Do the gooners have the title in the bag, or will the meeting of l’Arse and Man U later this month be very important indeed?
Well done Boro, hope it was worth the 128 year wait.
Celtic romp to 16 points clear in the SPL, and are now 25 matches unbeated (24 wins on the trot).
Rivaldo looks tied up dried up and dead to the world now that Cruizeros tear up his contract. What next?
Good man, Twisty McTwist! If I had had to continue that Garth Crooks/butterfly epithet any further I think I would have plumbed the very depths of my psyche.
As it is, on this glorious St David’s Day, I will post only a host of yellow daffodils and be done with it.
ZZZZZZ
I can’t see l’Arse losing it again after learning from last season; the Scum are definitely missing Beckm.
Ditto the Bhoys - great to see our sister club going well, although there will be payback if we meet again in the UEFA. Otherwise you will indeed never walk alone, unless we scoot off with your manager like a flat-screen telly (scousers always used to nick videos - how times change).
Well done Boro - your fans were a credit on Saturday night/Sunday here as well. Rivaldo to Bolton as a consolation prize.
And what’s this? Old Sepp up to his old tricks again!
I actually agree with him:Cut the Prem to 18 teams and no replays in the League Cup. Keep replays in the FA Cup, since it provides a genuine cash injection to lower teams. Will the Prem vote for him? No chance.
Due to the six teams above us not being able to win this past weekend, Spurs now – almost – have their European chances within treir own destiny. Which presumably means we’re due a run of bad form – actually, the boys have all been out in Dubai for some warm weather training (always handy at this time of year) and we look to be just about injury free !
But still no game for eight days. This is silly.
So, it was a non-league Saturday at home to The Met Police; four goals, a sending off, a last minute penalty save, a disallowed goal and the handbags were out twice – second time the lino almost got lamped as well.
Outstanding value for six quid and Her Maj’s boys should be proud of themselves.
Oh, it ended 2-2.
Damn, I’m enjoying this non-league season !
No offence SentientMeat but we ain’t your sister club.
Funny, I see Celtic paraphenalia in abundance all over Anfield. I myself used to own a wooly hat comprising two halves; Liverpool and Celtic.
Perhaps one sister just doesn’t want to know the other; surly chip-shouldered Jocks and all that.
Sorry about John Barnes.
By that logic, Man U and Everton should be our “sister clubs” too. You see the difficulty. And every Celtic fan I know who’s spent much time in Liverpool has found a substantial percentage of your supporters to favour the darkside (which wouldn’t be true of Man U or Everton, for whatever that’s worth).
If we do have a sister club, it’s St Pauli of Hamburg.
I didn’t know King Kenny played for the Scum, and it’s been a while since I heard them toffees singing anything from Carousel. Johnny-come-latelys if ever I saw them, as woudl be those Hun-inclined Liverpool fans you speak of.
Well, what the hey. If no such bond exists, it will assuage any guilt in the event that MON chooses us over other Prem clubs.
I’m not sure what you’re getting at here. Dalglish was a superb player for us but he (a) left us, (b) did a spell as a scout for TFOD, (c) spent his mercifully brief tenure in Celtic management playing golf while our club went to hell and then (d) sued us. So you’re barking way up the wrong tree if you’re trying to use him as evidence of some kind of bond.
Don’t think so as in fact some of the testimony I’ve heard about Liverpool huns comes from people who attended games at Anfield years ago. One described the atmosphere back in the 1960s as “comparable to anything you’d hear at Ibrox”.
I think you will find that most Celtic fans don’t particularly care whether you have any guilt, and certainly wouldn’t get any consolation out of the fact that it was Liverpool he was going to.
But again, no offence intended.
None taken, merely a brief but all-too-familiar feeling of sadness that the world of football is a less friendly place. Hey ho.
I wish to stress that my strong feelings on the subject have nothing whatsoever to do with the fact that my wallet disappeared from my handbag as I was drinking in a pub full of Liverpool fans just before the first leg of our UEFA Cup tie.
I’m not making an anti-Scouser joke, this really did happen.
It’s friendly enough in non-league. To be honest, the older I get, the more I prefer it; far more amusing and warm and civilised. And you come away feeling a little more positive about human nature. Been a long time since that happened watching the Prem.
We blame Kenny for that one.
Did Cruzeiro let him go? My understanding from this article was that he walked out after they fired Luxemburgo.
I still can’t comprehend what’s happened to his career–why did he have such a hard time at Milan (where he was usually relegated to the bench, if that)? Was his ego just too big to fit with the rest of the team?
I get the feeling he’ll end up shuffling around from one Brazilian side to the next, kind of like Edmundo (“the Animal”) has done since his own ego problems in Italy.
We have a sister club - Ajax (and in Scotland we have close links to Aberdeen at a hoolie level).
So if you see red and white flags at THFC that’s who it is, Ajax. We arrange exchange visits, although Amsterdam is a better destination that Haringey, but we do what we can (a lot less since the Pleasure Rooms closed).
It goes back to the Jewish thing and a mutual loathing for Feyernord.
And those gooners eh? Beyond parody.
http://www.arsenal-world.co.uk/news/loadnews.asp?cid=TMNW&id=144139
Non League is brilliant - especially with kids, mine love it at AFC Wimbledon and they get to meet the players etc. I’d be happy enough if they end up as AFC fans (we live in Chelsea heartland, so anything but that is preferrable).
Winchester City are favourites to win the FA vase you know.
Owl - who has played in the Arthurian League for OWs. Now that’s a non league with class, and where else can you get to play a team that’s won the FA cup (OEs), and beat them? And the results are in the Times.
Now the league restructuring is definitely going ahead, it’s looks very likely my boys will be playing AFC next season. Look forward to a couple of nice days out.
Yep, having a drink with the players is a stark contrast . . . I dunno, I still think of non-league and the Prem as two different kinds of theatre; like pub theatre and the West End both have their strong points and their down sides and neither is ‘better’ (whatever that means) than the other - you just go with what you fancy.
As I say, the older I get, the more fun, the more plain entertaining, non-league seems to become . . .
AFC are running away with the Combined Counties league - not sure where they go next - Ryman?
After all they get crowds of 4,000 at a tenner a pop, they should move up pretty quick.
Oh yes, AFC will go through the leagues in no time with 4,000.
It really is far too complicated to explain - you need a coiuple of hours, really. This guy does a remarkable job, though, of giving the gist of the restructuring:
This is the summay page. To make it all make sense, is itself no small achievement:
Good god that’s hard work!
Looks to me that AFC would go into one of the Southern Leagues (Presumably East).
I daren’t ask - but where does the Screwfix fit in with all this? It seems to have been missed out entirely.
There was a certain amount to be said for re-election committees in smoky rooms. (although they were vulnerable to corruption as was proved in 1919 when a certain team bribed there way into the first Division.)
Nightmare, isn’t it ? Amazing piece of work, though – he also updates the non-leage tables after the results on a Saturday before anyone else.
They use their ‘proper’ non sponsored names (‘Isthmian’ rather than ‘Ryman’, ‘Southern Prem’ rather than ‘Doc Martins’, etc) and I don’t know which the Screwfix is – out west somewhere, isn’t it ? You can work it out from the navigation links on the home page:
http://www.tonykempster.btinternet.co.uk/
Yep, given AFC will be promoted, I make it they’ll be in the Southern League Eastern Division with my (Rymans Div One South mid table) lot.
In theory, I like the restructuring; rational, more local-ish derby’s, more competitive, simpler (vertical) stucture. Been a dogs breakfast for decades.