Football Focus

[SimonM]

>>7 correct results inc 2 exact scores. Anyone done any better?<<

9 correct, 3 perfect scores. Liverpool let me down of course....:))

[snorky]

bah

club football is teh rubbish

this weekend see the Scotland face the might of Ukraine at hampden.

now thats a proper game

[Jah Lush]

Nine and two correct scores. Bah!

If I had a pound for every time that Tottenham have conceded a goal in the last minute over the years I could afford tea and sandwiches at The Chandelier. Should have won the game at Anfield but ended up holding on and conceding in the dying seconds...bloody typical.

[clare]

Let's here it for Leeds (again)

Scored in the 90th minute last Tues to win 1-0

Scored in the 89th minute on Sat to win 1-0 (that will show you Yeovil ! ).

We only lost our 100 % record against Gillingham previous Sat when they equalised in 90th minute

The game isn't over..........

ps think we may still have best goal difference in league !

Give us back those 15 points ......

[Jah Lush]

Leeds United are indeed doing amazingly well and look set for promotion whether they get their 15 points back or not. Ken Bates deserves a pat on the back for persevering with the Dennis Wise/Gus Poyet management partnership as there were I seem to remember an awful of their supporters who wanted them out at the end of last season.

[clare]

Including me !!!

[david_carnell]

Ditto. Now I/we have to eat humble pie. He (Wise) even seems to know what he's doing tactically which is amazing.

We'd be nine points clear at the top if we had them re-instated. But somehow, I don't think we will need them.

Marching on Together.

[Jah Lush]

And Ken Bates too no doubt?

[Keef]

Jah Lush Wrote:

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> Should have won the game at Anfield

> but ended up holding on and conceding in the dying

> seconds...bloody typical.

That is a fair point, but Liverpool could have been 3-1 up at half time if they'd taken their chances / the goal was an inch wider, so a draw seems pretty fair really. Better result for your lot though ;-)

[Jah Lush]

I'm happy with a draw at Anfield, most teams would be.

[atila the gooner]

The RSPCA have turned down Martin Jols application for a dog licence as he can't hold onto a lead. Also the Department for Evironment, Food and rural affairs is thinking of putting a mile wide exclusion zone around Shite Hart lane, as 11 mad donkeys have been seen running around aimlessly, frothing at the mouth on the pitch. Yet again Spuds mashed by the gods of Ashburton Grove, and Tottering Hotspuds continue to provide the footballing world with hours of endless hilarity by putting about the deluded fantasy that they are a "Top 4 side". All I can say is "Champions League? You're 'avin' a larf".

[Annasfield]

Thats a rather controversial first post on this thread...... ::o

[SimonM]

Yes, all very droll, but noone seems to have asked the other question this result possibly throws up, namely "Has the Liverpool bubble burst already?" :))

[Keef]

atila the gooner Wrote:

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> "Champions League? You're 'avin' a larf".

Better that than to be in it year after year after year after year only to lose.

Simon, as I have said many times before, any Liverpool fan will have been let down by "promising teams" so many times over the years, that I don't think we let ourselves get too carried away... Things cold change, but I can't see us at the top of the league come May... Unlike your average Arsenal fan who thinks they've got everything won because they're playing well at the moment...

At least Liverpool have won a worthwhile European cup... a few times ;-)

Could be wrong, but I think Spurs may have done so more recently than Arsenal too...

[Jah Lush]

That's all we need another smug gooner who thinks they've got it all sewn up already. Where were you when they were boring the pants off everyone? Probably running around the playground with your Man Utd top on I should think.

[Annasfield]

"Has the Liverpool bubble burst already?"

SimonM

Don't want to be accused of being a sunshiner here, but I do think that Liverpool's "dip" in form, may be making a mountain out of a mole hill. Yes we've had a few lousy games, however with the exception of Marseille we've ground out a result. How many times were United lucky last season and managed a last grasp goal? Commentators will say that this is the stuff of a top side, who will always manage at least a point. With Liverpool, its all doom and gloom.

We've had one of our best starts to the season in a long time. Our new boys, Torres, Benayoun and Voronin have all found the back of the net, with superb goals. Yes we're fourth, and six points off the pace - but I'll bet that a lot of supporters would have been happy with that at the start of the season. To quote myself and a few others on here - it's a marathon, not a sprint ;-)

Honestly, if you look on the LFC forums they're calling to sack Rafa. If this is still the case at Christmas then maybe it should be an option, but personally I don't see it happening.

I don't expect us to the win the Prem, but I do expect us to make the likes of Arsenal & Manure's lives difficult in doing the same. :))

[SimonM]

I was of course making mischief and playing Devil's Advocate with my Liverpool comment, but I always find it a bit depressing the way "fans" everywhere want to sack a manager after a few bad results. Needless to say this is happening at a certain South Yorkshire club too which has not made the happiest of starts to the season with its new manager...:(

[atila the gooner]

You silly spud tosser, I've been watching The Arsenal since 1968, unlike all the other glory hunters that suddenly support Chavski and Manure. You're alike all you spuds fans, still living off of 1961 ( never again), and as for "Keef" (probably nicked from The one and Only Keef Richards), what the hell are you on about. Are you on some kind of recreational drug??? Who wants to win any European trophy other than the Champions League?? Presumably you refer to Spuds success in some bygone age in a now defunct tournament. If you can't take it, don't try and dish it out. Jah Lush, you are really one funny man!!

[atila the gooner]

You sad deluded scouse dope!!!! I don't think and haven't said we'll win everything you twat. My jibe is aimed at Spuds, who deserve having the piss ripped out of them because, put simply, they are shit. If you want me to turn my attention to Liverpool, fine. What's the only ship not to be seen in Liverpool??? The Premiership!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Your call.

[atila the gooner]

Yes it's nice to have something to be smug about, but you Spuds fans wouldn't know about that. How long has it been.............oh yes.........1961, never again. Just accept that your sad club spent a load of money thinking that's what it takes to win things. In CSKA Fulhams' case maybe, but not in yours. You are a small club with delusions of grandeur, and have been for nearly 50 years. Berbatov for the Mancs come New Year.

[Annasfield]

Have you considered anger management? B)

There's a soap box for ranting somewhere here in the lounge. Hope it all works out for you....

[SimonM]

Oh dear......and there was I hoping that just for once there could be an online football forum where people could both retain passion for their own clubs whilst employing a certain teasing good humour when having a go at rivals: always more fun to slip a stiletto through the shoulder blades (sic) of, say, Leeds supporters - to take an example at random - rather than bludgeoning them with barely-articulate insults. I suppose on reflection we did well to last 19 pages before this happened eh? :))

[mockney piers]

Fun while it lasted.

Soo England's upcoming fixtures. Build on recent good work and signs of promise or choke like a kiwi?

[Keef]

atila the gooner Wrote:

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> and as for "Keef" (probably nicked from The one and Only Keef Richards),

Actually no, but I am glad to hear you've got some taste in music if not football.

what the hell are you on about. Are you on some kind of recreational drug???

Not when I wrote that.

Who wants to win any European trophy other than the Champions League?? Presumably you refer to Spuds success in some bygone age in a now defunct tournament.

You're quite right, the Champions League is the only cup worth winning these days... Remind me again how Arsenal have got on? I could be wrong here, but I'm pretty sure Spurs won a european cup in 1984,beating Anderlecht in the final.

Now I bow to Arsenal's superior record in the league, but there is really no reason to come on here all guns blazing, writing 3 posts in a row spouting absolute bo!!ocks to everyone. I don't know if a Spurs fan killed you parents or something, but you seem to have some serious deep rooted feelings here. It's f**king football, it's a game, and it's fun to wind each other up about, but play nice.

[Annasfield]

^^^ What he said ;-)