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Originally Posted by Derby Tup
We've now got chance to concentrate on the league / it was a game of two halves / we're sick as a parrot / they must be over the moon - delete as appropriate
I saw a lad with a Red Forest shirt-thingy hanging in the back window of his car yesterday and knew it was a bad omen
Our baby is due in two weeks and the Forest sleepsuit is hanging in the nursery waiting to be worn. Happy days.....
THere's a book running on the birthweight and after the recent game, i couldn't resist plumping for 5,2, although i hope he/she is bigger than that. Rarely do Forest fans get to crow, now seems as good a time as any.
i'll never forget the dud you sold us....gary birtles. if i remember rightly, 1 bloody goal.
Darren bent was only the third most expensive striker on the pitch today but he scored the winner. What a bargain !!!
I suspected football was a dead sport, rotten to the core, played by mercenary thugs and watched by infantile idiots.
Then I learned someone payed £24m for Darren Bent.
Case closed.
with someone with views like that on football what are you doing on this thread. i think you must be the infantile idiot
Tractor Boys holding out so far :cool:
guess who's diving all over again. what a cheat
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Originally Posted by Alf
I think the tractor is playing on the wing for arsenal.....but cant complain 2-1 up on aggregate, now just hold on to it.
3-0, hope its safe now......
I guess it was inevitable, but they held on well for the first half.
the main talking point last night was the 4th official...how can he play 10 minutes when United are winning. At 2-2 10 minutes is OK, but the moment Berbatov scored after 88 minutes surely he knew to re-calculate that one.....Quote:
Originally Posted by dominion
The talking point will again be the penalty, many decisions go unnoticed, with United they don't because they are often the what if's after we have come back and won. The simple fact is we had more shots, more possession, more corners and most importantly more goals..
When we lost 3 points at Birmingham it was bad luck, now we get a decision and its favourable refereeing...
Do I detect a smidgin of irony in that Iain ? ;):DQuote:
Originally Posted by IainR
Wrong Iain ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Alf
I went down to see Forest v Bristol city on Tuesday and despite completing the double over 'The Sheep' on Saturday and being only a point off second place the atmosphere was really flat, abitafter the lord mares show I guess.
Andy Carrol £35 million...I've been defending the silly money involved in football, makes the £80 million for Ronaldo look at steal by Madrid....
Madness...
Apparently Emile Heskey is on his way to Newcastle. Just a shame that he was heading for Middlesborough and missed! :w00t:
maybe, but to Dalglish he will be good value. He's a cracking player, and will be sorely missed at NUFC. I, for one, am gutted. And why sell with no replacement/plan b lined up?
Liverpool are the winners.... Carroll and Suarez for only a small outlay after the £50m for Torres, and probably for the same wages combined. AC will become a cult hero at Anfield. Torres will miss half of Chelsea's games through injury. NUFC will be lucky to stay up. Good business?
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Originally Posted by IainR
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Originally Posted by Skarsnik
I agree with you Skarsnik. Suarez is a great buy, Torres is a great sale for the money with his injury record. Carroll shouldn't take long to settle so Dalglish has done some good business there!
I disagree. I think Carrol could be a top player.Quote:
Originally Posted by Skarsnik
Only could.
United signed rooney for 25 million, he had already scored many goals at international level and played almost twice as many games in the premiership. There was little risk.
I rate Carrol, big, good on the floor, fit, but, 35 million for unproven talent, Ronaldo was 80 million for guarenteed 25-40 goals a season plus many assists. To be honest that's now looking a steal.
I think Chelsea also got a very good price for Torres. Class player but definate blot on his reputation that he hasn't shown up for months. Despite wanting to leave Ronaldo's performances remained top draw for us, despite what people said. He produced.
I agree with you on Carrol. £35 million is a huge amount of money for somebody who has shown a lot of promise but is not the finished article. I bet this time last year he was only worth about £3 million. The only bad thing for Newcastle is it came too late for them to line up a replacement but I still don't think they'll go down. So in the summer they'll have the money to buy two or three decent players and be a stronger team for it.Quote:
Originally Posted by IainR
I think £50 million for Torres is way too much as well. He is highly injury prone these days and hasn't done it at international level. He was poor at the World Cup and the Euro Championships in 2008.
(I think £50 million for Torres is way too much as well. He is highly injury prone these days and hasn't done it at international level. He was poor at the World Cup and the Euro Championships in 2008.[/QUOTE]
Time will tell re how injury prone Torres is, I hope its a great buy along with Luis and although too late to change the premiereship outcome this year will put us back on terms with the Mancs for next year. But Carrol is carrying an injury at present and £5m is a lot to spend on an injured player who cant possibly have passed a medical?
Here we are - as soon as the transfer window shuts Rooney starts scoring - is this to spite Sir Alex or what?
And all that dosh for Torres and he's not even on the bench!
35 million for a player who's latest injury is due to falling off a bar stool in a casino! alledgedly....
Big week, City drop points and Red Nev calls it a day..
Loving the comments by Scousers in 606...'Least respected player in football'...so you've Lee Hughes who killed someone, Tevez Rooney et al who threaten to leave to get more money, players who dive, the Terry's ragging his team mates missus/ex-missus..yet its a player who played for one club and had the audacity to wind up opposition fans and give back some abuse...
''de bestest fans in der world' show their true colours again..can give it out but give it back and their trade mark sense of humour vanishes...
Class player, role model for kids, talent wise the weakest of the 92 generation, yet still had the trophy haul through hard work. although admittedly one of his strategies to make up for his lack of talent was continually claiming for offside...
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Originally Posted by IainR
and these are the same "so called fans" killed all those juventus supporters and blamed it on the chelsea head hunters, sing Munich 58 and trash old trafford every year, almost killed a waiter the last time they were in the European cup final, sprayed an aerosol in clayton blackmore face as he got of the team bus and not lets forget their caveman like behaviour when they tried to overturn alan smiths ambulance when he suffered that horrific injury at anfield. compared to these animals i think red nev is a fine upstanding human being.
I’m sorry, that was a rude post that came out ruder than intended.Quote:
Originally Posted by fellboy
I do include myself in the ‘infantile idiots’ cos I spent a good part of my first thirty years following Blackburn. I know what I was like and what most of the people around me at Ewood and other grounds were like: moaning, prone to childish tantrums and spoiled by success - and that’s part of the reason I dumped Rovers and football in general.
I was appalled by the abuse Shearer came in for when he returned to Ewood in the years after he left for Newcastle. What a totally absurd reaction - the sort of thing a four-year-old should be ashamed of. Also the Ewood ‘faithful’ seemed to think they deserved success every season after the amazing achievement of 1995 - and must have been the biggest bunch of moaners of any fans in the league.
And then it got worse: top-level football started to become the ridiculous circus that it is now, and I thought to myself, ‘What am I doing investing emotional attachment and money in something over which I have no control and that constantly gets less likeable and treats me as a ‘fan’ worse and worse?’
You don’t need me to list all the ways that the game has been corrupted, spoiled and exploited in the last 15-20 years. There is a point where something simply stops being what it was: at that point you can rightly say, I don’t recognise this as what I loved, and get rid.
People compare following a team to a girlfriend or wife - but it’s more like a family member cos you can‘t choose them (although people do seem to choose teams these days …). In the case of football, an abusive family member with severe behavioural problems who treats you like sh * t yet demands total adoration - and money - at all times.
Anyone who puts up with that for any length of time is a sap, and that’s what being a football fan began to feel like to me - being a sap, a mug. I’m not going to give respect, support and money to something as dysfunctional and distant from me as top-level football - it’s totally pointless.
Lower league might be a bit different - but even there, the behaviour of players and fans alike can still be infantile and disgusting, in my opinion.
The only sensible thing to do was to switch my attention and energy to my other favourite team sports, sports that retained some sort of integrity, honour and sportsmanship - namely rugby and cricket.
Anyway, you probably really don’t give a monkey’s about any of that, but I just thought I‘d try to explain my post.
Well done blues, am gutted but quite frankly Arsenal were lucky to have 11 men on pitch and be level at half time!! Thought Arsenal were better in 2nd half and was looking forward to extra time as I thought Arsenal would win then, but fair play you took the chance given.
Hope it doesn't upset them too much, Orient must be rubbing their hands with glee as They could get a victory.
Enjoy it, and welcome to Europe.
Only positive point today, Man City drawing, in theory spurs and chelsea could pinch the last places in the top 4 and they miss out........
Why thank you Biara... I think I'm off for a few beers after that one. I couldn't help but think that we were going to be too busy celebrating after the second goal and give away a goal in the last 5 or 6 minutes.
Not a bad match today and I am impressed with the result - I like to see the underdogs do good, but more importantly I like to see a club other than the 'Big 4' win some silverware.
Arsenal will win nowt again this season I fear.
Have a study at this
Lost at ipswich
Struggled to draw with leeds at home (penalty)
Struggled to beat huddersfield at hone (another penalty)
Lost a 4 goal lead at newcastle
Been taken to a replay by Leyton Orient
and this is supposed to be league championship contenders,
I don't really think so.
But
They do play entertaining football it just has no end product.
A striker and a good goalie would mend that team.
At least 1 team in the so called big 4, does not seem to want to win any silverware, I think Arsene has an unknown allergy that he hasn't mentioned.... (to go with his occasional dodgy eyesite)Quote:
Originally Posted by sore legs
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Originally Posted by Stagger
The new keeper is good, that was the defenders fault. I think this Arsenal is not far off, Song, Wilshere and the new keeper have made a big difference.
Everyone else is dropping points and United have a very tough next 5 games..
Chelsea have had an unbelievable bad run, City have dropped too many points. I still think Liverpool may yet grab 4th. Big loss yesterday though.
Good season, into march and nothing is decided.
Think rooney will get a ban, tbh the wigan player stepped across his path so should also get some punishment. Depends on Clattenberg. Silly by Rooney but think I'd have had a swing had someone done that to be, just a reaction.
United?
It was an entertaining weekend of sport all round with an excellent game of football yesterday in the Carling Cup final and the cricket with England getting the draw against India and England beating France on Saturday. There were mistakes made in all 3 matches but thats what made them so entertaining :D
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Originally Posted by IainR
Liverpool, no chance.
Prediction for top 4
man u
arsenal
man c
chelsea
Rooney has been let off again...Quote:
Originally Posted by IainR
Should have been redcarded, 3 match ban. it's a pity some one who can play like him can also act like a terrace thug.
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Originally Posted by IanDarkpeak
Typical FA though...no consistency..
Can't see how Clattenberg could say it was just a freekick. The reluctance to acknowledge errors is staggering.
I understand why Rooney did it. I'd like to see how many time s McCarthy stepped across him before this because Rooney was waiting for him so there must have been previous.
Very lucky though.
Re top 4. I hope. United >Arsenal > City > Chelsea. Spurs 5th. Liverpool 6th.
Big loss for Liverpool yesterday, huge week for United. If we take 3 from 6 over this period I'll be happy. After that we have an easier run in.