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Originally posted by Garage Joe:

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Originally posted by darloboy07:
Kim Clijsters is back .

Who does he play for?

Belgium.

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Originally posted by moonie:

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Originally posted by PinkBabe1966:

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Originally posted by Garage Joe:

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Originally posted by Veggieburger:
She has acquired the nickname Jonah

Everyone has a Jonah.
Not for nothing is Mrs Joe called the penalty shoot out Queen.

I have been known to hide in the toilet during penalty shoot outs and taking penalties (Igor Balis at Bradford springs to mind!!)

*Images flash through mind*

You remember it too??!!

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Originally posted by PinkBabe1966:

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Originally posted by darloboy07:
Kim Clijsters is back .

She was bloody brilliant Darlo, and handled the Serena meltdown very well.

Talented player, the magic has came back . I'm hoping Maria Sharapova soon gets back to her best .

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Originally posted by disley21:
Consider the following...





Spot the difference.

How many differences do you want?

As I see it, you have two players celebrating in front of rival fans in the same game.

The charge of improper conduct for Adebayor comes from celebrating in front of opposing fans, thus inciting the crowd.

Van Persie did exactly the same thing, and could have potentially incited the crowd as well, the difference is, the Citeh fans did not act like brainless morons in response. As the picture shows, their reactions range from apathy to slight annoyance. No throwing of plastic stools and what appears to be orange peel though...

I can sympathise with the Arsenal fans, it's not a good feeling when a former players scores against you and then rubs it in with the celebration. I've seen it myself, when Michael Ricketts scored one of his four goals for Boro at the Reebok, and he ran the length of the pitch with his hand cupped to his ear after we'd spent the game abusing him. Again, the difference is nobody reacted like the Arsenal fans did. They are far from blameless, and I hope every one of those idiots you can see in that little gif above is banned from attending games for a long time.

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Originally posted by Garage Joe:

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Originally posted by darloboy07:
Kim Clijsters is back .

Who does he play for?

I'm sure if she's priced over £15m
'arry will put in a bid.

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Originally posted by Garage Joe:
Don't get me started on the fecking world cup
Ever since that scarey day in '66 when I spent a short time hiding behind the settee and my Dad injured his leg celebrating, I have been twice, twice mind you, to Germany. They have had it in daft countries like the USA and Japan, we get fobbed off with the fecking Olympics, and still we have to go cap in hand to beg for it.

Can't comment about the '66 World Cup, I was 3 months old when we won it!!

Would love to see it here again, Euro '96 was great, the Dutch were in Brum at the time, playing their matches at Villa Park and the atmosphere in Brum was party time, Broad Street was full of orange shirts and it was really good fun!!

I hope we get the World Cup again, would prefer that to the Olympics although 2012 should be good.

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Originally posted by RZB:

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Originally posted by Garage Joe:

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Originally posted by darloboy07:
Kim Clijsters is back .

Who does he play for?

I'm sure if she's priced over £15m
'arry will put in a bid.

Portsmouth , he's already had half of their squad .

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Originally posted by RZB:

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Originally posted by Garage Joe:

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Originally posted by darloboy07:
Kim Clijsters is back .

Who does he play for?

I'm sure if she's priced over £15m
'arry will put in a bid.

lol Talking of Arry

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I'm hoping Maria Sharapova soon gets back to her best .

I'e still finger crossed for
Chris Evert Lloyd,

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Originally posted by RZB:

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Originally posted by Garage Joe:

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Originally posted by darloboy07:
Kim Clijsters is back .

Who does he play for?

I'm sure if she's priced over £15m
'arry will put in a bid.

He's on the phone as we speak!!

Good news Monkey, John O'Shea set to start tonight despite the injury he picked up for Ireland but he obviously played through the Spurs game .

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lol Talking of Arry

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Originally posted by RZB:

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Originally posted by Garage Joe:

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Originally posted by darloboy07:
Kim Clijsters is back .

Who does he play for?

I'm sure if she's priced over £15m
'arry will put in a bid.

Nah...'Arry will wait til shes sat on the bench for six months then get her a t a rock bottom price(sorry to mention her bottom and excite darlo again)

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I admit I have a problem whenever an old player scores and celebrates in front of his old fans,

Robbie Keane seems to score against former clubs
on a reguar basis, yet always controls his emotions. It's all about class.

Arry will do the Rock Bottom , wrestling move .

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Good news Monkey, John O'Shea set to start tonight despite the injury he picked up for Ireland but he obviously played through the Spurs game .

Got a feeling Wes will start tonight..

I hope Wes Brown is given a chance , would like him to start Owen for once alongside Rooney instead of Berbs .

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lol Talking of Arry

I never expected that result as you know..Listening on the radio after the first min was no fun at all..Cracking match though.

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lol Talking of Arry

I never expected that result as you know..Listening on the radio after the first min was no fun at all..Cracking match though.

On TV it was more nervewracking , entertaining match was from end to end. We just had a bit too much for them to cope with once we got in control .

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Originally posted by darloboy07:
I hope Wes Brown is given a chance , would like him to start Owen for once alongside Rooney instead of Berbs .

Fergie says Michael Owen is still in his plans, but will have to be patient for first-team football. I'm more worried about Rooney and burn out..

I've just seen that Monkey. Rooney would want to start every game and is always up for it but fatigue could set in at any time .

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On TV it was more nervewracking , entertaining match was from end to end. We just had a bit too much for them to cope with once we got in control .

I caught the whole match on MUTV on Sunday and thought both sides played well..But when Scholesy got sent off I thought we'd had it, thought they'd win...Nice surprise

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Originally posted by darloboy07:
I've just seen that Monkey. Rooney would want to start every game and is always up for it but fatigue could set in at any time .

I heard Fergie say he'd play in goal if he let him

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On TV it was more nervewracking , entertaining match was from end to end. We just had a bit too much for them to cope with once we got in control .

I caught the whole match on MUTV on Sunday and thought both sides played well..But when Scholesy got sent off I thought we'd had it, thought they'd win...Nice surprise

I did think that at first but we've managed to find a way somehow most of the time, but we was in control then. Scholesy never learns , but part of his game.

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Originally posted by monkey13:

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Originally posted by darloboy07:
I've just seen that Monkey. Rooney would want to start every game and is always up for it but fatigue could set in at any time .

I heard Fergie say he'd play in goal if he let him

Lmao , it's weird i'm not missing Ronaldo as much as I thought I would .

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Originally posted by RZB:

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I admit I have a problem whenever an old player scores and celebrates in front of his old fans,

Robbie Keane seems to score against former clubs
on a reguar basis, yet always controls his emotions. It's all about class.

I am not liking the direction this thread has taken

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Lmao , it's weird i'm not missing Ronaldo as much as I thought I would .

After seeing Giggsy's free kick

Giggsy still has the magic and skill , he's a class act.


About the Adebayor thing it is about class when scoring in front of a former team not to celebrate in front of your former fans, not an excuse but players do get themselves caught up in the situation and their emotions get the better of them, maybe some more self control is needed .

Fed's frustration .

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I can sympathise with the Arsenal fans, it's not a good feeling when a former players scores against you and then rubs it in with the celebration. I've seen it myself, when Michael Ricketts scored one of his four goals for Boro at the Reebok, and he ran the length of the pitch with his hand cupped to his ear after we'd spent the game abusing him. Again, the difference is nobody reacted like the Arsenal fans did. They are far from blameless, and I hope every one of those idiots you can see in that little gif above is banned from attending games for a long time.

Ok well firstly we at Arsenal have put up with a lot from Adebayor for the last two seasons. Indifferent form, non existent (to my mind) injuries, blaming the fans in print and on tv (Football Focus) for his crap preformances, then hawking himself around Europe like a dried up old tart trying to get someone to buy him. Then when he had no takers telling us how much he loved Arsenal, then back to getting his agent to pimp him around other clubs.
and that's just for starters. Since he has moved we have had interview after interview pouring scorn and disrespect to AW, AFC and the fans.
Then his behaviour even before the match started when he tried to wind up Arsenal players - commented on by Lee Dixon ( a lifelong City fan btw in case anyone thinks he just had his Arsenal hat on), his disgraceful attempts to injure Arsenal players that he has a grudge with under the guise of 'tackling' and as for that goal celebration.
As Pinky has said it is the fact that he ran the whole length of the pitch to deliberately incite the Gooners there. RVP celebrated at the end he scored his goal - the City end. Adebayor ran from that end - the whole length of the pitch - unacceptable.
As for the behaviour of Gooners there - I'm sure that any of them will be banned if they are caught on camera for wrongdoing. Arsenal has a zero tolerance for fans misbehaving. A bloke on my estate and his two sons were the morons who abused a Muslim woman on the tube a few years back while they were wearing Arsenal shirts.
Nowhere near a match btw but Arsenal have banned all three of them for life from attending any Arsenal home fixtures.

There is real fury about the stamp on RVP - as I said earlier I really worry about what will happen at the Emirates if Hughes plays that moron

City boss Mark Hughes told the club's official website: "Emmanuel sustained a tremendous amount of personal abuse from the kick-off but strongly maintains that there was no malice intended in the challenge on Van Persie and apologised to him when he hugged him on leaving the field of play at the end of the game."



Anyone know if this is true, did he hug Van Persie?

If there is worries about what would happen to Adebayor when he returns to the Emirates, that is down to the FA to sort out before then. Why should Hughes have to drop him especially just for that game?, he is man enough to face up to his actions and will get lots of boos anyway he can only make what is at his disposal.

Mark Clattenburg might have missed Emmanuel Adebayor's 'stamp' on Robin van Persie but it's harder to miss the miracle occurring on the top of the official's head.

The Consett-born ref's old egg-in-the-nest look appears to have been replaced by a new, lustrous growth.

Let's be charitable and say it's grown back naturally. And that Clattenburg's Eastlands error was just the result of a bald... sorry, blind spot.

A couple of pages back I said Adebayor should definitely by banned for the stamp.

There's no defence for it.

Lol Monkey a miracle .

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Originally posted by darloboy07:
If there is worries about what would happen to Adebayor when he returns to the Emirates, that is down to the FA to sort out before then. Why should Hughes have to drop him especially just for that game?, he is man enough to face up to his actions and will get lots of boos anyway he can only make what is at his disposal.

I don't think he thought this one out Darlo..Wouldn't be surprised if he's injured for that match

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Originally posted by disley21:
A couple of pages back I said Adebayor should definitely by banned for the stamp.

There's no defence for it.

He should get a 3 match ban for the stamp alone.

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Originally posted by monkey13:

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Originally posted by darloboy07:
If there is worries about what would happen to Adebayor when he returns to the Emirates, that is down to the FA to sort out before then. Why should Hughes have to drop him especially just for that game?, he is man enough to face up to his actions and will get lots of boos anyway he can only make what is at his disposal.

I don't think he thought this one out Darlo..Wouldn't be surprised if he's injured for that match

Don't know, but I don't see why he should not be able to play in the game at the Emirates he's going to be public enemy number 1 but he should let them get on with booing him and concentrate on City when that fixture comes around .

Wonder what kind of reception Tevez will get should he play Sunday..

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Wonder what kind of reception Tevez will get should he play Sunday..

Maybe mixed, but probably boos now I think .