Football 2010-2011

[ampersand]

I would add jaskalianen and hart to the list. I would take away cudicini (havent got a clue how good he is these days), sorenson and gordon. I dont see him as being particularly error prone at all, he makes mistakes but so do all keepers.

[TheGayTent]

saw cudicini make a cracking double (or might have been triple) save in a preseason game in new york. can't understand why he's still an understudy.

and hart is not better than gordon. if we had a team gb, gordon would be in goal!

[pink_triangle]

and hart is not better than gordon. if we had a team gb, gordon would be in goal!

[Cardboard Box City]

Friedel

Cech

Howard

Reina

Given

Green

Harper

Van Der Sar

Gomez

Hart

[TheGayTent]

Harper?! f**k off!

And if you're wanting to talk about howlers - I thought Green was unlucky/jinxed BEFORE the World Cup.

Howard isn't better than him either, I'd have said on a par with.

[pink_triangle]

A day before the season starts , any predictions for the sack race. Im going for hughton because I can see newcastle fans having the most unrealistic expectations of premiership fans. If they arent challenging for europe can see calls for the messiahs shearer and keegan to come back. Other contenders.

Mancini - If city start slow, wealthy owners may panic at missing out next years champions league

Holloway - Can see blackpool having one of the worst ever point totals. He should be immune as they shouldnt even be there but it doesnt work out like that.

Martinez, mcarthy, di matteo - managing perenial relgation candidates so always at risk.

Long shot mcleish - Birmingham cant score, if he start conceding then they could be really screwed.

[pink_triangle]

What's interesting, is although people are arguing over one of two names, it's obvious there's at least 8 widely believed to be better than Schwarzer, and that's just in the English top flight - which begs the question again, why are Arsenal - a team aiming for the title, interested in him?

Wenger really is short sighted when it comes to keepers.

[ampersand]

Ooh what a surprise you disagree about the barcode

[TheGayTent]

A day before the season starts , any predictions for the sack race. Im going for hughton because I can see newcastle fans having the most unrealistic expectations of premiership fans. If they arent challenging for europe can see calls for the messiahs shearer and keegan to come back. Other contenders.

Mancini - If city start slow, wealthy owners may panic at missing out next years champions league

Holloway - Can see blackpool having one of the worst ever point totals. He should be immune as they shouldnt even be there but it doesnt work out like that.

Martinez, mcarthy, di matteo - managing perenial relgation candidates so always at risk.

Long shot mcleish - Birmingham cant score, if he start conceding then they could be really screwed.

[Cardboard Box City]

Ooh what a surprise you disagree about the barcode

[TheGayTent]

Agreed, while I dont see your point about schwartzer being error prone. Arsenal really should be going after the best keepers in the world, not a solid premiership veteran.

Edited August 13, 2010 by TheGayTent

[TheGayTent]

Yet I can't remember a massive amount of them. If only we had someone who's seen him play hundreds of times to varify this...

Edited August 13, 2010 by TheGayTent

[Cardboard Box City]

Really?

You don't remember the one against Man Utd? Or Iraq? Or Serbia? Or Germany?

[Steve P]

What's interesting, is although people are arguing over one of two names, it's obvious there's at least 8 widely believed to be better than Schwarzer, and that's just in the English top flight - which begs the question again, why are Arsenal - a team aiming for the title, interested in him?

Wenger really is short sighted when it comes to keepers.

[pink_triangle]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/8902975.stm

I still havent got my head around these new rules. Looking at the list arsenal, chelsea and liverpool are all have less than 8 senior home grown players. Am I right in thinking that they can still make the 8 up by naming u21 players in the squad, even though in theory the u21 players dont need to be named in a 25 man squad?

[Steve P]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/8902975.stm

I still havent got my head around these new rules. Looking at the list arsenal, chelsea and liverpool are all have less than 8 senior home grown players. Am I right in thinking that they can still make the 8 up by naming u21 players in the squad, even though in theory the u21 players dont need to be named in a 25 man squad?

[pink_triangle]

They just won't fill the full 25 man squad as such, there's no point in naming the under 21 players. Arsenals case is somewhat different to Liverpool and Chelsea though. An awful lot of the Arsenal team proper are under 21 so it distorts things a bit, they don't have any worries regarding the new rules.

[Steve P]

So effectively its not that teams need 8 senior home grown players but more they cant have more than 17 who are not home grown or more than 25 senior players in total?

[Cardboard Box City]

Newcastle fan goes through to world finals of Dumbest Man Going Awards

[The Nal]

Newcastle fan goes through to world finals of Dumbest Man Going Awards

[oafc0000]

Newcastle fan goes through to world finals of Dumbest Man Going Awards

[philipsteak]

In his defence though, it happens all the time. Ex porn stars moving to Nigeria to become a lab technician.

[Cardboard Box City]

The best bit is the picture of her on the second page with a sign that has blatantly been done in Microsoft Paint.

How much does Leicester City manager Paulo de Sousa look like Christopher Lee's character, Lord Summerisle, from the 1973 horror film 'The Wicker Man'?

Christoper Lee:

Paulo de Sousa:

[PeterD]

Typical Geordie. Maybe he thought he was too big to get duped. The only downside of last season aside from Phil Dowd's shite reffing at Wembley was NUFC not doing a Leeds.

[PeterD]

Anyway at Villa Park today, it is going to be odd without a manager, potentially James Milner playing and what have you. Havent commented on MON going basically as Lucky Salt said it all. Excited by new season though.