Keef Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 That was in response to Jah, didn't see the last couple of posts. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/5028-on-the-ball-new-football-focus/page/199/#findComment-253212 Share on other sites More sharing options...
???? Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 There is some of that agreed Matt - players like Tevez and Ferdinand always get a good reception at UP (as did Dicks when he was at Liverpool)and tend to show their appreciation. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/5028-on-the-ball-new-football-focus/page/199/#findComment-253219 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mockney piers Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 Yossi got a couple of intermittent boos the other day (not many admittedly) but it was enough to annoy me as he's a good lad and I wish him well. I remember being very pissed off wih the boo boys when Bilic first visited after his move to Goodison Park, despite a great offer he had stayed a while season with us with the express intention of keeping us up (which he managed) and that was his reward. I saw Rio's first return with leeds when he got his first goal at Upton Park in over two years and he got an ovation from the home crowd. I guess you can never work people out. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/5028-on-the-ball-new-football-focus/page/199/#findComment-253232 Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthew123 Posted September 29, 2009 Author Share Posted September 29, 2009 Am I right in thinking the worst reception from any Premiership team given to an ex-player on his first return back was at Upton Park for Paul Ince? Which I think was 5 years after he'd departed? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/5028-on-the-ball-new-football-focus/page/199/#findComment-253306 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atila Reincarnate Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 Could be, or Cashley when he came to play or when Sol went back to his old employers Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/5028-on-the-ball-new-football-focus/page/199/#findComment-253397 Share on other sites More sharing options...
red devil Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 Has Anna gone to Florence? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/5028-on-the-ball-new-football-focus/page/199/#findComment-253429 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharon_H Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 Yes, I think she went last night. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/5028-on-the-ball-new-football-focus/page/199/#findComment-253435 Share on other sites More sharing options...
???? Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 matthew123 Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> Am I right in thinking the worst reception from> any Premiership team given to an ex-player on his> first return back was at Upton Park for Paul Ince?> Which I think was 5 years after he'd departed?Frank Lampard gets a fairly lively one tooCampbell at Spuds is a contender too Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/5028-on-the-ball-new-football-focus/page/199/#findComment-253465 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandperson Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 Sharon_H Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> Yes, I think she went last night.It's a good job the architecture is so beautiful...;-) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/5028-on-the-ball-new-football-focus/page/199/#findComment-253504 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Mac Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 matthew123 Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> Am I right in thinking the worst reception from> any Premiership team given to an ex-player on his> first return back was at Upton Park for Paul Ince?> Which I think was 5 years after he'd departed?Not English Premiership, but Mo Johnston playing for Rangers at Celtic Park got a hot reception. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/5028-on-the-ball-new-football-focus/page/199/#findComment-253509 Share on other sites More sharing options...
???? Posted September 29, 2009 Share Posted September 29, 2009 Figo's return to Barcelona if we want continental hatred Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/5028-on-the-ball-new-football-focus/page/199/#findComment-253558 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mockney piers Posted September 30, 2009 Share Posted September 30, 2009 Blimey yes. Even Ince never got animal carcasses thrown at him. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/5028-on-the-ball-new-football-focus/page/199/#findComment-253586 Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthew123 Posted September 30, 2009 Author Share Posted September 30, 2009 Not a good performance by Liverpool last night. At times during first half it seemed Yossi, Aurellio and Lucas were the central midfield whilst the guy needed to put down anchor, Gerrard, was kept upfront. If the midfield is overrun then Torres and Gerrard upfront will have to feed on scraps. IMO he should have swapped Yossi and Gerrard around early in the game once the tactics proved ineffective.Maybe this will be a wake up call for Sunday at Chelsea.. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/5028-on-the-ball-new-football-focus/page/199/#findComment-253605 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandperson Posted September 30, 2009 Share Posted September 30, 2009 Yossi gets better and better thought doesn't he?Sounds like your two yanks are going to try and get out of the club too which can only be good news. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/5028-on-the-ball-new-football-focus/page/199/#findComment-253606 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jah Lush Posted September 30, 2009 Share Posted September 30, 2009 Why doesn't Rafa Benitez use Kuyt alongside Torres and Yossi on the right to allow Gerard to slip back into midfield as a 4-4-2 when the pressure is on and things aren't going their way instead of the 4-4-1-1 he prefers. It makes perfect sense to me. I'm not impressed with Fiorentina, a couple of mistakes and you're two-nil down. It'll be a different story at Anfield. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/5028-on-the-ball-new-football-focus/page/199/#findComment-253685 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atila Reincarnate Posted September 30, 2009 Share Posted September 30, 2009 Liverpool will probably win at their place but don't write Fiorentina off, they are not a bad side at all. AS for mistakes, they usually are at the root of most goals at this level or even in the Prem and the lower league, it's not always about flashes of brilliance, why do you think Chavski have done so well over the past few years ( apart from the fact that they've been bankrolled by a Russian Mafiosi). Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/5028-on-the-ball-new-football-focus/page/199/#findComment-253767 Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthew123 Posted September 30, 2009 Author Share Posted September 30, 2009 Seems my original response to Jah never got posted properly..Anyway, Kuyt does a job on the right flank - whereas he is too slow to run down the middle and plays with a bit more freedom when he is not expected to chip in with a strikers rate of goals. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/5028-on-the-ball-new-football-focus/page/199/#findComment-253806 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mick Mac Posted October 1, 2009 Share Posted October 1, 2009 another injury for michael owen i guess shows why its ok to have signed him as back up but no club can afford to depend on him being there every week. Def feel for the guy as he had just moved back into capello's radar. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/5028-on-the-ball-new-football-focus/page/199/#findComment-254004 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandperson Posted October 1, 2009 Share Posted October 1, 2009 On a brighter note, Giggs looked great again last night and then there's the nes that Hargreaves will be back training in the next few weeks:The Original Owen! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/5028-on-the-ball-new-football-focus/page/199/#findComment-254011 Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthew123 Posted October 1, 2009 Author Share Posted October 1, 2009 I am not suprised Owen picked up an injury last night as that is how he spends the colder parts of the year nursing muscle injuries - it's no coincedence that whilst at Madrid he was pretty injury free in their warmer climate but not so either side of that 12 month spell. What does surprise me is that Owen started last night when he'd missed the previous day's training due to same problem that forced him off the pitch against Wolfsburg. Could it be that Capello had been told Owen would be starting and thus Ferguson felt obliged to pick Owen regardless of injury concerns? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/5028-on-the-ball-new-football-focus/page/199/#findComment-254169 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keef Posted October 1, 2009 Share Posted October 1, 2009 Since when has Fergie ever cared about England over his team? I don't think that is the case somehow. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/5028-on-the-ball-new-football-focus/page/199/#findComment-254179 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandperson Posted October 1, 2009 Share Posted October 1, 2009 I'd say not. I'd have thought it was a fairly low risk game to try out a forward combination of Owen and Rooney. It's also still relatively cold in Madrid during the winter so whether that's a contributing factor or not I am not sure. Still, we have the luxury, at the moment, of having replacements for him and I am sure he will be fighting to get fit again. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/5028-on-the-ball-new-football-focus/page/199/#findComment-254190 Share on other sites More sharing options...
???? Posted October 1, 2009 Share Posted October 1, 2009 It's hardly been winter weather Matt has it.... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/5028-on-the-ball-new-football-focus/page/199/#findComment-254207 Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthew123 Posted October 1, 2009 Author Share Posted October 1, 2009 14c is cold enough for some - which it has been up norf. I just think over the last 8, 9 years Owen has had a lot of niggly muscle injuries which usually keep him out for 3 or 4 weeks at a time. When he was in Spain he didn't seem to suffer from such injuries and I put that down to a warmer climate. What other reason to explain Madrid being injury free but not so when he had the North Sea and Irish Sea sweeping in every day.. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/5028-on-the-ball-new-football-focus/page/199/#findComment-254241 Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthew123 Posted October 1, 2009 Author Share Posted October 1, 2009 14c is cold enough for some - which it has been up norf. I just think over the last 8, 9 years Owen has had a lot of niggly muscle injuries which usually keep him out for 3 or 4 weeks at a time. When he was in Spain he didn't seem to suffer from such injuries and I put that down to a warmer climate. What other reason to explain Madrid being injury free but not so when he had the North Sea and Irish Sea sweeping in every day..EDIT - so it refreshes Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/5028-on-the-ball-new-football-focus/page/199/#findComment-254242 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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