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@TomHemingway

Couldn't agree more with Alan Shearer. Holt definitely not proven enough for England, never played for a top club or got Euro/ CL experience

Clint-iamyourpapi posted:

Its all Phil Jones’s fault, we won the league before he joined, then we lost it as soon he started to play.
Giggs is also to blame because he is old.
Welbeck is also to blame because he only scored a little bit and at 20 should be doing better.
Mike Phelan is to take full blame on behalf of management, he should have done better.
We would have won the league if Sneijder was fit for at least half the season.
Park is crap, lets buy Messi now that Guardiola is gone.
Scholes should retire and Pogba should play every game.
We lost the league because Feggie was in Germany watching Kagawa instead of preparing to win the league and helping out Mark Hughes by loaning him Rio and Vidic.

ak47 posted:

T’S ALL WAYNE ROONEY’S FAULT.

HE HELD THE CLUB TO RANSOM. HE DECIDED TO SHOW ILL-DISCIPLINE OVER CHRISTMAS AND GO FOR A LATE NIGHT MEAL DESPITE THE REQUESTS OF THE CLUB FOR PLAYING STAFF TO INSIST ON NO LATE NIGHTS.

THE oval office GET’S SUSPENDED AND DROPPED FOR THE GAME AGAINST BLACKBURN WHICH WE END UP LOSING, A GAME WE WOULD NOT HAVE LOST HAD HE PLAYED.

BLAME THAT oval office, HE EARNS £250K A WEEK AND PRICKFACE SHOULD TAKE ALL THE BLAME

gaz posted:

morning rom! been busy working my loving rear end off over the last weeks hardly anytime to post!

Well the loving bitters finally bought themselves a premier league title i dont have it in me to say well done mainly because of my disdain to towards that cretin Summerbee what a loving prick loving spongebob square pants looking oval office hate that prick cranky stuck up bitter twat. Liam Gallagher is another reason oval office! Why doesnt he cut that pissy faggotty haircut oval office. poo poo loving music poo poo act and why the loving does the hard as pants twat walk around like he has a loving shovel shoved up his hole? wanker! what was with that female scarf around his neck? might explain why the prick has an Ugly womens face. loving hate that shark boy oval office Nasereri “i made the right decision” eh being paid double what you were on had nothing to do with it you loving ugly teethy frolicking loving wanker your a ponce and glad we didnt get you last summer dive into the loving sea with Mike Spongebob Summerbee you loving ghosty sharky faced cock!
Joey Barton you gay faced poof now dont get me wrong im glad you got stuck into the troll from the hole and with Spikey Blockhead Tearo but you are mentally loving slow did that loving Quiff of a thing you call a barnet get lodged in your brain? gently caress off back to boardwalk empire you dispicable human worsting you can Join John the oval office and luis the racist in sperm that rolled down yer mothers leg bracket! gently caress OFF CITY gently caress OFF CITY gently caress OFF CITY, Keep our trophy warm we will be back to collect it soon. CUNNNNNNNNNNTTTTTTTTTSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Sandeep1978 posted:

as expected,

a United defeat and i m on leave from office the immediate day..

that has been my pattern this season,

gently caress job, i would quit anything for my beloved club..

Eau de MacGowan posted:

In all fairness some are being pretty rational, on the other hand

Ninpo posted:

gaz has a point about Liam though

Eau de MacGowan posted:

As you can imagine, the most obnoxiously smug united website in the world is taking their loss very well:





In all fairness some are being pretty rational, on the other hand

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Two great battles have been won.

TyChan posted:

This struck me as lame, but maybe it's not bad enough to belong here.

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Manchester City should be public enemy number 1 when it comes to what’s wrong with sports. The unappreciated little brother within their own working class town, City should be the everyman that we can all identity with, except for the very large fact that they are owned by royalty from Abu Dhabi who quickly reminded the world that there actually are people out there for whom money is no object. Instead of being the poor man’s Clippers, Man City have become the rich man’s Yankees.

It bears mentioning that I know almost nothing about the Premier League, and though I’ve played “soccer” my entire life, I am a Johnny Come Lately to fútball fandom. I know Messi is the best player in the world. I know I hate Wayne Rooney if only because he looks like every guy you’ve ever wanted to punch in the face for being a total rear end on St. Patrick’s / Cinco de Mayo / any misappropriated ethnocentric drinking event. I get the gist of what’s happening in the world of soccer, I understand the tactics of the game, but the nuances of league dynamics and almost all history of the game escape me. Pretty much I’m your typical overeducated American who never studied abroad: I like the game, but I don’t own a scarf for a team whose town I lived in for 3 months Junior Year (though I do think they look snappy with a $3,000 suit [come on!] and would gladly accept one as a present). I picked Liverpool as my team because I know they used to be good and were supposed to be on the up-and-up, and I love the Beatles far more than any human should love anything they aren’t in a physically intimate relationship with.

All of that is the long way of saying: I had absolutely nothing invested personally in today’s final outcomes. Liverpool couldn’t win it all, they couldn’t qualify for the Champions League, they weren’t in danger of being relegated, and to be honest their hum-drum year didn’t really hold my interest. I ended up following the league from afar, trying to keep up with Chris Ryan’s column whenever possible so I could at least follow a conversation in a bar. The one match I earmarked as destination viewing (the second Classico) ended up not even being on TV, which pretty much summed up where I was at as a “fan” of “soccer.” I came to this morning’s Man City—QPR match like someone who doesn’t watch any (American) football but tunes into the Superbowl because they know it’s sort of a big deal.

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I picked Liverpool as my team because I know they used to be good and were supposed to be on the up-and-up, and I love the Beatles far more than any human should love anything they aren’t in a physically intimate relationship with.

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Frogson has went from bean the winnest manger off all time to the losest and we arnt not happy! Sack Frogson and kill *** trator nanny!

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My fellow united fan in the house.the main problem we have now is ferguson.he always gamble whenever we need a match.i see no reason why valencia should be on the bench.pls if you re a fan in london you can stone him.hope city draw.

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Rubbish tactics by sir-arles lost us d match; wen last d samlling,jones,park, play in d ist team

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6 REASONS WHY LIVER SHOULD SLIDE AT THE FA
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1.Its a shame that liver can let ManUre take all these tittles while they marktime for yyyearrrs! Were it not for chelsea, manUre could have worn over 25 epl tittles already!
CHELSEA 5-1 liverpool
2. Liver is proving to be a 1 man team. The handballer dinosurez.
3. Liver lacks diffenders, i fear for the old man carrager and the own-goal specialist sktrl.
4. Most liver players ALWAYS run around like headless goats burning off steam. Thats good because they tire quickly and expose themselves.
5. Chelsea has proven again and again that it OWNS wembely. Chelsea can get a draw of 1-1 or even 0-0 with tottenham in the league but thrush them 5-1 at place. Infact, Chelsea has NEVER LOST at wembely since its 1st match at the venue, which co-insidentaly was the first match ever at the studier.
6. Go go go CHELSEA!

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Paul Scores, he scholes goals.

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Normally, if you have any opinion on who wins the English Premier League, it demonstrates your world view on sports, whether you have one or prefer not to cross borders set up by ESPN. But considering the way Manchester City won the Premier League title, even ESPN had to give a nod in its highlights, and you need not show your passport when opening a conversation today with: “Two goals in stoppage time to win the league? Did you see that? Holy cow.”

Because, yes, this kind of holy cow transcends sport, country or whether you knew Manchester had another team. It was a comeback for the ages, with the traditional power Manchester United by the side of a field 150 miles away waiting to accept the Premier League trophy as City trailed, 2-1, to the Queens Park Rangers at the end of regulation time. But those final, mystical minutes called stoppage time, or injury time, or extra time, turned into magical time as City scored two goals. Yes, for those who dislike soccer because they never seem to score any goals, that was two goals in a span of two minutes.

As Martin Rogers writes on Yahoo.com, it was a finish for the ages, the dramatic end of Manchester City’s 44-year title drought in the most surreal fashion, writes James Martin on ESPN.com. That Edin Dzeko of Bosnia and Sergio Agüero of Argentina scored the fateful goals and the celebration charge was led by an Italian mananger, Roberto Mancini, said a lot about how City has gone about combating the oh-so-English United dynasty (Manchester United had won its game at Sunderland on a goal by Britain’s Wayne Rooney and is coached by a sir, Alex Ferguson.) Of course, that’s because City is actually owned by Abu Dhabi oil tycoons and spent a fortune assembling this team, but hey, when it’s ManU on the other side of that divide, you get to be the underdogs nonetheless.

Abu Dave posted:

I like how they treated being coached by "a sir" as some big deal that is exclusive to United.

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When arsenal won it, they deserved it. City are a plastic club, no respect. I like Kompany, about it.

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This.

Arsenal are the only club who've deserved any PL titles apart from us.

Blackburn, Chelsea and City all won it due to money being pumped into them

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Mickolution posted:

In fairness, an actual play clock does make sense. The ball's only in play for around 60mins on average, I think, making the few minutes added at the end pretty meaningless.

Private Eye posted:

That can't be right surely? The ball's out of play for half an hour a game?

Tsaedje posted:

They just can't comprehend a continuous game without breaking it up into discrete "plays", it's not their fault.

thehappyprince posted:

Wouldn't be surprised if it was more tbh

Tsaedje posted:

Throw-ins, goal kicks, setting up for set pieces, etc. are all just as much a part of playing the game of football as the kicking and running. Stoppage time is to make up for injuries, players walking on and off the pitch for substitutions and the like (fights!) which aren't. It's pretty simple to understand.

Mickolution posted:

So why is time wasting an offense?

Mickolution posted:

Yeah, I remember hearing the figures before and at times it was only a half. Can't find it online, though.


So why is time wasting an offense?

thehappyprince posted:

Someone needs to get their stopwatch out and watch a few games.

paddy scrote posted:

sky sports did a thing (i think only for a few games) a couple of years ago where they showed how much the ball was in play and it was like 48 minutes lmao

Scott Bakula posted:

I think a Stoke game broke the record with only 37 minutes either last season or the one before

Scott Bakula posted:

I think a Stoke game broke the record with only 37 minutes either last season or the one before