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Can't believe I'm sat watching Manure v Arse  :(
Ah well, hopefully it'll be lively  :)

1-0 to the arsenal  :D

Didn't last long 1 - 1

tenner on 3-2 united

Arsenal 2 - 1 in the usual 88th minute goal

I thought I'd stop hating Man United when they became average but I havent, bunch of utter cunts

Edit - Hahahahahaha, that was good to see

Di Maria sent off for pulling the refs shirt. Delightfully stupid.

Di  Maria must have taken lessons of County's Liam Noble.

Poor old Dobby

Come on lads plan B.  Lump it up to Screech!

They are a little hoofy are united.

Think the ref is having a great game tbh

That was a shocking dive.  Frankly he had a gentle caress on the stomach and went down 3 strides later.  Terrible stuff.

Agree, got the big decisions spot and didnt bottle it as so many of them do at OT.

2 years with no trophy, lovely stuff!

Lovely  :)

Ha. Needed a good refresh on the United hatred. What a gaggle of c*nts.

Excellent!

Good game to watch tbh.

How many divers in one team??

Much better tie than the weekends shit matches. Ref did well I thought.

Ashley Young is everything I hate in today's football all bundled up in one hateful, spiteful little package

Is it any wonder that referees make so many mistakes in this day and age? The old honest Footballers have been replaced by modern day whinge bag con artists.

Did anyone see the red card that the Wolves player got sent off for on Saturday? The Watford player is a pure cheat and should be banned for 15 matches for feigning being headbutted.

In last night's match Januzaj's dive was nothing short of pathetic and why was Rooney in the referees ear for every decision, stupid phallus.

yep, a horrible little cunt

the ref was very good last night. I bloody gate hate divers. even our own.

Have you acquired a smaller phone recently Batch?  :sherlock:

Nope, fatter fingers.

Some game going on at the bernabeu 3-4  schalke at the moment.


In other news Shitty are winning 0-2 @ Yeovil

Am I the only one who is, for want of a better word, enjoying Yeovil's on-the-field plight?

3 nil shitty

No your not.

Poxy little fuckass club.

I don't really care much about Yeovil, and have given up any hope of finishing above City. It'd be lovely to go up with them on 1/5 of their budget though

I remember many moons ago, me and three mates went to Yeovil to watch chippenham in some cup game or whatever. There wasn't segregation and we sat in the stand that's to the right of the away end. We made it obvious that we were supporting chippenham. A few wurzels starting looking back at us from a few rows in front, and one of the more yokel/vocal ones shouted.....

"why don't you piss off back to Dorset"

:idiot:

City are up, doing the double over them would be sweet. N Thompson 1-0  :)

At the start of the season I had us down as relegation candidates. To finish in the playoffs would be a superb effort. To finish 2nd would be quite simply remarkable. Unlikely to finish above City who lets be fair have been the most consistent this season.

This. Although I care a little more about Yeovil only because I have quite a few mates that are fans, living down here that obvious really.

They are hating this season :D I should be winding them up more than I actually am but it feels a bit churlish because they are so very poor.

Come on Bradford  :D

Yep, more engaged by this than virtually any spoilt-brat prem fixture. C'mon you Bantams.

I see Sheehan's still a cunt

Joey Barton still sounds like one.

I missed the 2 goals and it's been awful since I've started watching. Hoof, foul, hoof foul etc. Woeful.

Parkinson is also a monumental cunt

Bradford haven't been so bad mind.

Oh for a trip to the Madjeski next season

They'd need to dust those song sheets down

Bloody hell these are two niggly teams.

Also assume commentators were bollocked c.30 mins for not pushing the Bradford plucky angle, commentary changed somewhat since then.

Are they still the Biscuitmen or have they ditched that one

I bumped into a Reading fan last week, ended up having a good chat with him. He asked me whether or not we sings songs about them as, apparently, they often sing songs about us. According to him, and he goes to the Majedski quite regularly, rather a lot of Reading fans still see us as their main rivals.

Yeah, you're right. My daughter in law's brother is a Reading fan and he asked me the same thing.

Said they never entered our consciousness

Yep changed to the Plastic Men

I tell you what, Dean Saunders does a bloody good job of stating the obvious!

I've only heard the Bradford fans sing :shrug:

And bloody loud they are too!

Also did Reading moan about Bradford's pitch at all? Because theirs is pretty pisspoor.

To be fair, they used to.  Before Oxford existing (pre-1960ish), the Reading rivalry was taken very seriously...according to books I've read anyway.

I don't think it would make much at all for the rivalry to fire up if we had a few consecutive seasons playing in the same division again.

Another shitty looking pitch, too.

Those egg chasers really do fuck up the surface

Ooh,  the same number of posts as Ardiles  :)

"It's an awful challenge"

Is it? Is it really?

Elm Park used to be fun. They had that funny in-ground turnstile thing where you could pay to get in the home end from the away end.

Weird set up, that

Wonder if that would be seen as a dive in Burslem?   :sherlock:

Had to even it up again.

Swindon in the South Bank many times.

It was always a laugh at a Reading.

Now Reading have the most plastic, boring irritating fans out.
Boring bastards the lot of them.
You only have to look and listen at them ..... Pathetic !!
Fucking hate them, less than Oxford granted.

Did Reading really just have some "comedy" music played over the PA whilst there was a fan on the pitch, or did I just imagine that in my half awake stupor?

Yeah they did, what a cunt though, the pitch invader wont be going to the semi final

Fucking hell, it was too cringey for me to think it was real. What a shit football club. If the stewards had actually broke into anything more than a stroll to try and catch the bloke, they could have played some benny hill.

Sasima knows her stuff.

Does anyone remember that incident years ago when some pitch invader went for Rhys Evans and eventually one rather unfit stewardess slowly ran after him?

It was brilliant

Noticed that our biggest fan, Parkinson, had a dig last night saying the game was between 2 honest teams and will not see some of the diving, timewasting and feigning injury of some teams.

Quite right, Parky, that is far worse than some of the tackles your lot were launching into, picking up bookings and a sending off.

Rather have players diving than trying to maim others.

Fuckwit

I did laugh when Martin Keown commented when a substitute was coming on 'and he is taking final instructions from the assistant manager' - I assume that those instructions were if it moves kick it, and if it isn't moving just kick it to make sure!

It sounded like there was an all-American college marching band somewhere in the ground. Shudder.

Here we go again. Come on England

2-1 england

I know it's a friendly, but what a shite atmosphere

Can't wait for Saturday

1-0 Italy

I'm never eating pizza again

Clyne is shite

Bradford City 0-1 Chesterfield.

So glad we're not in that Play-Off pack.

England debut for Ryan Mason.

What a goal from Townsend

Italy holding out for the draw  :)

Portugal losing 2-0 to Cape Verde  :eek:

Not even shocked at this. Portugal are utter shite.

That explains why he's part of the best defense in the premier league and plays for England then.  :hmmm:

I love it when people assess players based on approximately 30 mins of 1 game!

Clyne is very decent player and has been for best part of 2 seasons now

Defense! Please remember, England play football, not soccer

Perhaps I should have qualified that with 'tonight'

Interestingly, Cape Verde are ranked higher than Scotland. Not sure if that says more about rankings or Scotland...
http://m.fifa.com/fifa-world-ranking/ranking-table/men/

Ryan Mason played for League One Swindon Town last year and last night he gets his England debut. Fantastic.

I still have to ask though, where in the hell is Austin? If Kane can get in the side based off of one decent half season then why can Charlie not when he's been scoring goals for fun for donkeys? Oh wait. Charlie doesn't play for a top 6 side. Therefore he doesn't 'deserve' it.

Saw the last 10 minutes last night and was actually quite happy with how we played, which is terrifying considering how atrocious it has been for a fair old while. Townsend/Kane/Walker/Mason all looked good. Can't help but feel there's a coincidence there...

Kane got picked ahead of Austin because he's got a far far better premiership record. It's not very complicated to understand. As much as the Austin fairytale is nice (and I still have doubts that Kane can maintain anything like this kind of form for most of his career), it's a pretty obvious one.

We are quite well off for strikers at the moment compared to recent years.

Austin is presumably 5th/6th in line, there is no way he could justifiably be picked ahead of any of the 4 strikers in the last squad unfortunately.

Unless, and call me crazy here, we use things like friendlies to try out different combinations of players. I am not a fan of Rooney, particularly as an England goalscorer (do not even try and use his scoring record as a defence here - he's scored most of his tally in games against much weaker opposition than the people he's being compared to, and has yet to make a proper difference in a tournament since the first euros he was in whilst still at Everton). In an ideal world (i.e. one where selling shirts wasn't as important as the football), he'd be dropped for games like this for a different option.

Similarly, I don't think there's much to be gained in letting a bunch of players from the same club spend precious game time together in Friendlies - they play together in their day jobs, so it's the interplay with the other lads in the team that's the issue, might as well make the most of the few chances they do get.

35 of rooneys 47 goals have come in competitive games. He might not score as many as we'd like at tournaments (although he is tied 1st as goalscorer at our last two, and was our best player in Brazil) but he is a large part in us qualifying for those tournaments so easily in the first place

The best striker we've got at international level is Wellbeck. Scores goals, works unbelievably hard at closing down opposition players, has intelligence and has the touch for international football. He'n nowhere near the best Premiership striker but by far England's best.

I love Welbeck he is not a great striker but works so hard in the channels, gets in scoring positions and set up a lot, is very unpredictable at times and sometimes misses easy chances but then manages to score regularly, I would pick him above any other England forward player.

It is somewhat strange how much better he plays for country rather than club

See also: Townsend, Andros

can't be arsed with a new thread. Preston are winning..

Boo. To be expected I guess.

Cmon you Roches of The Dale

City now ahead at Oldham.

Amend: now 1-1

Oh no they're not

Not any more

Calvin Andrew now on for Rochdale.  :beers: :clap:

One of four Rochdale substitutions according to the BBC…  :hmmm:

they've made 4 subs according to Sky!

Come on Dale....please get the equaliser.

Only 1 shot on target all game...

FT 1-0 Preston

Boo

Preston are strong defensively.

Brizzle draw. Small mercies and all that.

If we win our three games in hand and beat them on Tuesday we'll only be 3 points behind them.
FUCK YEAH!

FUCK YEAH!

And they lose to PNE and we"ll be equal points.

I'd laugh me cock off we AND PNE both overtook them!

Anyway, it's always been about what we do

Exactly this we just have to go out and win games.
Mind you as always a few twists and turns will happen.
Tomorrow is massive though........just need to turn up and get behind the lads for 90 minutes.
If we can "support" like we did at Port Vale with less numbers then it can only lift the players.
Looking forward albeit a little nervous.

Yep. Tomorrow is the crucial one if we want to put a few wobbles up the fuckers

Sometimes there is more pressure on those looking over their shoulder than those doing the chasing.
Let's hope its the case for the the top 2

doesnt seem to be the case at the moment unfortunately

Tomorrow is a massive game. We have to win really. I'm hoping City take points off Preston a week tomorrow. If we can get 4 points from the next 2 we are still very much in it.

I see us drawing tomorrow, melt down on the cards, then winning at City

Are you making that a promise?

Yes

You just don't do low stakes do you?

Preston 1-0 at Bradford and Bradford are also down to 10 men

Scored a rebound from a pen too, starting to think it's not our year for autos

2-0 PNE

2 nil now

2-0 now. I just hope we can deny the 82ers the Championship by beating them tomorrow.

As it stands PNE only 5 pts behind the 82ers and yet to play each other

3-0 preston

We can wave goodbye to 2nd, pretty much in the playoffs already though. Would love Preston to finish top instead of 82ers

I just hope we don't get spanked

I know where you're coming from, personally though I don't have the energy to be bothered. I think Saturday sucked it all out of me.

x100

I would piss a bucket of blood if City get caught for top spot!

Let's put in a shift tomorrow to help it become reality!

City 6/5 v Swindon . Fucking good odds. Hate betting against but a great way to jinx it.

That is remarkable. A bet worth losing.

Aint lost to them tosspots in 11 games.

Don't expect to lose tomorrow, either.

Bollocks to all you naysayers

Love your positivity but am expecting the worst. I put a wedge on City at the CG ( call me a cunt obviously)  thus allowing us to win.  Trying the same trick.

A trip to Wembley and a double over the 82ers and I'll be happy (and no I don't expect us to get promoted this season).

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Juve 1 up against Madrid  :)

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Vidal's poncey haircut!   :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

STOP USING UP YOUR FOOTY JUICE ON THIS IRRELEVANT CRAP!!!  :eek: