Jumpers for goalposts

[MagicJ]

Moaner, Not at JLo's?

Thought you were waiting for MOTD?

No Kino so watched our tame 0-0, will nip across the road later.

[Salopian]

Well, Moyes managed to get a player he was sniffing around during the summer for six months for peanuts. Still, he looks like a useless lump. Man City must have haggled aggressively - upwards - to part with £19m for him.

Arshavin...I'm sure the deal will go through and it'll be interesting to see how he performs. Arsenal might struggle a lot if they don't get fresh blood in. What ya reckon, Magic?

Keane back to Spurs...Defoe must be delighted. Will be great to see how much Livershiite paid for him for six months of utter fail.

[MagicJ]

Arshavin is what we need, a bit of ingenuity further up the pitch, have a butchers...skip the 1st minute.



I think Jo looked OK for the first couple of games, he's been here training and adjusting to life in a new country for a while now so he could do a good job for you, he's also going to get better management and motivation under Moyes than he did at city. You also have something to play for unlike city.

This is on my wish list for spurs as well as more twitching from Redknapp and some more humiliating defeats:

Tottenham Hotspur Face Point Deduction
http://www.goal.com/en/news/699/tottenh ... -deduction

Tottenham Hotspur are in real danger of having points docked for illegally playing Wilson Palacios in their Premier League clash against Bolton Wanderers yesterday. The Honduran international was serving a ban for his former club Wigan Athletic, and there are rumours that because he played in yesterday's game, legal action should be taken against Spurs. The suggestion is that if Palacios was still a Wigan player, his ban would have finished on 31st January, but because he moved to White Hart Lane, the ban should see him cup tied for Carling Cup and FA Cup games, meaning his ban should be carried over these games.
Therefore, his fixture list should read:

Wednesday Jan 21 2009 Burnley CC (A) (cup tied)
Saturday Jan 24 2009 Manchester United FA (A) (cup tied)
Tuesday Jan 27 2009 Stoke City (H) (suspended)
Saturday Jan 31 2009 Bolton Wanderers (A) (suspended)
Sunday Feb 08 2009 Arsenal (H) (ban lifted)

This news was revealed by a Wigan fans' website, and it is not known whether the Premier League will take legal action against Spurs, but what seems certain is that Palacios should have been made unavailable to Harry Redknapp and therefore should not have been played in the 3-2 defeat against Bolton yesterday.

Source: yeoldtreeandcrown.com

[Salopian]

Sounds like another Sheffield United/WHU debacle in the making, should things go to the wire. Deducted points for a match they lost? Well done, 'Arry. He'll be after Robinson again soon - he's trying to put the team that was never that good back together.

Didn't 'Boro go down about 12 years ago or something for pulling out of a fixture due to injuries/illness? Deducted three points AND lost the re-arranged fixture? Three points away from Hotspurs total would leave them rock bottom at this instant.

Arshavin looks class. There were noises that we could've had him last January for £5m - noises I'll ignore for the good of the lingering threads of sanity I still possess.

Jô (took me a few goes to get that ô) just doesn't look like a football player, going on the grainy youtube clips I studied. He makes Peter Crouch seem like Fred Astaire...

[otyikondo]

Black Monday for managers... Tony Adams gets his marching orders and then Big Phil becomes Chelski's third victim in two years. Adams must be cursing those gaffes in the last couple of minutes. 2-1 might just have kept him in a job.

[Salopian]

I'm sure the fact that he was sacked - rather than resigned - will ensure he's looked after. However, I'm not sure where he goes from here. It was a tough job to take on - a tough act to follow, with massive sales in the post for the January window - but 10 points from 16 matches brings pressure all of its own.

Shame about Chelsea...they've probably acted just in time to salvage their season.

[oompah18]

But what does it take to get rid of Mark Hughes? Man City haven´t delivered their money´s worth since he took over. How can so much "rich" (excuse the pun!) talent play so dully together?
Allie, still hoping Reading can bounce back up again this season.........

[simon]

Just watched the spurts against S, Donesk. Are the spurts normally that !"#¤%?

Granted they had a few youngsters playing but they were really bad

[catfish78]

Even though we will probably finnish at the bottom of the table and may even be relegated. At least we broke Mad U's streak.

[sinikala]

Hi all,

Well one loss in a while is fine Man u is the king & will remain so always, so do not start jumping up & down too much coz the one who remain at the bottom of the table remain there always they cant even match the top spot people. so please do not be over enthu about anythng.

Cheers!!!

Tool.

Good win for the Red Shyte over Real tonight. The Fat Spanish Waiter should be able to dine out on that one for a while, at least until the Scum tonk them in the Prem.

[TampereOwl]

This made me chuckle.

[otyikondo]

Hi all,

Well one loss in a while is fine Man u is the king & will remain so always, so do not start jumping up & down too much coz the one who remain at the bottom of the table remain there always they cant even match the top spot people. so please do not be over enthu about anythng.

Cheers!!!

Tool.

Good win for the Red Shyte over Real tonight. The Fat Spanish Waiter should be able to dine out on that one for a while, at least until the Scum tonk them in the Prem.

Huge sh*t-eating grin. Of course it's probably all smoke and mirrors. We've got the mighty Blackburn and Toon to come at Anfield. Should be worth two points....

[MagicJ]

For those who listen to the Guardian podcast or are fans of James Richardson. Groansworthy but classics

"Roma and Lazio, like Penelope Pitstop, are tied on points."

"This week, we've got the best top-of-the-table action since 'The Postman Always Rings Twice'."

"As the man said at the fender exhibition, it's a bumper show."

"...as unsung as Posh Spice's back-catalogue."

"What do Clarence Seedorf and Pete Doherty have in common? They both get caught in possession an awful lot."

"A Chantelle and Preston of a game, if ever there was one, with all the hype about the match it ends without any scoring."

"Roberto Mancini talks about his title aspirations, which is a comeback as improbable as Leo Sayer's but with a much better record."

"Would Sven be partial to a role behind the desk? Stop @#$%^& at the back!" (Whilst talking about Sven-Göran Eriksson taking up a director of football role with Inter)

"The biggest title challenge since Danny !"#¤% tried to write his autobiography."

"Chelsea paid a levy for the Shevy but the Shevy went dry" (On the subject of Andriy Shevchenko's lack of goals after being signed by Chelsea)

"The Juventus coach arrived at Fiorentina's stadium under a hail of missiles from home fans. Mind you, they are not the only team to arrive at away matches with a smashed coach. Nottingham Forest fans are more than used to it!" c. 1991

"It hasn't been an amazing first half. Quite frankly, I've seen better finishing from the builders of Wembley Stadium." (on the Paul O'Grady Show, in a small segment during the SS Lazio v AS Roma derby in 2007, which ended 0-0)

"What's pink and floppy, but when I'm finished with it, red all over? The newspapers!"

"It's hard hitting and across two legs. No, it's not Craig Bellamy's golf club, it's the champions league semi-finals."

"It's the last weekend of the season, and not since Guti discovered his girlfriend was a fella have players battled so hard against going down."

"Back in Sao Paolo in 1994, he arranged with a gang of ruffians to rob a team director on the day he was carrying the player's wages. Caught, he spent two years inside a tough Sao Paolo jail, and if that didn't teach him to keep it tight at the back with Lazio, what will?" (On Cesar Aparecido Rodriguez, Brazilian Left Back)

"Still, you'd have to favour the Italian backline to handle anything the likes of Kris Boyd and Kenny Miller can throw at them (although Marco Materazzi might be well advised to steer clear of asking after his opponents' sisters this time)." (Guardian article on the Scotland
vs Italy game.)

"Newly-promoted Sicilian side Catania aren't a bad football team, in much the same way that the Light Brigade probably weren't a bad group of soldiers"

"Liverpool with a score straight out of Posh Spice's diary: 8-nothing."

"Like an Egyptian fish, he's living in denial."

"Football Weekly, the show that is as badly missed as backpass to Titus Bramble"

[simon]

Found this and thought of salopian and sinikala, just in case you havent seen it before

Enjoy

[simon]

league 1..... big time