On the Eve of the new Season...

well, hopefully the wheels will continue to fall off le arse this weekend :D

any word on the johnson fee? i heard they were talking around £3-4 million :eek:

Originally posted by vansmack:
This cracked me up…

The truth the soccerphobes refuse to face

great article. there is another popular attitude (less popular today) that is/was very very similar: the french-bashing that went on a few years ago. just like people who might defend soccer, anyone who had anything positive to say about the french a few years back was seen as un-American.

Saturday, January 26

FA Cup - 4th Round

10:00am Mansfield Town vs Middlesbrough (FSC)
10:00am Arsenal vs Newcastle (PPV)
12:00pm Wigan Athletic vs Chelsea (FSC)

EPL

10:00am Aston Villa vs. Blackburn (Set)


Sunday, January 27

FA Cup - 4th Round

9:00am Man United vs. Tottenham (PPV)
11:00am Sheffield United vs Manchester City (FSC)

that's the only prem vs prem match too. crazy

newcastle looked ok for the first half an hour. second was meh and then the wheels fell off

3 days and change left in the window, doubt we will sign anyone

I've been travellling for a while and now have the flu. I picked a good day to be sick - there are a ton of premier league matches on today and tomorrow. I just can't sit up long enough to give you the schedule, except Newcastle is today and Man U is tomorrow.

Originally posted by god's shoeshine:
that's the only prem vs prem match too. crazy

Yeah…go figure, it's amazing how that happened huh??

:roll:

ok

wow, it only took newcastle a week to go behind Keegans back to appoint Denis Wise!

they were always going to bring someone in that role, i dont think that wise is a manager in waiting. keegan wanted to talk to shearer of all people, who would have been much more of an 'over the shoulder' presence

Keegan and Wise!!!!

Mini me gets a Minimini me

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ok, can we not play any more games at the emirates? kthx

Scum are 7th!!!! 7th!!! This is fucking hilarious watching their little meltdown and their disastrous US takeover - couldn't happen to a nicer team or their fans

if they lose rafa and arent in the champions league next year, will they have any players left

Originally posted by brennser:
Scum are 7th!!!! 7th!!!

How about 17 points adrift midway through the season? That's what amazes me.

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Saturday, Feb 2

7:30am Manchester City vs. Arsenal (Set)
9:30am Blackburn vs. Everton (Set Xtra)
10:00am Portsmouth vs. Chelsea (FSC)
10:00am Tottenham vs. Manchester Utd (Set)
12:00pm Liverpool vs. Sunderland (FSC)
4:30pm Wigan vs. West Ham (FSC)
6:00pm Blackburn vs. Everton (Set Del)


Sunday

8:30am Newcastle Utd vs. Middlesbrough (Set)
11:00am Fulham vs. Aston Villa (FSC)

some good matches this weekend. too bad liverpool is playing scumderland, i cant root for both to lose :(

The Flowers Of Manchester

One cold and bitter Thursday in Munich, Germany,
Eight great football stalwarts conceded victory.
Eight men will never play again, who met disaster there,
The flowers of English football, the flowers of Manchester.

The Busby Babes were flying home, returning from Belgrade,
This great United family all masters of their trade.
The pilot of the aircraft, the skipper Captain Thain,
Three times tried to take off and twice turned back again.

The third time down the runway disaster followed close,
There was slush upon that runway and the aircraft never rose.
It ploughed into the marshy ground, it broke, it overturned.
And eight of that team were killed when the blazing wreckage burned.

Roger Byrne and Tommy Taylor, who were capped for England's side,
And Ireland's Liam Whelan and England's Geoff Bent died.
Mark Jones and Eddie Coleman and David Pegg also,
They all lost their lives as it ploughed on through the snow.

Big Duncan he went too, with an injury to his brain,
And Ireland's brave Jack Blanchflower will never play again.
The great Matt Busby lay there, the father of this team,
Three long months passed by before he saw his team again.

The trainer, coach and secretary and three members of the crew,
Also eight sporting journalists who with United flew,
And one of them was Big Swifty who we will ne'er forget,
The finest English 'keeper that ever graced a net.

England's finest football team it's record truly great,
It's proud success mocked by this cruel turn of fate.
Eight men will never play again who met disaster there,
The flowers of English football, the flowers of Manchester.

Saturday, February 9

7:30am Aston Villa vs. Newcastle (Set)
9:45am Sunderland vs. Wigan (Set)
10:00am Everton vs. Reading (FSC)
12:00pm Derby vs. Tottenham (FSC)
12:15pm West Ham vs. Birmingham (Set)
4:30pm Bolton vs. Portsmouth (FSC)

Sunday, February 10

8:30am Manchester Utd vs. Manchester City (Set)
11:00am Chelsea vs. Liverpool (FSC)

I see Keegan hasn't changed his managerial tactics…just outscore your opponent and don't worry about defence. The only problem with Toon is they can't score any goals!!!!!

:D

I'll be surprised if he sees out the season.