Tonight's football thread

Watch the video footage.

Macarthy looked to see Rooney coming and changed his direction to block him, he also then at the last minute put his shoulder in. If you watch Rooney he tried to take some evasive action, a sort of side step and swerve move, and yes the elbow came up, but it wasn't a swinging elbow and half caused perhaps by him running at full tilt on a line that was open to him and then having to imbalance himself.

You may think a red, I would suggest a yellow at worst but I would also say that the cause was an illegal block by Macarthy - but of course some people are always ready to get stuck in to him.

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Originally Posted by IanDarkpeak

Rooney has been let off again...

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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I genuinely believe that the person who will lose out in the end his rooney himself though Ian. He will commit something a lot more serious, the trouble with rags is they think they are above the law, give this guy enough rope he will hang himself, he knows now he can get away with anything, or thinks he can?

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Originally Posted by Danbert Nocurry

I genuinely believe that the person who will lose out in the end his rooney himself though Ian. He will commit something a lot more serious, the trouble with rags is they think they are above the law, give this guy enough rope he will hang himself, he knows now he can get away with anything, or thinks he can?

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Really - I would say if you look at his experiences with the tabloids, he has got less chance of getting away with anything than probably any other footballer in England.
His elbow was much lower on the richter scale than Gerrards on Welbeck that he got away with - there was much less furore over Gerrard.

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Originally Posted by Witton Park

Really - I would say if you look at his experiences with the tabloids, he has got less chance of getting away with anything than probably any other footballer in England.
His elbow was much lower on the richter scale than Gerrards on Welbeck that he got away with - there was much less furore over Gerrard.

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Unfortunately not all players are saints like the blue half of manchester..http://www.tuxboard.com/video-tacle-de-jong-ben-arfa/

And this is an elbow by Gerrard on Brown...no ban either....was it that much different...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJyOqJ5VLvA

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Originally Posted by IainR

was it that much different...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJyOqJ5VLvA

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Well it was certainly more blatent!

Birmingham 2 - Arsenal 1 - Does god exist??? I doubt it....
Chelsea 2 - Man U 1 - I'm beginning to have faith again, he/she just has a weird sense of humour.....

Very happy, now we just need to beat Utd on sunday as well.

Not that I was bored or anything last night...

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Originally Posted by ukhursty

Very happy, now we just need to beat Utd on sunday as well.

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That'll be a great season then...

How the mighty have fallen...when I was a lad our season was beating Liverpool, because we had no chance of further success....

Anyway remind me, I'm losing count are we now at 20 or 21 years?

Chelsea 2-UTD 1. Happy days again and drogba was immense especially the last few minutes of Fergie time when he basically took on the whole UTD team alone!

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Originally Posted by Corniceman

Chelsea 2-UTD 1. Happy days again and drogba was immense especially the last few minutes of Fergie time when he basically took on the whole UTD team alone!

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No talk of City's shame?

Danbert your lot are bringing the game into disrepute..big money..drugs..is nothing sacred....you've ruined the game....

TBF it sounds like its's going to be a decongestant or something. 1 month, 3 max I reckon. Should recieve a ban but shouldn't be too harsh, IMO.

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Originally Posted by IainR

No talk of City's shame?

Danbert your lot are bringing the game into disrepute..big money..drugs..is nothing sacred....you've ruined the game....

TBF it sounds like its's going to be a decongestant or something. 1 month, 3 max I reckon. Should recieve a ban but shouldn't be too harsh, IMO.

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hahahaha!!!

At least he took the test when requested instead of running away like Ferdinand did!

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Originally Posted by IainR

No talk of City's shame?

Danbert your lot are bringing the game into disrepute..big money..drugs..is nothing sacred....you've ruined the game....

TBF it sounds like its's going to be a decongestant or something. 1 month, 3 max I reckon. Should recieve a ban but shouldn't be too harsh, IMO.

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Whatever he's been taking it's certainly not speed.

Slimming Pills. Apparently they make you sh!t

Clattenberg, Clattenberg, Clattenberg. Who gives a bloody toss? Is this what football has come down to: slow-motion replays of fouls and overexcited pundits?

People seem to be more interested in catching out refs and making them look stupid than in the game itself ... Alan Green and his ilk have a lot to answer for.

22 men kicking a bag of wind about !!

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Originally Posted by monkeynut

22 men kicking a bag of wind about !!

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'men'? mmm....

Dalglish seems to have improved things a bit at Anfield. Shame the Gunners couldn't win yesterday

Big game today is SPURS v Wolves
Come on spurs need this for 4th place, good chance of winning champ league but need this to guarantee defending trophy next year :)

What a win for Liverpool!!

Demolished Utd.

Suarez was quality.

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Originally Posted by chamber34

Big game today is SPURS v Wolves
Come on spurs need this for 4th place, good chance of winning champ league but need this to guarantee defending trophy next year :)

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Half Time 2-2 Excellent match so far!

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Originally Posted by ukhursty

What a win for Liverpool!!

Demolished Utd.

Suarez was quality.

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Not a football fan but over the moon with that, there's annoying pillock at work who supports Utd, he'll be sulking all day tomorrow, bloody marvellous:thumbup:

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Originally Posted by ukhursty

What a win for Liverpool!!

Demolished Utd.

Suarez was quality.

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Just got in, heard about the result on the radio on the way home and wondered what witty comment Danbert may have put on? but there's nothing here????:confused:

Tick Tock maybe..............

A couple of cracking matches today, 10 goals with a few talking points thrown in. Most entertaining match of the two I thought though was Wolves and Spurs :cool:

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Originally Posted by IanDarkpeak

Just got in, heard about the result on the radio on the way home and wondered what witty comment Danbert may have put on? but there's nothing here????:confused:

Tick Tock maybe..............

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:D

What about - Terry Christian, Angus Dayton, Zoe Ball, Geoff Boycott, Mick Hucknall, Shane Ritchie, Michael Le Vell, Eamon Holmes, Gary Neville, The Heathens your boys took a hell of a beating....


Tick Tock

Aye, we did. It's never nice losing to our major North-West rivals.

Geoff Boycott????

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Originally Posted by TheHeathens

Aye, we did. It's never nice losing to our major North-West rivals.

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You'll have to wait until next year though when The CLarets come back up.

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Originally Posted by Witton Park

You'll have to wait until next year though when The CLarets come back up.

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Went on the Turf on saturday, got a couple of free tickets through Tickets for Troops.

Thought they played some quality footy in the first half, but they were trying to walk it in all the time. Deffo need to be more ruthless and have a pop more often. Good 3 points for em anyways!

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Originally Posted by TheHeathens

Aye, we did. It's never nice losing to our major North-West rivals.

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ooo good come back Heathens :)

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Originally Posted by TheHeathens

Aye, we did. It's never nice losing to our major North-West rivals.

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...That's because you love us and want to be us





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Originally Posted by stevefoster

...there's annoying pillock at work who supports Utd...

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really?
I'm shocked.

there are annoying poles at work that support utd...

Well? whats happend to arsenals 4 trophies?

Oh dear Mr W, was it that naughty man again?

MASSIVE Attendance for City tonight - 27,000.

Yes, it was a 6pm kick off but surely if (as they claim) that Mancunians are cITY fans, they could have filled more than that for a Europa last 16 game?

Very poor.

Chelski 2 City 0

Great goal by Ramires :cool::cool::cool:

Never posted here before but been to Sunderland v Liverpool game today.

Referee and his linesman!! were bollox and ruined the game, couldn't actually see Sunderland scoring TBH but some of the decisions were completely wrong.

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Originally Posted by Nee Bother

Never posted here before but been to Sunderland v Liverpool game today.

Referee and his linesman!! were bollox and ruined the game, couldn't actually see Sunderland scoring TBH but some of the decisions were completely wrong.

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Not a big football fan (overpaid, underworked, namby pambies) but i'm auld enough to remember Sunderland beating Leeds in the FA cup final, i was rooting for them cos all me marra's were Leeds fans and everyone loves an underdog:D

Reet, i'm off to watch some Rugby League, real man's game:p

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Originally Posted by Nee Bother

Never posted here before but been to Sunderland v Liverpool game today.

Referee and his linesman!! were bollox and ruined the game, couldn't actually see Sunderland scoring TBH but some of the decisions were completely wrong.

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I only heard this on t'radio on way back from the Dales - apparently the ref gave a free kick for a foul outside the box but Linesman over-ruled him and gave a penalty - when did that rule come in that linesman has final say?!!

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Originally Posted by Multiterrainer

I only heard this on t'radio on way back from the Dales - apparently the ref gave a free kick for a foul outside the box but Linesman over-ruled him and gave a penalty - when did that rule come in that linesman has final say?!!

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Yup...thats the linesman who was on opposite side of pitch when the ref was about 8 - 10 yards away!!
He didn't even put his flag up until the Liverpool players started whinging!! Even the TV pundits agreed with me!!