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2010-2011 Football Thread

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daneoni said:
United might be having troubles now but they're still a force to be reckoned with and are notorious for finding form in the latter stages of the competition.
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Some very good points, Daneoni. If United had not given away all those late goals they would be equal with Chelsea on points with today's game in hand.

Tottenham are still coming to terms with Champions League football combined with the EPL and look to them for a late season surge as well.

Looking at the table you realise that it's the "mini-top-6-league" that will make or break the eventual winners and City's handsome position is because of their victory against Chelsea. I wouldn't throw the towel in on this season atleast until all the top 6 teams have player against each other.
 
Peopl can discuss squads and performances all they want, but the only thing that really matters is owners and money.

As Jaffa mentioned, there are only a small handful of clubs with a real chance of winning anything, and that is all down to money. Even among that elite there are gaps - Man City and Chelsea can buy anyone they want, Arsenal and Man U cannot. Liverpool may bounce back with the new owners but they are at best going to be competing with Arsenal and Man U for second-tier stars or youngsters. Spurs are knocking on the door, but it's never going to open for them.

Man City are going to be a top two team, and they are going to win trophies. You can buy success, and they will. In fact, the only way to win is with money. And they have more than everyone else.
 
Nieval said:
Looking at the table you realise that it's the "mini-top-6-league" that will make or break the eventual winners and City's handsome position is because of their victory against Chelsea. I wouldn't throw the towel in on this season atleast until all the top 6 teams have player against each other.
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The SPL has a split towards the end where the top 6 (and bottom 6) all play an extra game against each other. This avoids a mid-table team being caught up in a title or relegation decider and being accused of 'laying down'. Might be interesting if extended to England, although it isn't that popular up here.
 
daneoni said:
Fair enough but i'm still not convinced of City, they've only made it this far for one sole reason. Tevez. Without him they're markedly weaker
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Or Boyata. ;) Fate (or Clattenburg) stepped in to save the season.

So what we have now instead of two breakaway leaders is just one breakaway leader with the trailing pack of 5 teams all separated by just 2 points. Much more interesting.
 
I actually got a chance to watch Liverpool play today, and what do you know - we won!

Blackburn didn't really test our defense very much, the goal we allowed was an unlucky deflection (though it came off a good attack by Rovers). Carragher's seventh own goal for the Reds. :eek: We still look weak at the back, but a bit improved today.

Still, I thought our midfield played reasonably well, and Torres scored. We went off the boil a bit at the end of the match. A very quiet crowd at Anfield today though.

Baby steps...I'll take the three points.

EDIT: Too bad Man City went down to 10 men so early in their match against Arsenal, it ruined the match as a contest. Important win for the gunners though.

EDIT2: A solid 3-1 win for Columbus today over Philidelphia in Major League Soccer's last regular season game of 2010. That's two wins on the bounce, so we have a little momentum going at just the right time. Both Renteria and Mendoza scored again after Schelotto slotted a penalty early in the game. Hopefully we can keep this winning streak going into the playoffs. As an aside, Columbus are the first MLS team to make it to the Open Cup Final, the knockout stages of the Champions League, and the MLS playoffs all in the same season.
 
Lord Blackadder said:
I actually got a chance to watch Liverpool play today, and what do you know - we won!
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I read today in the Daily Mail, that Gerrard thinks that Liverpool has now righted itself. I guess we'll fins out over the next several weeks.

I agree with you on the Man City-Arsenal match. Too bad Boyata pulled a Dog-So (denying an obvious goal scoring opportunity in ref-speak). He left the ref no choice.
 
FIFA again exposed for the corrupt good 'ol boys club that we all know it to be. Still, we all know that little will be done about it. A few exposed members will be banned from the buffet, and then things will go on as usual.

Also, Michel Platini warns against the sport turning into "playstation football" if technology is brought into the game. Hmmm. "Playstation football"... as in the kind of football where goals are always awarded properly when they are scored? Sounds good to me. ;)

fcortese said:
I read today in the Daily Mail, that Gerrard thinks that Liverpool has now righted itself. I guess we'll fins out over the next several weeks.
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It was a morale-boosting win, but I'm not going to say we've turned a corner until we are well out of the relegation zone. If Torres regains his form from a year ago we will be picking up a lot more points, but that also highlights the fact that we are badly in need of another striker.

Joe Cole had a good performance on Sunday, he could become a key player for us if he settles into the team. It would have been nice had he settled right away, but if he starts lighting up the pitch now I won't complain.
 
Lord Blackadder said:
FIFA again exposed for the corrupt good 'ol boys club that we all know it to be. Still, we all know that little will be done about it. A few exposed members will be banned from the buffet, and then things will go on as usual.

Also, Michel Platini warns against the sport turning into "playstation football" if technology is brought into the game. Hmmm. "Playstation football"... as in the kind of football where goals are always awarded properly when they are scored? Sounds good to me. ;)
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LOL. Maybe 2 extra ARs will help:rolleyes:
 
Chris Hughton on Andy Carroll said:
"Kevin looks after Andy very well," he said. "He arranges his supper at the right time and makes sure he is tucked in to bed at a very good time to get a full night's sleep. If the two of them can continue to score the goals and put in the performances that they did at West Ham, then I am quite happy with the arrangement."
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Comedy gold. Does he get his own extra-big high chair and bib (with Newcastle badge) when Mrs. Nolan sits him down next to the other kids at supper?

Maybe it's more funny inside my head, but I chuckled aloud when I read it.
 
Anyway, let's move away from talk of slimy, spineless types and instead discuss what the FA are currently up to. :p

They're complaining about comments made by the head of Russia's 2018 World Cup bid team – a key rival to England's bid, of course – in which he apparently describes London as being a hotbed of crime and filled with debauched young folk out of their heads on cheap booze.

Well, duh. :rolleyes: :D

I think we can expect more of this sort of thing over the next month and a bit...
 
R.I.P. Paul. Even in death you still managed to make front-page news. We should have asked him whether FIFA was really as corrupt as it seems.

Jaffa Cake said:
Yep, another week another injury for Mrs Bullard's boy.
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There was an editorial in the guardian somewhere where a pundit praised Joey Barton's attitude of late by likening him to Jimmy Bullard, and I thought "hmm, that's funny, I didn't hear anything about him seeing out a lucrative contract because his dodgy knees mean he'll never get another."

Jaffa Cake said:
Anyway, let's move away from talk of slimy, spineless types and instead discuss what the FA are currently up to. :p
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It's rambletastic :D (their Zlatan coverage has me laughing aloud every time).

The whole World Cup selection process is descending into complete farce - and you English crucified Lord Treisman for his prophetic assessment of the level of corruption present in the bidding process. ;)

The only positive thing that might come out of this is that Sepp Blatter loses his job for being, if not corrupt, at least incompetent.
 
Lord Blackadder said:
...and you English crucified Lord Treisman for his prophetic assessment of the level of corruption present in the bidding process. ;)
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Ah, but that's the thing – everyone knows it goes on, but actually saying anything bout it publicly just isn't on. ;)

Lord Blackadder said:
The only positive thing that might come out of this is that Sepp Blatter loses his job for being, if not corrupt, at least incompetent.
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The problem is, the people who would be responsible for voting Blatter out for his lack of action on corruption would be all the FIFA types who actually benefit from it. :rolleyes:
 
Jaffa Cake said:
Blimey. I bet he never saw that coming.
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Too funny.

Fizzoid said:
it seems Middlesborough's new manager is a guy who only makes a Strachan team worse. Oh dear!
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Even funnier!

I think the theory at work here is Strachan made the Celtic team better but made Boro worse. Mowbray made the Celtic team worse therefore according to the inverse squared rule....

His appointment wasn't much of a surprise to Teessiders, he's a local favourite down here. Indeed there is a large poster on him on the drive into the Riverside, I think its to keep undesirables at bay since its on the edge of the red light district (errrm, I'm told.)
 
awmazz said:
Now it will be just two. Seriously, as much as Bayern or Man Utd have dominated their respective leagues recently, they have been toppled every now and then.
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currently though the german bundesliga is the by far most entertaining league .. after all who would have thought that at this time of the year the top 5 would be Mainz, Dortmund, Hannover, Hoffenheim, Leverkusen ... and the big guns Werder, Stuttgart, Bayern, Schalke (last year 2. , at the moment 16th), Wolfsburg all are struggling
 
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