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Chacal:
When a guru like Fergie spends 60 million quid on a title winning team then one thing is sure to happen. . . MORE TITLES.

I hope Arsenal fans now know that it's important to strenghten
ones team. Fergie wasn't foolish when he strenghtened a team
that just won the league.

Arsenal finished many points behind United, lost Henry and yet
refused to strenghten their squad.

I wonder what would have happened if they had won the league.
They probably would have sold 20 of their players.

The poster is pouring out his heart.

We can't blame him. Can we?

dominique:
as i said, drogba doesn't need to buy jerseys for the boys back in abidjan, he can easily get them free from the club (not shops). and chelsea will be willing to give as many as possible for publicity.

You're wrong there sweetheart.

Chelsea will not give out limitless shirts to its players.

If Drogba, Mikel, Kalou wants 1,000 shirts each every month, are
you saying Chelsea will dole out 36,000 shirts in a year?

I don't know the inside workings at Chelsea but I don't think
that is realistic.

Nice thread.

Pictures showing the good, the bad and the ugly. A
true reflection of Nigeria.

I've said it times without number that there is nothing to
worry about in Arsenal. If they go 10 points clear, do not
despair.

All we need to do is stay ahead of Chelsea.

@ dayokanu,

I've never seen a Barcelona team that is this mediocre. Even
the run away leaders in Spain, Real Madrid are far from being
vinatge.

What makes you think Barcelona will go past Shalke?

@ 4 Play,

There is no need to wait for them to shaow up. The season
is over for them. Chelsea is the threat to United.

@ chacal,

You don't need to waste your energy on these people.

I think it's time to focus our attention on Chelsea. They
are the real danger.

Didn't see the game. Monitored it on Jeff's soccer
saturday. Glad we won.

When Fergie plays continental teams, he gives too much
respect. When he plays lowly placed premier league teams,
he underrates.

We're now on top with all teams playing the same number
of matches. Chelsea are only 3 points behind us and 2 behind
Arsenal. I fear them now more than Arsenal despite the fact
that I ruled them out when Jose nearly sunk the team.

. . . Kauto Star was still the favourite although it was obvious
that Denman was coming up strongly.

If the jockey (Ruby Walsh) had ridden Denman (he rides both
horses), I would have gone for Denman.

And yes. . . I'm broke. . . And I still have 2 weeks to go.

That's why I laugh when people say premier league players
can never go broke again.

Financial indiscipline is the same at all levels. If you can't manage
N100k monthly now, you wont be able to manage £100k.

A lot of premier league players get their cars withdrawn because
they can't make up the repayments.

Sad!

Chacal:
I heard Denham won the horse race and dethroned Kauto Star. def'ly

I lost money on Kauto Star . . . I was warned but I trusted
the horse.

Chacal:
Are u going to pride park to watch Derby V Man Utd?

Been to only one away game EVER! That was at Villa park. I
won a free ticket at bet365.com

They don't sell away tickets at the http://manutd.viagogo.com
or do they?

@ chacal,

Was at the Gold cup when I heard about the draws. The
talks about fixing is a bit worrisome.

It's easy to dismiss it with a wave of hand but if you hear
how strong the rumours were at Cheltenham, you just have
to think again.

We heard about it in the morning. I wouldnt have bothered
if I'd heard it on the streets. . . but at Chelteham?

You know that place is currently a congregation of betting
companies.

@ RuuDie,

I don't rate Barca that much. They seem a bit on the average
to me. Even the runaway leaders in Spain, Real looks average
to me.

Any of those teams you mentioned should do Barca anyday.

I'm not sure about your figures but if you're confident
they are right, then you have a money maker on your
hands.

Rather than moan, I suggest you go for the "killing" as
well.

@ top_kin,

You need to learn a bit of English comprehension. . .

Did you see the original post? The poster was shocked
at how Chelsea could ever lose to Barnsley at the FA Cup.

I showed that all top clubs have lost to smaller teams
or lost in bizzare circumstances so Chelsea's loss should
not automatically lead to Grant's sack.

Learn my brother. . . Learn!

We don't know his motives so we can't condem him.

What if he buys them to send back home to distribute
to youngsters that idolize him but cannot afford the
shirts.

If he had ulterior motives, he wont be buying them
personally at the club's store.

I'm sure he's got relatives around him that he can give
money to buy loads of the jersey.

Don't fall for headlines guys, there is no substance in
that story.

Defecting from one team to another is a ridiculous thing
to do.

I support two teams in my life. Shooting Stars and Man
Utd.

I remember when Sooting were relegated in 1986
and I was downcast. (Was very young then though)

My brother put his arms round me saying even if we were
relegated to Division 40, we would support Shooting Stars
for life.

Same for Man Utd.

I've got a cousin that supports Fulham and he's proud of
it. My brother supports MK Dons and one of my best friends
supports West Ham.

To my friend, no team plays, sings, supports as well as
west ham. To him upton park is the heaven of football.

That is how it should be.

I stopped updating it because I went "underground" to
to learn more tricks of the trade.

As I type this, I'm in the UK for a mastermind session with
some proffessionals for some "insider" techniques.

I have have however set up a membership for those that
are interested in this for a fee. If you are interested in
details. you can email me at akin @ akinalabi.com

Methinks this one is quite specific
Penalty punishable offence + An open goal without a keeper = Red Card
lol. . .I've told you before, use the word 'arsenal', 'bullet' doesn't just describe it

@ eldee,

Let's get down to the specifics. . .

The chance Glen Johnson cleared of the line from Tevez
in the first half.

After the ball fell to Tevez, if a pompey player had come
from the side to push Tevez to the ground. Would he
have been shown a red card.

Afterall, the keeper was beaten. . . It was an open goal.

Would it have been a red card?

A red card should be awarded to a player if he denies an obvious goalscoring opportunity to an opponent moving
towards the player’s goal by an offence punishable by a free kick
or a penalty kick

@ eldee,

That aspect of the rule is so vague that it can hardly justify
it's usage that is why the aspect of the last man is more
important.

All fouls that denies obvious goal scoring opportunities can
NEVER result in red cards.

Watch a game for 90 minutes and take a look at fouls that
deny obvious goal scoring opportunities. Send all offenders
of and only the referee will be left on the pitch.

Did you see Barcelona against Villareal last night?

Common sense prevailed and the referee gave Victor
Valdez only a yellow card.

NV ME:
@LONDONER
WHY DID You DECIDE TO GO BACK, ATLEAST YOU WOULD HAVE JUST STAYED

Haven't you seen anyone leaving the UK for Nigeria?

Yes its thinning rapidly. I've heard many of them say
they no longer support Chelsea because they don't
like Avram Grant.

dayokanu:
A fan would always be a fan; not someone who would jump ship when his club is not doing well.
Nigerians are fond of this.
I wonder where all the Chelsea fan of now were before and where all the Real Madrid fans during my college days went to?

Its possible for some people to support 5 teams in the course of a decade depending on the fortunes of the team in question.

Good talk. Especially those real fans. They were quite many a
few years back.

And Chelsea? I knew only one Chelsea fan 10 years ago.

pein:
ok weekends gone and i have had the time to reflect on what happened at OT.first: WTF?why does SAF play scholes?he practically did nothin thruout the match that even o'shea cudnt do,no sublime passes no runs into the PK area not even a shot on goal and this is paul scholes!!a new born baby hearing the name paul scholes would only think of shooting WTF?fine anderson caused the goal by not letting krancjar nick the ball of him but is he supposed to be defending?where the Bleep were evra and that idiot brown.we play a corner kick,vida and rio are up dere like they should so WTF are evra and brown doing there as well,including carrick,ronaldo,scholes and every bleeper that played xcept rooney and anderson and u xpext us not to concede.fine referring was bad but admit it people,we didnt play well and no one should say we created chances,stroking the ball round your opponents area ISN'T creating chances,they were basically looking for the "fancy" goal with no one shooting.why take tevez off and leave rooney for the full 90,he's even in a worse state than tevez as he's playin bullshit rite now.if brown expect 1kobo extra for his performance and thinks he deserves it he should go to the 3rd divisionand ply his trade .hw can u spend all your life at the same club as gary neville(miss him )and not know hw to bleeping cross the ball,i mean WTF?he gets the ball on the wing AND passes it back in-field to scholes or hargreaves who were closed down quickly.GOD,performance ws bleeped and everyone knows it.only glad it wasnt a league game cus that would av been devastating.there should be a petition against playing scholes,he adds nuthin to our style of play xcept slowing the shit down,look at carrick and anderson coming on, there was at leasta sence of urgency!next thing u know SAF'll play him next week against derby.really gutted.[img]http://file:///C:/Users/EMOKOH/Desktop/hate2.gif[/img]

First of all, you need to understand the rudiments of United's
play. . .

When we play attacking set pieces, Rio and Vidic goes forward
for direct nod ins. Rooney stays around the edges for a surprise
shot like we DID TWICE against Liverpool at Anfield with the
second attempt resulting in Tevez' goal.

If Scholes is also on the field, he lurks around as well because
we know he can strike the ball very well.

Browns got height, so he is up there as well. Ronaldo is brilliant
in the air so he is there. Of course the other forward player
, Tevez was there and the person hitting the free kick, in this
case, it was Nani.

That leaves us with Evra, Anderson and the goalkeeper.

When Pompey defends, they leave one (maximum 2) up front
in case there is a break. If Kanu is on the pitch, he would be
left alone upfront. That means leaving two behind is not a
bad idea.

Evra didnt track back quickly enough but we have to realize
it was a good kick from James so there was no way he could
have covered up.

It was simply a mix up from Rooney and Anderson and there
is where it ends.

Did you say we didn't play well?

I'm not sure we watched the same match.

Hit the post, ball cleared off the line TWICE, denied penalty.

What else can you ask for?

@ dayokanu,

Are you saying when a controversial decision goes your way,
you should go to the FA and say "No please take that point
back, the referee made a mistake"

Or are you saying if a controversial decision had gone your
way in the past, you have no right to complain about refereeing
when you're robbed.

Which of those two do you mean?

Meldrick:
The man who bought them (Mourinho) would have managed them better. Chelsea looks a club without a first team. Instead he keeps shuffling the players like a pack of card. Imagine the ignominous defeat by barnsley. How on earth will we crash out just at this stage of the FA Cup.

Man Utd got knocked out of the carling cup by Coventry
at OLD TRAFFORD!

Liverpool got knocked out of the FA cup by Barnsley at
ANFIELD!

Arsenal got knocked out of both cups by a total of 9
goals. . .

In your reckoning, Sir Alex, Rafa Benitez and Arsene
Wenger should all be sacked!

3 points in 3 successive games for Arsenal. Not a sign of
a team that wants to win the title.

Three draws is like LOSING 2 and winning 1.

The onus is now on us to kill off Bolton and Derby in our
next 2 games.

The title is staying at Old Trafford.

Chacal:
If we WIN the next 10 games then the TITLE is heading back to OT.

You meant to say "Staying At Old Trafford".

If that is the smartest thing he has said, then it goes a long
way to show the kind of man he is.

whatnext:
The problem in Blatter's proposal is that, how will you determine the intent in the tackle?

That is the problem and I can't understand why that is
beyond Blatter.

Okay. Assuming a player nudges another player on the
shoulder and the latter goes down and sprains his ankle,
the offender should be banned for as long as the injured
player is out?

Here is a classic example.

At Stamford bridge in 2006, Carvalho fouled Wayne Rooney
and it wasn't even seen as cardable offence.

He can claim it was unintentional. We would have believed
him. Rooney was out for weeks and wasn't fit enough for
the world cup.

Are we saying Carvalho should have been suspended for
the period Wayne was out?

The grotesque idea of using the extent of a victim's injury
to determine punishments meted out is not only silly but
unpracticable.

We were robbed. There is no question about that.

Can't understand why Martin Atkinson did not give that
penalty. He was 15 yards away from it without anyone
blocking his view.

Distin did not attempt to play the ball. The ball went
past him and he took Ronaldo out.

If that had happened outside the box would he have
blown for a free kick? Obviously. Inside the box, he
decides to look away.

The red card is another shame.

The rule says a player will be sent off for a fowl IF HE IS
THE LAST MAN.

Thomas Kuszczak was NOT the last man. Rooney had
gone back to defend the goal mouth so technically, he
is the last man.

Okay, I'm not saying Kuszczak would have saved the
penalty. But his sending off automatically robbed Man
Utd of the power and ability to come back into the game.

The whole of England surely loves the outcome of the
game so there would be no outcry.

Shocking!

Sepp "51 bad ideas out of 50" Blatter has asked for a life
ban on Matin Taylor for his tackle on Eduardo.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2008/03/07/sfnbla207.xml

Knowing Blatter and his tendencies to talk out of his a*se,
I'm not surprised to hear this.

For heaven's sake, Martin Taylor's tackle was bad. But
since I've been watching football, I've lost count of the
number of times I've seen worse tackles.

Quique Alvarez' tackle on Robben last week in the Spanish
Liga was as bad.

Blatter even recommends legal actions.

How do you determine a players intentions? Taylor had
only been booked 6 times in his whole career so what
motivation could he have had to break Eduardo's leg?

Blatter went on to advocate special treatment for good
players.

"The referees should be aware that if there is a very good
player, they need to protect him"

Special tratment for certain players?

Abeg when is the next FIFA election? I need to contest.

@ chacal,

Spend the money finish? Now I know you don't like
me. I've still got 4 weeks to go my guy.

I guess Quieroz bases his team on solid defending
and using special forward players to break down the
opposition.

Our biggest asset this term has been our defending.
I've never been this confident with United's defence
(the only worry is that silly boy called Wesley).

My point is that his defensive tendencies have actually
been a blessing to us.

Chacal:
Ma greatest worry is WHO WILL REPLACE THE LEGEND?
Marcello Lippi, Carlos Queiroz, Roy Keane or Jose Mourinho?
I don't want to think about it yet.

I'm begining to have confidence in Carlos Queiroz. If
anyone had suggested this to me 18months ago, I
would have cursed the person.

I think his eyes for talents is legendary.

He is the father of the current generation and immediate
past of Portuguese football having conquered the world
twice at under 20 level with likes of Figo and Costa.

At Real Madrid, he told the Real board to buy Pepe when
he was available at just two million euros. They told him
he wont sell shirts.

A few years later, Real had to cough out thirty million for
him.

I know managing Man Utd is more than buying exciting
young stars but is there a better way to lean football
management other than under stuying Sir Alex?

As regards tomorrows match, we should blow Pompey
away. We want a treble this season.

These Old Trafford trips dey finish my money quick
quick.

idupaul:
So Mr Dangote was right when he said he is richer than Oprah

Absolutely.