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Razors

Razors

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Parkdrive Wrote:

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> CSKA Fulham represent everthing thats bad about

> the modern game, from the oligarch that owns the

> club down to the theatrics of that big Jessie

> Drogba, covering his eyes with his hands and

> peeking through his fingers to make sure he got

> his foul. Unfortunately, you were caught on camera

> chump. Let's hope you get turned inside out by

> either Barca, Real or Bayern. Small club in

> Fulham, you're just a small club in Fulham!!!B)

> Can't wait for the oil mafiosi to drop them when

> he grows tired of his plaything, and leaves with

> all those overpaid geriatrics on your payroll.

> Another Rangers in the making?


Haven't heard such jealousy fuelled pony since Mr Abramovich bought the club. A team has been built which is far better than the light blue notherners buying every player in sight just so other clubs cant buy them, and have no intention of playing them. Anyway, Up the Blues, good win today.

Parkdrive

Parkdrive

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Razors Wrote:

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> Parkdrive Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > CSKA Fulham represent everthing thats bad about

> > the modern game, from the oligarch that owns

> the

> > club down to the theatrics of that big Jessie

> > Drogba, covering his eyes with his hands and

> > peeking through his fingers to make sure he got

> > his foul. Unfortunately, you were caught on

> camera

> > chump. Let's hope you get turned inside out by

> > either Barca, Real or Bayern. Small club in

> > Fulham, you're just a small club in Fulham!!!B)

> > Can't wait for the oil mafiosi to drop them

> when

> > he grows tired of his plaything, and leaves

> with

> > all those overpaid geriatrics on your payroll.

> > Another Rangers in the making?

>

> Haven't heard such jealousy fuelled pony since Mr

> Abramovich bought the club. A team has been built

> which is far better than the light blue notherners

> buying every player in sight just so other clubs

> cant buy them, and have no intention of playing

> them. Anyway, Up the Blues, good win today.


Abramovich and his ilk are bad for football, sooner he goes on to other things the better.


Fabrice Muamba is howing small signs of improvement according to Sky, breathing on his own and small signs of movement in his limbs. Here's hoping and praying for a full and speedy recovery.

Parkdrive

Parkdrive

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Great night of football, City turn over the Chavs, Spuds draw and the Arsenal win and go above them agftrr being 10 points behind. Mind the gap indeed. ;-) And where to start with Liverpool? I bet Hodgson is having a quiet chuckle to himself. And more importantly Fabrice Muamba is getting better, please god.
Undisputedtruth

Undisputedtruth

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The race to the premiership title and champions league places is getting exciting. Interesting to see if Spurs get fourth place over Chelsea and sets up nicely for their clash this weekend. Man City appears to have some fight in their belly and I'd expect the title race to go to the wire.
Bluerevolution

Bluerevolution

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maxxi Wrote:

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> Judging by the cheer that greeted both ManC goals

> in The Actress tonight there are more City fans in

> ED than I ever realised - or more Chelsea/ManU

> haters.



Plenty of us about and majority are Manc exiles not plastics ;)

red devil

red devil

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maxxi Wrote:

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> Judging by the cheer that greeted both ManC goals

> in The Actress tonight there are more City fans in

> ED than I ever realised - or more Chelsea/ManU

> haters.


Fans allegencies at this time of the season can get notoriously complicated.

The fans cheering the Citeh goals may well have been Chelsea/Utd haters, but they also might have been Arsenal/Spurs fans wanting Chelsea to lose more than Citeh winning, because of the Champs League situation.

When two of Utd's rivals are playing each other I tend to hope for a draw, that way both teams drop points.

It's not always that easy though, when Citeh and Liverpool played in the recent Carling Cup semi, a draw was never going to happen, someone had to go through, so it came down to which team did I want to lose the most, rather than wanting one of them to win ;-)

maxxi

maxxi

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red devil Wrote:

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> The fans cheering the Citeh goals may well have

> been Chelsea/Utd haters, but they also might have

> been Arsenal/Spurs fans wanting Chelsea to lose

> more than Citeh winning, because of the Champs

> League situation.


Don't think so - there was little/no reaction when the Arsenal and Spurs latest scores came on screen and the ManC cheers had definite joy in them rather than schadenfreude (it's all in the "Yuuuuueeeessss!!!!!") - they all seemed pretty happy about Tevez's set-up too ("He's back! He's back!!").

Chippy Minton

Chippy Minton

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I don't think City fans have come out of the woodwork at all - I still find them pretty rare in London in comparison to Utd fans.


The worst I found for coming out of the woodwork were Chelsea fans when Abramovich brought the club. Suddenly the world and his dog were Chelsea fans. I also partly blame Tim Lovejoy for this as well ;-)

El Pibe

El Pibe

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Otta Wrote:

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> Rio Ferdinand claiming City fans have come out of

> the woodwork since they started having more

> success.

>

> I suspect he's right to an extent, but that is a

> bit bloody rich coming from a Man U player!


Dammit Otta, where's the ↑ mark up button

Parkdrive

Parkdrive

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Otta Wrote:

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> Rio Ferdinand claiming City fans have come out of

> the woodwork since they started having more

> success.

>

> I suspect he's right to an extent, but that is a

> bit bloody rich coming from a Man U player!


Love that Otta. B)

red devil

red devil

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Otta said...



If that doesn't fit the profile of a 'glory hunter' I don't know what does ;-)

To be fair, I think this applies to any club that has a degree of success, success of course being relative. I'm sure during and after their recent FA Cup exploits there were more Stevenage fans walking around the town centre in their club's shirt, sharing in the civic pride.

????'s is right to suspect there will be more Citeh shirts on view in the future, success = glory hunters, it's more to do with human nature rather than specific clubs.

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