This Weekend's Fixtures (06/07 Oct).

[Jens' Face]

Pardiola might go flat out 4-4-2, which would be a bit dim. Rooney could easily drop-in to make up any deficit in midfield.

It'll be interesting to see which of Kagawa or Rooney gets put on the wing (granted, they'll be switching around). Either way, though, I can imagine that they won't quite make the contribution a third midfielder would. We'll see. Hopefully, several manyoo players will contract Ebola at some point.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Well it's true that I was thinking in terms of what I'd do rather than what the old soak tanked up on whiskey might do.

He has named a strong starting XII with Webb's inclusion though.

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

Rugby rules.

http://pbs.twimg.com/media/A4m5uPJCIAAqXVI.jpg

[McNamara That Ghost...]

:lol:

As if anybody will use select.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

What a chance for Welbeck, well and truly scuffs it!

[Olivier's xmas twist]

How are spurs not beating Villa ?

[Jens' Face]

Pardiola
I didn't get this first time around :lol:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Good run around the back from RVP, Harper kicks it back out for a corner.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Barcodes 0-1 Man Utd, Evans! What a header!

[Jens' Face]

motherfuck me, I hate manyoo

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Wazza is in midfield by the looks of it.

Me. :bow:

[Jens' Face]

Barcodes 0-1 Man Utd, Evans! What a header!
I'm wondering whether Krul would've stopped that

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Rafael goes for glory. Easily could've played it across goal or cut it back.

Barcodes. :lol:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Bloody hell Harper. :haha:

Welbeck somehow clears it with an open goal.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Freekick to Man Utd, dangerous area.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Tiote's challenge on Cleverley before. :sick:

Ba's wasn't great either.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Harper saves Rooney's freekick.

Sterling running towards Stoke's defence. :lol:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Barcodes 0-2 Man Utd, Evra! Another corner! :wacko:

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

My word.

Suarez so close to a terrific goal.

[Jens' Face]

Jaysus, this is awful

[McNamara That Ghost...]

4-4-2. :lol:

Well and truly dead.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Spuds 1-0 Villa, Caulker.

[Jens' Face]

Tiote's challenge on Cleverley before. :sick:

I know it's wrong, but he's my motm for that.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Gutierrez strikes, just wide.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

RVP. :haha:

What was that?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Kagawa booked.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Suarez's reaction. :haha:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Suso off, Joe Cole on. :blink:

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

Joe Cole's alive :faint:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Ba blasts it miles away.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Spuds 2-0 Villa, Lennon.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Villa :rose:

[Syn]

What a shit day.

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

This is poised perfectly for us to lose this.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Rio booked.

Webb isn't convincing anyone.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

RVP booked. Trolling again.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Suarez starfish!

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

:haha:

That was a terrible attempt.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Tiote. :rolleyes:

Booked.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Cabaye curls it, wide.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

What is Welbeck doing?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Gutierrez booked.

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

Stoke have had 11 men camped in their own half all game.

Gerrard has been shite.

And it's turning out to be a typical home game.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Nearly 0-3, another set piece from Man Utd.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Barcodes 0-2 Man Utd, HT.

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

That's landed in the Mersey.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Joe Cole. :haha:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Liverpool 0-0 Stoke, FT. :rolleyes:

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Liverpool :rose:

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

Sigh.

Couldn't play through 11 defenders today. Llorente or Falcao would be nice.

[Master Splinter]

When Stoke have six yellow cards, you know that means they really deserved eleven yellows and three reds.

It says they had 52% possession on the BBC website. Surely this can't be in the same galaxy as the truth?

Anyway, Liverpool :haha:.

Fortress Anfield :bow:.

Rodgers' Revolution :bow:.

Suarez's diving has negated his next thirty genuine appeals for a pelanty. What an imbecile.

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

I know it's a fashionable GWism, but Stoke are genuinely despicable.

Completely and utterly devoid of any talent or technical ability.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Dear god, how hasn't that gone in?!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Brilliant work by De Gea.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Ba heads wide. Should score.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Kagawa off, Valencia on.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Cleverley unsurprisingly belts it way over.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Harper saves from Rooney.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Ben Arfa strikes it firmly but wide.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Ferguson off, Anita on.

Cisse off, Shola Ameobi on.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Disallowed goal for RVP, offside. :lol:

[hobson's choice]

Newcastle need to get a better manager, they actually some talent on their start 11, not any depth. But Pardew, can only do so much with them.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Barcodes 0-3 Man Utd, Cleverley curls one in from way out, seemed a fluke.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Newcastle need to get a better manager, they actually some talent on their start 11, not any depth. But Pardew, can only do so much with them.

Shame they gave him a new 8 year deal :haha:


Barcodes 0-3 Man Utd, Cleverley curls one in from way out, seemed a fluke.

Good goal tbh.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Newcastle need to get a better manager, they actually some talent on their start 11, not any depth. But Pardew, can only do so much with them.

Unfortunately for them they just gave Pardiola an eight-year contract. :lol:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

RVP should be off.

[Master Splinter]

Get sent off for kicking the ball while unknowingly offside for Arsenal.

Get away with everything for Manchester United.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

And now he is hauled off for Giggs.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Scholes booked.

[hobson's choice]

Unfortunately for them they just gave Pardiola an eight-year contract. :lol:

Yeah:lol:, but Ashley will cut him loose with the quickness, if he's not liking the way things are going. Always had a soft spot for Newcastle, so I like seeing them do good. My favorite Aunt, and her family leaves up there. So whenever we visited England when I was younger, I always spent part of my Summers up there.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

0-3 FT.

[Master Splinter]

Newcastle were awlful.

Pardew :lol:.

[Dennis Bendtner]

I can't believe you would give someone like that, who no bigger club is going to have any interest in, an eight-year contract.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

http://www.101greatgoals.com/wp-content/gallery/gimages/suarezgif.gif

http://i.minus.com/iI04qBVyEBQp2.gif

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

He's quite clearly trying to do the worm. Nothing wrong with that.

Bale on the other hand.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Bale was just saving his career again.

[Cripps_orig]

Liverpool :haha:

How long does Rodgers have left?

Pulis is complaining again i see

Pardew :haha:

Mancs are a bit awesome

Top 3 done and dusted

Cant remember the other games today

[Ollie the Optimist]

those two dives. surely the fa can just throw the book at them. bales was worse though imo. fucking shocking behaviour.



any reason why uefa can ban players for diving (like edurado and dida) yet the fa cant? or can they ban them but just dont? dont know the rules so any help would be great

[McNamara That Ghost...]

UEFA's ban on Eduardo was overturned. It is after all, only a yellow card offence.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

any reason why uefa can ban players for diving (like edurado and dida) yet the fa cant?

Both have diffrent rules. Until the Fa introduce a rule like this, people will continue to dive etc.

[Ollie the Optimist]

UEFA's ban on Eduardo was overturned. It is after all, only a yellow card offence.

i know it was overturned, but im pretty sure they banned dida for diving/playacting. is there no rule to charge them with then?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

I don't know. Maybe because the Dida one didn't involve on-field in-play action, well, not with other players anyway.

The Dida one was a while ago though so looking back for precedents probably isn't the best way to go.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

i know it was overturned, but im pretty sure they banned dida for diving/playacting. is there no rule to charge them with then?

Well we saw Bendtner got in trouble at the Euro's, so i guess its how bad Uefa think the offence is.

They could not ban Eduardo as it was clear more people would dive and they look like mugs if they did not ban them all.

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

I'm all for retrospective banning of diving, so long as they do the same for half the things Stoke get away with on a weekly basis.

[Cripps_orig]

Rivaldos was the best though

Wonder which club he was at he learned that from...

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Rivaldos was the best though

Wonder which club he was at he learned that from...

Yeah like he did not dive before he joined Barca.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

I think punishment on dives has too many grey areas to enforce properly, therefore I'd say the best thing to do would be change how fouls can be committed. Also, more specificlly for pelanties to have a bit more of a specfic requirement than just being fouled anywhere in the area.

[Cripps_orig]

Yeah like he did not dive before he joined Barca.

Never said he didnt

[Olivier's xmas twist]

I think punishment on dives has too many grey areas to enforce properly, therefore I'd say the best thing to do would be change how fouls can be committed. Also, more specificlly for pelanties to have a bit more of a specfic requirement than just being fouled anywhere in the area.

It should be down to the manager to stop diving. Maybe a points deduction needs to be introduced. So any players who dive loose points for their club and that way managers will make sure they don't.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

so long as they do the same for half the things Stoke get away with on a weekly basis.

Pretty much is disgraceful that they are allowed to get away with it and its been for so many seasons now. 4 years in the prem and they still use this excuse we play this way cause its the only way we know.

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

Pretty much is disgraceful that they are allowed to get away with it and its been for so many seasons now. 4 years in the prem and they still use this excuse we play this way cause its the only way we know.

Pretty much.

So much will be made of Suarez's dive (which, tbf I'm not going to defend) but I bet nothing will be said of Huth's rake/stamp on his chest, or the 2 dozen "reducers" on pretty much all of our players.
And even less will be said of Bale's Squirrel impression.

[Cripps_orig]

Other than the dives, MOTD2 worth watching?

Heard about this RVC elbow? Was it bad?

[Cripps_orig]

Lawro and Roberts are there

[McNamara That Ghost...]

No idea, watch it anyway. And RVP's elbow should've been bad enough to get a yellow at least.

[Marc Overmars]

We're Stoke and we don't complain.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

:sick:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Welbeck. :haha:

Harper. :haha:

Premier League. :bow:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

It sounded like Pearce almost made a criticism of man-to-man marking then, without neccesarily saying it in those terms.

[Cripps_orig]

RVC is a ****

Blatant elbow

[McNamara That Ghost...]

"The two goals killed us".

Pardiola. :bow:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Man-to-man marking. :lol:

It's the best system though, Jamie Redknapp told me.

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

I've only just Lawro says "bert" :lol:

[Ollie the Optimist]

if rvc doesnt get charged and recieve a 3 match ban then there is no point anymore. that is as blatent as it gets.

[Xhaka Can’t]

if rvc doesnt get charged and recieve a 3 match ban then there is no point anymore. that is as blatent as it gets.

I haven't seen this, but I agree.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

He'd be back in time for our game, sadly. Would miss Chelsea twice though.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Benteke missed another sitter. :faint:

[Cripps_orig]

Bales dive was shown

Hope hes asked about it

[Cripps_orig]

Defoe is a little bit awesome

Wrighty was spot on

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Defoe claimed that as his goal? What a scrote. :lol:

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

Dempsey :haha:

We got one ove....you know the rest.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Bale, you're not Ronaldo - give it up.

[Xhaka Can’t]

Bale, you're not Ronaldo - give it up.

True, he may be a scrote, but next to Ronaldo, he's a gnat scrote.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

RVC is a ****

Blatant elbow

:gp:

[Xhaka Can’t]

I don't get it.

How can he be a **** and an elbow?

[Olivier's xmas twist]

I haven't seen this, but I agree.

Plays for Utd now so he'll get away with it.

[Cripps_orig]

MOTD laugh it off

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

It's been quite literally laughed off.

Fucking hell.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

True, he may be a scrote, but next to Ronaldo, he's a gnat scrote.

Exactly. If gnats have scrotes. Actually, I don't wanna know.

Also, ah let's have a good hearty laugh at the funny welsh man with his funny antics.

Suarez the antichrist isn't far away though.

[Ollie the Optimist]

how is that bale dive funny MOTD? its a fucking disgrace. you could have driven a bus through the gap between the two players when bale went down. fucking pathetic

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

A name drop :bow:

Even if it was actually an insult. Bastard.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Sorry, the antichrist it is from now on.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Hooiveld. :haha:

He had an absolute mare.

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

Sorry, the antichrist it is from now on.

I meant Tranmere :ninja:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Hooiveld made sure of that one as well. :lol:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

I meant Tranmere :ninja:

I didn't.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Adkins. :lol:

He'll be gone soon surely.

[Ollie the Optimist]

Adkins. :lol:

He'll be gone soon surely.

tbf he was unlucky today, they shoud have won 3-2. no idea how that goal was ruled out for a foul on schwazer.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Probably because there was a backheel trip, whether it was enough to floor Schwarzer is another matter but it's a foul, as it is.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Good defending by Sterling to block Sahin's shot.

[Ollie the Optimist]

if huth and rvc dont get banned for three games after their elbow and stamp then its a disgrace.


for once suarez didnt make a meal of it, he was stamped on, intentionally too

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Stevie Me. :rolleyes:

It's not going to get any better for Liverpool with him declaring he won't ever leave them.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Skrtel, Walters and Wisdom. :lol:

[Xhaka Can’t]

if huth and rvc dont get banned for three games after their elbow and stamp then its a disgrace.


for once suarez didnt make a meal of it, he was stamped on, intentionally too

I think we'd all like to intentionally stamp on Suarez.

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

The ref waits until their attack is over and then tells Skrtel to kick it out :blink:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Sterling. :lol:

He'll be on X-Factor next year surely.

[Ollie the Optimist]

I think we'd all like to intentionally stamp on Suarez.


true, well we can all move on then, just ban rvc.


as tony pullis says, stoke arent a dirty team

[Cripps_orig]

Suarez is awesome

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

My god he doesn't actually see how thuggish Stoke were today.

It's incredible.

He's got to be on the WUM.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Please make Stoke go down.

[GP]

Please make Stoke go down.

To the bottom of the sea?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

I think I might cry if Lawro gets £40,000 per show, too.

[Xhaka Can’t]

Please make Stoke go down.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKe2OfXLxuc

[McNamara That Ghost...]

To the bottom of the sea?

Rain. :pray:

[Xhaka Can’t]

Rain. :pray:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmuYSQbs_3M

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Interesting.

[Xhaka Can’t]

Interesting.

I can't think of a song for that.

So here's a picture of Steve Davis.

http://prosnookerblog.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/wcdavis-steve811.jpg

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Just like the England team MOTD team needs and overhaul too. Get rid of most of the planks on there. Lineker/Hansen, Lawro.
All past their sell by date and make the show boring and cringey.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

if huth and rvc dont get banned for three games after their elbow and stamp then its a disgrace.



Who did RVP elbow?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

http://i.minus.com/iyzrJDtyWPpyY.gif

:haha:

Olly. :bow:

[Kano]

http://i.minus.com/iI04qBVyEBQp2.gif

dear god

[GP]

I don't think he dived as such. Sometimes you anticipate the tackle and the contact, even if you don't actually get caught - I've done it myself before. One of the indicators as to whether someone is deliberately trying to con the ref is if the player looks to the ref and Bale never did or appealed from what I saw.....


Come on, we all know he's anticipating contact


Bale didnt appeal and wasn't he looking for a foul. I think some on here would rather he broke both his legs than move out of the way from dangerous tackles.


Bale did not "dive." He expected the goalie to clatter him.

lollerz

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

No further action for Van Persie, Huth or Tiote.

Ludicrous.

[GP]

#bunchoftwats

[Olivier's xmas twist]

No further action for Van Persie, Huth or Tiote.

Ludicrous.


:doh:

If RVP played for us he be banned for 5 games.

[Grebbo]

No further action for Huth?! Are you shitting me!

:lol:

[Ollie the Optimist]

not particually shocked that no action taken because hes a united player but i cant understand it. you can elbow a player in the face but its fine.

maybe cashley had it right after all

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Problem is when someone elbows a utd player like this, then they too must get away with it or the fa wil look more stupid then they do.

[Ollie the Optimist]

Problem is when someone elbows a utd player like this, then they too must get away with it or the fa wil look more stupid then they do.

brilliant. right 90th minute of our game against rvc, send frimpong on with one instruction. use your elbow to make sure that judas **** doesnt get up.


fa cant charge him as double standards. everyone wins

[GP]

brilliant. right 90th minute of our game against rvc, send frimpong on with one instruction. use your elbow to make sure that judas **** doesnt get up.


fa cant charge him as double standards. everyone wins

Well, he'll just get sent off.

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

No further action for Huth?! Are you shitting me!

:lol:

The assistant saw it (he was only about 10 yards away) but deemed it accidental.

I could understand it if he just said he didn't like Suarez, but there is no way that could have been accidental.

[Grebbo]

It was def deliberate, it was Bergkamp'esque just not as subtle.

Suarez should just say 'fuck em' and carry on diving to piss people off. When people start going mental he should just show his stud marks on his chest.

[Cripps_orig]

Would love Suarez here

[Dennis Bendtner]

I think it's brilliant a smaller club got a decision off a bigger one.

http://www.7msport.com/news/upload_img/20110418/he4.jpg

[Ollie the Optimist]

Well, he'll just get sent off.


yeah but it still means rvc is down with a broken face. its worth it

[Master Splinter]

Colin Murray must be The Son Of Pulis. Every week he praises them, no matter the result or the crimes against football and individual players they commit on the pitch. With cretins like him being the face/voice of football coverage in this country, there's no hope. One slight against Stoke and we get mass coverage of complaint letters, cap-dominated whinging and repeated replays of someone doing a tribe of trolls a wrong deed.

Fair football coverage would offer up Whitehead diving last season against Arsenal with no-one near him. They'd show replays of Crouch's many handballs and constant climbing on defenders despite being the offspring of a giraffe and an Ent. Most of all, they'd show the procession of cynical and dangerous challenges which the scumball team commit in every game, which probably outnumber the combined fouls committed by the rest of the teams in the League over a whole season.

Pandering to the agenda of a cancerous individual who is probably the worst person on Earth after Chris de Burgh rather than showing up how he is in fact a bigger cheat than any fancy, skilful, foreign Africa-denier shows where their twisted priorities lie. It will be fun seeing She-Ra and Hansen damning De Jong at the next World Cup while sagely advising England to play more like Brazil.

[Dennis Bendtner]

Nothing wrong with football coverage in this country.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2214503/Garth-Crooks-tips-James-Morrison-England.html

[Olivier's xmas twist]

I think it's brilliant a smaller club got a decision off a bigger one.

http://www.7msport.com/news/upload_img/20110418/he4.jpg

Pulis what a hypocritical peice of scum. Hope Stoke get relegated i really do. And those twats lilke Colin Murray who make excuses for Stoke and Pubis need to piss off.

At Least Durham even if he is a ****, can see right through Pubis and his team of Rugby ****s.

Oh and Garth Crooks :doh: Stick to what you know fella.