2013-14 English Football Season

Sunderland are a team who will crunch at the hand at any opportunity given, seriously they're so easy to underestimate and laugh at and they can just as easily snatch a well fought albeit mucky victory from the jaws of defeat. There's been street parties and everything round here because they won the semi finals and personally I'd like to see them smothered by Man City in the finals but, it goes to show that some teams can be the unlikeliest victors... even though Man U played terrible and I was laughing sadistically and evily at the whole thing... :p
Hrrr... SORRY... ITS TRUE...

Oh and did any one see the news article about the drunkard phoning the police demanding to speak to Sir Alex Ferguson after? XD had me in tears laughing!!

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Originally Posted by Psychotic

Anyway, I don't get how you can say shoot outs are a lottery and then say a reason for defeat was because your best takers weren't on the pitch ;)

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I just did! I can achieve the impossible if I try hard enough, that's what I learned from watching TV.

Just believe in yourself!

Anyway, Johnson now following Lucas and indeed half the squad to the treatment table. In fact in think our entire first choice back 4 is out now, no wonder we've been shipping goals like crazy. Skrtel is a player who will either have a season where he is an unstoppable beast, or one where he casually invites the opposition strikers round our goal for tea and a hat trick... and this season is the latter. He's still miles better than the hapless Cissokho who makes me long for Djimi Traore he is actually that poor.

And yet... no transfers in! Even a loan til the end of the season would do! What the smurf is going on? Prediction: unless LFC bring in two or three first team players in this window, all the good work we did at the start of the season will be undone and 7th is the best we can hope for.

I think so long as Suarez is fit, anything could happen for Liverpool. If he got a long time on the sidelines then I think it would be a test on par with RVP & Rooney's absence at United. Depends on how long, though.

Yeah, I still think you're strong enough to make the top four. It depends on how serious Everton and Tottenham's challenges are. I can't see either of them finishing ahead of you.

At least it's only defence where you're having issues. Our only strong area of the pitch (other then De Gea) is up front where we have Rooney and Van Persie.

Oh wait, no we don't.

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Originally Posted by Loony BoB

I think so long as Suarez is fit, anything could happen for Liverpool. If he got a long time on the sidelines then I think it would be a test on par with RVP & Rooney's absence at United. Depends on how long, though.

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We're alright without him - so long as Sturridge is fit! Sturridge scores just as often as Suarez does, although he's also had injury blights. Suarez seems relatively tough in comparison with Sturridge.

I know your strikeforce is alright without Suarez because you have Sturridge, just like you could argue we're alright without RVP because we have Rooney, but 'world class' compared with 'alright'... well, you know it as well as I do! I'm just saying that your defence isn't what has won you most of your games this season, as often you've leaked goals... the key football fact is that you've simply outscored the opposition. This is why I think you're still going to challenge no matter what so long as Suarez is about, and that if Suarez went out, you might suddenly find things rather different, Sturridge or not.

It's a fair point. To explain where I'm coming from though, if you look at the games where Suarez was banned (last season and this season) for The Cannibalism Incident, we actually did really well and won a lot of games - with Sturridge banging them in. I don't think we're so reliant on Suarez as you might think. Of course, if I had to pick one to be injured and one to be playing then it's no contest, but I don't think the season would go to trout purely because of that.

Linked with Kroos now it seems. Not gonna happen though.

Really couldn't be any happier with Mata coming in! :hyper:

I think our priority now should be the defense. A LB and possibly a CB is needed (would like us to go for Cointreao). Ideally Alaba but I'd honestly say he'd cost more than Bale. I have great time for Evra but he doesn't track back like he used to and we always get caught on the break - seen it so often this season. I'm going to do our possible starting line-up just because I like too :p

...................De Gea.....................
Rafael..Vidic..Evans/Jones..Cointreao
.............Fellani.....Carrick/Fletcher..
......Mata........Rooney.....Januzaj....
......................RVP......................

David Ngog

i want to cry

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Originally Posted by Rocket Edge

Linked with Kroos now it seems. Not gonna happen though.

Really couldn't be any happier with Mata coming in! :hyper:

I think our priority now should be the defense. A LB and possibly a CB is needed (would like us to go for Cointreao). Ideally Alaba but I'd honestly say he'd cost more than Bale. I have great time for Evra but he doesn't track back like he used to and we always get caught on the break - seen it so often this season. I'm going to do our possible starting line-up just because I like too :p

...................De Gea.....................
Rafael..Vidic..Evans/Jones..Cointreao
.............Fellani.....Carrick/Fletcher..
......Mata........Rooney.....Januzaj....
......................RVP......................

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Much as I love Vidic, he's on the way out for me. Like Rio, he's slower and the opposition see weakness in him, they know they can get around him, particularly on the break. Our best defensive partnership this season? Smalling & Evans. Five games, and we won all five with two being clean sheets. Admittedly one of those wins was the draw against Sunderland last game, but yeah. Mix that in with Jones being often touted as our best central defender this season and you look at Vidic/Rio and think "...what are they supposed to be offering us now?"

Smalling has the best record in central defence for us this season overall, as his partnerhips with other CB's have also performed better than those without him. Very underrated chap.

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Originally Posted by Old Manus

David Ngog

i want to cry

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To the tune of "Hi-ho" from Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. Ngog, Ngog, Ngog Ngog Ngog, He tucks his cock into his sock, Ngog! Ngog Ngog. You're welcome.

Why does every Man United's fan potential line up include Coentrao? I don't get it. :p Also like with Liverpool, United have great attacking options but the defence and deep in Midfield don't look all that convincing.

We're going to lose to Bournemouth. I can feel it. I smurfing hate cup games against lower league opposition. The entire coverage is about OHHHH THERE'S GOING TO BE AN UPSET, and your players clearly don't give a trout because it's Bournemouth - but them and their fans do because Liverpool is a big name. Even if you win, nobody is impressed.

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Originally Posted by Psychotic

Why does every Man United's fan potential line up include Coentrao? I don't get it. :p

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Obvious reason is obvious: We're heavily linked with him. I don't think it's because it's their #1 choice in the world, it's because it's a realistic possibility.

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Originally Posted by Psychotic

I smurfing hate cup games against lower league opposition

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You can gladly have our luck in FA Cup draws by getting Premier League opposition. Every. Smurfing. Time.

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Originally Posted by Rocket Edge

...................De Gea.....................
Rafael..Vidic..Evans/Jones..Cointreao
.............Fellani.....Carrick/Fletcher..
......Mata........Rooney.....Januzaj....
......................RVP......................

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