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Paul, I hate you! :(
Full strength team, what? We still have 11 first team players out. (However, two of them don't count as first team - being Babayaro and Bramble.)
I think that is the worst I've ever seen us play.
Did I mention that I hate you? :(:(:(
Oh yeah 'cause the likes of Milner, Taylor, Martins, Sibierski, Solano, Given. etc. etc. are really your reserves. Everyone knows that Birmingham are just the Arsenal reserves, heck, they're worse because they're the reserves Arsenal don't want! Sweet, delicious karma :love:
We're missing: Scotty Brilliant Parker, Turkish Delight Emre, Damien Chelski Duff, Steven Baldy Carr, Craig Aussie Moore, Little Mikey Mikey Owen, and Rubber legs Ameobi!
So I suggest you be quiet, woman!
Oh, lets not forget the likes of Alan Shearer........:( :(
Oh yeah, look out Birmingham, here come Shola Ameobi and Craig Moore! :eek:
Hey! You can't just pick up on those and miss out the actual good players. :mad2:
ihateyoupaul :(
I'm sorry for missing you out, Scott Parker.
Liverpool must lose.
We win/draw (the former is preferable of course :D) and rise above them to third on the table. MU suffer shame and feel the full glory of Emirates wrath.
My envisioning good.
*Chelsea's win is a bit unfortunate of course, but in the course of all things, required.
The best thing would be for Liverpool and Arsenal to win and keep on winning, and then Chelsea and Man United to fall apart and lose until all four teams are level. Four-way title race would be the greatest thing ever. Oh, and before all you lot start listing reasons why that isn't going to happen, I know, I don't seriously expect it to. I just think it would be awesome.
Anyway, this is uefa.com's team of the season, as voted for by the general public online (including yours truly!)
Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus)
Gianluca Zambrotta (Barcelona)
Fabio Cannavaro (Real Madrid)
Carles Puyol (Barcelona)
Philipp Lahm (Bayern Munich)
Steven Gerrard (Liverpool)
Cesc Fabregas (Arsenal)
Kaká (AC Milan)
Ronaldinho (Barcelona)
Thierry Henry (Arsenal)
Samuel Eto'o (Barcelona)
Three Premiership players. Presumably the Arsenal duo got voted in because of their CL run, and Stevie because of his FA Cup and World Cup showings. People say he had a bad World Cup, but I honestly can't see how being your country's top goalscorer from midfield is a bad thing.
Also, something interesting from the official Liverpool site:
As Rafael Benitez prepares for his 100th league match in charge of the Reds he can justifiably look back with pride on a record that is superior to almost all of his recent predecessors in the Anfield hot-seat.
With 55 wins already under his belt, Benitez boasts a better record than that achieved by Bob Paisley (54), Gerard Houllier (49), Roy Evans (48) and Graeme Souness (40) over the same period, while victory over the Champions at Anfield tomorrow will see the Spaniard equal the tally of legendary Scot Bill Shankly (56).
By contrast Arsene Wenger won 54 at Arsenal and Alex Ferguson 45 at Manchester United.
Go go Rafa! That muppet Wenger equalling Bob Paisley is pretty lame though. He's not in Paisley's league.
There aren't really many people who ARE in Paisley's league though: three times European Cup-winning managers don't exactly grow on trees (also Wenger at least has managed what has eluded Liverpool's managers over the last 16 years, a league title =P). And the idea of assessing how many wins a manager had in their first 100 games is a bit daft, Ferguson took six to seven years to make Man Utd decent after all.
To make them decent? That's harsh. To make them great he took that long. I wouldn't call winning the Premierhip just "decent". To make them decent he took just a few years at most. He took over in '86, won the FA Cup in 89/90, the European Cup Winners Cup in 90/91, the UEFA Supercup in 91/92. I'd say a "decent" side would win those, wouldn't you?Quote:
Originally Posted by charliepanayi
I agree with the other point of the first 100 games, though. How many did Mourinho win in his first 100? Might not have had 100 games yet, mind you. The first 100 games is predominantly based on how well the players were before the manager came along.
This is Mourinho's 100th league game too.
I think this is a good estimation of our manager's ability, anyway. Graeme Souness inherited a fantastic side, but because he's a :skull::skull::skull::skull: manager and smurfed us up just before the financial side of football was about to boom, we haven't won the league in god knows how long. 40 wins says it all.
Still, cracking player.
EDIT: Unf! 2-0 at half-time. Absolutely fantastic goal from Jermaine Pennant. He gets better with every game.
I just wish my...perfectly legal...:shifty:...stream didn't keep packing up.
EDIT2: I take it back! It's just frozen on the lovely face of Ian Rush. :love:
Scousers up 2-0 at half-time? :O_O:
Since they came in at the start of the same season, I'm pretty sure this is Mourinho's 100th game. At a quick glance, it seems he's won 73, drawn 18 and lost 8 (probbly 9 if you include today's result), which is a bloody good record, billions or not. He's been getting progressively worse each season, though, which bodes well for the rest of us. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Loony BoB
I can't see how our pair got into that side, either. There were certainly better players in those positions, and while our CL run was impressive, I can't say that those two were the driving force behind it. As for Gerrard, I don't think he had a particularly good World Cup (we didn't exactly have much going for us up front, did we?), but his domestic performances still justify a place in the side.Quote:
Originally Posted by PsyPsy
Oh, and I'll agree that Wenger's no Paisley, but I'll be damned if Benitez is Shankly's equal. Hell, I'd make a case that he's not even Wenger's equal. Have fun with that one. :p
This is the closest thing to proof of God's existence I've ever come across. Please tell me you took a screenshot.Quote:
EDIT2: I take it back! It's just frozen on the lovely face of Ian Rush.
Champions League with Djimi Traore in the side + La Liga twice (against the might of Barca and Real Madrid, no less) = no. :strut:
I thought the Arsenal duo deserved it though. The Gunners deserve some recognition for that fantastic run, although I think maybe someone should look at the defenders first when dishing out praise.
Ah yes, the second greatest league in the world. If only there was some greater league that Wenger could have won that could trump such an achievement. Alas, I know of no such competition. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Psychotic
KOLO 4 CAPTAIN!?!? :hyper:Quote:
I thought the Arsenal duo deserved it though. The Gunners deserve some recognition for that fantastic run, although I think maybe someone should look at the defenders first when dishing out praise.
I join the chorus for screenshots of the mighty Ian Rush :love: He's like the Chuckle Brother the parents never admitted toQuote:
Originally Posted by Cz