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

George_Bray · Post by **George_Bray** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 9:50 pm 0

BLUE MOON!

Woohooo... It's the *least* we deserved tbh!

Arthur Ringworn · Post by **Arthur Ringworn** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 10:07 pm 0

Watching Richards go completely loopy after he scored was great to watch. Not sure how wise it was to interview him though, he did well just to let the one expletive out, he looked completely out of it!

romanista · Post by **romanista** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 10:14 am 0

Telegrammi, telefonate e parole d'affetto per il capitano della Roma
operato dopo il grave infortunio. Il c.t. Lippi: "Ti aspetto". Il rivale
Di Canio: "Nel derby senza di te mancherÃ un pezzo di Roma"

Roma recorded a record tenth victory in a row, but lost totti in the process, ex-West-Ham and now archrival Lazio Paolo di canio did have a great quote in his reaction to totti "In a derby without you, there will be a piece of the city missing"

meanwhile, ajax looks a bit back on track before wednesday's champion's league game against inter, 6-0 against RBC, 4 goals from our new hero, Klaas-Jan Huntelaar..

PaulEMoz · Post by **PaulEMoz** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 2:29 pm 0

Shit.

TFO · Post by **TFO** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 2:30 pm 0

And I really expected Newcastle to draw Boro and Chelsea to draw Liverpool.
Hey ho.

Acronym · Post by **Acronym** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 3:15 pm 0

aureole wrote:I always see Joe Cole as a bit of a flat-track bully. So if we're playing Colchester (or, say, Scotland) in the World Cup he'd be handy to have around.

Up yours, hippy.

Dio · Post by **Dio** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 3:17 pm 0

Didn't want away much. Certainly didn't want Chelsea or Liverpool. Arse.

mac monkey · Post by **mac monkey** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 3:55 pm 0

Sorry this is a bit late been busy, but...... YAY!! C'MON LADS. Completely out classed the mancs, and if your gonna play a shite midfield mancs prepare to be beaten not just by us but by anyone, no-one is gonna be put off by that lot.
And if we were protected so much, how come we were denied a clear pen, plus we had more players booked?

Anyway thats another bit of tin you won't be getting your hands in this season

So come the Carling Cup and Wigan beat ya, thats your season over, and you'll finish 4TH.

Enough baiting!!

Really sorry about Smith though, bad injury, poor lad was rolling around for a good 30-40 seconds before match was stopped.
What was Lawrenson on when he was reporting match, " Oh, it looks like the power of the shot must of dislocated his leg when he blocked it."
WTF, if your not sure Morro, shut the fuck up. Yeah mate, he blocked with his right, but the shear power broke his left leg!!

romanista · Post by **romanista** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 4:16 pm 0

PaulEMoz wrote:Shit.

come on, cheer up a bit, by then, Chelsea will have been brutally hammered in what will be known as the battle on stamford bridge
'followed by 'The Slaughtering of Nou Camp"

Munky · Post by **Munky** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 6:49 pm 0

George_Bray wrote:BLUE MOON!

Woohooo... It's the *least* we deserved tbh!

Oh, come on. We tried to make it easy for you by giving you the ball as much as possible, but your finishing was as piss poor as our defending. You were being handed a win on a plate and just about managed to scrape a draw after the game had already ended.

Seriously though, I hope the replay is a bit better than that shite last night.

mac monkey · Post by **mac monkey** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 8:50 pm 0

George_Bray · Post by **George_Bray** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 10:38 pm 0

but your finishing was as piss poor as our defending.

100% spot on

...*BUT* is Vassell still on your books or something??

He played very dubiously IMHO, he made some great runs and got into some perfect positions /situations for a striker, but he just seemed to freeze at the final hurdle!

Munky · Post by **Munky** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 11:22 pm 0

George_Bray wrote:
but your finishing was as piss poor as our defending.
100% spot on

...*BUT* is Vassell still on your books or something?? He played very dubiously IMHO, he made some great runs and got into some perfect positions /situations for a striker, but he just seemed to freeze at the final hurdle!

Funnily enough, when he was substituted I turned to my son and commented that it's been a long time since Vassell won a match for us. (15 minutes later I really regretted saying that.

)

He showed a lot of promise in the youth team, but never fully lived up to it at senior level. As you say, he gets into some great positions and has the pace to open up defenses, but for us he had a habit of bottling it at the last minute in front of goal.

He has good spells (remember that 4 years ago he was playing in the World Cup) and I thought the move up the M6 had revitalised him a bit - he certainly caused us a few problems up at your place back in October. Looks like he's slipped back into his old ways again.

I'm just hoping he stays that way for a couple more weeks...

merman · Post by **merman** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 12:24 am 0

I reckon Vassell wanted to prove himself against the Villa, and was just too anxious - stuff like the cut-back didn't happen for him and he got more anxious.

Well played City to get the replay, which they deserved.

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Dio · Post by **Dio** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 2:35 pm 0

The amusing possibility is raising its head that there will be a major snowfall tomorrow afternoon, possibly forcing the cancellation of the Charlton match that was rescheduled to to a major snowfall in the afternoon over Chrimbo...