The association football 2009/10 thread...

[pieceofme]

Still a good result, though. Liverpool are still shite.

And to think most pundits were tipping them for the title.

[Sammi_Curr]

Gifted but lazy.

Manchester City's attempts to placate Robinho and keep the most expensive footballer in England happy have failed, with the Brazilian desperate to leave in the January transfer window. City are aware of his position and, despite strong denials on their mid-season training camp here in the United Arab Emirates, they have reluctantly accepted that the player whose £32.5m transfer was supposed to symbolise the club's ambitions wants no further part in the revolution.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009 ... ity-future

[SLASH1976]

Gifted but lazy.

Manchester City's attempts to placate Robinho and keep the most expensive footballer in England happy have failed, with the Brazilian desperate to leave in the January transfer window. City are aware of his position and, despite strong denials on their mid-season training camp here in the United Arab Emirates, they have reluctantly accepted that the player whose £32.5m transfer was supposed to symbolise the club's ambitions wants no further part in the revolution.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009 ... ity-future

Where's he going to ?

[MickeyG]

Barca were linked with Robinho, but like United and Real Madrid, they are linked with everyone.

[pieceofme]

Barca were linked with Robinho, but like United and Real Madrid, they are linked with everyone.

All the reports i've read have said Barca as well.

[SLASH1976]

I don't think Barca needs a Robinho. They got Ibrahimovic who seems to work out just fine and have in Pedro an upcoming youngster.
Barca is well covered for that position

[MickeyG]

And they're still after Fibreglass at Arsenal. That goal he scored against Spurs is a contender for goal of the season.

[Sammi_Curr]

Ten Strangest Football Injuries Ever!

http://www.caughtoffside.com/2009/07/13 ... ries-ever/



Sometimes even getting out of bed in the morning can be a career threatening maneuver, well that is if you’re a footballer!

1 – Dave Beasant – jar of salad cream
Chelsea began their 1993-94 season without their first choice goalkeeper after Beasant showed uncustomary clumsy hands and dropped a full jar of salad cream and instinctively stuck a leg out to negate the error. The jar smashed on his foot severing a tendon in his big toe.



2 – Ivano Bonetti – plate of chicken wings
After Grimsby had lost 3-2 to Luton in February 1996, then manager Brian Laws was so incensed that his post match debrief degenerated in to a slanging match with his chastened players. As the ‘team-talk’ reached fever pitch, Laws also reached for something to hurl at his charges. That his weapon of choice was a plate of chicken wings accounts for the damage done – a fractured cheekbone – when it proved more accurate than Bonetti’s passes had been that day.


3 – Steve Morrow – Tony Adams’ shoulders
Arsenal played Sheffield Wednesday in both the League Cup and FA Cup final in 1993. Steve Morrow was only to feature in the first, despite scoring the winning goal. The 22-year-old match winner was hoisted in celebration on to the shoulders of club captain Tony Adams, who showed his usual deftness of touch in dropping his team-mate to the Wembley turf and breaking his collar bone.

4 – Leroy Lita – his own bed
You’d think that even a footballer would be safe from harm in their own bed (especially when alone). You’d think so, but you’d be wrong. Reading striker Leroy Lita had a spell in the treatment room back in the summer of 2007 after an early morning stretch before he had even left his bed saw him pull a muscle in his leg.

5 – David James – TV remote
James once claimed that playing football video games on the PlayStation had led to a dip in form but worse was to come when he strained his back reaching for a TV remote control.


6 – Liam Lawrence – his dog
The Stoke City midfielder badly sprained his ankle after a late night sojourn to the bathroom met with an untimely coming together with the family dog over which he tripped and fell. “He was walking down the stairs and tried to step over his dog and he’s gone over on his ankle. I don’t think anything is broken, but it’s very disappointing,” said manager Tony Pulis.


7 – David Batty – toddler’s tricycle
More than a few of Batty’s opponents no doubt raised a smile when the former Leeds United hardman was given a taste of his own medicine from his son – a crushing late challenge (at high speed on a tricycle driven carelessly by the toddler) damaging his Achilles tendons and sidelining him for several weeks.


8 – Rio Ferdinand – coffee table
Sometimes doing nothing is as dangerous as doing something. While at Leeds United Rio Ferdinand was resting and watching a bit of television with his feet up on a coffee table. Four hours later when he came to move Ferdinand had strained a tendon behind his knee and had plenty more rest ahead of him.


9 – Paulo Diogo – wedding ring
In December 2004 Diogo, a journeyman Swiss footballer, was so pleased with his role in setting up team-mate Jean Beausejour while playing for Servette against Schaffhauasen that he lept on to the perimeter fencing to be with the fans. Unfortunately for him, his wedding ring got caught on the fence and when he dismounted left a piece of his finger up there. Attempts to reattach the digit failed and some more was amputated for good measure.

10 – Kirk Broadfoot – egg in the face
Earlier this year the Rangers and Scotland defender was admitted to hospital after getting a little too close when inspecting a couple of poached eggs fresh out of the microwave. One of them exploded squirting scalding water in to his face. A full recovery was made. (Daily Telegrap

[Supersonic]

Anyone seen this letter before??

"Dear Players of Grimsby Town FC

I am writing with regard to my absolute astonishment and disbelief as to the sheer magnitude of your complete lack of talent and failure to carry out the job for which you are paid to do. I am not aware of any swear word or other derogatory phrase in my current vocabulary which comes close to a description of your 'performance' (and I use that term loosely) this afternoon, but let me just say that you have collectively reached a level of inadequacy and ineptitude that neither I nor modern science had previously considered possible.

In fact I recall a time, in my youth, when I decided to call in sick at work and instead spent the entire day in my one bedroom flat wearing nothing but my underpants, eating toast and w*nking furiously over second-rate Scandinavian porn. Yet somehow, I still managed to contribute more to my employer in that one Andrex-filled day than you complete bunch of toss-baskets have contributed to this club in your entire time here.

I would genuinely like to know how you pathetic little p*ssflaps sleep at night, knowing full well that you have taken my money and that of several thousand others and delivered precisely f*ck all in return. I run a business myself, and I believe I could take any 4,000 of my customers at random; burn down their houses, impregnate their wives and then dismember their children before systematically sending them back in the post, limb-by-limb, and still ensure a level of customer satisfaction which exceeds that which I have experienced at Blundell Park at any time so far this season.

You are a total disgrace, not only to your profession, not only to the human race, but to nature itself. This may sound like an exaggeration, but believe me when I say that I have passed kidney stones which have brought me a greater level of pleasure and entertainment than watching each of you worthless excuses for professional footballers attempt to play a game you are clearly incapable of playing, week-in, week-out.

I considered, for a second, that I was perhaps being a little too harsh. But then I recalled that I have blindly given you all the benefit of the doubt for too long now. Yes, for too long you have failed to earn the air you've been breathing by offering any kind of tangible quality either as footballers or as people in general. As such, I feel it's only fair that your supply runs out forthwith.

I trust, at this precise moment in time, that Mr Fenty is in his office tapping away on the Easyjet web site booking you all one-way flights to Zurich, complete with an overnight stay with our cheese eating friends at Dignitas. Don't bother packing your toothbrush - you won't need it.

In the event that our beloved chairman can't afford the expense (understandable given that he's soon going to have to assemble a new squad from scratch), then I am prepared to sell my family (including my unborn child) to a dubious consortium of Middle Eastern businessmen in order to pay for the flights. Christ, I'll drive you there myself, one-by one, without sleep, if I have to.

Failing that, understanding that most dubious Middle Eastern businessmen are tied-up purchasing Premier League football clubs, I ask you to please take matters into your hands. Use your imagination, guys - strangle yourselves or cover yourself in tinfoil and take a fork to a nearby plug socket, or something. Just put yourselves and us fans out of our collective misery.

So, in summary, you pack of repugnant, sputum-filled, invertebrate bástards; leave this club now and don't you f*cking dare look back. You've consistently demonstrated less passion and desire than can commonly be found within the contents of a sloth's scrótum, so frankly you can just all f*ck off - don't pass go, don't collect your wages, don't ever come back to this town again.

I look forward to you serving me at my local McDonald's drive-thru in the near future.

Yours sincerely"

[ShearMagic]

Too bad the Russians lost last night and aren't in the World Cup. Slovenia deserved their victory but they aren't as entertaining squad to watch in the Cup next summer.

France will suffer as bad as 2002 because their team is shitty and old and can't get the job done.

[pieceofme]

Fuck the French
I hate them more than any other international team.
They will get no where with their current coach in the world cup finals though.

[Sammi_Curr]

[MickeyG]

Arsewipe fans will still defend Henry till the end though.

[mullet_head]

Bosnians...get the fuck outta here.

Shit ain't no playground, kids.

[mullet_head]

Fuck the French
I hate them more than any other international team..

My hatred for them is much much stronger than yours.

[MickeyG]

Always cheatin', the fuckin' Frogs!

[coatsy]

henry did the same against rangers in the champions league. shit happens.

[pieceofme]

Fuck the French
I hate them more than any other international team..

My hatred for them is much much stronger than yours.

Everybody hate the French.

[MickeyG]

2-2 at Anfield!

[SLASH1976]

[Sammi_Curr]

Benítez
"

I haven't seen Ngog having any problems in any training session, in any game, diving," the Liverpool manager said. "He is a very honest player, a young player with quality and a good mentality. I could name 20 players who have these problems but not Ngog."

I think it will be a massive mistake [if he is labelled a diver now]. There are bad tackles every week which are more dangerous for the integrity of the players than this situation. It is a situation you can see in a lot of games."

Henry's intervention in the World Cup play-off has taken the spotlight off Ngog but also intensified the debate on cheating, although Benítez denies there is any similarity between the two. He said: "There is a massive difference between being the target of a tackle that makes you jump and you fall over and touching the ball with your hand. It is totally different."

Benítez concedes that Ngog dived but claims that the referee, Peter Walton, was nevertheless correct to award the penalty. "Ngog knows it was a bad situation," the Liverpool manager said. "But he was running and trying to score and he could see a player going to the ground, he needed to jump. To try that tackle is a foul with the rules. After we can see the replays and talk about video technology but at that moment everyone thought it was a penalty. After watching the replay I could see a player going to ground, trying to tackle one of our players and our player jumping, diving, but at the time it was a penalty."

[MickeyG]

What I saw of Ngog today, he didn't play badly at all.

[pieceofme]

9-1 to Spurs.

Defoe is on fire.

Wigan are such a jekyll and hyde team, they'll probably beat the next team they play against 2-0, even if its one of the top 4.

[MickeyG]

Yeah, Wigans results have been fucked up to say the least.

They've beaten Villa, West Ham, Chelsea and Burnley and drew with Fulham and City. But got owned by United, Arsenal, Spuds and lowly Portsmouth. They also lost to Wolves, Hull and Everton. So a complete mixture of results there.

[Hellsinkey]

Tottenham's win was the biggest and most goals by one player, though both were shared at least by ManU and Andy Cole.

[MickeyG]

Andy Cole scored 5 against Ipswich, and I think Alan Shearer got 5 against somebody too in the Prem.

Defoes is the most scored by one player in one half of a match in the Prem.

[Hellsinkey]

Defoes is the most scored by one player in one half of a match in the Prem.

I can't see that beaten anytime soon, if ever.

[MickeyG]

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer scored 4 after coming on as sub with 15 mins left against Nottingham Forest in a 8-1 win.

[Hellsinkey]

Ole Gunnar Solskjaer scored 4 after coming on as sub with 15 mins left against Nottingham Forest in a 8-1 win.

I think there was a statistic that he was the most effective player ever goalwise in the league, considering the minutes he usually played.

[pieceofme]

Andy Cole scored 5 against Ipswich, and I think Alan Shearer got 5 against somebody too in the Prem.

Defoes is the most scored by one player in one half of a match in the Prem.

He did. I can't recall which team it was against.