Hey, forget Leicester and Leeds, what about Posh and MK Dons? Both fresh up from League 2 and fighting up in 5th and 4th respectively. Ok, so the Dons are scum but if Posh finish in the playoffs (or better!) I’ll be a very happy man.
Then again, we don’t have a lot of luck in the playoffs. We’re only in League 1 now because we finished above the playoff zone for once.
Is Posh still owned by that soft porn bloke whose name I forget?
In other news: Man City got a draw at Hull thanks to the fucking ineptitude of Mark Halsey, an utter wankstem of a ref.
That was never a free kick he awarded Hull which gave them the equaliser
And the other 89 minutes of inability by City to score a second goal don’t have anything to do with it? 
The score was 2-2.
Do keep up
Let’s be honest, both sides were pretty abject for much of that match (fun though it was to watch). A draw with two defensive howlers seemed a pretty fair result, regardless of what you think of the free kick (which was soft, but hardly scandalous).
So, one point off the relegation zone with Man U and Arsenal to visit, followed by Fulham away - what odds on Sparky making it to January to spend all that lovely loot? Not great, I’d say.
Today’s daft stat: Hull, in 6th, are closer on points to the bottom of the division than to the top.
Oh, sorry, confused it with the other tie tie. Still a minor emendation doesn’t change the fact.
I went to a football match last night, Rochdale v Barnet in the First round re-play of the FA Cup.
These teams might be from the lower divisions but what a game it was.
Rochdale, who are doing very well in Div 2 and lying in 4th place, went 2 nil down after about 15 minutes. Barnet, who are near the bottom of the same div are ecstatic.
But all is not lost.
'Dale fight back to 2-2 thanks to a brace by Adam Le Fondre (Alf to the Dale faithful) and the game goes to extra time.
The Dale crowd go wild 
After 105 minutes Alf scores again, his hat trick…Go Alfie!!!
Match ends with the mighty Dale winning 3-2 and the crowd are roaring out “Wemberley, Wemberley”
::cough cough::
Manchester City 3 Arsenal 0
Sure, you flat track bullies. Kick a man while he’s down, why don’t you?
Well you have to admit we don’t often get the chance.
::kick, kick::
So Mark Hughes is safe for another week then.
Well, again, it turns out that money isn’t everything.
Though picking among the money available to City and to United, or to Aresenal compared to Chelsea is a bit like choosing among members of the Forbes top 10 list of wealthiest men for a sugar daddy. :eek:
In other news, the minnows have a good chance to get to the next round of the FA Cup, having dispatched Leeds today. Gotta love a game where the draw for a tournament is arguably more interesting that the top level matches of the day.
Thought I’d resurrect this before it slipped into oblivion. Maybe we can keep the forecasts thread going all season?
City: hard to know what the sheikhs’ll think of today - granted, probably the second toughest match of the season for them, but they were never anywhere near it, even when they went a man up. So now they’re two points off the relegation zone (for all that means in this crazily messed-up season), and not much time left before the dreaded transfer window opens. Smart money’s on Hughes surviving until the summer, but being given no choice whatsoever in what players get bought.
Great result for the mighty 'Pool at Stamford Bridge. Good old Arsenal; won’t hear a word said against them. Who’d have bet on that result based on the first hour?
Edit: okay, DSYoungEsq will resurrect it.
Oh bugger 
The minnows don’t have a hope in hell of getting to the next round. No way, absolutely not, it’s impossible, just not gonna happen, never in a million years.
Having been knocked out by Havant and Waterlooville last time we couldn’t have it done to us twice on the trot.
Shame the scum won, at least that twat Ronaldo got himself sent off. He’s been totally crap though, free kicks aside, so it might actually improve them :(. On the other hand Nani and Anderson are desperately disappointing too, so hey.
Anyway, as to the important game! Is there a more flat-track bullying team than Chelsea? Win everything against the shite teams, and 1/9 points, all at home, against the top ones?
Terry was a bit lucky to stay on the pitch after that attempted leg breaking tackle. Ivanovic should’ve gotten about 4 yellows. They really need Carvalho back, he’s their best centre back by far. Malouda is still totally crap, Kalou is like Kuyt, tries hard but is still kinda crap. Ballack and Deco should just retire, they look like they can’t be arsed. Mikel is the new Makelele, Lampard was good, Bosingwa was good. 3 good players won’t win you a game though. Also disturbing how pathetic they were after going down. Arsenal looked as comfortable holding onto it as say United, Chelsea had nuttin.
Arsenal deserved some luck offside-wise, and it was a great finish anyway. Second goal was also class. RVP is a total wanker who vanishes half the time, but damn he has talent.
Next few rounds could be interesting. Liverpool are so crap they’re surely going to start screwing up some time, United are iffy with an either red-hot or utter shite Rooney, and an overrated Berbatov. Chelsea have been pretty crap for a while now, starting with them kindly playing Roma into form was it?
Now if Arsenal can just avoid screwing up against Wigan…
Question: Why was Rooney taking corners? He never does that does he? Combined with them picking up that Eastern European kid, are they getting ready for Ronaldo to leave?
Funny thing about Chelsea v Arsenal; for the first half and the start of the second half, I was thinking: “man, Chelsea look totally comfortable over the ball, Arsenal don’t look like they know what to do to get the ball, don’t look like they know what to do WITH the ball, and don’t look likely to be able to keep the ball.” I was thinking that not two minutes before they proceded to prove they knew exactly how to get the ball, what to do with it, and how not to let Chelsea have too much of it once they got the leg up.
I can only think Chelsea simply thought they were invulnerable in the second half of games now, and stopped doing the work they needed. I think they were stunned by the strikes from Arsenal, and didn’t know what to do about being behind in the second half. Goodness knows they have the firepower to do something, but they certainly didn’t look like they knew how to drag the guns out and start blazing away, did they? :eek:
Now all depends upon Liverpool’s result tomorrow. If they lose, they let Arsenal back in this thing. Heck, even Villa wouldn’t be totally out of it. If they win, well, then the sure put the whole thing on their shoulders, don’t they?
Vetch, I gather, is from Swansea? <chuckle>
Oh, and last note for the day: Harry Houdini, the miracle worker, appears to have run out of miracles for the nonce. I have the feeling this year’s relegation battle is gonna be realllllllllllllly fun to watch!!!
Now now now, I’m not having that - the Kuytinator is much better than Kalou these days. He’s actually verging on half decent, in fact, whereas Kalou is just crap. Malouda sure makes me glad Chelsea beat us to his signature, though. Just the occasional glimmer that makes you realise what people saw in him, but that’s all.
Agreed on Chelsea needing Carvalho back, though. Far better than England’s Brave John Terry, and not a complete tit to boot. In fact he’s solidly installed with Nemanja Vidic in the group of “Man U and Chelsea players who only annoy me because I can’t find any reason to dislike them.” I’d also really like Vidic to come to Liverpool, just because then in combination with Skrtel and Agger we’d have probably the scariest-looking central defence on the planet.
Fun stat: if Liverpool win tomorrow, Hull in sixth place will be closer to the bottom than the top. Insane (on at least two levels). And that’s with none of the top ten winning last week.
I still say Liverpool will win the Premiership this season.
Manchester City will win it next season and possibly each season after.*
Plus FA Cup and anything else that’s going.*
*If only
The Red Shite have no shot chowder. Sorry, but it will be Man U this year- they have the team and they have the bottle. The RS have neither. Their fans don’t know what day it is - booed them off tonight when they’ve just gone top of the league. Keane getting hammered from all corners of the ground.
I like Stevie G, I really do, but the cheating cunt should be banned. He is flat out shameful in his diving - 90th minute tonight and he goes into the West Ham area like bambi on ice - Ref told him to fuck off thank God. Deserves a 3 match ban and should pull himself together.