Discussion The Football/Soccer Thread

[goldb]

I'm so happy and sad at the same time; now that everton are in the final, i know arsenal coulda won that one quite comfortably but we're not there!!!! i'm happy cos united lost...the match was ridiculous...horrible, plus we were entertaining guests at my house and thought it would have been good to put the match on...worst idea ever, people died of boredom

well looks all but in the bag for chelsea, now time to focus on the champions league...:P

 

[Lelo]

Question? Why did Man U start all those youngsters and not even have his top 3 players listed to play? I don't really know too much about the FA cup but it's seems it wasn't really important to them. And he shouldn't have taken out Park, he should have taken out Anderson for Scholes.

Everton must be nutting it their pants right now, after taking out Liverpool and Man U back to back

 

[◆ T.D.A ◆]

Well of course the reason was because Fergie wanted to keep his most important players fresh excluding Ferdinand and Vidic for the important games to come, everyone knows EPL and UCL are put higher over the FA Cup.

 

[Mendes]

Yeah but so much about FA Cup being Fergunson's favorite cup... For weeks I've been watching interviews where Fergunson explained the importance that cup meant to him, and then he puts up a 2nd line team... he could have got lucky, but at least the most important players should have started in the bench, just in case

 

[◆ T.D.A ◆]

EPL best league in the world.

Man Utd 3-2 Aston Villa
Chelsea 4-3 Bolton
Liverpool 4-4 Arsenal

 

[Imperium]

Anybody see pepe get the three red cards? That was animalsitc what he done. Just went berserk. O.o

 

[Mendes]

Pepe lost it! I havent seen such a cold blooded reaction like that for a long time in a football match...

L'pool 4 - 4 Arshavin! Watta game! Liverpool will feel sorry for their defensive mistakes. They dominated the game aside from that. Torres wasnt particularly accurate, considering the number of shots he took. Arshavin was the opposite. I'm not sure but I think he got 4 goals in 4 shots :P
I feel sorry for Arsenal. They just got Fabregas back and now Adebayor and van Persie are out. What's happening?!

 

[Hayashida]

wow the pl is close now. do MU still have a game in hand?

looks like golden guus is set to bring in some silver-never would've dreamed as such a few months ago

about ferguson, i think hes trying to soften the blow to MU supporters after so much talk of quintaple

 

[◆ T.D.A ◆]

Did Pepe get sent off for that? WTF he's an idiot.

 

[Saintz0r]

Yeah, he got a red card, and it was a penalty for Getafe ( which they lost >< )
He also didn't went to the training today cause he was ashamed.

The video of Pepe's 'strike' and the penalty lost


Liverpool x Arsenal was a awesome match, second in a row without Gerrard. Sadly they don't have many chances of winning the PL now, and the matches won't be as good as they are

 

[KnuckleheadedNinja]

Feels nice to be back on top, it feel even better knowing that we still have a game in hand. Go Man U.

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Yeah, he got a red card, and it was a penalty for Getafe ( which they lost >< )
He also didn't went to the training today cause he was ashamed.

The video of Pepe's 'strike' and the penalty lost

Wow, what a freaking dumbass.

 

[◆ T.D.A ◆]

According to Goal.com, Pepe is considering quiting football, crazy things happen eh?

 

[Mendes]

According to Goal.com, Pepe is considering quiting football, crazy things happen eh?

Happen alot to crazy people... I dunno, I think he's just trying to act like he's feeling full of regrets to lessen the media pressure on him, but I honestly dont believe he will quit. I think he will return as soon as his suspension ends, whatever it may be

 

[Saintz0r]

I heard he'll get a suspension of 6 games. Imo he deserves at least 3 months :P

 

[Mendes]

I'd say 6 months from now on, or 3 months in the active season. Meaning he couldnt finish this season and he'd miss the start of next

 

[goldb]

that was a lot of bulls***, excuse my french but what the hell got into his head? there was no need for that. He deserves any punishment he receives as a consequence... I'd say 6months is about the right amount of time for him to go see a psychiatrist

 

[Mendes]

Superb Man Utd, even tough that tiring match may have not been the perfect game to have against an european CL matchday at all. Is Arsenal playing tomorrow, or their match has been delayed?

 

[Imperium]

Superb Man Utd, even tough that tiring match may have not been the perfect game to have against an european CL matchday at all. Is Arsenal playing tomorrow, or their match has been delayed?

It was a stunning performance by howard. And by that i mean a performance of stunning incompetence. Forget the penalty, he let so many blatant fouls go unpunished. Scholes came on and within a couple of minutes chopped down players right, left and centre. Howard just continuously waved play on. He was as bad as the ref for the liverpool v hull game. Jeebus. Rooney and ronaldo were class though.

Yea, we're playing tomorrow.

 

[◆ T.D.A ◆]

2nd half proved, we can play the fantastic four together, in fact berbatov played better in that formation, play rooney on the left who can play anywhere, and play Tevez upfront with Berba with Ronaldo on the right, in fact if Fergie decides to keep this, Tevez could stay.

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It was a stunning performance by howard. And by that i mean a performance of stunning incompetence. Forget the penalty, he let so many blatant fouls go unpunished. Scholes came on and within a couple of minutes chopped down players right, left and centre. Howard just continuously waved play on. He was as bad as the ref for the liverpool v hull game. Jeebus. Rooney and ronaldo were class though.

Yea, we're playing tomorrow.

Media don't take notice, but referee decisions balance out over the season, people easily forgot the should be penalty in the fa semis, concerning scholes , what are you talking about, he got booked.

 

[Mendes]

Well I'm used to british refereeing being much less severe. Honestly it brings up much more amazing matches. In comparison to our league where the referees stop the match every time a player touches another, watching a match like that with no match stops even if there is some overheated tackles now and then is a joy. That penalty doesnt seem that of a scandalous decision. It was doubtful, but it was a fast move where Carrick reaches the ball at almost the same time as Gomez, thus I'd give the ref the benefit of doubt in that one.

I'm sorry it I looks like I'm congratulating a bad refereeing in that match, but in Portugal our referees are so damn bad that even the worst performance of one in the premier league would probably be the best in our league... Our refs should look up to those in the premier league, and maybe then we could have 30% more of average in play time