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Martyn Simpson wrote:I'll be going to the final

Lucky bastard.

Oh well. Being 4-0 down from the first leg always meant it was gonna be harder to turn it around.

Very good attempt nonetheless.

The friendly match between Romania and Ukraine finished as a two all draw and they had a penalty shoot out
afterwards. I think this is a great idea and should happen all the time for drawn friendlies.

Disappointing attendance for the Ireland v Wales match at the Aviva Stadium. Can't imagine what it will be like
tomorrow for what will ostensibly be two away teams.

Just saw the end of Fulham v Chelsea. I hate people celebrating the award of a penalty as if they've won the match like Fulham did. You still have to score it, which Fulham didn't.

COME ON YOU WHITES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Come on you daggers!

Jon O'Neill wrote:Come on you daggers!

YAWWNNN!!! We're even playing some of youngsters tonight This should be a breeze for the mighty Terriers.

Need I mention the 6-1 win in the FA Cup last season....

James Robinson wrote:

Jon O'Neill wrote:Come on you daggers!

YAWWNNN!!! We're even playing some of youngsters tonight This should be a breeze for the mighty Terriers.

Need I mention the 6-1 win in the FA Cup last season....

Well, we didn't lose.

Ryan Taylor wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l2QsNAg ... r_embedded

That is brilliant! A-lol'd a couple of times!

Here's what I had come to deliver. It's completely different mind, but equally awesome in a different way.
Cue lots of "is this what football has come to???!" - took me two replays to work it out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsEbf-o83fc

Matt Morrison wrote:

Ryan Taylor wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l2QsNAg ... r_embedded

That is brilliant! A-lol'd a couple of times!

Here's what I had come to deliver. It's completely different mind, but equally awesome in a different way.
Cue lots of "is this what football has come to???!" - took me two replays to work it out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsEbf-o83fc

Haha yep, this is what I was expecting Ryan's original link to be. Fantastic stuff.

Yeah, brilliant! Instantly reminded me of a mate lamping a bouncer across the head with my arm in '99 at a concert in the point depot. Didn't even get ejected! Nearly shat myself though.

Martins' goal

Breaking news on sky sports, Michael Carrick signs new three year contract at Man U. What the hell is going on? He's bloody useless. I thought he'd be a definite for going in the summer along with Gibson and Obertan.

Beggars can't be choosers.

Great useless stat on the guardian web coverage of the game earlier. Ryan Giggs signed for united on the Da Silva twins birth date, July 9, 1990.

A few minutes to kill before bedtime so thought I'd have a look at what the RAWK forum think of Andy Carroll (he's still an uber-slow young version of Crouch apparently!?!)

Diversions to the topic produced gems like:

Fan #1: [David] Villa is way better than fowler ever was.

Fan #2 Reply, followed by numerous people agreeing: I can safely say, without any bias whatsoever, that this is a pile of bollocks.


God I love such extravagant stupidity/bias, so much better than the mundane variety that commentates on every ITV match.

That's quite a hobby you've got. Had some time to kill so you thought you'd troll RAWK. RAWK is a great forum though because you get extremes of love for the players (see Fowler example) and extremes of Soccer AM-watching, Andy Gray-regurgitating mouth-breathers (Carroll is slow, young Crouch) that you find on most football forums. But the thick ones get hounded out eventually.

Anyways the big Liverpool news is of course that Lucas has signed a new contract, which makes me very happy!

People are interesting and funny in an unintentional way. Looking at the odd forum is a good way to kill a few minutes. I'm not registered on RAWK, nor would I ever register on there. That doesn't interest me.

This story made me chuckle. I miss my boy Djib.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-13004471

Matt Morrison wrote:This story made me chuckle. I miss my boy Djib.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-13004471

Haha, I really like the series of quotes at the end where it starts off like it's all a bit light-hearted and then ends up with "yeah, and he's suing us".

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh. Fuck you UCD, the baldy cunt referee and Danny fucking North. You've all ruined my Friday night.

Danny North? I'm pretty sure he had a few games in the Conference North last season, possibly Alfreton if my hazy memory serves me correctly. I didn't realise he'd gone across the water.

Arsenal really are like the cartoon villain. You know they're going to fail in the end, it's just a matter of how.

Pretty funny Dalglish telling Wenger to piss off.

I would like to see Kenny punished (possibly a 3 game touchline ban) as it is quite clear that he says "piss off" which is on par with Rooney swearing on camera too. Nothing will happen though.

Ryan Taylor wrote:I would like to see Kenny punished (possibly a 3 game touchline ban) as it is quite clear that he says "piss off" which is on par with Rooney swearing on camera too. Nothing will happen though.

How's that on par? Rooney's ban was for swearing into the camera, not swearing. You're allowed to swear.

Jon O'Neill wrote:

Ryan Taylor wrote:I would like to see Kenny punished (possibly a 3 game touchline ban) as it is quite clear that he says "piss off" which is on par with Rooney swearing on camera too. Nothing will happen though.

How's that on par? Rooney's ban was for swearing into the camera, not swearing. You're allowed to swear.

Because Kenny is Liverpool's manager, that's why it's on par.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26Ju8-AzH6I
This is awesome support

Oliver Garner wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26Ju8-AzH6I
This is awesome support

Seen it.

Ryan Taylor wrote:

Oliver Garner wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26Ju8-AzH6I
This is awesome support

Seen it.

Good to know!

Michael Wallace wrote:

Ryan Taylor wrote:

Oliver Garner wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26Ju8-AzH6I
This is awesome support

Seen it.

Good to know!

Yeah I know I realised just after I posted that how pointless and sort of rude it was. So thanks for quoting it so I can now no longer edit it you fucking dick.

That is savage.

Andy Wilson wrote:That is savage.

The correct terminology for this thread is: "That is Robbie."

Can I just ask, does anyone know why the Number Tournament thing topic is locked (so you can't do any more replies)???

Fantasy brag and scrag for me.
Brag - BARE POINTZ
Scrag - Transferred in Larsson, forgot to put him in my starting XI and he goes and scores 2 goals

Haha, cheers to James Doohan for giving me this to laugh at this morning - Chris Davies eat your heart out!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY9-IWFH0S4

Pity it wasn't the keeper.

GGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If only Brighton could've held on a bit more.

Oh well, we'll just have to give Brighton a tonking next weekend.

JOHNSON!

James Robinson wrote:GGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If only Brighton could've held on a bit more.

Oh well, we'll just have to give Brighton a tonking next weekend.

Good luck in the play-offs mate, I'll be rooting for you. You deserve it.

(Oh god, what have I just done?)

Not enough foot-on-ball action for my liking in Real v Barca. Can anyone who regularly watches Spanish football tell me if it's always like this? Or is it just the current crop of Madrid and Barca players who are all handbags and no football?

Adam Gillard wrote:Not enough foot-on-ball action for my liking in Real v Barca. Can anyone who regularly watches Spanish football tell me if it's always like this? Or is it just the current crop of Madrid and Barca players who are all handbags and no football?

I remember watching the Barca 5 - 0 Madrid game earlier this season, that was amazing, beautiful football. It seems to become much less flowing and graceful when the competitiveness increases.

Adam Gillard wrote:Not enough foot-on-ball action for my liking in Real v Barca. Can anyone who regularly watches Spanish football tell me if it's always like this? Or is it just the current crop of Madrid and Barca players who are all handbags and no football?

The Copa del Rey final was pretty dire but not like this. It annoys me so much when you seen all these twats rolling around on the floor over bloody nothing. Do they really not see how embarrassing it is (one of the reasons I hate Nani for United - until he cuts that out of his game then I won't like him no matter how many goals he scores).

Would much have preferred to watch Spurs vs Arsenal again. You would see far far better football being played in those 2 legs.

Oliver Garner wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26Ju8-AzH6I
This is awesome support

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEz5GfZUnBU&feature=aso

Here's another awesome supporter. I'd like to point out though that St. Patrick's Athletic don't wear green and white. That would be The Scum, I mean Shamrock Rovers.

Hangeland is my 3rd substitute in the week he scores 21 points. I had 2 players who didn't play. Sigh.

"If Rafa said he wanted to buy Snoogy Doogy we would back him" - George Gillett

How amazing have the play-offs been so far?

Answers on a scale of 1-6 please, where 1 is "yes" and 6 "is" strongly disagree.

Jon Corby wrote:How amazing have the play-offs been so far?

Answers on a scale of 1-6 please, where 1 is "yes" and 6 "is" strongly disagree.

Can I not just say Yes without faffing about with numbers? Amazing game last night. Unfortunately I didn't get to watch it live as I went to the bloody Europa League final. I didn't even get to see the goal as some idiot couldn't find their seat and walked in front of me. The goal was scored just before half time, how have you not found your seat by then?

Mark James wrote:I went to the bloody Europa League final. I didn't even get to see the goal as some idiot couldn't find their seat and walked in front of me. The goal was scored just before half time, how have you not found your seat by then?

Just out of interest, did you buy your ticket before or after Glasgow Rangers were knocked out? Her Majesty might have had a few more regrets to express if she'd been accompanied by the support they'd have taken.

PNECRISIS anyone?

David Williams wrote:

Mark James wrote:I went to the bloody Europa League final. I didn't even get to see the goal as some idiot couldn't find their seat and walked in front of me. The goal was scored just before half time, how have you not found your seat by then?

Just out of interest, did you buy your ticket before or after Glasgow Rangers were knocked out? Her Majesty might have had a few more regrets to express if she'd been accompanied by the support they'd have taken.

Only got tickets a few days ago. Probably wouldn't have managed to get one if Ranger's were still in it. Porto and Braga had sent back a lot of their allocation as people in Portugal couldn't afford to go. Still a decent sized crowd at it. Good atmosphere and all, the match itself wasn't the best though. If Braga had taken their chance at the start of the second half it could've been better.

Being married to a Wolves fan is a terrifying thing at times

Results of the C4C H2H fantasy league:

Well done Paul Gallen, I'm happy with sixth and a Europa League spot.

• W D L F Pts
  26 0 12 2073 78 Triffic Players
  25 1 12 1887 76 Andylecht
  24 1 13 1941 73 Utroligt Jeff
  24 0 14 1987 72 Lickthemstein
  24 0 14 1912 72 Mickey's Men
  24 0 14 1820 72 Synchronised Diving
  20 1 17 1862 61 De Ljugande Jävlarna
  20 0 18 1714 60 Average
  19 2 17 1682 59 Groovy Funsters
  19 0 19 1642 57 The Mighty Morricock
  18 2 18 1783 56 O.B City
  17 1 20 1563 52 James' Terriers
  17 1 20 1447 52 Wrath Wind FC
  16 2 20 1517 50 Badcock's Young Boys
  15 0 23 1631 45 Chamakheads
  14 1 23 1514 43 Ballbreakers
  12 0 26 1288 36 Psychic Octochamps
  2 0 36 586 6 Larsen

This one's the score prediction league, where only two of us bothered our arses. I won with the wonderful final-round flourish of a 4-2 banker on Man U.

• 1280 cheekbones
  1040 stitchesdazzler
  575 lenoz
  295 EVPM1996
  85 hbadcock

And finally, the main comp, congrats to Nick Wainwright, and everyone from me up who didn't get beaten by a girl.

• 2213 Nick Wainwright
  2073 Paul Gallen
  1987 james doohan
  1941 Oliver Garner
  1912 Martin Bishop
  1887 Andrew Wilson
  1862 Gooey Magoo
  1827 Tom Rowell
  1820 Ian Volante
  1810 Rachel Dixon
  1806 Adam Gillard
  1783 Eoin Monaghan
  1682 Jim Bentley
  1642 Matt Morrison
  1631 Steve Durney
  1563 James Robinson
  1517 Heather Badcock
  1514 Karen Pearson
  1492 Hywel Morgan
  1447 Ryan Taylor
  1288 Ben Hunter
  586 Jason Larsen

See you for next season's comp (assuming someone sets it up again) in oh, about a week.

Just thought I'd put a little mention in for the MIGHTY TERRIERS.

Hopefully a nice day out in Manchester tomorrow, and promotion to the Championship too.

OOH 2 BE A, OOH 2 BE A TERRIER!!!!!!

James Robinson wrote:Just thought I'd put a little mention in for the MIGHTY TERRIERS.

Hopefully a nice day out in Manchester tomorrow, and promotion to the Championship too.

OOH 2 BE A, OOH 2 BE A TERRIER!!!!!!

I'll be in Whitby all week consoling myself now.

I dunno what it is with ITV, I always seem to get a feed to a different game to the one el fuckwit Andy Townsend is commentating on. Also Young getting Man of the Match is one of the most hilarious things I've ever seen. He hit one good shot which the keeper got a touch to but still went in. Other than that he got put in lots of good positions and hit the goalkeeper regularly, including one situation where there were great options to set someone up, particularly to the right, and he blasted it at a defender which led to Switzerland having a 4 on 3 immediately after. He missed an open goal (the ball came too quickly to him apparently) along with Bent (on his wrong foot, obviously), although they'd have got points for it in Gaelic Football which I'm surprised Townsend didn't mention for one of his favourites (Young).

So I'm guessing the media will spin it as though Young never hit the keeper and chose the wrong option numerous times, that he didn't miss an open goal. Above all else it was Downing's fault because he's on the valid hate list, along with the manager. They might mention Bent as well because he cocked up a lot of times.

Aside from that it appeared England were playing 4-0-3-3, because the number of times Switzerland waltzed up the field and at most were up against 4 defenders was embarrassing. You could have made a cup of tea waiting for the midfield to come back. Never mind 4-1 Germany would have won 8-1 against that.