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English Premier League thread

ALAIN said:
Robinson showed to Foster who is the number one English goalkeeper:lol:
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Did he??? No he did not...
This was a freak goal after a freak mistake by Foster...freak mistakes happen, remember Croatia...i defended Robinson after that one, now i defend Foster.
Great young goal keeper...
Nobody speaks about Mido's miss...why???

Good reaction of Foster's maanger too, he defended him...
 
ya funny goal, awkward bounce, but he made some very good saves afterwards...foster, carson, great future england keepers.
 
Last team to win at Highbury.
First team to win at the Emirates.

Same ol' West Ham... taking the piss
Same ol' West Ham... taking the piss \\:o/
 
well done Hammers!:applause: it won't be easy until the end but you can definitely do it!

ps where was Harewood?Injured?Dropped??
 
Good win by the Hammers, but they were lucky to win...their GK played a fantastic match (which has nothing to do with luck, but with skill) and Arsenal missed quite a lot of chances...

It seems Pearce wants Emile Mpenza for next season at Man City too...well i hope that Emile can finally play one or two seasons without injuries...he has or had the potential to be one of the best strikers in Europe but he never fullfilled all his promisses...had a couple of good seasons with Schalke but then he always got injured when he was playing well...this is bound to happen at Man City too...

Wigan face a difficult end of the season...
Man Utd is will now beginning to feel the pressure and i'm not quite so sure anymore that they will win the title...United are the more talented team but Chelsea have more mature players who have proven to be pressure-proof...
 
ALAIN said:
well done Hammers!:applause: it won't be easy until the end but you can definitely do it!

ps where was Harewood?Injured?Dropped??
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Dropped mate.
Zamora has been in very good form and works well with Tevez.
They have 7 goals in 4 games now.

Sheff Utd next game and then after Chelsea, we will take 5,200 to Wigan away which will be more like a home game for us \\:o/

Come on you irons!!
 
steevio_uk said:
Dropped mate.
Zamora has been in very good form and works well with Tevez.
They have 7 goals in 4 games now.

Sheff Utd next game and then after Chelsea, we will take 5,200 to Wigan away which will be more like a home game for us \\:o/

Come on you irons!!
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Strange,i've always rated him as a very good striker
the Wigan game will be the key,if you win this one i'm sure you gonna stay up(i would prefer to see you don't go down as it always great games when you play chelsea,booing Lampard etc...:lol:)
my wish list to go down=wigan(hate E.Heskey and i don't understand a word when paul jewell does an post-match interwiew during match of the day:lol: )
sheffield united(N.Warnock is funny but piss me off)
watford(nothing special against them)
 
Harewood is the type of player that has pace, power and on his day is practically unstoppable.
But when he is not on his best form, he is pretty ordinary.

I'd like Wigan, Watford and Fulham to go down as I prefer clubs with proper fans rather than the lot who bring thundersticks and play music after a goal and in Wigan's case, barely get 20,000 for their games.
Would like to see West Brom and Sunderland come up as they both have great sets of fans and West Brom are probably the best fans to have been to Upton Park in the last few years.
 
ALAIN said:
i think West Ham you're done:( :(
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Not over yet, despite it being very tough.

We have Chelsea midweek, which I'm sure we can rule out for points.
But we have Everton at home next saturday and hopefully can pick up 3 points.

If we do, then we go to Wigan the week after and if we beat them I reckon we'll go above them as I don't see them picking up points from Spurs or Liverpool in their next 2 games.

Likelyhood is we'll be above Charlton and Sheff Utd too.
But as I say, it's hard as well as improbable, but ask me after Everton and i'll have a better opinion.
Ask me after Wigan and i'll know for sure ;)
 
West Ham has lost too many matches against other relegation candidates...
Another great goal by Matthew Taylor.
 
Not entirely sure to be honest... I imagine some do.

Is a bit of a strange question that mate, but they have always had plenty of Hammers fans travel with them around the UK often resulting in the odd 'altercation' :lol:
 
I saw them a few times when I was a kid. One of my mates was a hammers fan and if they were playing near Manchester I usually went with him. I'd often see Barney (Barney and the rubbles), etc.
I still listen to the Rejects a lot. Oi Oi Oi
 
I lived in mile End for a short time in the early 80's(Bowcommon Lane) but as I was a Man Utd fan it was a bit dangerous. Happy times though.

Good luck for tomorrow.
 
marukomu said:
I lived in mile End for a short time in the early 80's(Bowcommon Lane) but as I was a Man Utd fan it was a bit dangerous. Happy times though.

Good luck for tomorrow.
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Cheers mate.
If Chelsea weren't chasing you, those best wishes would mean more :lol: ;)
 
What a sad state our league is in now. It's got to a point that if you lose two or three games to a team from outside the top four, you've had it. People are saying United have blown it because they DREW at home with Middlesboro. Nobody expects Chelsea to drop any points and it would be a small shock if they did. (They still have to play teams that are in 4th, 5th and 6th plus United). Liverpool and maybe Arsenal will maybe come into it next season but what about all the rest?
 
marukomu said:
What a sad state our league is in now. It's got to a point that if you lose two or three games to a team from outside the top four, you've had it. People are saying United have blown it because they DREW at home with Middlesboro. Nobody expects Chelsea to drop any points and it would be a small shock if they did. (They still have to play teams that are in 4th, 5th and 6th plus United). Liverpool and maybe Arsenal will maybe come into it next season but what about all the rest?
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Oh no! They're, what, four points ahead now? That will make all the difference! That's it gone! Chelsea are going to win the league now, despite United's superior goal difference AND the fact that Chelsea can cut the lead to a single point!

I agree with Marukumo. I don't support any Premiership team, so I find all the hype about Chelsea and United. Look, one of them is going to win. It's probably United. Deal with it.
 
Drgoba has made it into the team of the season along with Gerrard and Berbatov.:) The rest are all United players.

Ronaldo aslo won player and young player of the season awards.:)
 
If I had one wish at the moment, it would be to get back that 90mins of my life last night back. That was absolute dross.

Fair enough there was a lot of reserves playing, however 1/2 hour later Seville with an almost complete reserve team came up with some fantastic football.

Serious question, how did Kalou make it into professional football?


FD
 
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Oliver Holt: Why are our footballers so stupid?
As £8k-a-week players are caught stealing from handbags, our Chief Sports Writer gives his verdict.
By Oliver Holt 10/03/2008

English footballers are not born stupid. It just creeps up on them gradually.
It has got to the point now where our professional leagues look like a shelter for refugees from a convention of village idiots.
The latest embarrassment came this weekend when it was revealed by the Sunday Mirror that two £8,000-aweek Southampton players laughed and joked as they looted handbags of low-paid nightclub barmaids.
Bradley Wright-Phillips and Nathan Dyer are nobodies - a footnote at the bottom of football's lengthening rap-sheet.
Their significance is that they are part of an epidemic of irresponsibility sweeping through the game.
The thing is, a footballer has to be bright and well-grounded to resist being seduced by the non-stop indulgence that surrounds him.
A few - Gary Neville and Frank Lampard are prominent examples - achieve it. Most do not.
Part of the problem is that people are scared of them. Scared of losing the human gold ingot. So nobody says no to them. Nobody contradicts them. Nobody tells them what is right and wrong.
The heady cocktail of youth and millionaire wages adds up to one rule in the lives of many of today's footballers: Anything Goes.
I know of several Premiership players who drove, or still drive, high-performance cars without insurance. Or even a licence.
Remember Glen Johnson, Portsmouth and England player? A little over a year ago, he went into a B&Q in Dartford, Kent, to buy some bathroom fittings.
Except a guard spotted him putting a toilet seat into a box with a cheaper price tag. Johnson also hid a set of taps underneath a sink at the check-out to avoid paying for them. The police fined him £80.
"He seemed to find the whole thing quite funny," a store worker said. "He couldn't stop smirking even after he had been arrested."
Same thing happened with Wright-Phillips. When confronted with the fact that his client had watched mates steal from handbags, the player's agent, Stuart Peters, said: "We're very relaxed about this."
Same when Manchester United and England defender Rio Ferdinand missed a drugs test, supposedly because he forgot about it and went shopping.
United didn't condemn him or even admit that he made a mistake. They tried to smear the drug-testers instead. Then they tried to blame the FA for inconsistent punishments.
Many experts are beginning to believe that this failure by players to take responsibility is one of the deeper-seated reasons for England's under-achievement over the past 40 years. And the problem is only going to get worse. Agents circle promising players well before they reach their teens. They are taken out of mainstream education and into the clubs' academy system.
And then they grow up in football's bubble where it's way too easy to become a pampered, puerile monster. I went to Blackburn Rovers' training ground a couple of weeks ago to speak to their manager, the former United striker Mark Hughes.
He talked about how dismayed he was at the level of pampering of young players in the academy system. They are no longer allowed to clean the boots of senior players in the way that Hughes did when he was a junior at Old Trafford.
Hughes felt that this stopped a young player gaining an idea of the hierarchy and robbed him of respect for the senior players.
"They get too much way too soon," he said.
If you've been involved in football, sooner or later you hear the pick of the stories that this sheltered environment engenders.
The United footballer who thought he needed a passport to get into Wales.
Members of the England Under-21 team who cracked jokes when they were shown around Auschwitz.
The England player who forgot his passport before the team left for a match against Austria last year and delayed the flight by two hours. The goalkeeper who bought a new car every time he got a scratch on his current one.
The depressing thing is that often clubs stop even the bright players from expressing themselves, so paranoid and protective have they become.
Recently, I spoke to the United and England midfielder Owen Hargreaves, who grew up in Canada and played for Bayern Munich for 10 years and is, therefore, more rounded and selfassured than the average English footballer.
It's the same, normally, with the Dutch and French. They are given more responsibility by their clubs at home with the result that they seem like philosopher kings beside their timid English colleagues.
Hargreaves is more than capable of holding his own with journalists but United's public relations machine curtailed the interview after 20 minutes, apparently petrified he'd say the wrong thing.
It was symptomatic of trends that even have many forward-thinking managers tearing out what's left of their hair. "To be a manager," Derby County boss Paul Jewell is fond of saying, "you've got to be a boss, a friend, a money lender, a marriage guidance counsellor. The only thing you haven't got to be is a gynaecologist. But then again, you are dealing with c**** every day."
Plenty of players are better than that - men to be admired. But until people around them and the clubs give them back responsibility for their own lives, this tide of shame will continue to swamp English football.
THE VILLAGE IDIOTS XI
MICAH RICHARDS
The Man City defender filmed himself and a pal having sex with a teenage girl.
ASHLEY COLE
The Chelsea star cheated on wife Cheryl with hairdresser Aimee Walton.
BRADLEY WRIGHT-PHILLIPS
Striker kept lookout as pals looted barmaids' bags at a club.
GLEN JOHNSON
Portsmouth fullback was fined £80 for switching price on a toilet seat in B&Q.
TIM CAHILL
Everton player marked a goal with a show of solidarity for his jailed brother.
ASHLEY YOUNG
Aston Villa winger was caught pleasuring himself live on the internet.
ROBBIE FOWLER
The Liverpool star mimed sniffing drugs off a white line on the pitch during a game.
JOEY BARTON
He went to anger classes after stories he attacked a 15-year-old Everton fan.
CRAIG BELLAMY
Known as "Nutter with the Putter" after allegedly attacking a teammate with a golf club.
KIERON DYER
The Newcastle player was in a sex video, in Ayia Napa, that got on to the web.
MARK BOSNICH
Was banned from football for nine months after failing a drugs test in 2002.
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Haha that is funny but I've noticed that you can't HELP but dig at English football on these forums yet complain when I do about Italian football. Pot calling the kettle black anyone? ;)
 
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