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romanista · **Posted:** Thu Apr 03, 2008 7:28

Let's combine the football things in one thread...

fenerbahce played a lovely game

Curiosity · **Posted:** Thu Apr 03, 2008 9:33

Chelsea conceding a goal to a Championship reject!

Love it.

Morte · **Posted:** Thu Apr 03, 2008 9:34

Yes Arsenal it was a penalty.

Ha ha ha ha ha

(Oh hubris thy will meet nemesis...probably at the weekend)

MaliA · **Posted:** Thu Apr 03, 2008 16:39

Wednesday to stay up this season by skin of teeth.

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

MaliA wrote:

Wednesday to stay up this season by skin of teeth.

Yeah, Southampton looked fucked. Double fucked if the chinless wonder Wupert has his way and becomes chairman again.

Looks like Aldershot won the Setenta Shield as well. Although the BBC have barely covered the competition.

Grim... · **Posted:** Fri Apr 04, 2008 16:57

Ebbsfleet United to win the FA Trophy!

myp · **Posted:** Sat Apr 05, 2008 11:00

chinnyhill10 wrote:

MaliA wrote:

Wednesday to stay up this season by skin of teeth.

Yeah, Southampton looked fucked.

Yay, but so do Bournemouth unfortunately - in more ways than one.

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

myoptika wrote:

in more ways than one.

It would be very ironic if a club was totally closed down on the eve of Aldershot returning to league football

Dudley · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8679

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SteONorDar · **Posted:** Tue Apr 22, 2008 21:49

Not a liverpool fan then?

Grim... · **Posted:** Wed Apr 23, 2008 0:03

Three minutes of extra time to play and a goal in the ninety-fifth minute.
Fallen out with your watch, ref?

devilman · **Posted:** Wed Apr 23, 2008 7:55

I wondered that too. I must've missed the bit when they announced how long was left but there surely wasn't five minutes worth. Bit of a sickener for Liverpool though as they were the better team.

Grim... · **Posted:** Wed Apr 23, 2008 9:46

There were some rubbish refereeing decisions against both teams.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Wed Apr 23, 2008 12:24

Now Liverpool must know how Arsenal felt.

:hat:

Dudley · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8679

Grim... wrote:

Three minutes of extra time to play and a goal in the ninety-fifth minute.
Fallen out with your watch, ref?

No.

A MINIMUM of FOUR minutes and the goal occured at 94:10 during an attack that began before 94mins.

Perfectly normal.

Grim... · **Posted:** Wed Apr 23, 2008 17:11

ITV flashed up 3 minutes. This in no way makes it fact, of course.

Dudley · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8679

The actual champions league supplied caption (i.e - top left) was 4. I didn't see a 3 and I was watching ITV, I dare say I could have missed an ITV pushed pop up.

Regardless it was 4, which tbh was far too much. Doesn't change the fact that given it WAS 4, it was played correctly.

And yes, the ref got a hell of a lot wrong on both sides.

Also fucking hell Ronaldo.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Thu Apr 24, 2008 9:48

Weren't there five subs (2.5 minutes) and an injury (1.5 minutes)? Or at least a bunch of timewasting?

Amusing (despite me wishing English teams well in Europe) that Cronaldo missed a penalty, but had the game been at Old Trafford he'd have had another two chances for getting felled twice in the box later on.

Dudley · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8679

Potentially, but it seemed long to me and of course I had an interest in a lot of injury time.

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu Apr 24, 2008 10:26

Subs don't add injury time, I thought? That's why managers do so much subbing near the end if they are in the lead.
Or did they change the rules?

Curiosity · **Posted:** Thu Apr 24, 2008 10:31

Yep. There is supposed to be thirty seconds of added time per substitution these days. It is often laxly applied, and anyway will run more than 30 seconds off the clock if the players are sufficiently sluggish, hence the continued value of running time down in that fashion.

ChocoboOfDoom · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 279

Curiosity wrote:

Yep. There is supposed to be thirty seconds of added time per substitution these days. It is often laxly applied, and anyway will run more than 30 seconds off the clock if the players are sufficiently sluggish, hence the continued value of running time down in that fashion.

More importantly than that, it breaks up the play and prevents the chasing team from gathering any momentum.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Thu Apr 24, 2008 12:27

...and allows Darren Fletcher to rack up the appearances.

Dudley · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8679

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/footbal ... 350681.stm

Well that's just super that is, so now at the English FA Cup final, in England they're going to play 2 anthems, neither of which are the English one.

Quite apart from the fact that apparently Cardiff and the other welsh teams now have access to the europe places of two countries.

If I were a team of Aston Villa's level I'd be trying to get into the Welsh cup right now, guaranteed European football.

Grim... · **Posted:** Fri Apr 25, 2008 0:43

Do we even have an 'English' national anthem, assuming that the funeral march that is 'God Save The Queen' is the British one?

Dudley · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8679

Land of Hope and Glory. Only semi-official I grant you but they do use it at the commonwealth games for the english, yet strangely not for english sports where it's the funeral march.

Even when we play scotland is the funeral march and the scottish anthem "We're fucked when the oil runs out", despite the fact the funeral march is just as much theirs as english.

I would of course also accept "Ooh! Stick you!".

Grim... · **Posted:** Fri Apr 25, 2008 10:17

50,000 English chaps shouting 'And your daddy!' would be fantastic.

CUS · **Posted:** Fri Apr 25, 2008 10:52

Grim... why can't this thread be given an icon?

Curiosity · **Posted:** Fri Apr 25, 2008 14:22

Dudley wrote:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/cardiff_city/7350681.stm

Well that's just super that is, so now at the English FA Cup final, in England they're going to play 2 anthems, neither of which are the English one.

Quite apart from the fact that apparently Cardiff and the other welsh teams now have access to the europe places of two countries.

If I were a team of Aston Villa's level I'd be trying to get into the Welsh cup right now, guaranteed European football.

Meh... we're gonna finish 5th anyway.

)

[/blind optimism]

Dudley · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8679

I'd say it's more likely you'll give Cardiff an utter spanking.

And then perhaps win a game of football.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Sun Apr 27, 2008 20:19

Dudley wrote:

I'd say it's more likely you'll give Cardiff an utter spanking.

And then perhaps win a game of football.

Not sure when Villa are playing Cardiff...

2-2 today though, interesting game.

Dudley · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8679

I had you down as Portsmouth, my bad.

Dudley · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8679

*GASP*

devilman · **Posted:** Wed Apr 30, 2008 22:49

Certainly a livelier-than-usual Chelsea/Liverpool affair. It'll be interesting to see if Torres had an injury because if he hasn't then Benitez screwed that one up - certainly the right move to bring Babel on but take off someone like Kuyt instead.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Thu May 01, 2008 10:28

Yeah, apparently he had hamstring twang.

I was out actually playing football last night, but got back home just as it was about to go to extra time, so I certainly got to watch an entertaining half an hour!

Dudley · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8679

They're claiming a hamstring twinge but quite frankly Liverpool don't have another competitive game until August so unless his leg is actually hanging off I'd have been loathe to sub him.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Thu May 01, 2008 12:34

Dudley wrote:

They're claiming a hamstring twinge but quite frankly Liverpool don't have another competitive game until August so unless his leg is actually hanging off I'd have been loathe to sub him.

He was saving him for the final.

:DD

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu May 01, 2008 13:09

GovernmentYard · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5318

HAHAHA Leicester

Dudley · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8679

Goatboy wrote:

HAHAHA Leicester

As someone who needed cov to stay up

:this:

WTB · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 14497

Finally, being a Boro fan is pretty good. And what's more, we get to bask in it for the whole summer now.

Blucey · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 2109

LOL @ Drogba twisting his knee and hopefully missing the final. Hell, it'd almost be worth them winning it to see the pain in his eyes at missing out.

See also: John Terry.

Dudley · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8679

Terry'll play.

GovernmentYard · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 5318

Blucey · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 2109

I'm nervous, loves.

I think Chelsea are going to win tomorrow and to be honest I'm not sure I can continue to care about football if they do.

I'll still love QPR and will watch them whenever, but currently I've got a good knowledge of the game at the higher levels and I just don't think I'll be able to care anymore.

However, if they lose I'll probably wank myself to death.

Agent Starling · **Joined:** 8th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 1701

YES!

And what a perfect ending - the hateful Terry missing a pen, and Dogbollocks getting sent off.

I can't stop chuckling with glee.

:luv:

Plissken · **Posted:** Wed May 21, 2008 22:56

I never thought I would have sympathy for John Terry, but that was an absolute bastard of a way to miss the winning penalty.

Agent Starling · **Joined:** 8th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 1701

But it's John Terry!

It doesn't matter!

(Still chuckling with glee).

Plissken · **Posted:** Wed May 21, 2008 23:21

To be honest, after his antics in the game, I'd rather it was Tevez who missed in such a way.

Curiosity · **Posted:** Wed May 21, 2008 23:37

I'd rather it was Ashley Cole missing it. Felt quite sorry for England's Brave John Terry.

Either way, incredible match.

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