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

KevG · Post by **KevG** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 9:56 pm 0

cyric100 wrote:Oh what is Benitez on about? Spurs deperate to sell Defoe? I doubt it.

This is all stemming from agents I'm sure, but Benitez should know better than to add fuel to the rumours.

Got to admit I was quite surprised at that. Watched part of the interview on Sky Sports News and it seems that it was embedded a comeback about CissÃ©. Something along the lines of 'they're always going on about CissÃ© and then they mention Defoe all the time'.

I like Rafa (obv) but I think this is ill-advised, even if I have understood correctly and it's in the context of a Cisse discussion.

Weird. Something's up ....

cyric100 · Post by **cyric100** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 10:14 pm 0

KevG wrote: I like Rafa (obv) but I think this is ill-advised, even if I have understood correctly and it's in the context of a Cisse discussion.

Yeah, I think that's the gist of it. Seems kinda out of character for Rafa too

mac monkey · Post by **mac monkey** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 10:39 pm 0

Yeah i know does seem odd, as everyone knows were gonna end up with Darren Bent when we sell Cisse

merman · Post by **merman** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 1:33 am 0

cyric100 wrote:Oh what is Benitez on about? Spurs deperate to sell Defoe? I doubt it.

This is all stemming from agents I'm sure, but Benitez should know better than to add fuel to the rumours.

Well, they've got to get rid of him somehow. I mean, Ken Livingstone has really cracked down on fly tipping

KevG · Post by **KevG** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 1:53 pm 0

Feic....I hate derbies

Prefer to be there. So if you get beaten at least you feel you've fought the fight. Metaphorically speaking of course.

*gah*

Gerrard's off. 0-0 if we're lucky/canny.

PaulEMoz · Post by **PaulEMoz** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 2:20 pm 0

I said to my dad after Gerrard's first booking, "I bet he gets sent off today".

Didn't expect it to happen so quickly, though!

Mind, he really didn't give the ref any choice for the second yellow.

KevG · Post by **KevG** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 2:25 pm 0

PaulEMoz wrote:

I said to my dad after Gerrard's first booking, "I bet he gets sent off today".

Didn't expect it to happen so quickly, though!

Mind, he really didn't give the ref any choice for the second yellow.

No Sky, Paul so I can't actually see what''s going on. Just as well as the language would be choice

SG has severly ham-strung the team here....

5 bookings and a sending off already. Gah.

PaulEMoz · Post by **PaulEMoz** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 2:32 pm 0

KevG wrote:No Sky, Paul so I can't actually see what''s going on. Just as well as the language would be choice

SG has severly ham-strung the team here....

5 bookings and a sending off already. Gah.

Well, he got booked for kicking the ball away for his first yellow. For the second, he went straight through Kilbane, and was absolutely nowhere near the ball. Even the most lenient of refs would have found it hard not to give him a second yellow.

Oh, and is that Phil Neville scoring an own goal?

KevG · Post by **KevG** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 2:35 pm 0

PaulEMoz wrote:
KevG wrote:No Sky, Paul so I can't actually see what''s going on. Just as well as the language would be choice

SG has severly ham-strung the team here....

5 bookings and a sending off already. Gah.
Well, he got booked for kicking the ball away for his first yellow. For the second, he went straight through Kilbane, and was absolutely nowhere near the ball. Even the most lenient of refs would have found it hard not to give him a second yellow.

Oh, and is that Phil Neville scoring an own goal?

Yep: watching the Beeb net commentary - sounds like SG deserved it.

Thanks Phil - takes the pressure off a bit.

I predict a 1-8-0-1 formation in the second half

KevG · Post by **KevG** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 3:44 pm 0

Not quite Sky but Everton appear to have won 7-3 on the bookings front.

Will be deffo watching this on MotD

Sickboy · Post by **Sickboy** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 3:52 pm 0

Brilliant game. Alonso Man Of The Match by a decade, but they all stepped up after Stevie G's sending-off (second yellow was a definite foul, but the ball-kicking-away thing was a harsh booking, given the context of the game).

Phil Neville og was hilarious. Garcia and Kewell's goals were both classics.

Ten v Eleven for most of the game, no dropped heads. I wish we could play the chavs, tomorrow...

Geenius · Post by **Geenius** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 4:05 pm 0

We always seem to play worse against 10 men for some reason. Got back into it, but then the other sending off (no comments here, so I'm asking if it was a definate, and not too harsh?).

SB: listening on 5-live, Alan Green was all for the first booking, but against the second one, although he did seem to be very anti-Everton for a lot of that commentary

Every time an Evertonian fouled a Liverpool player, he wanted a card to come out.

Sickboy · Post by **Sickboy** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 5:16 pm 0

Greeny got that wrong, Geenius. First booking was just daft and should have been a talking-to - particularly coming so early in a notoriously hot-headed fixture. Second one was a definite yellow (arguably, a straight red).

Everton sending-off was plain old violent conduct. Arms raised for a jump, but then elbow jabbed back into Alonso's face. I think Van Der Meyde had only been on the pitch for about five minutes.

Geenius · Post by **Geenius** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 5:20 pm 0

Ta for that (and 5 mins, if he was lucky. I didn't hear his name between coming on and his sending off)

Pompey v Arsenal game at 5:15 tonight has just been called off. Waterlogged pitch! Lots of unhappy Arsenal fans already there, methinks

Sickboy · Post by **Sickboy** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 5:23 pm 0

Hahaha. Chelsea are so easy to hate. First Drogba goal, he was all puffed up and indicating that he's straight down the line, no cheat, etc. Second goal was deffo handball, but he celebrated, anyway.

So happy Mourinho has finally been found out as the preening blow-hard he came over as in that first press conference.