The Football Thread - Season 2012/2013

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Andy Townsend quote from today - "If he puts that inside the goal he scores". Looks like Ian Wright has nicked Harry Potter's glasses.
 
joescrivens said:
Be looking forward to mod tonight!
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Extended highlights too which I was dreading before the game! However 35 shots, 18 on target and 5 goals. Sort of sums up Liverpool! Conversion rate needs to be higher in my opinion! However good the win there is room for improvement!
 
Mbuti said:
Extended highlights too which I was dreading before the game! However 35 shots, 18 on target and 5 goals. Sort of sums up Liverpool! Conversion rate needs to be higher in my opinion! However good the win there is room for improvement!
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Having watched it I have to agree. We could and should have scored double figures today against a Swansea weakened prior to the cup next week.
 
The23rdman said:
Having watched it I have to agree. We could and should have scored double figures today against a Swansea weakened prior to the cup next week.
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Although I have no problem with a manager picking any team he wants, it is a bit hypocritical for one team 'a la Wolves' to be 'investigated' and others not.

A squad is a squad in my opinion and hopefully we have heard the last of the nonsense regarding fielding a so called weak team. I don't know the stats but ManU must swap players more than most and they never get questioned.

Good luck to Swansea next week anyway. Bradford deserve some credit but I would prefer Swansea to win as I think it will do more for English footy.
 
tiler65 said:
Although I have no problem with a manager picking any team he wants, it is a bit hypocritical for one team 'a la Wolves' to be 'investigated' and others not.

A squad is a squad in my opinion and hopefully we have heard the last of the nonsense regarding fielding a so called weak team. I don't know the stats but ManU must swap players more than most and they never get questioned.

Good luck to Swansea next week anyway. Bradford deserve some credit but I would prefer Swansea to win as I think it will do more for English footy.
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Agreed. It was more valid before the 25 man squad rule, but now a manager should be free to pick from that squad.
 
The23rdman said:
Agreed. It was more valid before the 25 man squad rule, but now a manager should be free to pick from that squad.
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Yep they changed the rules so no-one can be prosecuted again I believe, unless they field the youth team or something similar.
 
I'd gone with a few Liverpool and Swansea players for my FF as they had the extra game.

Having heard that Liverpool managed 5 goals I was a bit dissapointed with a 1 goal return from Suarez over the two games and my Swansea picks being rested.

104 points though.
 
1 goal and 2 assists phil. Thats only 2 points less than a hat trick. Also 2 bonus points.
 
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dinners said:
I'd gone with a few Liverpool and Swansea players for my FF as they had the extra game.

Having heard that Liverpool managed 5 goals I was a bit dissapointed with a 1 goal return from Suarez over the two games and my Swansea picks being rested.

104 points though.
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He was disappointed to, Phil. Face like a smacked arse when Buck pulled him off.
 
Interesting story about Paul Elliot (ex Chelsea, now known for his campaigning against racism), calling another ex player the n word!!! http://in.news.yahoo.com/anti-racist-campaigner-paul-elliot-calls-fellow-black-093859132.html

He claims as it was 2 black men its ok? Looks like a huge og to me - you cant have one rule for one and one for another. Saying that some people can use it and some cant is not equality. Also, he seems to have used it in an argument so intended to hurt the other person... so the difference between Terry and Elliot????
 
cambsno said:
Interesting story about Paul Elliot (ex Chelsea, now known for his campaigning against racism), calling another ex player the n word!!! http://in.news.yahoo.com/anti-racist-campaigner-paul-elliot-calls-fellow-black-093859132.html

He claims as it was 2 black men its ok? Looks like a huge og to me - you cant have one rule for one and one for another. Saying that some people can use it and some cant is not equality. Also, he seems to have used it in an argument so intended to hurt the other person... so the difference between Terry and Elliot????
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Um, yes you can. Black people call each other nigger all the time as a means of desensitization.
 
The23rdman said:
Um, yes you can. Black people call each other nigger all the time as a means of desensitization.
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Sorry, I dont buy that. It needs to be one rule for all. Whether is race, sexuality or sex, or anything else for that matter, we should all go by the same laws and rules.
 
I agree with Cambsno. If racist language is to be condemned then it needs to be done so universally. In a similar sense, the way Spurs fans uses the 'y**' disgusts me, in fact it's not even a word I'm comfortable writing in a discussion like this.
 
I disagree vehemently with both of you. A word only has power to offfend us if we let it.
 
The23rdman said:
I disagree vehemently with both of you. A word only has power to offfend us if we let it.
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I am with my learned friend Dean but then most of you know my stance on so called insults/offended words.

I wonder what the law says about using such language in a like for like scenario - has it ever been challenged?
 
DiCanio has quit....last seen going towards Eastlands........
 
Valencia must be the most frustrating player we've got just now. Some great moments but so one footed it borders on being a 'disability' at times. I don't mean that to sound offensive but you see so many options available should he be prepared to use his left peg but he just goes around in circles to get back on his right. Does my head in to see players in this day and age as much as 80/20 'one sided' but Valencia must be bordering on 95/5 !
 
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Valencia must be the most frustrating player we've got just now. Some great moments but so one footed it borders on being a 'disability' at times. I don't mean that to sound offensive but you see so many options available should he be prepared to use his left peg but he just goes around in circles to get back on his right. Does my head in !
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Doesn't he have an outrageous cross success rate though? I'm sure I read that a while ago.
 
dinners said:
Valencia must be the most frustrating player we've got just now. Some great moments but so one footed it borders on being a 'disability' at times. I don't mean that to sound offensive but you see so many options available should he be prepared to use his left peg but he just goes around in circles to get back on his right. Does my head in !
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Its a running joke with my mates I actually saw him cross it with his left a few weeks ago and I am sure he made the sign of the cross :)
 
TriggerHappy said:
Doesn't he have an outrageous cross success rate though? I'm sure I read that a while ago.
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Yes but he turns down glorious 'goal scoring' openings on his left just to put a 50 50 cross in with his right.

Long John Silver !
 
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He was disappointed to, Phil. Face like a smacked arse when Buck pulled him off.
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Whether you like Suarez or not, the good thing about him is that he never stops and never gives up. He wants to play every minute, and is not happy if he doesn't. That may be the thing that keeps him away from a club with more money, and so larger squads, and maybe Champions League, as he will play nearly every game for Liverpool. Would he do that for City? :shrug: Tevez doesn't, Aguero doesn't.

Interesting to see some some of the reporting of the Liverpool game, not well done for beating someone 5-0, but 'why don't they do it every week'. :bang: Let's enjoy the result eh mate. :(


Suarez was good for me in the FF, after recently replacing Defoe with Suarez. :thumbs: Sturridge may have been better if he had played both games last week. The same goes for Michu. :( Bale gave a good return too with his excellent free kicks. :clap:
 
dinners said:
Does my head in to see players in this day and age as much as 80/20 'one sided' but Valencia must be bordering on 95/5 !
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There should be no excuse for a professional footballer to be so 'one footed'. :shake: I mean all they have to do is practice, and they get paid to do that too. Practice with your bad foot a bit.

I was very one footed when I was young, but had a very painful left knee for quite awhile which made it very difficult to twist on to kick with my right foot, and it forced me kick left footed, and I quickly got a lot better kicking with my left foot.

Going back to the Liverpool game on Sunday, Downing trying to cross with his right foot more, rather than always coming inside from the right to shoot with his left, gave his game an added dimension, and gave the defence something to think about.


When Gerrard came into the Liverpool team as a youngster he seemed genuinely two footed, but as he has got older he seems to favour his right foot more and more. It was one of the things that stood out for me from one so young. It is a very good right foot though. :thumbs: :lol:
 
Delighted to get through but apart from a 20min spell mid way through the 2nd half it was a pretty frustrating performance. I thought Vidic looked good again on his long road back, Hernandez was busy and that's the most interested I've seen Nani since he's been wedged half way through the exit door.
 
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Damn, missed the game. Thought it was played yesterday!
 
cambsno said:
Interesting story about Paul Elliot (ex Chelsea, now known for his campaigning against racism), calling another ex player the n word!!! http://in.news.yahoo.com/anti-racist-campaigner-paul-elliot-calls-fellow-black-093859132.html

He claims as it was 2 black men its ok? Looks like a huge og to me - you cant have one rule for one and one for another. Saying that some people can use it and some cant is not equality. Also, he seems to have used it in an argument so intended to hurt the other person... so the difference between Terry and Elliot????
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You are 100% correct and the fact he is working for an anti-racism charity makes the stupidity of his defence even more appalling.
 
So what season was your favourite supporting your team and why ?
 
Quite a few to choose from but 1994 stands out as I got a ticket for the cup final:)
 
akr said:
So what season was your favourite supporting your team and why ?
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2003/4, invincible PL season, 1 final, 2 semi-finals and 1 quarter final. Easy really, especially given more recent results :lol:
 
TriggerHappy said:
2003/4, invincible PL season, 1 final, 2 semi-finals and 1 quarter final. Easy really, especially given more recent results :lol:
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Well mine is close to that - finishing 2nd in League one as it is now called. Getting promoted is something most people on this thread are unlikely to experience - it's a truly amazing feeling. But more than that the season everyone felt so together, I loved our manager Holloway, I loved some of our players, some of whom were QPR fans, but we had great team spirit, Gallen, the man mountain s***tu, Gino Padula for who we had a great song, Bircham, Camp, Furlong, Rowlands, Cook - I loved that time and I loved going to watch the team then.

I think it's why I don't mind going down (bar the possible financial disaster that would bring for us). Finishing 5th in 92 in the PL I think was pretty nice though!
 
The 1989 Liverpool v Arsenal game. Last game of season and we played each other needing to win by 2 goals to win the league. Scored in the last minute.
 
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