Football Focus

[Undisputedtruth]

I've always felt Chelsea played better when Drogba is in the team. Especially with their long ball game. Still, we have West Ham to look forward to with their own long ball game too.

[Annette Curtain]

Jah Lush Wrote:

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> Drogba's from The Ivory Coast.

Indeed he is?

Hey ho...

[Jah Lush]

red devil Wrote:

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> It's scary how 8 years have passed so quickly!..I

> remember seeing him play for Marseille v Liverpool

> and thinking he looked a top player then.

Me too. He was very much a leader there. I'd have more respect for him if it wasn't for his diving but have to admit he's been a top player for Chelski.

[El Pibe]

I'm sure it's been discussed before, but seeing as everybody's favourite fotball bigwig Sepp has brought up the subject...

Penalties, what else?

Personally I love them precisely because the arbitrary and cruel nature makes for such great drama.

I don't like that one-on one dribble thing, rubbish.

Kick boxing?

[????]

...I wonder where he's going?

*scratches head looks towards West London

[Otta]

El Pibe Wrote:

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> I'm sure it's been discussed before, but seeing as

> everybody's favourite fotball bigwig Sepp has

> brought up the subject...

>

> Penalties, what else?

>

> Personally I love them precisely because the

> arbitrary and cruel nature makes for such great

> drama.

> I don't like that one-on one dribble thing,

> rubbish.

>

> Kick boxing?

All 11 players hit a ball each, at the same time, from the half way line, and see how many they get in. Team with most balls in the goal wins.

Quick and fun :-S

[Worker]

Decamp to the nearest Z-list nightclub. First team to score 10 glamour models wins.

Maybe some sort of bonus award for multiples.

[El Pibe]

So far torn between the two proposals.

The latter is complicated by some sort of score rating on the lady in question, not to mention the potential for financially corrupt *ahem* incentives.

[Undisputedtruth]

I vote for penalties unless I receive a nice brown envelope stuffed with Swiss currency from Sepp.

[maxxi]

???? Wrote:

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> ...I wonder where he's going?

>

> *scratches head looks towards West London

Mark Hughes not leaving already is he?

Re penalties - nope - just make them keep playing until someone scores or they drop. Let's get our money's worth.

On another note - delighted to see the back of Bouba-Diop and Carew (Faubert gone too - had a few good games but never really made it stick) and hope rumours regarding Joe Cole are true.

[El Pibe]

Yep agreed (ooh we can be in this thread huh?), faubert hit and miss (baddam-tish) but will be sad to see him go.

There are Cole rumours? Cool, prodigal etc, always said he'd be back.

"keep playing until someone scores or they drop"

after 120 minutes do we start randomly dropping differnet weapons on to the pitch, starting with pugil sticks and escalting to RPG-7s?

[maxxi]

El Pibe Wrote:

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>

> "keep playing until someone scores or they drop"

> after 120 minutes do we start randomly dropping

> differnet weapons on to the pitch, starting with

> pugil sticks and escalting to RPG-7s?

Nah, when they start cramping and crying we just barrack them even louder - the more they earn, the greater the humiliation heaped upon them... then when they can't go on we send in some five year old girls and a couple of grannies to dribble around them.

[????]

What about a Twitter battle? Back and forth between the teams' twitteres? Inarticulacy, innaness, grammar and spelling marked by a well known pedant.

[El Pibe]

Stepehn Fry?

"A stupid person's idea of what a clever person should be"

One of my favourite forum quotes* of all time, if only I could remember who said that.....

*I perhaps paraphrase

[????]

;-)

[Parkdrive]

???? Wrote:

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> ...I wonder where he's going?

>

> *scratches head looks towards West London

I doubt that very much, in fact if I were a betting man I would wager he won't go to CSKA Fulham.

[Otta]

Bloody Hell, Dave Whelan is loving a bit of press time at the moment. If I was either Martinez or Liverpool FC, I'd want him to just shut the fuck up!

[Undisputedtruth]

I suspect Dave Whelan knows Martinez will not go to Liverpool. The job is a poisoned Chalice unless the owners starts to think long term success.

[Otta]

You may be right UDT, but that's not really the point.

[El Pibe]

quite enjoyed this analysis of BFS & west ham's season (I guess this should be in the *other* thread, so I'm jumping the gun a tad)

http://jlmd.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/road-to-pomotion.html

[Jah Lush]

Makes you think what might of been if certain players had avoided injuries or less players were injured at any one time or another. Would Man Utd have pipped City for the title or would Tottenham Hotspur have clinched that crucial third spot ahead of Arsenal?

Premiership Injury League

[Annette Curtain]

Jah Lush Wrote:

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> Makes you think what might of been if.....

http://graemethomasonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/flying_pig.jpg

;-)

[Otta]

BBC Reporting that Brendan Rogers will be new Liverpool manager in the next 48 hours, and that Liverpool will not appoint a director of football (good).

If this is true, I hope the Anfield faithful really get behind him, and that he approaches the football in the same way he did at Swansea! I have nothing against Roberto Martinez, but far happier with this if it's true.

[Parkdrive]

Otta Wrote:

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> BBC Reporting that Brendan Rogers will be new

> Liverpool manager in the next 48 hours, and that

> Liverpool will not appoint a director of football

> (good).

>

> If this is true, I hope the Anfield faithful

> really get behind him, and that he approaches the

> football in the same way he did at Swansea! I have

> nothing against Roberto Martinez, but far happier

> with this if it's true.

I just wonder if this will be turn to be another Roy Hodgson all over again?

[Jah Lush]

I don't think so. I think the Liverpool fans will give him a chance. He and Martinez both have a very good footballing philosophy. Though they may have wanted a bigger name. Only time will tell.