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Due to the exit of the 2 Manchester clubs from the champions league, there will be 2 minutes laughter before every league match this weekend. Pahahahahahahahahahaha. Oh yeah and fcuk the scum, 61 never again. We won the league in your back yard..................twice. And at old Startford. Say something.

Alan Medic · December 10, 2011

I'd say you are losing it Atila.........again.

Jah Lush · December 10, 2011

Yep! I agree Alan. Atila's back out of his cage. Same old same old. As a medic perhaps you could arrange a straitjacket and tranquilisers for the old boy and send him back to the Maudsley.

Laddy Muck · December 10, 2011

A quick post during half-time at Old Trafford.

You must admit that Parkdrive's "2 minutes' laughter" joke is (kinda) funny though. Well, I thought so...

Anyway, now for the real reason for this post. Many thanks for the live stream links, BR. I found one which didn't require any downloading and which is relatively bearable on the adverts front. Fairly good picture/sound quality too. You have your uses!>:D<

Laddy Muck · December 10, 2011

Well, Sir Alex should be pleased. Doesn't change the Champions League position of course, but - at least - United are back in City's hair. I thought United's players really pulled together today to compensate for the absent-injured. Jones and Nani were a marvel to watch.

A message just for you BR. Oh, and the best of luck to Chelsea on Tuesday (goes without saying)...heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Otta · December 10, 2011

Pleased the pool got a well needed home win. Too many points being dropped to stay close to the top 4.

Alan Medic · December 10, 2011

Monday Laddy, Monday. You don't like Monday's?

Laddy Muck · December 10, 2011

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA...yes Doc...Monday! Monday! LOL! It's (still) the drugs! Honest!

You must tell me which pills you prescribe yourself: you are always SO on the ball.(tu)

Anyway: pleased with today's result?

Bluerevolution · December 10, 2011

No probs LM, anyone who needs links to ANY game just say, I have a very good source !

Laddy Muck · December 10, 2011

Thanks BR...

Stand clear of the closing doors...and take all personal belongings with you...hahahahahahaha

Jah Lush · December 10, 2011

Highly ironic that on a day Woolwich Wanderers celebrate their 125 year history they grind out a one-nil win. And as for the statues I want to know why Tony Adams has both arms up? Surely it should be one and him shouting "offside."

Laddy Muck · December 11, 2011

Jah Lush Wrote:

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And as for the statues I want to know

> why Tony Adams has both arms up?

I think the sculptor modelled it immediately upon Adams's release from prison back in the 90s: "free at last, free at last..."

>:D<

Jah Lush · December 11, 2011

We woz robbed. I don't like to slag off referees because it's a tough job but Spurs were robbed today. Three blatant handballs in the box and a perfectly good goal ruled out for offside. We bossed the game especially second half even when we went down to ten men. Sometimes it's just not your day.

Parkdrive · December 12, 2011

Oh dear fancy Spuds being undone by one of their old boys. You know you're in trouble when Crouch is voted man of the match. You gotta love Spuds though. Every year they do well until Christmas and then nothing for 8 months, a bit like Santa.

Annyway, I have a feeling the Chavse may be unlucky tonight, the result in Europe by the Chavs flattered them and Citeh are a different proposition. Come on Citeh!!

Parkdrive · December 12, 2011

Jah Lush Wrote:

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> Highly ironic that on a day Woolwich Wanderers

> celebrate their 125 year history they grind out a

> one-nil win. And as for the statues I want to know

> why Tony Adams has both arms up? Surely it should

> be one and him shouting "offside."

Wrong, it's actually to indicate the number of titles we've clinched at your place. 61 never again.

Otta · December 12, 2011

Spurs must be hacked off though, the ref and the linesman certainly didn't cover themselves in glory!

Parkdrive · December 12, 2011

Otta Wrote:

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> Spurs must be hacked off though, the ref and the

> linesman certainly didn't cover themselves in

> glory!

Not the first time it's happened this season and I'm certain it won't be the last. At some point all teams suffer at the hands of such buffoons.

Laddy Muck · December 12, 2011

YIP YIP YIPPEROONIES!

Parkdrive · December 13, 2011

El Cashico had everything. Goals, incidents, talking points aplenty. The penalty decision could have gone either way. Lampard added to his tally of goals scorecd from the spot and deflections (does he score that often from open play?) If Citeh had taken their chances they would have probably run up a cricket score.

Good to see Na$ri making an impact and Clichy doing what he does best, making mistakes. New club, new challenge, same old Clichy.

Jah Lush · December 13, 2011

From today's Independent. By James Lawton.

The Stoke City fashioned with ferocious application by their manager, Tony Pulis, have so many admirable qualities it is not an easy thing to say, but say it one must. Their victory over Tottenham, apart from being almost entirely the result of some of the most egregiously wretched match officiating we are ever likely to see, was a triumph for anti-football.

Indeed, in terms of natural justice, of that warm feeling which comes when you know that the right thing has happened, it wasn't very far from a street mugging.

It was, if we can put aside for a moment the appalling performance of referee Chris Foy, a superbly marshalled version of the dark force, no doubt. Certainly, it was enough to send a surge of pride through the Potteries region which once gave the world the unforgettable magic of the late Sir Stanley Matthews.

You might care to throw in some other commendations.

Certainly, you can praise Pulis's continued ability to present the aristocrats of English football with insuperable problems while operating on the treadmill of Thursday night Europa League football and a sharply inferior budget.

You have to respect a professional duty to make life as difficult as possible for your most formidable opponents. You have to warm to some degree to a team so utterly unfazed by the kind of shortfall in natural-born ability they experienced on Sunday against the likes of Luka Modric, Gareth Bale and Emmanuel Adebayor.

You can even go some way with the splendid old pro Dion Dublin when he declares that one of the great virtues of Stoke is their refusal to "complicate things".

Yet can anyone truly say, once they have taken from the equation the old force of tribal loyalty, that watching Stoke City on a regular basis has much of an edge on a session of root-canal work?

Is the special towel sewn into the shirt of Ryan Shotton, the long-throw successor to the legendary ball-hurler Rory Delap, an article that speaks of the spontaneous glory of the world's favourite game or a robot's artefact?

This is not to insult a young player who, when he isn't throwing the ball vast distances at the head of Peter Crouch, displays some impressively well-rounded football gifts. It is more to worry about the point at which a single tactic is not an arrow in your quiver but pretty much the whole shooting match.

Yes, Stoke do have other assets and most conspicuously a relish for the battle which has established them in the Premier League. Also true is the fact that in the first half against Spurs they showed far more appetite and concentration for the job in hand. The trouble was that Tottenham in the end adjusted to the demands of the contest, produced football that was both wonderfully engaging and, by some distance, deserving of the spoils.

That they didn't receive their rewards was a direct result of official incompetence, an example of it which was so relentless it might have served as Exhibit A in the case for overall match supervision that can draw upon the instant TV evidence available to everyone but the referee ? one who, in this case, utterly distorted the result of a game which might just affect the outcome of such important matters as the destiny of the League title or a place in the Champions League.

In the circumstances, Spurs' manager Harry Redknapp reacted with impressive restraint. In his half-time readjustments, Redknapp recognised the effectiveness of the Stoke tactics and produced a belated game plan which in normal circumstances would surely have been properly reward.

No doubt many will say that bad stuff happens in football, as elsewhere, and that the obligation is to get on with it. However, what happened at the Britannia Stadium was in some ways a classic test of top-flight English football's ability to render something other than a travesty of anything that passed for justice.

This isn't to whinge on behalf of football's resurrected glamour teams, an outfit Bill Shankly once christened, with a snarl, "the Drury Lane Boys". Some Stoke fans were no doubt inclined to agree with that description after Modric went down for a penalty somewhat theatrically. They booed the brilliant little man relentlessly, but the reality was that it was unquestionably a penalty. Another one was that Spurs had ultimately produced an impressive antidote to the problem of Stoke.

They did it with the football that lifts the heart. They did it with wit and pace and at times quite sumptuous skill. They reminded us why we bother with all the excesses of the game, all the self-promoting hype and the often dreary functionalism produced by players earning more than heart surgeons. It is because we seek out those moments when the game becomes beautiful in its fluent rhythm and explosive possibilities.

Less pleasing for the neutral eye, though Stoke fans could maybe not care less, is the trajectory of a throw rifled into a mass of largely anarchic bodies straining for the crucial flick-on. This, with the help of a palpable handling of the ball by Crouch, gave Stoke the vital momentum against a team who had come with a different set of priorities. It was, yes of course, a formidable pressure but long before the end it had been effectively countered.

This did not, however, cause too much of a dent in the belief that, if the circumstances were maybe a little outrageous, the result was still a triumph for a certain kind of courage. Maybe so but it will never replace the allure of real football.

Otta · December 13, 2011

I think that is really harsh. Stoke are playing much more football now than in the last few years. And a young Gary Neville used to do long throws for United.

Jah Lush · December 13, 2011

And Ian Hutchison used to do the same for Chelsea back in the early 70s but at least that team could play a bit. Did you watch the match on Sunday Otta? Stoke City at their worst.

Parkdrive · December 13, 2011

Jah Lush Wrote:

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> And Ian Hutchison used to do the same for Chelsea

> back in the early 70s but at least that team could

> play a bit. Did you watch the match on Sunday

> Otta? Stoke City at their worst.

Now this is indeed strange. When certain people said Stoke City were anti football a while back certain people on here sneered. No sympathy from me. Strange how these things come back to bite you on the arse isn't it? I recall Shawcross being labelled dirty and this was also poo pooed. Again, no sympathy from me even though I'm amazed that he stayed on the pitch. The vast majority of views stated that Stoke Were hard but fair. So be it.

Spuds were on the wrong end of the anti football as were Arsenal a couple of seasons back. I recall at the time that message coming back from many EDFers was to get over it. I would echo those sentiments at this point in time.

Otta · December 13, 2011

I only saw motd2, but basically had it not been for the ref, spurs would have won comfortably, and wouldn't be moaning about stoke now.

I've said it before, if you're a journeyman boxer, in against Mayweather, you're hardly going to give him a boxing match, you're going to rough him up a bit and do what it takes to survive.

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