brokenbeans
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Game against WBA should be decent today.
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Football Thread 2013/14 |OT7| The Ramsey Effect
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ZahALLAH will descend from the sky at 70 mins.
brokenbeans
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I really hope young doesn't play, unless he's injured? Please say he injured.
I wanna see Nani though.
WBA had a guy on the right last weekend he looked shit hot.
Amalfitano! That's the guy.
Lambda Pie
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Tim the Wiz
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It's October already. I have no hope. But don't worry, at least Ashley Young will still be plying his trade down our left wing:
Ashley played against Crystal Palace and probably won us the game, said Moyes. He got us a penalty and was through with a chance to score another goal.
He didnt play particularly well against City, but you could probably have picked another half-a-dozen who didnt.
It's forgiveable at the start of the season but Moyes should have learned something from playing Phil Neville over Barkley.
brokenbeans
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When can we start negotiations over Adnans contract?
Hyped for today's match. It's amazing how much the team has improved from a year ago when we lost this fixture. 4-2. Team that played that day was:
Friedel
Walker Gallas Caulker Vertonghen
Sandro Huddlestone
Lennon Dempsey Sigurdsson
Defoe
Today we wil see:
Lloris
Walker Dawson Vertonghen Rose
Paulinho Dembele
Townsend Eriksen Sigurdsson
Soldado
Friedel
Walker Gallas Caulker Vertonghen
Sandro Huddlestone
Lennon Dempsey Sigurdsson
Defoe
Today we wil see:
Lloris
Walker Dawson Vertonghen Rose
Paulinho Dembele
Townsend Eriksen Sigurdsson
Soldado
Shanks D Zoro
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Why no Lamela? What is the point of signing him and playing Townsend???
What do you make of this AVB vs Mourinho war of words between the two?
And yeah with that team you have a good chance. Hope you can at least get a draw from this one. Please don't bloody lose, really want a Spurs win here.
Broder Salsa
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Shanks D Zoro
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I chose not to read it. That guy is a boring fuck.
Bit of an odd statement from Owen. I'd say it's Arsenal and Spurs who look most like top four sides. Arsenal in particular have made winning look formulaic since that defeat to Villa, and they're improving their play with every game. Spurs are improving, too. Eriksen has made a massive difference and they've got the creativity in the team now to carve out a hatful of chances, which will lead to them bulldozing a few guff teams.
About to lay on an accy.
About to lay on an accy.
City - Bayern still not sold out. They are in full PR mode right now, members are being called by a message spoken by Kompany, there's a ad for it before every video on the website... price £48 (jr £25), a bit expensive but it's still the CL champions. All PL games in the last couple of years sold out but CL seems harder, I guess it's because mid-week and shown on TV.
Complete drivel. Arsenal have amassed a ridiculous amount of points since they lost to Spurs last season. They've dropped something like 7 points out of 45.
It might be hard to understand how Wenger is doing it but their form is title-winning standard.
step up ur game!
Yeah mid week people have work the next day and the car parks at the Etihad are an absolute nightmare to get out of.
One fair bit though:
Or, if they were injured.
But this is a bit ridiculous:
I think I read somewhere that transfer had been going on for weeks? Plus, I mean, surely he can't believe you'd panic buy in the last day and bid £40m just to please the fans.
Didn't know that, they have the new subway station up and running since a while back right? Do you think the re-building of everything will make it better?
Yeah they have the metrolink up and running. Not sure really, probably doesn't help when they have to let people cross the road to get to the car park.
Mansour should build some bridges there he has enough money anyway.
King has been mad/bad since that accident.The Shining's sequel
Now that you say it, they've talked about new bridges to be built.
It's hard to see but it's arena roof and then one of the bridges, from 0:40 of their project video:
http://www.mcfc.com/citytv/Features/2011/September/Planned-Academy-flythrough
Chelsea have won one out of the last 5 matches at White Hart Lane. We have won 2, drawn 2 and lost 1. The defeat was last season and Bale, Dembele, Kaboul, Assou-Ekotto and Lloris were all missing.
We have a full strength team today (hopefully) so I think we can give it a good go.
If they can win today then Spurs are genuine title contenders IMO.
Shanks D Zoro
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Only happened in the last couple of days. RM offered him in the last couple of weeks of the transfer window to various clubs. Arsenal only acted on it with not long remaining.
There were false rumours on the deadline day that Ozil had been in London a week earlier to do official photos.
Why? They beat utd, city and arsenal last season and they came nowhere near the title.
The season's far too long to be calling that now.
Everyone called them title contenders last year when they beat United and were fairly close to the top at Christmas. Then they slipped somewhat, then they got beat by us, and then they slipped out of Champions League qualification.
I think they've got a great squad but there's a long way to go.
Freewheelin'
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If Spurs had kept Bale, then I could have seen them as title contenders.
Alas, they don't have him and they'll challenge for a CL place instead
Alas, they don't have him and they'll challenge for a CL place instead
Gareth Bale
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Do you mean the season before? We were 13 points from the top at Christmas last season.
Well it is too early, but I'd say this year, they're not a one man team. The result against Cardif showed team spirit. With the rumours they're going to buy new players in Jan, you never know.
Oh FFS Rose didn't make it. Naughton's horrendous as a LB I'm worried now.
BAE why did they send you away...
Spurs team: Lloris, Walker, Dawson, Vertonghen, Naughton, Dembele, Paulinho, Eriksen, Townsend, Sigurdsson, Soldado
Chelsea:Cech; Ivanovic, D Luiz, Terry (c), Cole; Mikel, Lampard; Ramires, Oscar, Hazard; Torres.
BAE why did they send you away...
Spurs team: Lloris, Walker, Dawson, Vertonghen, Naughton, Dembele, Paulinho, Eriksen, Townsend, Sigurdsson, Soldado
Chelsea:Cech; Ivanovic, D Luiz, Terry (c), Cole; Mikel, Lampard; Ramires, Oscar, Hazard; Torres.
th cardiff result shows little, we can't really draw much from such a small sample. its perfectly possible for results to come in long streams of wins and losses as well so their good form thus far doesn't tell us much either.
i wouldn't think too much about January either - spurs already have a good deep squad
the only way to improve now is to add a real world class player and they typically don't move in January, or move for ridiculous sums
Meus Renaissance
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It's interesting to note the stark contrast in the atmosphere surrounding the club [Arsenal] and Wenger after a difficult transfer window. We went into the North London derby with a realisation that after years of failure and stagnant development, that these once lowly-rivals had now eclipsed us in ambition. We won the game, though not convincingly. But it was the sort of afternoon where winning meant a statement and it was a statement to ourselves that we needed more than anything else.
Cue deadline transfer day and we still hadn't signed anyone and pending managerial contract extensions lead to whispers of discontent. Ozil signs and has a brilliant debut; everything changes.
But the memory of his debut first half performance cant sustain our excitement forever. Truth is, we were questionable in the second half and awful for both halves against Marseille. The following fixture at home to Stoke was woeful in every regard. We face an arguably better footballing-side next who are in good form. Few now expect an easy tie at the Liberty Stadium.
We absolutely need the win today to continue our run - the sort of run champions make. But to convince ourselves and others, we need to start performing on a consistent basis; we need to improve our passing, our movement and play the ball faster. We don't do that enough. We don't dominate periods of games enough.
Before we can think about league table positions - which seems to dominate talk of most teams - we need to take a closer look at how effective our approach is because there has been an alarming drop in our technical ability over the last few years.
Cue deadline transfer day and we still hadn't signed anyone and pending managerial contract extensions lead to whispers of discontent. Ozil signs and has a brilliant debut; everything changes.
But the memory of his debut first half performance cant sustain our excitement forever. Truth is, we were questionable in the second half and awful for both halves against Marseille. The following fixture at home to Stoke was woeful in every regard. We face an arguably better footballing-side next who are in good form. Few now expect an easy tie at the Liberty Stadium.
We absolutely need the win today to continue our run - the sort of run champions make. But to convince ourselves and others, we need to start performing on a consistent basis; we need to improve our passing, our movement and play the ball faster. We don't do that enough. We don't dominate periods of games enough.
Before we can think about league table positions - which seems to dominate talk of most teams - we need to take a closer look at how effective our approach is because there has been an alarming drop in our technical ability over the last few years.
Yeah, considering how good he was against Spurs last season
brokenbeans
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Probably because last season they didn't start so well, so this seems like change.
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