Meus Renaissance
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Apparently those people are Guardiola and his family. Seriously sad.
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Football Thread 2011/12 |OT10| Silverware, promotion, survival, relegation and tears
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Man, the last half hour was torture. I felt like my heart was gonna jump out with every attack they made. So glad we held on for the trophy. Do you think RDM should just rest most of the first team for Munich now? I mean, if Newcastle or Spurs win, that more or less makes it impossible for us to get fourth, right?
Commiserations to any L'Pool fans btw. You gave a good game for the last half hour, you've got potential to be sure.
Not one club would turn down 35m for Carroll, someone who was only awesome for 6 months. He was otherwise still relatively inexperienced and young. Was a no brainer, irrelevant of how annoying it was at the time. That sale HAD to happen.
With Jose Enrique, he pretty much wanted to leave. Barton pissed off the hierarchy to the point of no return.
It's an entirely different situation now, especially with the financial strength of the club now. I do think we'd sell Ba if we got a ridiculous offer but teams aren't just gonna throw money around frequently so we'll be very lucky if we get any offers we deem suitable. Just cos we get offered some random number for a player doesn't mean we'll get rid of them straight up. Gonna take some idiotic offers to get Ashley to sell now that he's finally got the club where he wants it, financially AND in terms of on the pitch. Not even he would be so messed up in the head to throw that away. Not one single thing in the past would be even remotely as retarded as what it would be for him to fuck this up now. If he manages the impossible, I'm done with the club, pure and simple.
So yeah, I'm very optimistic.
Apparently those people are Guardiola and his family. Seriously sad.
Oh this picture hurt. I lost it when Messi got the 4th and they went over to him.
What a load of horseshit. SAF is afraid to spend money now. He's becoming Wenger.
Willkiller
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She just knew how dire the first half would be and she took action. Good on her.
Noticed that before kick off. That and the "Graham Norton was inside Didier Drogba last night" line were the two flashes of entertainment in what was a generally hellish experience.
I know it's been said time and time again but football really is a game of such minute margins. If Carroll's header was just a fraction more to the left we could've taken the game to extra time and perhaps, given the momentum, won the cup. Carroll would've also gained the recognition he deserved.
But all credit to Chelsea, they started the game much stronger and dominated play for 60 minutes. Just like against Barca they executed their plan better than we did.
José Mourinho
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Yeah, I say stick what young players we have available on. At this point 4th would completely rely on the results of others which isn't good enough. I'd rather we had a as strong a squad possible for the UCL final. I sort of fancy our chances.
That Graham Norton line was odd :lol
Liverpool were unfortunate today. My nerves were wrecked for the last 30 mins.
Unfortunate not to equalise, but there wasn't a huge sense of injustice at the final whistle; more a realisation that we've shot ourselves in the foot. I think Chelsea fans will admit that their team weren't exactly spectacular today, and we conceded two very poor goals.
It's interesting that Reina had a generally poor game in the final of 2006, extra time and penalties not withstanding, and was similarly ineffective today. In fact I'd say the differing performances of both keepers was, for me, the biggest factor in the result today. If Reina saves that simple one and Cech doesn't manage the wonder save near the end then it'd be a completely different story.
Although I'm definitely distraught to have lost, there is a sense that winning it might have papered over the cracks, not that I'm legitimising losing in any way. I think we need to look at this season realistically and not with the glint of silver fresh in our eyes, which might've been the case.
Lastly I think that if Carroll had rescued us, as it were, there might be a greater temptation to say, "You no what, we don't need to invest in a striker", which I think definitely isn't the case, despite Andy's great effort today.
LabouredSubterfuge
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Baconsaurus Rex
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Newcastle needs to bottle it
Sorry guys
Sorry guys
Where's the Ronaldo calm down gif when I need it?
Is it really bottling if we're playing against a billion dollar squad?
Is it really bottling if we're playing against a billion dollar squad?
Baconsaurus Rex
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More in the sense of wasting their chance on CL football after this amazing run.
whyyyyyy arsenal why
That's the question. Fucking Arsenal.... Fuck you Szczesny...
'He scores when he wants' only applies to this man.
Baconsaurus Rex
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Can't put all the blame on the keeper with such horrid defending.
Think he's got aspirations elsewhere sadly from what I'm hearing, and he's put in a good enough performance (especially against Udinese and Athletico) to get a move somewhere decent. Good luck to him if he does.
Being overlooked for the England squad is one of the big things that hit players like him up here and I'm not sure why it happens (wait, yes I am, it's the SPL so they must all automatically be shit). Players like Chris Sutton, Alan Thompson, etc were scoring against Barcelona and Juventus on a weekly basis and never got a look-in. Why isn't Gary Hooper in the under 21s? He scored almost 50 goals over the past 2 seasons. Ah but it's easy to score up here, right? Never mind that Jelavic is scoring more goals for Everton than Rangers. Never mind that Charlie Adam was booed for being the worst player in the Rangers squad. It's all tragic really.
Yeah it's criminal that Forster hasn't had a look-in and shite like Robert Green get selected.
This year, yeah it's been a problem. He's had a poor season by his standards. He still makes at least two or three perfect passes all the way from box to box, and he has a great command of the area... but you can take it from the man himself. It's been a poor year.
This result makes me think that Kenny will be stepping down in the summer. We won't sack him, but he might get a suggestive message from the owners saying "thanks for the effort."
This is what I also assume will happen.
It was just a week or two ago when you were singing his praises
It was also just a week or two ago when you were so confident Arsenal had it easy for 3rd
That moment when Holt was sprinting right at him and he still - while square on - controlled it on his chest and put in a pissweak effort at a clearance that went straight into Holt.
He deserved to get punished there. It was Barthez-like, except shit.
Kenny was moved to a DoF role at Celtic rather than sacked after his time as manager, since he had a good relationship with the club / was generally good to have around for morale and knowledge (until MON required he leave as a condition for taking the manager job). Could see a similar situation at Liverpool.
I'm actually baffled why the Man United game is not the first game instead.
It's not just Szcz but Vermaelen as well. Kos had his moments, it was just horrendous but that first goal set the tone and Szcz should have stopped that. That was sloppy.
I am just pissed at him for now, it will pass. Nothing has changed, Szczesny is still a top class keeper but he let us down with that first goal and I feel he could have done better with the 3rd goal as well.It was just a week or two ago when you were singing his praises
It was also just a week or two ago when you were so confident Arsenal had it easy for 3rd
And 3rd is gone now. 5th spot most likely but we may get 4th if we're lucky and pray for a Bayern Munich victory...
Tell me about it. This is the first time since the unlucky 2003 CL final that I fell like I'll never recover if we don't make history. I'm sure I would, however, because no matter how it ends, we're finally back after six years of pure football hell. NOI VOGLIAMO QUESTA VITTORIA!
I haven't been able to get much sleep this week so I thought I'd try to get my sleeping patterns back to normal. I went to sleep at 11pm on Friday night and I didn't wake up until 1.30pm Saturday afternoon. I probably would have slept longer too except my phone was ringing.
Now I can't get to sleep again and my sleep pattern is screwed.
Now I can't get to sleep again and my sleep pattern is screwed.
Happened to me as well this weekend. Not looking forward to trying to sleep tonight.
I'm into fighting games, so one thing I can do is play a shit load of a fighting game against the computer. Like 3+ hours. Then when I'm laying down, the monotonous drone of my brain telling me to do my combos puts me to sleep nice and fast.
3 hours of Tekken 6 today!
Its 5:30 AM here...well i woke up at 4 PM so immalright.
I do not understand why people expect City to win the league. They are very unpredictable, much more so than ManU. Just the way City lost their last lead with a load of poor results. The way, they went out of the CL too.
Winning over Newcastle will not be a walk in the park. I will not be surprised it they tie.
I do not understand why people expect City to win the league. They are very unpredictable, much more so than ManU. Just the way City lost their last lead with a load of poor results. The way, they went out of the CL too.
Winning over Newcastle will not be a walk in the park. I will not be surprised it they tie.
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everything wrong with football today is in this statement
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17967968
Scottish Premier League clubs are seeking more information on preferred bidder Bill Miller's plans for Rangers.
But Kilmarnock chairman Michael Johnston thinks it is likely they will remain in the top flight, even if it is in the guise of a newly formed company.
"Members see the commercial benefits of having Rangers, even as a newco," Johnston told BBC Scotland.
"The clubs are mindful of a sporting integrity aspect but the commercial benefits may outweigh that."
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17967968
Scottish Premier League clubs are seeking more information on preferred bidder Bill Miller's plans for Rangers.
But Kilmarnock chairman Michael Johnston thinks it is likely they will remain in the top flight, even if it is in the guise of a newly formed company.
"Members see the commercial benefits of having Rangers, even as a newco," Johnston told BBC Scotland.
"The clubs are mindful of a sporting integrity aspect but the commercial benefits may outweigh that."
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Haha, I do the same thing, except with UMvC3 and SF. Are you looking forward to Tekken Tag 2?
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