Football

[youngiecj]

Boston Utd 0 North Ferriby 2. Fa Trophy, Cup competitions are overrated anyways!! bring on the league leaders on Saturday...

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

League Cup...Quarter Final

Sheffield United 1...Southampton 0

Whatever has happened at Southampton lately. This is now five consecutive defeats.

 

[richw]

Yeovil won 2-0 in the big FA cup replay.

The winner got a home match against man Utd in the 3rd round, which has already been selected for television. The TV rights alone are worth £144000 to Yeovil now!

 

[Kite159]

At least the Man Utd fans don't have that far to travel, they just need to get onto an Exeter service at Woking

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Meanwhile Fifa is turning into a bigger laughing stock, will be interesting to see what they are trying to hide in Mr Garcia's report

 

[Morden Via CHX]

Boston Utd 0 North Ferriby 2. Fa Trophy, Cup competitions are overrated anyways!! bring on the league leaders on Saturday...

My best mate is a Boston fan. He reckons Boston should have won. Obviously he's biased but in fairness to him they did have more shots than Ferriby.

 

[bb21]

Well that was rubbish.

Well done Liverpool. We looked like rabbits caught in the headlight first half.

Eddie got it wrong today. Going two up front and losing the midfield battle was a crucial mistake. Then the two misses.

Rogers gets more breathing space.

 

[Clip]

Another humping and another 4 goals scored against us.

So depressing yet so familiar

 

[fowler9]

Well that was rubbish.

Well done Liverpool. We looked like rabbits caught in the headlight first half.

Eddie got it wrong today. Going two up front and losing the midfield battle was a crucial mistake. Then the two misses.

Rogers gets more breathing space.

Ah well mate, Markovic looks like he may end up being an alright signing for us, looked alright till he got sent off against Basel. A mate has offered me a ticket for Chelsea away which I may take him up on, only £25! I'm mainly going because I get to see his new house in Weybridge. I expect the game to be a nightmare.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Possibly, especially with the Suarez incident. Although maybe he just re read it and thought oops, guilty as charged. I'm hoping he isn't actually anti-semitic.

Well, the one match ban and £25,000 fine handed down to Balotelli should be another reason to make him consider matters.....but will it?

He is not a callow 16 year old boy any more, yet seems to learn nothing from his past handling of his personal life and the strictures that have been applied to him in the past.

 

[fowler9]

Well, the one match ban and £25,000 fine handed down to Balotelli should be another reason to make him consider matters.....but will it?

He is not a callow 16 year old boy any more, yet seems to learn nothing from his past handling of his personal life and the strictures that have been applied to him in the past.

Well maybe so but they don't get paid to be moral beacons. We have the likes of Alan Shearer who stomped on Neil Lennons head and then threatened not to play for England if anything happened to him, what happened? Nothing. Not defending Balotelli there either.

 

[ManUtd]

Well maybe so but they don't get paid to be moral beacons. We have the likes of Alan Shearer who stomped on Neil Lennons head and then threatened not to play for England if anything happened to him, what happened? Nothing. Not defending Balotelli there either.

I don't think that's a fair example......

....I mean,no one likes Neil Lennon....I think his own mother used to stomp on his head.

 

[fowler9]

I don't think that's a fair example......

....I mean,no one likes Neil Lennon....I think his own mother used to stomp on his head.

Ha ha, you are a bad man.

I mean Balotelli is basically a dope who is good at football (Allegedly, I am waiting for some recent evidence).

 

[ManUtd]

Ha ha, you are a bad man.

I mean Balotelli is basically a dope who is good at football (Allegedly, I am waiting for some recent evidence).

Ha,ha,sorry,I couldn't help myself.

Recent evidence is non existent,I always thought he was overrated,seen some good performances at City,didn't see much at Milan although I didn't watch too much Italian football(Sunday's are boring enough as they are)but they wouldn't have sold him if they thought he was worth keeping.

I am sure Liverpool with off load him as soon as they can get someone who can score goals.

 

[fowler9]

Ha,ha,sorry,I couldn't help myself.

Recent evidence is non existent,I always thought he was overrated,seen some good performances at City,didn't see much at Milan although I didn't watch too much Italian football(Sunday's are boring enough as they are)but they wouldn't have sold him if they thought he was worth keeping.

I am sure Liverpool with off load him as soon as they can get someone who can score goals.

Yeah, nothing to argue with there. Suarez was always going to be hard to replace. He had a lot of baggage, but my god when he did his thing on the pitch with your teams shirt on he was a joy to watch. Balotelli just seems to have a lot of the baggage and not much of the talent. Suarez played with a joy that was incredible, Balotelli kind of mooches around. Mascherano as well would do some questionable things, but my god he played his heart out. He would be up in the referees face "His leg just came off" shrugging as if to ask "What did I do?". He annoyed me when he talked himself off the pitch against Man U though. Ha ha. It was a red.

I prefer the real gentlemen of the game though. Gary McAllister. What a guy. I was at Coventry away and he scored pretty much sending them down. He didn't celebrate. I recall him scoring against Bradford City away as well and then later taking a free kick and missing, our end were singing what the effing hell was that. He just had a laugh. Then when he lost his wife, got offered a big money coaching job at Liverpool but him and his kids were settled in Coventry. He stayed there. So much respect for the guy. Wish we had signed him 20 years earlier. Ha ha.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Well maybe so but they don't get paid to be moral beacons.

Do not confuse personal common decency with being a moral beacon. Balotelli has to realise that he has to have enough personal pride in himself as a person.

 

[ManUtd]

Yeah, nothing to argue with there. Suarez was always going to be hard to replace. He had a lot of baggage, but my god when he did his thing on the pitch with your teams shirt on he was a joy to watch. Balotelli just seems to have a lot of the baggage and not much of the talent. Suarez played with a joy that was incredible, Balotelli kind of mooches around. Mascherano as well would do some questionable things, but my god he played his heart out. He would be up in the referees face "His leg just came off" shrugging as if to ask "What did I do?". He annoyed me when he talked himself off the pitch against Man U though. Ha ha. It was a red.

I prefer the real gentlemen of the game though. Gary McAllister. What a guy. I was at Coventry away and he scored pretty much sending them down. He didn't celebrate. I recall him scoring against Bradford City away as well and then later taking a free kick and missing, our end were singing what the effing hell was that. He just had a laugh. Then when he lost his wife, got offered a big money coaching job at Liverpool but him and his kids were settled in Coventry. He stayed there. So much respect for the guy. Wish we had signed him 20 years earlier. Ha ha.

Suarez is world class,replacing that is very hard to do(although we didn't collapse after Ronaldo left )as much I think you's are also missing Sturridge,he may struggle a little without Suarez beside him...Sterling is a cracker player though and will only get better.

Yeah McCallister was a work horse for Liverpool,you's maybe could have done with him earlier but I think he really did improve in his latter years.

Ballotelli is just lazy....I wouldn't want him anywhere near my team,he's just like a spoilt child,you can imagine him at Christmas not getting what he wanted even if the house was full of presents....nightmare...he's like Violet Beauregarde!

 

[CC 72100]

Hereford United was officially wound-up today. Although I've not been so 'connected' with the club in the last few years, its very sad to see a club that not so long back was in league 1 to go like that. Will always remember the play-off final at Leicester and Ryan Green's goal in extra time to send us up into the football league - cracking day out.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-30542821

 

[Butts]

Ballotelli is just lazy....I wouldn't want him anywhere near my team,he's just like a spoilt child,you can imagine him at Christmas not getting what he wanted even if the house was full of presents....nightmare...he's like Violet Beauregarde!

Would someone care to comment why he is being paid FIVE MILLION POUNDS PER ANNUM for mediocre performances

 

[ManUtd]

Would someone care to comment why he is being paid FIVE MILLION POUNDS PER ANNUM for mediocre performances

Sometimes persona out plays performance(Beckham had it in his career)...lets face it.it's not hard to make millions in today's game...and as I said...I think he's overrated....there is talent there,he's not a bad player but I wouldn't want my team to pay his wages.

 

[Butts]

Sometimes persona out plays performance(Beckham had it at the end of his career)...lets face it.it's not hard to make millions in today's game...and as I said...I think he's overrated....there is talent there,he's not a bad player but I wouldn't want my team to pay his wages.

I wonder if he feels guilty about the amount he trousers ?

For his sake just as well his pay is not performance related

Is this symptomatic of the problem facing Football as a whole ?

 

[MidnightFlyer]

Would someone care to comment why he is being paid FIVE MILLION POUNDS PER ANNUM for mediocre performances

Because that's what Liverpool deem him to be worth. Pretty straightforward.

 

[Butts]

Because that's what Liverpool deem him to be worth. Pretty straightforward.

I doubt their fans would concur with that

 

[ManUtd]

I wonder if he feels guilty about the amount he trousers ?

For his sake just as well his pay is not performance related

Is this symptomatic of the problem facing Football as a whole ?

Definitely not!

Your right....I bet if that was the case his performances would be better.

I don't think so....too much money and greed may ruin some but in the whole I don't think so.
It's now become that massive an entertainment circus with TV that why shouldn't the stars(the players)get a slice?

99% of them still show up on a Saturday...or a Sunday...or a Monday...or a Tuesday....you get the point.

 

[MidnightFlyer]

I doubt their fans would concur with that

Nor do they most likely concur with what Lolvren, Lambert, Borini, Allen or Mignolet etc are on. That's the risk the cub take when they buy or offer them contracts.

 

[ManUtd]

Because that's what Liverpool deem him to be worth. Pretty straightforward.

Nah,Liverpool were just desperate after losing Suarez...they done the same a few years ago buying Carroll after Torres left....had a decent previous record but didn't work.....Carroll replaces Torres......hmm.

 

[Darandio]

Nah,Liverpool were just desperate after losing Suarez...they done the same a few years ago buying Carroll....had a decent previous record but didn't work.

At least he's nowhere near a costly failure as Radamel '20 Minutes' Falcao.

 

[ManUtd]

Nor do they most likely concur with what Lolvren, Lambert, Borini, Allen or Mignolet etc are on. That's the risk the cub take when they buy or offer them contracts.

I don't think Mignolet is a bad keeper nor is Lolvern a bad player who had a great season last time out,he just hasn't settled,Lambert I never really understood other than I believe he was cheap and was always capable of getting you a goal.....if he was played...Liverpool needed one against Basel and Rodgers didn't put him on but that's another story.

The other two I agree with wholly.
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At least he's nowhere near a costly failure as Radamel '20 Minutes' Falcao.

I don't agree,that for me was a great gamble,we pay his wages,see if it works and then decide if we want to keep him....I honestly think if he stays fit,gets a run of games and hits the form we all know he is capable of then we could have one fantastic second half of the season...."if" ...but I still would have Falcao in my team ahead of Ballotelli any day and I doubt there would be many honest Liverpool supporters who would disagree with me.

 

[Darandio]

I don't agree,that for me was a great gamble,we pay his wages,see if it works and then decide if we want to keep him....I honestly think if he stays fit,gets a run of games and hits the form we all know he is capable of then we could have one fantastic second half of the season...."if" ...but I still would have Falcao in my team ahead of Ballotelli any day and I doubt there would be many honest Liverpool supporters who would disagree with me.

It's a hell of a lot of money for a 'wait and see' though because I don't buy the argument that it's fine because he is on loan. Add up your loan fee and wages and he isn't a great deal behind Balotelli, and he's not yours!

He could be successful though but I have my doubts. The same doubts I have about Balotelli as well, but he could equally have a fantastic second half to the season.

 

[ManUtd]

It's a hell of a lot of money for a 'wait and see' though because I don't buy the argument that it's fine because he is on loan. Add up your loan fee and wages and he isn't a great deal behind Balotelli, and he's not yours!

He could be successful though but I have my doubts. The same doubts I have about Balotelli as well, but he could equally have a fantastic second half to the season.

But again,I think Ballotelli is overrated,Falcao is a more proven goal scorer.

I don't think it's a lot of money in the context of things,if he scored thirty goals this season we would buy him and have one of the best strikers in the world on our team,that kind of striker is priceless if you ask me.

Now if he doesn't,or let's face it,he won't now but if he does start banging them in and shows great form without an injury then I would say.....buy him....I don't see where we really come out bad in all that.

 

[Darandio]

I don't think it's a lot of money in the context of things,if he scored thirty goals this season we would buy him and have one of the best strikers in the world on our team,that kind of striker is priceless if you ask me.

And as a football fan, I hope he does come good. He still won't be the best South American you ever had though.