is there a dumber "trick" than the Cuauhtemiña?
― mizzell, Monday, 28 November 2011 16:47 (twelve years ago) link
how dare you, I have fooled more than a dozen Columbus Crew players in my time with the bunny hop!
― Cuauhtemoc Blanco, Monday, 28 November 2011 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
"We are a bunch of dwarfs and we need to improve" - After Barcelona's 1-0 defeat to Getafe, Dani Alves sums up a problem that will not go away, with or without special hormone growth medicine.
― big popppa hoy, Monday, 28 November 2011 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
They really did look like Arsenal, is the thing.
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 28 November 2011 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
multi-layered zing
― big popppa hoy, Monday, 28 November 2011 17:31 (twelve years ago) link
Fantasy talk: Week after week I think I should get rid of the underperforming Rooney, but week after week I look at United's upcoming fixtures and think "No, that's an easy one, if I sell him he's bound to get a hat-trick" so I lose my nerve, keep him in, and he scores next to no points. However, this week I finally took the plunge. Come Saturday afternoon, while disappointed with the result against Newcastle, I was slapping myself on the back (metaphorically) for shipping out Rooney and bringing in Adebayor. Except, when I checked my scores, I remembered that I'd bottled it again, reinstated Rooney and gone for a pointless Barton out-Pilkington in masterstroke instead.
― The Artist Formerly Known As Teh HoBB, Monday, 28 November 2011 17:36 (twelve years ago) link
lol why the shit do you have rooney? who is he keeping out yr team? rvi? aguero? dzeko? ba? also lol at then trusting ade - that guy is going to get bored any game now, it is adebayor.
― big popppa hoy, Monday, 28 November 2011 17:38 (twelve years ago) link
Rooney's slumps rarely last all season, he'll come good at some point.
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 28 November 2011 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
except for last season iirc.
― big popppa hoy, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:09 (twelve years ago) link
"You know why I’m leaving, but I can’t explain myself publicly because it would damage the good name of Everton Football Club and I’m not prepared to do that."[16]
Why did Gary Speed leave Everton?
― big popppa hoy, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:26 (twelve years ago) link
Howard Wilkinson:
He left one of his clubs after having been required to give a half-time talk, as captain, in place of his manager, whom drink had rendered temporarily incapable of speech. The fans of the club in question were mystified by his departure, but he had signed a confidentiality agreement and never spoke of the incident.
― sktsh, Monday, 28 November 2011 18:35 (twelve years ago) link
lol/wow
― p much resigned to deems, Monday, 28 November 2011 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
ade has had a mini-slump already and i do acknowledge the likelihood of sam's doubts
i just want him to acknowledge that rvp will break very soon indeed, and then who's more fucked?
― p much resigned to deems, Monday, 28 November 2011 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
Wenger: “We have a few players on the edge like Van Persie and Walcott, who had a hamstring alert, and Ramsey. We’ll have to see how they respond to 24 hours rest."
― Number None, Monday, 28 November 2011 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
if rvi breaks, and i genuinely don't think its gonna happen*, then still spurs. because we then move theo upfront and arshavin or benny noon on the wing, whereas spurs will then... play pav, i guess?
― big popppa hoy, Monday, 28 November 2011 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
None of them are playing midweek, so its cool.
I didn't finish that post. Could have mentioned lol Park, who Wenger 'believes' in and we'll see how he does v. City tomorrow. Also the *was to say i've most prob jinxed him now.
― big popppa hoy, Monday, 28 November 2011 19:25 (twelve years ago) link
Chris - did you enjoy big Andy's cameos the last two Sundays?
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 28 November 2011 19:47 (twelve years ago) link
adebayor is somewhat baffling to me. when he had that great season for arsenal i was convinced that he wasn't that good, he was just putting away chances created by others. watching him play every week for spurs, i can see how good he is at holding the ball up and creating chances for others, but his finishing seems poor. he had 9 shots on target against west brom, the most of any player in a single game the last 5 seasons.
― mizzell, Monday, 28 November 2011 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
He has the ability to be the best forward in the world. He can have an astounding first touch, a beasty shot, perfect in the air, knows his positioning, can beat his man with ease, has strength to stay up and intimidate, can spot a pass in a way only top players can...
Unfortunately he'll only be working on half of these, at most, in 95% of matches.
That and he just stops caring to play, you know, football, every couple of months or so. I think we got 3 amazing months out of him post-Eduardogate and that was his longest reign of form.
― big popppa hoy, Monday, 28 November 2011 21:16 (twelve years ago) link
I thought that was an xp until you mentioned Eduardo
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 28 November 2011 21:19 (twelve years ago) link
spurs def need to sell pav and buy a young-ish cf in january to either replace ade or at least strengthen their negotiating position.
― mizzell, Monday, 28 November 2011 21:25 (twelve years ago) link
Wonder how Coulibaly is getting on?
― Number None, Monday, 28 November 2011 21:32 (twelve years ago) link
he's 16 and short, don't think he can lead the line yet
― mizzell, Monday, 28 November 2011 21:36 (twelve years ago) link
Nah i know. Just an idle thought
― Number None, Monday, 28 November 2011 21:37 (twelve years ago) link
xposts. Not watched the Chelsea game again, but was Andy's control as lol-worthy as I think it was? Good save from Hart last night.
― Chris, Monday, 28 November 2011 22:14 (twelve years ago) link
It really was - he had half-a-dozen touches in his three minutes and every one gave the ball away or iirc a risky free-kick. Not ideal when you're trying to see out injury time. He looked like the kid at school who gets picked first 'cos he's big, but can't actually play football. Yet for a moment yesterday he looked the business.
Hart had more than the one great save too - was gutted when I saw the highlights.
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 28 November 2011 22:22 (twelve years ago) link
Matty Taylor for England & GOAL of the season
Ah, the sandbox of five years ago, when Pardew had gone to Charlton, Chris Coleman was still somebody, DJ Martian still existed, and there was speculation about Liverpool's chances of overhauling both United and Chelsea to win that elusive league title...
― The Artist Formerly Known As Teh HoBB, Monday, 28 November 2011 22:27 (twelve years ago) link
what happened to DJM?
― big popppa hoy, Monday, 28 November 2011 22:31 (twelve years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/Giovanni_Trapattoni.jpg
― ilx bandsox (nakhchivan), Monday, 28 November 2011 23:51 (twelve years ago) link
out
― big popppa hoy, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 00:02 (twelve years ago) link
u crack me up
― p much resigned to deems, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 00:15 (twelve years ago) link
i try
is ade playing for togo again? just remembered we gots a anc come jan.
― big popppa hoy, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 00:22 (twelve years ago) link
Aye, just watched the last few minutes of Chelsea again and that's spot on - so Jekyll and Hyde. Thought we were great v City. Lucas just keeps getting better, and Adam's really impressing me now. The defence is looking very good - great to see Skrtel and Agger getting a run of games together.
― Chris, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 00:27 (twelve years ago) link
Argh, just remembered Spurs v Villa. What a shame ILX was down for that one.
― Chris, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 00:29 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i think he's going back to togo. psyched for the pavness
carroll very unlucky vs city imo
― p much resigned to deems, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 00:29 (twelve years ago) link
yaya p much the only player the league is going to miss, right?
cameroon didn't qualify. thank the fucking lord. going without song would be 3000 times worse than going without rvi.
― big popppa hoy, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 00:34 (twelve years ago) link
uhm
― ilx bandsox (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 00:42 (twelve years ago) link
Newcastle might miss Demba Ba
― Number None, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 00:46 (twelve years ago) link
& tiote
― ilx bandsox (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 00:47 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, that just occurred to me also. Of course the wheels might come off before that
― Number None, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 00:49 (twelve years ago) link
coulibaly gonna come into his own late on imo
― p much resigned to deems, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 00:50 (twelve years ago) link
Chelsea losing Mikel might be a blessing in disguise
― Number None, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 00:51 (twelve years ago) link
draw at old trafford seems like a high water mark
they've had a run of form so strong ppl have even talked about the championship level ryan taylor as a 'top fullback'
― ilx bandsox (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 00:52 (twelve years ago) link
oriol romeu played on saturday and got good notices in absentia mikel
― ilx bandsox (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 00:53 (twelve years ago) link
stephen and ryan taylor will surely start to happen to newcastle very soon
― p much resigned to deems, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 00:54 (twelve years ago) link
lol ok yeah my bad for forgetting newcastle
― big popppa hoy, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 01:03 (twelve years ago) link
they do of course have former new maldini davide santon to blood into lb
never rated stephen taylor, a nonsense of a no-nonsense defender
coloccini was alright at depor but is eminently nonsensical and i doubt this new composure will last
― ilx bandsox (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 29 November 2011 01:05 (twelve years ago) link
togo and nigeria didn't qualify
― mizzell, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 04:14 (twelve years ago) link
trap in (extnded through 2014 qualifying)
― eboue II, Tuesday, 29 November 2011 09:39 (twelve years ago) link
The Suarez Report is weirdly engrossing. Quite amusing reading references to Mr. Kuyt and so on
― Number None, Sunday, 1 January 2012 18:07 (twelve years ago) link
I'm sure that was done for his benefit
― slightly upwards of (once a lifetime is ample), Sunday, 1 January 2012 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
<stands up><applauds>
― aldo, Sunday, 1 January 2012 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
Heh!
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 1 January 2012 18:52 (twelve years ago) link
quality
― u know my homes' methods, plies them (p much resigned to deems), Sunday, 1 January 2012 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
A+ footcelsior material there.
― ailsa, Sunday, 1 January 2012 21:06 (twelve years ago) link
so will liv appeal?
― (╯°□°)╯┻━ƃuıʇɐǝ & ƃuıʞlɐʍ━┻ (cccccc), Sunday, 1 January 2012 22:03 (twelve years ago) link
not if they've got any sense
― caek, Sunday, 1 January 2012 22:07 (twelve years ago) link
Be mad to IMO. Comolli, Dalglish and Kuyt both largely agree with Evra's version of events and said as much to Marinner, Dowd and the FA (respectively) and Suarez himself said he wouldn't call an Englishman 'black' because they might find it offensive (implying he knows full well it could be taken the wrong way).
Where this leaves Glen Johnson, who apparently gets called 'negro' all the time during training without question from anybody at the club, fuck knows.
― aldo, Sunday, 1 January 2012 22:08 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I'd've thought not. Assessment of the evidence is usually a matter solely for the panel hearing it, and they've been so meticulous about it in the report that there's not a great deal of scope to argue that they've made an obvious error. There might be scope for appealing the length of ban, but again they've carefully explained why they considered & rejected longer & shorter bans, so that's probably a no-goer too. Put City to the sword on Tuesday then quietly let the whole thing drop while muttering about it being harsh, lessons learnt, chance for the summer break he hasn't had since 2009, etc etc would be best I think.
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 1 January 2012 22:21 (twelve years ago) link
http://transalchemy.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/f081a_vlcsnap-410621.png
glen johnson at a liverpool team-building session.
― m. yeux, Sunday, 1 January 2012 22:34 (twelve years ago) link
I thought that was John Barnes?
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 1 January 2012 22:40 (twelve years ago) link
suspense of waiting to see what Hartson would choose for his goal of the month on MOTD2 slightly undermined by him saying Van Persie was his goal of the season three minutes earlier
― Extreme Lifestyle, Sunday, 1 January 2012 23:29 (twelve years ago) link
Martin Tyler's commentary for that Ji goal was sensational.
― Chris, Sunday, 1 January 2012 23:34 (twelve years ago) link
didn't see this so
http://h10.abload.de/img/roysworlduyptz.gif
― v-whiney (Cuauhtemoc Blanco), Monday, 2 January 2012 05:14 (twelve years ago) link
ffs
― v-whiney (Cuauhtemoc Blanco), Monday, 2 January 2012 05:15 (twelve years ago) link
Swansea winning at Villa! Stoke winning at Blackburn! Torres starts for Chelsea! Is Drogba injured? Not even on the bench.
― Chris, Monday, 2 January 2012 15:41 (twelve years ago) link
eh drogba moved to PSG yesterday dude
― u know my homes' methods, plies them (p much resigned to deems), Monday, 2 January 2012 15:44 (twelve years ago) link
Real ilx is back now Chris - some pure gold immigration rules discussion going on on that thread atm.
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 2 January 2012 15:47 (twelve years ago) link
Ah sorry, didn't realise.
― Chris, Monday, 2 January 2012 15:56 (twelve years ago) link
'salright, Drogba moving to PSG would've passed me by otherwise
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 2 January 2012 15:58 (twelve years ago) link
Fun fact from Beeb ticker: seven clubs into his career, Wayne Routledge scores his first Premier League goal.
― William Bloody Swygart, Monday, 2 January 2012 16:23 (twelve years ago) link