Football: WORLD CUP 06 and close season/transfer discussion.

No Name · Post by **No Name** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 8:51 pm 0

Just heard the same thing on Five Live. It beggars belief. The idiots who kept it from him should have their balls viced every two weeks for the rest of their days.

Jon · Post by **Jon** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 9:28 pm 0

Bloody hell. How could anyone, or any group of people, come to the conclusion that that was a good idea. Horrible.

mac monkey · Post by **mac monkey** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 9:32 pm 0

That is absolutely shocking how selfish can they be.....unbelievable

Sickboy · Post by **Sickboy** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 9:33 pm 0

A tragic story in itself, but what really stinks is that apparently this has
just come out now, and Lua Lua has only just been told that his son died,
because the football authorities did not want to jeopardise his
concentration during the Cup of African Nations where I understand he was
playing with Congo.

This absolutely disgusts me, and I don't say that often. Whatever Shankly
may have thought, football is not more important than life or death, and
when it's your child nothing comes close. No matter how much they thought
they needed this player, the Congo FA should pay for this.

A close uncle died when I was on my honeymoon, and no-one told us until we
came back. I kind of understand that, I suppose had my wife and I known
about it we wouldn't have enjoyed a once in a lifetime experience that we
did. But a small part of me would have liked to have known. An uncle is an
uncle though and if it was a child or parent I think everything else comes
second.

Just... disgusting. My youngest son will be a similar age in a couple of months and that makes me want to sob with outrage.

Dio · Post by **Dio** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 9:46 pm 0

Well, I fear that's Everton out of the cup, unless a Liverpool-style comeback is on the cards...

mac monkey · Post by **mac monkey** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 9:55 pm 0

Dio wrote:Well, I fear that's Everton out of the cup, unless a Liverpool-style comeback is on the cards...

Yeah, well i think we could do with one now, 2-0 down to Charlton

We bloody never win games in hand

Zoot · Post by **Zoot** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 11:01 pm 0

i8manx wrote:
Dio wrote:Well, I fear that's Everton out of the cup, unless a Liverpool-style comeback is on the cards...
Yeah, well i think we could do with one now, 2-0 down to Charlton

We bloody never win games in hand

cyric100 · Post by **cyric100** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 11:14 pm 0

i8manx wrote: We bloody never win games in hand

Well you shouldn't procrastinate and should play them at the appropriate time. If you hadn't done silly things like winning the champions league and playing in Europe then you wouldn't need to catch up...

Munky · Post by **Munky** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 1:02 am 0

Why is it that Chelsea, with all their millions, can't afford a bit of grass for their pitch?

romanista · Post by **romanista** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 10:02 am 0

yeah!, we won for a change...

1-0 against penultimate Willem II ...

mac monkey · Post by **mac monkey** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 10:40 am 0

Munky wrote:Why is it that Chelsea, with all their millions, can't afford a bit of grass for their pitch?

...they've gone for the retro FA Cup look

Should be interesting to see how Barcelona handle that pitch soon.

Acronym · Post by **Acronym** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 1:05 pm 0

i8manx wrote:
Munky wrote:Why is it that Chelsea, with all their millions, can't afford a bit of grass for their pitch?
...they've gone for the retro FA Cup look

It's an anti-Man U measure, obviously - forces them to play ineptly, see.

TFO · Post by **TFO** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 1:30 pm 0

Acronym wrote:
i8manx wrote:
Munky wrote:Why is it that Chelsea, with all their millions, can't afford a bit of grass for their pitch?
...they've gone for the retro FA Cup look
It's an anti-Man U measure, obviously - forces them to play ineptly, see.

The pitch at Old Trafford is, if anything, even worse than Stamford Bridge.
And yet both Highbury and the Lane look really good - and they're not exactly a million miles from Chelsea.

Flabio · Post by **Flabio** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 1:47 pm 0

Number of games tends to do it.

Was a nice fact on MotD the other day that said Liverpool have now played more games this season than Tottenham will have played by the end of the season.

mac monkey · Post by **mac monkey** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 3:08 pm 0

TFO wrote:
Acronym wrote:
i8manx wrote:
Munky wrote:Why is it that Chelsea, with all their millions, can't afford a bit of grass for their pitch?
...they've gone for the retro FA Cup look
It's an anti-Man U measure, obviously - forces them to play ineptly, see.

And yet both Highbury and the Lane look really good.

That will be all that shit they put on it