This Weekend's Fixtures & Two Others. (05/06/07/08 May)

[Marc Overmars]

Come on Villa, hang in there.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Bolton should have put it to bed, great save by Foster though.

[Ernesto]

Didn't Ferguson once say that never in his own lifetime would City win the league again?

Is that alcoholic, red-nosed c*nt dying? :unsure:

Anyways, forget City. They've done us a bit of a favour today, as it happens. Come on the Villa, now :pray:

[Niall_Quinn]

Spuds always seem to have a man over even though they are a man light. Really poor stuff from Villa.

[Rors]

Piers Morgan ‏ @piersmorgan
Come on Villa, hang on. Just HANG ON.

[GP]

I have no idea what Merse is on about.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

I''m sick because we can forget about ever challenging for anything realistically with the current board and manager, we're also rans happy to be also rans....at the same time Man City have won the title, totally sickening.

True.

[Munchies]

Merse seems like a twat on the panel, and very much anti-Arsenal as he hates Wenger in charge .

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Bolton should have put it to bed, great save by Foster though.


They have now, Bolton 2 wba O jones OG

[Dennis Bendtner]

Bolton 2-0 WBA

Hope that means WBA are on holiday.

[GP]

Merse seems like a twat on the panel, and very much anti-Arsenal as he hates Wenger in charge .

Bitter because Wenger shipped him out.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Weimann off injured, Delfouneso on.

Man Utd: De Gea, Jones, Smalling, Ferdinand, Evra, Valencia, Carrick, Scholes, Young, Rooney, Hernandez.
Subs: Amos, Berbatov, Giggs, Park, Nani, Rafael Da Silva, Cleverley.

Swansea: Vorm, Rangel, Caulker, Williams, Taylor, Allen, Sigurdsson, Gower, Dyer, Graham, Sinclair.
Subs: Tremmel, Tate, Britton, Routledge, Monk, McEachran, Moore.

Referee: Chris Foy (Merseyside)

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Merse seems like a twat on the panel, and very much anti-Arsenal as he hates Wenger in charge .

Probs just drunk.

[GP]

Delphanonso?

Le Tiss :lol:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Merse seems like a twat on the panel, and very much anti-Arsenal as he hates Wenger in charge .

Chelsea supporter tbf.

[Niall_Quinn]

Arry having a major twitching session on the sideline.

[Joker]

Merse seems like a twat on the panel, and very much anti-Arsenal as he hates Wenger in charge .

He also said RVP didn't deserve the player of the year title because of his altercation with Caldwell against Wigan.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Bolton 2 WBA 1 Brunt.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Bolton 2-1 WBA. :wacko:

[Özim]

as he hates Wenger in charge .
He's got the right idea, what Arsenal fan wants that plank still in charge.

[Marc Overmars]

I'm going to have a shower, when I come back Villa will be in front.

[Dennis Bendtner]

Bolton 2-0 WBA

Hope that means WBA are on holiday.

Maybe not, 2-1 it is, Brunt

[Olivier's xmas twist]

He also said RVP didn't deserve the player of the year title because of his altercation with Caldwell against Wigan.

Probs just drunk.

[hobson's choice]

Pretty much, hollow achievement tbh. Well done Sheik you bought a trophy.

Seriously what world do people like you live in? OMG the team with the most money wins the title, what a shocker, that's never happen before, please. Enough with this nonsense.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

He's got the right idea, what Arsenal fan wants that plank still in charge.

Well merts supports Chelsea. :haha:

[Master Splinter]

A Villa bottle job was always on the cards when the Spuds went down to ten.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Seriously what world do people like you live in? OMG the team with the most money wins the title, what a shocker, that's never happen before, please. Enough with this nonsense.

Tell that to the whole nation then.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Come on Big 'Eck, do something exciting.

[Rors]

Is Le Tiss gutting a pig?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Chance for Villa. :(

[Munchies]

@piersmorgan

So just to clarify @WayneRooney @rioferdy5 @themichaelowen - as things stand, United & Arsenal will achieve exactly the same this season.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Is Le Tiss gutting a pig?

He's doing the Gary Neville.

[Niall_Quinn]

Seriously what world do people like you live in? OMG the team with the most money wins the title, what a shocker, that's never happen before, please. Enough with this nonsense.

Nah, it's never been compressed into such a small window and the transfer market has never been so badly destabilised. Not even the crook over at chavski was as bad as this. Their "achievement" won't count for anything, just like Blackburns - a non-event. The gypos in mancland might delude themselves but nobody else is fooled.

[Joker]

People talk about showing tactical nous and ability, well Mancini showed exactly that by bringing De Jong on for Nasri and putting Toure further forward. Sure, there's always a bit of luck when it comes to these decisions but he had the courage to take that decision, when many were claiming it was a defensive change, and it paid dividends in the end. I can't see Wenger doing something like this, he seems devoid of ideas when it comes to changing games. In the past he used to bring on Bendtner and stick him on the right, and hope for the best. That doesn't strike me as a manager who is tacticall astute.

[Rors]

Come on Big 'Eck, do something exciting.

<_< Has it really come to this? :lol:

[Munchies]

http://p.twimg.com/AsN7Z-rCMAE0MqD.jpg

[GP]

Come on Big 'Eck, do something exciting.

:lol: good one.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

People talk about showing tactical nous and ability, well Mancini showed exactly that by bringing De Jong on for Nasri and putting Toure further forward. Sure, there's always a bit of luck when it comes to these decisions but he had the courage to take that decision, when many were claiming it was a defensive change, and it paid dividends in the end. I can't see Wenger doing something like this, he seems devoid of ideas when it comes to changing games. In the past he used to bring on Bendtner and stick him on the right, and hope for the best. That doesn't strike me as a manager who is tacticall astute.

When I said Mancini was going for it, I was serious. It was Nasri coming off after all. It's much easier to be tactically astute though when you don't have a bunch of shitheads on your playing staff.

[Joker]

Seriously what world do people like you live in? OMG the team with the most money wins the title, what a shocker, that's never happen before, please. Enough with this nonsense.

Exactly, I don't get this excessive anti-Citeh hate. The team with the most money has won before, and in any case money by itself is never enough to win a league, you need to sign the right players, have the right manager who can organise them effectively, and ensure there's a winning mentality at the club so that in the crucial moments you have players who can deliver (like Yaya today and Kompany against Man Utd last week).

If we complain that City finishing top doesn't mean anything because of their wealth, well us finishing above Newcastle doesn't mean anything either since we're a much richer club than them.

[Niall_Quinn]

People talk about showing tactical nous and ability, well Mancini showed exactly that by bringing De Jong on for Nasri and putting Toure further forward. Sure, there's always a bit of luck when it comes to these decisions but he had the courage to take that decision, when many were claiming it was a defensive change, and it paid dividends in the end. I can't see Wenger doing something like this, he seems devoid of ideas when it comes to changing games. In the past he used to bring on Bendtner and stick him on the right, and hope for the best. That doesn't strike me as a manager who is tacticall astute.

Yeah, Mancini and city are great. Wenger is such a shit.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

People talk about showing tactical nous and ability, well Mancini showed exactly that by bringing De Jong on for Nasri and putting Toure further forward. Sure, there's always a bit of luck when it comes to these decisions but he had the courage to take that decision, when many were claiming it was a defensive change, and it paid dividends in the end. I can't see Wenger doing something like this, he seems devoid of ideas when it comes to changing games. In the past he used to bring on Bendtner and stick him on the right, and hope for the best. That doesn't strike me as a manager who is tacticall astute.

Good for Mancini well done to him, lets give him a blue peter badge for his achievment.

[Joker]

When I said Mancini was going for it, I was serious. It was Nasri coming off after all. It's much easier to be tactically astute though when you don't have a bunch of shitheads on your playing staff.

LOL true.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

It's all West Brom apparently.

Coyle. :doh:

[Niall_Quinn]

All spuds still, Villa can't keep hold of the ball at all.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Yeah, Mancini and city are great. Wenger is such a shit.

:gp:

Top class tbh.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Bale shoots, straight at Given.

Oh my days.

[Rors]

Don't do that pause after "shoots" Le Tiss. #palpitations

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Le Tiss predicts ten minutes 'Arry time.

[Xhaka Can’t]

People talk about showing tactical nous and ability, well Mancini showed exactly that by bringing De Jong on for Nasri and putting Toure further forward. Sure, there's always a bit of luck when it comes to these decisions but he had the courage to take that decision, when many were claiming it was a defensive change, and it paid dividends in the end. I can't see Wenger doing something like this, he seems devoid of ideas when it comes to changing games. In the past he used to bring on Bendtner and stick him on the right, and hope for the best. That doesn't strike me as a manager who is tacticall astute.

Exactly. I've been watching us closely all season and not once did Wenger bring De Jong on.

Fucking shameful.

[Niall_Quinn]

Villa time wasting - their most effective spell of the match so far. Not sure if he can string a fake injury out for 9 minutes though, but fingers crossed he can.

[hobson's choice]

Tell that to the whole nation then.

What exactly is your point, teams with the most money win, that's how it's always been, When we had the ability to pay players more than other teams barring United, we won titles, simple as that.

This professional sports, not amateur

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

Final Score is so shit.

No other way of putting it.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

The Zog is manning up. What a hero.

[Niall_Quinn]

McLeish and Arry are very chummy on the sidelines aren't they?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

QPR 1-0 Stoke, Cisse!!

[Marc Overmars]

10 minutes plus a lot of stoppage time left at Villa Park. :sick:

[Rors]

Oh fuckity.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Exactly. I've been watching us closely all season and not once did Wenger bring De Jong on.

Fucking shameful.

Absloutely disgracegul.

[Niall_Quinn]

The whore goes to fake an injury then jumps up to complain at the ref. LOL, what a tool.

[Marc Overmars]

Should make City vs QPR interesting next week. :popcorn:

[Olivier's xmas twist]

QPR 1-0 Stoke, Cisse!!

Blackburn down then.

[Master Splinter]

RPQ will at least give it a try at Citeh next week now.

Plus the Hughes factor, I suppose.

Come on United :scarf:.

[Joker]

Dear Villa,

Please hang on for the draw.

Yours Sincerely,

Joker.

[Gubby Allen]

Seriously what world do people like you live in? OMG the team with the most money wins the title, what a shocker, that's never happen before, please. Enough with this nonsense.

Liverpool were doing that all through the 1980s buying in Barnes, Houghton, McMahon, Beardsley, Aldridge etc who nobody else could afford.

Some teams have always had rich chairmen others haven't.

There's 100 different ways Man Utd sell themselves off like a prostitutes & bring in fans from every corner of the globe & the Glazers have hardly got their hands down the side of the sofa looking for a lost £2.

[Marc Overmars]

The final day is going to be mental with pretty much everything to be decided.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Corner to the Spuds. :(

[Rors]

Should make City vs QPR interesting next week. :popcorn:

Far too interesting. Considering Citeh will probably put Pantsilmon in goal

:(

[Master Splinter]

Kaboul playing wherever he wants. And they're down to ten men.

Villa :doh:.

[Gubby Allen]

WBA equalise

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Bolton 2-2 WBA, Morrison!

Great news for Rors!

[Rors]

YES West Brom

Roy :bow:

[Özim]

Yeah, Mancini and city are great. Wenger is such a shit.
Totally agree with the 2nd bit.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

VDV off, BSP on.

:unsure:

[Marc Overmars]

Coyle. :doh:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Charlie is being abused.

Crouchinho just missed a sitter!

[Gubby Allen]

Parker on to get a goal & not Defoe.:unsure:

[Niall_Quinn]

+6 mins at Villa. This is so dicey, Villa just can't keep the ball.

[Marc Overmars]

Bit of life in West Brom still then.

:unsure:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

QPR 1-0 Stoke, FT!

Wolves 0-0 Everton, FT.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Six added minutes at Villa Park.

:faint:

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

Fans on the pitch at QPR :lol:

[Marc Overmars]

Bolton need to win at Stoke next week or else they're gone.

[Dennis Bendtner]

Spuds have had 29 shots, six for Villa :sick:

[Rors]

I can't take much more of this.....

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Fans on the pitch at QPR :lol:

Would be hilarious if Sparky denies Citeh the title.

[Niall_Quinn]

Bale dive coming up?

[Olivier's xmas twist]

What exactly is your point, teams with the most money win, that's how it's always been, When we had the ability to pay players more than other teams barring United, we won titles, simple as that.

This professional sports, not amateur

My point was you picked on my post like i was the only person thinking it saying it, when it truth the whole nation is. I don't give a monkeys is City win the league. But i don't see it as an achievment other teams who have won the league and spent less.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Facepalm time. Hold out Villa for fuck sake.

[Niall_Quinn]

Bale kicks it out - gets a corner. Fucking shite officials.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Bolton 2-2 WBA, FT.

Coyle. :wave:

[Dennis Bendtner]

Ryo's going to have to do it on a cold day at the Britannia.

[Marc Overmars]

Ugh. How long left at Villa Park? :sick:

[Niall_Quinn]

Ugh. How long left at Villa Park? :sick:
1 min.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Fans on the pitch at QPR :lol:

Why are they safe?

[Rors]

BLOW THE SODDING WHISTLE.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

A minute to go.

[Master Splinter]

Clooney didn't even put Ryo on.

What a moran.

[Niall_Quinn]

30 seconds.

[GP]

BLOW THE WHISTLE!!

[Niall_Quinn]

Time up - no whistle yet.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Villa 1 Spuds 1 FT

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Villa 1-1 Spuds, FT! GET IN!

Villa. :bow:

Rors. :bow:

Ivanhoe. :bow:

[Gubby Allen]

Finished 1-1. Next weekend's scores starting to become clear how we've manipulated coming 4th again.

[Niall_Quinn]

FT 1-1

[Rors]

SAFE (realistically)

[Marc Overmars]

It's over!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

'Arry. :pal:

[Master Splinter]

Another draw for McLeish :bow:.

Cheers somewhat Villa, you useless bastards.

[Rors]

Villa 1-1 Spuds, FT! GET IN!

Villa. :bow:

Rors. :bow:

Ivanhoe. :bow:

Post Of The Season

[GP]

Villa are 100% safe now. Absolutely no chance of them going down.

No chance.

None.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

'Arry. :pal:

:lol:

[Niall_Quinn]

We are the luckiest bunch of lazy bottling bastards alive. 3 points against WBA SHOULD NOT be beyond us!

[Marc Overmars]

Get out of jail free cards. :bow:

[LDG]

Get the fuck in there!!!! Couldn't watch or listen to any of that.....had to get my brother to text me updates! :lol:


YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!

[Dennis Bendtner]

Back in our hands/butterfingers. :bow:

[Niall_Quinn]

Nice one Villa - thanks lads!

Arry you **** :haha:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

http://i46.tinypic.com/2h7hy6b.jpg

[Niall_Quinn]

Utd about to get underway.

[Marc Overmars]

Death by firing squad next week if we balls this up now.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

We are the luckiest bunch of lazy bottling bastards alive. 3 points against WBA SHOULD NOT be beyond us!

Pretty much.

[hobson's choice]

My point was you picked on my post like i was the only person thinking it saying it, when it truth the whole nation is. I don't give a monkeys is City win the league. But i don't see it as an achievment other teams who have won the league and spent less.

The nation is thinking this you are thinking this, because you are jealous. And tell that to those players who have worked their asses off, that this isn't an achievement.

This is life. I don't why know why sports is some exception to how the rest of life works. A company has a lot of money, they have the ability to get the most talent. Just like we did at one point. Get over it

[Olivier's xmas twist]

So they'll bottle it then.


Me :bow:


There's no chance Spurs won't take the 3 points at Villa.

Not now they know can leapfrog us.

Voodoo :bow:

[Gubby Allen]

Villa are 100% safe now. Absolutely no chance of them going down.

No chance.

None.

They'll be gone next year.

[Marc Overmars]

Me :bow:



Voodoo :bow:

:gp:

[Dennis Bendtner]

Stoke once again in the thick of the relegation battle on the last day. Wigan needed to win there last year, Bolton need it this year.

[GP]

Spurs :lol:

Desperate for a goal, they put on BSP.

'Arry is a fuckin twitch faced genius!

:haha:

[Xhaka Can’t]

The nation is thinking this you are thinking this, because you are jealous. And tell that to those players who have worked their asses off, that this isn't an achievement.

This is life. I don't why know why sports is some exception to how the rest of life works. A company has a lot of money, they have the ability to get the most talent. Just like we did at one point. Get over it

In that case - why bother with sports, we could just get our kicks watching the ftse 100.

You seem incredulous at peoples views, yet it is painfully obvious to just about everyone else that you are missing the point entirely. You arent even in the same town as the point.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

The nation is thinking this you are thinking this, because you are jealous. And tell that to those players who have worked their asses off, that this isn't an achievement.

This is life. I don't why know why sports is some exception to how the rest of life works. A company has a lot of money, they have the ability to get the most talent. Just like we did at one point. Get over it

Oh grow up Jealous of what i don't give a shit if City win the league or not, just telling it now it is. I have no reason to be jealous of them.

[Marc Overmars]

They'll be gone next year.

Hopefully.

:ninja:

[Niall_Quinn]

The nation is thinking this you are thinking this, because you are jealous. And tell that to those players who have worked their asses off, that this isn't an achievement.

This is life. I don't why know why sports is some exception to how the rest of life works. A company has a lot of money, they have the ability to get the most talent. Just like we did at one point. Get over it

Aint sport - that's why, with an outfit like city its commerce, nothing else. Winning the league to them is like a takeover bid, chuck the money and keep chucking it until you get what you want. Injuries, suspensions, even if their top striker goes walkabouts, doesnt affect them because they are not on the same playing field as anyone else. It's a nothing achievemnet and no credit goes to any of the mercenaries there.

That's what most people will think I;d say.

[Niall_Quinn]

So who are the biggest bottlers? Us, Utd or the spuds? We certainly have some hot competition this year.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Man Utd just need to aim for one goal every ten minutes (should be enough with Fergie time).

[Niall_Quinn]

I fancy Swansealona to get a result today.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

So who are the biggest bottlers? Us, Utd or the spuds? We certainly have some hot competition this year.

In this one season? Has to be Man Utd. They're the better team yet have had the more impressive fuck-up.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Aint sport - that's why, with an outfit like city its commerce, nothing else. Winning the league to them is like a takeover bid, chuck the money and keep chucking it until you get what you want. Injuries, suspensions, even if their top striker goes walkabouts, doesnt affect them because they are not on the same playing field as anyone else. It's a nothing achievemnet and no credit goes to any of the mercenaries there.

That's what most people will think I;d say.

Pretty much.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

So who are the biggest bottlers? Us, Utd or the spuds? We certainly have some hot competition this year.

UTD they were going for the league and being 8 points clear.

[Marc Overmars]

Come on United.

10-0 win, it's on.

[Gubby Allen]

We are the luckiest bunch of lazy bottling bastards alive.

It's about time we did away with the 'victoria concordia crescit' motto and put that into Latin for our new one.

[Syn]

:haha:Typical Germans.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Dyer goes for goal, curls over.

[Master Splinter]

Villa are 100% safe now. Absolutely no chance of them going down.

No chance.

None.

Villa lose at Norwich.

Stoke 0-16 Bolton.

Ryo :bow:.

[Dennis Bendtner]

Can still finish 6th :lol:

[Joker]

You've to go give some credit to the team who win the league. Spending money in itself doesn't guarantee you to win trophies. Teams like Lazio, Inter Milan and Real Madrid have spent money in the past but didn't achieve the sort of success they wanted to.

And this "mercenary" tag doesn't make sense either, most footballers are mercenaries. Sure, if you've got a homegrown players they're more likely to stick with you through thick and thin, but most clubs these days don't have many players who've developed from the academy, not just City.

[Niall_Quinn]

In this one season? Has to be Man Utd. They're the better team yet have had the more impressive fuck-up.

So we didn't even win that? That's just fucking great - zero season.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Can still finish 6th :lol:

:sick:

Come on Liverhoof.

[Rors]

Jack Wilshere ‏ @JackWilshere
We owe Villa players a big THANK YOU.....top man @Gards38 love you mate ;) #NorthLondonIsRed

[Niall_Quinn]

You've to go give some credit to the team who win the league. Spending money in itself doesn't guarantee you to win trophies. Teams like Lazio, Inter Milan and Real Madrid have spent money in the past but didn't achieve the sort of success they wanted to.

And this "mercenary" tag doesn't make sense either, most footballers are mercenaries. Sure, if you've got a homegrown players they're more likely to stick with you through thick and thin, but most clubs these days don't have many players who've developed from the academy, not just City.

We've moved on to the Utd game now - please post city cheerleading stuff in appropriate forum.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

15 minutes passed, Man Utd need two in the next five.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Arsenal midfielder Jack Wilshere tweets after Aston Villa 1-1 Tottenham: "We owe Villa players a big THANK YOU!"

Shut it Jack.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Jack Wilshere ‏ @JackWilshere
We owe Villa players a big THANK YOU.....top man @Gards38 love you mate ;) #NorthLondonIsRed

Jack just happy he may win the bet.


We've moved on to the Utd game now - please post city cheerleading stuff in appropriate forum.

:haha:

[Niall_Quinn]

15 minutes passed, Man Utd need two in the next five.

Depends how much added time, could be 30 minutes.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

1615: Aston Villa have now drawn 17 games this Premier League season. This is more than any other club this campaign and equals the most ever in a single 38-match season with Newcastle United (2003-04) and Villa themselves (2006-07).

Record breakers, history makers. :bow:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Jack just happy he may win the bet.



:haha:

:lol:

I missed Rors' post somehow.

[Niall_Quinn]

Shut it Jack.

If he's dead then I assume this "Jack" person on Twitter is an imposter, right?

[Özim]

Another get out of jail free, how f*cking lucky is Wenger...everyone seems to be bottling it.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Another get out of jail free, how f*cking lucky is Wenger...everyone seems to be bottling it.

Thts football.

[Niall_Quinn]

Will Utd get 11 pens if all 11 dive at the same time?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Evra shoots, Vorm saves. Rooney shoots, Vorm saves!

[McNamara That Ghost...]

If he's dead then I assume this "Jack" person on Twitter is an imposter, right?

It's probably Syn in disguise.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Will Utd get 11 pens if all 11 dive at the same time?

Ashley Young has his work well and truly cut out.

[Gubby Allen]

Aint sport - that's why, with an outfit like city its commerce, nothing else. Winning the league to them is like a takeover bid, chuck the money and keep chucking it until you get what you want. Injuries, suspensions, even if their top striker goes walkabouts, doesnt affect them because they are not on the same playing field as anyone else. It's a nothing achievemnet and no credit goes to any of the mercenaries there.

That's what most people will think I;d say.

Cantona ***ed off for half a season & had no effect.

The teams City are beating are doing the same. Chelsea have ploughed billions in, Liverpool have spent bonkers money in the last 12 months and on what? Man Utd have brought a decent player through in nearly 20 years, everyone there cost millions, nobody else has a chance buying the English players they have (not that you'd want half of them).

Even Spurs have spent a mystifying amount of millions in the last decade for having won one Carling Cup & a shitty little ground of 35,000. Where's that come from?

Only us & Newcastle have brought through or bought some reasonably decent talent.

It's magnified more with City as it's a Sheikh, but I don't see the difference with spending 85 million or 850 million. It's an obscene amounf of money either way.

Bar the fact they signed probaby the three most timid, gutless, spineless overrated tossers to have wore an Arsenal shirt, I'm no more put out by them winning it than the other 4 sides.

[Niall_Quinn]

Evra shoots, Vorm saves. Rooney shoots, Vorm saves!

And then Rooney uses their FB as a stepladder and moans when the ref blows. Rooney edging closer to the whole season without a booking mark.

[Syn]

Some of you need to rethink your definitions of 'bottling'. We bottled it yesterday. Spurs' recent collapse and their result today was just the result of playing a tough fixture. Travelling to Villa park has always been tough for good sides. Newcastle lost to the champions so you can't call that bottling it either.

Anyway, at least we know what we have to do now and there's only one team to cheer on: Come on Fulham!!

[Gubby Allen]

Evra shoots, Vorm saves. Rooney shoots, Vorm saves!

Excellent. That's 0.66 of a FFL point.

[Niall_Quinn]

It's magnified more with City as it's a Sheikh

We don't want their sort here.

[Niall_Quinn]

Some of you need to rethink your definitions of 'bottling'. We bottled it yesterday. Spurs' recent collapse and their result today was just the result of playing a tough fixture. Travelling to Villa park has always been tough for good sides. Newcastle lost to the champions so you can't call that bottling it either.

Anyway, at least we know what we have to do now and there's only one team to cheer on: Come on Fulham!!

Losing a 10 point gap was a bit of a bottlejob.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Tremors on the ground affecting the feed with Ashley Young near the pelanty area.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Man Utd 1-0 Swansea, Scholes!

It's on!

[Niall_Quinn]

1-0 UTD, scrambled sort of half shot deflection.

[Niall_Quinn]

Man Utd 1-0 Swansea, Scholes!

It's on!

If Scholes meant that it was a super cool piece of finishing. If he didn't then meh, lucky ****.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Hernandez flicks it wide. :doh:

[Joker]

Cantona ***ed off for half a season & had no effect.

The teams City are beating are doing the same. Chelsea have ploughed billions in, Liverpool have spent bonkers money in the last 12 months and on what? Man Utd have brought a decent player through in nearly 20 years, everyone there cost millions, nobody else has a chance buying the English players they have (not that you'd want half of them).

Even Spurs have spent a mystifying amount of millions in the last decade for having won one Carling Cup & a shitty little ground of 35,000. Where's that come from?

Only us & Newcastle have brought through or bought some reasonably decent talent.

It's magnified more with City as it's a Sheikh, but I don't see the difference with spending 85 million or 850 million. It's an obscene amounf of money either way.

Bar the fact they signed probaby the three most timid, gutless, spineless overrated tossers to have wore an Arsenal shirt, I'm no more put out by them winning it than the other 4 sides.

Exactly, what's the big difference between City and others who have spent a lot of money? I think the fact that City's owners are Arabs does have something to do with the extra hostility they face tbh.

[Niall_Quinn]

The Catalans from Swansea aren't passing so well today.

[Syn]

Losing a 10 point gap was a bit of a bottlejob.

Nah. They just used up all their rubbish fixtures and a series of tough fixtures remaining. The league table wasn't at all representative when they were 10 points clear having to travel to ours, chelsea's, Liverpool etc. I can only remember one match recently that they shouldve won (on paper) and we just dropped points in the very same one.

I don't really care. As long ad fulham get a point next week it's all good.

[Niall_Quinn]

Exactly, what's the big difference between City and others who have spent a lot of money? I think the fact that City's owners are Arabs does have something to do with the extra hostility they face tbh.

Yeah, anyone who says anything against them is a racist - you already did that one but double-bubble is okay when you can get it.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Exactly, what's the big difference between City and others who have spent a lot of money? I think the fact that City's owners are Arabs does have something to do with the extra hostility they face tbh.

I think it's more that their wages exceed their turnover by an insane amount that fuels it, personally.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Should be eight goals from that one passage of play.

[Niall_Quinn]

Nah. They just used up all their rubbish fixtures and a series of tough fixtures remaining. The league table wasn't at all representative when they were 10 points clear having to travel to ours, chelsea's, Liverpool etc. I can only remember one match recently that they shouldve won (on paper) and we just dropped points in the very same one.

I don't really care. As long ad fulham get a point next week it's all good.

So it just means they are in our shadow for bottling it too - forever in our shadow, we are building a team for the future.

[Niall_Quinn]

Young gets warmed up...

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Dyer.

How apt.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Rooney curls it high and wide. :lol:

[Niall_Quinn]

Valencia eyes up a shot and drills it at the bloke standing right in front of him.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp: "Danny is not a nasty tackler, he's a good player, a good little footballer. I didn't know whether [Charles] N'Zogbia pushed him into the challenge. I'll have to look at it again.

"We dominated the second half but we couldn't get the second goal. It's all to play for next week there are so many permutations.

"If we'd won today we'd have taken Newcastle and Chelsea out of the equation so we wanted three points but you can't always have what's ideal.

"Once you go down to 10, five minutes into the second half, you'll take a point all day long. I thought we put a real shift in I couldn't have asked for any more."

:arry:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Jones. :lol:

At least Wenget missed out to our benefit that time.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Man Utd 2-0 Swansea, Ashley Young!

[Master Splinter]

Jones. :lol:

At least Wenget missed out to our benefit that time.

Smalling hasn't been much better.

Appears Maldini-esque compared to The Next Scott Parker though.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Smalling hasn't been much better.

Appears Maldini-esque compared to The Next Scott Parker though.

Smalling does look like he can defend to some extent, although he was asleep for Kompany's run on Monday.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

2-0 HT.

[Marc Overmars]

8 more needed in the 2nd half.

It's on.

[Niall_Quinn]

Frantic bidding between utd and city going on at ht apparently. Foy has mere minutes to pick an offer and go with it.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Jones. :haha:

Britton came on for Gower.

[Master Splinter]

Chelsea could still get third if they win their last two games and those above them don't.

http://www.digitaldreammachine.com/blogimages/ddm/Deere950cBulldozerPhoto02.jpg

:bow:

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Sigurdsson goes for goal from distance, De Gea saves it but hardly convincingly.

[Niall_Quinn]

Young was a bit slow there.

[Niall_Quinn]

For those of you who like to keep up with these things, I have now moved over to posting from my iPad.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Interesting.

Also, Man Utd might have to settle for a 9-0 win now.

[Niall_Quinn]

Rooney is still the fairest and most disciplined player in the league, no sign of a card. He's a great example to young kids, tbf.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Hernandez misses a sitter.

[Niall_Quinn]

Chihuahua heads over from point blank range.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

De Gea. :yikes:

Just about recovered.

[Niall_Quinn]

Shot from graham, De Gash just about stops it.

[Niall_Quinn]

More mad scrambles in Swansealonas box.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Dyer. :haha:

[Niall_Quinn]

Anywhere between 30 minutes to 2 days for Utd to get 8 more.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Cleverley coming on.

Citeh. :rose:

[Niall_Quinn]

Utd readying subs, looks like Cleverley for Valencia and Dowd for Foy.

[Niall_Quinn]

Cleverley for Scholes in fact.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Good save from De Gea on Sigurdsson's freekick.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Rooney gets his first yellow card!

:faint:

[Niall_Quinn]

ROONEY YELLOW CARD

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Dyer off, Luke Moore on.

[Niall_Quinn]

This is why the PL is simply the best in the world, literally ANYTHING can happen, no matter how unlikely.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Rooney. :haha:

Should be 3-0.

[Niall_Quinn]

Horrible miss from Wayne.

[Niall_Quinn]

Spanish crowd taunting Utd, "fuck all, you're going to in fuck all..."

[Niall_Quinn]

Fascinatingly boring game of football, 13 mins plus stoppage time to go.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Rooney hauled off, Berbatov on.

[Niall_Quinn]

Berbatov on waynetta off. RvPs golden boot looks good.

[Niall_Quinn]

In the swashbuckling days of Ronaldo, Giggs and Graham Poll Utd would e doing the business, as it is this team is watching the season fade out and they can't do anything about it.

[Master Splinter]

RvPs golden boot looks good.

I prefer Dennis Bendtner's pink one.

[Niall_Quinn]

I prefer Dennis Bendtner's pink one.

Stupid homo.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Fletcher has no friends.

[Niall_Quinn]

Sky bods lamenting fletchers absence, they would ave won easily if that clog dancer had only been fit.

[Niall_Quinn]

Fletcher has no friends.

They are busy commentating on the match.

[Niall_Quinn]

Crowd with a rousing rendition of 10 Hombres went to mow.

[Niall_Quinn]

Ferdinand looks like he's lost a 5p piece, crawling over the pitch. Hopefully he has insurance.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Rio and Smalling competing to see who is the most injured.

[GP]

I'm beginning to think they're not going to do it.

[Niall_Quinn]

Board goes up, 521 minutes injury time.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Rafael. :lol:

Ah well they'll just have to aim for 0-12 against Sunderland. Should be easy enough.

[Niall_Quinn]

Raphael safely guides the latest Utd attack into touch.

[Marc Overmars]

Fergie fucked up by not starting Valencia last week.

[Niall_Quinn]

Ashley Young MOTM despite lack of penalties.

[Niall_Quinn]

Fergie fucked up by not starting Valencia last week.

Letting Poll go was a major mistake.

[Niall_Quinn]

Utd need about 20 goals in the next 30 seconds, considering what shitty will do to QPR.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Man Utd 2-0 Swansea, FT.

Sir Chris Hoy must have tripped over with the whistle in his mouth.

[Niall_Quinn]

FT, 2-0, shitty take delivery of their purchase.

[Marc Overmars]

Can't wait for next Sunday. :popcorn:

Wonder how Sky are going to bill it, with the title, CL spots and relegation to be decided.

[Rors]

Fergie's cutting a promo again...

[hobson's choice]

Aint sport - that's why, with an outfit like city its commerce, nothing else. Winning the league to them is like a takeover bid, chuck the money and keep chucking it until you get what you want. Injuries, suspensions, even if their top striker goes walkabouts, doesnt affect them because they are not on the same playing field as anyone else. It's a nothing achievemnet and no credit goes to any of the mercenaries there.

That's what most people will think I;d say.

Please tell me when the playing field has ever been even in the professional world in any industry?

[Niall_Quinn]

Please tell me when the playing field has ever been even in the professional world in any industry?

Never. But there's tipping it by a few degrees and then there's tipping it on its side.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Fergie's cutting a promo again...

I'll catch up with after food.

As good as Fergie defending the honour of the refs on Monday?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Can't wait for next Sunday. :popcorn:

Wonder how Sky are going to bill it, with the title, CL spots and relegation to be decided.

Survivificationle Sunday.

[Rors]

If City win 7-6, and United 9-0, then that would result in a playoff for the title... :popcorn:

[hobson's choice]

Oh grow up Jealous of what i don't give a shit if City win the league or not, just telling it now it is. I have no reason to be jealous of them.

You obviously are, saying that them winning is not an achievement just reeks of petty jealously. Because those players regardless of how much money they make, they've put in the work to accomplish their goal.

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

I may be in the minority, but come in Citeh!

Not all that surprising though really.

[hobson's choice]

In that case - why bother with sports, we could just get our kicks watching the ftse 100.

You seem incredulous at peoples views, yet it is painfully obvious to just about everyone else that you are missing the point entirely. You arent even in the same town as the point.

Because it entertains us, that's why.

And i'm incredulous, because they don't have a point.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

You obviously are, saying that them winning is not an achievement just reeks of petty jealously. Because those players regardless of how much money they make, they've put in the work to accomplish their goal.

You don't know me that well to make stupid statments like that so please don't. i have no reason to be jealous of city and if you think that more fool you.


Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson believes the transfer market has become 'insane' due to the spending power of clubs like Manchester City.

Backed by their wealthy owners, City have spent a fortune on players including Sergio Aguero, David Silva and Carlos Tevez in recent seasons.

That has made it difficult for other clubs, including United, to compete for Europe's top talent.

"Nobody can match their financial power, no one," Ferguson said


http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11667/7734536/Fergie-We-can-t-match-spending

Does this mean he is making excuses or is jealous.

[Olivier's xmas twist]

Fergie fucked up by not starting Valencia last week.

Nah he'll be ok still has the refs and hughes on his side, this title race is far from over, you never count UTD out till they are mathmatically out, never they always find away.

[Xhaka Can’t]

So we didn't even win that? That's just fucking great - zero season.


You clearly weren't paying attention during yesterday's 'Groundsman of the Year' presentation.