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Topic Started: 11th June 2007 - 06:41 PM (1,080 Views)
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OT is slow. Scratch is bored. Let's get a flame war going (JOKE! Mods, no please NOOOOOO!), and as pub fights are banned, football is what everyone resorts to.

Apart from SneakyRodent, we don't have any known footie hooligans on here, so let battle commence! I'm fighting the red and white corner of North London. What about you?

Edited the title of the topic on request. ~Vinshqueek
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The proud blue and white of Everton, Merseyside!

Though I will resist my taunting until the fixture list for this forthcoming season is released at 10am this Thursday ^_^
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Jun 11 2007, 07:21 PM
The proud blue and white of Everton, Merseyside!

Though I will resist my taunting until the fixture list for this forthcoming season is released at 10am this Thursday  ^_^

What? Seeing when you can first get thrashed by the Pool? Mind you, 4/6 points ain't at all bad. Anyway, AJ'll leave and you'll do your yo-yo act (CL one year, flirting with relegation the next ;) ). Then Tesco man will give you more money and the cycle starts again :)

I love being at a stable club.

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PSV ring a bell over there in the UK ;) ?

I'm more an occasional suporter really. I watch their games and cheer them on from the couch when they're winning, but I don't really walk around in red-white shirts and all that.

I do complain a lot about being unable to get past the stadium on game nights with my bike though. I once waited half an hour before I got past the masses and all the police :blink: .

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*laughs*

You do realise Scratch that most of the other members of the UE will not have the slightest idea what we're talking about? :lol:

But.....whilst we're on the subject.....you can wave goodbye to Mr Va Va Voom this summer, shortly to be followed by your manager when his contract expires.

Davey Boy has brought us stability, and all we need to do is find some club daft enough to take James Beattie. I'm guessing it'd be a similar situation to finding a club mug enough to pay a fortune for someone like....oh, I don't know.....Francis Jeffers? :lol: :lol:
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Jun 11 2007, 07:26 PM
PSV ring a bell over there in the UK?

Ah, yes, i went to your lovely city for the Champions league game in February. Great city, horrible football :)

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You do realise Scratch that most of the other members of the UE will not have the slightest idea what we're talking about?


Let them watch us with envy and we shall laugh at them muchly. Bwahahaha.

Incidently, the man deserves to be cannonised. He'll be there next year and will rip you the shreds. 7-0 to the Arsenal with Mr VaVa Voom only "40% fit" ring any bells? :P

EDIT: "Davey Boy has brought us stability, and all we need to do is find some club daft enough to take James Beattie"

The Mirror apparently reported that Blackburn will swap you Benni McCarthy for him :lol:
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Jun 11 2007, 02:30 PM
*laughs*

You do realise Scratch that most of the other members of the UE will not have the slightest idea what we're talking about?  :lol:

But.....whilst we're on the subject.....you can wave goodbye to Mr Va Va Voom this summer, shortly to be followed by your manager when his contract expires.




Nah not a chance... va va voom wont leave this summer as Wengers contract runs out in 2008, thus he will stay because he owes Wenger.

We still got 4th even tho thierry did not play for 50% of the season, with all other top scorer also out.... so imagine what we will be like when everyone is fit. :D

Oh If he does leave next summer im sure we will get AJ who will want some champions league football. :D

PS. How did we ever offload Francis Jeffers on to you? :D :D :D
So I'm attacking your slaves with 5 chosen knights **throws dices** and horses **throws more dices** ok you are at -9 to Ld there is no way ...** a dice throw** .... F@@k !
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Jun 11 2007, 08:41 PM
Nah not a chance... va va voom wont leave this summer as Wengers contract runs out in 2008, thus he will stay because he owes Wenger.

We still got 4th even tho thierry did not play for 50% of the season, with all other top scorer also out.... so imagine what we will be like when everyone is fit. :D

Oh If he does leave next summer im sure we will get AJ who will want some champions league football. :D

PS. How did we ever offload Francis Jeffers on to you? :D :D :D

I'm sorry, are you suggesting AJ is ANY replacement for Henry? And Wenger always leaves his contract renewals late and always honours them (even I, newly introduced to the joys of Highbury back then) remember him leaving Grampus in October because of his contract.

I firmly believe Wenger will renew, unless he suffers something debilitating or becomes massivly disilusioned (a take over may do the trick :( Arbabs being linked now. We're up the same spout as United and Liverpool if we get taken over...). Henry has 4 years left, Cesc has 7. If they are sold (Cesc will probably go a year before the end of his contract and fair enough) it will be for MASSIVE profit on what we bought them for on top of the years of service we'll get.

Just cos The H-meister has had a rotten season doesn't mean it's fire sale time.

Also, Sneaky's much prized stability has brought Everton european football. Arsenal's "crisis" pair of seasons has got us to the CL and CC finals. Red or blue, as the Matrix so ironically puts it :P

P.S. Discostu, I thought you were Nottingham?
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In all honesty (no pun intended), I'm a bit ashamed having to admit that I'm from the Dutch soccer nation, which has -in the last couple of years- really had teams that on paper could really kick the living daylights out of any opponent and through not playing like a team fragging up on each possible account... I most definitely keep my fingers crossed for the oncoming European Championship, cause after the World Championship in Germany I seriously dread what the results might be this time.

Still, if it comes down to soccer clubs, I will always be supporting Feyenoord Rotterdam. While not having had the best season ever, I sincerely hope that the apparent return of Bert van Marwijk as the new coach might improve matters... They have the team to perform well, all they need is keeping their heads together.

@Bodacious:
PSV has been so bloody lucky with the championship this year... I honestly believed AZ would claim the title, but even while they lost their last match I'm glad it was PSV on the numer one spot and not Ajax. Nothing bad meant towards all the members from Amsterdam, but if there's one coach I just can not stand then it would be Henk ten Cate. I don't know, but to me he just has that arrogant mood that just ticks me off.

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I always used to be an Arse*giggle*nal fan, but I kinda mainly followed Norwich City as they were my local team. However over the past couple of years my interest in football has decreased, due to a bigger interest in ice hockey. Of course I still watch the FA cup final, Champions League final etc etc, and last year's World Cup was a real humdinger!


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Jun 11 2007, 10:50 PM
@Bodacious:
PSV has been so bloody lucky with the championship this year... I honestly believed AZ would claim the title, but even while they lost their last match I'm glad it was PSV on the numer one spot and not Ajax. Nothing bad meant towards all the members from Amsterdam, but if there's one coach I just can not stand then it would be Henk ten Cate. I don't know, but to me he just has that arrogant mood that just ticks me off.

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I know ^_^ .

That championship final was I believe the most exciting day in Dutch Soccer History Ever! I always love it when the most unexpected club wins in the end (expecially when it's my city). Coļncidence willed it that I was riding past the stadium on that night and there was free entrance to the celebration party :D . That was pretty cool, but I had my guitar with me so I didn't stay there long and didn't get on the tribunes.

Rotterdam has always been my second favourite though. The family from dad's side are all big feyenoord fans even though they moved to eindhoven before I was born. I hope they get back to the top next season though because their last run was just sad :( .

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Jun 11 2007, 09:41 PM
PS. How did we ever offload Francis Jeffers on to you? :D :D :D

As I recall it was Arsenal who took him off our hands for £8m. He wanted to expand his horizons apprently - ended up warming your bench for a season then got injured and finally farmed out! Last I heard he's a free agent trying to secure a deal with Ipswich! :)

Got to love it when a player leaves citing he wants to further his career at a 'bigger club' then ends up with egg on his face. Tomasz Radzinski was another of ours - last seen being shown the door by Fulham :D

Don't get me wrong - I like Arsenal, and of all the English teams in the CL they were the ones I were hoping went the distance. Wenger's teams have always played attractive, entertaining football - unlike those Blue Grinders from the capital who are sucking all the fun out of the game.

I was heartily behind PSV when they took on Liverpool in this year's CL this year too - but my word Bodacious, what on earth happened to your guys in that first leg ??

@Frankensqueek - I'm not surprised your interest in football declined if Norwich are your local team ( :P j/k) - Delia Smith! Need I say more?

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Jun 11 2007, 10:50 PM
In all honesty (no pun intended), I'm a bit ashamed having to admit that I'm from the Dutch soccer nation, which has ...

YOU're ashamed? :P goddamn look at the belgians :lol: we are totally unable to play well, not qualifying for Germany in 06, and not for the Euro 08! :P the tv channels don't even broadcast the matches because they are so dreadful and noone watches them... really sad actually, it should be something the people should be proud of and have fun watching...


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Jun 11 2007, 04:17 PM

I'm sorry, are you suggesting AJ is ANY replacement for Henry? And Wenger always leaves his contract renewals late and always honours them

Just cos The H-meister has had a rotten season doesn't mean it's fire sale time.

P.S. Discostu, I thought you were Nottingham?

Hell No! I was just trying to wind Sneaky football hooligan Rodent up. :D
As I firmly believe AJ is good enough for champions league football. (I mean come on... Crouch plays CL football..... what is the world coming to?).

Henry didnt have a bad season... he was just unfit for half the games (I blame France). He was still our second top goalscorer.

Also, I was originally from London but moved to Nottingham four years ago. (Forest and County are an embarrassment to football).
So I'm attacking your slaves with 5 chosen knights **throws dices** and horses **throws more dices** ok you are at -9 to Ld there is no way ...** a dice throw** .... F@@k !
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I'm not much of a football fan at all, which is pretty odd for an English man.
I much prefer rugby, or cricket. Those are mans games!

If I wanted to watch a bunch of over-payed nancy boys, poncing around then i'd go watch the surgeons amateur dramatics society's version of the sugar plum fairy. :P

Having said that, i'll watch England play, out of a sense of national pride.
Sometimes a good football match is good to watch, but the cheating and tarting about drives me insane.
I'll be the only bloke in the pub baying for the blood of one of our own players, as they roll around on the floor pretending to be hurt. :rolleyes:
I can start off watching a game fine, but by the end I just wish they'd all die! <_<

Some men are an exception to the rule though. The only real manly football player I can think of is John Terry.
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