busybeeburns Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 Champions League draw: Arsenal to face Fenerbahce Champions League draw: Arsenal to face Fenerbahce Arsenal have been drawn against Fenerbahce in the play-off round of the Champions League for a place in the elite 32-team group stages. Fenerbahce were given a two-year ban from European competition in June over match-fixing allegations but were later reinstated while an appeal is heard. The Gunners will face the Turkish runners-up away on either 20 or 21 August, with the home leg a week later. Celtic travel to Kazakhstan champions Shakhter Karagandy for their first leg. Fenerbahce appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport after they and compatriots Besiktas were punished by European governing body Uefa. Cas say a final decision will be made by 28 August, which could be the date of the second leg of the play-off, but Uefa have said no decision has yet been made regarding what would happen in the event of Fenerbahce winning the tie against Arsenal and losing their appeal. The teams met in Group G of the competition in 2008-9 with Arsenal winning 5-2 in Turkey and the return at the Emirates finishing goalless. Celtic's opponents Shakhter Karagandy have won the Kazakhstan Premier League for the last two seasons. They were beaten in their first Champions League match, a second qualifying round encounter with Slovan Liberec last term, and lost 3-2 on aggregate to Irish side St Patrick's Athletic in the Europa League second qualifying round the season before. Tottenham and Swansea are involved in the Europa League draw which takes place at 12:00 BST. Champions League play-off round: Dinamo Zagreb v FK Austria Vienna Ludogorets v Basle Plzen v Maribor Shakhtyor Karaganda v Celtic Steaua Bucuresti v Legia Warsaw Lyon v Real Sociedad Schalke 04 v FC Metalist Kharkiv Pacos Ferreira v Zenit St Petersburg PSV v AC Milan Fenerbahce v Arsenal http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23620244 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busybeeburns Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 PSV v AC Milan looks a juicy one at this stage of the competition Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prince Myshkin Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 http://www.theguardian.com/football/gallery/2013/aug/09/manchester-united-financial-sector Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busybeeburns Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 What the fuck have Sky brought Carragher in as a pundit for? Hes a blithering idiot who talks absolute crap very quickly. Surely there must be some people in sky management team thinking they've made an embarrasing mistake with that one?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reilly Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 PSV v AC Milan looks a juicy one at this stage of the competition Yes but it's pretty ridiculous, Dutch and Italian teams shouldn't be facing in the qualifier, they'd walk over several of the other teams in the draw. http://www.theguardian.com/football/gallery/2013/aug/09/manchester-united-financial-sector I guess this would explain why the value of Man U as a business is so sporadic, they're like a stock market in themselves. What the fuck have Sky brought Carragher in as a pundit for? Hes a blithering idiot who talks absolute crap very quickly. Surely there must be some people in sky management team thinking they've made an embarrasing mistake with that one?! I agree, BT Sport got Michael Owen, Sky should've went with a safe and completely monotonously dull option like that. It'll be interesting to see how David James is on BT though, he's meant to be very intelligent (For a footballer) and could express himself decently in interviews. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prince Myshkin Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 Christ I remember watching a program where it was saying how intelligent David James was. He was talking about art and sounded like a bellend. But many intelligent people sound like bellends when talking about art so i guess it proved nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tnspieler1012 Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 Brilliant talent though. It's hard to tell who is a hothead sometimes, certainly he was un-settled and showed his frustrations last season, but it might be the club around him (Some say that shouldn't be an excuse but that is sometimes just the reality of the situation) and you look at the rest of the squad and wonder how that team got so few points, you have to wonder about the state of the entire dressing room. Well what I'm saying is, if he's happy for Fulham this season you could have a great player. Brilliant talent though. It's hard to tell who is a hothead sometimes, certainly he was un-settled and showed his frustrations last season, but it might be the club around him (Some say that shouldn't be an excuse but that is sometimes just the reality of the situation) and you look at the rest of the squad and wonder how that team got so few points, you have to wonder about the state of the entire dressing room. Well what I'm saying is, if he's happy for Fulham this season you could have a great player. Yeah, I'm thrilled as I'd be resigned to a tough season without a new attacking option. Still trying to see how the system will work once Bent comes in, as we've been fielding a 4-4-1-1 in pre-season friendlies and for most of last season. Ruiz is not as effective as Duff or Dejagah on the wing, but the only other way of starting Ruiz, Berba, and Bent at the same time would be a diamond 4-4-2 (which would be weird knowing Jol). --- Stoke seems to be trying to tap into the American market by striking a deal with Juan Agudelo (Young American forward who scored the tying goal in a friendly against Argentina where Messi had half the field stumbling after him like high school boys at Prom), set for the winter window. They already have 2 other US INT's: Geoff Cameron, and Brek Shea, who scored two game winners this last Gold Cup despite being piss poor a large percentage of the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tnspieler1012 Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 http://www.theguardian.com/football/gallery/2013/aug/09/manchester-united-financial-sector some of those adverts are hysterical: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lodder Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 PSV v AC Milan looks a juicy one at this stage of the competition Ooh I can't wait for this game... It's time that PSV takes revenge for the lost half finals in the Champions League from 2005. AC Milan 2 - 0 PSV PSV 3 - 1 AC Milan (With two goals from Phillip Cocu, who is the new PSV manager, and a goal from Park, who came back this summer) Bring it on!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reilly Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 I had already seen this but didn't realise how hilarious it is, Rooney's powerful mean pose and a sea of apocalyptic red in the background as they hold some potato chips. I always wonder, is this stuff in their contracts or something? That to get their weekly wage, they need to oblige to partaking in such ads that represent the team? Can they just outright refuse to do it? Or, do they get personal endorsement deals? I would imagine so, I can't imagine they'd want to do this humiliating shit, surely they want a big bag of money thrown at them for each ad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reilly Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 Hmmm decided to bring up the latest scores and check the Blackburn one as a Bradcock said he's gone to the game and I have no interest in anything else, and within 10 seconds of me loading the page Forest scored. I think I'm a bad omen, sorry. :sad: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prince Myshkin Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 They were better the first half, we were better the second half. We should have had a penalty and missed a golden chance. They almost had the ball bounce to them in open net situations, twice. A draw was fair, so annoying to concede so late. We didn't create enough. I can't really remember their keeper making a save. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lodder Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 New dutch Eredivisie (first league) record, the average age of the starting eleven from PSV Eindhoven tonight against NEC is 20,6 years old. Georgino Wijnaldum, aged 22, is the oldest PSV player starting tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busybeeburns Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 Hmmm decided to bring up the latest scores and check the Blackburn one as a Bradcock said he's gone to the game and I have no interest in anything else, and within 10 seconds of me loading the page Forest scored. I think I'm a bad omen, sorry. :sad:keep it up! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lodder Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 Zakaria Bakkali, 17 year old Belgian, remember that name [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il2esC3DruM]Zakaria Bakkali (17-year-old ) Amazing hat-trick GOAL (PSV) vs NEC 5-0 (10.08.2013) - YouTube[/ame] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busybeeburns Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 What a pickle Rodgers and Suarez are in. Wonder if Luis will bite :lol: <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Rodgers wants Suarez to apologise to players and the club before being allowed to train with 1st team again <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23NotGoingToHappen&src=hash">#NotGoingToHappen</a></p>— BetVictor (@BetVictor) <a href="https://twitter.com/BetVictor/statuses/366289528631214080">August 10, 2013</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lodder Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 So PSV finally sold their worst player. The fans where singing tonight: We're not afraid, because Marcelo has left :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tnspieler1012 Posted August 11, 2013 Share Posted August 11, 2013 shrug Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busybeeburns Posted August 11, 2013 Share Posted August 11, 2013 Charity Shield latest: Man Utd 1-0 Wigan (RVP, 7) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prince Myshkin Posted August 11, 2013 Share Posted August 11, 2013 I have £1 on 4-0 United. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tnspieler1012 Posted August 11, 2013 Share Posted August 11, 2013 Zaha's set to full showboat, trying desperately to impress. Wigan are bypassing common sense out of refusal to make this exciting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prince Myshkin Posted August 11, 2013 Share Posted August 11, 2013 Just found out that last week, when the Championship started, TalkSports featured commentary game was... Steven Gerrard's testimonial. Embarrassing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busybeeburns Posted August 11, 2013 Share Posted August 11, 2013 Stopped listening to talkshite ever since those bumchums from Sky took primetime Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prince Myshkin Posted August 11, 2013 Share Posted August 11, 2013 I wonder how many of the Charity Shield tickets are given to charity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busybeeburns Posted August 11, 2013 Share Posted August 11, 2013 Man Utd 2-0 Wigan (RVP, 60) Bit (lot) of a deflection Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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