We are still top...

Bad month Jan.

As long as we finish above the swampmire I will be happy..

Well done well done Everton. Liverpool is a place we dont need to visit again thank fuck.

My my that was as comfortable as you can get for Liverpool. There were times in that match where I thought they were having a training match. Wolves really were very poor. Nevertheless Bellamy, Carroll and Kuyt linked up superbly. It was a fine professional all round performance from the team. Chelsea drawing to Swansea is a big bonus for us as well.

My my that was as comfortable as you can get for Liverpool. There were times in that match where I thought they were having a training match. Wolves really were very poor. Nevertheless Bellamy, Carroll and Kuyt linked up superbly. It was a fine professional all round performance from the team. Chelsea drawing to Swansea is a big bonus for us as well.

 

Very true. Without Gerrard as well. I knnow this sounds unthinkable but Suarez might have more trouble than expected trying to get in the team against Spurs next week. Carroll, Kuyt and Bellamy were brrilliant together. I think all four of them could play. Bellamy and Kuyt on the wings getting forward to support Carroll and Suarez. Henderson and Downing are also starting to show why we bought them. It's all starting to come good at the right time. Based on recent performances i'd say we have a great chance of finishing 4th above Chelsea and Arsenal.

Very true. Without Gerrard as well. I knnow this sounds unthinkable but Suarez might have more trouble than expected trying to get in the team against Spurs next week. Carroll, Kuyt and Bellamy were brrilliant together. I think all four of them could play. Bellamy and Kuyt on the wings getting forward to support Carroll and Suarez. Henderson and Downing are also starting to show why we bought them. It's all starting to come good at the right time. Based on recent performances i'd say we have a great chance of finishing 4th above Chelsea and Arsenal.

 

If we can beat Tottenham at home next Monday night then I think we could have a great chance of getting 4th.

Egypt football clashes 'kill 73'

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBvt9tUeauU]Al Jazeera's Rawya Rageh reports on Egypt football violence - YouTube[/ame]

 

Egypt football violence leaves many dead in Port Said

 

At least 73 people have been killed in clashes between rival fans following a football match in the Egyptian city of Port Said, state television reports.

 

The deaths occurred as supporters invaded the pitch after a match between top-tier clubs Masry and al-Ahly on Wednesday. It is feared the death toll could rise as at least 156 people have been hurt.

 

It is the biggest disaster in the country's football history, said the Egyptian deputy health minister. "This is unfortunate and deeply saddening," Hesham Sheiha told state television. Some of the dead were security officers, the Associated Press news agency quoted a morgue official as saying.

 

The BBC's Jon Leyne in Cairo says it appears some fans had taken knives into the stadium. Our correspondent says the lack of the usual level of security in the stadium might have contributed to the clashes. Police in Egypt have been keeping a much lower profile since last year's popular protests that ousted President Hosni Mubarak from power.

 

Egyptian fans are notoriously violent, says our correspondent, particularly supporters of al-Ahly known as the Ultras. They have been heavily implicated in confronting the police during political recent political protests, our correspondent adds. There is speculation that the security forces may have had an interest in taking on al-Ahly supporters.

 

Wednesday's violence broke out at the end of the match, which, unusually, Port Said side Masry won 3-1. Witnesses said the atmosphere had been tense throughout the match - since an al-Ahly fan raised a banner insulting supporters of the home team. As match ended, their fans flooded onto the pitch attacking Ahly players and fans.

 

A small group of riot police tried to protect the players, but were overwhelmed. Part of the stadium was set on fire. Officials say most of the deaths were caused by concussions, deep cuts to the heads and suffocation from the stampede.

 

Helicopters have been sent to Port Said to transport injured fans.

 

"This is not football. This is a war and people are dying in front of us," al-Ahly player Mohamed Abo Treika said.

 

A member of parliament for for Port Said, Albadry Farghali, blamed security forces which "did this or allowed it to happen".

 

"The men of Mubarak are still ruling. The head of the regime has fallen but all his men are still in their positions," he said on television. "Where is the security? Where is the government?"

 

In Cairo, another match was halted by the referee after news of the Port Said violence. It prompted fans to set parts of the stadium on fire. All premier-league matches have been cancelled and the newly-elected Egyptian parliament is to hold an emergency session on Thursday.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16845841

^geez.

 

1. Ian, when was the last time you changed your avi?

 

2. Dempsey scores again, though Fulham should have won, and won by at least 3.

Following the Harry Redknapp and it seems like he's guilty as hell. Is his best defence really '"owww I carnt read or write" or "I was finkin of how to combat the threat of David Beckham". Tosser. He's doing brilliantly at Spurs but let's be honest he has only won one FA Cup in his entire management career. Hardly a glowing cv for the job. You want a modern forward thinking manager as head coach these days. The likes of Villas Boas, Guardiola and Low are those managers. It's up to England to start producing managers like that and not 70s throwbacks in the form of Redknapp. He is not nearly modern enough to succeed at such a level as international football. With him in charge they'd become an even bigger cliche than they are. I want to see the best for England, but with an FA like that and a press as keen for pushing the case for a dated manager I think failure would be a fair reward.

1. Ian, when was the last time you changed your avi?

before xmas I think, you want a different one on me?

there is a conspiracy aganist us withh the refs... and in general why ???

did you see the barca goalie get away with handball outside the area as the last defender and not even a yellow? Now that's bad refereeing!

before xmas I think, you want a different one on me?

 

No, I like it. I just just now noticed it had changed from the kid. #inattentive

The more I read into the egyptian attacks, the more it seems like less a case of hooliganism, than a plotted political massacre. The amount of armed 'fans' has apparently produced speculation that the attack wasn't even fan-led, but just political factions using it as a guise to get at the Al-Ahly ultras who played a big part in the resistance that brought down Mubarak. It gets crazier to see how completely useless the police were from the footage. There have to be at least 50 men in riot gear who just stand to the way-side while everything else is going on, (in turn adding to political conspiracy theories, especially under reports that the gates weren't even opened for the Ahly fans to escape).

 

I know as little about it as anyone, and have just been browsing speculative reports from the guardian/AOL etc, but it annoys me how some people are just shrugging it off as 'oh, those crazy hooligans', when it seems much more vicious and coordinated than that.

When it happened I found a few blogs from Egyptians who were at the match and also reports from Facebook or Twitter, the 'conspiracies' ranging from it happening to be a political fight that broke out, to Mubarak's thugs lining the crowd with the intention of creating havoc between supporters, as practically a staged publicity stunt to show the country's decline. What this would actually achieve doesn't quite make sense to me.

 

Things I've seen that works in their favour, apparently security at matches such as these is normally water-tight, but that night you could practically walk in with an RPG strapped to your back, and also, the supporters who started the riot actually had won the game.

Feisty game at the Emirates

 

Arsenal 3-1 Blackburn HT (2 for Van Persie and 1 assist, he's still on fire)

 

a few juicy tackles, one of which led to Givet being sent off for two footed challenge on Van Persie, Givet apologised to Wenger as he walked off

 

and plenty of empty seats too! :lol:

5-1 after 53 minutes

 

this could finish in double figures

6-1 Van Persie hattrick

7-1 Thierry Henry! (90+3)

FT

there is a conspiracy aganist us withh the refs... and in general why ???

 

Where the fuck did this come from, I didn't even notice it, and why do you think that? You're nuts.

 

Why did you bring this up now?

Wow. Timmy Howard with an absolutely howler of a mistake.

7-1 Thierry Henry! (90+3)

FT

 

That Oxlade Chamberlain chap is really coming on of late at Arsenal. He is one of three players who will be huge for England in the next few years. The other two being Jack Wilshere and Martin Kelly who I think will be the two best players of their generation.

Johnson buys a cheap penalty. Some conspiracy.

poor Baird :-(

Spieler do you realise how cryptic your posts usually are in this thread? Fucking annoying.

WE WON ... AT LAST !

With yet again without another player... who was suspended... apart from Balotelli.

 

I hope we prove the consipiracy !

WE WON ... AT LAST !

With yet again without another player... who was suspended... apart from Balotelli.

 

I hope we prove the consipiracy !

 

I just asked you what the fucking conspiracy is, are you actually mental?

 

So I'll ask again, what conspiracy?

 

Intentionally kicking people in the head and getting punished is not the result of a conspiracy, the police stated that at Scott Parkers request they would have charged him for it.