You’re kidding. (checks scores) you aren’t kidding.
I’ll second your BWA HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH!!!
It gets better. Wednesday’s goalkeeper was 19 years old and playing his fifth game with the first team.
Ye Gods! Talk about Spurs fans overreacting (as usual)! :rolleyes:
You do realise it’s the League Cup - the least important of the four tournaments competed in (after the Champions League, Barclays Premiership and F.A. Cup). For the top teams, it’s basically a competition for the reserve/youth team players. Of the team Arsenal fielded this evening, only two players are in their current first XI and two of the players who started were youth players who’d never even played a professional game before.
It’s a shame Arsenal are out, as the tournament offers an opportunity for youth/reserve players to get games/experience, but it’s hardly something for Spurs fans to crow over.
Of course, for the non-big teams, which include Spurs, the League Cup offers a realistic chance to win a trophy and Spurs did just that eight years ago (and note that it’s 55 years since Spurs last won the League and 25 years since they last won the main domestic cup competition, the F.A. Cup).
His return to Spain, to Real Sociedad (after Glasgow Rangers), was unsuccessful and then he faced the emergence of a young crop of world-class Spanish midfielders in Xavi, Alonso, Iniesta, Fabregas, Busquets etc.
Great? Chelsea have desperately missed their veteran stars. Cech most of all.
Mourinho yet again starts fast and collapses; almost a footie Hitler. If he loses this job which large club would hire him?
Unless they get relegated he won’t be sacked.
He has lost control of himself and his team. From his treatment of the Portuguese physio to his increasingly bizarre sideline behavior; he is no longer competent to run a big football club. I can’t remember a faster self inflicted fall. He has to go.
Oooh… Who’s a bit touchy then? Not interested in your club’s history?
Oh, and they also lost to a mid table Championship team after making a big deal of beating our reserves in the previous round.
He’s behaving like The ‘Special’ One…
He needs a break more than anyone I’ve ever known. If it were possible - it’s obv. not - I’d prescribe a month away.
Arsenal may well be the best team in England this year. I don’t like it, but it’s likely true. But they keep shooting themselves in the foot in hilarious ways, and I will keep making fun of them for it.
Oh and Gooners totally don’t care about Spurs. RIIIIGHT.http://m.101greatgoals.com/blog/social/arsenal-fans-claim-winning-at-spurs-all-that-matters-in-coc-run-tweets/
Looks like it’s the Man U supporters’ turn to lecture us about how unimportant the League Cup is.
In my haste to temper Spurs’ fans triumphalism at Arsenal’s exit from the League Cup yesterday, it slipped my mind who Arsenal had knocked out last month in the previous round of the competition. It was Spurs, of course! At their place no less, with a pair of collector’s item goals from Michael “The Flame Man” Flamini. 
I must defend the League Cup’s honour. The last two winners have been Chelsea and Man Sheikhy. The same which won the league itself that year.
Sure, it’s a trophy but it’s the least prestigious of the tournaments that Premier League sides will play in. Even the top teams’ second XIs are better than most other teams and often good enough to get them through to the semi-finals or finals, when they might field stronger sides.
I’m not aware of any other country having two domestic cup competitions in the way the English League has both the F.A. Cup and League Cup. There’s only so many games players can play and so priorities need to be made. For example, in their League Cup defeat a couple of days ago
Arsenal lost two important players through injury - Oxlade-Chamberlain and Walcott - the latter of whom’s loss is a huge blow ahead of Arsenal’s crucial upcoming Champions League away game against Bayern Munich, a game that really does matter. Arsene Wenger has already stated that he regrets fielding too many top players in the League Cup match.
Oh, and in my previous post I meant Mathieu Flamini, my mind having become discombobulated by Michael Flame’s parrot.
Another strong (in the second half at least) performance from the Gunners! Swansea 0-3 Arsenal!
Chelsea’s continued struggles are almost becoming too mundane to note. They lost again. The only notable thing was Mourwhingeho’s hilariously dick-headed press conference that followed it.
Surely that’s just as mundane, if not even more so, regardless of the result?
Did you see it? This one was kinda special.
Mundane? Do you know the meanining of the word? Chelsea and Jose’s meltdown gets more entertaining as every week passes…
Roman is going to dispatch Jose soon. Which is a pity as we’ll probably get some safe and dour type to run the club, but he really should stop sacking people right left centre.
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I’m not aware of any other country having two domestic cup competitions in the way the English League has both the F.A. Cup and League Cup. /QUOTE]
The Scottish League Cup predated it.
It’s always been regarded as a poor cousin of the F.A. Cup, but, for supporters of clubs like QPR, Swindon, Norwich, Oxford, Birmingham and Swansea it’s been a day out at Wembley and silverware in the trophy cabinet.
I know you would like to put an additional club on that list, but I would consider that to be Ungentlemanly Conduct.