Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

2009-10 Football Thread

Status
Not open for further replies.
Brilliant performance by Mannone, will have given him a lot of confidence. We weren't good today, but one moment of pure class was enough for the 3 points (apart from the saves - they were all very classy too!). Fabregas perfect pass, van Persie perfect first touch, perfect finish. Beautiful.

Ps. Torres is amazing.
 
XIII said:
Ps. Torres is amazing.
Click to expand...

Truth. Love the guy.

Time stand still for Ryan Giggs. Two more great assists for him today @ Stoke. I just wish time would speed up a little more for Nani so he can finally learn how to deliver a good final ball already!

All I want for Christmas is David Silva.
 
With 7 games played, Liverpool are only 3 points behind table-toppers United and Chelsea, and are three ahead of Arsenal (who have played 6). So all this doom-and-gloom talk about Liverpool being relegated because we lost Xabi Alonso is looking a little premature.

Those two Liverpool losses don't look quite as season-wrecking now for starters...at least we didn't lose to, oh, say, Burnley or Wigan. ;) :D

Hopefully things stay tight at the top this season, and maybe we'll see a nice scrap for 4th/5th now that Spurs and Man City are on good runs.
 
Lord Blackadder,

Quote - "I cant believe it...I drop Titus Bramble from my fantasy squad and then he scores...against Chelsea!"

The Fantasy Football Manager Curse was removed the moment you dropped him
:)

Chelsea next week?

Cheers
 
So the Saudis are finally getting a piece of Liverpool.

Shame about Gillette, I thought he was more reasonable of the two owners, Hicks comes across as more of a greedy tycoon. But this deal should bring more money to the club, and will hopefully help keep up with the rest of the big clubs financially.

oscillatewildly said:
The Fantasy Football Manager Curse was removed the moment you dropped him
Click to expand...

I know! I always have terrible luck with transfers. The best guarantee a player will score next week is when I drop him. :eek:
 
I've considered doing that, for that very reason, and I'm not even joking....I really want to see him find the back of the net. ;)

Towards the end of the Liverpool match he looked pretty stranded up front, but if he gets a start hopefully he can help create some chances.

EDIT: I was going to predict a 2-0 score for the Liverpool match against Fiorentina, but it's gone backwards! Liverpool are leaking goals again, but we still have time to claw our way back into the match...

...or not. Jovetic looks like a great striker. But Liverpool seems to no longer be that team that is very hard to beat, as they once were. I felt like our fullbacks were caught too far up the field on a few occasions, leaving Skrtel and Carragher outnumbered in defense.
 
From the increasingly bizarre world of Hull City... Phil Brown apparently saved the life of a suicidal woman the other day.

Apparently, while out on a walk across the Humber Bridge with his players the City boss chanced upon a woman teetering on the brink. He doesn't say exactly what he said to encourage her not to take her own life – maybe he promised not to select Sonko at the weekend? :p
 
Nieval said:
That's nice but does that mean he can save Hull City from the drop now?
Click to expand...

:D

Apparently there is a culture in England of despising flamboyance, because all they can talk about is Phil Brown's Harley, his tan, his attention-seeking....do they think he's too flash or something?

And they still harp on about that team talk on the pitch. :rolleyes:

With Petr Cech out week, Liverpool should pepper Chelsea's goal with shots and and try to force Hilario into a mistake. I can see this match going one of two ways - either the usual top four meeting, which is a bit drab and both sides cancel each other out, or a high-scoring game in which both sides show good attack and poor defense.

Oh, and surprise! Owen is injured. :rolleyes::D
 
Nieval said:
That's nice but does that mean he can save Hull City from the drop now?
Click to expand...
You all disappoint me – I left that as an incredibly obvious tap in and it took someone seven-and-a-half hours to point it out. You must try harder. ;)

Lord Blackadder said:
Apparently there is a culture in England of despising flamboyance, because all they can talk about is Phil Brown's Harley, his tan, his attention-seeking....do they think he's too flash or something?

And they still harp on about that team talk on the pitch. :rolleyes:
Click to expand...
Phil Brown is certainly struggling to get a positive press – I don't think it's a question being too flash though. He's committed a number of cardinal sins that have upset the media – for example...

  • First of all, he kept us up. Every journalist and opinion piece writer had us down to be relegated without a fight last season, and we made them eat their words. They don't like to be made to look foolish.
  • We stayed up at the expense of Newcastle United – regarded as a 'proper' football club with their passionate support, the notion that grubby little upstarts like us be in the Premier League instead of them is an unpalatable one to some. Which leads us onto...
  • Alan Shearer. His telly work means he has a lot of friends in the media, I remember reading comments from some before the end of last season that they were hoping Newcastle stayed up 'for Alan'. They didn't though. Heh.
  • Arsenal. We have a very south-east centric press in this country, and Arsenal are a popular club with many media types. Our victory over them in the League last season might have put a few noses out of joint, but generally it was taken on the chin, albeit grudgingly in some cases. However, the fallout of the FA Cup tie and Brown's criticism of Arsenal and the Sainted Cesc in particular alienated many press types – the sudden rise in hostility towards Brown (and indeed against the club and the city of Hull itself in some cases) was palpable and in some cases veered on the childish.
  • That team talk. Despite significant evidence suggesting that this wasn't to blame for our slump in form, the media like simple, obvious things they can latch onto. The public dressing down Brown gave his players was gleefully leapt upon by those who saw a ready reason they could lazily attribute to our decline. They repeated this 'explanation' ad nauseum until it became accepted as fact by many.

Personally, if it's lazy journalism they're serving up I pay little attention to it – after all, why should I listen to 'experts' offering opinions on my club when they don't even know what county we're in (Hull is of course in the East Riding of Yorkshire, not Humberside)? We're an unfashionable club playing in a glamour League, we're bound to have some people looking down their noses at us and being snotty – when you're from 'ull though you soon get used to dealing with those attitudes. Bring it on, I say. :p

swiftaw said:
So, JC, ready for the big game this weekend?
Click to expand...
Indeed – it's been an odd week for us what with a bizarrely publicised selection of a new captain (Nick Barmby was given the nod, despite his on-pitch time being limited these days), media speculation about the financial dealings of our board, and Phil Brown rescuing damsels in distress while out on his morning constitutional. It'll be nice to just play some football for a change. :eek:
 
Jaffa Cake said:
Personally, if it's lazy journalism they're serving up I pay little attention to it – after all, why should I listen to 'experts' offering opinions on my club when they don't even know what county we're in (Hull is of course in the East Riding of Yorkshire, not Humberside)? We're an unfashionable club playing in a glamour League, we're bound to have some people looking down their noses at us and being snotty – when you're from 'ull though you soon get used to dealing with those attitudes. Bring it on, I say. :p
Click to expand...

Well said, and - incidentally - you've just demonstrated how to make a list in vbulletin. :D

Hum, an unfashionable team in a glamor league...So, apparently this makes you the new Bolton if you can survive? :D

You're spot on with the claims of lazy journalism too - when Hull City gets brought up in podcasts or articles the pundits just snort and say "well, Phil Brown is a bit mad, isn't he? And oh, by the way the squad is crap," without even discussing the individual players which (besides Geovanni and the now departed Michael Turner), they don't seem to even know the names of.

This whole lazy journalism issue was made more obvious to me when the same pundits said that Liverpool would fail to win the league and probably drop outside the top four because of the loss of Xabi Alonso. Which is utter nonsense. We are three points behind the table-topers with a superior goal difference and we didn't lose to Burnley or Wigan. I think it could be argued that Manchester United are missing the Greasy One more than we miss Alonso (and we do miss him, let's be honest).

Oh, and to briefly comment on Newcastle - decent squad, but the most epic mismanagement I've ever seen...plus, Keegan and Shearer (not to mention Joe Effing Kinnear) showed me nothing that led me to believe they have any business managing a premier league squad. It shows once more that it's business first and sports second.
 
Lord Blackadder said:
And oh, by the way the squad is crap," without even discussing the individual players which (besides Geovanni and the now departed Michael Turner), they don't seem to even know the names of.
Click to expand...
At the start of last season, it was patently obvious that none of the commentary types knew any of our players apart from Geo, Barmby and Windass. There were a few gaffes, to say the least – Chris Kamara seemed convinced our captain was Barry Ashbee, not Ian. :D
 
The way City are going we'll have to talk Jaffa off the Humber Bridge:eek:

Been busy working to 11.30pm each night on my new kitchen so haven't had time to moan about Rangers goalless draw, defeat to Seville and another draw. And it's the Old Firm this weekend and it's on Sky not ESPN (guess which I have:mad:.)
 
Jaffa Cake said:
At the start of last season, it was patently obvious that none of the commentary types knew any of our players apart from Geo, Barmby and Windass. There were a few gaffes, to say the least – Chris Kamara seemed convinced our captain was Barry Ashbee, not Ian. :D
Click to expand...

Ha, but how could you forget a name like Windass? :D
 
Well, that sucked. Sorry JC, but Hull were lucky. They were 2nd best for most of the game. I will give them credit though, they took their chances and made us pay.

I knew once Hull survived the first few minutes of the 2nd half and started getting free kicks and corners that they would end up scoring one of them.

N'Zogbia had a horrible game, although I have to ask why he is playing on the right wing. Everyone knows he is completely left footed, so the defenders know that they don't have to worry about him getting to the byline and swinging in a cross.

Was weird seeing Kilbane as a centre back.
 
Jaffa Cake said:
From the increasingly bizarre world of Hull City... <snip>
Click to expand...

and it just keeps on coming :D bizarre punishment

PHIL BROWN has banned his players from the club's own restaurant.
Hull boss Brown, 50, was so angry with his Premier League strugglers after their 6-1 hammering at Liverpool he told them to get their lunch elsewhere after training
Click to expand...

There'll be a follow-up report this week about him bollocking his players for going to McDonalds :p
 
NathanCH said:
Watching Sunderland right now. Preparing for 15 minutes of extra times thanks to the ref.
Click to expand...

Not surprising that Utd scored in the additional 4 minutes, but what was Riley doing - Rooney kicks out at a player and he just has a chat with him and calls him Wazza ?!?!

As bad as Steve McClaren being all pally with the boys...:rolleyes:
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back