FOOTBALL: Season 2006/07 Discussion Thread

Guru-Meditation · Post by **Guru-Meditation** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 4:41 pm 0

Acronym wrote:It's interesting to see which NFL owners are buying into the Premier; Tampa Bay Manchester United, the on-off New England Liverpool FC, and now Cleveland Villa...

Knowing Cleveland teams they'll probably move Villa to London.

Acronym · Post by **Acronym** » Fri Aug 04, 2006 4:55 pm 0

Guru-Meditation wrote:
Acronym wrote:It's interesting to see which NFL owners are buying into the Premier; Tampa Bay Manchester United, the on-off New England Liverpool FC, and now Cleveland Villa...
Knowing Cleveland teams they'll probably move Villa to London.

Not *that* owner. Modell's team's still in Baltimore...

Jon · Post by **Jon** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 1:15 pm 0

The football league season kicks off today. It's one of the nice things about football that (in most cases) you get to start every new season with a clean slate and a fresh dose of optimism.

I'm a Tranmere Rovers fan and I'm off to Prenton Park today to see us play Oldham. I fully expect to be a passionate, exciting game for two reasons - 1. Ronnie Moore (our new manager) was a Tranmere player for years, clearly loves the club and has brought in attacking players to play positive football (something that will come as a massive relief to Tranmere fans everywhere who had to endure the style of play instilled by Brian Little last season). 2. Moore managed Oldham last season and there is clearly going to be no love lost between supportes or players. Couldn't have picked a better opening game on paper, TBH.

Let's hope it's a good season.

Fillyourboots · Post by **Fillyourboots** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 6:11 pm 0

Get well soon, Bobby.

GeeZa · Post by **GeeZa** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 6:49 pm 0

Fillyourboots wrote:Get well soon, Bobby.

Indeed, not a great day at Ipswich today but we all hope he's ok. He was apparently a bit wobbly when being introduced to the crowd.

Bruce played very well apparently, Harding didn't.

Mat T · Post by **Mat T** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 7:49 pm 0

Leeds off and running with a 1-0 against Norwich. Apparently Tony Warner on loan from Fulham was class. End to end game, which Leeds just about shaded.

And even better - Hereford won 2-0 away to Stockport. Well done to the Bulls. Can't wait to see them when I get back to England at Christmas.

Flabio · Post by **Flabio** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 9:33 pm 0

Hearing that Carrick limped off in Man U's friendly against Ajax tonight. Could prove to be a very expensive treatment room occupant...

PaulEMoz · Post by **PaulEMoz** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 11:16 pm 0

Flabio wrote:Hearing that Carrick limped off in Man U's friendly against Ajax tonight. Could prove to be a very expensive treatment room occupant...

He was clattered into, and his ankle appeared to come off second best. Could be a twist ot a sprain, could be a tweak of the ligaments, could easily be worse. Which would make Fergie's nose quite unbelivably red with rage.

Flabio · Post by **Flabio** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 9:20 am 0

Have to keep an eye on it then, he's in my fantasy league team at the mo, but he's not staying if he's crocked.

Berbatov seems to be scoring freely for Tottenham in the friendlies though, so I'm thinking he was a good pick.

PaulEMoz · Post by **PaulEMoz** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 10:27 am 0

Flabio wrote:Have to keep an eye on it then, he's in my fantasy league team at the mo, but he's not staying if he's crocked.

Berbatov seems to be scoring freely for Tottenham in the friendlies though, so I'm thinking he was a good pick.

"It looks like he'll be out for a few weeks - there's a lot of swelling and bleeding,'' Ferguson told Sky Sports News.

"It's a ligament to the front of the foot.

"It is difficult to say what will happen with these things because we don't know what his general recovery time is but it will be three weeks at least."

Oh, and I hope owld Sir Bobby pulls around, bless him.

merman · Post by **merman** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 10:39 am 0

Joe Cole injured as well, could be bad news for England going into the Euro qualifiers...

fog · Post by **fog** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 10:46 am 0

merman wrote:Joe Cole injured as well, could be bad news for England going into the Euro qualifiers...

Considering the fixtures we have coming up, if we are worrying about losing Cole and Carrick then we really are as poor as some people would have us believe.

Get well soon SBR.

Zen-Chan · Post by **Zen-Chan** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 4:13 pm 0

St Mirren - Kings of the SPL:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... efault.stm

Fillyourboots · Post by **Fillyourboots** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 4:24 pm 0

Zen-Chan wrote:St Mirren - Kings of the SPL:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... efault.stm

Ack. I forgot to put some money on Gretna.

merman · Post by **merman** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 5:18 pm 0

Yippee, Sunderland lost 2-1 to Coventry, so much for them strolling straight back to the Premiership...

...and Derby 1-0 up on Southampton.