y’all can have arsh

krasic should be on the outs at Juve, he’s been terrible for nigh on 12 months.

richard scudamore came into the shop today. I refrained from telling him where to stick his 39th game.

so chelsea tonight eh? Last minute equaliser by valencia to knock them out and drogba protesting in his flip flops is what I’m looking forward to.

nah, Drogba doesn’t give a toss anymore. Probably none of em do

Feel like not making the next round might make Nando snap. He’d be the one I’d look out for anyway. He’s been so passive, somethings got to be boiling underneath there.

I am a nerd and r gonna watch our kids. Mainly because I like Frimpong and am interested to see who plays back-up RB. Yennaris? Coquelin? Eastmond? Some other DM out of position?

so, the better to be able to co-ordinate the ‘trap out’ campaign, me and three mates are organising a campervan sojourn to the euros.

SPIN-OFF POTENTIAL.

can’t be any worse than ‘max and paddy’

is it feasible to travel around poland/ukraine by campervan and actually get from game to game?

Ireland are only in Poland luckily enough

what about the q-final?

and it’s like 300km between Gdansk and Poznan which are the two venues

oh that’ll work then. Are the games likely to sell out? Wonder what the pricing is like and if the locals can afford it.

they can in Poland but can’t in Ukraine is the word

Pretty big country, Ukraine

Just don’t mention that you contribute to message board that contains the The Official Prime Minister Of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko Picture Thread

and the QF featuring the runner-up of Group C is in Warsaw. As long as Ireland don’t go and win the bloody thing it should work out nicely

Actually wait, read that wrong it’s in Kiev. Thankfully it won’t come up

it would be just like Trap to ruin Darragh’s well laid plans and get to the final. No consideration.

Surely they are virtually guaranteed to beat Italy 1–0?

planning for ten days tbh, looking at flights- berlin fave for poland access, but f’furt easier to get to, and cheaper. Basing ourselves in poznan and taking a day or two in gdansk for the middle game. All up in the air as yet, anyone on ilx got the polish or experience re camper hire etc?

I know a lot of Poles here in Chicago, some of whom are traveling for the tournament. I can ask around.

ya i’ll be asking around tesco myself

I know a lot of Poles here in Chicago, some of whom are traveling for the tournament. I can ask around.

― tumblr whineys (Cuauhtemoc Blanco), Tuesday, 6 December 2011 17:39 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Permalink

I used to ask myself if Blanco was dan. Now I don’t need to =)

Blanco’s second post, iirc, was a dig at Columbus Crew. never in doubt.

Who else still remembers Brad Guzan?

1Petr Cech

4David Luiz

26John Terry

3Ashley Cole

2Branislav Ivanovic

16Raul Meireles

7Ramires

6Oriol Romeu

10Juan Mata

11Didier Drogba

23Daniel Sturridge

in nu-ilx can we get a replacement for ‘luiz’ with

:D

guzan is a sad case imo, wasted potential sitting on the bench

How do you pronounce Cuauhtemoc anyway?

kuwautamuck

Fabianski, Djourou, Vermaelen, Squillaci, Andre Santos, Coquelin, Frimpong, Benayoun, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Chamakh, Arshavin. Subs: Mannone, Rosicky, Park, Eastmond, Miquel, Ozyakup, Yennaris.

Dull team, hope we aren’t over-using Santos or Vermaelan—especially considering the game is pointless. Glad to see we are playing 4–3–3 instead of 4–4–2 like we did against City.

Hm, watch that lot or Chelsea on the rack? Tough ‘un.

I don’t understand Wenger playing Vermaelen at all. That Greek butcher shop seems like the perfect place for him to get injured again.

I’m watching Chelsea. Hoping for a Valencia win so VB can start the revolution and chuck out all the oldies and spend heaps in January on new oldies. For lulz. Chelsea have been such a stale boring team for years now, it’s annoying.

i think chelsea valencia is the best choice, followed by om-dortmund

Dere is Drogba already

Ridic save by Cech just now.

olympkias playing a ridic pressing game that wld make pep proud

ie they will be knackered by 60 mins and we’ll win this 2–0

lol mereiles

or alternatively, we are currently 1–0 down because lol flappyhandski and squiggle

wenger out

wow, that was a great goal from ramirez

Fantastic goal by Ramires, great combination of strength & trickery to get inside defender, Drogba did well also.

uh, it was pathetic defending for the Ramires goal.

yeah bad run bad pass awful defending

Valencia are pretty awful btw, they don’t have a clue. Chelsea very aggressive and Drogba is good tonight. I’m surprised.

idk, I thought he was admirably persistent, a lot of strikers would’ve given up on that ball.

Admittedly if it had been Rami instead of Ruiz he probably would’ve flattened the wiry Brazilian.

Valencia look like they’re missing Banega’s composure, they were p impressive when I caught them with him in the side earlier this season.

arsenal keeper lols, how we’ve missed you.

arselol

xp

that was a shambles.

two players injured, two pointless goals one which was hilar

lol

lol dom vito

Please don’t let anything happen to Chesney this season.

Third-worst goalie in the EPL, statistically

Hold on, both Marseille and Dortmund are going out because of you?

it’ll take a lot of baby-barcaisms to make up for that affront to aesthetics.

some amazing mcnulty:

“The beast that can be Didier Drogba has been revived at Stamford Bridge tonight.”

“The beast that can be Didier Drogba”

sandbox user name missed opportunity no. 34

fuck dn’s, that’s a lost lovecraft

that doesn’t even need ‘will have been’ to be amazing

This is just tremendous

he once made an incredible save with his face

i’m sure he’ll enjoy being #1 at cesena in 12 years time

barcelona: good at football

marseille result sounds dodge as fuck tbh

that valbuena goal was nice

i went to make food during the second half, which of these is troo?

Neither

Crikey, well done Marseille. No reason to suspect dodginess with a Marseille result surely?

om are the most respectable club and wld never cheat iirc

holy FUCK that first half from arsenal awful awful awful how can these guys make a living at this?

loving the espn eredivise roundup atm

Ha come on Marseille don’t cheat anymore I’m sure, they’ve been cured of that with 2 years spent in Ligue 2. Also I’m saying this without having seen the game or anything because of stupid time difference :(

i saw the goals they were legit :)

Good! now if only Lyon could do well tonight and beat Zagreb 15–0 to qualify, I’d be happy. And Lille should be ok too.

Today I learnt that tightwad Arsenal spend £5mn a year on employing Flappy, Lolmunia and Dom Vito. Crikey.

chelsea were annoyingly competent last night. Drogba was awesome. Romeu/Meireles/Ramirez MF3 worked well.

AVB called out the written media + Gary Neville(I think) in his post match presser.

Valbuena’s goal v good indeed.

Barca youth ridic.

Dortmund didn’t even make the Europa so can concentrate on retaining the championship.

We now know that neither RVP, Theo, or Vermaelen are the one true indispensable at Arsenal, It’s Czcesny. My God those goalies!

Song man, Song. Our midfield was a mess without him.

but yeah Chesney.

those goals didn’t come from midfield ffs

Lol except the second one

Still with the Song thing, already. I wish I’d actually seen some footer last night, roll on tonight!

Yeah how didn’t I stop thinking my own opinions already? Next you are gonna be surprised that darragh likes THUDD.

I’ve not heard him mention THUDD for a while!

darragh admires thudd and has him as a personal favourite, subtle difference to you pushing song as an extraordinary dm in a team that patently suffers from the lack of a dm

jesus but i love thudd tho

xp lol

wonder how long you guys will take to figure out this guy is more essien than geremi. i give it another two years.

The guy is good, no doubt

Never gonna happen. He could turn into Maradona meets Beckenbauer and no-one would accept it. You blew it when you pretended he was better than the guy who’s scored virtually all your goals this season.

there’s truth in what matt says

song is no more essien than he is makelele, he’s okocha woefully misplaced

So yeah, 2 years.

essien tho! What an astonishing parallel to draw!

Gwan, do another one!

Diaby?

Diaby just needs to be rid of his grandma’s ankles.

On a similar note, we’re level on points at the top of the table.

diaby will be playing back-up at fenerbache when he can pass a medical to be sold

goddamn now i need to be able to use the search function more than ever, i’m sure two years ago you were calling him the new cruyff or w/e

Diaby is talented and can have terrific matches but I’ve never been deluded enough to think he’d be fit enough to get anywhere.

yr take on a footballer in 6 words or less

just to have it in one place for future-darragh

sandbox tho

we’ll just c&p the whole damn thread and start a new one in ilf or something then, jeez.