EPL thread for tomorrow's final round UCL matches. Chelsea v Valencia is huge; City are praying for a miracle; United may do lolz again.
At the weekend the major matchup is Chelsea vs City, and also El Clasico's on, guaranteeing enough petulance for the rest of the month.
The week after, the interesting matchups are on Sunday: things could either end very poorly or less poorly for Arsenal going to Eastlands, while Villa fans will attempt to kill Stewart Downing after finishing off Alex McLeish first.
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So strange
Persie_Official
Nice CL eve coming up interesting to see how the english teams do tonight. Arsenal—→ sit back relax and enjoy ☺
Yeah
It’s hard to imagine a scenario where he’d be forced into a meaningful game again. Gibbs and Sagna will be back eventually, so there will be four full fledged guys ahead of him again even if they can’t dump him.
I just cross my fingers and toes that Vermaelen never injures himself again.
by Brett Perryman on Dec 7, 2011 8:03 PM CST up reply actions
Freaky
Just rode on the elevator here at work with a guy who looked like Dirk Kuyt. Not quite as ugly, but otherwise, could have been his twin.
"Those cocksuckers asking me if I thought we were gonna go up there and try to work his fuckin’ pitch count ‘cause he’s on three fuckin’ days rest…you know what I told those cocksuckers? He pitch ball, ball cross plate, we gonna knock the shit out of it."
- Wash
Praying at the alter of the ACL gods.
Don’t care about the CL, because there’s no way they can win it, but no Vidic and you might as well crown City now.
by LiamP on Dec 7, 2011 2:58 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
UCL Holy Shit
Lyon needed to not only win today, but needed Ajax to lose, and to make up the seven goals they were behind Ajax, in order to advance to the knockout round.
15 minutes to go in both matches, and Ajax is losing by two; Lyon are up five on Dinamo Zagreb. Fucking amazing.
"Those cocksuckers asking me if I thought we were gonna go up there and try to work his fuckin’ pitch count ‘cause he’s on three fuckin’ days rest…you know what I told those cocksuckers? He pitch ball, ball cross plate, we gonna knock the shit out of it."
- Wash
And they just scored again!
7-1 after being tied 1-1 at the half. Allez Lyon!
"Those cocksuckers asking me if I thought we were gonna go up there and try to work his fuckin’ pitch count ‘cause he’s on three fuckin’ days rest…you know what I told those cocksuckers? He pitch ball, ball cross plate, we gonna knock the shit out of it."
- Wash
Worse still for United
Now it looks like City will be eliminated, which should improve their chances at winning the league.
Not mediocre. Right about average
City and United???
MANCHESTER IN CRISIS
by sprite on Dec 7, 2011 3:31 PM CST via mobile reply actions
United are done
Benfica are winning, and Basel just scored again. Have fun in the Europa, Fergie!*
- now that I say this, they’ll probably go on and win the damn thing
"Those cocksuckers asking me if I thought we were gonna go up there and try to work his fuckin’ pitch count ‘cause he’s on three fuckin’ days rest…you know what I told those cocksuckers? He pitch ball, ball cross plate, we gonna knock the shit out of it."
- Wash
Not a chance. They'll play their second team at best.
No one wants to deal with bullshit Thursdau Europa league matches.
by LiamP on Dec 7, 2011 3:41 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
I wonder if City gives it a go
just to avoid/lower the possibility of drawing another pear group next season.
i tell the truth; i lie a lot
Doubt it.
Their focus will probably be the league too.
Total shock that the 0 CM, 5 defenders, 4 wide players and 1 CF strategy employed by SAF didn’t work. Had such promise.
by LiamP on Dec 7, 2011 3:54 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
Of course
City’s second team is quality as well.
Was Fergie going to try and buy a central midfielder or two in January regardless of what happened?
i tell the truth; i lie a lot
Glazers turned down request for funds supposedly.
We’ll see I suppose.
by LiamP on Dec 7, 2011 4:37 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
Is De Gea getting ripped?
Szcz is defending him on the twitbox
by sprite on Dec 7, 2011 4:30 PM CST via mobile reply actions
Supposedly ITV were gunning for the De Gea cockup angle all night.
Yet to see the goals but most think he didn’t do much wrong on either.
by LiamP on Dec 7, 2011 4:37 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
Oh shit.
mattspiro
Having scored 2 goals in their first 5 games, Lyon hit 7 in 30 minutes in Zagreb. That despite resting some of their best players #fishy
mattspiro
Watching highlights, 2 Lyon goals looked offside (well done Clattenburg et al). Plus Ajax had 2 wrongly disallowed for offside #veryfishy
Looks like it's being investigated
And Zagreb fired their coach this morning. As a Lyon fan, I hope they got through on their own merits, and not through any match-fixing.
"Those cocksuckers asking me if I thought we were gonna go up there and try to work his fuckin’ pitch count ‘cause he’s on three fuckin’ days rest…you know what I told those cocksuckers? He pitch ball, ball cross plate, we gonna knock the shit out of it."
- Wash
wowowow
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
i am excited for sat.
El Clásico!
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
Also, biggest kick in the balls sports week since WSapocalypse.
by LiamP on Dec 8, 2011 6:55 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
The fact that we're only making it like a month between apocalypses now
isn’t a good sign for the future.
by Brett Perryman on Dec 8, 2011 8:06 PM CST up reply actions
Subotić?
I know there were rumors of him moving to England last winter.
by Outworlder47 on Dec 8, 2011 10:48 PM CST up reply actions
Not likely.
Again, they have Rio/Smalling/Jones/Evans still. They might bring in an experienced CB but I don’t think they’ll buy another young CB. The problem isn’t the depth behind Vidic, it’s that none of them are as good as Vidic.
no one else is as beastly as vidic
"I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it." - Mitch Hedberg
Did indeed.
Part about Ferdinand is spot on but the rest of it is basically bollocks.
Or as great at picking up red cards against Liverpool
"Those cocksuckers asking me if I thought we were gonna go up there and try to work his fuckin’ pitch count ‘cause he’s on three fuckin’ days rest…you know what I told those cocksuckers? He pitch ball, ball cross plate, we gonna knock the shit out of it."
- Wash
Santos
Thanks Arsene, this is what happens when you play starters in a give up game, idiot. From @arsenal:
Wenger: “The bad news we have is that we lost Santos for a while. The ankle injury is more severe than expected. More than three weeks.”
The only thing I didn't like
is that his uniform looks like it’s just casual shorts and t-shirt. They show a crest, but just the way it’s shaped. Adams’ at least looks like what he looked like in uniform.
by Brett Perryman on Dec 9, 2011 10:01 PM CST up reply actions
No one can finish today
Everyone’s eith making an extra pass or not passing to an open man when they should
"I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it." - Mitch Hedberg
Also
How many offsides for Aresenal today? They need to get their shit together.
I blame Walcott
Is he really this bad a finisher?
Good man.
swish41
Watchin arsenal for a bit. Now off to second practice. Then rush home and enjoy el clasico. Should be a great one.
That looked like an Henry goal
"I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it." - Mitch Hedberg
x
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPs54xXB0Kw
Very nice pass from Song as well
by Brett Perryman on Dec 10, 2011 11:57 AM CST up reply actions
TWC is sweet
I set two different DVRs to be sure that their buggy software wouldn’t screw it up. Naturally, Fox Soccer, Fox Soccer HD and Fox Sports Espanol have all been on “ONE MOMENT PLEASE This channel should be available shortly.” the entire game, along with about half of my other channels.
I’m going to have to forgive Directv for their billing BS some day just for my own sanity.
by Brett Perryman on Dec 10, 2011 10:50 AM CST up reply actions
Well
When that happens to me with TWC I first turn off the cable set top box and that usually fixes it. If that doesn’t work then I just reset the cable box top and that fixes.
Thanks for making me feel stupid, Justin
hah
I still hate TWC with a passion, and the problem still was that I wasn’t there until the very end, so I wouldn’t have been able to fix it anyway.
by Brett Perryman on Dec 10, 2011 11:13 AM CST up reply actions
Well
Well, once time about half of my channels including all of my hd channels got that one moment please and I couldn’t figure out how to fix it. So I called into customer service, waited on hold for 30 minutes and they just told me to turn off the box or reset it. I felt like a fucking moron.
They said blurred vision after taking a hit to the eye
Precautionary I assume
"I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it." - Mitch Hedberg
Arsenal's medical staff
will find a way to turn that into a serious eye infection that costs him his vision for nine months.
by Brett Perryman on Dec 10, 2011 11:02 AM CST up reply actions
Oh, Bellers
Not even on the pitch a minute, and he’s already telling someone to “fuck off.” Hopefully we can get a second soon- this 1-0 lead is making me nervous…
"Those cocksuckers asking me if I thought we were gonna go up there and try to work his fuckin’ pitch count ‘cause he’s on three fuckin’ days rest…you know what I told those cocksuckers? He pitch ball, ball cross plate, we gonna knock the shit out of it."
- Wash
Pretty awesome soccernet headline
O’Neill dreams of playing like Barca
December 10, 2011
By ESPNsoccernet staff
Sunderland manager Martin O’Neill has outlined his ambition to have a team that plays with the style of Barcelona, though admitted “pragmatism has to be the order of the day” for the struggling Wearsiders at the moment.
Did that really need to be written?
by Brett Perryman on Dec 10, 2011 11:14 AM CST reply actions
Ugh espn3 is taking forever to load this match
"I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it." - Mitch Hedberg
All this flopping and arguing is silly
Having to watch on my iPad can’t get espn3 to load on the Xbox
"I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it." - Mitch Hedberg
Brilliant half.
Real have been bombing forward at full speed on the counter. Really entertaining stuff to watch even though their moves are dying at the feet of Ronaldo quite often.
Ronaldo was pretty shite that half.
i tell the truth; i lie a lot
by jonthefon on Dec 10, 2011 3:54 PM CST via mobile reply actions
King mong
i tell the truth; i lie a lot
by jonthefon on Dec 10, 2011 4:27 PM CST via mobile reply actions
Casillas is hilarious
Sees nothing immediately available via throw, so starts cursing at his team while walloping it downfield to Valdes.
I love David Moyes as a manager
but that one forward line-up is starting to become an absolute joke. He managed the game like he wanted to just hand it to Arsenal
Dallas Stars Examiner
used to be under name hinduplaya
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
seriously considering
my ability to delete this
by Brett Perryman on Dec 11, 2011 9:03 PM CST up reply actions
in hindsight
probably the wrong pic to post. but sums up how i felt after the game brilliantly.
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
by knockoutking on Dec 12, 2011 7:13 AM CST up reply actions
Woah
mattspiro
RMC reporting PSG and Man City have agreed a fee of 27m euros for Tevez. PSG now need to convince the player
from sid lowe's article on the guardian
Twenty-three seconds and he had gifted Madrid the opening goal. Not just any opening goal, either: the first in the world’s biggest rivalry, one that sent tectonic plates crashing into each other. Madrid, so deadly on the counter, so imperious, a goal up (it had been almost 70 games since they’d taken the lead and failed to win), were winning
havent thought about this much recently, but wow. 70 games is a hell of a long time.
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
I can already tell Chelsea are going to bottle this.
by LiamP on Dec 12, 2011 2:17 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
The Danish Wonder
Nicklas Bendtner was forced to go begging for his pizza among strangers on Saturday night.
Stopping at a pizzeria in Copenhagen the Sunderland striker, on loan from Arsenal, turned to desperate methods when his credit card wouldn’t work.
Danish newspaper Ekstrabladet reported that Bendtner tried to get the pizzas for free, even asking staff: “Don’t you know who I am? I can buy the whole pizzeria.”
A member of staff, who did not want to be named, is quoted by the paper as saying: “We told him that it did not matter who he was. If he could not pay, there was no pizza.”
A customer told the paper: “He was f***ing arrogant acted as if he owned the place. All the people just stood and looked at each other and shook their heads over the way he behaved.”
xx
"We told him that it did not matter who he was. If he could not pay, there was no pizza."
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
by knockoutking on Dec 13, 2011 7:28 AM CST up reply actions
i am so tempted to make this my sig
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
by knockoutking on Dec 13, 2011 7:28 AM CST up reply actions
Not a good week for the world class Dane
Sunderland players Nicklas Bendtner and Lee Cattermole have been arrested by police on suspicion of damaging cars near the stadium of Premier League rival Newcastle.
xx
Pep Guardiola took over as coach at FC Barcelona in 2008. Since that time he has faced Real Madrid seven times in Liga Clasico matches. Out of the 21 points in play in these games, Real Madrid have snatched just one.
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
David Villa - Broken leg.
Out for a year.
by LiamP on Dec 15, 2011 1:24 PM CST via mobile reply actions
Let seven weeks
of RVP to Barca talk begin.
by Brett Perryman on Dec 15, 2011 2:31 PM CST up reply actions
lol
if this happened, would the soccer threads on LSB end? lol
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
by knockoutking on Dec 16, 2011 7:59 AM CST up reply actions
4-6 mo evidently
“fractured shin”
Scout: He was a first-round pick right? Got a huge bonus?
KG: Oh yeah.
Scout: Well, he spent a lot of it on milkshakes.
by knockoutking on Dec 16, 2011 7:59 AM CST up reply actions
Donovan!
Back to Everton for 8 weeks after the new year.
by Outworlder47 on Dec 15, 2011 4:13 PM CST via mobile reply actions
Too bad we can't afford him
All in the life of a bankrupt team. Ah well, maybe Moyes can finally start playing 2 up top now /wishful thinking
Dallas Stars Examiner
used to be under name hinduplaya
Not gonna happen
He’ll be back to the Galaxy for the 2012 season.
Not mediocre. Right about average
UCL draw
Arsenal (vs Milan) and Chelsea (vs Napoli) both get tough fixtures. Yikes, probably the toughest matchups possible out of all the runner-ups.
i tell the truth; i lie a lot
Can we rent Cesc for this matchup?
Memories… At least we should have Wilshere by then.
by sprite on Dec 16, 2011 7:46 AM CST via mobile up reply actions
Tevez
He played in one of City’s early CL matches, so he’d be ineligible to play for Milan if they manage to sign him in January. That is fortunate for Arsenal.
Not mediocre. Right about average
Speaking as a neutral
It’s a very tasty fixture. Quite looking forward to it.
Not mediocre. Right about average
Valencia vs. Stoke
Can’t wait for those Spanish ponces to get knocked around in the away leg.
I had to look up that word
but it was worth it.
by Brett Perryman on Dec 17, 2011 8:44 PM CST up reply actions
SPORCLE TIME - 100 best players in the world per 4-4-2.
I got 90…missed some obvious ones.
I had no idea who the Spaniard on Getafe was.
I kept trying Jesus Navas. Had no idea Santi Cazorla transferred there.
TYPICAL ENGLISH FOOTBALL FAN
OBLIVIOUS TO GOING-ONS IN THE REST OF THE WORLD
i tell the truth; i lie a lot
Liverpool-Villa
2-0 Reds 15 minutes in- Bellers and Skrtel with the goals. Glad I woke up early!
"Those cocksuckers asking me if I thought we were gonna go up there and try to work his fuckin’ pitch count ‘cause he’s on three fuckin’ days rest…you know what I told those cocksuckers? He pitch ball, ball cross plate, we gonna knock the shit out of it."
- Wash
Poor
Man, Arsenal have been poor inside the box this second half.
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