I'm really happy for Michael Laudrup. Congrats baby
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he was doing analysis for sky sports la liga games last year, dude is full of knowledge and class
wouldn't mind him being madrid's manager one day
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Football Thread 2012/13 |OT2| @agent_89: My sources tell me the season has started
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he was doing analysis for sky sports la liga games last year, dude is full of knowledge and class
wouldn't mind him being madrid's manager one day
radioheadrule83
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The penalties were unfortunate, I'm less bothered by the second than the first.. skrtel was asleep / naive for the second, he should have been sharper - but agger was very hard done by, it was a bought penalty, barely any contact at all.
Couple of things didn't work today: Johnson on the left has been awful, really poor distribution. Borini was inconsequential in the first half and not much better in the second. Putting Caroll on at 3-0, at a lower priority than Joe Cole is an insult, he should have been on sooner. Gerrard didn't have a good game either tbh.
Allen looks good, much better in dead ball situations than Charlie Adam, who I was glad not to see.
Just one of those days, get Enrique back in there, try sterling or something when attacking options are lacking, give poor Carroll a chance!
Couple of things didn't work today: Johnson on the left has been awful, really poor distribution. Borini was inconsequential in the first half and not much better in the second. Putting Caroll on at 3-0, at a lower priority than Joe Cole is an insult, he should have been on sooner. Gerrard didn't have a good game either tbh.
Allen looks good, much better in dead ball situations than Charlie Adam, who I was glad not to see.
Just one of those days, get Enrique back in there, try sterling or something when attacking options are lacking, give poor Carroll a chance!
Yep. 8pm kickoff, I think.
City?
Early in the season, it's always about boosting team value, and he will be going up fast this week!
Git.
Convince him that blue is actually red.
Mostly watched the Liverpool match but saw all the goals, had them all open on LOF. Cheers for that Viva, it's class.
Liverpool... you never let me down. To be fair, the possession side of things is encouraging, the Gera goal you could do nothing about and the second penalty might have been a little harsh. But the way they fell apart after Agger went off... and their finishing, fucking hell. I like Rodgers, I really do. But the lols were incredible. Fantastic for Clarke as well, he'll be over the moon.
Swansea, fucking class. Laudrup has swag and while only having marginally more possession, five goals? Against that sack of shites QPR?! I feel bad for Fabio and Park (and Green was my FPL keeper LOL) but fuck Mark Hughes and the rest, well done. Michu (also in my FPL team!) looked class, Dyer and De Guzman also.
West Ham winning, bah. Every time I flicked to it long balls were flying up the pitch, but Villa didn't look great either. Will take a bit of time for some of the signings to bed in for both teams, but Lambert's great. West Ham will comfortably stay up.
Arsenal just don't know what to do when faced with a stoic defence. Cazorla looked class though. I think Podolski and Giroud should start together really, it's a travesty that Gervinho is starting ahead of one of them when he can't finish for fucking shit. Sunderland looked poor up top when I was watching but defence looked good. I think they'll be good until February and then O'Neill curse of not rotating will kick in.
Fulham are a lovely attractive team, Jol's done a great job. If they can hold onto Dempsey and Dembele they'll be fantastic. Petric looks a canny buy already. Feel bad for Hughton but he's got a job on his hands. Good squad but they played above themselves last year.
Nice to see Reading get a late equaliser against Stoke. Didn't look great quality wise every time I flicked to that as well. McDermott and Pulis both looked like tits on the touchline as well.
Liverpool... you never let me down. To be fair, the possession side of things is encouraging, the Gera goal you could do nothing about and the second penalty might have been a little harsh. But the way they fell apart after Agger went off... and their finishing, fucking hell. I like Rodgers, I really do. But the lols were incredible. Fantastic for Clarke as well, he'll be over the moon.
Swansea, fucking class. Laudrup has swag and while only having marginally more possession, five goals? Against that sack of shites QPR?! I feel bad for Fabio and Park (and Green was my FPL keeper LOL) but fuck Mark Hughes and the rest, well done. Michu (also in my FPL team!) looked class, Dyer and De Guzman also.
West Ham winning, bah. Every time I flicked to it long balls were flying up the pitch, but Villa didn't look great either. Will take a bit of time for some of the signings to bed in for both teams, but Lambert's great. West Ham will comfortably stay up.
Arsenal just don't know what to do when faced with a stoic defence. Cazorla looked class though. I think Podolski and Giroud should start together really, it's a travesty that Gervinho is starting ahead of one of them when he can't finish for fucking shit. Sunderland looked poor up top when I was watching but defence looked good. I think they'll be good until February and then O'Neill curse of not rotating will kick in.
Fulham are a lovely attractive team, Jol's done a great job. If they can hold onto Dempsey and Dembele they'll be fantastic. Petric looks a canny buy already. Feel bad for Hughton but he's got a job on his hands. Good squad but they played above themselves last year.
Nice to see Reading get a late equaliser against Stoke. Didn't look great quality wise every time I flicked to that as well. McDermott and Pulis both looked like tits on the touchline as well.
Your upcoming fixtures man.... It's gonna be rough.
The_Hitcher89
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That was awful. Simply awful. We didn't actually play badly up until the red card, but we hardly deserved to win either. Some utterly sloppy passing effectively killing off our ability to play the Rodgers style, plus no Plan B (Joe Cole, are you fucking kidding me?) and a return to passing it backwards when there are attacking but risky options around you made us totally incapable of fighting back.
WRT to the refereeing decisions, the one against Agger was probably right; even though the player could very easily have stayed on his feet, when you go down under contact like that in the box, it has to be a penalty. I have stated my thoughts on the horrendous instant red card for the last man rule before, but according to the rules, it was the right call, although weren't the FA supposed to be changing that?
As for the Skrtel penalty, I take it Dowd has never heard of the term 'benefit of the doubt'; what exactly was Skrtel supposed to do there? Long sneaked around him and as he was about to clear the ball, ran into his foot and went down. Hell, even the fan reaction was practically non-existent. I just think this decision sets a bad precedent and I can see many players in future doing the same thing and winning a giveaway penalty. Perhaps we should teach this trick to Suarez, for all his creativity and skill on the ball his finishing is just so bad.
WRT to the refereeing decisions, the one against Agger was probably right; even though the player could very easily have stayed on his feet, when you go down under contact like that in the box, it has to be a penalty. I have stated my thoughts on the horrendous instant red card for the last man rule before, but according to the rules, it was the right call, although weren't the FA supposed to be changing that?
As for the Skrtel penalty, I take it Dowd has never heard of the term 'benefit of the doubt'; what exactly was Skrtel supposed to do there? Long sneaked around him and as he was about to clear the ball, ran into his foot and went down. Hell, even the fan reaction was practically non-existent. I just think this decision sets a bad precedent and I can see many players in future doing the same thing and winning a giveaway penalty. Perhaps we should teach this trick to Suarez, for all his creativity and skill on the ball his finishing is just so bad.
Awful first game for Liverpool, hopefully we can put in a decent performance against Hearts mid-week and try to get a little bit of confidence back for the game against City, I don't really fancy our chances of getting a result against them next weekend though.
I won't moan about the penalties but wtf was Dowd doing with the lack of cards for West Brom players, we had players taken out on the edge of the box with no attempt to play the ball about 4 times and he handed out nothing :/
I won't moan about the penalties but wtf was Dowd doing with the lack of cards for West Brom players, we had players taken out on the edge of the box with no attempt to play the ball about 4 times and he handed out nothing :/
Hmmm..I wonder if he likes sky blue...he enjoyed watching me dance when Kun won it all on the last day of the season
and proclaimed that the 'Blue team won!!!'I think we'll manage at least a couple of draws. But yeah. Baptism by fire, for Rodgers.
Agree on both points. Hope Enrique's knock isn't serious. He's fit in very well into Rodgers system, and Johnson has to be on the right side in it.
And I think Allen is going to be great for the team, once he's integrated.
The Other One
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Arsenal agree terms with Barcelona for Song
http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/arsenal-agree-terms-with-barcelona-for-song
Feels bad man..
But it wasn't just the red card, it was at the same time, 2 penalties being awarded. Plus when you consider its a new manager with a new system, it will of course be difficult to keep to a system.
Speaking as to the match itself, first half was alright albeit lacking in penetration. Liverpool came out better in the 2nd but it was only a short time until the red. I spoke before that having Johnson and Borini on the left was foolish, it just cut out any threat from the left. Really, Borini should have been in the middle and Suarez out wide. Gerrard wasn't really involved in the game, seems to be a feature from preseason whereby he is key in one game and anonymous the next. Downing wasn't not great but he was looking far more confident, he was actually trying things as opposed to just passing it backwards. Mostly the other players were fairly average, the defence of course struggled once they were down to 10. One bizarre point was the introduction of Joe Cole ahead of Carroll, Rodgers seemed to be basing his decision on his dislike of the Carroll instead of thinking about the match at hand.
Bubble Metropolis
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José Mourinho
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You're actively trying to get your child to support Liverpool? What's wrong with you? He should disown you
I wonder how much Barca will get him for...?
Broder Salsa
Banned
:lol
Arsenal being Arsenal, selling all their best players when they realize they won't have a chance of winning trophies there. It's quite sad but mmm schadenfreude.
Newcastle
01 Krul
03 Santon
05 Simpson
14 Perch
27 S Taylor
04 Cabaye
10 Ben Arfa
18 Gutierrez
24 Tiote
09 Cisse
19 Ba
Substitutes
37 Harper
06 Williamson
08 Anita
16 R Taylor
15 Gosling
25 Obertan
23 Sh Ameobi
Tottenham
24 Friedel
04 Kaboul
13 Gallas
28 Walker
32 Assou-Ekotto
07 Lennon
11 Bale
22 Sigurdsson
29 Livermore
30 Sandro
18 Defoe
Substitutes
23 Cudicini
05 Vertonghen
16 Naughton
10 Van der Vaart
21 Jenas
31 Townsend
37 Kane
Isn't there a blue team in Merseyside he could support....
Mirror says 15m
I wonder how much Barca will get from him? Destined for a bench role.
probably not much, just look at how little they paid for fab
radioheadrule83
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Get him the Liverpool 3rd kit, its blue and awesome
Thanks, off to a terrible start in FF and had to make sure Ba and Cabaye were starting.
Meus Renaissance
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Cazorla looks remarkable. The rest looked like they weren't interested
Broder Salsa
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Why the lol?
It's mandatory for them to have release clauses in Spain, so having some ridiculously high makes sense if they don't want to sell.
Pretty much, though apparently our pass completion rate for the first half was 88%, more than any game last season. What do we win?
Think so too. Best trio of the day, by far.
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