Cake

It was.

 

Right result for us if you think playing in the Europa is a good thing, wrong if you don't. I'm pleased (that sixth is a Europe place, not that City won the cup).

So Sunderland don't get the place by default if/when City qualify for Champions League?

What happens if a Champions League qualifier wins the FA Cup? Does the Europa then go down to 7th?

Arnold off different strokes finished that well to be fair.

Wotchu talkin' about Haf...............

A couple of seasons ago a top psychologist was asked to study Messi as to why he's as good as he is and, in a nutshell, it was concluded that he works things out so quickly and so far in advance that if he had chosen an academic career he would be a brilliant mathematician.

In the same context, and although not a mathematician, that would mean Maradonna is Stephen Hawking.

Horrible club. Horrible fans, in the main. Think they're something they're not. Tin pot club all round.

I have a friend who is an Arsenal fan. The only games he's been able to get to for the last 10 years are early round Champions League qualifiers where even their own fans won't pay the ridiculous prices for watching some no-mark qualifier against a team from the back of beyond. This is because they have season ticket holders, then platinum members, then gold members then silver members then red members. The red members get the chance to scrap for one of 3,500 tickets, a month before the game. Wow! Even their own fans are categorised by wealth as to how deserving they are of watching their team in 3D at the cost of £100 a ticket for some games so why do we expect them to do us any favours? Just repay them. Limit their number of tickets and charge them £100 a time for the ones they do have, with a £1 discount for a restricted view. It's the match you're paying to see, isn't it, not the surroundings you're in?

Their game on Saturday against Stoke (fucking Stoke!) is a sell out. Silver and Red members can still buy tickets for the FA Cup quarter final against us. They would rather not sell the tickets than give them to us to sell.

And they charge the most for a pie!

They did the same to Spurs and Liverpool... concerned about pyrotechnics in the upper tier of visitors section.

Our away support is louder than the home support so 5,186 will take care of the @55,000 librarians on the day.

The response is simple. In the event of a replay, Arsenal get 3,440 seats instead of 6,000 as that equates to same percentage of 5,176 from just short of 60,100. We could just say we're concerned with having their smelly arses (pyrotechnics) on seats where a blue arse is likely to be for the next game.

I hope everything goes well for you

Just because Monaco signed him doesn't make him even a decent player, let alone some sort of world-beater, it just means he's got a shit-hot agent.

I remember him from when he played for Anzhi and while that was only one game on tv against The Shite he reminded me then, and still does now, of a very poor version of Shola Ameobi and his total inability to control or pass the ball against Swansea have done nothing to change that.

The Only Way Is Essex

The creeping infiltration of Americanisms into our language... all of them... but "gotten", "can I get?", "it's, like, so amazing", "you made it your own", "you owned it" to name but a few

Alan Hanson...

Zac & Isaac are pretty cool, though.... mmmbop!

anDROSS Townsend isn't much better...

Soldado just missed an open goal from 4 yards...... he's got to be the worst striker in the Premier League

Game of Thrones. I only read 37 pages on the shitter, but I'm already so into the book again that I know I now have to read all 5 books all over again. All 5,000 pages.

I estimate you've had at least 31 more shits since 20 January so 114 more shits and you're done!

Lucas Radebe, South Africa & Leeds Utd centre half, built like a tank and all round nice guy said something like this about playing against Ferguson; "I've never known anything like him, He's like a freight train. First you meet his forearm, then his elbow, then his shoulder, quickly followed by the rest of him. You just close your eyes and hope you come out OK."

Just watching Spurs - that Danny Rose is a really funny shape!

Demichelis said today he doesn't blame the referee for sending him off. I think that's really kind of him seeing as he was the last defender and he fouled Messi as he was racing towards goal. Not much gets past Old Magnanimous Demi, does it!

Middle class shove 'apenny........ curling. Our sweepers are much fitter than the Swedes because they're not huffing and puffing as much. I think that's made a difference....

"Barcelona are a class act" said the ITV commentator at the final whistle of their game against City tonight. What a pile of shite! And that Messi must have a locker the size of a whole changing room. They've said the little fucker's got EVERYTHING in there!

(this forum keeps entering my posts before I've finished them so I have to go back and edit....??)

"Barcelona are a class act" said the ITV commentator at the final whistle of their game against City tonight. What a pile of shite! And that Messi must have a locker the size of a whole changing room.

My laptop 'warning' me "CAPS LOCK IS ON" (I know, I put the fucking thing on. Madness, eh!) and because I've done such a dangerous thing 'it' telling me my password might be wrong. Oh fuck. Oh Dear God no! What if I put my password in wrong!? Will my laptop laugh at me? Will I have to waste valuable time trying again? What if I get it wrong 3 times and I have to reset it? Oh shit, no, please not that. Hang on, who's looking after me when CAPS LOCK isn't on? Where's my warning about that? If my password can be wrong when it's on what the fuck disasters can happen when it isn't on? Bring back telegrams and pigeons - the bloke down the road keeps pigeons... and horses... the pigeons are worth more than the horses... hmmm

 

what you call a 'proud Unionist' (so proud that the purple-nosed prick claims to be a socialist whilst accepting knighthoods)

A1, heartfelt rant (I could feel your pain and disgust) topped off with the comment of 2014, so far. Genius! I can't breathe.....

Meulensteen and Wilkins were caught on camera grinning towards the end of their woeful performance and subsequent FA Cup loss at home to Sheff Utd not long before they lost to last kick of the game. There's a pattern here... they then get a point at Old Trafford with a last minute goal then go on the lose two points at home to a last minute goal.

So, getting a point at Old Trafford counts for nothing when you're caught grinning from ear to ear just before your team get knocked out of the cup by lower league opposition and you then lose 2 vital points in the same circumstances. Net loss of 1 more point after 2 more games and a cup exit into the bargain.

Meulensteen is one cocky bastard who couldn't care less about Fulham and even blames everyone but himself by accusing Fulham of "hitting the panic button of emotion and fear" and then even says "but, hey ho"

"I knew the owners were freaking out a little bit that there was the possibility of the club going down." "The way forward that we have discussed with the club was about longevity and in this case it is clearly an act of fear." "I have not had a lot of time..." "I couldn't care less what they put in the statement, to be honest." are some additional quotes already from him.

Does he not realise how fortunate he might have been to be given the opportunity in the first place?

(although it clearly isn't progeria).

 

No, it's Lazio and this is how you spell Perugia.........

God, can we afford £10mill on a punt?! Chrikey, that could be half our budget.

 

You take a punt on cheap and/or younger players (like coleman for £60-£80k, whatever it was).

 

We'll scour the world (Ireland) for the next cheap superstar!!!

Fair enough on the risky £10m punt..... was just a figure I came up with based on Ajax paying about 4.5m euro for him last season (I think). £6m might be nearer the mark which is what we paid for Jelavic (and Kone). So at 5-6 years younger than those two it's not that much of a gamble for a striker.

We'll also get zillions for where we finish in the PL this season seeing as 20th are set to get £63m.

 

I don't see your point.

Just that you say Kolbeinn isn't good enough for Ajax so he clearly isn't good enough for us but by comparison we (and West Brom) can look after Chelsea's unwanted for a while to see if they come up to scratch.

Kolbeinn has scored goals for 2 top teams (Ajax & AZ) in a decent league, is only 23 and is worth a punt for the right price. If he turns out to be a 3 month wonder, like Jelavic, no harm done we'll sell him to Hull, West Brom, Norwich or someone similar.

We buy and have a history of buying players who aren't thought to be good enough for the club we've bought them from and we've gone on to be the making of them. Kolbeinn is decent..... we can make him better... for us..... not for somebody else.....