They were against wigan though, which is understandable.

How does the Championship system work again? The top 2 teams get promoted to the Premier League whilst 3-6 play off for the final spot? Or am I completely off the mark? :o

Yeah I'm pretty sure that's it, Wengerland or MMM would know for sure though.

Also Rangers are 2-0 up away at Celtic

Yeah that's the one, top two up automatically then there's the play offs. Whoever finishes 3rd play the team who finish 6th, 4th vs 5th and then the winners over 2 legs go through to the final.

0-0 at half time in the Burnley-Blackburn game.

Rangers held on, and apparently Ricksen's been hit with something. Here we go again :|

Real Madrid and England star David Beckham has become a father for the third time after his wife, Victoria, gave birth to the couple's third son.

The latest addition to the family, to be named Cruz, arrived by caesarean section. The news will cheer the former Manchester United star after Real slumped to a 2-0 defeat by Atletico Bilbao on Saturday.

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Cruz :|:|:|

Also, good news for Man U as Shevchenko fractured his cheekbone yesterday and will miss the Champions League game this coming week.

Not quite, no way is it the first instance of a player being hit with something in an Old Firm game, it almost never happens in a regular English league game or cup tie which is why the Everton game yesterday was unusual.

:nono: @ both Ricksen getting hit and the scoreline. :'(

Never said it was a first, but point taken.

How come you get so wound up by anything I say then?

LOL PITCH INVASION

On the Henri Camara thing, just started doing the 2006 World Cup, Senegal got drawn with Spain, Mexico and Costa Rica, Group C, first game Spain vs Costa Rica, second game Senegal vs Mexico.

Camara scored a hat-trick.....he's top scorer in the compeition at the moment.

-EDIT- That's on Pro Evo btw

That geezer on the Blackburn game who went to have a square go with Savage was hilarious. Swinging at the police :lol:

In other news, Newcastle are up 1-0 against Chelsea. COME ON YOU BARCODES

I :love: Master League. I now have a front 3 of Shevchenko and Adriano with Ronaldinho in behind :love:

All 3 of them are playing in my world cup.

Ukraine were playing Germany in the opening match, Huth got sent off after 14 minutes, Germany held on until the 89th minute when Gusev scored for the Ukraine, gutting the home fans.

Brazil played Czech Republic, went 1-0 up after 1 minute thanks to a dink Ronaldinho ball and an Adriano chip, but lost 2-1 cos of an own goal by Roberto Carlos in injury time. Loving this World Cup, China almost beat Italy.

Shearer with a tackle on Wayne Bridge takes him out of the game(fell awkardly on his leg) Chelsea reduced to 10 men no subs left.

UPDATE: Broken Ankle for Wayne Bridge

UPDARE: Mourinho is a moron.

Who makes 3 subs at half time especially when there is snow?

Don't look like Chelsea are getting all four trophies at the moment.

Then again Titus Bramble is playing so there is still a chance.

Damien Duff is hurt to. I like Barcelona's chances wednesday

Ranieri got sacked for less than what Mourinho did today, granted, that was in the Champions League and not the FA Cup, but even so.

Cudicini got sent off, had Johnson playing in goal to end the game

Man Of The Match in my opinion, he was awesome.

Bit of a harsh sending off

last man

DARREN MANTLE WHATS THE SCORE

AHAHAHAHAHA

Tremendous.

Can't help but feel sorry for Mourinho. His wife is going to get an angry shag tonight, I expect.

Jenas was surprisingly shit, as was Boumsong. Dyer was playing like a disabled, but you've come to expect that from him. Decent enough performance from the rest of the team, though.

He wasn't in a strong position to win the league and the league cup though.

The league was hardly Ranieri's fault after Arsenal's season, and who knows what'll happen on Sunday. In all my years as a Liverpool fan I've only seen them lose 1 cup final.

LOL I can't believe he actually seemed to think he had a chance of getting away. :lol:

I know. Hell, we all know the real reason Ranieri was sacked was so they could hire Mourinho. But I still don't think you can say what Ranieri did in Monaco was "less" than what Mourinho did today. Today was a one-off cup tie (not counting a replay) which is at best 3rd in Chelsea's list of priorities. Last year was Chelsea's best chance of winning something, not just the fact it was the Champions League, and the 1st of a 2-legged tie. However reckless Mourinho was today Ranieri was moreso by throwing away Chelsea's best chance of a trophy.

I see your point, but at the end of today, Chelsea are out of a cup, with numerous injuries coming out of the game. Duff's condition, whatever it turns out to be, was made worse by staying on the pitch. As Rob said, bringing on 3 players at half time, when its snowing and your playing against players who do have a tendency to be a bit reckless in their challenges at times, your just asking for trouble. While Ranieri was tactically inept against Monaco, Mourinho today was not only tactically inept, but showed a complete disregard for the welfare of his players, who he supposedly has a great relationship. Granted, there is a huge difference between the Champions League and the FA Cup (and I can't say much after what Rafa did) but today Mourinho made some truly awful decisions, and in my opinion, they were worse than Ranieri's.

Oh fuck off you complete and utter cretin, your other comments of late hasn't wound me up like you claim, but this has. Get a clue, you fucking tit. The cup is a knockout competition, right? Goal difference doesn't matter and changes had to be made, Joe Cole was great Vs Everton last week, but shit today, Tiago is fucking horsewank and we all know what a laughing stock Geremi is. Nuts to the snow, it wasn't setting, it was just blowing about. Changes had to be made and everyone with half a clue (well, excluding ECG, RBF and MMM who have been abit off as late) Will tell you the three people that should have come on, we did the best thing we could of, I think Jose was 100% right with everything he did today, except he should have spat on Shearer when he was subbed, the fucking cunt.

Hindsight is wonderful, isn't it, he took a gamble and it didn't work, Bridge is bollocks anyway, so I wasn't in the slightest sad to see him go off.

Defensivley we had a fucking great side out, second best keeper in the league, and the best defence we could have fielded bar Ferreira, Kezman is our best fit attacker and our midfield matched Newcastl'es in the first half, and was better in the second half.

I'm bloody proud of Chelsea today, I went to the game and it was fantastic, forgetting the score, it was a brilliant day out. The Geordies are magnificent, except only their fans near us were singing, the rest did about once all game, I was expecting better. Best stadium in England, really beautiful view and I'd love to go there again.

No complaints, I'd have done nothing different, they weren't better then us, they just took one of there chances.

As for Johnson, "CHELSEA'S, NUMBER ONE, CHELSEA'S CHELSEA'S NUMBER ONE"


What the fuck did Mourinho do today??!! He did everything right, 100% right, he is the fucking man and I refuse to even say anything bad about him. Ranieri got sacked because he buckles under pressure and never looked like landing us a trophy, we'd get far then fuck up.

Fair play Newcastle, I hope you win it now, I'd love for the Arse and United to meet in the next round, and Highbury preferably, and the winner to play Newcastle in the final.

On the plus side, I just gotted in half hour ago, late enough to avoid Y2ANT on MSN, :cool:.

The F.A cup is fourth in the prioties in my view, and Ranieri stuck Veron on at left mid, and generally always ballsed things up at the most innapropriate of times.

CCCCCCCAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRREEEEEEEEEEEEE FREEEEEE, WHEREEVER YOU MAY BE,
WE ARE THE FAMOUS CFC
AND WE DON'T GIVE A FUCK
WHOEVER YOU MAY BE
COZ WE ARE THE FAMOUS CFC

Dry your eyes mate

The score was one-nil.

Fuck :'(.

lol, I hadn't seen your post when I replied to Y2ANT


On another note, this is what makes St James' Park so great, just look at the view I had:

http://img144.exs.cx/img144/807/park6os.th.jpg

lol @ Mourinho going to shake Souness' hand even with about a minute left in injury time, and Souness motioning to him that 'it's not over yet'. :lol: Mourinho what a funny cunt. I have to say though I was pretty surprised at him making the three substitutions at the start of the second half, it's pretty uncommon. Well I haven't seen it done alot anyway.

Had to be done, it really did have to be done.

In hindsight it didn't pay off but the only error he made was probably bringing all 3 on so soon, but i've done that a few times on champ manager if i've been frustrated. The intent was to get Chelsea back into the game though, so he should be commended for that, he took a risk and it didn't pay off but that's all really and, after all, they're clear at the top of the league and still in the other cups.

ROFL @ Martin Tyler's reaction when Johnson saved the free kick :'(

FA Cup Quarter final draw:

Newcastle vs Spurs or Forest
Southampton or Brentford vs Man Utd
Bolton vs Arsenal or Sheff Utd
Burnley or Blackburn vs Leicester

That'll do nicely :cool:

Shite quater finals

Mantle = :lol:

Noticed that Forlan fella scored again last night

Agree with him if you like. That's fine. It's a matter of opinion. My opinion is that making 3 subs with 45 mins of football to play when the conditions are far from perfect and when you are a goal down isn't the smartest move. They could have gone all out for the first 15 of the second half and then made 3 subs. Or they could have made 1 or 2 and kept a 3rd for later. It was a gamble and it didn't pay off.

You might not finish matches with that many injuries but injuries are a frequent occurance in football. It's my opinion that going a complete 45mins when you might need to make tactical changes with any possible back up plan is not bright.

I'm just a complete and utter cretin though so what do I know?

I'll tell you what you know, and thats fuck all by the sounds of it, you said

"My opinion is that making 3 subs with 45 mins of football to play when the conditions are far from perfect and when you are a goal down isn't the smartest move."

The first part makes sense, kinda, the last part makes no sense at all, you're saying that when oyur losing you dont make three substitutions??!! Fuck off.

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Well, you might not be the same person, but seriously, are you ever online without each other.

It's a cup game, Chelsea were playing poorly and Mourinho wanted to make a change. In a cup game, especially away from home, you may as well lose 6-0 as lose 1-0, so Mourinho went for it. He wanted a positive response from his team. A draw was no good, he wanted a team that could go out there and score at least 2 goals and win the match, or go down trying.

He made the right changes, and whether it be at half time or 15 minutes into the half, doesn't really matter. You cannot legislate for red cards and serious injuries, and you should base how you plan your tactics based on the fear that you might get an injury.

I guess you and RBF have proved that the Camara comments are just a one off. Glad it is only Rob and Sid that didn't see sense.

:rant:

The Camara comments weren't a one off. The one off part is that you were right (about Mourinho), for once, Mantle.

I am shocked and appaulled, I was right about our hard run in at the end of the season. <s>I was right that Germany would win Euro 2004 </s> I am often right, I could search this thread and find out how many times I have been right, and I bet it is to a higher ratio then you. As it happens, I think we all have better things to do then search the thread and find out. Well, RBF has nothing better to do, he never goes out, bless him.

I still don't think you are right about Ferdinand, but I definitley see why we spent £19.85 million in the summer on Riccy Carvalho, he was our best player yesterday and has been superb all season, you were right on that one, Gatesy.

I'd have thought changing two players would've been enough and then if it was still going tits up later, adding another. I understand the need to attack but you're fucking nuts to even risk that kind of thing.

Stoke tonight, and the champions league :cool:

WTF did you change your name for fool

I don't know what you mean :shifty:

Nah, it was because i don't watch wrestling anymore, so it was pointless and i just said a few names to RDD and he picked that one.

You stupid cunt!

Sorry, but since your opinion is different from Mantle's, you are automatically wrong.

My thoughts on the top three are pretty solid eh, I seriously cannot see how people cannot see sense in the RvN arguement, as it happens, we'd go round in circles if it was brought up again.

Point is, I am the man.

LUIS GARCIA :love:

We're down 1-0 at the moment, apparently Toure made a howler :(.

In other news, ESPN's live text commentary :nono:

"Nine Arsenal players are wearing gloves, compared to only four from Bayern. Does that tell us anything about the respective sides? No, perhaps not."

"Hey Bobby: what is the French for 'Pull your finger out'? It's still early, but Pires really doesn't look very enthusiastic this evening."

LOL

Also just gotta say, come on West Brom

Just thought I'd say, they showed the goal in small during the Liverpool game, I missed Toure's error, but the finish was exceptional from Pizarro.

Berbatov just missed an open goal for Leverkusen, shocking defending by Finnan, we are very lucky boyos.

"GOAL! Horrible mistake from Toure leads to Pizarro slamming home a great volley from the edge of the area. Great start from the home side."

It would have been, it's impossible for a volley from the edge of the area not to be exceptional :'(

Madrid just scored, which means all four home teams are ahead 1-0

Come on Bayern, I don't care much if Liverpool go through, because their fans aren't cunts

thats the spirit Riise,get your good free kicks out the way before Sunday

I hope Chelsea win tomorrow

But I'll be a cunt and say I hope United lose :D

Also.....

EASY! EASY! EASY!

JOHN ARNE RIISE
OOOOH AHHHHH
etc.....

2-0 :love: :love: :love:

Nedved's been taken off injured

As is Edu :( Flamini on

:'(

Always in the big games

As it stands, we've gotta get another without conceding, Leverkusen are too good at home for us not to need another.

:love:

I wouldn't begrudge you the win

I'll just say what I said before.....in all my years as a Liverpool fan, I've seen us lose 1 cup final.

In all my years as a Chelsea fan, I have seen us lose two cup finals.

Bastards floored my Freddie :mad:

Yeah, but, erm.....

Good Luck on Sunday :y:

We actually do need luck, injuries galore at the moment. Why people don't take pity on us is beyond me.

Will you be at the match? I am guessing no since you havent said you would be in previous posts.

Bright start to the second half, come on get an away goal. Would be priceless :'(

:wtf: Bright start my arse, passing football is nothing bright, they have had the best chance so far.

Fuckign diving twat, get up Pires, you cunt.

what oi've read, Reyes shot into the side netting, Flamini went down on the edge of the area, Pires just missed Henry with a cross and Ljungberg's shot one straight at Kahn. In the first 10 minutes, too

yes Reyes' shot was the only chance, and he was never going to get anywhere close to scoring it, it wasnt really a chance, he hit it knowing it was never going to go in, but he has no other options.

PIZZARO :LOVE:

Feck, now we definitely need an away goal :mad:

COME ON, CHIN UP

Na, that's the problem with living down here, all the Cup games sell to season ticket holders in minutes, so they hardly ever go on general sale, plus, I heard we only got an allocation of about 28,000, so sadly not :(

3-0 to Munich....oh dear.

Igor Biscan has been fucking amazing tonight

Fucking hell, knew they were gonna react like a bunch of 10 year olds to going 2 down.

CHIN UP CUNTS:mad:

Gutted Sid, how come you support Pool anyways?

And yes, come on Bayern.

:( Milan you should've scored

Jamie Carragher off the line :(

fuck it could have been 4. Offside flag saved us

Cos I started liking football when I was about 3 or 4, so I probably started watching during the 89/90 season when we won the title, so basically I'm just a glory supporter whose stuck with them for the last 15 years.

Fucking hell, 2 amazing saves by Dudek

Thought as much, it seems like the only logic unless you had relatives up there.

I still doubt alot of United fans our age will follow their team once they become shit. Good on yer :y: