We gonna whoop rickys team on saturday, Come on the mighty tigers

After 10 games in the South American qualifying zone, Chile is 5th. The top 4 qualify and the 5th nation plays off against Australia. Venezuala is just behind Chile on goal diff. Fuck I hope it's them. 8 games to go.

not a chile fan?

I'd take Chile over Uruguay, but I'd take Venezuala over Chile for a few reasons. Firstly, Venezuala have never qualified for the World Cup and are regarded as the whipping boys of South America. So if they finish in 5th they'd be in a similar position to Australia in terms of inexperience. We'd actually have more experience than them cos at least we've made the World Cup before. Secondly, Chile have ALOT of supporters here, especially Melbourne. When South Melbourne played Colo Colo in a friendly here a few years ago, 5000 Chileans rocked up and they made ALOT of noise. Of course, 90,000 Australians at the MCG will overpower them in noise, but the trip to Chile will be very difficult.

I prefer Venezuala also because we played them in a friendly over there at the start of this year, without Kewell, Viduka and a few other first team regulars and held them to a 1-1 draw (only conceding right at the very end). Obviously this was only just a friendly game but without many regulars of the first team we shat over them for large periods of the game. If we play that well again I'm confident we could beat them 2-0 in Melbourne then hold out for a draw or a 1-0 loss or something over in Venezuala. Also I doubt there are many Venezualans in Melbourne. :D

Chris Coleman has ruled himself out of the Wales job

Didn't even know he was in the running. Hope Speed gets it Toshack is a twat

glazer is a cunt

why does he wear is trousers so high?, with all the money he has ud think hed at least buy some decent clothes!

middlesbrough havent yet recieved any tickets from elgardo for thursdays game and now dont exspect to recieve them until monday at the earliest leaving the fans having to search for last minute deals to travel there!

what do you guys think about the boro, newcastle and arsenal games all being played in the space of 24 hours ? i think its fifa testing the english fans to see if they will riot when all together abroad!

Sam Allardyce has said how he'll allow Speed to coach Wales, but not manage them

whats going on with wolves and penalties?

USELESS BASTARDS

So it's in Melbourne now?

You'd think a man with his money would be able to look respectable. :nono:

It should be...not 100% sure, but I think by the time the World Cup Qualifiers come around next year a vast majority of the stadium upgrades will be completed. You going to travel down here to watch? :love:

Ha ha Australians. I remember when Iran beat you in qualifying because you lost your concentration due to the goal falling down.
Then Azizi destroyed you and my dad took me out for dinner to celebrate. Good times.

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You fucking cunt, Johnny Warren cried on national television when that happened :mad:

And shit yeah, I'm coming down. Up for some free accommodation?

They played Panama and won 6-0. They advanced to the Final Group.

Czechs need to step it up a little though :(

Haha twat.

:'(

I had money on Everton and seriously thought they were going to cock it up :$

:cool:

Also :$ I wonder if Dazz has any thougts on Eidur Gudjohnson :$

Another lost lead for us.

Biscan :eek:

Sun Jihai is out for a year after damaging his medial *and* cruciate ligaments :'(

Ivan Campo might need plastic surgery after his collision with Gary Speed :$

^^ That's really bad for both guys. At least Leeds won today

Firstly Iran's first goal was offside. Secondly, their 2nd goal wouldn't have been a problem for us if that fucking dickhead Aurelio Vidmar had put away 1 more of his 30 chances to score and give Australia a 3-0 lead. :nono:

free accommodation? :naughty::mad:

It's such a fucking harsh way to get eliminated. Once more, I blame Vidmar for not converting more of his 30 chances, not the cunt who ripped the net down.

No free accomodation, but a fake ID could be in order. :yes: If you're still not 18 :o

Scott Parker admits he is ready to quit Chelsea having only played 10 mins of football in the Premiership

But it's only the result that matters. Good times for all Iranians around the world. Even better when we beat the USA in the World Cup. One up for the Axis Of Evil. :naughty:

True. :p

I feel sorry for Australia. You're like Celtic and Rangers, how can you test yourselves when your main opposition in qualifying are so weak.

Celtic manage it.

Rangers are just mince.

That's pretty much the problem, we're basically playing 2 meaningful games every 4 years (world cup qualifier home and away legs).

Oh good, Sir Alex is determined to shove his foot squarely in his mouth once again.

http://www.football365.com/news/story_130370.shtml

1 - You did get away with it. The punishments were a joke.

2 - Fergie is just winding you lot up.

3 - I don't even care if we beat you. I just hope we kick the sh</>it out of your pussy players. I still remember 6 on 1 Van Nistelrooy and Vieira crying about being sent off even though he threw a kick at him. See if he does that to Roy Keane or Quinton Fortune.

Oh yeah, Sunderland won again yesterday.

Plenty of thoughts, anyone who watched the game saw how useless he is, and slicing that shot topped it off. Mourinho apparently keeps pages of notes about each player, I'd like to see his report on Gudjohnsen so I can see why he likes him so much. :mad:

That and half the cunts get injured/excuse themselves whenever there's an international.

1. Yeah the punishments were a joke - Lauren got 4 weeks for handbags. No punches were thrown, there were no 2 footed tackles, nobody got slapped or nothing. Except for Lehmann who got rugby tackled by Fortune (?) and he got off scot-free.

2. No shit, sherlock.

3. I can't personally complain about Vieira getting sent off because he effectively got the same punishment as Ruud for that incident, only Vieira already had a yellow. What pisses me off though is that it seems Ruud obviously had no intent of going for the ball but just went in to piss off Vieira and Vieira fell for the trap.

I could go on forever, but it's bedtime.

Ah Mutu. Though all the papers seem to think it will be a two year ban which is beyond rediculous for a drug that isn'ta preformance enhancer.

quinton fortune? like he's going to get near the fucking field on that day.

I'd like to see mighty Gabriel rip him a new arsehole though.

If they don't all the United fans will being stirring up the ol "Everyone's out to get us" belief.

well if you get 9 months for missing the test, testing positive should be more severe. maybe not 2 years severe, but still.

Yeah you sound like you were dreaming when you wrote that.

Well Lauren got the same as Andy Cole, and i consider throwing a punch a bit more severe than Lauren's offence.

Aaaaaaaaahahaha Bellamy's going to be in trouble after the cameras caught him calling Souness a prick when he was substituted :lol:

If we don't win tomorrow Dave Jones is almost certainly sacked :$

THere should be fuck all ban its a socail drug not a preformance enhancer

6 months i've heard, since he admitted it.

Thanks for recalling Harper, Pompey. He was our best player :mad: :'(

Mutu has admitted to taking cocaine. Bosnich was banned for about 2 years for doing the same and dumped by chelsea for it!

so it'll be intresting to see what happens with Mutu.

We need a base in either Europe or Asia and actually play some decent quality internationals on occasions.

Also I reckon there's no point in even having an Oceania Confederation, like we should just join Asia or something and play off for one of the Asian spots because we'd actually be playing quality internationals more regularly instead of 2 quality internationals in 4 years.

Newcastle manager Graeme Souness insists Craig Bellamy must "sort himself out" for the good of the club after the Wales forward apparently swore at him after being substituted in the Magpies' draw with Charlton.

Souness, famed for his strict managerial style, has not revealed what - if any - action will be taken against the player as punishment for his outburst but insists the culture of the club has got to change.

"I'm angry about it, not because I was called whatever I was called because I'm a big boy and I've been called worse in the past," he said. "I'm angry because we're concentrating on this and not the important thing which is Thursday night. It happens too much and we should only be interested in the next game, not talking about incidents like this."

"All these things have to stop, if we're going to win things at this club we need to concentrate on what matters, not this petulance, not people acting like children. It has to stop and it will stop, I guarantee the supporters that. He (Bellamy) in particular has to sort himself out," Souness told Sky Sports News.

"From the outside looking in before I took this job it seemed to be a recurring situation. The club were making headlines not for attractive football but because some dope was doing what he shouldn't be doing."

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Dont' rate Souness too highly as a manager but lord knows he's exactly the type of character that dressing room needed

Cisse is starting to piss me off now.

1-1 at Watford.

I do agree with some of the alternatives that the PFA are stating, as opposed to a ban.

That said, rehab's gonna do nothing for a guy who's career is over.

He'd piss me off but for the fact I know he's got it in him to be a top class player.

I know but it looks like he can't be bothered.
If only Baros could finish at the moment, that's the only problem with is game. Apart from that he was awesome tonight.

2-0

Scored a penalty as well :cool:

:wtf: osnich was banned for nine months and he claimed his drink was spiked, Mutu's ban should surely not be as bad as Bosnich's, but of course, should be worse the Ferdinand's. I guess its a tough one to call.

i thought bosnich was banned for longer, prob because i dont think he's played since.

So Dazz your saying Mutu shouldnt be banned for as long as bosnich but banned for longer than ferdinand, wasnt rio banned for 8 or 9 months? and you say bosnich was banned for 9. Rio missed a test & there is (obviously due to missed test) no evidence he had taken anything, bosnich claims to have been spiked therefor deniying he had knowingly taken anything and they both get similar length bans. Yet Mutu openly admits to taking cocaine and you think he shoulld get a shorter ban?

like you say its a tough one to call as IMO he should get longer purly because of what they did to rio and if he gets anything shorter we will have to put up with ferguson winging about it.

then you move onto the issue of if it would have altered his performances as i dont think they class it as a performance enhacher drug do they?

it'll be interesting to see what they do and IMO i think he will be looking at 1 year ban at the least.

:wtf: they finally scored one ? :y:

the rio case was when the FA really decided to do something and make an example out of somebody. now that they've taken that hardline response, they cant back down on it really or everyone will think the FA is a joke. so if rio got banned for 9 months for missing a test, mutu is probably going to get two years for openly admitting taking cocaine. at any rate his career at chelsea is over.

How did he admit it? He got caught first! It's easy to admit it once two failed samples come in. Not like he can deny it. Paul Merson admitted his addiction. Mutu got caught. Big difference.

Yeah because you know drinks are spiked with Cocaine all the time :roll:

Bosnich just was quoted two weeks ago as saying he has been clean for the last 6 months. Funny how he said that but yet his drink was spiked.

As for Mutu, he got caught. Plain and simple. He didn't admit sh</>it until he got caught. Rules are rules and he should not see a football pitch for 2 years. Send him back to Romania to steal more handbags or something.

Apparently Mourinho ordered the tests that caught him out :o

"Me? Cocaine? God forbid. These are very cheap rumours. I can always bring as truth the tests that I take in the UK. The life of a footballer does not allow you to slip up like this.

"We take weekly tests in England. We have urine tests, blood tests, hair tests. If you have no hair on your head they take from wherever you can. All tests are sealed and sent to the United States. Keep this in mind: it happens once a week."

Guess who, quoted in August :$

Soccer ace's attack on boy
By DEREK BROWN

A FOOTBALLER has been sacked for allegedly sexually assaulting a youth team player.

Oxford United’s Julian Alsop is said to have tried to shove a banana up his backside as a prank went too far.

The terrified 16-year-old, who was reportedly stripped naked, wept as other players egged Alsop on.

What has been described as a play fight two weeks ago at Oxford’s training ground soon spiralled out of control.

Witnesses claimed Alsop, 31, got angry when the boy retaliated.

Alsop was said to have stripped him and then started whipping him with a towel.

Encouraged by other players, Alsop, allegedly manhandled the still-naked boy out on to the training pitch.

He got another player to hold down the youth while he fetched a banana, which he is then alleged to have tried to ram up the boy’s backside.

Amazingly, the matter was not reported to police because the teenager felt it might affect his future at the club.

But his furious parents went to the League Two club to protest after hearing of the alleged incident.

They demanded action and Oxford manager Graham Rix — who served time in prison after being found guilty of having sex with a 15-year-old girl in 1999 — fired Alsop on Monday.

thats really wrong......so is danny alsop football's version of bradshaw then!? glad he got fired for that.

My cousin got sacked from Dundee because a senior player took a dump in his footballers and he belted the life out of him.

Love how hes described as a soccer ace

Claudio Caniggia and Diego Maradona got a year's ban for testing positive for cocaine in Italy in the early 90s, I remember. Mutu's career is hardly over. He's still young, and he made a mistake.

Mutu will get lenience for not fighting the charges. It's not admitting your problem as opposed to being caught, it's accepting that you have been caught and that you're going to get punished. Mutu is within his rights to have a second test analysed, further tests done and to go through an appeal process, but he isn't doing any of it.

Had Rio Ferdinand and Manchester United not taken the FA on and tried to blame them for the fiasco, Rio would not have had such a lengthy ban. They miscalculated their own power, there, when really Rio should have plead guilty straight away, since he definitely was guilty, and then his sentence would have been mitigated accordingly.

Cocaine is not a performance enhancing drug, so Mutu is not a cheat, just an overpaid idiot.

Hes started some rehab thing with some FA appointed guy today

It might not be performance enhancing but taking drugs are against the rules. Rules and rules and he tried to deceive them so he is a cheat. Maradona got called a lot worse and he is 100 times a better player.

Maradona has tested positive for more than just cocaine in his time. He has, in fact, been found to be on performance enhancers or banned substances.

The fact that cocaine is a recreational drug and Mutu is undergoing rehab will rightly mitigate in his favour. I think a 6 month ban would be more than fair. Accepting his fate goes in his favour too.

Like I said, if Rio and Manchester United hadn't tried to make it a power issue with the FA, he could have had a 3 month ban and been back playing by Febuary 2004.

When United asked the F.A for the reasoning behind the lengthy ban of Rio they said that it was that United never stuck to the same story, no one accepted blame for him missing the test. There were two people who were blamed for not making sure Rio had the test, but both passed the blame onto each other and made it sound like it wasn't their problem.

Mutu is already in rehab, my guess is six months, and I have a feeling that we will see him put on a Chelsea shirt again. Bates wouldn't take this kind of shit from anyone, not that Mourinho will, but no one will buy him now and I can't see Roman sacking him. My guess is he gets a huge pay cut whilst in rehab, when he is done in rehab he finishes his ban (or if it is finished he returns to the team) and they increase his pay but not to what it was before, and then they randomly test him for drugs and after a certain amount of time if he is clean, then give him his old wage back.

And Shawshank, when I said that he should be banned for as long as Bosnich but longer then Ferdinand, and said that they both got nine months, my point was that the rules would be very inconsistant if he wasn't banned for the nine months, although as he has now accepted he did drugs and not had a econd sample, things are very much different.

Wee Gooner - WTF at this link if it's true

http://p201.ezboard.com/fknightsarmy...cID=5811.topic

:mad: :'( :|

Those fucking cunts :mad:

I've gandered at various other Australian football sites and there doesn't seem to be any other news on it, so perhaps these Knights cunts are spinning shit. If it's true though...well fuck it, it'd be one of the worst decisions ever made here (and that's saying alot :o)

I reckon in a few day's time there'll probably be some press release by the ASA either confirming or quashing these "rumours which have sprung up in some football circles" or something

Btw, one of the cunts on the link said the G will be fully ready in early 2006.

I'm sure we could cram 90,000 people in for the WCQ though.

For le Commonwealth Games

If they can do AFL grand final there, they can do WCQ

Yes but that's AFL, they'll go out of their way to do ANYTHING for them. :roll:

:love: Stewie Downing :love:

Apparently Mutu is skint. My heart bleeds for him.

Ehm that's Stewart Downing

He's been quoted as saying he took a recreational drug but not cocaine :wtf:

He should get a 2 year ban just for being thick as sh</>it.

Well, if you suggested it to him I'm sure Sepp Blatter would bring that rule into force.


Mutu did admit to doing cocaine a few days ago, I guess he will go for the old classic of "I was misquoted."

And I'm not suprised he is skint, he spends money on drugs and cars, police bail and fuck knows what else, prolly has to pay his ex wife all kinds of shit and now hey are getting back together, and now the guy has been finded two weeks wages for deying Mourinho and playing for Romania. Added to the fine he will get for being guily of this, and losing his pepsi sponsorship, the guy has had a bad last month. Not that I'm saying he didn't bring it all on himself.

Fact is, if either you or me admitted to taking cocaine they'd probably chuck us in prison for 2 years or something

No they wouldn't

what then, like community service?

whatever the case is, it'd be much worse than not being allowed to play football for 2 years

Would you get anything for admitting to taking it???

Odds are you would lose your job and have very dodgy prospects of being re-employed. Probably be put onto a rehab course at your own expense as well.

Also it depends if you did something stupid like driving while high, or being caught in possession. Two entirely different things from just using I know, but I'm just trying to cover all the bases.

What nothing would happen if a average person admited doing coke. I've had mates caught by the police with it and fuck all happened just cautioned.

If I told a policeman that I have done cocke this year, fuck all would happen. They would try and find out who supplied it probably, but nothing would happen. Angus Deayton wasn't jailed for doing coke.