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English League Football ** spoilers ** [11th - 15th September 2010]
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Agree with this.
He started his career at stoke and i watchd him for a fair few years. The reason he left us becuase he wasnt hard enough for us
Agree with this.
He started his career at stoke and i watchd him for a fair few years. The reason he left us becuase he wasnt hard enough for us
He's from a place called Ashmore Park in Wolves, they breed em tough round there
I know his old man quite well and he's as tough as old boots.
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lol, I knew Milan lost, didn't realise Ibra missed a penalty on his debut, and Roma, who looked so good last year, got spanked 5-1 Cagliari.
Cagliari top of the league ahead of Cesena(newly promoted) followed by Inter, then Milan.
Cagliari top of the league ahead of Cesena(newly promoted) followed by Inter, then Milan.
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I've worked out what Alex Song's hair looks like - hoover bag fluff. Nice one.
Just watched a bit of our match on the Sky extended highlights programme. We were very lucky today. A lot of decisions went our way. Though saying that we were very wasteful, in terms of the positions we managed to get ourselves into. I saw other games before that on MOTD, and got the impression a lot of chances we missed - other teams would score.
Really did like the 26 (?) pass goal though.
Just watched a bit of our match on the Sky extended highlights programme. We were very lucky today. A lot of decisions went our way. Though saying that we were very wasteful, in terms of the positions we managed to get ourselves into. I saw other games before that on MOTD, and got the impression a lot of chances we missed - other teams would score.
Really did like the 26 (?) pass goal though.
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I swear there was a picture of Rigobert Song with his hair died before the world cup, though it looked greyer than Songs does, it made him look like a 80year old witch doctor. Not sure why Song decided to do it aswell after Rigobert Song looked so daft.
Anyway, Zamora tackle was nasty as hell, and not sure why it wasn't a red card, its the "scissoring" action that makes those tackles incredibly dangerous, when you're slide is carrying you forward and you bring your other leg around and trap the ankle, basically you're completely reliant on the person you're bringing down falling in a very specific way or they have a huge chance of breaking their leg. I swear the "scissor" type tackle had a huge crack down a few years ago but was seen a LOT last year and this year already. Its the kind of dangerous tackle that has a ridiculously high chance of anything from a twisted ankle to a career threatening break.
No idea why all of a sudden bringing your other leg around is almost acceptable when for years it was deemed one of the most dangerous ways to tackle, too much focus on the "two footed off the ground" tackle lately, which is just as dangerous and bad, but ref's seem to just act like, "on the floor, not two footed, not bad" .
The classic way to tackle would be that guy lunging in, one leg ahead of zamora, his other leg trailing, bent, foot behind the player not wrapping around infront of him.
Refereeing standard was appauling this weekend, I notice that on MOTD they avoided the problem by not showing the West Ham dissallowed goal at all. Almost every match had very poor ref'ing moments. Songs ridiculous barge on the edge of the box right before Cahill's fairly soft sending off was so stupidly obvious. Song didn't come anywhere near the ball, tripped the player(stupidly close to the box) and got very lucky, frankly bad refereeing there might have mistaken it for in the box, any half decent ref would have given a freekick on the edge there.
I'm fairly sure Song did a pretty blatant foul to win the ball right before he ran in the box to score aswell. He just has no ability to win the ball, he runs into people and if we get lucky with the ref, its not a foul every time.
At this stage, Arshavin has said his form is off, everyone else see's it, Arshavin said maybe being dropped would help him, a rest, less pressure, having someone who could step in and put in a good performance would help. ALso, playing the guy in his position once in a while would help. Last year there were several times he'd switch and play parts of games behind the striker, him, bendtner, Nasri switching between left/middle/right with RVP ahead of them. If we need a left winger, sell Arshavin and buy a left winger, if we need a right winger, don't bring in Chamakh, at 80k a week and huge signing on bonus, to play right wing, etc, etc, etc. its going to be Arshavin not turning up and Chamakh not helping defensively on the right that end up killing us against Chelsea, Utd, Barca, Inter, Pool(maybe), Spurs/city(maybe).
If we bought players, for the positions required, we'd have a far more balanced far more effective team.
Anyway, Zamora tackle was nasty as hell, and not sure why it wasn't a red card, its the "scissoring" action that makes those tackles incredibly dangerous, when you're slide is carrying you forward and you bring your other leg around and trap the ankle, basically you're completely reliant on the person you're bringing down falling in a very specific way or they have a huge chance of breaking their leg. I swear the "scissor" type tackle had a huge crack down a few years ago but was seen a LOT last year and this year already. Its the kind of dangerous tackle that has a ridiculously high chance of anything from a twisted ankle to a career threatening break.
No idea why all of a sudden bringing your other leg around is almost acceptable when for years it was deemed one of the most dangerous ways to tackle, too much focus on the "two footed off the ground" tackle lately, which is just as dangerous and bad, but ref's seem to just act like, "on the floor, not two footed, not bad" .
The classic way to tackle would be that guy lunging in, one leg ahead of zamora, his other leg trailing, bent, foot behind the player not wrapping around infront of him.
Refereeing standard was appauling this weekend, I notice that on MOTD they avoided the problem by not showing the West Ham dissallowed goal at all. Almost every match had very poor ref'ing moments. Songs ridiculous barge on the edge of the box right before Cahill's fairly soft sending off was so stupidly obvious. Song didn't come anywhere near the ball, tripped the player(stupidly close to the box) and got very lucky, frankly bad refereeing there might have mistaken it for in the box, any half decent ref would have given a freekick on the edge there.
I'm fairly sure Song did a pretty blatant foul to win the ball right before he ran in the box to score aswell. He just has no ability to win the ball, he runs into people and if we get lucky with the ref, its not a foul every time.
At this stage, Arshavin has said his form is off, everyone else see's it, Arshavin said maybe being dropped would help him, a rest, less pressure, having someone who could step in and put in a good performance would help. ALso, playing the guy in his position once in a while would help. Last year there were several times he'd switch and play parts of games behind the striker, him, bendtner, Nasri switching between left/middle/right with RVP ahead of them. If we need a left winger, sell Arshavin and buy a left winger, if we need a right winger, don't bring in Chamakh, at 80k a week and huge signing on bonus, to play right wing, etc, etc, etc. its going to be Arshavin not turning up and Chamakh not helping defensively on the right that end up killing us against Chelsea, Utd, Barca, Inter, Pool(maybe), Spurs/city(maybe).
If we bought players, for the positions required, we'd have a far more balanced far more effective team.
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I still find it hard to believe we kept hold of both Cahill and especially Arteta. I honestly wouldn't even swap Arteta for gerrard. Arteta is way more versatile, doesn't moan about who plays alongside him or being out of position. He gets on with the job and performs consistently where ever we choose to play him.
Cahill is similar, time and time again he gets pushed up top when we have squad issues and he never lets us down. To think both players combined cost us less than 4 million.
Cahill is similar, time and time again he gets pushed up top when we have squad issues and he never lets us down. To think both players combined cost us less than 4 million.
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I have to say Arteta is one of my Favourite non Spurs players. Would love him in a Spurs shirt
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I have to say Arteta is one of my Favourite non Spurs players. Would love him in a Spurs shirt
yet another quality player from the barcelona youth system, i swear they must be making genitcally modified footballers or something.
The Robinson tackle on Diaby was a shocker too, having seen it again. Thought it looked bad at the time but I was a bit far to see it clearly.
Davies was lucky to escape a second yellow too.
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He made a horrible tackle early on in the match then the very dubious head butt on Koscielny. Neither was punished. All in all, the ref had a stinker all game.
Ref was an absolute disgrace yesterday, a lot is made about the red card, from where I was sat it didn't look like a red but why the **** wasn't he playing the advantage, we were running clean through on goal? 10 minutes earlier Davies I assume it was(?) had totally smashed a guy well late after we'd headed the ball clear, yet no yellow card, in fact he booked one of ours presumably for pointing out his 57th horrendous error of the game.
We had 3 penno shouts, first one I think he was looking for it (ball going out for a goalkick), 2nd one looked like a pen to me, not sure about the 3rd. To be fair without seeing the replays I'll have to reserve judgement.
Totally inconsistent too, sometimes playing advantage, sometimes not with no clear logic behind it. He also failed to book one of theirs for a late tackle in the middle of the park after playing advantage, to be fair the ball was in play for a good minute afterwards, but he should still call it back.
I've taken my wife to maybe 10 games and it was the first time at a match she's ever heard people suggesting how the ref likes to entertain himself, so it wasn't just an ordinary run-of-the-mill bad performance, it was a complete shocker. May not be portrayed that way in the media since it is only really the red card that will get looked at, but it was just an all-round bad performance, if he can't even get the basics right what hope is there for the major calls?
We had 3 penno shouts, first one I think he was looking for it (ball going out for a goalkick), 2nd one looked like a pen to me, not sure about the 3rd. To be fair without seeing the replays I'll have to reserve judgement.
Totally inconsistent too, sometimes playing advantage, sometimes not with no clear logic behind it. He also failed to book one of theirs for a late tackle in the middle of the park after playing advantage, to be fair the ball was in play for a good minute afterwards, but he should still call it back.
I've taken my wife to maybe 10 games and it was the first time at a match she's ever heard people suggesting how the ref likes to entertain himself, so it wasn't just an ordinary run-of-the-mill bad performance, it was a complete shocker. May not be portrayed that way in the media since it is only really the red card that will get looked at, but it was just an all-round bad performance, if he can't even get the basics right what hope is there for the major calls?
Yeah he was awful, Davies should have been off within 20 minutes, made two yellow card tackles, then the head butt in the second half should have sealed it. Robinson's challenge was also very suspect, apparently Diaby couldn't feel his leg last night, nice
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Should it? The last six games between us have all ended in a draw and Birmingham haven't lost at home for nearly a season. If we win I'll be amazed because we've stunk in the league so far.Liverpool fans, worried?
Should be a win for you imo.
Well, you have a decent side out and I think you should win. Not saying it will be easy though of course.
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