Thread: Football 2009-10
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24th Aug 2009, 5:59 PM #51
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24th Aug 2009, 7:32 PM #52
We are top of the league say we are top of the league!
I’m being extremely clever up here and there’s no one to stand around looking impressed! What’s the point in having you all?
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24th Aug 2009, 8:52 PM #53
We are indeed top of the league! Best start to the season for 49 years - yup, even in my lifetime!
Fancy revising your prediction of finishing 8th, Paul?!
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25th Aug 2009, 7:46 AM #54Fancy revising your prediction of finishing 8th, Paul?!
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25th Aug 2009, 9:20 PM #55
Yeah, top 6 and a domestic cup to boot! One thing which I really think will help our league prospects this season is the fact we won't be playing in Europe with all those Thursday night games!
The Liverpool result was a real surprise to me - saw most of it last night as I have free access to ESPN for August. They only lost 2 games in the league all last season - and now they've lost 2 already!
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26th Aug 2009, 1:57 PM #56Pip Madeley Guest
Was Larry at Upton Park last night?
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26th Aug 2009, 4:46 PM #57
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26th Aug 2009, 5:28 PM #58
The surprising thing for me was that none of it was started by Millwall fans. I have promised my son a few away games with Charlton this season. We missed Orient as we were in Ibiza last week and we intend to go to Gillingham and Southend and possible Norwich. But I have ruled out a trip to the New Den as I predicted the Millwall fans kicking off.
I’m being extremely clever up here and there’s no one to stand around looking impressed! What’s the point in having you all?
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26th Aug 2009, 6:40 PM #59
I'm hoping to take my son to the Charlton game when they come to play Gillingham, as they are the nearest thing the Gills have to a local rival.
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26th Aug 2009, 7:01 PM #60
the trouble inside the ground was started by West Ham fans , but the violance around the tube station was pre-organised what I found amazing was how few riot police there seemed to be holding back both sets of fans. certainly questions need to be asked as to why there wasn't a much bigger police presene in and around upton park.
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26th Aug 2009, 7:04 PM #61
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26th Aug 2009, 7:13 PM #62
Colchester is quite a trek in the car, but I had forgotten that one to be honest. I don't fancy going to Brentford though.
I’m being extremely clever up here and there’s no one to stand around looking impressed! What’s the point in having you all?
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29th Aug 2009, 8:32 PM #63Captain Tancredi Guest
You missed a treat today, Duncan- Charlton in charge of the game from start to finish and playing so attractively that it didn't feel like a 4-0 defeat. You couldn't fault Tranmere's workrate but we had too many youngsters out against a side who were more controlled, physically stronger and more confident.
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29th Aug 2009, 11:01 PM #64
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30th Aug 2009, 2:59 PM #65
As I don't rate Parkinson at all as a manager, I too am surprised by how well we have started. But, with no offence to the teams we have played so far, we have hardly been tested as yet. The real test comes when we play Leeds and Norwich, Millwall and even Southampton which is in a couple of weeks.
I could only watch Charlton on the Football League show on BBC1 last night and from the coverage they got you'd think that Leeds were running away with the top spot as we only got a passing mention with just the goals shown on TV. But, that sort of makes me happy in a way as it means that with little media coverage we will have a good chance of holding onto our better players like Bailey, Shelvey and Sam.
2 home games on the trot coming up now. brentfors next Saturday which is live on Sky and Pardew brings Southampton to the Valley following that. I can't wait to give that man the reception he deserves.I’m being extremely clever up here and there’s no one to stand around looking impressed! What’s the point in having you all?
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30th Aug 2009, 8:55 PM #66Captain Tancredi Guest
The Charlton team I saw yesterday could lose one or two players and still do well- very comfortable on the ball and able to slow the pace down or liven things up as required. Apart from your number 5 (Llera)- the lanky Spanish defender who thinks it's clever to make a meal of a challenge when you're 4-0 up with quarter of an hour to go.
Difficult to know exactly where the problems lie- whether it's Barnes and McAteer (or Digger and Trigger as they're affectionately known) trying to get the players to do more complicated things than their skill levels allow, not enough money being put in Barnes's hand or just the after-effects of losing half the team plus a manager over the summer. Our keeper and half of our first choice defenders are on loan from Championship and Premier League sides so you think they'd be motivated to give a good account of themselves- it does them no good when it comes to winning a place back at West Brom or Blackburn to be playing in a defence which has shipped seven goals in the last two games and even let two in during the one game we've won.
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30th Aug 2009, 9:06 PM #67
We had a team full of loan players last season and look where we are now. They could either make a good account of themselves or they'll take the money and run as did our loaners last season.
Fortunately, we have stuck with the same starting 11 for each of our 5 leagues games so far and have won them all. The only game Parkinson changed things in was the league cup match and we lost that so I hope we can hang on to the players I named in my previous post.I’m being extremely clever up here and there’s no one to stand around looking impressed! What’s the point in having you all?
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2nd Sep 2009, 9:23 PM #68
I had a really surreal moment on Saturday - I'd been watching Final Score from 4.30 onwards and was frustrated to see Spurs being held 1-1 by Birmingham, the sort of fixture you simply have to win to be serious about being Top 6 material. I remember a report from the Lane in the 90th minute or so and the next thing I knew I'd nodded off and came round as the programme was ending, missing all the results, tables etc. and still annoyed at our dropped points.
Watching MOTD I was surprised we were on second for a drawn game and couldn't believe it when we went 2-1! I assumed it was going to be disallowed or something and when it stood I kind of remembered that I hadn't seen the final score!!
I just hope the fortnight off doesn't harm our momentum, but if you'd told me we'd be 3 points ahead of Man U & Arsenal and 6 ahead of Liverpool at the end of August I'd never have believed it!
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3rd Sep 2009, 4:54 PM #69
This could be huge news
Chelsea have been banned from signing any new players until January 2011 by football's governing body Fifa.
The punishment was meted out after the Premier League club was found guilty of inducing French winger Gael Kakuta to break his contract with Lens in 2007.
"Chelsea are banned from registering any new players, either nationally or internationally, for the two next registration periods," said Fifa.Dennis, Francois, Melba and Smasher are competing to see who can wine and dine Lola Whitecastle and win the contract to write her memoirs. Can Dennis learn how to be charming? Can Francois concentrate on anything else when food is on the table? Will Smasher keep his temper under control?
If only the 28th century didn't keep popping up to get in Dennis's way...
#dammitbrent
The eleventh annual Brenty Four serial is another Planet Skaro exclusive. A new episode each day until Christmas in the Brenty Four-um.
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3rd Sep 2009, 6:43 PM #70Captain Tancredi Guest
If I were Petr Cech I'd be angling for a pay rise for a start.
Not sure if it'll have the desired effect if it stands- probably more likely (given the motivation of most of the players who've signed for Chelsea in the last few years) that they'll hold the club to ransom and threaten to leave if they don't get the deals they want. Assuming that the January transfer window is more about tinkering and offloading the odd bad buy, it's next summer and the post-World Cup frenzy that presents the problems.
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3rd Sep 2009, 8:36 PM #71
It's UEFA's second worm can opening of the last week - after the Eduardo suspension - and, if enforced consistently, would be a step in the right direction. Fining clubs for rule breaches doesn't work but punishments like this might. It sucks to be the first to be punished and I'm sure all the top clubs in Europe are going to sweat over it but it is still the right thing to do. Top clubs will do anything it takes to become successful and the governing body has to be prepared to do anything it takes to enforce their rules or it becomes a nonsense. Rio missed a drug test, he got suspended for eight months, people take drug tests more seriously now I'm sure.
And no one's kicked a fan during a game for ages so that obviously worked too.Dennis, Francois, Melba and Smasher are competing to see who can wine and dine Lola Whitecastle and win the contract to write her memoirs. Can Dennis learn how to be charming? Can Francois concentrate on anything else when food is on the table? Will Smasher keep his temper under control?
If only the 28th century didn't keep popping up to get in Dennis's way...
#dammitbrent
The eleventh annual Brenty Four serial is another Planet Skaro exclusive. A new episode each day until Christmas in the Brenty Four-um.
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4th Sep 2009, 7:37 AM #72
It looks like it could be Man Utd next. Apparently Le Havre are incenced over the way United acquired youngster Paul Pogba.
United primed for Pogba fight
Le Havre ready to report Red Devils to Fifa
By Chris Burton Last updated: 3rd September 2009
Manchester United have vowed to challenge any case brought against them regarding their dealings with Paul Pogba.
The Red Devils saw Premier League rivals Chelsea handed an 18-month transfer embargo on Thursday after they were deemed to have broken Fifa regulations.
The charge related to their acquisition of French youngster Gael Kakuta from Lens in 2007.
United could be the next side in the firing line, with Ligue 2 outfit Le Havre threatening to report them to Fifa.
They are unhappy at the manner in which Sir Alex Ferguson's men went about their pursuit of teenage star Pogba.
United, however, insist they have done nothing wrong, despite the player yet to be officially registered at Old Trafford.
"It is complete nonsense," a spokesman for United said.
"Everything has been done within Uefa guidelines."
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Le Havre managing director Alain Belsoeur disagrees and claims to have documentation proving United offered Pogba incentives to join the club.
"We are still pursuing our case," Belsoeur told The Times.
"It is a very serious case. We are confident that we'll win because it is in the best interests not just of our club but of sport.
"We spend 5million euros [about £4.3million] on our academy every year out of a turnover of 12million euros. It is a huge investment.
"We do that to give a chance to our players to develop for our first team, not to be an academy for others.
"What is the point of investing in an academy if the players leave at 16? This is clearly a message from Fifa to protect the education system."
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4th Sep 2009, 12:49 PM #73Pip Madeley Guest
Although:
"It is complete nonsense," a spokesman for United said. "Everything has been done within Uefa guidelines."
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4th Sep 2009, 5:51 PM #74Captain Tancredi Guest
That assumes that everything that's within UEFA guidelines is also within FIFA regulations...
After the Eduardo business, though, I do wonder whether what we're seeing is a backlash against big-spending English clubs in general by any means necessary. If it turns out that they've all been at it in one way or another then anything could happen.
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4th Sep 2009, 6:34 PM #75This is clearly a message from Fifa to protect the education system.Dennis, Francois, Melba and Smasher are competing to see who can wine and dine Lola Whitecastle and win the contract to write her memoirs. Can Dennis learn how to be charming? Can Francois concentrate on anything else when food is on the table? Will Smasher keep his temper under control?
If only the 28th century didn't keep popping up to get in Dennis's way...
#dammitbrent
The eleventh annual Brenty Four serial is another Planet Skaro exclusive. A new episode each day until Christmas in the Brenty Four-um.
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