Feb 06
Manchester United vs Portsmouth: Preview
The first 3D football match and John Terry axed as England captain, football…bloody hell! Aside from drooling over the magnificent victory at the Emirates Manchester United must now refocus their thoughts as attention turns to the visit of the Premier League’s bottom side Portsmouth.
Avram Grant is probably on his way to another brothel to take his mind off the thought of the impending visit to Old Trafford. As United showed their superiority against Arsenal, a signal that the traditional New Year title push is underway, Portsmouth have on the other hand picked up one point in their last five games, are without a win since late October and have not beaten United in the League since 1957.
United on the other hand go into the match in fine form, one defeat since Christmas and that was the Carling Cup Semi-final 1st Leg, but the last three matches have seen a United raise the level performance greatly.
Therefore expect a number of changes given the visitors’ predicament.
In goal will be Edwin van der Sar, since his return he has only conceded 3 goals in 5 games since his return from compassionate leave. Tomasz Kuszczak will be on the bench after receiving some deserved praise from the United number one, “I thought he really played well in a difficult situation,” added Edwin, whilst talking about the defensive injury crisis.
With Rio Ferdinand serving the second match of a four-match suspension and Nemanja Vidic only rated as doubtful though he should make the bench, Wes Brown and Jonny Evans will continue as the centre-back pairing. Gary Neville should replace Rafael at right-back while the ever present Patrice Evra deserves a breather, so Fabio should step in at left-back given his impressive showing for the reserves last week.
It could be taken as blasphemy is Nani is not on the team sheet given his rousing performance on Sunday, only a few weeks ago his Old Trafford career seemed over, funny how things work out.
Sir Alex was full of praise this week, “In the case of Nani, like Rooney, I think we are seeing a player who is maturing. He’s a young lad who has come in from a different country and he has taken more time than some of the others to settle. But that sometimes happens. Sometimes you bring a player in from another country and they settle straight away, but with Nani you can see his progression over the last few games because he has been outstanding.” Said Ferguson
Nani should be joined by evergreen Ryan Giggs, given a something of a breather against Arsenal; he will be raring to go this weekend. In the middle of the park will be Anderson, given another chance to prove his worth to Sir Alex Ferguson and alongside him will be either Darron Gibson or Michael Carrick. Ji-Sung Park and Antonio Valencia will be looking to make an impact, if needed, from the subs bench.
Newly crowned January player of the month, Wayne Rooney is normally a certain starter, but with fears of burn out and some big matches coming up, he may well get a little time out. Dimitar Berbatov and Michael Owen will be desperate for some game time, and given the level of opposition they should be awarded an opportunity against Portsmouth.
For the away side, new signings Ricardo Rocha and Quincy Owusu-Abeyie will be pushing for their first starts for Pompey since joining in the transfer window. Nadir Belhadj, Hassan Yebda and Aruna Dindane all returned from the African Cup of Nations and played in the midweek game against Fulham. However Nwankwo Kanu has yet to arrive since being out on duty with Nigeria. Also out are Papa Bouba Diop and Michael Brown.
Looking to avoid defeat, a 4-5-1 formation will likely be employed by Pompey with Aruna Dindane playing as a lone striker. Four owners later and only four wins this season could be an inkling into the number of goals United will put past David James.
Avram Grant was in optimistic mood ahead of the clash, “I have no doubt the players will give everything again against Manchester United. When you see the fact that they keep coming onto the pitch, again and again, giving everything that is good. I always believe – and I do not want to see anyone in my team who does not believe. This is football – anything can happen. I saw Manchester United in their last game against Arsenal, okay they played a bit quick for us but you always have to face up to the challenge in a positive way.”
Pompey have won just one of their last 25 Premier League matches away from home, so do not expect this stat to change much after the game, it will likely read – Pompey have won just one of their last 26 Premier League matches away from home.
Prediction: 4-0 United
Probable Line Up: van der Sar, Fabio, Evans, Brown, Neville; Nani, Anderson, Gibson, Giggs; Berbatov, Owen
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Craig, precisely my point. For us Berbatov has failed to deliver in the biggest games and that is why he never makes the team when we are playing anyone decent. So many of his goals seem to come when we are already 2-0 up and the game is sown up. Say what you like about Tevez but he did score some incredibly important goals for us.
In an ideal world we would buy a new right back because Brown is injury prone, Rafael is a few years off being ready and is still a defensive liability and Neville bless him does not have the legs to deal with a fast winger.
Ribery could be available this summer as he seems intent to leave Bayern if they don’t win anything. We do not have the cash and there would be a bidding war. But Nani on the right and Ribery on the left, would terrify any team on the planet.
I don’t think many players seem to like Berbatov. He seems to have an attitude of blaming everyone else and expecting the other players to adapt to his game, when the truth is Berbatov is on a different wavelength from the rest of the team. Berbatov can and should change his game.
Anderson just does not strike me as hungry enough to make it at Manchester United. He is industrious when he plays. But it is the work off the pitch that makes the difference and I have seen no real evidence of any improvement in his game over the last three years, despite getting to train with a team of our calibre. He is not blessed with the talent of Ronaldinho, so he cannot get away with partying all the time. He should take a leaf out of Fletcher’s book.
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@Merlinus: Can you stop talking about this and move on to something else?
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@CraigMc: My point is that he shouldn’t go whoring but that young adults should be expected to live a little on the wild side. Once they get married though, then all that stops. Their lives are forever changed and for all intents and purposes, OVER. No I am not an enemy of marriage, but then again I am not a major advocate of it either as in this day and age it is not looked at as a bond between two people who love each other as much as a legal ball and chain to cut somebody’s balls off with.
All I know is 21,22 or 23 is too young to be married but then again, who the Hell am I to tell anyone when they should get hitched. Rooney still finds ways to shorten his career with his smoking and his parties that include his wife, sometimes as far away as Malta. Ahhh, the good life. Anyway, teams need to demand less of players who are so young and let them live a little bit. That way they grow up not to become cheating, sociopathic cunts like John Terry. Let them get the parties and the women out of their system before marriage. All I can say is it worked for me.
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@CraigMc: Little Mickey is a good striker mate but he has not delivered most of the times he has been given the shot to do so. In fairness to him, he hasn’t been given a fair run of games to find some form and fitness and he also has been rather unlucky, but I for one am coming around to the reality that perhaps he’s just lost enough through age and injury that he just lacks that little extra in confidence and step to be the Owen of old.
One thing seems obvious to me. Owen will not be with the team next season. If I was Fergie, I would realize that I never got as much out of the player as I was expecting, fairly or unfairly, and that I will take the money I pay him and give it to the man I cannot afford to lose on this club, your favorite, Wayne Rooney. And yes, sometimes the truth sucks. Owen would do better on a club with lesser expectations but in the need of his services all the time.
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@Grognard: you’re married?
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@CraigMc: I too have tired of Berbatov. I love the player and feel he has lots of talent but he has a poor work ethic and like I said from day one, he seeed to me to be a square peg trying to fit into a round hole because unlike the team in the 90′s when Cantona came over, this team plays differently and does not fit Berba’s skill set or playing style. Cantona would struggle playing for the team today because of the style we use. Berba struggles because he hasn’t got the pace or the desire to work his ass off as a forward. And in fairness to him, that has never been his game. I can name dozens of great players that do not like to work their asses off but who have greatness all over them. Ibrahimovich, Brazil’s Ronaldo and Riquelme are perfect examples of languid players who were not born to copy Wayne Rooney’s style of play nor his work ethic. Still they offer greatness to the manager who uses them properly.
Well Fergie got it out of Cantona, but has failed with Berba because Cantona was languid in his style but his desire and determination in the attacking end was far greater than Berba’s. Berba is languid, fine we get that. But when Nani has the ball on the right and is looking to find a head to cross to, it would serve Berba better to hustle and get into the box, rather than walk and or jog there. Watch the replay of Rooney’s goal last game. Fletcher crosses it to Rooney and on the replay I could not see Berba anywhere near the ball. That is a scenario where he should be very close to Rooney, but as usual he was found to be out and about. Very frustrating. This is partly his fault but also, Fergie playing him so high has caused Berba problems because his lack of pace and desire to run hard keeps him from being a menace in the box. Frankly, it’s time for Berba to move on to a German or Italian club that is more suited to his style. Both Owen and Berba have to make way for a much more dynamic striker and Diouf.
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@EduardoDaVinci4: No mate, despite their evil intentions, nothing quite equals the look, feel, smell and touch of a beautiful woman. In comparison to a great looking broad, football is nothing.
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@Merlinus: Who is “kicking up a storm” now? Seems to be you complaining about yet another idiot who has gotten banned on this blog. If you have such a love for deviants and idiots, then why do you continue to show up once in a blue moon on this blog? I have nothing against you mate (unlike my knowledge of your feelings towards me from the past), but rather than come on here and offer up a little football talk, you show up to either support those who insult me or agree with somebody who insults me or to support and agree with the deviants and idiots who show up and are quickly banished from the site. RR may not have noticed a pattern here, but I have. Sorry but you have a track record for this kind of stuff and I’m making a point of letting you know about it. ScotJimLand was a fucking idiot who was not funny in the least and completely defiant and malicious in his way of dealing with people. You sticking up for him says a lot about you. I’d suggest you stop defending assholes who come on here looking for trouble and start talking football.
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@colver: Very valid point. Berba is not a big game player. He bottles it in big games. One concern I had about Berbatov when we bought him was not the price but the evaluation of him to begin with. I always liked him but i never felt he was right for our team. My feeling on Berba is that he can be a king on a little team but a serf on a big team. He thrived at Leverkusen and Spurs because at that time both team were not major contenders and they played a very undisciplined attacking game that never required Berba to take a defensive responsibility seriously or forced him to play a style or position that was not suited for him.
Spurs especially played a very undisciplined run and gun attack which was great for him as he never had to cross the center line to come back defensively. That all changed for him with United. He was now on a championship team but his attitude and work ethic was not of championship caliber. He floated out there and never worked hard enough and when asked to play higher up, he accepted the role but never adopted it and made his. Berba is just a typical player like so many in the prem that are capable of scoring for poor teams but get lost in the shuffle when they make the move to a bigger team with greater demands. Best place for Berba is a middle of the table German ir Italian club that is looking for a creative goal scorer and not a hard worker.
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@[OPTI]Madschester United: I was. But apparently she was like Berba. She thought of me like Spurs and decided that somebody in LA reminded her of Manchester United. Funny thing is Man Utd dumped her at the end and she then had to settle for Stoke City. Some ex cop bloke living in Fort Worth Texas. Sucks to be her as she deserved what she got and i got justice. That’s why I hate greedy players who all want to play for the top three teams in the world. Delusions of grandeur sometimes come back to bite you in the ass. And her ass had a big chunk taken out of it. Meanwhile Spurs (aka me) continues to struggle but survive.
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@Grognard: I responded to him mate. The last thing I want is people endlessly responding to this topic. Next time if something is addressed to me, or concerns me, please scroll down to see if I’ve responded (and if not give it time)
Thanks.
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@Grognard: Mate what chances has Owen had, rightly or wrongly for me he has done well he is a player who is normanally a starter and is not used to being a sub he has netted 7 times this season. For me if he gets to 15 and a couple of pots this season and with his wages he probably would be bar maybe Vermaelen the signing of the season.
Fergie was out of order dropping him after a Champions hatrick and if Berba had done that he would have started the next five games.
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Certainly as part of the shake up this summer I can see us buying another striker. Owen was a stop gap because we had no money and missed out on Benzema.
Berbatov has his uses but we are still over-reliant on Rooney and while he has stayed clear of injuries this season, Rooney being Rooney, he will get injured again and we have no one who can step up and replace him adequately.
Nani may or may not develop into a star player for us. But at this moment in time we only have one attacking star and that is Rooney. We are more hopelessly reliant on him than we ever were on Ronaldo. If his form drops, the goals dry up, or he gets injured we are royally screwed.
And the only way to correct that reliance is to get another world class forward. And sadly that will never be Berbatov
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@colver: I agree but for a “shake up” next season we would need a manager with a five year paln, Fergie rarely has bought instant success and we do not have the money for that. Personally I see very little happening next summer, with the World Cup prices will be high and we will not be able to compete, and Fergie will stick with what he knows and probably his stubborn loyalty to older players and players who will never make it.
I would love a striker, Owen should stay as Rooney for me Berba needs to move on Welbeck and Macheda should be loaned out and for me Diouf is just a punt, and Rooney will obviously stay.
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I just wrote the best comment ever produces on this site, but it didn’t get posted because of too many smileys…
Why RedRants, why?!
WHY OH WHY DIDN’T I COPY IT???!!!
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@Grognard: I wrote a reply to that, but the site wouldn’t let me post it…
Probably some of the best shit I’ve written in my life. Point was, although women are brilliant at times they are nagging bitches most of the time and the feelings you get by goals from Owen, Rooney, Solskjaer, Terry, Ronaldo etc.etc. are much better than any woman. FAT FACT! 
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@Stephen: But a lot of the questions being asked at the beginning of this season seemed to have been answered – and mostly in a negatives way.
Will Berbatov ever fit in?? Will Anderson become the box-box MF we need?? Will MO be able to break into the team on a regular basis. Will Ben Foster be our goalie for the next 5 years??
So in a way we do need a shake up, and all over the pitch. Whether or not we have the money to do it? Unlikely. But we certainly need not to depend on Rooney so much, and a good buy here would go a long way to putting us in a more comfortable position.
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@Redrich: Can Rooney become the great goalscorer/player we all wanted him to?
Can Nani take on the mantle of Ronaldo?
Can Evra regain his good old form?
Can Valencia fit into the team?
Can Fletcher continue to be a great presence in our midfield, or was it just a one-off season?
Many of these questions have been positivly answered!
DEMOCRACY RULES! 
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@Red Ranter: Got it mate.
It’s just that he has a track record siding with undesirables.
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@EduardoDaVinci4: When the right one come along and you mature a bit, trust me mate, you will not see her in the same way you have seen all before her. The right one has a way of totally changing your thinking on nearly everything.
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@Grognard: Someones in love?
GROGGY HAS FINALLY BECOME A MAN!
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I’m not gonna eat any meat, eggs or anything made out of milk between this Sunday and the Chelsea game(4th April). Wish me good luck, I’m gonna stuff myself with McDonalds and Kebabs this week!
I know it’s unhealthy, but do you guys know how great you play if you eat a kebab before a game? I tell ya, it’s amazing. I ate one before a game once, and I owned the pitch like damn! 
Besides, it tastes good. 
Got lots of foreign friends, Iranians, Pakistans and people from all over Africa along with the Norwegian ones, so no surprise I like kebab then!
Jesus Christ loves you
Wayne Rooney loves you
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Oh, and yeah. Looking forward to the game tomorrow, hope we beat Villa!
I think Everton can buttfuck Chelsea at Goodison, so if things go as planned United will be top of the League on Thursdag morning… 
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When you write anything in the search bar on Google.com, you will get suggestions for what you want to find. Well, if you write “why”, in the suggestions it will say “Why won’t my parakeet eat my diarreah?”
hmm….
lol?
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@EduardoDaVinci4:With the exception of Evra regaining his form the jury is still out on those other questions.
Even though Nani has looked good in the last few games, it’s still too early to tell if he has finally “got it”. The same goes with Valencia, who looks good one game, then ordinary the next.
But the real key for me is our over reliance on Rooney for our source of goal scoring. Just imagine what it would be like for us, if he gets hurt or suspended – we don’t have another striker that could fill those boots, and that is SCARY.
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@Redrich: Last season we were over reliant on Ronaldo for goals. Now it’s Rooney. He is our talisman and our main striker so it is natural we should be looking to him for goals now. Quite honestly Rooney is benefitting from good service in most of his goals. That’s why none of his goals this season have come from outside the box. Many of them are tap ins or shots from inside the box. We have players that are more than capable of shouldering the burden of goal scoring too. My only problem is Rooney is not rested enough. MO is a better finisher than Rooney and given the type of goals Rooney is scoring he is more than qualified to take his place from time to time. Dimitar Berbatov is capable of scoring goals regularly if allowed to take the responsibility.But my point is every club has a player who is expected to be the scorer 80% of the time. Liverpool-Torres,Chelsea-Drogba,Real Madrid-Higuain. If we want more players to share in scoring responsibilties then we should abandon cautious football and free up midfielders like what has been happening over the last few weeks.
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@Redrich: I guess sometimes when ppl have convinced their minds of certain things,they won’t change no matter what. I’m tired of pointing out that Berbatov is still one of the most productive strikers in England making and scoring goals. It’s a fact. But he’ll still be “pants”. Even if he has scored 4 and made 2 in his last 5 starts he is still not good enough. A better record than Drogba,Tevez,Anelka and Defoe. Having scored goals against Arsenal,United,Chelsea,Liverpool etc he is still not a big game player. How many big games has he been involved in? Esp given SAF’s tendency to apply the 4-5-1 in such matches. Let’s see. Only Liverpool at Anfield when the whole team didn’t turn up. But what do I know? He still fails to make an impact in the big games even if he doesn’t play in them. He shoild be doing better even if absent. He doesn’t attack the box as much as he should,even though in the last game he was in the box more times than Rooney(his horrendous miss,couple of headers,run up to his goal,Nani’s attempt to cross to Berba which was deflected into goal etc). I’ve realised that there’s no point arguing sometimes because people don’t care about facts,or surrounding circumstances or anything that isn’t based on prejudice and perceptions of character (lazy,berates teammates,prances around the pitch with this air of arrogance).
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@Jay wire: We’ve been playing with 5 MF’ers, mate – and that’s what’s making the difference!
We don’t have a dynamic, single threat through the middle, and so we are bludgeoning are way with the extra man.
It works fine because the skill sets of Scholes, Fletcher and Carrick, compliment one another well and has taken an extra defender away from our wide men and/or Rooney.
Problem is, if Rooney is injured or as you say, gets burned out, we don’t have anyone to fill the single striker mode.
By the way, your assertion that MO is a better finisher than Rooney, is absolutely preposterous!
MO may have been a good finisher 4 or 5 years ago, but his day is long gone!
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@Jay wire: Berbatov doesn’t have the guts or fight to play in the big games!!
He’s a small game, small club, small time player. Good against the bottom feeders, useless against the contenders.
Rerun all your stats and you’ll see for yourself that produces only against weak opposition.
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@Redrich: Moneycant buythe fonm roonyis in now!
Without roon we would proly use 442 w berb n Owen , diouf as backup macheda
But we would have to abandon 451
he IS our world class though
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@EduardoDaVinci4: Nope. Sorry mate but that ship sailed away a long time ago. Now I am only bitter angry and a miserable old Grognard.
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@Grognard: No mate, it was only in the old days that ships sailed away never to return.
Opportunities have never been greater for old fucks like us.
Get a life, and it’ll give you all you need!
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@Gator: Hate to be completely contrary, but Rooney and his form, and his goal scoring, cost a ton of money!!
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@Redrich: Perhaps I should clarify my situation. Nopt only has that ship sailed for me, but it hit an iceberg and sunk. And last time I heard, James Cameron hasn’t been taking any deep submersables out to go find it.
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@Grognard: Grow up, I post here once in a blue moon, but you cannot sit on the other side of the globe and say that because blue moon is the second full moon in the same month. Well, as you and me donot see the same moon – although the moon is just a single entity, so as to figure that i see it on the same month as you, is just bull’s buttox. I do read the blog on a regular basis though. So if all you can talk about is your weird conspiracy theory of me ganging up against you everytime there is a double full moon then i suggest you *moon me
everytime there is a post addressed (wait for it) NOT TO YOU!..
@RR: I was just voicing how i felt about it, not taking it any further.. No eViL intentions
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@Redrich: I already pointed out that he doesn’t play against the big clubs much. Or hasn’t rather,so I don’t expect him to perform well when he is absent. |This is due to Ferguson’s cautious tactics of playing one striker in those matches. He did well in big games 4 Spurs so as far as facts go this big game bottler theory is simply a myth. He scores against small teams coz that’s when he plays.
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@Redrich: Being a good finisher doesn’t just desert u because of age. He is a natural finsher,better than Rooney. I wish you would try 2 look at surrounding circumstances more. Rooney as much as he has scored tons,still misses tons. Owen is short on two things at the moment. Game time and most importantly,confidence. That’s what strikers need critically in order to be strikers. In every 8 min cameo he plays there is pressure to score on sight. How Rooney is a better finisher than Owen is a mystery. You look at old strikers like Inzaghi and their finishing has become better with age. But the difference is they do play regularly and they are not low on confidence. For all his genius in man management SAF can screw it up many times. I don’t know how one would feel,after scoring a crucial hat trick in Germany and 3 days later not even be on the bench. He bottled it with Nani this season and last and is doing another fine job with MO.
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I worried about internal clashes in united regarding the glazer issue and it has happened.
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/steward-sacked-as-united-try-to-crush-green-and-gold-uprising-1894368.html
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@Merlinus:
– a load of Moonshine I see! Is this a moon blog, or what? I think The wastelanders blog is the blue moon blog Merlinus mi man. By the way, it would certainly UP the visitors to this blog if Groggy did indeed Moon you and put the photo on here -to be seen by the whole bloody football world – that would be the scoop of the year! Although we might get mistaken for the ARSE blog!
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@ Craig, alright Bro?
answer to your question on previous thread, George Orwells’ classic novel 1984 featured the “Thought Police”. If you Wiki it, there’s a good description of their aims and activities. The book is a great read and i recommend it to anyone aswell as his other classic “Animal Farm”.
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If Portsmouth get wound up we are fucked. This is different from going into administration. They will cease to be a club. All results against them in the league will be null and void. The league table would look like this, with only 2 teams being relegated :
Chelsea 55
United 50
liverpool 44
arsenal 43
spurs 40
villa 38
birmingham 34
citeh 32
stoke 30
everton 29
fulham 28
blackburn 25
sunderland 24
wigan 24
hull 23
burnley 23
wolves 21
bolton 19
west ham 17
The big winners are Liverpool, Chelsea and Wolves. We loose out big, and Arsenal even more so.
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@ Traverse : But we would still have a game in hand since Chels still to play ports….
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@phoenix red: Thank you kind Sir
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@Merlinus: Honestly, what is all that bullshit about moons? I never understood a word of it. No wonder you were so fond of ScotJimLand, you speak the same language, that being total gibberish.
Merlinus, I am not one to hold a grudge but I do not forget the names of those who have attacked me in the past or who took the side of somebody who did. So consider what I said a little warning and some well earned payback. As far as growing up goes, I think you have a long way to go if you side with idiots like ScotJimLand.
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@Jay wire: Not true at all mate. In all sports the first thing to go is finishing. The timing is just a bit off and the player slows down enough to just be off in both accuracy and pace. I have seen it in football with a lot of old greats but for me it has been very noticeable in hockey where losing a split second of timing and speed makes all the difference in the world to a great scorer. I saw it happen to Gretzky, LaFleur, Esposito, Hull and many other great goal scorers and in footy I saw great players like Shearer, Brazil’s Ronaldo, Rummenigge, Crespo and others suffer from it also. It’s not just age, in many cases it’s just that these players have lifestyles that catch up with them or in many cases they just get a little fat and slow as they grow older. In the case of Owen it’s a case of having missed too many games due to injuries over the years and the injuries themselves that have caused his once rapier like finishing to be as dull as an over used disposable razor.
Sad really, because they tease us when they get like this. There are days when they can score with anyone and they get you to believe that they still have the old magic, but in reality it was just a good day and nothing more. I like Owen a lot but I defer to Fergie’s experience and knowledge of what the lad has been doing in training all these months. I think Fergie realizes that he may not have it anymore although, I do concur with Craig and say that I still think he has underused and misused him because a player like that needs games to find his form and fitness, even if it isn’t what it used to be.
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@Jay wire: By that rationale, Jimmy Greaves, Gerd Muller and Denis Law would also be better options than Rooney!!
What a ridiculous statement. Firstly – I have to question whether you’ve watched a single game this season, to be able to come up with such nonsense. Secondly, please stop trying so hard to be controversial with every post you make. It’s one thing to explore an opposing view – but that view does need some merit or basis in fact in the first place.
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@Redrich: No what u are saying is what is ridiculous. None of them are still playing. Finishing has more to do with technique as opposed to physique. It’s also largely a mental thing. Why do u think Ronaldo is as prolific as he is right now.? When he was 18 even up to 22 he was frustratingly wasteful but still in great physical condition. Now he has matured and is more calm in front of goal and his technique in finishing has greatly improved. Yes he has lost a yard in pace but he still knows how to put the ball in the back of the net
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@Redrich: And what in the world is controversial about saying Owen is a better finisher than Rooney? You think I just post controversial things for the sake of being noticed or something? So I guess my views should be aligned to yours to make certain I please u? No thanx. I say what I see as true and at least I bother to validate my opinions with facts,historical references and other forms of evidence. If I criticise Ferguson I explain why. Same as when I defend a player. And I have had this discussion with u before and told u if u don’t really like my views and opinions then technology is on ur side. Check the name at the top of the comment and if it’s mine just move on and you’ll be okay.
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@Jay wire: Yes.
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