went over the wall was weak.

Duff is the man, once the Drog is back, everyone will realise that all we need if the two of them, Duff crosses it, Drog outpowers the shit out of the defenders, goal.

Duff destroyed the Portuguese last night. I fucking love him. Such a little genius tramp.

Also, he raked his studs down the back of Ronaldo's calf and trod on his heel. Got a yellow card for it ahahahahaha. First time I have ever seen Duff do something like that.

:D

Yeah Duff is yet to be a bad ass for Chelsea, the little whiney shit spends most of his time diving, bithcing to the ref or lino, or on the floor. I guess he takes more pride when playing for Ireland.

He dives a fair bit for Ireland too. Well, it's not diving, as such, he gets fouled but he hits the deck to make sure he gets the free kick. Like the defender will come into the back of him with a shoulder, and Duff will tumble when he probably could have stayed up. It takes pressure off our defenders if we can get it up to him, and he can do that.

My mate broke out his video of Ireland's WC 2002 the other week. Duff absolutely destroyed Germany in the group game. Should have beaten them by 3 or 4 goals, but Duff didn't get many goals back then. His finishing has gotten better over the past 2 or 3 seasons.

Yeah I loved that game, Robbie Keane was the man, that was one of my favourite games of the tournament.

Duff didn't dive last season, Robben has been a bad influence in that respect, but I swear Duff never used to get to the corner of the box, cut inside and curl a shot in at the far post until Robben arrived. If he gets injured now we really are fucked.

Also, you still confident Chelsea will win the league?

Yeah, of course. Ask me again on Saturday afternoon, though. The Everton game will be tough as fuck. I think Everton may try to play a Blackburn game and turn it into a fight, only they have the strikers to back it up. Can't see Eidur Gudjohnsen being up for it if the Everton defenders bully him, on the other hand I think Beattie and Bent will give Chelsea problems.

You do miss Drogba and Robben big time. Chelsea's side without those 2 is really, really workman-like, aside from Duff and Gudjohnsen (who doesn't do any work at all).

I think if Chelsea win this weekend, it's theirs, definitely. I can see them dropping points, though.

On the other hand, I can see United dropping points at City.

EIDUR IS SHIT, I have said that since I first signed up to TPWW, lazy, uninterested waste of space, he honestly doesnt give a fuck about anything, he is stupidly lazy, apparently his wife has left him and pissed of to Iceland with his kids too.

United will drop at least two points before the end of the season, but didnt they go from Christmas two seasons ago untill the end of the season without losing.

Didn't City get a draw at OT? United will be big time up for it, and James's made some great saves over us, so he is bound to make the mother of all fuck ups against United.

Richard Dunne has been MoM against Chelsea, Manchester United and Arsenal this season. He has been a revelation for City. At Old Trafford he was a colossus, and for once that is in a footballing sense, not in girth or beer belly.

City will be up for it too. I think they're a tricky side. They've been getting the better of United over the past couple of seasons, and I can see them doing it again.

Thing is, if after this weekend the gap comes down to 6 or 7 points, I think it's really, really on. United know they can take 3 off Chelsea at Old Trafford, and if Chelsea even draw a couple of games in a row, I think it will affect them. There's not too many winners at Chelsea, apart from Mourinho. He has instilled confidence in them, but that kind of confidence can be fragile when tested by seasoned winners like Manchester United.

Roy Keane is becoming the best player in the country again.

The City fans love him, they sung their song for him quite often. City might be up for it, but they will still get shat on, their team cannot match United's, Chelsea never really seemed up for it. If United play Giggs, KEane, Scholes and ROnaldo across the midfield and Rooney with whoever up front, they will win, City aren't very good at attacking, and Fowler is a pasty, or colossus in the other sense of the word.

For fuck sakes Gatesy, I have been telling you for months we have some hard games, like United at OT and the Arse at home, why the feck have you now only mentioned it. And yeah we don't really have too many winners I suppose, just gotta rely largely on Cech, JT, Lampard, Makelele, Robben and Duff, like we have done all season.

Keane has been great since they beat Liverpool last month.

I know, but you're just being pessimistic. I couldn't see United putting together this sort of run, to be honest. I didn't think they'd go to Highbury and Anfield and get 6 points, especially after the Spurs and Exeter games.

There's too much for United to do, but it could still run close. I dunno, it's interesting, but not exciting just yet. You never can write off Manchester United, but people keep doing it. I still feel United have the best first 11 in the country, but Mourinho has that Chelsea team organised as fuck, and Cech is magnificent.

I've got United down to lose and Chelsea down to win this weekend, but the title overall to go down to the last day, Chelsea just edging it out, maybe on goal difference.

we have the geordies away on the last day of the season, thats a bitch, as are so many of our games to come.

I have always said until United are mathematically out of it I won't rule them out, and I still wont.

:love: :love: :love:

Remaining fixtures:

Chelsea
12-Feb-05 A Everton
26-Feb-05 H West Bromwich Albion
05-Mar-05 A Norwich City
19-Mar-05 H Crystal Palace
02-Apr-05 A Southampton
09-Apr-05 H Birmingham City
16-Apr-05 A Manchester United
20-Apr-05 H Arsenal
23-Apr-05 H Fulham
30-Apr-05 A Bolton Wanderers
07-May-05 H Charlton Athletic
14-May-05 A Newcastle United

Man U
13-Feb-05 A Manchester City
26-Feb-05 H Portsmouth
05-Mar-05 A Crystal Palace
19-Mar-05 H Fulham
02-Apr-05 H Blackburn Rovers
09-Apr-05 A Norwich City
16-Apr-05 H Chelsea
20-Apr-05 A Everton
23-Apr-05 H Newcastle United
30-Apr-05 A Charlton Athletic
07-May-05 H West Bromwich Albion
14-May-05 A Southampton

tbh it could come down to the last game but I don't think it will.

Chelsea - The obvious ones are Man U, Arsenal, Everton, but also don't forget Bolton gave them probs and they've come into a bit of form again, though whether it'll last I don't know.

I would think Man U will drop points somewhere in there, even if they do steamroller most of them Everton and Charlton away aren't easy by any means.

United do have the much easier run-in, to be honest. Chelsea need to start seriously dropping points right now, though, and United can't afford to drop any until they're within sniffing distance at least.

If Cactus Sid was right, United lose and Chelsea win this weekend, there's no way it'd go to the last game. Arsenal would probably take 2nd place back and it'd be pretty much over.

Jose Antonio Reyes has been involved in a radio hoax in Spain, where he was tricked into admitting his desire to join Real Madrid.

Spanish station Cope Radio pulled off the amazing hoax, by claiming to be Real' sporting director Emilio Butragueno.

Cope Radio contacted Reyes' agent, who in turn informed the Arsenal man to speak to the pranksters claiming to be the Madrid chief.

During the conversation, Reyes admitted to life being 'not great' at Arsenal - confirming growing rumours that he is not settled in North London.

Reyes later went on to say that he would be happy to join Real and that he had always dreamed of playing for Real Madrid.

The Spanish giants had just denied reports of a swap deal involving Michael Owen moving to Arsenal in order to sign Reyes.

The former Sevilla man had himself said that he was concentrating on winning things at Highbury, despite being flattered with Real's interest.

This latest stunt is sure to anger all parties, and Reyes is thought to be considering legal action against the hoaxers.

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ahaaa what a twat.

does Northern Ireland have like the worst soccer team ever? they lost to Canada yesterday so im curious.

Yes.

You all dissapoint me, I have been listing our hard run in for months, and NOW you pay attention, we have to fecking travel to FOUR hard away grounds and have a hard home match, far from over, far from over.

You should stop going through a thread 70 pages long to find one post by me to make fun of.

Also, it's not an article, I wrote that myself from what I'd seen on TV.

Also, my name is yianni not yanni.

Fucking dickhead.

"Also, it's not an article, I wrote that myself from what I'd seen on TV."
that's my point asshole, you wrote a huge longwinded piece of shit that's uninformed and boring. Go fuck ureself, yianni yanni whatever, same bullshit wop sounding name to me.
and now Morcheeba, Ireland don't have the worst soccer team, they and Serbia rule!
burn motherfucker burn

oh and for yor info mediterranean olivesuckin' prick, I post in lots of forums, i was just observein' here when i saw you and people like you, which made me angry, so you shouldnt take my criticism lightly,
tool

:roll:

CAnada will win the World Cup one day.

Now that NHL hockey no longer exists, more Canadians will focus on soccer.

I said that the United States has a legitimate chance to win the World Cup in the next 20 years and all the Irish posters started hating on me :lol:

It probably took like 3 minutes to type.