2011-2012 English Football Season and STEWART DOWNING WHAT ON EARTH Thread

[Psychotic]

Vorm is indeed a hax bastard and I love him for being my FF team's GK all season. Incidentally I made a couple of transfers, only to be told I had bought too many Swansea players. Go figure. Now Vorm is the only one again 'cause it messed up my delicate points balance, but I wanted Dyer, Williams and Sinclair. I didn't even think "Hey, these are all Swansea players" I just thought "Hey, these are all good players".

Oh, and given that Petr Cech is overrated and nowhere near the player he once was, your boy Michel will be at Chelsea this time next year. Merry Christmas

[Old Manus]

EDIT: Something I found on /r/soccer (smurf you) and I thought was funny

[Cuchulainn]

hey daniel towns, crop and cuchulainn i got a little song for you i think you may already know the words

man utd vs liverpool thursday nighs chaneal 5 - YouTube

STEVE BRUCE FOR UNITED MANAGER also god damn that kit of ours was atrocious

I'm pretty sure ITV4 has us, though not definate. Also go smurf yourself. Your lot were not even good enough to get in to the competition in the first place. I remember the Cup Winners Cup, this will be like nostalgia for me.

[Psychotic]

I don't care about this anymore! It was sooooooooo last week!

Still, joking aside, for a competition that's meant to be a bag of bollocks contested between the likes of FC Groznyj Grad, Sporting Chernobyl and Stoke City, the English teams aren't exactly facing a bunch of minnows in Ajax, Porto and Valencia are they?

[charliepanayi]

UEFA conspiracy! They want all the English teams out! *puts on tinfoil hat*

[Bubba]

To be honest, looking at our injuries at the minute... I can't see Man Utd getting past Ajax. I know Ajax are not having the best season and are a little off the pace in their league... but I reckon they'd be well up for the scalp.

[Old Manus]

Tempting fate by keeping Demba Ba as my fantasy captain this weekend.

[Loony BoB]

To be honest, looking at our injuries at the minute... I can't see Man Utd getting past Ajax. I know Ajax are not having the best season and are a little off the pace in their league... but I reckon they'd be well up for the scalp.

It's one thing to say "I can see us losing against Ajax" but to say "I can't see Man Utd getting past Ajax" is another thing. That's saying you can't see how we could win. Surely you watch football enough to know that a lesser team can always win, let alone a team that is only a couple of points off the pace in the Premier League. Have a little faith!

[Old Manus]

It worked. Howay the Swans

[Bubba]

To be honest, looking at our injuries at the minute... I can't see Man Utd getting past Ajax. I know Ajax are not having the best season and are a little off the pace in their league... but I reckon they'd be well up for the scalp.

It's one thing to say "I can see us losing against Ajax" but to say "I can't see Man Utd getting past Ajax" is another thing. That's saying you can't see how we could win. Surely you watch football enough to know that a lesser team can always win, let alone a team that is only a couple of points off the pace in the Premier League. Have a little faith!

All I'm basing my opinion on is both clubs current position. Ajax are currently in 4th place and 8 points off the pace. Due to their prestigious history in European football I think they'll have an added incentive to win this tie. Utd on the other hand are feeling slightly embarrassed about performing in this competition. Plus, when you have injuries like we have then you struggle to compete in multiple competitions. Vidic, Rafael, Fabio, Fletcher, Anderson, Cleverley, Berbatov, Hernandez and Owen all out injured... people may call me a pessimist but I see myself more of a realist...

[Loony BoB]

Ajax will want to remain in Europe and won't give up on that title this early on either. They are better than that.

"Vidic, Rafael, Fabio, Fletcher, Anderson, Cleverley, Berbatov, Hernandez and Owen all out injured"

Of those, all could be back outside of Vidic and Fletcher by the time we play in Europa League.

[DK]

What a smurfing match, that was crazy. So happy, only wish we could have scored a couple more (and we should have, some poor final touches by Nasri and some chances missed). Still, that was awesome, really good. Loved it.

Dave Silva <3 Sergio Aguero <3 Super Mario <3 Joe Hart <3

[Psychotic]

First Lucas, now this. That was a nice season folks, see you in 2012-2013 when it will surely be Our Year. Unless of course Big Andy Carroll can step up to the plate. ...

Actually seriously, the team is set up around Suarez, and it utilises intelligent players like Maxi, Kuyt and Bellamy with amazing movement to help him out, which is why the traditional English players like Carroll and Downing haven't done well. Might be interesting to see if losing Luis helps Carroll flourish. ...

e: damn, http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/news/lates...fc-statement-8 the club are smurfing sticking it to the FA.

Now watch English Lion John Terry get away scot free.

[charliepanayi]

Suarez is the perfect person to throw the book at really, panto villain who has made a lot of enemies. As Psy says, don't expect John Terry to suffer a similarly harsh punishment.

[fire_of_avalon]

DK said I could contribute a lot of good things to this thread, so I'm going to try my best.

Once I was hit in the groin/vulva by a soccer ball when we were playing in high school. But I made the block.