Football Focus

[atila the gooner]

Rumour has reached my ears that we are the unnamed third premiership side to have agreed a fee for the injury prone Woodgate??? If it's true, what the fack is going on there???

[citizenED]

I'll tell you what is going on there......if you will reveal the rumour!!

[Rolo Tomasi]

Fifth round fixtures:

Bristol Rovers v Southampton

Cardiff City v Wolves

Sheffield United v Middlesbrough

Liverpool v Barnsley

Manchester United v Arsenal

Preston v Portsmouth

Coventry City v West Brom

Chelsea v Huddersfield Town

The ties are scheduled to take place on 16 and 17 February.

[mockney piers]

Manchester United v Arsenal

at least that snorefest of a final is spared us now.

If we can just get rid of chelsea too...

[citizenED]

Well Tottenham beat us 5-1 and Utd beat Tottenham 3 - 1. By the schoolboy ready-reckoner, that'll be 8-2 to them then!

[SimonM]

Home to Middlesbrough could be a lot worse for us - I am sure Middlesbrough will see this as a very tricky fixture >:D<

Now if only the other two Yorkshire sides can do the business at Liverpool & Chelsea that'll just leave Merde Utd out of the so-called "Big Four" to worry about....:))

[Ladygooner]

Its just not fair! Was looking foward to hosting Barnsley at the Emirates!

[mark_bowen]

I've already posted this in the Wanted bit of the forum, but thought I might as well put it here as well.

I have 4 tickets for the Arsenal game tomorrow night and unfortunately I can no longer make it. They are available for ?40 each - face value - for any Gooner (or even Geordie) who fancies it. Drop me a PM if you are interested...

[Annasfield]

Ladygooner Wrote:

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> Its just not fair! Was looking foward to hosting

> Barnsley at the Emirates!

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Life's not fair ;-)

BTW - Good to meet you on Friday :))

[Keef]

Pleased with our draw against Barnsley. Chelsea are lucky buggers, hopefully if we meet them in the final we can get the champions league theme tune to play before the match, and we should beat them! >:D<

I am not saying this to wind anyone up, but I have to say I see Man U winning against Arsenal at Old Trafford... Can't say as I particularly care either way, but guess I'd just about lean towards Arsenal, if nothing else than their players (if not the manager) seem less cocky than Ronaldo and Rooney!

Atila, I think it has been denied that Arsenal are the team enquiring about Woodgate. To be fair, he's stayed fitter this last couple of seasons, and he is a good player. If he hadn't been so unlucky with injuries, I think he would have earned top spot above Terry and Ferdinand in an England shirt.

[atila the gooner]

Our record is good in the FA cup at Old Stratford so I'm optimistic. We would have to have played them at some point so there you go. I'm not sure it will be a great game to watch, but I predict it will be feisty as there is no love lost between us and the mob from Salford, or is it Stockport. Whatever, I know they are not based in Manc Chester, it's the blue half that are actually in Manc Chester.

[Keef]

It's Salford. I like the fact that they can't actually show the crest of Manchester as part of their badge because they are outside city limits. Ha ha!

Whenever I used to visit friends in Manchester, you'd see loads of locals wearing sky blue, and the Man U shop was full of asian tourists.

[Ladygooner]

Good to see a change of personnel to the Newcastle team we are playing tomorrow night - Joey Bartons bail conditions have changed so he can play!

[atila the gooner]

Play or fight? >:D

[Ladygooner]

He will definitely take some stick tomorrow night thats for sure

[Jah Lush]

Barton is a hooligan on and off the pitch.

Thought Spurs could have done a little better yesterday. Had Jenas put away the two very good chances that came his way things might have been different. I can't complain about the penalty though.

We have them again back at the Lane on Saturday. Hopefully we'll have Ledley King back and we may even beat them this time.

Also, Atila, how you can call Ronaldo a one-trick pony is beyond me. I know you hate Man Utd but give the guy a break. He's a magnificnet player and a joy to watch. You'd love a player like that your side surely?

[atila the gooner]

He may be a good player, but how can you condone the actions of a man who gets a team mate sent off and your club then forgives for you it. Maybe it says more about Man ure than Ronaldo but I'm inclined to think it speaks volumes about him and his wretched club.

[Jah Lush]

Oh come on, get over it. That was ages ago and if the boot had been on the foot...Rooney's, (admittedly another Man Utd player) he'd have done just the same, so maybe you're right...says more about the club.

[david_carnell]

Oh f*ck! Dennis wise has left Leeds to join Newcastle. After Poyet left our performances declined. Unless someone decent arrives quickly, I can forsee another season in Division 3.

God knows what he'll do at the Toon?!

[Keef]

Frankly I just think it said a lot about the state of the game these days.

[Keef]

My last post was regarding Ronaldo... Say the thing about Wise but didn't realise it was a done deal. Hope Leeds get someone decent soon, they have done so well coming back from minus 15 points! Punishing a club like that is sick, they're financially fucked so you make life even harder for them, nice :-S

[david_carnell]

Keef Wrote:

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> My last post was regarding Ronaldo... Say the

> thing about Wise but didn't realise it was a done

> deal. Hope Leeds get someone decent soon, they

> have done so well coming back from minus 15

> points! Punishing a club like that is sick,

> they're financially @#$%& so you make life even

> harder for them, nice :-S

Keef, you are now my favourite forumite. Not many people have sympathy for West Yorkshire's number 1 club! ;-)

Considering we lost points at the end of the previous season as well it seemed a little unfair. Let's hope Ken 'Papa Smurf Bates doesn't promote Bassett to manager. His idea of football is a game of head tennis and "who can kick it the farthest" competitions.

[paragon]

Went to Dulwich Hamlet on the weekend and wanted to big-up how helpful they were. There were 12 of us and we played a game of 6-a-side on their pitches behind the ground then into watch the match after. Total cost per person was ?6 for both events. (they did us a deal) excellent day and good to see the Hamlet come from 1-0 down to win.

[SimonM]

>>Considering we lost points at the end of the previous season as well it seemed a little unfair<<

Oh come on that is a bit ripe! Leeds carefully timed their bankruptcy at the end of last season in order to negative the impact of the points deduction. In a way they are fortunate to have started with -15 and not -25....

[Jah Lush]

Bundle....! Roll up roll up. Yorkshire barny going on here.