Oh jeez....Le Tallec

3-0 Munich. Not going too well for Arsenal. That twat Lauren should have been sent off as well.

Yeah shocking tackle from Lauren. Liverpool are ruining my prediction of no English team going through at the moment :mad: Arsenal were shite I'm back on the Pool game now

Landon Donovan looks like Billy Corgan when he had hair

Landon Donavon, Champ Man legend.

Well fucking done Le Tallec :mad: Riise was in you cunt

Scored a hat-trick against Croatia in my Pro Evo World Cup 2006

Potter on for Baros? Oh dear.

Jeez, didn't realise there was only 5 minutes to go

VLAD :love: on for Riise :love:

Well that finishes that. Didn't want to accept it before now, but this isn't going to be our season.

Ah well, come on Barca and Milan then.

Toure gives a little hope. Maybe I should give up on Arsenal more often.

TOURE SCORES 3-1

DIDI DIDI DIDI DIDI

3-0 COME FUCKING ON

Come on, pull a Norwich. 3-2 would be fantastic right here :'(

Fuck

Dudek you twat

So not good now

Ok, they've got 2 players suspended, we'll have Gerrard and maybe Mellor back, but that goal is seriously gonna screw us over in Germany, I can see it now.

Dudek is such a twat

jesus christ, completely outplayed Charlton on saturday and then go and concede 3 at a side who have only scored 20 all season :|

Good job Mr. Levein knows that we need a centre back, and although i like him for his work rate, the number of chances that Connolly misses is really pissing me off now.

We'll give you Cygan.

Go on, take him :mad:

We're not that desperate :(

Really frustrated though.

:love:

Unless the Radio 5 reporter was making it up Camara managed to skin the entire scummer defence before firing it over the bar. Shocker.

Ahahaha

Ahahaha

Ahaha

Told you so

He'll be at his best by *checks fixture list* April 5th :foc:

Either that or he'll have lost his place to de Vries, if we continue with 1 forward :$

Still the man for his work rate, it's just a bit annoying really. Like Dazz's thoughts on Kezman, but he doesn't need to curse Kezman's missed chances because Chelsea tend to win anyway.

Well Liverpool should be home and dry but Dudek gives them hope. Hes shite

And David Connolly's record in Dutch football isn't better than van Nistelrooy's. Unlike Kezman.

He scored 2 goals in a 4-3 win for Feyenoord over Ajax to get them into the champions league :( Not that i'm comparing him to RvN or Kezman but for this division he was alright.

If Leverkusen have hope then so do we

Arsenal could go through, even with our advantage I can see us going out.

Eternal pessimist, Cactus Sid. Now I know it's wishful thinking, but I'm happy if Arsenal just show up and decide to show a bit of bloody character for a change in the second leg, if they do that I don't care if they do go out. As long as they actually look like they genuinely want to be there

I agree with Sid, Leverkusen still have a schance of going through. At least we have Stevie G back for the second leg and Leverkusen looked quite poor and with their injuries and suspensions we should be able to get through. As long as we put Scott Carson in goal. :)

Leverkusen scored 3 in all of their home games in the group stage i think, well i'm sure i heard the commentator say that. I reckon Liverpool will lose on the night but go through.

Arsenal can't defend like they did yesterday, Campbell's also a doubt for the return leg now anyway.

Yeah, fair play to Chelsea. So far so good.

Crespo :nono:

That was an absolute disgrace

Anyone see Juninho's free kick for Lyon, absolute class that lad.

Also, Crespo :D

Roy Carroll is a spastic.

Horrible error at the wrong time.Vitor Baia on they other hand played great today against Inter Milan

Frisk was alright I thought, apparently he was in the Barca dressing room at half time, or Rjikard was in Frisk's dressing room, one or the other. Either way, Jose apparently said "You won't get away with this, I'm going to report you". And sure enough, we have already lodged a complaint.

If Barca are proven to has influenced officials in any way, then by UEFA's rules they will be chucked out, but we all know that it's not going to happen as it would be bloody hard to prove and UEFA would probably just fine them and be gay.

Also, we really needed Robben, more then anything because Duff and Cole's diving antics weren't going to fool anyone, if someone is going to give Barca a taste of their own medicine then it's Arjen Robben.

Carrol is a spastic but I'm very thankfull to him have 50 quid on Milan with mates thought I was fecked when Sheva broke his face but Roy saved the day

I don't think it is. I'm sure our guy (Alou Diarra) is at some other French club, a smaller one. I'll check.

Na, the Lyon guy is Mahmadou Diarra, he's a Malian international

Alou Diarra is on loan at Lyon, from what I've heard he's a pretty solid central defender/midfielder, but obviously that means sod all when your french and you come and play for Liverpool.

Till the end of March, btu Bryan something or another is meant to be the man at getting people back quicker, so he may be there mid march.

Riccy C looked a bit poor last night, Mantle, from the highlights.

It was only the Eto'o thing, thats the worst thing he has done all season, really don't know what he was thinking. I think he was caught out a couple of times in the second half but are defence was generally poor after the sending off, Barca pissed all over us, they brought on two attackers for two midfielders and always had people in space in our box.

You claim to be a Barca fan if anything, so I am suprised you didn't watch the game, Gatesy.

come on boro, 3-0 to us danny graham to come off the bech to score the 3rd, and keep your eye on james morison (providing mclaren doesnt drop him) as he is currently making downing look like yesterdays news!

With Ferocious banned, no one care about Boro. As it happens, as long as Jimmy scores I'm happy.

Yeah I know, but a bunch of lads came down to my house to watch it because I had Sky, and they wanted to see the United match. I didn't mind because I thought the match at Old Trafford might be a more attacking affair.

Watched about 20 mins of the first half in the Chelsea game, switched it on just before Duffer scored. The United game was better then, so we kept it on for the 2nd half.

I made my return to training tonight. Buried the only goal of the training match, great strike into the bottom corner from 20 yards. When I scored it I ran away and pulled off my Ireland top to reveal a white shirt with "Merci Darren Mantle" on it.

Playing in a work league match game tomorrow night too. 2 goals in 3 games for them.

LOL you would be the fucking man if you ever did that, in training or a real game.

Funny how you called me and Ogen gypsy's, when its you who associates yourself with them, your mates don't even have sky :rofl:.

I wouldn't say Duff scored, I suppose he was the last Chelsea player to touch the ball, but come on. Bellitto made the right choice, take no chances and try and clear it, shame carvalho didn't, and he would have had no chance of turning it into his own net.

I was trying to reassure a Chelsea fan that Chelsea are going through, and want to know if you agree or disagree on the following, I realise you didn't see it all so you might not be able to fully comment:

They were only good atatcking Vs ten men, if we keep 11 on in the replay we will be sorted. Ronaldinho and Eto'o are overrated, they mess up alot and can be hit or miss, our defence is MUCH greater then theres, we will foil them in our own gaff. We need Lampard to be on form, and after the first leg he definitley has alot to prove. Maka is always on form, Duff needs to just create stuff, and I hope Joe Cole actually plays well. We are in the best position we could hope for, an away goal and one goal in it, we should at least get them to extra time.

I think it's in the balance. Ronaldinho is probably the most talented player in the world, along with Zidane, but he does go missing for several games at a stretch, at times. Thing is, he could go out at Stamford Bridge, play to his best and he would destroy them.

Et'oo I am less impressed by. He's very tough for defenders to deal with. You might have seen him at the Nou Camp with your view, he pulls way out on to the wing and just zips inside. Defenders don't know what to do about it, he's so quick. Not a deadly finisher, though, in my opinion. Missed a golden opportunity near the end with the header.

Anyway, they get the credit, but I think Barca's strength lies in Xavi and the other midfielders. They are so good at keeping possession. You are right about Lampard having something to prove. In my opinion, any time I see him play good technical footballers who can keep possession, Lampard gets found out and the game passes him by.

Basically, it's in the balance. If Chelsea had Duff, Robben and Drogba, they'd easily be favourites, but with only Duff up there of those 3, I'm not too sure. Barca don't have to win at Stamford Bridge, Chelsea do. If Chelsea try to force it, Barca could pick them off.

Ronaldinho wasn't anything special yesterday, he didn't even produce any good tricks, and the way Robben and Duff run at defenders is much more threatening then the way Ronny did yesterday.

Lampard was inneffective yesterday, and Cole wasn't that much use either, Duff and Makelele were our only good midfielders.

I think it will be 2-1 at our gaff and we will do them in extra time or penalties, Jose knows the score. Trouble is I can see Gudjohnsen missing his penalty for sure, the useless tosser will just fuck everything up all match, I can well see Lampard getting brace.

Unless Kezman scores the winner :love:

IT would take a virus spreading round the whole team for Kezman to get a game.

*remembers Kezman's goals for PSV* :(

Ranieri's been sacked at Valencia after they lost in the UEFA Cup to Steau Bucharest or something like that, they're also only 6th in La Liga, so not too surprising.

Ronald Koeman has resigned at Ajax too, after they went out to Auxerre.

Bang goes our chance of signing Aimar

Oh yeah, Robben's apparently back in training

well i care about them, couldnt give a toss about chelsea tho ;) anyway JFH got the winner for us after Morrison smashed home the equilizer!

why is Ferocious banned this time? did he request another name change again or just keep going on about how good rajah is? anyway back to football, unfortunatly i think our boys have the title in the bag dispite your mini crisis of 2 defeats in a row!

* keeps fingers crossed that boro put together the worlds best run to win the league* :shifty:

His nazi thread in casual, read it.

And Jimmy is the man, you lot should kiss his arse.

Ranieri :'(

Next West Ham manager.

Fuck, how good would that be? Next time they played Millwall they wouldn't have to worry about crowd trouble, he'd just go bonkers and start handing out clips round the ear everytime somebody played up, Brian Clough style.

I would have to say it's one of Newcastle, Boro and Parma now, Auxerre shouldn't be ruled out though. Great chance for one of them to win it.

Only just got in, saw the last 10 minutes of the first half of Soton-Arsenal and the highlights. This game has everything. Prutton getting sent off, being a disgrace by pushing the ref and swearing at the linesman, van Persie being a disgrace and stayng on, Pires getting injured, Cygan being useless as always and Arsenal scoring in like the 5th minute of a 3 minute stoppage time

PS WTF Henry has hair now

Oh yeah, I forgot it was Freddie that scored too :D

:o 10v10 now, van Persie second yellow

My god, where was Lehmann

Patrick Vieira has become shit

Lehmann is a handicap.

How can anyone justify Pascal Cygan being a Premiership footballer on thousands of pounds per week?

He's one of the slowest and clumsiest defenders I've ever seen, in both pace and technique. It's not like he's got anything good to counterbalance that, either, he's just shit in every department.

From what I've seen every Arsenal player apart from Ljungberg has been rubbish. Only been flicking though. I can't bring myself to watch a full Southampton game that isn't at The Dell, it just doesn't feel right.

heartbreaker

Surely they're paying us back this season for all the good luck we've had last season

Cole was well offside. It was good of the linesman to delay the decision by about 8 seconds, to allow the Arsenal players to go absolutely mental, before breaking their dear little hearts.

van Persie's gonna cop it in the sheds

Arsenal fans have been telling me he has been shit ever since the United match. Like he has lost bottle. Apparently he wasn't doing too great before then.

He's not been great for a long time, Rob. You really have to question his commitment to Arsenal, how many Premiership winning captains would nearly walk out on their club in the summer?

at least Arsenal didn't fall on their swords when Southampton equalised this time.

Vieira has suffered too many injuries over the past couple of seasons. I think I posted in this very thread that Arsenal should have bitten Real's hand off when they offered £24 million for Paddy V, at his age and considering he has several recurring injuries.

It's the Roy Keane thing all over again. Vieira might have to adapt his game and become more of a holding player than the box-to-box man he has been.

I thought it was pretty funny when Cottee said it was "Close"

I didn't see the SOuthampton game but I am guessing Camara didn't score. :(.

With Camara up against Cygan, it was like watching a match from the European Down Syndrome League.

If such a league exists.

Well, thanks to Villa, we are well and truly fucked when it comes to getting a Champions League place.

Guess we've gotta win it :shifty:

Nah, the way things are going Arsenal need to watch behind them, there's more chance of you or Everton catching them up then there is of them overtaking United.

I feel really sorry for Pompey here

They are putting in a half decent performance, ok, its not dynamic, but occasionally they look threatening, and aside from the goal they've defended well, but Lomana Lua Lua is putting in possibly the worst performance I have ever seen.

WHAT A FINISH SON :cool:

1 - 1

Who scored for Pompy.

Gary O'Neil

:love:

Look at the Saints defender on the far side. Nearly played Cole onside.

I disagree, when they slowed it up, he was at least 2 yards offside

Wouldn't bet against Villareal or Sevilla personally, Parma have had quite a poor season really so not sure about them.

drew 0-0 at Reading today, not too bad.

Yeah I went to the pub to watch the game, the bloke in front of me was a pompey fan and he was seriously getting pissed off at Lua Lua.

Villareal.

DIEGGGOOOOOOOO

http://msn.foxsports.com/soccer/story/3418368

"Rijkaard was in the referee's changing room with him for five minutes. I know because my assistants were at the door while the meeting was going on," Mourinho said in an interview with leading sports daily Marca on Saturday.

Rijkaard and Swedish referee Frisk have acknowledged they spoke to each other during the interval of Wednesday's game, which Barcelona won 2-1, but have denied meeting in the referee's room.


Personally I still think he is doing the same tactic he did after the first leg of the league cup semi final Vs ManYoo, but I dunno, apparently he was really pissed off.

When comparing the spanish and english leagues, Deco said the spanish league was way superior as even the smaller teams had "stars like Forlan"

rofllll :'(

The Spanish league is better, in all honesty.

Because even the smaller teams have players like NIHAAAAAAATTT