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[Ace]

Bloody hell! Go offline for 3 days and City sign Reyna and McManaman!

Hey up Olly. Good to meet yez last night. Your a nice lad for a red.

Edit. Just nicked this from EFC message board:

Scouser walks into a shop in Denton, Manchester
Scouser "Hey pal, have you got any Turps?"
Manc "Wot? music turps or video turps?"

LOL Nice to meet you too mate. I'll be round to steal your Ski's someday

[Slothrop]

Thank you Mr Beattie! Nice little pitkäveto double came up, Southampton and HJK, paid out about 7-1 for a EUR 10 stake. What Veikkaus thought they were doing there I cannot imagine.

[Ace]

Thank you Mr Beattie!

Oi less of that Well United gotbeat And whilst I don't share all the opinions of this Man Utd fanzine forumist:

We're up !"#¤% creek, without anything even close to resembling a paddle.
Prepare for a hard winter lads. No creativity, no flair, no cover in any position except centre mid where we've got loads of players from the same mould.

Forlan couldn't hit a cows arse with a banjo, Kleberson, fit or not, is clearly !"#¤%, Mickey S is crap in the air and no centre half, Giggs is back to his mediocre rubbish of most of last season, and the two most creative players of an overall poor season have gone and not been replaced. Only bonus point is the goalkeeper.

The arrogance of the manager in thinking no-one is good enough for United is going to cost us big time. We so painfully need a right winger, a centre half and a full back, and absolutely nothing has been done to address the problem. We'll be 3rd at best this year.

He does make some valid points. Although after being so crap for most of last season and still winning the league, I feel its a bit early to write us off just yet

Despite Chelsea's policy of buying a whole team of players, most of whom are at the peak of there careers in an effort to break their 48 year duck. I still feel Arsenal pose the biggest threat this season. Acceptable result for Simon there. Nice to see the cartoons slipping up also Houllier wont last the season i'm afraid, I for one am more than happy with the job he's doing there, although I would welcome a return to merseydive for Evans or Souness

I'm the first Liverpool manager to win four successive derbies at Goodison

Maybe so Gerard, but the most succesful team in English football with 18 League titles and 4 European Cups have slightly higher expectations

[Ace]

Lol

[Slothrop]

I didn't know the Knight of the Purple Countenance was left-footed. If Giggs is so awful, perhaps AF he could play himself instead.

The ManUre correspondent seems to be leaping to a few rather premature conclusions, but it is nice to see there are the same mad doomwatchers in every club.

Where do they GO when Forlan scores a brace, or Heskey (bless his little pointed head) whacks a hat-trick (yes, I know it's unlikely), or some poor benighted (and now decapitated) "couldn't catch a cold in the head" keeper stops two penalties and saves fearlessly at Lee Bowyer's feet?

[Ace]

Where do they GO when Forlan scores a brace, or Heskey (bless his little pointed head) whacks a hat-trick (yes, I know it's unlikely), or some poor benighted (and now decapitated) "couldn't catch a cold in the head" keeper stops two penalties and saves fearlessly at Lee Bowyer's feet?

Who knows. Where were they last season, when we had a much worse start and still won the league 9 points from 4 games works for me The euro cup though *sigh*

We do seem to have an abundance of sideways passing defensive midfield types at the moment. But i'm a romantic for 90 metre outside of the foot defence splitting passes, unfortunately Juan (tracking back? whats that?) Veron has departed

This guy makes a better point:

Those of you who aren't old enough to have stood on the terraces season after season watching !"#¤% football in the absolute certainty that we would end up potless and the scousers would win the league again lack any sense of perspective.

Some serious Wheeler Dealing went on yesterday, what?

[simon]

I did like this article about Fergie the happy one
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/3197989.stm

[Ace]

I did like this article about Fergie the happy one
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/3197989.stm

Jep he's made some unusual decisions but I gave up doubting long ago Beckham opened the door himself when, after United fans stood by him after the red card of France 98, he took the piss by refusing to sign the standard 5 year contract and giving 110% for Ingurland and about 70% for United. Madrid are welcome to him and Skeletor

I was surprised with the Veron decision though, but not as much as this one:

Ferguson decided to sell three of his key players - midfield dynamo Paul Ince, winger Andrei Kanchelskis and striker Mark Hughes.

[Matty]

Nice flash movie!

Yeah well, much as we all want to, you can't write off Utd cos they lost to Saints away.

Ferguson has to go one day though. My guess is that Utd board can't find anyone to fill his shoes, much as they'd like to tomorrow. A change of manager at United is going to mean a major overhaul, cos basically there is no-one like him personality wise or with such a knowledge of how things run at The Swamp. It's totally the Fergie show.

Who's gonna want the job anyway? Has to be a northener or Irish, can't imagine any foreigners sticking it out in the North West, especially United. Are they waiting for O'Neill?

Well. I support City, but of course I'd hate to see Utd struggle.

[Ace]

Are they waiting for O'Neill?

I hope not

[ajdias]

Who's gonna want the job anyway? Has to be a northener or Irish, can't imagine any foreigners sticking it out in the North West, especially United. Are they waiting for O'Neill?

Wasn't Queiroz supposed to take over, had he not joined the "Real Madrid's Flying circus"? At least, that's what I've been reading on the press.

Btw, Barça is playing in 20 minutes. Isn't it nuts?

Olly: thanks. Actually nodoby really cares for the SuperCup, so why bother right? At least not YLE, they had the game after midnight. And there was no @#$% place in town showing it live, I would be much better of at home listening to the radio. Like I am now:-)

António

[Slothrop]

I was channel-hopping and caught the second half of the Southampton game on MUTV. Yeah, it's free, and I was interested to hear how a clearly subjective commentary team would acquit themselves, especially when Beattie scored.

There was a horrible ring of "off tube and not live" about it - countless references from 45 minutes onwards that "the game looks like it will be decided by one goal, Paddy" "Yes, I think there'll only be the one goal in it, Steve", and of course NONE of the offside decisions against United were acceptable to our dashing pair.

The Yank keeper had a good game, though he was probably at fault for Beattie's goal. Should have taken out that Swedish bloke that got in his way. Bottom line was that Southampton were more up for it. I didn't see much to complain about in Forlan's performance: the fact that he didn't score was more down to a great save from Jones than anything else.

But the whingeing complaint - there HAD to be one - came: the grass was too long, and too dry. I guess if they get beat in October, it'll be the wrong kind of leaves on the touchline...

[Ace]

Paddy" "Yes, I think there'll only be the one goal in it, Steve", and of course NONE of the offside decisions against United were acceptable to our dashing pair.

Yep he's not particularly impartial Crerand

Dont talk to me about offside decisions Im constantly arguing with players and coaches about them.

Coach: "PAITSIO TUOMARI, KOLME METRIA"

Olly: "EI OLE PAITSIO, OLI MAALI"

cue keltainen ja punainen korttia

The Yank keeper had a good game, though he was probably at fault for Beattie's goal.

Yeah he's a belter him. Great signing.

But the whingeing complaint - there HAD to be one - came

Yeah from Phil Neville "The grass was too dry" WTF Phil He's hardly reknown for his long range passing. Like the rest of our current midfield (save Scholesy).

Wasn't Queiroz supposed to take over, had he not joined the "Real Madrid's Flying circus"? At least, that's what I've been reading on the press.

It might have been the plan who knows? I'd like Ferguson to stay on for a while yet personally.

Btw, Barça is playing in 20 minutes. Isn't it nuts?

yep I heard that on the radio yesterday. How can that be? Its crazy Midnight kick off WTF

Olly: thanks. Actually nodoby really cares for the SuperCup, so why bother right? At least not YLE, they had the game after midnight. And there was no @#$% place in town showing it live, I would be much better of at home listening to the radio. Like I am now:-)

Yeah its just a pre season friendly isn't it. Only Manchester City would count that as a trophy

[Matty]

Only Manchester City would count that as a trophy

here we go..


Have a prawn butty and a sit down.

[simon]

Been looking and found some good football songs and jokes

for Olly

can't remember the exact names of the two tunes thes were sung to but i've heard the arsenal fans singing to the man u mob -

did u come by underground?
did u come,
did u come,
did u come by underground?
did u come by underground?
repeat.

and...

u'll be home in 5 minutes,
home in fiiiive miiiinutes,
u'll be home in 5 minutes

and

When Roy Keane scored an og vs Real Madrid after having signed his contarct a few weeks before, to the tune of the Vieira song:

For 50 thousand quid,
He scores for Real Madrid,
One Keano, oh oh oh oh
One Keano ...

and.....

when ron atkinson was in charge of wba, the opposition used to sing :-
whos the fattest b*****d in division 1,
its you ron, ron, ron,
its you ron, ron.