[Merged] Football talk

[iadom]

And for you Fritz, the game is over.

Berti Vogts resigns...BBC News 24 sports.

http://www.ireland.com/sports/soccer...847332213.html

If you can't beat them, join them Link

[sherer]

now Berti has resigned I think I might contact the SFA and apply for the job. I can get £1 million a year and then be rubbish and get the sack and a nice pay off as well.

Easy money if you can do it and even if you rubbish you get a decent pay-off. Win-Win all round

[TigaSefi]

9 match unbeaten ? u talkin' about Newcastle ? I ain't associated with them thank you very much.

[iadom]

Still can't hack it in Europe, and the Greeks missed a penalty as well.


Arsenal 1 Panethkwhatsit 1.

[gazzae]

Nice header by Cygan.

Whats up with Henry? Doesn't he celebrate anymore?

MOM Viera (That Dive)

[sherer]

yes it's interesting that since that game both United and Arsenal have had pens in similar situations for and against them where the agrguments we used for the Rooney pen have gone against us.

The Pompey pen didn't look like a pen to me but then there was more contact than in the Rooney oneso I guess that has evened things out.

Not sure how a 6 ft 4 ins player who is as big and strong as Viera could fall over with that contact lst night. I didn't see a kick or a push so how did he fall over. yes someone's hands were on him but with no force to push him over. Wonder if all the Arsenal fans will be up in arms about that one.

Didn't think the pen against them was much either. if you watch Cole he was looking at the ball the whole time he went to swing for it but hit the man who was standing on his blind side, again with very little contact.

I wrote to the FA and UEFA and offered to re-run some of these incidents on a football pitch with them and see if anyone from normal life could fall over and simulate the same sort of fall from these challenges. Both of them never came back to me. How can these people and the refs etc believe that being tripped over makes you roll over 15 times going aaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggg.

[iadom]

Van the Man 4- Sparta Prague 1, and he is having a lean spell,

41 goals in 45 European matches.

[sherer]

yeah was a good game but we still looked abit dodgy at the back. Strange how we can turn it on for Europe and big league games but still abit rubbish against Brum, Bolton etc

Hope we do well on Sunday as I got tickets

[gazzae]

Good to see Wes Brown has decided to see sense and stay.

[sherer]

now all we need to Carroll to do the same and Phil Neville to get sold or just retire

[gazzae]

Mutu has been banned for 7 months.

Sacked Chelsea striker Adrian Mutu has been handed a seven-month ban for a positive cocaine test.
Mutu, 25, was at Soho Square for the Football Association hearing and had already said he will not appeal.

An FA statement said Mutu was suspended for seven months "subject to completing a programme of education and rehabilitation".

He was also fined £20,000 and will be subject to target testing throughout the period of the suspension.

The suspension is backdated to start on 25 October.

It will end on 18 May - meaning he will not return to action before next season at the earliest.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...ea/3973219.stm

[Russ]

Bet he's glad he doesn't play for Man Utd or he could have been looking at a LOT longer....

[Steve H]

Shame about Mutu, he had good prospects.

He's probably use his break away from football constructivly.. on the town.