Football : Season 2007/2008
 

Well, the season starts next week, so let the banter begin. :D

I've high hopes for Man U this season, unlike last season..........but what do I know about football. :erm: :angel:

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I can see Middlesbrough having a better season. We've made some good signings and lost a few good players. Role on Blackburn!

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I am full of optimism really, some real class players brought in, all the big shots and dross gone, we have hardly even gone in the red either, if we can get a couple more in and they gel quickly who knows what is possible

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Depends where you are.
Some of us have got our first football fix of the new season already.

In fact I'm sure TheBlueRaja is already looking for an excuse to abandon the season and leave the SPL table as it is.

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Oops! I forgot about you lot up there. :p:

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You're English, it's perfectly understandable :D

I reckon Liverpool will be the biggest threat to United this season. Chelsea will be there or thereabouts of course, can't see Arsenal producing anything more than a repeat of last year's flatulent effort.

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Liverpool looked rubbish earlier. Not sure Voronin will be good enough.

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I don't think they'll challange, I don't think they have bought well at all

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With the possible exception of Torres... Still not sure they get stuck in enough. Plus Benitez seems to have an aversion to fielding his best side.

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yeah, i think its gona be man u for the title

def. cant see arsenal producing anything specail
liverpool will probabyl do as they normally do, get built up, then season kicks off and they lose a few games early on and are out the title race by october
chelsea, should be closest challengers tho im not a big fan of them so hopefully not :)

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Seriously, would you by a used car from this man :td:

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,195...645625,00.html

Word is he can't afford to pay the 2 million :rolleyes: apparently his assets have been frozen

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Amazing !!!!!

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Following on from that........
Just read this on the BBC Sport website

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and Niall Quinn accuses us of paying over the odds ......... muppet

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...an/6932931.stm

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United are playing the Glens tonight. I'll be there. :D

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They should have asked Delia to cook for them... Norwich...

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Some good news then ;)

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That would be the keeper rated as third best in europe ???

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Originally Posted by BBC News
About 30 people at Norwich City FC were taken ill following a barbecue for players and staff, it has emerged.

The club confirmed four professional footballers were among those who suffered sickness and diarrhoea.


4 players at Norwich connected with Sh*t and they haven't even played yet

I Expect that number to rise on saturday


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Bloody hell How Much Has Europe Shrunk

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Buffon, Petre Cech, Casillas and maybe Cuddicini (scuse the spelling)

Ok, so fifth best then ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEWHEKs4d4s

In my own opinion a fantastic keeper and over the moon we signed him.

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looking forward to the start of the season. Only a few days to go, unless you in Scotland then it's already in full swing :D

Let's just hope this year that we keep the talking points to what goes on on the pitch rather than off it.

Thought Nani looked very good last night, nice to see a winger actually run at people and get past a few of them too.

I know Chelsea have a few injuries but i'm sure they will still be up there all season long. Arsenal seem to have a weaker squad but it depends how well some of the other teams do. They weren't great last season but as the top four were well clear of the others it wasn't so big an issue

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dont know at the moment about Arsenal as there are quite a few young players if you take away Lehmann and Gallas, the rest are under 30 so just have to wait and see cuz even then last season as Sherer said they didnt perform.

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Kahn, Canizares, Valdes etc etc still at least next season you'll have the best keeper in the Championship

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Considering next season starts on Saturday, We'll be in the premiership surely ;) ?

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Actually the season started on Sunday ;)

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...ls/6939170.stm

Make your own mind up :rolleyes:

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Hell I've been trying to tell you that for years :D :Sprint:

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Fair comment ;)

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How do these muppets progress so high in the game :rolleyes: never made an impact, what have Spain ever won, not to mention France and Italy both having held it in the 90's and Spain in the 80's, come 2018 it will be over 50 years since we held it, despite hosting a superb European Championship finals, having by far the best stadiams and doing far more that most nations to kick hooliganism and racism out of the game, I think I'll side with the Kaiser :erm: on this one

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I think it is sour grapes from Warner,
however, it won't do England's chances any good with him around

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Yeah, cheers Russ :D

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well with FIFA and UEFA talking about kicking rascism out of the game then surely they should censor themselves from making them.

France had the finals in 98 so I don't think they should get them and Spain hosted them in 82 and as you stated are perennial underachievers so to use the fact that we can't have it as we haven't done much but to say Spain can have it doesn't really add up.

Let's not forget that the IFAB that approves the rules to football is still made up of the FA, Welsh FA and Scottish FA, i'm not sure if any of the other home nation's FAs are in there i'll have to double check.

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Caborn hits back at Warner attack

Go get him Richard :tu:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...ls/6939170.stm

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At last Tevez has signed.
I did read this in a news report though.....
Which is why I kept on asking the question in the close season thread.

Full report here

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Don't you remeber the amount of time it took him to sign, the transfer window actually shut and it was about a week later he signed, considering Kia only got the cash together this week, I'd say they acted pretty quickly

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Possible metatatatatatatarsal injury to Wayne Rooney during the Reading match....

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s*hit happens Russ.... he's only a big thug anyways.

so thats him going to be out for at least 3 months :D :p:

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A big thug that you wouldn't mind in your team :p:

There will be a few "spoiling" teams this season, teams who try and stop Utd, Chelsea, Spurs, Liverpool, Arsenal etc playing football, and they are, Reading, Bolton, Blackburn, Middlesbrough and maybe Fulham and Wigan.

It's a shame really from the football supporters point of view, but I can't say that I would blame those teams tactics.
Coppell more or less said so himself.......

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...em/6931068.stm

Anyway.......it's only the first game of the season, so we should see the usual bunch at the top after a couple of months, with maybe a surprise in store imo, and that's Newcastle and Man City :erm:

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nahhh mate prefer to have Ronaldo in my team :) that would be a really nice mix then with van Persie and co.

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:D We always do well with the top teams anyways.

Anyway, Saturday was pretty bad. Blackburn had 2 shots on target and scored both of them. We were meant to of played amazing though. It's now more attacking for us, but our defence let us down by being injured. Once our defence is sorted out, I can see us doing amazing. :erm::)

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well it was the first game of the season and we didn't lose so i'm please. On some forums I go on people are acting like the title is lost already :shocked:

We played some good football and created a few chances, I even thought Giggs did ok playing up front as a striker. Shame Rooney is injured, which makes it even worse we sold Rossi and Smith as now both could have played in the week.

Mourinho is now 99 games at home unbeaten ( including his Porto days )

Well done to Reading for stopping us scoring. That's no mean feat these days with us so they must have played well. Will be interesting to see if they do as well as that against Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal as sometimes I feel teams raise their game against us and then don't play as well as that against the other top teams

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Arsenal get that as well. Load of small teams give us difficult matches.

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its the smaller teams that are more dangerous really then the big teams, at least with those you know what kind of game they are going to play but with say the clubs Reading, Bolton and you name them.

we just have to wait and see what will happen around X-mas time, then we can see roughly who's going to win the league and whos going to be relegated.

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Not a cracking game, but a cracking win for Sunderland against Spurs. Went home a very happy man (albeit slighlty drunk) incredible to think in one game we have amassed 20% of the total points we managed in our last season in the prem :D :erm:

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hahahha ManUre still hasnt won a game and now Ronaldo is gone for 3 matches cuz he had to throw his dummy out of the pram.

has any1 noticed that Russ has been really quiet in here now????

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So instead of talking about your teams two victories you come on to talk about United?

Good to see where your priorities lie. ;)

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yeah well winding up Russ is more fun Gaz, and yes at least Arsenal has beat 2 teams sofar :)

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Premature perhaps, although a couple more defeats and the pressure might start to build

Spurs boss Martin Jol's future may be in jeopardy after he had crisis talks with chairman Daniel Levy about the losing start. (Independent)

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Well done, good luck with making that 4th spot your own. ;)

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Wind me up?? You'll need to try a lot harder young sir :D

United are unbeaten this season so far, can't have any complaints about that :)

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I'd have a comeback to that but unfortunately I support Boro and you could have a much better comeback because we played proper crap yesterday.

1 - 0 to Wigan. :mad: What the **** is happening with us?!?!?! We need our defence back ASAP!

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No-one wins the title within the first week of the new season! In fact I don't pay too much attention to league positions until at least november time as there's always some unfashionable cheeky little upstart of a team hovering near the top with delusions of staying there til May (looks like Everton again this season).

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only saw the highlights on MOTD so didn't see much of the game, plus I was a little drunk too, but Tevez looked pretty good last night and a great goal from Scholes too.

Can't blame VDS for the goal either.

On some forums people are talking about the title being over already, and that was after the reading game. It's a long time till May.

Is Ronaldo banned for 3 games ? Thought it was just one for a first read card of season but wouldn't be the first time i was wrong about something :D

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Straight red, three match ban I believe, that's the thing about the title race these days, you have to hit the ground running, you can't afford to leave it till Christmas anymore, that said to say the title race is over is crazy, a few more draws though and who knows

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Ronnie headbutted the other guy - that's violent conduct which has a standard 3 match ban.

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Yawn

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...td/6949262.stm

Reports that writs are also set to be served on David Unsworth - the former Blades defender who scored on the final day of the season - and Wigan - who had the audacity to beat the Blades in the same game - are yet to be confirmed ... :D

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Need a win on Sunday for definite. League is never over this early, but another bad result would make it very difficult.

Still remember what happened last time Utd drew their first two games of the season.

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Last season we lost to Portsmouth away and we had a draw against Reading, so you could say United are a point up on last season ;) :D

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Funnily enough the BBC didn't bother to print the clubs response to this latest steaming pile of excrement so I'll do it for them

http://www.whufc.com/news/?page_id=9383

In the meantime, West Ham United and its new owners will not permit these repeated slurs to go unchallenged and are in discussions with their legal advisers in relation to the action they might take.

I hope that applies to everyone, this whole saga has been a Godsend for lazy journalists, the nonsense they peddle has been lapped up to long and it's about time they got their comeuppance, especially the Daily Mail

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A big welcome to Arsenal fans to the Football thread!

We hope that you do not disappear soon and your input in this thread does not remain dependant on Arsenal's performances, as has happened in the last few years... ;)

You are more than welcome to post throughout the whole season, so come on and join us! ;) :D

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Good start for the U's....

Get in there :D

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...nf/6941987.stm

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Boylan was one of ours, he was in the same youth team as Freddy Eastwood and both were/ are incredibly prolific in non league football

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dont worry Mal I wont leave that easily and 1st to admit it that at present I dont think Arsenal is going to get silverware again.

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Great result for us against Birmingham the other night, bring on wigan on saturday. The only downside being that Edwards is out for a month :(

Interesting to see on SSN that betting on the first EPL manager to be sacked has been suspended . apparently a massive amount being placed on Martin Jol ?????

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No wonder

Tottenham boss Martin Jol has been given the dreaded vote of confidence - two games into the season. (Star)

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To be fair though that is the star........:D

Jol would be in my list but i would have Sammy Lee at Bolton, and also Gareth Southgate at Middlesbrough ahead of him.

After the money spurs have spent in this window it would be madness to boot him now ??

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Not just the Star, if it were he might get away with it, if they lose their next two or three games, he could well be out of the door

Spurs boss Martin Jol's future may be in jeopardy after he had crisis talks with chairman Daniel Levy about the losing start. (Independent)

and

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...ur/6950282.stm

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interesting

The SKY era rearing its ugly head yet again :(

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Yep clubs just can't afford to chance it these days :(

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Was in The Metro and The London Paper too :)

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It's a double edged sword with sky and football, the amount of money going in is obscene. and yet there is a generation of armchair fans who demand instant success :( spoils the game completely. To sack any manager just two games into a season is lunacy


As a side issue, I really hope that the latest reports about Sunderlands new potential signing are not true

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well if Spurs sack Jol already after what Jol has done to the team getting them in the 2 years that he has been manager always in the UEFA cup isnt too bad considering as well that if correct spurs were close to relegation 3 years ago,.

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there's only one team i want to see have their manager sacked, and thats the mag's and then let them do a leeds and end up in the northern brick layers league before finally going bust


:D

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Mind reader......... hate Newcastle. I actually hope they do really bad, and I hope Viduka scores a few home goals. :D:D I can't see Jol getting fired, same with Southgate. I don't think Gibbo has it in him, he's never fired a manager has he? :erm:

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I can see it happening with Southgate he looked shot to bits after the defeat to wigan ?

Whats your view on Mido signing ?

Also, interesting to see Yakubu left out of the trip tonight (To Everton is it ?)

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Yeah! Mido looks like a good signing, not sure on the price tag though. People on BBC 606 seem to think Yak is going to Everton, that's why he's not playing. I think we're going to have a bad season if he does go.

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i think Jol's a very good manager. The thing with football is you never quite know what is going to happen.

The best team in the world went to the world cup final against a team of amatures who weren't even due to be at the world cup in the first place and lost.

The £500m off squad of Man U could only draw with Reading. We can even lose to teams like Pompey away last season.

These things happen in football and that is part of the appeal sometimes you lose and have to accept it.

Jol will have a plan for the season with players and transfers and style of play and to get someone else in they could change the style of play and make things even worse.

Seems Curbs is in danger of losing his job too along with a host of others.

Look as us with Fergie, we nearly got rid of him in 90 and look what a mistake that would have been

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SSN are quoting £11m for Yakubu

I think Mido will be an interesting signing for you, We were in for him as well but for whatever reason he's chosen to sign for you.

Which leads Keano trying to sign Kenwyne Jones :td:

Just seen Carlos Edwards out for a month as well :(:(:(:(

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never mind that, can we have Evans back for another season please :D

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I'm guessing you support Sunderland? If so, let's hope both teams can get whole 12 points off Newcastle. The majority of their fans have their heads shoved up they asses. What you think of Keano trying to sign Crouch? Or was that just a rumour? :erm:

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sorrt he's one for the future.. will be dissapointed if him and Pique don't end up coming through in the next couple of years

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i am indeed a Sunderland fan (for my sins :D) Crouch would be a fantastic signing for Sunderland but it was all rumours, there was no way he would sign for us.

Paul McShane seems to have been an excellent signing by Keano (apart from his own goal against Brum)

eyebrows were very much raised by the signing of Chopra too but so far he looks far better value for money than Nugent :D:D:D

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Phenomanlly good player Evans, marshalled our back four incredibly well last season. Seemed to enjoy his time with us too.

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Ohh, reading 606 now and Boro fans are saying get rid of the Yak! :o He's not dedicated anymore or anything, so I kind of see why we should let him go.

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Has he actually (or his agent for that matter) come out and asked for a move ?

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I don't think so, but if he has then he's doing it all privately.

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He has stayed very quiet in all of this

You have that Turkish striker too dont you ? how's he doing ?

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Tuncay? He's meant to be doing brill. I haven't had the chance to watch him play for Boro yet, I been a bit busy.

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Yep, it was mentioned on Setanta that he played alongside the likes of Frank Lampard and Rio Ferdinand back in the good ol' days, plus a few others no doubt.
He certainly knows where the goal is that's for sure, which is like a breath of fresh air at Cambridge United, however, if he has one fault, although I am not complaining at the moment, is his inability to pass at crucial moments when team mates are in a better position than him, but I won't hold it against him at the moment.

Cambridge United boss Jimmy Quinn seems to have assembled a fairly good squad for this season, so Hopefully will end up in the play offs come May.

One for the statisticians, Cambridge United picked up nine red cards and 86 yellow cards last season, that has to be a record surely? :shocked:

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Good result for Man City

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Damn!

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Lucky result for Man ****y

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woohooo thats ManUre without a win yet this season :)

and Arsenal is at the moment still 1 up on the Rovers so all looking good

ow well a draw against Rovers :( was hoping for a win but hey you cant have everything

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yay! City have a great defence - Richards and Dunne played really well.

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Without a win but we've only lost 1 out of 3 :)

Far too early in the season for us to start worrying. We won't do an Arsenal this year, that's for sure :)

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A very good result for City today, and as a life long supporter its great to take a derby win. :D:D:D:D Made all the more sweeter that it takes us back on top of the table, be it only 3 games old its where we desrve to be after Psyco's lack lustre effort at managing.

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Richards was immense, he is a real talent.

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Perhaps not

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2...380477,00.html

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ah yes, the sun - we can all learn something from that!

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One of the worst performances every on Saturday by us, worse than anything in our 15 or 19 point seasons

Please god let us get a decent left back and a decent striker in

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Football wise we all can, I am sure you'd like to just dismiss the story though as you don't like the subject however here it is again, this time from the BBC, perhaps you'll learn something from them instead

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/6954344.stm

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The next game for Utd won't be an easy one either. Both teams will be desperate for a win. If Utd don't win then we are out of the title race already, you only have to look at Liverpool in recent years to see how badly a slow start can hurt a teams chances.

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Yes, this is the paper with 'arnachy in the uk' on it's cover. No-one wins the title in august so why should I be worried? What, you think we'll win the title one year then end up losers the next? We're not arsenal you know.