# UK football, season 2008/09, forecasts **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [August 7, 2008, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-football-season-2008-09-forecasts/459150 "2008-08-07T12:09:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Dead\_Badger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/848f3c/32.png) [@Dead\_Badger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Badger)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2008, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-football-season-2008-09-forecasts/459150/101 "2008-09-14T13:06:42Z")
> [@chique](#): > > And we should play Babel more often. Yeah, he’s shaping up brilliantly. Imagine if we played him in his preferred position! I thought Riera looked pretty solid as well: went past some players without cutting inside (!), created a bit of space, and only shanked one cross into the stands. Kuyt had a great match, too; I’m starting to get quite fond of the lad. Wouldn’t swap him for 100 Darren Bents. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-football-season-2008-09-forecasts/459150/102 "2008-09-22T15:22:05Z")
::Ahem:: Manchester City 6 Portsmouth 0 😃 ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-football-season-2008-09-forecasts/459150/103 "2008-09-22T15:44:26Z")
…and my friend from Southampton is as over-the-moon as you are. 😃 In other news…we beat ManU at Old Trafford and follow that up with an Anfield draw with fucking **Stoke**? The hell?! ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-football-season-2008-09-forecasts/459150/104 "2008-09-22T15:50:40Z")
> [@chique](#): > > …and my friend from Southampton is as over-the-moon as you are. 😃 > > In other news…we beat ManU at Old Trafford and follow that up with an Anfield draw with fucking **Stoke**? The hell?! Was Stanley Mathews playing?😛 Matter of fact when that result came through I was gobsmacked. I expected Liverpool to notch up at least 3 ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-football-season-2008-09-forecasts/459150/105 "2008-09-22T19:44:45Z")
Hartlepool 3-3 Oldham. Not our best result of the season, but not the worst either. Losing Gregan will be a blow, but we’re still top for the moment. ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-football-season-2008-09-forecasts/459150/106 "2008-09-22T20:16:09Z")
> [@chowder](#): > > Manchester City 6 Portsmouth 0 An excellent result. However, considering the vastly differing resources of the clubs concerned, this is trumped by Blackpool’s 1-0 thrashing of Birmingham City at St. Andrews. ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-football-season-2008-09-forecasts/459150/107 "2008-09-24T13:32:02Z")
Our pre-schoolers thoroughly spanked Sheffield Utd yesterday. There’s some scarily good players coming through our ranks. ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Badger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/848f3c/32.png) [@Dead\_Badger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Badger)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-football-season-2008-09-forecasts/459150/108 "2008-09-24T13:58:30Z")
I liked Platini’s rant at Wenger the other day. I can only assume there’s a Minimum Dickhead Level checklist you’re given on becoming a FIFA or UEFA administrator. Particularly brilliant was his abusing Wenger for being concerned about the performance of his own team above all others. A football manager, involved in a winner-takes-all sporting competition, has his own team’s interests at heart? Say it ain’t so, Michel! What an arse. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-football-season-2008-09-forecasts/459150/109 "2008-09-24T14:02:18Z")
> [@garius](#): > > Our pre-schoolers thoroughly spanked Sheffield Utd yesterday. > > There’s some scarily good players coming through our ranks. It’s just a pity that Wenger can’t keep his conk out of Man City’s affairs. Anyway, Mark Hughes told him to concern himself more with Arsenal than with MCFC ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-football-season-2008-09-forecasts/459150/110 "2008-09-24T21:55:12Z")
Having thrashed Portsmouth, a premiership team, just a few days ago City now lose on penalties to Brighton in the Carling Cup. Brighton being in Div 1, two divisions below City. Fucking typical:( ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2008, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-football-season-2008-09-forecasts/459150/111 "2008-09-27T19:55:56Z")
I’m pretty sure I’ve already proclaimed my love for Torres around here, yes? If not: Christ is that man beautiful. And Keane is still an appendix. ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Badger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/848f3c/32.png) [@Dead\_Badger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Badger)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2008, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-football-season-2008-09-forecasts/459150/112 "2008-09-28T02:17:02Z")
Bitchtits to Mike Riley for inexplicably chalking off a hat-trick. What exactly was Dirk s’posed to have done, eh? And to be fair to Keane, he stuck in the lovely ball from the left for the opener. I just can’t believe Hull beat Arsenal. My housemate is going to be over the fricking moon. Although he had to give up his tickets to go to a wedding. Gutting. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2008, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-football-season-2008-09-forecasts/459150/113 "2008-09-28T06:40:45Z")
> [@chique](#): > > I’m pretty sure I’ve already proclaimed my love for Torres around here, yes? If not: Christ is that man beautiful. > > And Keane is still an appendix. Don’t be surprised if City make a bid for him in January. Personally I think he’d be surplus to requirements, not that he isn’t good, man he’s bloody brilliant. Agree about Keane, the wanker ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2008, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-football-season-2008-09-forecasts/459150/114 "2008-09-28T20:42:58Z")
I guess the Man City and Arsenal fans will be a bit less bullish tonight… ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-football-season-2008-09-forecasts/459150/115 "2008-09-29T03:00:56Z")
When was the last time Tottenham were not in the top flight?? When was the last time Tottenham AND Newcastle were not in the top flight??? Looking VERY likely to happen next year… :eek: ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-football-season-2008-09-forecasts/459150/116 "2008-09-29T06:51:42Z")
> [@Crusoe](#): > > I guess the Man City and Arsenal fans will be a bit less bullish tonight… If that was a penalty I’ll show my arse in Woolworths ---
**Author:** ![garius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@garius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garius)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-football-season-2008-09-forecasts/459150/117 "2008-09-29T08:01:06Z")
> [@Crusoe](#): > > I guess the Man City and Arsenal fans will be a bit less bullish tonight… Have you ever actually met a bullish Arsenal fan? We specialise in being resigned to watching our team either play brilliantly or so fucking awful its embarrasing. Hull ran rings around us, quite frankly. At least I have the comedy genius that is the Spurs Experience to keep my spirits up 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-football-season-2008-09-forecasts/459150/118 "2008-09-29T11:16:16Z")
> [@DSYoungEsq](#): > > When was the last time Tottenham were not in the top flight?? > > When was the last time Tottenham AND Newcastle were not in the top flight??? 1947-48, according to my Big Book of Football Facts. Spurs have been top flight since 1978. ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9fc29f/32.png) [@Dead\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Cat)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-football-season-2008-09-forecasts/459150/119 "2008-09-29T11:47:26Z")
I particularly enjoyed a short piece on the front of yesterday’s Sunday Telegraph, pointing out that Joe Kinnear, the new Newcastle manager, was unable to direct his new team’s first performance as he had to serve an unexpired touchline ban carried over from his last job. It then went on to say how he had to apologise for swearing in a live BBC interview, and to cap it all, Newcastle lost 2-1 to Blackburn. Another hilarious episode in everyone’s favourite North-East soap opera! ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-football-season-2008-09-forecasts/459150/120 "2008-09-29T20:04:43Z")
Yes, it’s very good of Tottenham and Newcastle to cheer us up when we drop a point here or there. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-football-season-2008-09-forecasts/459150.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-football-season-2008-09-forecasts/459150.md?page=7)