Football 2011-2012

[The Nal]

I don't disagree with you, but .....

Mancini has said something about Tevez which is likely to have a significant impact on Tevez's future career. It's just about the worst thing that anyone can say about a professional footballer.

So if the truth of the matter is Tevez's version of what happened, then I can understand why he'd be so pissed off to follow thru with legal action.

[eFestivals]

Maybe yeah but to be fair to Mancini, hes a class act.

he's certainly got more class than Hughes had as City boss. But that doesn't mean he's incapable of making an error.

I've no idea what the truth of things is, but I reckon it's probably not too difficult for the sort of misunderstanding that Tevez claimed happened to have happened, when put in the full context of the two people involved speaking different native languages and perhaps both using their non-native language of English at that time, along with all the distractions and noise of a match being played.

[kaosmark2]

Maybe yeah but to be fair to Mancini, hes a class act. Tevez has proved, multiple times, thats he is not.

I'm sure there would have had to be rumblings from Tevez about not getting his his 6m "loyalty" bonus before the Bayern game and maybe a threat of something as a result. City have taken their time over this and are not likely to make mistakes with Abu Dhabi's legal team behind them where as Tevez has a money grabbing buffoon as an "advisor".

"Tevez", "loyalty" and "bonus" in the same sentence! I hope they let him rot in the reserves until hes 30.

[swede]

Tevez is a class act. Anyone who calls Gary Fucking Neville a 'bootlicker and a moron' and gets away with it is class.

[pink_triangle]

Anyone who gets paid the money he does but wont put in half an hour for their club or gaffer is much worse than a moron. For that money id play football till I couldnt physically run any more.

[kaosmark2]

Playing devils advocate is it any worse than the many players who cant play because they say their head is not in the right place or make up phantom injuries, I suspect it happens far more often than we realize.

[swede]

Playing devils advocate is it any worse than the many players who cant play because they say their head is not in the right place or make up phantom injuries, I suspect it happens far more often than we realize.

[kaosmark2]

Well all those players are c**ts as well, they dont know how privilaged they are, they should try living in the real world for a week or two.

[kaosmark2]

I don't like this losing malarky. I'd got used to not having to go through it. Bloody cuptie.

[swede]

The real world, where people spend their 'working' day on internet forums

[eFestivals]

I don't like this losing malarky. I'd got used to not having to go through it. Bloody cuptie.

you're gonna have to get used to it over the next few weeks. Your easy league matches are over.

[pink_triangle]

The league cup is looking good this year with 5 of the top 6 best premiership sides still in. Glad to see the likes of liverpool and arsenal taking it seriously as its defintiely their best chance for a trophy.

[pink_triangle]

you're gonna have to get used to it over the next few weeks. Your easy league matches are over.

[kaosmark2]

So you condone the actions of these mega rich pussies we call professional footballers ? Im a huge football fan but my god players nowadays think they can do as they like.

[kaosmark2]

you're gonna have to get used to it over the next few weeks. Your easy league matches are over.

[kaosmark2]

Im sure newcastle will fall away but I hope not too much. Im not sure whether its come from pardew or ashley but in my opinion newcastle have had the cleverest transfer policy of the last year. Selling carrol for an inflated price was a no brainer but I have been impressed with other decisions. The media said they were stupid to get rid of Barton and Nolan and have been proven wrong.

Also impressed by the fact they are happy to take in the "english premium" for players like carroll but are sensible in the fact they wont pay multi million fees for mediocre english players and instead have gone after top young players abroad who will probably be sold on at a huge profit in the next few years. To me this is the most sustainable way of working the transfer market untill ridiculous prices for english players come down. I would say there are only 3 or 4 english strikers better than Ba (probably says as much as the quality of english strikers as that of Ba) so why invest millions when you can get the same quality free.

[swede]

No, I'm playing Devil's Advocate. If you can afford a computer and get free time during the day to do not much on the internet, you can't have it that bad. Footballers quite often are tossers, but considering the every day training, evening games, weekend games, they probably actually spend more hours working than most of us 'in the real world'.

[kaosmark2]

Popping on the internet is just a little perk our boss affords us as long as the work gets done, but im not getting paid 200 grand a week and the work gets done. For the money they're on or should I say demanding off clubs nowadays they should be training every day, and I bet most of the time its just half day training sessions. It breaks my heart when they complain about sometimes having to play 3 games in the space of a week, the poor things.

[swede]

How many players complain about that? It's usually managers complaining about the hectic schedules.

[pink_triangle]

Anyone else have a feeling that Anton Ferdinand is now nailed on to both get a place in the Olympic squad and not pursue a claim against terry.

[Stash]

Anyone else have a feeling that Anton Ferdinand is now nailed on to both get a place in the Olympic squad and not pursue a claim against terry.

[kaosmark2]

Cracking game. Best of the season so far. Delighted I watched it, end-to-end, some brilliant quality.

Atrocious defending though. Terry and Cech particularly bad. I'm still not convinced by Chelsea, I think they could plausibly finish 4th or 5th. I think they're missing Essien's control over midfield, I haven't seen enough from Mikel to suggest to me that he's a top defensive midfielder. Torres didn't look like continuing his recent form today. It's just one game, but there's quite a lot of improvement needed.

[pink_triangle]

The sunday supplement team continue to annoy me more and more. Yesterday they were calling villas boas an imposter and unproven, yet they constantly lick redknapps ass who has won less than the chelsea manager in a fraction of the time. I think he has taken a tough job on, theres a lot of players past their best who need moving on in the next couple of years so it wont happen overnight. If I hear another person call cole the best left back in the world I will throw something at the tv. Its very debatable if he ever was, despite often repeated as if fact, I have never heard anyone who doesnt watch predominatly premiership football make the statement.

Impressed by spurs and liverpool. Spurs midfield excites me and they seem to contrubute goals which is important as the strikers dont. Apart from suarez liverpool players dont excite me but they are very hard ot beat which could be the telling factor over 38 games..

Never really noticed him apart from the last few weeks but sessignon (probably spelt wrong) is impressing me from what I see on MOTD. Swansea and Norwich continue to impress not just in results but the spirit they play the game. I remember when gardener got his 2nd yellow on saturday the swansea player stayed on his feet, in the same situation suzrez or nani would have been rolling on the ground, clutching their head.

At the bottom I wonder if Martinez underestimated the teams coming up and regrets not going to villa. As for blackburn I actually think they have quite a few decent players and the sooner keen is sacked the better.

[eFestivals]

yeah, I could see Chelsea being the team to miss out on the top four this year too - if they don't get their act together quickly, anyway.

The Prem seems to have gone goal crazy so far this year. Here's betting there'll only be one-nils from xmas onwards.

[pink_triangle]

yeah, I could see Chelsea being the team to miss out on the top four this year too - if they don't get their act together quickly, anyway.