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Football Thread 2011/12 |OT8| Made it to the Championship play-offs
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To be honest, even Newcastle would benefit by playing similarly. Unlike Swanselona, we have the final ball and ASSASSINS.
Instead, we still try to play hoof ball every so often which never works. We don't just have Ba to give the ball to now so we need to play on the deck. It's the only way we get our goals unless Pardew's been asleep the entire time. We have the players to pass through an entire team and get a goal in one movement.
List of Premier League clean sheets: http://www.premiership-football.co.uk/Premiership-League-Table-Clean-Sheets.php
Newcastle joint second! GO ON KRUL!
For those of you who missed the spectacular Madrid - Valencia match, here are the highlights
Hahah Kyoufu <3 BTW I bumped into this beautiful track from Xenoblade (not playing it yet, but heard it thanks to a thread on GAF - Beauuuuuutifullllllllllll!
Hahah Kyoufu <3 BTW I bumped into this beautiful track from Xenoblade (not playing it yet, but heard it thanks to a thread on GAF - Beauuuuuutifullllllllllll!
UnblessedSoul
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Ben Afar's goal wow, I'm thinking goal of the season, Newcastle now level on points with Spurs, Did I hear someone say champions league
Awesome Animals
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Martin Laursen. What a legend.
That blows my mind. We've let in so many goals this season. It's either clean sheets or drubbings for us lol.
Regarding hoofball... remember the Arsenal game a few weeks ago? We got it completely wrong there by not playing Cisse and just hoofing it
That is an amazing track.
British Monsoon
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Sure, but that was donkeys ago and Sam doesn't have that kind of quality now, yet persists with forcing square pegs in round holes. It doesn't matter that we have players like Lansbury, Maynard, Vaz Te and Baldock, because 90% of the time we're never set up to properly utilise them, and Sam's seemingly too stubborn to change his ways.
Congrats to the Newcastle folks here, must feel wonderful to have SUCH AMAZING FINISHERS lol. Well deserved. If Chelsea don't get 4th, I hope you do.
Sorry to the Tottenham folks here, I thought they'd pull out with a win after the ref did ignored 3 penalty appeals for Norwich.
Everton, wow. Farid, why are you banned in such moments?
Sunderland, what's up :/???
Valencia, I love you.
I don't watch Serie A much, any funny mess ups recently of epic proportions? I'd love for Chelsea to pick up many trophies, most of all the CL obviously. But what the heck, Tottenham game was messed up today - not the team, the refs obviously - 3 clear penalties denied Eurosport says, one of which should have included a red card for King. We we also denied 2 penalties against them when we played them at home. But again we got lucky against Wigan so it goes around.
Yeah it's pretty messed up bro! Look at my post above to Woodenlung for another amazing referee blunder at the Premier League. BTW what did you think of last night's game? HATS OFF TO VALENCIA - and DAT KEEPER!!!! Can't believe he was able to not fall for any of the diving. They are lucky they did not get carded even - when Messi dove last he got a yellow.
You, sir, are too kind <3
Bravo to the canaries indeed. Now we better, FOR ONCE, take advantage :'(!!!!!! And by that I don't mean a draw. It'll be tough, Fulham are in good form at the moment, plus it's away -_-.
Sorry to the Tottenham folks here, I thought they'd pull out with a win after the ref did ignored 3 penalty appeals for Norwich.
Everton, wow. Farid, why are you banned in such moments?
Sunderland, what's up :/???
Valencia, I love you.
In the end they are both terrible wrong though. Serie a is a whole other level of incompetence than what is seen in la liga and premier league. Also don't worry about CL, Fady, Chelsea will obviously win CL.
I don't watch Serie A much, any funny mess ups recently of epic proportions? I'd love for Chelsea to pick up many trophies, most of all the CL obviously. But what the heck, Tottenham game was messed up today - not the team, the refs obviously - 3 clear penalties denied Eurosport says, one of which should have included a red card for King. We we also denied 2 penalties against them when we played them at home. But again we got lucky against Wigan so it goes around.
Yeah it's pretty messed up bro! Look at my post above to Woodenlung for another amazing referee blunder at the Premier League. BTW what did you think of last night's game? HATS OFF TO VALENCIA - and DAT KEEPER!!!! Can't believe he was able to not fall for any of the diving. They are lucky they did not get carded even - when Messi dove last he got a yellow.
So this is what it feels like to be included in a Fady multiquote post, I feel all warm and fuzzy inside
You, sir, are too kind <3
Bravo to the canaries indeed. Now we better, FOR ONCE, take advantage :'(!!!!!! And by that I don't mean a draw. It'll be tough, Fulham are in good form at the moment, plus it's away -_-.
José Mourinho
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Spurs dropping points and giving us the chance to go fourth means we're a dead cert not to show up and take our chances tonight.
Don't get me wrong, it would be typical of us to bottle it tonight given the fact one of our rivals has done us a favour, but we're still in it.
Yeah. On the Chelsea forum I post on they all had fourth written off because Arsenal won yesterday. I said not to speak so soon because it wasn't Arsenal we need be concerned with, but more so the downward spiral of Spurs. A bunch of them told me we had no hope and it was gone... and then look what Spurs go and do today.
Don't get me wrong, it would be typical of us to bottle it tonight given the fact one of our rivals has done us a favour, but we're still in it.
THIS IS WHAT IS HAS COME TO. This is the kind of thing the Chelsea fans expect, and they prove us right time and time again
!!!Aston Villa 1-0 Stoke
Weimann, excite!!!!!!
Fulham is going to be tough, but not impossible. I wonder what the players are thinking about though. Do they care more about CL qualification or the semi-final?
flintstryker
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THIS IS WHAT IS HAS COME TO. This is the kind of thing the Chelsea fans expect, and they prove us right time and time again
i for one expects a win in every game.
José Mourinho
cocknose
flintstryker, the most disappointed fan ever. :lol
For a club like Chelsea, both, though they should ideally prioritise the league. Chelsea in the Europa League is crazy juju.
flintstryker
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Well next year they won't have a CL Campaign to look forward to unless they finish 4th.
José Mourinho
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Good man, ktbffh!sadly
If Chelsea win the Champions League, then only the top 3 will get CL next year.
So Chelsea better not win the CL
They're going to get spizzle spanked by Barcelona's left butt cheek.
ten. linde has six and amos one.
chesney has eleven as does reina, krul and friedal twelve, hart thirteen
so possible but quite unlikely. it would be the icing, but he's proved himself anyway.
Indeed he has.
He's just come back from injury iirc.
He is coming off a nasty injury (had surgey a few weeks ago). He had assumed to be out for this match. I am surprised to see him on the bench to be honest.
flintstryker
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cheers!
Agreed. Same can be said for Krul. We've not had a great back line, especially mid-season when we were getting pounded by 4-5 goals in various games.
It is, I like him a lot, he's a bit crazy but most good keepers are. Runs out of his goal too much, for me, but when it works, it can save you points.
Awesome Animals
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José Mourinho
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Newcastle will go far should they qualify then.
Fair do's. Still, it's a shame to see someone of his talent have a pretty disappointing season. He's one of those players who has the potential to really help his team out and Villa deserve better than what they have been getting.
So United have had 16 clean sheets this season?
Thats pretty good considering the amount of chopping and changing in defence.
We don't care. Dat CL money.
True enough. he has struggled to bed in. Weird one. he really seems a talented player. he may be like Ireland for us. A season of shit then becomes one of our best players.
José Mourinho
cocknose
To be fair, I wouldn't begrudge Newcastle a spot.
his grin as the fans applauded him at the end of last weeks blackburn game is one of my season highlights
though it's not quite as good as this moment
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