Football Focus

[Mick Mac]

Blue Moon....Blue Velvet .....its tight at the top now.

[Atticus]

Seems a bit cloudy tonight Blue Moon, you will win f' all this season and that is exactly what you and your arrogant lot deserve. you thought you had the league by November, here come the big boys... I despise UTD but anyday before you, hopefully spurs.

[Mick Mac]

Bluewobbloution..

[red devil]

Come in Agent Gibson, your mission is complete...

[red devil]

Parkdrive Wrote:

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> Bluerevolution Wrote:

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> > RVP at Etihad apparently- fancy having Arsenal

> as

> > our feeder club ! ;-)

>

>

> I'm sure he'll be at about as useful Na$ri and

> Clichy. Terrific signings eh? As for elbowing,

> coming from the supporters of the rags is

> laughable, Roy (the mad dog) Keane broken leg

> specialist used to play for your mob didn't he?

> That doyen of the late tackle Scholes still does

> doesn't he? In recent seasons we've had the likes

> of Diaby suffer a broken and dislocated ankle

> during an end of season game against Sunderland,

> which went unpunished, not even a yellow card. So

> when opposition fans, especially the rags, try to

> take the moral high ground and act with righteous

> indignation I just smile. Pot and kettle.

Er, the elbowing comments actually came from a Citeh and a 'ammers fan.

If only you just did smile...

[Parkdrive]

Jah Lush Wrote:

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> > For those that are quick to accuse and seem to

> > have very selective memories.

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> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-

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> > 345313/Van-Persie-unsure-Todd-blow.html

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> Jeez! 2005. What are you an elephant?

Better that than a twitching churchill dog!! Just trying to balance things up. I wonder if posters on here will be as quick to jump on the bandwagon when an allegation is levelled at one of their own? Nah

[Parkdrive]

Atticus Wrote:

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> Seems a bit cloudy tonight Blue Moon, you will win

> f' all this season and that is exactly what you

> and your arrogant lot deserve. you thought you had

> the league by November, here come the big boys...

> I despise UTD but anyday before you, hopefully

> spurs.

United? Really??? Not as long as I have breath in my body. As for arrogant it must be a Manc thing, it's obviously spreading from the neighbours, who take the prize all day long for arrogance.

[Chippy Minton]

John Terry's court case has now been delayed until after the Euros. Why? Either he said it or he didn't. Not good for all concerned to have this dragging out for another five months.

[maxxi]

because Terry isn't a thuggish racist foreigner but a noble Englishman (*irony set to max*)

[Mike_B]

I like mancini

[Undisputedtruth]

I don't get Mancini's stance that he thought the game against Everton would be easy. It took a bit a magic from Balotelli to beat Everton for the first time in 13 games.

[Jah Lush]

A very silly and arrogant assumption from Mancini. He should know by now that there are no easy games in the Premiership.

[Otta]

Does anyone else really not like the new look of the BBC Sport website?

[ratty]

It's a bit garish and jumbled! Hard to read!

Stand Down John Terry you scumbag!

[Parkdrive]

I'll find it hard to support a team captained by Terry.

On an even more shocking note, football tribalism plumbs new depths with the deaths in Egypt. Shocked and saddened in equal measure. For all the verbal hostility on here, the scenes on TV yesterday were horrific, and makes wonder if scenes such as these could ever be repeated here. I'd like to think not.

[El Pibe]

Football violence may be a fact of life in Egypt, but the shocking levels have little to do with tribalism and everything to do with the political situation.

Noone is quite sure how to interpret last nights events until the dust begins to settle, but a couple of theories are doing the rounds.

Despite wider opposition, many ultra leaders are quite cosy with the military leadership who have used them previously to foment civil unrest. It's possible last night was orchestrated to give SCAF (Supreme Council of the Armed Forces - basically the junta that took over when Mubarak stepped down) an excuse to cling on to power, but far more likely is that the violence was a sign that the Ultra leadership have lost control.

If the latter then this was a poke in the eye of the authorities (and a literal stab in the gut of the police deemed to have been Mubarak's poodles and a target of particular hatred) to say get the hell out of power and to move democratic reform on more quickly.

Could it happen here? In short no.

Could it happen somewhere like Spain with 50% youth unemployment and clubs who have long tolerated and colluded with their Ultra support (think Barca and Real particularly)? At a pinch I suppose, but there simply isn't the groundswell of anger at the political situation there to do so.

After the collapse of the Euro and the Spanish economy.....maybe.....

[Chippy Minton]

The crappy new look BBC site is now reporting Terry is going to lose the England captaincy.

Rio's probably a bit past it now. Lampard's also past his best. Gerrard seems to be hampered more and more by injury. I don't think it is right for Rooney.

Time for the next generation? Step forward Phil Jones?

[El Pibe]

Surely Scott Parker?

[Chippy Minton]

Easily England's most consistent the last 18 months or so, but still the wrong side of 30. Perhaps he's the answer for the Euros and then the new manager gets to appoint his new captain.

[Otta]

He's as old as Gerrard & Co. Nothing wrong with a young captain who can grow more and more in to the role.

The whole Terry thing is troubling. The case should NEVER have been put back until after the euros. However, being as it has been put back, is it right that he be punished in any way, before having his day in court?

If we as a country are going to live by "innocent until proven guilty", then surely until he is found guilty in a court, he shouldn't be punished. IF he is found innocent at trial, the FA will have egg on their faces.

Personally I don't think he should ever have been given the armband back in th first place, but he was, and I'm not sure it's right to strip him of it because he's been accused of something.

[El Pibe]

I agree, its inconsistent.

If there's a cloud over Terry, and the FA don't like clouds, then why the hell did he get it back?

Anyway I think it should be taken away because he's a first class plonker!

[Chippy Minton]

I still don't get why the case has been pushed back until July. The QPR v Chelsea game was in October. Surely a case like this doesn't normally take nine months to get to court?

[Otta]

A cynic might suggest that the euros have something to do with it...

"Anyway I think it should be taken away

because he's a first class plonker!"

True dat.

[Atticus]

he should have stood down himself, an honourable gesture... but that would have required him to be honourable

[red devil]

L'Arse fans are revolting...no, seriously, they are...

The black bin liners on empty seats is a nice touch...no jokes about rubbish please :)