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2008-09 Football Thread

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I imagine I'll be one of the only people (bar Arsenal and Chelsea fans) who is distraught by Burnleys exploits in the League Cup 🙁

The Dingles deserve nothing but ill fate.
 
gauchogolfer said:
Arsenal join the mighty Chelsea tonight, in being beaten by Burnley in the Carling Cup 2-0.
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Bendtner has to go...he is NOT premiership material. Also IMHO Arsene should have swapped Bendtner for Vela in front and make Bendtner play from the left.

To me Bendtner cost Arsenal the match by not finishing his chances...yet again. Not to take anything away from Burnley they played well and took their chances but...
 
daneoni said:
Bendtner has to go...he is NOT premiership material. Also IMHO Arsene should have swapped Bendtner for Vela in front and make Bendtner play from the left.

To me Bendtner cost Arsenal the match by not finishing his chances...yet again. Not to take anything away from Burnley they played well and took their chances but...
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Blimey.. he had a bad game but that doesn't necessarily mean he HAS to go. He has scored a few too.. he's too young to tell yet.

And I don't really care.. it's the Carling Cup. In a way it's nice to not have that round of fixtures now, which gets in the way of the important stuff.
 
XIII said:
Blimey.. he had a bad game but that doesn't necessarily mean he HAS to go. He has scored a few too.. he's too young to tell yet.

And I don't really care.. it's the Carling Cup. In a way it's nice to not have that round of fixtures now, which gets in the way of the important stuff.
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Its not just this game...he is not clinical and often wastes chances. Obviously, if you have 100 chances even granny will eventually put one or two away.
 
Meanwhile, West Ham have sorted themselves out with new shirt sponsors. The logo of Isle of Man-based bookies SBOBET will replace those awful squad number patches they've been wearing since their previous sponsors XL went under, starting with the match against Spurs next Monday.

However, the polyester rags worn by the teams academy side - as well as children's replica kits - will instead be adorned with the logo of the Bobby Moore Fund for Cancer Research.
 
Sheff Wed 3 - 2 Norwich
43' 1 Sammy Clingan (pen)
51' Tony McMahon 1
55' Leon Clarke 2
62' 2 Leroy Lita
72' Marcus Tudgay 3
81' John Kennedy

Sheff Wed 8-4-8

GOALS
6 Tudgay
4 Clarke
3 Esajas
2 Sodje
2 Watson
1 McAllister
1 Spurr
1 Small
1 Burton
1 McMahon


I can't count on any of you to keep up with the Wednesday can I!?!?

also...

COYS!
 
Jaffa Cake said:
Meanwhile, West Ham have sorted themselves out with new shirt sponsors. The logo of Isle of Man-based bookies SBOBET will replace those awful squad number patches they've been wearing since their previous sponsors XL went under, starting with the match against Spurs next Monday.

However, the polyester rags worn by the teams academy side - as well as children's replica kits - will instead be adorned with the logo of the Bobby Moore Fund for Cancer Research.
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Am I right (well most probably wrong) in thinking that they won't be able to sell the new shirt with the sponser as this consitutes two shirts one season. Or as it is only a minor change and not an overall design change it will be allowed.

Nickygoat said:
Roy Keane's out of Sunderland.

Jumped or pushed? Guess we'll find out later.

Not entirely surprising though.
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Blue Velvet said:
It was the beard wot dunnit.
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I think it is the beard that made it more and more obvious he is in fact Ahmadinejad and not the real Roy Keane which did it.
 
Blue Velvet said:
It was the beard wot dunnit.
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We enjoyed some fantastic results during the month Phil Brown (and several players) grew a beard, so it proves that a beard doesn't drain you of your gafferish prowess. I think the blame for Keane's managerial mishaps shouldn't lie with the beard, but more his poor handling of it.

Hopefully Sunderland's turmoil will last a week or two longer. I'm happy for them to sort themselves out week beginning Monday 22nd December. 😉

xUKHCx said:
Am I right (well most probably wrong) in thinking that they won't be able to sell the new shirt with the sponser as this consitutes two shirts one season. Or as it is only a minor change and not an overall design change it will be allowed.
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I can't say for certain, but given that it's just the sponsor's logo that's changed rather than the design of the shirt itself I think they'll be able to sell 2008-09 shirts with the new logo. After all, the change was out of West Ham's hands.
 
daneoni said:
Bendtner has to go...
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What about Denilson? I don't think he's that bad but a lot of gooners have been moaning about him lately.

xUKHCx said:
I think it is the beard that made it more and more obvious he is in fact Ahmadinejad and not the real Roy Keane which did it.
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😀

I wonder if Roy would consider the position of President of Iran...

Jaffa Cake said:
We enjoyed some fantastic results during the month Phil Brown (and several players) grew a beard, so it proves that a beard doesn't drain you of your gafferish prowess.
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Hmmm. Columbus's gaffer Sigi Schmidt is clean shaven, but most of the team grew playoff beards during our successful MLS postseason run, so for players at least a beard is not bad luck.


Torres out for at least four weeks now...Liverpool are over-dependent on El Nino for goals - we badly need Mr. Keane to start scoring. Come January we should be shopping for another striker. I've heard Heskey mentioned, which might not be as mad as it sounds given his recent work for England.
 
daneoni said:
Its not just this game...he is not clinical and often wastes chances. Obviously, if you have 100 chances even granny will eventually put one or two away.
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The point is he is young and is still improving. You don't get many strikers who reach a peak at 21 or whatever he is. He needs time before we decide to throw him out. He's not meant to be our first choice striker: Adebayor, van Persie, Eduardo, Walcott are all above him in the pecking order.

daneoni said:
He is another candidate...kept giving the ball away...weakest link in midfield and couldn't score a sitter either
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Denilson on the other hand had a very good game against United at home. As it happens I do agree he's not right and is a weak link, and we need another midfielder (who won't come cheap, if he needs to be significantly better than Denilson) to replace him, before we just sent him away.

And also - he's only young and shouldn't be totally judged yet. He's a good backup player to have - just not first choice in my opinion.
 
I think I read somewhere that all the people that bought a West Ham shirt can get a free exchange when the new one comes out...

As for Denilson, he was being played out of position since Theo & Eboue are both injured...I think he does alright in the middle, not so good on the right though.

Eduardo's return seems imminent. "As soon as possible he will play now," confirmed Wenger. "He is joining in full training matches but he needs games now."
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Best news all season 😀
 
Stepper said:
I think I read somewhere that all the people that bought a West Ham shirt can get a free exchange when the new one comes out...
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i like the one with the number!

bbc.sport said:
Quinn, who held talks with Keane over three days in an attempt to persuade him to stay, added: "He lifted this place off its knees, he is a tremendous influence.
"Five weeks ago (after beating Newcastle) people were dancing in the streets of Sunderland. It's a funny world football and I hoped I'd never have to do this day.
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they were loving keane not two months ago. keane took them as far as that crap line up would go... they needed to spend a few quid, not fire him.
he is gong to be a very good manager.
 
Jaffa Cake said:
Sunderland had better not start sniffing around our gaffer. That's all I'm saying.
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Phil Brown has ruled himself out.

Seems like Allardyce is the most likely candidate at this time.

pachyderm said:
they were loving keane not two months ago. keane took them as far as that crap line up would go... they needed to spend a few quid, not fire him.
he is gong to be a very good manager.
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I think the problem is that Keane did spend a few quid (£80m from reports) and ended up with that crap line up.
 
Stepper said:
No way could he have spent £80 Mill 😱
Think it was £30 mill
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There have been many reports that the number is up around 80 million, over his time as a manager there. This is from the latest BBC news article about keane

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/s/sunderland/7766818.stm

Keane, who had spent more than £70m on 33 players since 2006, guided the club into the Premier League during his first season as manager before keeping them there last term.
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To be fair, if I'd spent £70 million+ and the best I had to show for it was Kieran Richardson and El-Hadji Diouf I'd leg it as well.
 
Stepper said:
I think I read somewhere that all the people that bought a West Ham shirt can get a free exchange when the new one comes out...
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I've just read that basically they can take their own shirt along to the club shop and, rather than exchanging it, they'll just print the new sponsors patch over the old XL logo.

Here's how the 'new' shirts look...

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Jaffa Cake said:
To be fair, if I'd spent £70 million+ and the best I had to show for it was Kieran Richardson and El-Hadji Diouf I'd leg it as well.
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This may be a spanner in the works but to be honest I think Kieran Richardson is better at freekicks then Ronaldo. We are not talking about the MOTD highlights where Ronaldo scores every free kick but in general over the course of a game.

But yes the squad he has got from the money he has spent are not propotional.


Bobby moore fund looks better then the betting company.
 
We'll be comin',
We'll be comin',
We'll be comin' down the road.
When you hear the noise of the Bill Shankly boys,
We'll be comin' down the road.
 
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