ner ner ner ner ner?

well would you believe it, andy hessenthalers only gone and stepped down. It justs boosts my respect for the guy. He's given us years of brilliant service as a player and now through all the stick he's getting, he's realised he can't cut the mustard as a mkanager and has stepped down to being only a player. So heres to you mr hessenthaler

yeah but John Gorman? oh dear

Barca are offering Larrsson a one year extensio despite his injury. Nice move by them shows how good he is. Dunno if he'll take it mind since he wants time in Sweeden

Nice move there by Barca.
I'm not looking foward to the Monaco game.

Larrson would have won himself another contract anyway.

And have to say that Eto'o was hella impressive on Saturday night.

Well hes certainly better than our old assistant :nono:

besides, i hope we'll look outside for the new guy. Micky adams may be aiming high but apparently he's desperate to get back to football in any way and ex-player for us as well

I think someone has to explain to the ref what handball is.
Poor match, poor pitch and now we have fuck all up front.

It wasn't a clear cut handball from the refs view, I didn't spot it first time.

So he's a top official, those kind of decisions cost money to clubs and can change seasons.
I'm going to be biased but the ref had a bit of a poor match, not helped by Maicon taking 15 rolls on the ground to get Didi Hamman booked who we're now missing as well for the next match.

Shit happens, get over it. Decisions are always missed, Morientes handled the ball into the next at Stamford Bridge last season but I didn't cry about it because I didn't spot it first time, shit like that happens more then you think.

Yeah I know shit happens but I bet if that was a Chelsea game, you'd be pretty pissed off right now.

What did I just say, the same thing happened to us last season against the same team. Drogba was denied a penalty against Villa and booked for diving earlier in the season too, Drogba's booking as taken back because the ref admitted he was wrong. shit happens, its annoying, it happens, get over it. If you were good enough today to at least get a draw you would be able to score a goal, not scoring means you don't deserve anything from a game in my opinion.

The thing about the Liverpool ref is he said (unless I misheard something) that he saw it was handball :wtf:

Also Danny I would've thought Gerrard and Alonso would be your best central midfield pairing anyway? :$

RBF :'(

I think both teams were pretty poor and we didn't deserve the win but I felt that we deserved a point.
It's pretty hard to scored when after the first minute Gracia gets taken off and you have to play most of the match with Mellor up front on his own.

Mad European ref. :mad:
Yeah I would expect them to play in central midfield for the Olympiakos match but Hamman would have done a decent job keeping out Rivaldo and Giovanni, giving Gerrard the option to move further up the field.
Plus it also means we have someone on the bench if one of them is having a poor match or gets injured.

Olympiakos top of the group :D. Hopefully Panathinaikos also grab a win tomorrow, away to Rosenborg and Arsenal loses away against PSV to set up a thrilling Matchday 6.

lol ridiculous story rite herre

http://www.tsn.ca/soccer/news_story.asp?id=105774

what can i say about harry redknapp but what a legend. I have the utmost respect for the man who seems to have the golden touch. I feel sorry for portsmouth for losing such a valuable asset and wish him the besto of luck in the future

Banned from soccer grounds for 5 years, wow. Bet he wishes he didn't "have a drink before the match" now.

Some Dundee fan got a life ban for racial abuse towards Momo Sylla and Bobo Balde of Celtic. The dude that grassed him better not go back to Dens Park if he likes life. Bad thing to say but it's not as serious at Scottish grounds as it is in most other places. I've been to enough games to know you can tell it's pure wind up (not an excuse for it at all). I remember being at Villa Park at Euro 96 and Patrick Kluivert took the worst abuse I have ever heard aimed at a player - No black insults but more murderer and rapists insults than I can remember. Kluivert was literally close to tears but people were laughing when he went on and joking amongst themselves that they actually liked him.

Thats Portsmouth fucked unfortunatley since I liked them. Mandaric is a idiot for insisting on that new bloke since it seems to be where the trouble ahs come from. Hope to see Redknapp back in football.

Yeah I got on the train to Waterloo from Portsmouth and SOuthsea about the time of the conference, so I got off in Fratton, went to the ground, patted Redknapp on the arm, and better then that was in the Background on BBC's news earlier when they interviewed Smith, as I was standing right behind him.

Chin up RBF.

Portsmouth will be relegated in the next 2 years (might just struggle and survive this year but down next).

For once Rob, I agree with you.

Harry Redknapp has described the vacant Wolves manager's job as "a great job for somebody".

Redknapp was installed as the bookmakers' favourite to succeed Dave Jones at the struggling Coca-Cola Championship club after resigning as Portsmouth boss yesterday.

However, it is thought unlikely he would leave the south with former Pompey star Paul Merson last night claiming "he lives in a lovely part of the world and I can't see Harry moving."

Redknapp has admitted one club has already been in touch with him, although he refused to identify them.

But he told BBC Sport: "Let's not kid ourselves, Wolves is a great club and they're a bit like when I first went to Pompey.

"Everyone told me that was a sleeping giant that I would never wake up, but Wolves have already been woken up."

Wolves have delayed naming a successor to Jones, who was sacked on November 1, with Sir Bobby Robson - currently negotiating the terms of his departure from Newcastle - also linked with the post.

Former Leicester boss Micky Adams, ex-West Brom manager Gary Megson and former Aston Villa boss John Gregory have also been linked with the Molineux post.

But Redknapp added: "Dave Jones did a great job in getting Wolves into the Premiership, but unfortunately they went down.

"But they have great support, a terrific stadium and it's a great job for somebody."

oh my :$

just heard that the big deal in the tunnel after the Arsenal match wasn't pizza, soup or any other food.Apparently the Arsenal players wouldn't swap shirts with any of the United players because underneath their own shirts they had 50 NOT OUT blazoned on T-shirts that they were going to display if the match went their way.

hahaha

ahahah if thats true then :D:D:D

apparently the only reason the united players asked to swap shirts was because they got wind of the fact too :love:

Typical Arsenal.

Was shooting breeze at work today and mentioned how Arsenal have only won 1 out of 5 Champions League matches. Straight away, 2 Arseholes fans said "we had two men sent off last night". WHO CARES? What about the other 3 matches you didn't win? Always moaning about something Arsehole filth.

Nothing to add just wanted to point out that Villa are ahead of United in the leauge and it feels good.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

happy cantona day :love:

Found out something lovely about Kleberson today seems hes a pedo scumbag. He got his wife pregnant when she was fucking 13 waited till she was 16 to move to England so he could marry her.

Yeah, she's a child bride..
One fucked up dude.

I seriously wouldn't be able to work with someone like that

Yeah ok just checked he was like 20 when she was 13 fucking wanker

Cherish it while it lasts.

I am don't worry I'm under no illusions of it being a long term thing. Still though its nice.

ahahahaha

You didn't know that until now? That's why Celtic nor Leeds could sign him after the 2002 World Cup. His fiance was 15 and he couldn't bring her over with him until he could legally marry her.

I'm not sure what the age of consent is in Brazil or anything, but he's a creepy guy. He's not that much older than her, though, I think.

He was 20 when she 13 so theres a decent differece well at least for at that age. And no I only heard that today :(

Nearly onto page 20 btw this thread has been a success.

wow over three months into the season and RVN has finally scored from open play. and scholes has scored two in two. hopefully that's our problems with goalscoring done with and we can attempt to climb back upto third place by the end of the season.

3rd place? You serious? We are only 3 points off Arsenal and 99 off Chelsea. We still have to play both of them and they still have to play each other twice. League is still wide open.

yeah but tbh i cant see us with this squad getting higher than arsenal or chelsea. unless RVN scores 30 league goals and carroll turns into the new schmeichel. remember we have to go TO arsenal and by the time they'll be back in form. as for chelsea.....they're looking really strong.

Wow, Rob has been correct twice in a week. Chelsea have to play United at the Theatre of Silence, the Arse at home and the Library and the Geordies and Scousers in their ow back yards. with three out of four of them happening in April.

Like Neville, Fergie and Rooney have all said, you have a chance of winning the league still. More accuartley, like Fergie says, the league table means shit all until January. I still doubt United will not finish outside the top two.

yep on MotD they had a rant at diouf about this. he spat at the celtic fans, an 11 year old middlesborough fan and then today at de Zeeuw. And de Zeeuw was really proffesional when asked about it as well. i hope they throw the book at him this time. two things i hate about football: divers and ppl who spit. so i really dont like diouf. and its a shame cos hes a really talented footballer.

I hope Diouf gets what's coming to him, because he's a disgrace to football.

Owen, I will have to slap you for saying "cushty".

Anyway, the lads just keep on winning, only about two points off top right now. Hopefully the young uns can keep it up.

Diouf is a filthy cu</>nt. Kick the bitch out of the sport and let him go home.

Owen, can you honestly say my opinions on De Zeeuw suck? Diouf twice got round him with ease, he is a pile of shit, he did a good block and that was it, I stand by my 'he is a fat, slow and shit defender' accusation. Not a bad goal, but a good centre back would have scored two goals today ( :cool: )

But he was very professional about the spit, like Shearer said, another footballer may have sparked him. to De Zeeuw's credit he was obviously annoyed but his reaction was about as good as you could get, keep your temper, follow him and say what you like, but just don't lose it. And he his comments after the match were good aswell, I'd like to see that pussy Diouf get into a fist fight, I bet he is a pussy, he only looks hard because he is black.

Did you see Shearer's face when they were talking about players swinging punches and not connecting? It looked like he sh<>it in his pant just like he did when Keane did it to him at St James' Park 3 years ago. Pussy :lol:

Yeah of course he did Rob.

I bet the look on his face was nothing like that pussy Phil Neville's when Lauren grabbed him by the throat.

XAVIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

or is it

XABIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

I can never remember....either way Liverpool 1 The Arse 0 :cool:

Of course, by typing this, Arsenal will win 2-1

boro lost, everton drew and arsenal are losing......good day for united. though theres still 45mins for liverpool to complete the victory.

1-1

:(

WHAT A FU</>CKING GOAL

NEIL MELLOR, YOU DID FU</>CK ALL AT MONACO BUT.....

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

LIVERPOOL 2 THE ARSE BOYS 1

First time I have ever wanted Liverpool to win. I would have settled with a draw.

Every premiership goal today has been quality. Good win for Liverpool.

Or so you didn't see it then? Guess I'm wrong and you are right then. I'd call you a dickhead or something but Chelsea fans are naturally considered them anyway so there's no point.

hahaha how late was that? I think it was 91:55 and the look on their faces had me pissing myself.

Fairly laughable coming from a United fan

Good result for every football fan bar Arsenal ones really. Good work Pool :y:

You honestly think Shearer was shitting himself? Keep it real buddy.

I don't care which of them wins.

:rofl: I won't even bother with the scousers.

He was playing in the playoff final when Gillingham beat wigan :shifty:
seriously though, i think he's a good player and diouf is nothing more than a 2nd rate player with a temper.


Also, anyone saying shearer was shitting it must be insane. He would have absolutely slaughtered keane.

Still, comeback performance of the day gillingham in the second half :yes: :cool: Come on TJ and allez sidibe!

*Xabi Alonso

Xavi plays for Barca though, used to always confuse me :$

Shearer laughed his arse off at Keane.

Cos Keane swiped and missed.

Good times.

Remember that time Keane swiped and missed Haaland and hurt himself :rofl: that was gold. Shame the cunt didn't miss next time round.

What a result. I was pissed off that Arsenal might get a point after scoing once from two shots on goal. They desrved nothing from the game and I laughed my head off at Viera's dive. I would have loved to see him be sent off.
What a fucking goal by Mellor, I want mental in the pub. The Arsenal fans all looked liked they were going to cry. :)

I still dispute the dive, he didn't dive, he went down and was telling the ref it wasn't a foul.

What about Gerrard's dive int he box.

Viera did dive, Hamman didn't touch him and he went flying on to the ground. But if he told the ref it wasn't a foul then fair play to him.
I missed the first ten minutes of the match so I didn't see the dispute at the beginning.

I'd rate that dive in the second minute as about as bad as Rooney's. Ref had a top class game though, can't complain there.

We were awful though, we didn't deserve anything from that game. :(

Yeah I read on Sky Sports that it was like Rooney's.
It's a shame to see Stevie do that but he had a great game and Xabi Alonso is fucking amazing.
The weakest part of our game tonight(in my opinion) was Harry Kewell, he lost the ball too many times.

Yeah Viera fell but was like saying it wasn't a foul as he was going down.

Gerrard fell like a diving bastard a la Rooney except he did it to the wrong ref whilst wearing the wrong shirt at the wrong stadium :(

What I dont get was all the tv pundits saying it was a penalty :wtf:

Oh yeah and I've said it before but Diouf is a cockmaster.

With all the pundits saying Toure touched him so that probably took Gerrard down, at the speed he was going.

That said there wasn't as much of a contact as the fall made out.

That's pretty unanimous.

As for the penalty shout, I honestly thought he was going to give it when I first saw it, but like Rooney's I couldn't tell it was a dive first time because of the camera angle.

boro are appealing against french franks red card, after watching the replays i can see why, he went for the ball, his eyes were on the ball at all times and it was malicious at all. fair enough he shouldnt have gone in with 2 feet but i feel a yellow would have been more deserved.

saying that the way he's been playing latly we could do without him in the team, yesterdays red card follows 2 games in a row were he has got scinned and cost us a goal. also i feel sorry for young tony mcmahon, he was having a quality game (again) yesterday but yet again maclaren takes him off and brings on reizeger when we are chasing a game, and yet again within 2 minutes of him coming on we conside a goal. also schartzer got beat at his near post again, when will he learn?

Not game enough to try and spell Queudrue, eh?

And we're resting our defensive hopes on him to qualify for the next world cup. God help us :(:nono:

Bring back Bosnich

You wont get it rescinded, when we played Leicester last season Geremi did a two footed lunge and 100% took the ball, but was sent off as it was a slide challenege, I think we appealed but nothing happened.

:D

Gotta admit, at first I thought it was a pen, the same with Rooney, but he definetly went for it. I dunno if Toure brushed his knee or not, but even so, it was a dive, and it pisses me off when Liverpool players act like cocks on the pitch (see previous comments about Diouf and Liverpool players (led by Kewell) taking balls into the corner).

Yeah Robben takes the ball into the corner and goes down theatrically, thats my only beef with him. Gerrard looked to be going down before there was even any chance of contact.

well hopefully the match of the day 2 tv evidence last night that showed defoe doing more or less the same thing but his looked worse will help us. Defoe only got a yellow for his and again he clearly won the ball like franck did. and if it doesnt get recinded we allways have :love: super colin cooper :love: to fill in for him but knowing mclaren he will put zenden there and put nemeth on the right with parlour moving inside one!

I only saw the Queudrue thing today, i don't know why he was going in like that in the first place, it's not as if most players jump on the ball so there was a bit of intent to get Pamarot.

On the diving thing we had Lee Morris doing that on saturday but he got a few groans/jeers for it and was subbed at half time.

Also, Kewell was terrible.

Viera only apologised because he quickly remembered that he was already on a yellow.
He didn't fall, it was a clear dive and everyone in the pub said the same thing. A packed pub with about only 2 Liverpool supporters in there.

Leeds play Rotherham tonight.

They'll probably go and beat us. :'( :mad:

Ummm I think they did.

Lucky result for Rotheram :shifty:

Good to see them get their first win, i'm hoping this ruins Leeds' confidence for saturday ;)

^^ I hope it doesn't

Ahahaha even we beat Rotherham

I heard it was Rotherams first win of the season.

Yeah it was.