itt liverpool not winning things; sandbox i love football

url is a 'smashing' punchline.

"when I first came through as a full back, my main objective was giving away penalties or getting sent off. that's why man u sold me and i got swiftly ditched from the england squad."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q92zTt60ijA

"When I first came through as a full back, my main objective was that my first tackle on the winger I was coming up against had to be a hard one. I had to smash him basically.

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lv1qpll1L71qdleuuo1_400.gif

RIP the career of Jose Antonio Reyes.

http://static-voetbalzone.nl/images/photos/ori_280_210/11140028500808200.jpg

This wink and little thumbs up from Zagreb defender Domagoj Vida after Gomís' 1-5 is feeding speculation here that the game in Zagreb was rigged.

I don't care, I congratulate Jibé with this fantastic result! :-)

Beautiful results all round last night, LOL Mancs and, lest I forget, LOL Man Utd supporters

fucking phil neville, injured bale twice last year.

Rooney ban reduced to 2 games. So he can return for the Ukraine game. If he plays like he did last night night England are screwed anyway.

was gonna say, the assumption that current-form rooney is even good enough for the squad shows a serious paucity of either strike options or willingness to face facts

last one

rooney has been shit for a season and a half now, bar little bumps in form. the young lad from city daniel sturridge should be getting all his hype.

http://estaticos04.marca.com/imagenes/2011/12/07/futbol/liga_campeones/1323293848_extras_portada_0.jpg

yup, ajax were screwed.

Bryan Ruiz: “I didn’t want to go to Fulham at all. I was happy with Tottenham’s previous interest in me. They are a dream club. Attractive financial terms, and a talk with Martin Jol, dragged me over the line.”

“The fact remains that in Mancini’s fifth Champions League season as a manager of a club at the very top level of financial support, with a vastly expensive array of talent at his disposal, he has failed even to make it out of the group stage.”

mancini really is the worst.

yeah, he'll never win as many Champions League titles as Wenger

arsenal wouldn't have had a prayer in that group

http://www.101greatgoals.com/boyaca-chico-lose-a-match-after-their-fans-send-a-firework-into-a-linesmans-face/119628/

football fans are still most disgusting savages

yeah, he'll never win as many Champions League titles as Wenger

― Maybe Bartering Will Help (Julie Lagger), Thursday, 8 December 2011 11:30 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

well, at least we've never failed to make it out of the group stages. but 5 times with the pick of any players he wanted is just rubbish.

They look certainties to be back next season when these experiences will be put to good use and the current squad is likely to have been augmented by more marquee arrivals.

god bless El Nultio

xp Mancini was appointed December 2009

by my reckoning, that means he was in charge for the 2010-11 campaign and for this one. that's 2 goes

before we even get into arguments about how Manchester City - who have taken the unprecedented step of spending lots of money to buy star players - are unique in this terrible 2 year lag between having money to spend and a winning team emerging

Well thats including Inter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Ai7CmZ4SYe0

oh i see it's including Inter as well. lol false parallels

well, at least we've never failed to make it out of the group stages. but 5 times with the pick of any players he wanted is just rubbish.

He never had Song in any of his teams tho, eh?

ahh otm, in the circumstances city's cl progress is p much a glaring failure

I'm all for bashing wenger for not buying better players, but zinging him using mancini doesn't even remotely work.

What's with the pile on? Mancini's recent European record is abysmal

at the start of August imo it was 50-50 whether Mancini wd last the season with City, but if this season isn't evidence that he's learning from his mistakes and that his team is starting to gel a bit then god knows what is, i'm pretty sure his CL failure this season will be made up for by winning the league, and i think he'll come back with a better CL campaign next season.

When do UEFA's new financial rules come into force?

"force"

They already are in "force" aren't they?

Are they? LOL. Platini fixed it for Lyon to go through last night, so he must have some power

You can't lose more than a certain amount over the next three seasons or something

I thought 12/13 was the year of FFP. But it invokes the three previous seasons, so this year will be assessed then.

at the start of August imo it was 50-50 whether Mancini wd last the season with City, but if this season isn't evidence that he's learning from his mistakes and that his team is starting to gel a bit then god knows what is, i'm pretty sure his CL failure this season will be made up for by winning the league, and i think he'll come back with a better CL campaign next season.

― Maybe Bartering Will Help (Julie Lagger), Thursday, 8 December 2011 11:46 (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

And at Inter, he won the league by taking the leagues best players and... they failed in Europe and all tried to leave/were deemed a bit shit by Jose who tried to replace them.

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02078/wayne-rooney_2078434c.jpg

http://www.101greatgoals.com/dinamo-zagreb-1-lyon-7-stinks-breakdown-of-the-controversial-goals/120071/

Swiss Ramble did City and FFP recently - conclusion was that they will more-or-less meet the criteria as their income is ramping up hugely, and with only a little tinkering (e.g. sell Tevez) definitely will.

Ha xxp, I thought that was a mirror he was beside

guys

srsly

rooney is not as good as say nicky barmby, if you average it out over his career

feel the english posters need to acknowledge this and get some peace

feel the english posters need to acknowledge this and get some peace

― bloating forecast: ruff swells (p much resigned to deems), Thursday, 8 December 2011 12:44 (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

the majority have p much always agreed with you? number none does the supporter thing that we all do but other than that, i dunno who you are addressing.

Yeah, and even i don't want to talk about it anymore

mancini has made it out of the group stages before tho i think, twice at least

nick barmby, we all agree on this, explicitly?

Barmby's highs were lower but he was more consistent maybe

making a better fist of management than i can imagine Wayne doing tho :D

Rooney - 2002-present (8 and a half seasons)- 126 goals - 14 goals per season
Barmby - 1991-2000 (9 seasons) - 47 goals - 5.2 goals a season.

Maybe pick someone else?

barmby was pretty good for lfc in 2001 treble...was weird when he got unceremoniously dumped after that.

“The fact remains that in Mancini’s fifth Champions League season as a manager of a club at the very top level of financial support, with a vastly expensive array of talent at his disposal, he has failed even to make it out of the group stage.”

― big popppa hoy, Thursday, 8 December 2011 11:27 (2 hours ago)

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Inter were knocked out in the Second Round of the UEFA Champions League by Liverpool. In March 2008, amid rumours that he was to be sacked and replaced ...