Football Focus

[kpc]

A favourite with the fans during his two years at St Andrews. Stunned to hear the news. Hope the news that is coming through that he is stable are accurate. Best wishes Fabrice.

[Laddy Muck]

Very sad and worrying. I hope he recovers fully.

[Otta]

Absolutely. Horrible scenes, to see, and hope he comes through it.

Not the first time a player has just keeled over, and it makes you wonder, is the modern game pushing players' bodies too hard? They are super fit, but is it walking a thin line?

Get well!

[Razors]

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.

[Jah Lush]

I could have gone to White Hart Lane on Saturday but for some reason chose not to. Glad I didn't go now. Dreadful scenes. Really hope Muamba makes a full recovery. I'll be back there against Stoke City on Wednesday.

[Parkdrive]

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]

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.

[Jah Lush]

On my way back from the Lane. Gutted. 1-1 against Stoke just isn't good enough even if they did park the bus. Have to applaud the Arse and well done QPR.

[maxxi]

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.

[Otta]

Despite being gutted about the Liverpool result, what about that first goal!

[Undisputedtruth]

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]

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]

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 ;-)

[????]

I spend far too much of my time hoping both teams lose RD ;-)

[Bluerevolution]

RD stop saying Citeh- we talk like that cos we're Mancunian and it's our natural accent

[maxxi]

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!!").

[Otta]

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!

[Chippy Minton]

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 ;-)

[Otta]

Totally agree. When I said he was right to an extent, I meant that a lot more City fans are probably wearing their team shirts with pride in the City (ones who probably wouldn't have bought a shirt in the past).

[El Pibe]

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]

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)

[????]

I'm gonna stick up for City fans too. Every City fan I know/have known in London is from Manchester. Will obvioulsy start changing and I expect to see more City shirts around these 'ere parts over the next few years.

[Bluerevolution]

I'm surprised you haven't seen me out and about-always got something with City crest on. I have an email list of 300 London Blues and have packed our pub in Farringdon with Blues

We're not really here !

[red devil]

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.

[????]

Yup RD agree. Still know a few late 40 something Leeds and Everton fans from the Home Counties (rather than London) to illustrate. And Utd and Liverpool fans are all over London and the SE in all age ranges. Bizzarley met a West Ham fan Born and Bred in Altricham once.