Mmm. I agree with Owl. You’ve got to sell Owen and get rid of Houllier. There comes a point where it doesn’t get better, it only gets worse. I know you’re not a sacking club, but it’s time to drop some very big hints to uncle Gerard.
My lot found some fight and determination from somewhere and actually won a game. Shame it seems to have taken “the events at La Manga” to give players a kick up the arse.
I hope we can get Sir Les to stay on another year. Any other ageing ex-spurs players we can have?
re the cricket - I put the telly on yesterday afternoon to see the hilarious sight of seven slip fielders. Seven! And we took WI for less than fifty. How the hell did that happen? Surreal. Bizarre.
BREAKING NEWS: Leeds are saved. Senior debt settled at 20p in the pound, junior creditors told to go whistle for it.
Still not out of the woods yet, as they have to reschedule some long term debt, and pass League rules (given that they are likely to be in div 1 next year).
Glad to see so many of us have coughed up the pint-of-Stella’s-worth to keep the Footy Focus threads out of administration. Come on L_C, your round!
Anyway, superb display by Celtic last night. 1-0 at home and 0-0 at the Bernabau, just like Liverpool on their way to winning it 3 years ago. Perhaps that’s a good omen.
As for Liverpool themselves, well, that’s the season over in terms of any possible joy. Now all we can do is avoid abject misery.
What the hell is Igor Biscan doing in a red shirt? After failing in midfield, Houllier sticks him in central defence to try and prove he wasn’t a waste of £5m. Gerard is now “on tilt” (in gambling parlance), making evermore rash bets on Biscan which are returning worse and worse results. Like the gambling addict who realises he has nothing left to bet and leaves the casino, the time has come for Houllier to cut his losses, call the hapless Igor into his office, and regretfully but purposefully set about his legs with a piece of scaffolding.
Got home late last night after having watched the Celtic game (unfortunately back ‘home’ in Gothenburg) and planned on posting, however, soon realized that I guess I should subscribe (probably a good thing anyway, since I was a little drunk. Anyway, here I am now.
What a result! 0-0 at Nou Camp. What a performance from Marshall. Hoping to see more of him in the future. Perhaps Celtic’s keeper problem is a thing of the past (well, one can hope…).
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Care to update your odds manwithaplan?
Just got my order in for tickets to the final as well. (Although, I have a final exam in Glasgow the next day…we’ll see how that works out). I know its still a long way to go, but, some optimism is always good (and then there’s always eBay if I can’t go…).
Anyway, yay me for my first real post after months of lurking… Hi, everyone! (or at least hi to all of you who follow football and are reading this thread…)
Marshall should have his squad number changed to 1 immediately.
He had a fine game. In fact, everyone did, even Miller. Agathe put in another sterling performance. He could have been strolling around smoking a cigar, he was that confident.
Kennedy and Varga were stopped at the airport, and had their back pockets searched for Ronaldino.
Are there any Celtic fans here who actually live in Glasgow (or indeed Scotland)?
They certainly have done well. As to how good they actually are; we’ll have a chance to see how they comapre with Millwall next season.
Even Sven has called up the boy Thompson. He might even get a game. He’s probably the only person who has a chance to break into the England squad.
Meanwhile back in sunny old London - Spurs are going about our usual role of defining mid-table mediocrity. We still need another 5 points to be absolutely safe - but I don’t think that’s really an issue.
This has been the worst weekend ever in SW London - Rugby match on Saturday night followed by the boat race yesterday. There’s never a hand grenande handy when you need one.
Leeds and Wolves look doomed. Man City to join them?
After 5 defeats in a row it was looking like Bolton were in danger of falling back into the fight. Those were 3 VERY welcome points taken from Newcastle on Sunday. Now I can stop worrying so much. I know its not mathematically safe yet, but 37 points will probably be enough this season. Not that I wouldn’t mind a few more of course. Still got Leeds to play at home and Wolves away. It’s looking ok for us now.
ps to the aliens who have replaced Pedersen, keep him! We’ll keep the clone that played on Sunday.
I just tried to post, but it got eaten… so, I’ll just answer what I originally meant to before I started giving my views on all kinds of things… perhaps I’ll attempt to rewrite my post later, but I need to do some work now seeing as I’ve been here for 4hours and haven’t actually started to work yet…
Yes. I live in Glasgow. I am in no way a Glaswegian or a Scot, but I do study in my second year at Glasgow Uni. Celtic is the only team I support, and have done so pretty much since moving to Sweden 7 (I think) years ago.
Glasgow just happens to be the city they play in. They’re not one of these clubs that only locals are supposed to support see.
I have never in my life been so relaxed at an OF game as I was yesterday. The night before I even said to a friend of mine that I couldn’t really get excited about the game - “after all, it’s only Rangers”
Marshall had another blinder. One of his saves was simply magical.
I have never understood the idea of choose to support a club you can’t see every week (or at least once a fortnight).
I could imagine being forced away from spurs by family circumstances etc, but not choosing to support a team that one wouldn’t see very often - if ever - is very odd to me.
Surely going to the games is the WHOLE POINT, nothing compares.
I’m not so sure I agree that it is the WHOLE POINT. I do agree that nothing compares, but, I do usually support my ‘local’ teams. I wasn’t a particularly big fan at all of Celtic while I lived in Sweden, but still wanted to see them do well. I still like to see the teams I supported while living in the US (GB Packers, Milwaukee Bucks,…) do well, even though I never get to see them play.
If you only should support a team that you can see every week, only season ticket holders could be supporters. My financial situation certainly doesn’t allow me to be going to every other Celtic game (and the waiting list for season tickets is huge).
I don’t think I’ve argued my point very well at all, but, in general, I disagree with that you have to go to games frequently to support a team. I do feel that you should at least have some reason for supporting a team (usually, you live in or associated in some other way with the city (or state in the US)). Hence, I don’t support any team in the premiership. I do follow it though because I have friends who support Liverpool and Spurs and will watch these games with them…
Once I start to ‘seriously’ support a team, I generally will continue to follow their progress even if I move away from the city…
ugh, back to work…the sdmb seriously kills my productivity levels…
I think the difference here is that I am writing from England about english football.
In England the “choice” of club is usually made at an early age, and most of us have very little say in it - I was literally raised as a spurs fan on my father’s knee.
I also realise that there are places suchas Ireland that don’t really have a domestic football environment, so may have to look to the UK for teams.
I just couldn’t imagine saying that I “supported” real Madrid, New York Yankees, Santos etc, if there was no prospect of ever seeing them.
I also feel that if you don’t go to at least the home games you really don’t know what’s going on with your team. No amount of TV and newsprint etc can make up for actually going.
Well, seeing as I’m a season ticket holder who does go to nearly every home game and some of the away ones, your argument doesn’t apply to me anyway OST.
Same here - don’t go away as much as I used to since I had the kids, but still manage a few each year (all the Lahdahn ones and anything up to Brum usually).
I realise that there are people who can’t afford to do this, it isn’t cheap (at least £2,500 a year in england, in reality probably double that), but surely it is the whole point of being a supporter?
Ireland is a special case - i know about irish celtic/rangers/pool/man u fans.
What I can’t understand is the “man yoo” fan from kent.
Having said that surely the reason that Irish football is so poor is that all the people who like football in Ireland are more interested in what’s going on in the UK?
There are plenty of football clubs here, it’s just that a lot of people choose not to support them because they don’t have the glamour of the Premiership clubs. And of course the lack of support prevents the league from really developing - it’s a bit of a vicious cycle really. FWIW I do support my local club, and so do a lot of other Irish-based Celtic fans.
What I don’t understand are the people here who claim to support a Premiership team but never even make the effort to see them. My old flatmate used to constantly wind me up about the eight-hour-each-way journeys I would make to see a team play in a “Mickey Mouse league”. He calls himself a Liverpool supporter, but he’s never been to Anfield in his life. It’s not that far away!
