If they win both games I'll be impressed, never mind convincingly. It's a results based business.

 

 

Bolton/Burnley game tonight.

If they win both games I'll be impressed, never mind convincingly. It's a results based business.

 

 

Bolton/Burnley game tonight.

 

I wonder how many "boos" Mr. Coyle will get.............................. :rolleyes:

Absolutely loads!

Owen Coyle will be booed on and Brian Laws will be booed off :lol:

Burnley 1-0 Bolton

 

:D

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bring on the bastards! :P

Come on Arsenal!

2 penalties within 5 minutes

Bring on the bastards! :P

 

Haha, fair play, sounds like you battered them in the first half!

I would love to knock you out given the chance but we won't be progressing :p

Coyle still made the right choice in leaving.

The Carling Cup Arsenal vs Spurs game was great! for arsenal!:wacky:

We got beat last night

You were playing?

 

My team got beat too.

West Brom ..

who did you play ?

could they get rid of this redundant tournament already. my team currently holds the cup and i want it gone. its just a waste of space.

could they get rid of this redundant tournament already. my team currently holds the cup and i want it gone. its just a waste of space.

I like the League Cup and it makes a lot of money for the lower teams. Think of things in term of football as a whole instead of just about Manchester U-fucking-nited.

West Brom ..

who did you play ?

 

No, I was asking if you had played for City with the way you used the term 'we'.

Blackburn Rovers, the team who I support, were beaten by Aston Villa.

The league cup gives the Arsenal kids their time in the sun ;)

 

No, I was asking if you had played for City with the way you used the term 'we'.

Blackburn Rovers, the team who I support, were beaten by Aston Villa.

 

the way man city are going i wouldnt be surprised if he gets a multimillion pound offer from man city very soon. of course they will forget about him after a few months.

Has the next round draw been made yet? If not when is it?

Arsenal Flying High Financially - Making a mockery of their rivals

 

Arsenal Holdings Plc’s fiscal-year profit increased 73 percent to a record 61 million pounds ($96 million) as the English soccer club sold apartments on the site of its former stadium.

 

Sales rose 21 percent to 379.9 million pounds in the year ending May 31, the London team said today in a PRNewswire statement. That’s the highest recorded by an English soccer team, allowing Gunners to reduce their net debt by more than half to 135.6 million pounds.

 

“The reason these results are important is not for their own sake, it’s because we’re building a foundation, a platform from which we can achieve on-field success,” Chief Executive Officer Ivan Gazidis said in a video on the team’s website.

 

With only about 60 of the 655 apartments built at the club’s former Highbury Stadium left to market, sales will probably decline next year. Yet, its balance sheet is in better shape than those of league rivals.

 

Liverpool, which is still planning to build a new stadium, had a loss of 14 million pounds because of interest payments from the 2007 takeover by owners George Gillett and Tom Hicks. Manchester City and Chelsea, bankrolled by billionaire owners, had combined losses of 137 million pounds, according to their latest results.

 

Manchester United pays more than 40 million pounds in interest annually on a 526 million pound bond needed to pay for the Glazer family’s 2005 leveraged buyout.

 

Player Sales

 

Arsenal’s revenue was also boosted by the sales of Emmanuel Adebayor and Kolo Toure to Manchester City. The team made a profit of 38.1 million pounds from player trades, and those funds can be used for new signings, Arsenal said in its statement.

 

Gazidis said Arsenal’s ‘self-sustaining’ model is the right path for the club because of new financial rules set by European soccer’s governing body. From 2012, clubs have to keep expenditure and costs within strict boundaries or face expulsion from the UEFA Champions League or Europa League.

 

“We will be well placed when those principles come through,” Gazidis said. “There’s still a lot that remains to be seen but I think it’s certainly a healthy development in the game.”

 

Arsenal, which has won England’s top league 13 times, played at Highbury from 1913 to 2006 before moving to the 60,000-seat Emirates Stadium nearby. The new facility, which helped almost double matchday sales, allows 20,000 more fans to watch home games.

 

Trophy Hunt

 

The 13-time league champion hasn’t won a trophy since the move, with the last triumph coming in the 2005 F.A. Cup. Manager Arsene Wenger has resisted fans calls to spend money on established players, preferring instead to use the club’s youth program alongside young signings from other clubs.

 

“We do have a policy of building and not buying, and that’s a difficult path to tread sometimes, but as a result of that policy we’re seeing a tremendous number of good young players progressing and developing into the finished article,” Gazidis said.

 

The club announced its cash reserves have swelled by 30 percent to 127.6 million pounds. That money will be used on the club’s infrastructure and be available for new players should Wenger need it, Gazidis added.

 

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-24/arsenal-has-record-profit-on-sale-of-highbury-properties-adebayor-toure.html

Arsenal = very well run club. And I'm proud (and biased) to say that my club Burnley also puts financial stability ahead of potential success, something that I'm sure Hull City and Portsmouth now wish they had!

Has the next round draw been made yet? If not when is it?

Saturday noon, should be on SSN from 12

 

Here's hoping for a home draw against anybody

Arsenal make record profits as Liverpool move one day closer to becoming owned by UK Plc

Something United fans would give their right arm for! :laugh3:

Why did they give us their manager?.

Arsenal vs west brom!

chels vs man city is going to be good!

If LA Galaxy win tonight against Red Bulls they'll clinch the supporters shield (best in the standings at end of season)

DAVE! :o

 

 

Portsmouth hit six to crush Foxes

 

Portsmouth 6 - 1 Leicester

 

Liam Lawrence and Dave Kitson scored two goals each as Portsmouth hammered fellow strugglers Leicester.

 

Lawrence's first was a penalty after a Michael Morrison handball, and his second was a deflected free-kick after a foul which saw Miguel Vitor sent off.

 

David Nugent netted from a tight angle for 3-0 and then unselfishly set up Kitson to chip in the fourth.

 

Steve Howard netted a consolation goal before Kitson bagged his second and at the death Michael Brown made it 6-1.

 

Having won at Fratton Park on Tuesday night in the Carling Cup, Leicester's players stayed on the south coast rather than make unnecessary journeys.

 

But from the outset a repeat of that win looked unlikely, and with just 10 minutes gone Portsmouth were in front.

 

From Lawrence's own corner, Morrison stuck out an arm to very obviously prevent the ball getting to Kitson, and Lawrence stuck the resulting penalty to the left of goalkeeper Conrad Logan.

 

Leicester responded brightly, with Lloyd Dyer's pace on the left a major threat.

 

Having already provided a good chance for Andy King, who shot wide, Dyer then produced a delightful piece of control to set up King to sweep the ball into the net, only to be denied by an offside flag.

 

But any hopes Leicester had of getting back into the game went up in smoke when Vitor saw red for rugby-tackling Nugent on the edge of the box, despite there being two other defenders close at hand.

 

Hayden Mullins laid the free-kick off to Nugent, and his shot took a huge deflection off the arm of Bruno Berner and into the roof of the net.

 

With the hour mark approaching, Portsmouth's grip on the game went from tight to vice-like.

 

First, Logan made a superb double save from Kitson and Nugent, before the ex-Preston striker turned the ball in from a tight angle.

 

And straight from the kick-off, Nugent pressurised the Leicester defence, won possession and showed great vision to lay the ball off to Kitson, who chipped in Portsmouth's fourth goal.

 

Howard took the gloss off Portsmouth's evening when he poached a goal for Leicester by poking home in a crowded penalty area, but Portsmouth's four goal advantage was soon restored.

 

Kitson bagged his second from close range after Leicester failed to clear a corner properly.

 

That goal looked to have sealed the win which lifted Portsmouth out of the bottom three, but there was more to come.

 

Right on 90 minutes, midfielder Brown showed neat footwork and persistence to turn the ball home from the tightest of angles to round off a resounding win for the home side.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_1/9020826.stm