**Football 5th-9th Mar 2010/2011

Azza · 7 Mar 2011 at 21:49

That was a great chance!

explicit4u · 7 Mar 2011 at 21:52

Blackpool are a Good Defence away from being a premier league regular!

FT 3-1 Chelsea

Pleeeeease don't get relegated Blackpool!

Tombstone · 7 Mar 2011 at 21:54

Well a win for chelsea, but at least Torres didn't score

Andybtsn · 7 Mar 2011 at 21:57

I watched Puncheon score against Boro earlier on the season playing for Millwall, he was on loan from MK Dons! Blackpool look decent, they're overachieving, they will get releagated next season if not this.

Just another Hull, Ipswich, Charlton etc etc

guyfawkes5 · 7 Mar 2011 at 22:06

BaZ87 said:
Haven't I said 3 times that I shouldn't have said fake?

And again, you've admitted youself that the picture makes the injury seem worse so why are you taking issue with me saying that the way it's been enhanced makes it seem worse?

Again Baz, I said it makes the injury seem worse because it shows more of it; so, by that token our impression of the injury before was incorrect as it didn't show the true scope of it. I don't understand what your problem here is if what we're seeing is what's there?

Shamikebab · 7 Mar 2011 at 22:11

Chelsea an outside bet for the title? Only 9 pts behind us now with a game in hand and we still have to play them again. Not looking so out of it any more.

G|mp · 7 Mar 2011 at 22:21

cheets64 said:
Not sure but Wayne Rooney stayed behind at after hearing there was a nani lying on a table with a big gash!

LuLz

drunkenmaster · 7 Mar 2011 at 22:23

Shamikebab said:
Chelsea an outside bet for the title? Only 9 pts behind us now with a game in hand and we still have to play them again. Not looking so out of it any more.

I was just coming to post that, I thought that gap was bigger but had to check with Utd losing, it will be down to 6 points if they win the game in hand, and 3 if they win the 2nd game against Utd.

Its truly ridiculous just how often the "normal" top 7 are really damn awful. Throwing away points left right and centre, playing so badly, with so many ridiculously awful players in most of the top sides.

If Chelsea win the title this year, playing THAT badly for basically 3 months of the season, bit of a joke really.

G|mp · 7 Mar 2011 at 22:25

I've never really thought Chelsea was out of it. They're always capable of winning 10 on the bounce.

jakeke · 7 Mar 2011 at 22:30

Chelsea will be third at best, Man Utd and Arsenal will step it up and it'll be between them

cm1179 · 7 Mar 2011 at 22:37

drunkenmaster said:
If Chelsea win the title this year, playing THAT badly for basically 3 months of the season, bit of a joke really.

oh yeh cos united have been playing awesomely, haven't they? if there's any justice and as much as it pains me to say this (but especially after arshavins dissalowed goal on saturday) arsenal deserve it

Rameses · 7 Mar 2011 at 22:56

I'll admit, I did find it funny so I thought I'd share

drunkenmaster · 7 Mar 2011 at 23:00

cm1179 said:
oh yeh cos united have been playing awesomely, haven't they? if there's any justice and as much as it pains me to say this (but especially after arshavins dissalowed goal on saturday) arsenal deserve it

Yeah, Arsenal have done so many stupid things its hilarious, but I don't even know, it feels like most of the football has been better but then, we're still behind Utd.

Utd have been really bad but you've got to remember Chelsea won the title last year not Utd, they've been, to me at least, the worst of the top 4 teams, pretty much backed up by their league position, I don't think anyone really deserves it.

Its less about Chelsea winning but more shocking that no one above such a truly long awful spell has managed to get far enough ahead to make it basically impossible to win the title.

A team plays as badly as Chelsea for 3 months, they should be hanging on to a Europa spot with an outside shot at the bottom CL place, not one win against Utd from being within 3 points of the top, its madness.

But even then, Arsenal are only 4 points off the same time as last year but a game played more(so probably a point off last season after 29 games) UTD have played 29 now and are only 3 points worse off, they were top of the table at this stage last season.

How can Utd be so close to where they were last season, playing that badly, its ridiculous. Then again thats what a winning mentality can do for you, or a losing one. A lot of people, me included, were suggesting one loss for Utd away from home and the confidence hit they'd take and it could go downhill for them, which from no losses to 3 in a month or so seems like it is indeed going that way.

drunkenmaster · 7 Mar 2011 at 23:03

jakeke said:
Chelsea will be third at best, Man Utd and Arsenal will step it up and it'll be between them

Well, tbh as I was just hinting out, a previously winning mentality playing like turd but getting results, just one result and they've stopped getting their results now and seem even worse. I can see Utd's season getting semi bad at this stage.

Same goes for Arsenal, good run of mostly playing weaker teams after xmas, is great, but lose the CC, if we lose to Barca, the teams taking a big hit, every season for years we've been in the hunt around the same stage, maybe 2-3 weeks further on than usual, where we go out of the Champs league, go out a cup, or both domestic cups and it hurts our league form, the team falls apart and our title challenge just dissappears. I can see Arsenals form dipping if we lose to Barca.

Cosimo · 7 Mar 2011 at 23:07

drunkenmaster said:
If Chelsea win the title this year, playing THAT badly for basically 3 months of the season, bit of a joke really.

It won't be a joke, it will be hilarious and show how good Chelsea are and how the others are not. The last Saturday of the season will be very interesting indeed.

cm1179 · 7 Mar 2011 at 23:11

aslong as man city don't win it, i don't mind who does

Tummy · 7 Mar 2011 at 23:18

G|mp said:
Hahahahahha I've heard it all now

That's definitely not number 18 Paul Scholes standing there having a look then?

Why would anyone photoshop it, again, hahahahahaha

http://www.epltalk.com/nanis-horrific-injury-from-jamie-carraghers-tackle-photos-29893

Just so you can see it's the same incident and the same injury.

Photoshoplol.

so it's the actual photo?

Thanks for that, a few people said they weren't sure so as a result I ended up less sure.

Did anyone read my novel or did people just bicker over the picture? lol

AGD · 7 Mar 2011 at 23:18

3-1 probably flattered chelsea but it was a good result to place them in prime position to leapfrog city into 3rd.

Let's not get carried away though, yes we have a game in hand a play man u again so could be 3 points behind, but there's a few ifs involved in that and I can't see us really chasing for the title unless man u have a severe collapse. And man u normally finish strong so I doubt that will happen. At least people are talking about that now rather than whether or not we'll be in the cl next year!

BaZ87 · 7 Mar 2011 at 23:46

guyfawkes5 said:
Again Baz, I said it makes the injury seem worse because it shows more of it; so, by that token our impression of the injury before was incorrect as it didn't show the true scope of it. I don't understand what your problem here is if what we're seeing is what's there?

As I've said 100 times, I was refering to the size of the gash in his leg. It makes the gash look a lot bigger in relation to his leg than it actually is.

guyfawkes5 · 7 Mar 2011 at 23:49

BaZ87 said:
As I've said 100 times, I was refering to the size of the gash in his leg. It makes the gash look a lot bigger in relation to his leg than it actually is.

Which is how a zoom lens works... which is presented to the viewer by the illustration of a lens surrounding the area... or do the public think there really was a white circle surrounding Nani's leg, planted there by the callous Carragher?