Saintsfan Posted February 12, 2010 Share Posted February 12, 2010 Two big injuries from Wednesday nights games btw. Ryan Giggs out for a month withan arm injury, and Ashley Cole out for 3 months with a leg fracture. That could mean England's reserve left back Wayne Bridge coming in to the team!!! Alongside John Terry! 2011/12 WFL Champions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintsfan Posted February 14, 2010 Share Posted February 14, 2010 So P h manage to score 3 late goals to beat Southampton 4-1. Very flattering scoreline for P h IMO. Watching the game, certainly seemed obvious why they are struggling in the EPL. 2011/12 WFL Champions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattF Posted February 14, 2010 Share Posted February 14, 2010 Villa salvage a replay against Palace, which is good and all until I realized it's on Feb. 24....4 days before the Carling Cup Final If we do get past it, we'll face either Reading or West Brom, so we might be looking at 2 or maybe 3 Wembley trips this season Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Posted February 14, 2010 Share Posted February 14, 2010 Barcelona is defeated for the first time in league play this year, losing 2-1 at Vicente Calderon at the hands of Atletico Madrid. They have not won there in 4 years. "I don't understand where you got this idea so deeply ingrained in your head (that this world) is something that you must impress, cause I couldn't care less"http://keepdcunited.org Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dfwabel Posted February 18, 2010 Share Posted February 18, 2010 Let me start (home team first) Champions League:Milan 2 - MUFC 3; I took an additional sick day off for that and the 2nd game. Milan scored at 3'. Good game, but Milan really blew it. 3 away goals = the most over series from this week.Lyon 1 - Real Madrid 0: This was the game I really watched. Lyon is playing like they can still win it all. I look at Iker and Dida and still never think best GK. FC Bayern 2 - Florentina 1; Stronger team won at home, but the road game is totally different. FC Porto 2 - Arsenal 1: While Porto controlled the ball, Arsenal lost the game from Fabianski, period. The Sol Campbell goal was a shock, but those give ups were. WOW! The crowd was in it since they cannot win in England. Eurpoa game with Everton and Sporting was also really entertaining. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintsfan Posted February 18, 2010 Share Posted February 18, 2010 Let me start (home team first) Champions League:Milan 2 - MUFC 3; I took an additional sick day off for that and the 2nd game. Milan scored at 3'. Good game, but Milan really blew it. 3 away goals = the most over series from this week.Lyon 1 - Real Madrid 0: This was the game I really watched. Lyon is playing like they can still win it all. I look at Iker and Dida and still never think best GK. FC Bayern 2 - Florentina 1; Stronger team won at home, but the road game is totally different. FC Porto 2 - Arsenal 1: While Porto controlled the ball, Arsenal lost the game from Fabianski, period. The Sol Campbell goal was a shock, but those give ups were. WOW! The crowd was in it since they cannot win in England. Eurpoa game with Everton and Sporting was also really entertaining.All the away teams would think they are in a good position to progress. [The teams that played away in the first legs]. Porto's second goal did give us the opportunity for a classic piece of Wenger wingeing, but in the end, it was a backpass, the keeper did pick it up, Porto were entitled to take the free kick quickly, the only possible problem was that the referee was blocking Campbell a bit. Good quick thinking by Porto. Milan aren't in great shape, but I wouldn't even count them out yet, all 8 teams could progress at this stage. 2011/12 WFL Champions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintsfan Posted February 22, 2010 Share Posted February 22, 2010 ***Saintsfans EPL round up***On the upChelsea, moved clear in the Premiership race, mind you every time they get some clear blue water between them and United they tend to mess up, so who knows what will happen next!Tottenham Hotspur- back up to 4th after a good away win at Wigan. The race for 4th is every bit as unpredictable as the race to win the league.Skid rowManchester football- United lose against Everton, whilst City fail to beat a stagnant Liverpool. both teams lose ground in there own particular races.The Chelsea Football Club wife swapping society- first John Terry and now Ashley Cole. Makes for a boardroom unhappy at its star players.P h- real doubts about whether they can finish the season without going our of business. Seems like relegation is a certainty, but whether or not they actually are still in business to play in the Championship next year is a different question. 2011/12 WFL Champions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Nation Posted February 27, 2010 Share Posted February 27, 2010 Ramsey INJURY is too much.I'm so sick and tired of crappier premiership teams smuggly saying the best way to beat Arsenal is to "kick em around" its like WTF...when is kicking around players legal??? This is what happens.First Abou DiabyThen Eduardo,Now Aaron Ramsey.Fabregas Post Match InterviewIncident video Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintsfan Posted February 28, 2010 Share Posted February 28, 2010 Ramsey INJURY is too much.I'm so sick and tired of crappier premiership teams smuggly saying the best way to beat Arsenal is to "kick em around" its like WTF...when is kicking around players legal??? This is what happens.First Abou DiabyThen Eduardo,Now Aaron Ramsey.Fabregas Post Match InterviewIncident videoIn all fairness, the Shawcross tackle was a clumsy, ill timed challenge rather than an aggressive, nasty challenge. I don't think Wenger, or Arsenal in general, do themselves any justice to suggest anything other than that, no matter what might have happened in the past. Shawcross was obviously pretty distraught at what had happened. 2011/12 WFL Champions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattF Posted February 28, 2010 Share Posted February 28, 2010 Damn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEAD! Posted February 28, 2010 Share Posted February 28, 2010 Damn.YEAH! I saw, I came, I left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WJMorris3 Posted February 28, 2010 Share Posted February 28, 2010 Ten matchdays left in Germany, and second-placed Bayer Leverkusen is the only unbeaten team left. Can they keep it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattF Posted February 28, 2010 Share Posted February 28, 2010 Damn.YEAH! No one cares about the Carling Cup, the FA Cup is what we're really going for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Nation Posted February 28, 2010 Share Posted February 28, 2010 Saint's fan....Arsenal players haven't suggested anything other than stating facts.In four years, 3...count em THREE players have had their legs or ankles broken.....twice a coincidence...but three times?? give me a break...something has to change here, and theres something inherently flawed.Injuries happen in soccer...but broken legs???Nothing is going to come about this...shawcross will get his 3 match ban...Ramsey might not be the same ever again, and crappy teams will resort to bush league tactics to try and beat arsenal.From another poster on another forum board. It was well written.Every time a big, slow, clumsy Brit hurts someone, English media and coaches close ranks.Shawcross: "no malice"Martin Taylor breaks Eduardo's ankle: "he's a good lad"Ben Thatcher nearly decapitates Pedro Mendes: "he's not That Type Of Player"James McEveley breaks Djibril Cisse's leg: "it was a perfectly legal play"Danny Smith breaks Diaby's leg: "he was just getting stuck in"And so on, and so on...Personally, I'd like to see someone break Rooney's leg. Not because I dislike him - in fact, I think he's tremendously entertaining (though I don't cheer for his team) - but because I believe that's the only way the FA will crack down on people like Shawcross. Plus, I'll be able to go on all the MU forums and say "the legbreaker had no intent at all! He's just a... *passionate* player, a guy who is *fully committed*, who's *not afraid to get stuck in*". And whatever other ridiculous cliches the English use to excuse this junk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintsfan Posted February 28, 2010 Share Posted February 28, 2010 The Nation- You can say what you like about any other injury. Shawcross made a bad tackle, he knows it, the world knows it, but he was not going out to injure anyone. If you were going to go out to damage to Arsenal, Ramsey isn't the guy you would aim for. I don't think the paranoia of Arsenal under Wenger does the club, or the game, any good. I'd have more sympathy for Arsenal if Wenger was more honest about the sins his own team commits rather than going down the 'I did not see that incident' But instead he is outraged at every possible sin committted against Arsenal and yet shameless in his defence of his own teams sins. 2011/12 WFL Champions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Nation Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 Of course nobody goes out there to intentionally injure someone...unless you're Roy Keane. But the media hype, and everyone defending Shawcross is ridiculous. I'm tired of all this 'oh he's a good lad,' bs. Fine, fair enough, he might be a good person off the pitch, and I'm quite certain he did't mean to injure Ramsey, but that tackle is what's wrong with English football. Clumsy, unskilled defenders being coached by idiots who tell them to stick a boot into players and kick em around the park.I mean Saintsfan....Shawcross has broken Francis Jeffers' leg, he's almost broke Emmanual Adebayor's ankle last year, this is his 3rd time...at some point the FA has to do something to get tackling like this out of the game.I do believe that if it was someone like Christopher Samba breaking Wayne Rooney's leg in a similar....oh god...Samba would be banned for life. There would be no way you'd be hearing these media pundits defending Samba and calling him a good guy just like the way they defend Shawcross.As for Wenger, that's a fair enough point, Wenger usually says these things to protect his players. Which is fine, and its what I'd expect any coach to say. And I had no problem with Tony Pudis coming to Shawcross's defense and labelling him a good guy. But its just the media pundits and the FA I have a problem with.Watch this video...Linklisten to what the commentator has to say....he accepts the challenge as good football play. It's this British mentality that has to change. But Adebayor missed 3 weeks for that challenge. The ball was out of bounds, and it was a challenge from behind. Shawcross has been playing a dangerous brand of football for sometime now...and what happened to Ramsey was due to happen.It's like the analogy....if a dude speeds in his car without anyone enforcing rules on him...he's due to have a big crash one day and kill an innocent bystander... now sure he didn't mean to kill anyone, and he might be a nice church going fellow, but is that excuse going to hold up in a court of law? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintsfan Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 I'm not at all defending Shawcross at all, he made an awful tackle, and I do think that every attempt is being made to get rid of dangerous tackles out of the game, but at the same time, the worst thing you could do to the game is to neuter the tackler. Injuries happen in the game, yes sometimes they are serious. Personally I would not mind seeing serial offenders being punished very seriously for poor tackling, but its hard to know exactly what to do in this case. I've seen far worse tackles and noone get hurt. To an extent it is just bad luck on Ramsey that he got so badly injured. I completely understand the anger of Arsenal, but I think yit must also be understood that accidents do happen on the sports field. 2011/12 WFL Champions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Nation Posted March 1, 2010 Share Posted March 1, 2010 I acknowledge accidents happen..but there are accidents which you can tolerate, and accidents which you can't.This is an accident which I can't tolerate simply because of Shawcross' history of dirty tackles. I acknowledge that the ball was 50/50, but there should be no way in hell that Shawcross's tackle should have been that high up on Ramsey.Shawcross has broken 2 legs (Jeffers & Ramsey), and made a stupid, stupid tackle on Adebayor last year. Clearly his play is being allowed to continue when it shouldn't be.Something must be done to eliminate this from the game. Harsher bans whatever. Tackles from behind, stamps, wild lunges, studs up, should all be automatic red cards, its the only way to force slow, unskilled players to play the game the right way. You want to go in for a tackle? I'm all for it...but show studs...and that's it...you should be carded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintsfan Posted March 8, 2010 Share Posted March 8, 2010 ***Saintsfan's English soccer review***On the upP h- still a club in crisis, but in the Cup Semi Finals at least. The top 3- Arsenal and Man United win in the league, Chelsea reach the Cup semis, without either of there league rivals looking convincing in there wins.Everton- the Premiership's form team, hammer Hull City 5-1 without breaking sweat. Can they convince LA Galaxy to allow Donovan to stay until the end of the season?Skid rowHull and Burnley- two teams needing to hit the panic button at the wrong end of the table. Obvious defensive frailties, lack of quality strikers. Not sure how either team gets a quick fix.West Ham- if anyone else is going to get dragged into serious relegation scrap it could be the Hammers. Losing to Bolton at home is not good. Wolves- another team with frailties all too obvious, they must be praying P h get the 9 point penalty due them. 2011/12 WFL Champions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-kj Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 One more, since I was there in person:Norwich 3-0 YeovilNorwich now seven points clear at the top of League One. Brilliant! Buy some t-shirts and stuff at KJ Shop! KJ Branded | Behance portfolio POTD 2013-08-22 On 7/14/2012 at 2:20 AM, tajmccall said: When it comes to style, ya'll really should listen to Kev. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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