English Premier League

[Kylieam1]

Haha i love all the united haters. My friends akways seem to call me when they lse but when they win they all seem to forget my number. Even wenger said them losing is better for them so they can focus on the premier league and champions league. The 2 trophys that matter. Who cares about the fa cup. Although doesnt manu have a few of those trophys to

[dauls]

Originally Posted by Kylieam1

Haha i love all the united haters. My friends akways seem to call me when they lse but when they win they all seem to forget my number. Even wenger said them losing is better for them so they can focus on the premier league and champions league. The 2 trophys that matter. Who cares about the fa cup. Although doesnt manu have a few of those trophys to

The second half of the Premier League season should be interesting this year. Chelsea, Man U and Arsenal to battle for the title and fill the top 3. But Liverpool are going to have a tough time fighting for 4th place against Spurs, Man City and Aston Villa.

Man U fans shouldn't go knocking the FA Cup. If it wasn't for their win against Crystal Palace in 1990 Fergie would surely have been sacked following 5 trophy-free seasons. Twenty years of success have been made on the back of that FA Cup win.

[JenniferParisFan]

Originally Posted by dauls

The second half of the Premier League season should be interesting this year. Chelsea, Man U and Arsenal to battle for the title and fill the top 3. But Liverpool are going to have a tough time fighting for 4th place against Spurs, Man City and Aston Villa.

Man U fans shouldn't go knocking the FA Cup. If it wasn't for their win against Crystal Palace in 1990 Fergie would surely have been sacked following 5 trophy-free seasons. Twenty years of success have been made on the back of that FA Cup win.

Now Wenger finds himself in a trophy drought, but I don't think that the board at Arsenal would sack him quite yet. In other news Arsenal-Bolton game was postponed today, if Arsenal would have won they would have moved past Man U into 2nd place and would have been just a point behind Chelsea.

[dauls]

Originally Posted by JenniferParisFan

Now Wenger finds himself in a trophy drought, but I don't think that the board at Arsenal would sack him quite yet. In other news Arsenal-Bolton game was postponed today, if Arsenal would have won they would have moved past Man U into 2nd place and would have been just a point behind Chelsea.

The Bolton fans who travelled down to London for the game were angry that the "health and safety brigade" were behind the postponement of the match.

The snow in Bolton had been much heavier than it was here in London. The pitch was fine to play the game on, but as with other matches this year the game is off just in case a fan slips over on their way to the stadium. If those Bolton fans can get to the Emirates Stadium I'm sure the Arsenal fans can make it.

Did you see the weather at the Bills-Colts NFL match last weekend, over 6 inches of snow fell during the game and that didn't stop them, I've no idea how much snow had fallen before that game, but in the UK when the weather turns bad the country shuts down.

I wonder how many more games will be called off this weekend?

[Roughfire]

Ah I'm a Manchester United fan here too and this year seems like it'll be a close one with more teams wanting the top 4 spots! But to be honest I would want Arsenal (if not United do it) to win the league this year. They do deserve to win something this year :D

Originally Posted by dauls

I wonder how many more games will be called off this weekend?

Only 4 Premier League games left and only 7 others left in the rest of the football league - mind you it is the coldest winter now since 1963 so they may have an excuse.

On edit: Make that 5, as I forgot about the Man City - Blackburn game on Monday

[Kylieam1]

Thanks sammi although i was to young to remember that game when it was played i hAve watched it before

[sammivalentine]

Originally Posted by Kylieam1

Thanks sammi although i was to young to remember that game when it was played i hAve watched it before

me to but my familys scouse so get a good footy education by default even if i was wearing me mums knickers at the same time... rofl..

[dauls]

Originally Posted by Natalie_J

Only 4 Premier League games left and only 7 others left in the rest of the football league - mind you it is the coldest winter now since 1963 so they may have an excuse.

On edit: Make that 5, as I forgot about the Man City - Blackburn game on Monday

This heath & safety crap is the reason the games are getting called off, the pitches are fine, except for the 6th game off at Wigan where the undersoil heating has supposedly failed.

They had no trouble with the West Brom-Notts Forest game last night.

The games in the Scottish Cup are still on, snow and ice near the grounds is being cleared away.

In Cincinnati where they've had snow (probably at least as much as in the UK) ahead of their NFL Wild-Card game heath & safety won't stop that match.

[sammivalentine]

Originally Posted by dauls

The second half of the Premier League season should be interesting this year. Chelsea, Man U and Arsenal to battle for the title and fill the top 3. But Liverpool are going to have a tough time fighting for 4th place against Spurs, Man City and Aston Villa.

Man U fans shouldn't go knocking the FA Cup. If it wasn't for their win against Crystal Palace in 1990 Fergie would surely have been sacked following 5 trophy-free seasons. Twenty years of success have been made on the back of that FA Cup win.

the catalyst was more like the mark robins header away at notts forest that saved his job - one goal changed it all, he was 7 mins from getting sacked. cant win an FA cup if you are sacked

[dauls]

Originally Posted by sammivalentine

the catalyst was more like the mark robins header away at notts forest that saved his job - one goal changed it all, he was 7 mins from getting sacked. cant win an FA cup if you are sacked

Speculation about Fergie's job ran throughout the season and I bet finishing the season 5 pts above relegation at 13th place in the league didn't make him feel safe. Then trailing 3-2 in extra-time to Ian Wright's second goal he must've thought he'd dodged the bullet for the last time. Trust Mark Hughes to score the equaliser and force the replay.

It's such a shame Crystal Palace couldn't convert any of their chances in the replay. I was in a bar at university watching both games hoping, along with most of the other drinkers, that Palace would beat the Scum, and Fergie would lose his job (he was a total back then too). But no luck.

Looking back the amazing thing about that final is the make up of the two teams.
- Palace had 11 English starters and 2 English subs.
- Man U had 8 English, 2 Scots and 1 Welsh, plus a bench of Robins (Eng) & Blackmore (Welsh).

The only change in the replay, Man U's goalie Leighton (Scottish) dropped for Sealey (English).

Only 3 non-English players involved. Can't believe it was only 20 years ago.

[sammivalentine]

Originally Posted by dauls

Speculation about Fergie's job ran throughout the season and I bet finishing the season 5 pts above relegation at 13th place in the league didn't make him feel safe. Then trailing 3-2 in extra-time to Ian Wright's second goal he must've thought he'd dodged the bullet for the last time. Trust Mark Hughes to score the equaliser and force the replay.

It's such a shame Crystal Palace couldn't convert any of their chances in the replay. I was in a bar at university watching both games hoping, along with most of the other drinkers, that Palace would beat the Scum, and Fergie would lose his job (he was a total back then too). But no luck.

Looking back the amazing thing about that final is the make up of the two teams.
- Palace had 11 English starters and 2 English subs.
- Man U had 8 English, 2 Scots and 1 Welsh, plus a bench of Robins (Eng) & Blackmore (Welsh).

The only change in the replay, Man U's goalie Leighton (Scottish) dropped for Sealey (English).

Only 3 non-English players involved. Can't believe it was only 20 years ago.

Ah yes, football did exist before the premier league, selling TV rights to Mr Murdoch etc...!! and how different it was

[dauls]

Only 2 out of 10 Premier League ties survived the weather this weekend. But with Arsenal and Man U dropping points it hasn't all been bad news.

As usual Fergie managed to get 6 extra minutes in a second half without that many delays. It clearly wasn't enough, do you think he'll ask for 10 minutes next weekend?

A newspaper item this week said the stats show Man U get on average between 90 seconds to 2 minutes more time added on if the are looking for an equaliser or winner compared to when they are leading after 90 minutes.

Originally Posted by dauls

As usual Fergie managed to get 6 extra minutes in a second half without that many delays. It clearly wasn't enough, do you think he'll ask for 10 minutes next weekend?

A newspaper item this week said the stats show Man U get on average between 90 seconds to 2 minutes more time added on if the are looking for an equaliser or winner compared to when they are leading after 90 minutes.

I see he also had his usual moan about the ref - basically, he's doing a good job if the decisions are going their way, such as giving the 'controversial' equalizer (I haven't seen it yet, so don't know if it was or not) but then he's doing a bad job when they're not - such as sending-off Fletcher.

According to the papers today, it seems that he could be having a player clear-out as well, with Berbatov set to be the first out the door.