January 26, 201214 yr Wolfsburg just spent their Dzeko money on 8 transfers. Also, Tim Ream transfers from NY to Bolton. For you brits, Americans are guffawing over this one. They say his passing his great, but he's authored the two biggest gaffes of the MLS season [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEQLPty-CsQ]Best of 2011 - Worst Gaffe - YouTube[/ame] not to mention, I can count at least four screw-ups for the national team including a gold cup match where he whiffs a clearance, kicks the panama striker and concedes a penalty. Finally, American soccer media is hugely over-hyping the Everton-Fulham match by turning it into a twilight style: Team Donovan vs. Team Dempsey rivalry.
January 26, 201214 yr In relation to the MLS here's a blog piece by Rafa Benitez analysing the top 5 European leagues and the MLS. A great blog and a great website. Rafa as we all know has a massive football brain! http://www.rafabenitez.com/web/index.php?act=mostrarBlog&id_entrada=55&idioma=in
January 26, 201214 yr I genuinely am overwhelmed as well and I am thrilled that other Liverpool fans are. I know plenty who have already booked their journey's to London in a months time. We are all eager to turn our first visit to the new Wembley as something to remember for everyone. The reaction has been phenomenal. Well... well done again. All we wanted was a weeekend of from the premier leauge, and another game to see out Balotellis supsension. You should win
January 26, 201214 yr In relation to the MLS here's a blog piece by Rafa Benitez analysing the top 5 European leagues and the MLS. A great blog and a great website. Rafa as we all know has a massive football brain! http://www.rafabenitez.com/web/index.php?act=mostrarBlog&id_entrada=55&idioma=in Never has football made me feel so sleepy.
January 27, 201214 yr In relation to the MLS here's a blog piece by Rafa Benitez analysing the top 5 European leagues and the MLS. A great blog and a great website. Rafa as we all know has a massive football brain! http://www.rafabenitez.com/web/index.php?act=mostrarBlog&id_entrada=55&idioma=in Interesting statistics, though some would be more telling by dint of a larger context. I did chuckle at the finishing stats though. The MLS is notoriously bad at that, largely because some teams don't even have coaches for it. While the quality is improving, it's still mostly a counter-attack league, for when a mid-table team dominates possession, it often does not have the passing quality to get through a 10-man defense.
January 27, 201214 yr MLS has come on leaps and bounds... the beckham thing worked out much better than we thought.
January 27, 201214 yr MLS has come on leaps and bounds... the beckham thing worked out much better than we thought. The current arrangement is that we're sort of a pre-retirement home for big stars. Ignoring Beckham, in just the last couple years the MLS picked up Rafa Marquez, Thierry Henry, Robbie Keane, Juan Pablo Angel, and Torsten Frings. And for the past couple months there were big rumors circling about Lampard, Cisse, Rio Ferdinand, or Drogba coming over. Not that I took those too seriously, but the media was dead sure on Anelka coming to Montreal until he ended up in China.
January 27, 201214 yr Outside of beckam hype its done really well... in the next 20 years I see this competing with la Liga and the EPL ------ Courtey of Down the Kippax Steps: Chelsea away. Loose ball in the box, rears up and hits Joleon Lescott on the arm. Clear ball to hand incident. Penalty!!! Chelsea score, win 2-1 and City's unbeaten run is over. Tough cheese, what comes round goes around. Man Utd in the cup. Big Vinny slides in with a brilliant clean tackle, swishing the ball from Nani's feet and returns to the perpendicular all in one motion. Nani, a fragile beast at the best of times, jumps the tackle and lands on his feet, ready to chase back for possession. But wait a minute, ref blows. Red card. Oh yes. Play the next 80 minutes with a man less. Don't pass Go and don't get out of jail. Not for a long time, sonny. Big Vinny banned for four games for brilliant clean tackle. Man Utd: Incredibly, still going strong and ...fighting for late equaliser. Phil Jones handles in the box. No penalty. Out of the cup you go! Shhh. Liverpool. Johnson flies in from great distance with a leg breaker on Lescott, who just about clears the lunge. Play on, no foul, no cards, no retrospective punishment. There you go, Joe. Mates telling me to calm down, it's not a conspiracy. Wigan. Ball cleared to halfway, Aguero is clear to run through one on one if it doesn't touch last defender. He jumps, makes sizeable arse of himself and pats the ball away like Michael Jordan doing the Big Loopy. Yellow card, free kick, stop whining. Sunderland. After a day camping in the opposition half, home side break out of ten man defence for first time in 93rd minute. Sadly, disoriented South Korean sub strays a metre and a half offside, but runs on and nets winner. No offside, go away, you've lost the game! Toot toot. Tottenham. Balotelli banned for 4 games after Retrospective Trial by Daily Mail (new law introduced whilst you were asleep last night). Liverpool. Dzeko's leg taken away by Adam for clear penalty. No penalty go away. Shut up and stop muttering like that, you're only making yourself look silly. . Liverpool. Ball zooms off Micah's outstretched foot and rears up to glance onto his arms. Waist high arms. Penalty!!! No, I said penalty. Ball to hand? no, penalty and don't ask again. Phil Dowd leaves the field at half time doing a routine not unlike the Tampa Bay Rowdies Cheerleaders. "Arms were up here, arms were up here, arms were up here
January 27, 201214 yr Outside of beckam hype its done really well... in the next 20 years I see this competing with la Liga and the EPL ------ Courtey of Down the Kippax Steps: Chelsea away. Loose ball in the box, rears up and hits Joleon Lescott on the arm. Clear ball to hand incident. Penalty!!! Chelsea score, win 2-1 and City's unbeaten run is over. Tough cheese, what comes round goes around. Man Utd in the cup. Big Vinny slides in with a brilliant clean tackle, swishing the ball from Nani's feet and returns to the perpendicular all in one motion. Nani, a fragile beast at the best of times, jumps the tackle and lands on his feet, ready to chase back for possession. But wait a minute, ref blows. Red card. Oh yes. Play the next 80 minutes with a man less. Don't pass Go and don't get out of jail. Not for a long time, sonny. Big Vinny banned for four games for brilliant clean tackle. Man Utd: Incredibly, still going strong and ...fighting for late equaliser. Phil Jones handles in the box. No penalty. Out of the cup you go! Shhh. Liverpool. Johnson flies in from great distance with a leg breaker on Lescott, who just about clears the lunge. Play on, no foul, no cards, no retrospective punishment. There you go, Joe. Mates telling me to calm down, it's not a conspiracy. Wigan. Ball cleared to halfway, Aguero is clear to run through one on one if it doesn't touch last defender. He jumps, makes sizeable arse of himself and pats the ball away like Michael Jordan doing the Big Loopy. Yellow card, free kick, stop whining. Sunderland. After a day camping in the opposition half, home side break out of ten man defence for first time in 93rd minute. Sadly, disoriented South Korean sub strays a metre and a half offside, but runs on and nets winner. No offside, go away, you've lost the game! Toot toot. Tottenham. Balotelli banned for 4 games after Retrospective Trial by Daily Mail (new law introduced whilst you were asleep last night). Liverpool. Dzeko's leg taken away by Adam for clear penalty. No penalty go away. Shut up and stop muttering like that, you're only making yourself look silly. . Liverpool. Ball zooms off Micah's outstretched foot and rears up to glance onto his arms. Waist high arms. Penalty!!! No, I said penalty. Ball to hand? no, penalty and don't ask again. Phil Dowd leaves the field at half time doing a routine not unlike the Tampa Bay Rowdies Cheerleaders. "Arms were up here, arms were up here, arms were up here Since I have no idea about most of these and nothing better to do on a thursday night (I actually do, but am tired enough to excuse passing up productive activity for foolish browsing), I thought I'd look some of these up. 1. Chelsea Away. Good penalty call by the ref. Hands are up and away from the body, in a way that all defenders are taught to avoid doing. Ref had no choice. 2. Man Utd in the cup. Kompany A respectable decision. Regardless of whether he gets the man. There are two rules of tackling that every player knows. First, don't tackle studs up above the ground (if you get the man its a sure yellow), and second, never ever tackle with two feet. Every time that I've seen someone slide in the way Kompany did, it's been a straight red. When I saw Aaron Hunt of my own Werder Bremen slide in that way against Munich, I knew the red was coming out and didn't complain, even though he got the ball first. 3. Man utd, Jones hand. Maybe. I would have empathized with either decision, as Jones hand was initially behind his body, and was just unlucky to have had the ball bounce as it did. That said, the ball was well behind the runners, and would have just been cleared out anyway. So I hardly think City was robbed on this account. 4. Liverpool tackle. Can't find it. 5. Wigan. Can't find, you won anyway. 6. Sunderland Hardly a metre and a half. But yes, offside. 7. Tottenham Rightfully banned for being a malicious, arrogant s****horpe. 8. Liverpool Ball hit Dzeko's foot first, and was promptly cleared. Hardly a goal-scoring opportunity, and just not worth whining about. 9. Liverpool hand-ball. Already discussed, a clear penalty. Had it coming with his arms stretched out like a goalie.
January 27, 201214 yr BTW it was not me who wrote this rant. I think yours is so funny BTW .. looking forward to see what Reilly may have to say about it as well
January 27, 201214 yr BTW it was not me who wrote this rant. I think yours is so funny BTW .. looking forward to see what Reilly may have to say about it as well I realized that Courtey was supposed to be courtesy. But seeing how you're not quoting a news source, but what I'm guessing is some guy from a man city forum, I'm not sure why you would post it if you didn't find it at least mostly agreeable.
January 28, 201214 yr Not bad so far! Need to get hold of the ball more though and give Carroll better service. I think that it's great we can call on Adam, Bellamy, Kuyt and Johnson on the bench.
January 28, 201214 yr Oh my god! Almost had a heart attack when Kuyt scored! That was unbelievable! I'm still on an adrenaline rush!!
January 28, 201214 yr Carlos Tevez to rejoin West Ham on loan Evens at the bookies at the moment. Worth a flutter apparently...
January 28, 201214 yr I see police have arrested 3 Manchester United fans for spitting at the Hillsborough Memorial after the match. Sub human scum.
January 28, 201214 yr I see police have arrested 3 Manchester United fans for spitting at the Hillsborough Memorial after the match. Sub human scum.Source? All I can see on Twitter is a rumour made up by Liverpool fans.
January 28, 201214 yr Carlos Tevez to rejoin West Ham on loan Evens at the bookies at the moment. Worth a flutter apparently... Source ??
January 28, 201214 yr Source ??Jeff Stelling, SSN and Skybet https://www.skybet.com/betting///t10003041.html?AFF_ID=7945 Doubt they'll afford his wages, unless City pay a hefty lump of them, and that probably won't go down well with the Sheikhs.
January 28, 201214 yr yes I found it as well in the end... seems like someone is gonna make a mint...
January 29, 201214 yr Wheels are off for Villa. Up 2-0 at the half. Just conceded 3 goals in less than 10 minutes (2 PK's and one unlucky clearance deflection off of Walcott)
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