Football Focus

[maxxi]

Terry's 'retirement' from international football won't save him from an FA ban...

"I feel the FA, in pursuing charges against me where I have already been cleared in a court of law, have made my position with the national team untenable."

...bleats wriggling worm in predictably clumsy PR move shocker.

[bon3yard]

Good riddance. It'll make supporting the National team a bit more palatable now.

[Otta]

Quite.

Undoubtedly a passionate leader on the pitch, but I'd rather not have a nasty piece of work like that playing for the country.

He's basically past it anyway.

[red devil]

Very happy with Utd's win, but a poor performance overall.

Gervinho aside, Arsenal looked very good.

Re.John Terry, good riddance to rubbish.

Now back to more serious matters...

Ot - 6 correct results + 2 correct scores = 12pts

PD - 5 correct results + 1 correct score = 8pts

RD - 4 correct results + 1 correct score = 7pts

?? - 3 correct results + 1 correct score = 6pts

JL - 6 correct results + 0 correct score = 6pts

Mx - 2 correct results + 1 correct score = 5pts

[Otta]

Whoop whoop, go me!

Enjoying it while it lasts, as I fully expect to slide quickly down the table.

[Parkdrive]

Glad I'm not the only one on here glad to see the back of the vile Terry on the national scene.

[Jah Lush]

Maybe he wants to spend more time with his team-mates' wives.

[Otta]

From BBC

"Former Chelsea manager Avram Grant questions the Football Association's decision to charge John Terry with using racist language.

Grant tells BBC Radio 5 live: "Nobody thinks that John Terry is a racist so the FA need to leave it. He's a good man.

"He respects everybody, he's good with people and I was very surprised that people thought bad things about him. If [the FA] think JT is racist they need to do something but I think nobody thinks he is a guy like this."

[bon3yard]

That vile slug David Mellor was defending Terry yesterday...with friends like these eh?

[LondonLogCo]

Jah Lush Wrote:

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> Maybe he wants to spend more time with his

> team-mates' wives.

:)

Who's John Terry anyway

[Otta]

bon3yard Wrote:

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> That vile slug David Mellor was defending Terry

> yesterday...with friends like these eh?

Vile slug is right. I've always thought Avram Grant seemed like a good man though.

[Otta]

Discussion on bbc website asking whether Hodgson should now recall Rio, or move on.

Personally I think he made his choice and picked Terry over Rio, so now Terry has gone look to the future.

[Jah Lush]

Rio Ferdinand's not getting any younger and can barely string half a dozen games together before he's out injured again. The little niggles are getting harder to shake off as he gets older. Certainly, if he can retain his fitness and play well regularly then he's worth having a look at just for his vast experience alone, he's still better than most when fully fit but there is plenty of young talent out there at centre back and I think England will cope well without having to rely on John Terry who, and let's be fair has served England well over the years and put in some great performances but with younger players like Phil Jagielka, Gary Cahill, Chris Smalling, Phil Jones, Michael Dawson and Steven Caulker ready to make the step up the only problem I see with some of those players is whether they are playing regularly enough for their clubs.

[Parkdrive]

Blue moon

you saw city losing at home

without a win in 4

should we show Mancini the door? ;)

[red devil]

BFS says West Ham "couldn't defend a fish supper" against Wigan, whereas BFS would just eat one...

[Parkdrive]

red devil Wrote:

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> BFS says West Ham "couldn't defend a fish supper"

> against Wigan, whereas BFS would just eat one...

Not bad, made me laugh anyway.

[SCSB79]

Shocker.

SPL leaders beaten by 3rd Division team in Cup!!

[Parkdrive]

Comfortable wins for the Arsenal, Spuds, and the rags last night. Cleverley though seemed keen to do his best impersonation of Gervinho, that's a worry for Fergie. ;)

[Otta]

And Liverpool's young guns got a win. I'm really liking this (pretty much enforced) youth policy, I think it bodes well.

[Otta]

So, why is Terry's ban only half as long as Suarez's was? If The FA said about Suarez that just using a word was enough, whatever the reasons behind it, then surely that should stand for everyone and the punishment should be consistant.

[red devil]

Terry has supposedly asked for a written explanation of the verdict before he considers whether to appeal. So that might explain why the punishment is different to Suarez's...

[Huguenot]

I'm guessing the FA have a good reason as to why they've given a different penalty.

I'm intrigued to know what it is though! Apparently Suarez was heavily penealised because he racially abused Evra persistently throughout the game, so it could be the Terry's infringement was considered to be a one off during a heated exchange.

It also seems that neither Suarez nor Terry are considered racist by the FA, it was the language they were both penailsed for not the intent.

[Atticus]

Words fail me...

http://m.guardian.co.uk/ms/p/gnm/op/view.m?id=15&gid=football/2012/sep/27/brendan-rodgers-liverpool-luis-suarez&cat=sport#.UGVQVppu_K0.mailto

[Otta]

Another master stroke from Rogers I see.

Right, some of our players have reputations for diving, and hence have "boy who cried wolf" syndrome, so if we all start diving, they won't be so obvious.

Okay Brendan. Just when I think you're doing good things with youth...

Not like you to have no words about Liverpool Atticus :)

[red devil]

Arsenal 1 Chelsea 1

Everton 3 Southampton 1

Fulham 1 Man City 3

Norwich 0 Liverpool 2

Reading 2 Newcastle 2

Stoke 2 Swansea 2

Sunderland 2 Wigan 1

Man Utd 2 Tottenham 1

Aston Villa 1 West Brom 2

QPR 2 West Ham 1