Re: More Football Chat : Wed Jan 05, 2011 9:50 pm  

LFC.....I blame the owners.

Re: More Football Chat : Wed Jan 05, 2011 10:01 pm  

Ancelotti should resign after that.

Unfortunately, Hiddink may stick to his guns and refuse to come back.

I don't know who has the 5 CL trophies and 25 titles that these players will deem worthy of being allowed to manage them.

Re: More Football Chat : Wed Jan 05, 2011 10:03 pm  

I just don't understand what Mancini sees in Jo. Awful player and would have Adebayor or Santa Cruz above him any day.

Re: More Football Chat : Wed Jan 05, 2011 10:04 pm  

Chelsea don't strike me as a club with any particular direction at the moment. I personally think it's cheque book time for them. Out with Terry, Lampard and Drogba and in with newbies that can freshen things up. Stale as a week old loaf that club.

A good win tonight for the big club on Merseyside. I fancied them to win tonight and they didn't let me down, Seamus the Goalman scoring again.

Re: More Football Chat : Wed Jan 05, 2011 10:06 pm  

El Pac Carnegie wrote:

Man City =

Probably for neutrals, I'm getting the champagne out.

Re: More Football Chat : Wed Jan 05, 2011 10:10 pm  

It's easy to watch from the sofa and have a go at Mancini for being negative, but Arsenal were scything through them early on, he'd have been slated for leaving Yaya Toure in an advanced role while that was happening if Arsenal had gone on to get a couple of goals.

If they'd had Silva and Balotelli available I think the outlook might have been a little different.

Re: More Football Chat : Wed Jan 05, 2011 10:28 pm  

Asim wrote:

It's easy to watch from the sofa and have a go at Mancini for being negative, but Arsenal were scything through them early on, he'd have been slated for leaving Yaya Toure in an advanced role while that was happening if Arsenal had gone on to get a couple of goals.

If they'd had Silva and Balotelli available I think the outlook might have been a little different.

Fair assessment that. Making the four is vital to their long term plans and it's been a good night for City.

Re: More Football Chat : Wed Jan 05, 2011 11:51 pm  

Roy out, for the umpteenth time. Think he's ran out of excuses too.

Re: More Football Chat : Wed Jan 05, 2011 11:57 pm  

citywolf wrote:

I just don't understand what Mancini sees in Jo. Awful player and would have Adebayor or Santa Cruz above him any day.

An Oscar possibly? The way he went down after getting the soggy woolly glove brushed across his face was superb. He even had the audacity to stay down clutching his face as if in agony. How much do they charge to watch this pap these days? Truly awful.

Re: More Football Chat : Thu Jan 06, 2011 12:21 am  

Okay, here's a question for you.

You're 1-0 down in the 90th minute of a game you desperately need to win. Your star striker has gone down injured, a back injury not involving any oppo player. The ball is played out of play by the opposition. There are 4 minutes of injury time. You are going to give the ball back to the opposition, because that's the right thing to do.

But how do you give the ball back?

If you're a stupid Chelsea player, you kick the ball down the touchline, making the goalkeeper have to go 30 metre to retrieve the ball, 30m back to the area, and wait 10 seconds for your other striker to make him pick the ball up.

You just can't get more stupid than that. You do that if you're 1-0 in injury time. You don't do it when you're 1 down.