Jumpers for goalposts

[ChubbyPoacher]

Re-scheduled a meeting in England so I could take an earlier flight and get back for this game.

Don't you mean shortened your holiday booked around the inconvenience of a meeting?

Actionable untruth.
That a short, but vital, meeting with a client in England happens to coincide with the celebration of Eid ul Fitr is simply a fortunate dovetailing of items currently on my agenda.
Obviously, it's a stroke of luck the meeting takes place 8 miles from my family home, allowing me to see me mum and eat some samosas.

[TampereOwl]

The only thing I read about this Spanish team is that they have a match against Barcelona the day before they fly to Finland. (?) Does Honka stand a chance?

Anyway, let's hope for a small snow shower and low-flying bubos, then they don't stand a chance

Finnish football writing at its best there: they lost 2-1 to Mallorca at the weekend.

"A few days before they host Honka in September, Racing Santander will travel to Barcelona for their second match of the current La Liga season - quite a difference, when you think about it!"

IntEd 29.8.2008

It was the match before the FIRST leg - in Spain. I Think they drew 1-1, but as anye foole knoews, Barca are shyte.

In fairness to Racing, they have played four of the top five clubs so far this season - Villareal, Real, Barca, and Sevilla. And Mallorca are 8th or 9th, with only two home fixtures played out of five...

That isn't what penelope said she'd read.....

[Rosamunda]

Yeah but it's close enough. I think that is probably what I had read since I am unlikely to have read it anywhere else. Me having a senior moment.

We'll watch the Turku game on TV though. I guess it is sold out already anyway.

[ChubbyPoacher]

We'll watch the Turku game on TV though. I guess it is sold out already anyway.

I don't think it is.
Thinking about going to this game.
Tickets 6€
Student Pikey train ticket 27€ return from Helsinki

Hmmm..

[otyikondo]

Well, Racing haven't managed a winin their first five league games.
They've lost 3 and conceded 10 goals in the process.

EndoftheWorldasweKnowit League, Division 1

Santander score victory against UK opposition

Santander 1 Bradford & Bingley Albion 0 (UK Taxpayer, o.g.)

Santander, who have struggled recently in Spain, pulled off a third win against weakened British opposition on Monday, after having overcome two other relegation-threatened outfits, Abbey and Alliance Leicester.

Latest scores:
Morgan Chase 2 Wam U 0 (Regulator, Forced-Takeover)
Wachovia 0 CitiGroup 1 (Paulson)

[Turbomac]

Just found out that tonights game Man Utd vs Aalborg is on Viasat's Swedish Channel TV6.

http://www.tv6.se

Is this avaible in Finland? and/or online?

[TampereOwl]

Yeah but it's close enough. I think that is probably what I had read since I am unlikely to have read it anywhere else. Me having a senior moment.

We'll watch the Turku game on TV though. I guess it is sold out already anyway.

How ridiculous is it that the Inter game is on telly but Santander isn't?

[Rosamunda]

We arrived about nine and a half minutes late so missed the only goal That was entirely my fault because I was hungry so stopped for some chips in Kamppi when we got off the bus. Glad we had tickets though or we would have missed the whole of the first half judging by the queues outside. We had great seats, behind the Honka goal.

Dodgy ref. Otherwise OK, a bit slow at the end. I think Honka should do OK on Sunday in Turku, as long as they can sort out the right wing which seemed to mess up a bit. My baby (he's 13) said there was a YouTube moment at the beginning of the first half when a Santander player couldn't make up his mind whether to slip or dive (but I missed that 'cause my glasses were covered in rain).

[ChubbyPoacher]

That dive was absolutely shocking.
Your lad's right, he stopped for a microsecond to think before hurling himself sideways.
Can't believe Kokko got booked for going down easily in the box late on, yet that guy got nothing.

[ChubbyPoacher]

Hull eh?
Who'd have thunk it..

Nice to see Joe Kinnear and Arsene Wenger both avoid losses.

[otyikondo]

Hull eh?
Who'd have thunk it..

Nice to see Joe Kinnear and Arsene Wenger both avoid losses.

Yup. Only another 30-odd (probably VERY odd) games to go before the likes of Real Madrid and Inter have to fear a visit to Fortress KC.

Gulp.

A bit of the glitter going off Robinho. He doesn't exactly work his socks off, does he? Might have been a watershed win for Liverpool there on Sunday, though I have my doubts, what with the Incredible Hulks still to be overcome. Maybe they just like London clubs. Hammers must have been mightily peeved - when was the last time they could have gone top of the Premiership, even for an hour?

[fitzcarraldo]

Uefa Cup Draw

Group A
Schalke 04
Paris St Germain
MANCHESTER CITY
Racing Santander
FC Twente

Group B
Benfica
Olympiacos
Galatasaray
Hertha Berlin
Metalist Kharkiv

Group C
Sevilla
Stuttgart
Sampdoria
Partizan Belgrade
Standard Liege

Group D
TOTTENHAM
Spartak Moscow
Udinese
Dinamo Zagreb
NEC Nijmegen

Group E
AC Milan
Heerenveen
SC Braga
PORTSMOUTH
Vfl Wolfsburg

Group F
Hamburg
Ajax
Slavia Prague
ASTON VILLA
MSK Zilina

Group G
Valencia
Club Brugge
Rosenborg
FC Copenhagen
Saint-Etienne

Group H
CSKA Moscow
Deportiva La Coruna
Feyenoord
Nancy
Lech Poznan

AC Milan in Fratton Park I ve seen it all now
Also its ridiculous that 3 teams qualify from each group

[sinikala]

OK, we only have ourselves to blame at getting knocked out by Leige, but I'm a bit gutted that we finished 5th in the Prem last year, and all the teams finishing below us make the group stages.

Pisses me off that the CL dropouts get a second bite of the cherry.

On the up side, looks like I'll be going to watch Ingerland hammer the Bosch in Berliiiin next month.

[TampereOwl]

If you Espoolaiset are voting in the local elections, could you ask your candidates what they're going to do about building a football stadium?

It is going to be a pretty big decision for them to make, have they been talking about it?

[catfish78]

So MagicJ, does this make you optimistic?