Board 8 > Board 8 Football/Soccer Discussion Topic - Time to laugh at Man City now!

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I'm more upset that Wigan's going to escape another relegation scrap than Newcastle losing.

xfd, u mad? wigan is a squad with more class than any geordie will ever have. kudos to them and may we have many more years to come of the latics in the premier league!

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Absolutely amazed that I still have a chance of winning both fantasy football leagues. I've been abyssmal since GW25 (9 reds, 3 greens since then)

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Huh, Wilshere's struggling to recover pretty badly from the looks of it.

Yeah w/e he plays for a rival but I'm never fond of seeing guys potentially lose their careers.

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Podolski confirmed for Arsenal switch

On paper that's a pretty good signing, lots of german talent moving over to the Premiership.

Not sure if I want Goetze to come over though, if he did he'd probably play for Utd or City and that'd be terrible seeing a guy I really like play for em(or any london team not called Chelsea for that matter). Totally fine if Goetze stays at Dortmund and helps push that league to new heights.

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Hopefully his Arsenal spell goes better for him than his Bayern spell. Koln relegation battles is no place for a guy of his ability.

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If he can score 10-15 goals a season it would be huge for Arsenal taking some pressure off RVP . But this guy gets homesick so fast.

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Anything is better than our current striking 'options' right?

Anyway, go City I guess.

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^I think you mean go manchester

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want city to win to maximize the late-round drama. but i'm not sure who i actually want to win the whole shebang.

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Might as well go for City, I have more friends who support city since they weren't even in the Premiership.

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uh oh

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Yes that's what you get MU for parking the bus.

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United have been completely overrun in midfield, and then eventually worn down in defense. Smalling will take all the blame for letting Kompany get on the end of that corner, but that mistake was as much a symptom of the relentless pressure he and his defense have been under as anything else. I suppose Park was Fergie's "trump card" in the midfield battle, but he's struggled badly.

Be interesting to see how United come out in the second half, both tactically and mentally.

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F***. Hope Man U pulls through in the second.

Ofcourse Park was overrun, he hasn't started a Prem game in like 3 months and now Fergie throws him on and just expects him to be awesome.

City are gonna f*** up. I know they are.

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SAF has himself to blame for his poor tactics, if they lose.

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Ground just exploded.

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I watched the last 10 minutes of the game.

LolEx

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I don't want to lose to city again :(

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kudos to city, they were undoubtedly superior today.

still, who thinks they aren't going to blow it this weekend at newcastle?

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I petition that this topic, at all times, will be called "Time to laugh at Arsenal now" btw

I wouldn't have been surprised with either result but it does mean we'll have 3 exciting races down the stretch for the title, 4th and safety.

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^ Yes.

That's what we're starting with next season.

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Just got back from a supposedly neutral bar while wearing a city shirt, which, expectedly, was filled with red devils. Thought better of overdoing the celebrations lest some drunk decide to make any trouble. Was expecting more goals than this tbh.

Both sides' lacked the finishing touch. Especially Kun. I was definitely worried when Mancini subbed in ndj, knowing that city sitting back would be exactly what united need to possibly nick one. I was even more worried when it's dangerman tevez who came off instead of sloppy kun. But the current best central defender in the premier league and city's standard bearer lucked the one goal that mattered the most.

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as someone who never watches soccer Man City looked like easily the best team on the pitch today. hoping they win the league.

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Next Sunday is going to be a great watch, I think. First Man City play Newcastle (at 1:30pm UK time), then Man Utd play Swansea (4pm UK time), so Man U will know where they stand re points and GD going into the final game before they take to the pitch. I don't think it's at all beyond them to put 4-6 goals past Swansea.

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Here's a filler Q just to fill up the topic.

Top 20 players you never saw play live.

Basically guys from before you started watching football that you would have enjoyed watching based on clips, reputation etc.

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voltch posted...
Top 20 players you never saw play live.

Rene Higuita
Robert Enke
Neymar
Ganso
Abedi Pele
Gianfranco Zola
Johan Cruyff (imagine my shock when i discovered that he's the current manager of the catalonia national football team)
Christian Eriksen
Radamel Falcao

That's about it. The rest I've never really went to watch clips of them. Pele isn't on because I think his ego is too big for one whose era is long gone. Maradona isn't on because he's kinda crazy in a bad way.

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voltch posted...
Here's a filler Q just to fill up the topic.

Top 20 players you never saw play live.

Basically guys from before you started watching football that you would have enjoyed watching based on clips, reputation etc.

Dixie Dee, Johan Cryuff, Marco Van Basten, Pele and most of the other brazilians that played during his time, because my Dad used to say they were fantastic >_>
Then a bunch of old Watford legends. Ross Jenkins, Tommy Mooney, Luther Blissett, John Barnes, Richard Johnson and Nigel Gibbs

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Alfredo di Stefano
Pele
Cruyff
van Basten
Maradona
Puskas
Gento

Also Hodgson confirmed as England manager now

If we are going on what our parents told us, Glenn Hoddle.

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Going through the old legends and all that I've seen some archive matches but those tend to realy be the big games.

Platini is def a guy I think I would have loved to have seen in his prime

Lineker, never really saw his Barca stuff but man his goalscoring prowess is kinda scary.

Osgood, before my time and prolly with Zola the greatest club legend.

Rikjaard and the other members of that dutch team, yeah when I was younger it was really premiership/internationals only.

Rush, in his prime dude seemed so scary to face unfortunately he was no longer in his prime by the time I could understand what good football was.

Beardsley, dude gets so hyped.


I'm generally more interested in the european guys, prolly cos of bias for the continent but I really do enjoy watching great european centric teams.

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Pool lost 1 - 0 to fulham at home thanks to skrtel deflecting a shot past doni.

Stoke drew 1 - 1 with everton.

ho-hum

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Big matches tomorrow. Let's hope for two draws. That would make for such a great Wednesday for this guy!

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Ronaldo misses another penalty that's two in a row probably a first for him

in other news Messi scored a hat trick and broke the record for most goals in a single European season

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holy **** cisse

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yeah, we're going to have to put all our eggs in one basket now.

Underdogs again but hey, we've all seen bigger upsets happen(yeah I know none of you will be supporting for the underdog this time)

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Oh and while I'm obviously biased towards Mata and I believe Aguero's an elite talent and all that.

Surely Cisse has to be the signing of the season.

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i think i speak for everyone when i say go bayern

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LOL at this topic title

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God i really hope Chelsea dont win the Champs League now, as we have such a great chance of snatching a top 4 finish. If we dont even get Europa League now I will be distraught.

And i came in my pants after that second Cisse goal. He does the number 9 shirt proud!

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Also we are going to DESTROY City on the weekend, so unless Man Utd screw up, the title is pretty much theres.

UP THE TOON!!!

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I kinda feel glad that i lost my bet. I originally expected chelsea to beat us given how hot their form is compared to ours.

Oh but what should i do on sunday? On one hand i wish for us to reach the promised land of the champions league. On the other hand i want city to win the title just to spite united. Oh the painful choice.

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I was at the Bolton game tonight
Just saw Cisse's goal what in god's name

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Goal of the SEASON.

After maybe Crouch's... Because that was also EPIC.

I had a bet on a chelsea/newcastl draw, which was the best result i was hoping for, i came away pleasantly surprised and extraordinarily happy.

Jealous that you got to be part of Muamba's return XIII. I was feeling emotional for him just watching it on TV. Great recovery.

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saw that Cisse goal live, what an amazing piece of brilliance. Easily better than the Crouch goal for my money. What a wonderful hit.

We really need to beat Norwich in a few days.

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Since we won't get anything until saturday, lets name our top 10 favourite goalkeepers.

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Ok... Don't think I could name 10..... But here's 5.

Shay Given
David Seaman
Pavel Srnicek
Brad Friedel
Joe Hart

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