** spoilers ** English League Football [20th - 22nd November 2010]

Azza said:
Some seriously random challenges today! What was Coloccini thinking?

"I know how to stop him, a swift elbow to the face!!"
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Didn't exactly do it discreetly did he :o

I'm not sure what Coyle has done to Elmander, but give that man a medal!

Also, does Ronaldo stop scoring?
 
utajoker said:
Watching motd, Ben foster had a cracking game. Pulled off some top saves.
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I guess, but the game also showed his greatest flaw - his horrid decision-making. He came scuttling out many times when he didn't have to and was lucky it didn't cost his team as it did United many times in the past.
 
Chong Warrior said:
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I like how he throws the cap separately.
 
There was a very funny bit where Wenger was standing in the technical area and the camera zoom's in on Chamakh who looks really worried and is staring at Wenger, Wenger went and sat back down then turned and seemed to give a really dirty look to Chamakh like

"fat lot of good you were you tall git". They don't show it but I can just imagine Chamakh looking away pretending not to notice Wenger.

Its fairly easy to tell when Wengers frustrated.


As for Ronaldo and Messi, ridiculous, hard to tell exactly as ESPN isn't updated fully but its looking like 12 games, 15 goals, at least 5 assists for Ronaldo, 10 games, 13 goals, at least 3 assists for Messi. Not a huge amount to choose between them at the moment though honestly I think Ronaldo is playing in an overall weaker team. Ozil, Di Maria and Higuain are quality and doing the business, but Alonso, Khedira aren't the same quality as Mascherano and Xavi in the same positions and Barca are a far more settled side.

Both now scored 33 goals after the 8-0 tonight, but Real conceded 2 less and a point ahead.

Quick look through match reports seems to suggest Messi got two assists and Ronaldo didn't get any in tonights game.

In Italy, Milan aren't quite running away with the league but seem by far the strongest so far after a poor start. Inter, utter domination for years, bring in Benitez and seemingly set to lose the title straight away to Milan after their strongest season ever. lol. Benitez must be as special as the other special one, Redknapp.
 
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Who was the Real Madrid player that Hull City tried to sign a year or two back? I only ask because I keep smiling every time I see Higuain's name because I imagine him in an alternate reality with orange and black on... and a noose around his neck.
 
nicktay2605 said:
The only team who would consider spending enough money to get him are Citeh, and I highly doubt he'd go there. Chelsea could technically afford him but Abramovich would never spend that much on him.
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Considering how much money Barca spent on hormone therapy and such, without which he would never make a footballer, its hard to see him ever wanting to leave.
They literally made him.
 
Can't believe some of the idiots on Sunday Supplement. No wonder our papers are so ****.

"Spurs have a better squad than Man Utd"

A minute later, same bloke

"Spurs don't have the squad to play in both the Champions League and Premier League"

EH?!
 
Meaningless rant:

How come players get a red card and suspension for denying a goalscoring opportunity, yet linesmen get away with it scot free?

Edit: surely Wenger should have been sent off to go and sit with the away fans for that? ;)
 
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Imagine a few bets got stuffed yesterday on the forest/cardiff game:)

Well done to the reds on the win, even the most optimistic couldn't have seen it coming, i thought we were gona get another away day tonking.

Just what we needed with leicester away next week:)
 
Anybody else think today that Arsenal should have attempted to sign Pires. Just for experience, winning attitude and the right mentality?

I know we tried that with Sol Campbell, but we all knew he was a bit weird at top anyway. Pires was a different person.
 
i haven't seen enough of arsenal to make a fair judgement but is fabregas' heart still at the club? watching the penalty incident and it is just pure bizarre, also his body language after spurs scored their 3rd is of a man defeated
 
Greenlizard0 said:
Anybody else think today that Arsenal should have attempted to sign Pires. Just for experience, winning attitude and the right mentality?

I know we tried that with Sol Campbell, but we all knew he was a bit weird at top anyway. Pires was a different person.
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Yup, we without question should have, I mentioned this in the transfer thread.

You also seem to forget that Sol was actually well above average for us, hugely better than several of our other options, and as you said he wasn't at his best lately and he was still an improvement to the squad.

Pires is a different matter entirely, he's the kind of guy you want as a coach, might eventually make a good manager, he's one of a select few who was truly exceptional at football, not just great or world class, a vision thats very rare and an actual winger. We could use him now, if Wenger absolutely insists on keeping Theo and keeping him as a winger then someone like PIres MIGHT be able to get into his head and teach him how to play the wing, certain no one else at the club is capable of that.

You know Pires has been training at Arsenal since the summer anyway, like Sol did before we gave him a contract.

Anyway, the fairly obvious reason we lose games like yesterday is Wenger's insistance that players like Denilson are not only worth keeping in the squad, but worth starting over clearly better players. Wilshire would given VDV/Modric an absolute torrid time in midfield, and offered fast breaking and good posession, why we went with Denilson, I can't even pretend to come up with an answer. Its like having Essien and Ramires both fit and available, and choosing Ramires in a game against Utd, its madness, no one on earth would do it, except the gap in quality between Wilshire and Denilson is FAR bigger.

I think if we replaced Wenger with almost anyone at all, no other manager would have made that mistake, nor waited till 2-2 to make big changes, was obvious, again, from 2 minutes into the 2nd half the game had turned and Wenger waited for 2 very predictable goals before making the worst changes he could possibly make out of our possible substitutes.
 
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