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Post by wyleecyotee on Apr 7, 2012 12:45:04 GMT -5
Haha that Andy Carroll figure is awesome.
Love it when Liverpool become a joke.
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Post by Noza on Apr 7, 2012 13:30:29 GMT -5
Sunderland v Tottenham. A strong contender for the worst game of the season.
How did Tottenham go from being the best team to watch in England, to one of the most boring teams around in the space of under a season?
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Post by Lemmy on Apr 8, 2012 4:58:03 GMT -5
'King Kenny' is destroying Liverpool. Got the job by desperation and his legacy there, not his managerial skill. Plenty of top managers would've loved the Liverpool job and would have had them in the top 4 by this stage. Not that I'm complaining, Kenny done us a huge favour taking Carroll off our hands, now we've got Super Cisse!
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Post by ThrowinUpTheX on Apr 8, 2012 8:56:00 GMT -5
Sunderland v Tottenham. A strong contender for the worst game of the season. How did Tottenham go from being the best team to watch in England, to one of the most boring teams around in the space of under a season? You fool. Did you not watch the Bolton and Swansea games? |
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Post by thefezz09 on Apr 8, 2012 12:24:03 GMT -5
The Titles is 100'/. Manchester United, what's happened to Man City & Spurs?, Think the Refs decision was bad as I think Derry made hardly no contact
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Post by Mike Giggs' Munchies on Apr 8, 2012 14:14:55 GMT -5
Sunderland v Tottenham. A strong contender for the worst game of the season. How did Tottenham go from being the best team to watch in England, to one of the most boring teams around in the space of under a season? You fool. Did you not watch the Bolton and Swansea games? Fool is over the top, that game was awful. Spurs have gone from being consistently fantastic to watch to changing every game. Its no coincidence in my eyes that its occured the same time as changing to 4-4-2 - a terrible tactical move in my eyes, and one that makes me believe more that Harry shouldn't manage England. I won't say we've got the title wrapped up like many people are, but I'll be pissed if we don't win our next 3 games before the Etihad. We obviously benifitted from a lucky decision, but I think we would've won anyway, we dominated them before and after the sending off. Ever since Rooney missed 3 pens in a row hes become amazing at them, slotted every one since I believe. Arsenal were the better team today for sure, they deserved the 3 points. Balotelli was obviously stupid, but I don't think he was City's main problem - they played far too cautiously, and losing Toure was a blow. Kompany was immense too. |
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Post by ThrowinUpTheX on Apr 8, 2012 15:16:21 GMT -5
You fool. Did you not watch the Bolton and Swansea games? Fool is over the top, that game was awful. Spurs have gone from being consistently fantastic to watch to changing every game. Its no coincidence in my eyes that its occured the same time as changing to 4-4-2 - a terrible tactical move in my eyes, and one that makes me believe more that Harry shouldn't manage England. I won't say we've got the title wrapped up like many people are, but I'll be pissed if we don't win our next 3 games before the Etihad. We obviously benifitted from a lucky decision, but I think we would've won anyway, we dominated them before and after the sending off. Ever since Rooney missed 3 pens in a row hes become amazing at them, slotted every one since I believe. Arsenal were the better team today for sure, they deserved the 3 points. Balotelli was obviously stupid, but I don't think he was City's main problem - they played far too cautiously, and losing Toure was a blow. Kompany was immense too. Or more the fact Capello leaving England has disrupted us with even more speculation surrounding Redknapp taking the England job. Not sure where you've got this 4-4-2 nonsense from? when does Van Der Vaart ever play alongside Adebayor? he's not an out and out striker so surely it isn't a 4-4-2. Having a midfield consisting of Bale, Parker, Sandro, Modric & VDV with Adebayor playing upfront alone. This has been the case pretty much all season injuries aside, you can't expect him to play Defoe or Saha as the lone striker when Adebayor was out. |
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Post by Noza on Apr 8, 2012 15:38:47 GMT -5
The title is United's now. Just cannot see them dropping a single point for the rest of the season; whilst there are multiple opportunities for City to do such (Norwich away, Newcastle away). Manchester City thoroughly deserved to lose today, and the title in the process. What I don't understand is why, when they were absolutely flying playing brilliant attacking football, they start (since Boxing Day) reverting to their style of play they adopted last season; defend first, attack later. Now, I utterly despise teams that do this, plus the fact its  ing boring to watch. Mancini really needs to re-think his strategy in time for next season (if he is allowed another crack at it, that is). As for today's performance, Arsenal were by far the better side. City just parked the bus and let Arsenal do the all the pressing and made absolutely no attempt to even launch a counter attack. Arsenal could, and honestly should, have scored four or five out there today. |
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Post by Mike Giggs' Munchies on Apr 8, 2012 15:43:52 GMT -5
Fool is over the top, that game was awful. Spurs have gone from being consistently fantastic to watch to changing every game. Its no coincidence in my eyes that its occured the same time as changing to 4-4-2 - a terrible tactical move in my eyes, and one that makes me believe more that Harry shouldn't manage England. I won't say we've got the title wrapped up like many people are, but I'll be pissed if we don't win our next 3 games before the Etihad. We obviously benifitted from a lucky decision, but I think we would've won anyway, we dominated them before and after the sending off. Ever since Rooney missed 3 pens in a row hes become amazing at them, slotted every one since I believe. Arsenal were the better team today for sure, they deserved the 3 points. Balotelli was obviously stupid, but I don't think he was City's main problem - they played far too cautiously, and losing Toure was a blow. Kompany was immense too. Or more the fact Capello leaving England has disrupted us with even more speculation surrounding Redknapp taking the England job. Not sure where you've got this 4-4-2 nonsense from? when does Van Der Vaart ever play alongside Adebayor? he's not an out and out striker so surely it isn't a 4-4-2. Having a midfield consisting of Bale, Parker, Sandro, Modric & VDV with Adebayor playing upfront alone. This has been the case pretty much all season injuries aside, you can't expect him to play Defoe or Saha as the lone striker when Adebayor was out. He was playing pretty close to Adebayor in the games I saw. Pushing Modric out to the left was intellectually- disabled, his influence on the game has been completely removed when hes been taken out of the middle. When you were at your best you were playing 4-2-3-1 with a much more attacking focus, now Harry just seems to be treading water until he inevitably kills his career by going to manage England (a job for which imo he is not good enough, and at the same time is a bad move for him). |
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Post by DontHassleTheHoff on Apr 8, 2012 15:54:45 GMT -5
As a United fan, Delighted with the results today, not alot more that needs to be said.
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Post by ThrowinUpTheX on Apr 8, 2012 16:30:08 GMT -5
Redknapp will happily leave for England if he gets us into the Champions League, then he's done his job. At 65 I can hardly see Redknapp staying around the managerial side much longer, so his managing career will hardly be ruined if he doesn't do well.
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Post by Noza on Apr 9, 2012 11:56:09 GMT -5
Hahahaha, Tottenham were shocking today. They seem to have adopted the Manchester City approach and just park the bus in every game, and try and catch teams on the break (although not as rigioursly). When Tottenham go back to their old style of play (the old 'you score 3, we'll score 4' approach), then they will surely start doing well again.
Before I get jumped by any Tottenham fans on here, don't get me wrong, they are doing fantastic this season and deserve the Champions League place over Chelsea (though I would rather Newcastle get it than Spurs). They have just started to fall of the boil recently since they have adopted a more defensive style of play. Plus from a neutral point of view, I would like to see them start defending worse and conceeding far more goals; when they were like this in the last few seasons, they were far and away the most exciting team to watch, although not as successful.
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Post by Noza on Apr 9, 2012 17:46:33 GMT -5
So proud of us again tonight. Played really well and certainly earned that point. Kerim Frei, what a player!
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Post by Just GLC™ on Apr 10, 2012 5:56:22 GMT -5
Made up with the result against Sunderland..was sure it would be a bad one when I saw the team selection...
Obviously moyes had an eye on the FA Cup semi on sat...
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Post by Noza on Apr 10, 2012 16:53:09 GMT -5
Pissed off that greasy prick got the (undeserved) winner for Liverpool. Bet that **** Kenny Dalglish chats this up for weeks, as well.
On a more positive note, glad to see Brad Jones get a run out. Really deserves it after what he's been through.
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Post by Hammersmith Hardman on Apr 11, 2012 15:39:15 GMT -5
Was really pleased for Andy Carroll last night :/ have felt quite sorry for him in recent months tbh.
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Post by AV1 on Apr 12, 2012 12:50:11 GMT -5
Was pleased to finally win a game. Maxi always scores when he starts so i don't know why he doesn't start more often. Would take him over Stewart 'Assist Machine' Downing any day of the weel. Also pleased for Andy, hopefully give him a confidence boost. Jones did ok apart from giving away the pen but thankfully saved the first pen which he deserves after all he has been through in recent months.
Also as regards to the Man Utd vs Wigan game, Wigan always pull it out the bag towards the end of the season despite looking likely to go down at christmas. Really hope they stay up.
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Post by Mike Giggs' Munchies on Apr 12, 2012 15:26:01 GMT -5
Annoyed but not surprised. Said from the start Wigan would stay up, just annoying we couldn't beat them. Our over-reliance on Scholes is worrying. We need to win our next 2 games before the Etihad, where we need a draw.
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Post by Himmy! on Apr 12, 2012 16:49:37 GMT -5
I can't stand Wigan, wish they would just go down... But still glad they made the title race a little more exciting.
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Post by Mike Giggs' Munchies on Apr 14, 2012 11:08:23 GMT -5
Well . Wasn't expecting that. Will be absolutely gutted if City go on to win the title, can't imagine Mancini and Tevez lifting the trophy... D: |
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