the owner of a Australian Football shirt...    never been one to hunt glory....

He used to live by Deptford Park...dunno if he still does..I live in Eltham and have never seen him round here...

Fulham 3-1 Juventus    That's a score I never ever expected to see.

good grief!
I have everything crossed for Liverpool tonight!

Congrats to Fulham, totally well deserved and spot on tactics by Roy Hodgson and the players can be proud of themselves, happy fans plus Juve out.

Another Saturday, another game. Hopefully a home win today.
Barnet a  generous 11/8 to beat Darlo!!111!!  Or do they know something we don't?
Newcastle also a generous 10/11

Could still get into the play-offs GJ

Although I wouldn't mind another value for money season of thrashing other teams in this Division.

I'm away......
Todays selections Us, Barcodes, Sheff Wed, Cardiff, Barnet, Norwich n Rockdale.

Gary Cahill is on the bench today, quite a remarkable recovery really.

WBA!. Villa.


Can't wait for tomorrow hope for a United win but we're usually Liverpool's cup final especially at OT, both teams will be full of confidence and up for it.


Spurs getting a grip on fourth unless City can do something about it.. Sunderland starting to claw their way to safety.

Oh and a nice win for Everton, hope Bolton claw to safety quick.

Twas an anti-climax after the Newcastle game. Reading had one of the best players I've seen all season. Jimmy Kebe absolutely tortured our left side.

Wow it's all changed in the Premiership. I'm still hoping Arsenal will win since they are the team I would most like to watch and of course I put a not inconsiderable sum on 'em. However "Hat's off!" to SAF for discovering another World Class cheat in Valencia. Where does he keep finding them?

Darlo have sacked their manager. No idea what they expected Steve Staunton to do. Unless of course they have Alan Curbishly lined  up.

Winning more than 4 games in 23 would have been a start, I suspect.

OT 'Toid  Did you notice that Micky Jones, one of my fave guitarists had died.  I just downloaded the full version of  Greasy Truckers.

, Luis Antonio Valencia is not a dirty player at all.

He didn't mean dirty, he meant diver.

Thing is, Valencia never dived. Yeah it wasn't a pen because it was outside the box in the first place, but he was fouled, Valencia stumbled and went down. He had every right to. I think he should be praised for stumbling and trying to stay on his feet until he eventually fell.
But then again in a way if a player is fouled and he stays on his feet and gets nothing, I think the player deserves to be dropped for such stupidity. So it works 2 ways really

It didnt look a dive to me either, mascherano is so effing over rated, hes currently made 54 fouls this season and is a class A nob.  The plank grabbed Valencias arm and it looked like he was spinning round, was bound to go down to ground. As for Rafa calling people divers, he should really take a look at his own players... il never forget that N'Gog dive. Rafa, Wenger and Fergie should both take notes from Roy Hodgson, Hodgson was asked about a penalty he should of had against us but he even admitted the ref would of had a difficult decision to make from so far away.

It was the force of the tug that eventually sent Valencia eventually falling down in the area even though Mascherano got him from just outside but Valencia was clear through on goal and Masch decided to stop him.. Antonio is a honest player and for him to be labelled a diver by Benitez is pathetic, especially after he justified N'Gog against Birmingham.


Anyway was a good win but more pressure now for in Rafa we don't trust.


Fingers crossed next week for Newcastle against Forest.

Meaty City got to keep focused now, needed that win and the game in hand over Spurs are a bonus.

Agree about Valencia, but also Benitez was right to justify N'Gog against Birmingham. Sorry Darlo, but anyone who plays football should know that N'Gog's reaction was totally natural. Carsley (i think it was) came sliding in like a maniac, no where near the ball. N'Gog simply got out of the way to make sure he wasn't snapped in half by the idiots lunge. If he hadn't have dived then N'gog certainly would have been fouled and almost certainly would have been seriously injured. Definite penalty even though there was no contact, which seems crazy to some but believe it or not there doesn't always have to be contact for it to be a foul, if the player is going over to avoid being seriously injured by a lunatic idiots crazy challenge.

2010 Fifa World Cup - Match Split


Friday 11th June
1500 - ITV1 - South Africa v Mexico
1930 - BBC1 - Uruguay v France

Saturday 12th June
1230 - ITV1 - South Korea v Greece
1500 - BBC1 - Argentina v Nigeria
1930 - ITV1 - England v USA

Sunday 13th June
1230 - BBC1 - Algeria v Slovenia
1500 - ITV1 - Serbia v Ghana
1930 - ITV1 - Germany v Australia

Monday 14th June
1230 - ITV1 - Netherlands v Denmark
1500 - BBC1 - Japan v Cameroon
1930 - BBC1 - Italy v Paraguay

Tuesday 15th June
1230 - BBC1 - New Zealand v Slovakia
1500 - ITV1 - Ivory Coast v Portugal
1930 - ITV1 - Brazil v North Korea

Wednesday 16th June
1230 - ITV1 - Honduras v Chile
1500 - BBC1 - Spain v Switzerland
1930 - BBC1 - South Africa v Uruguay

Thursday 17th June
1230 - ITV1 - Argentina v South Korea
1500 - BBC1 - Greece v Nigeria
1930 - BBC1 - France v Mexico

Friday 18th June
1230 - BBC1 - Germany v Serbia
1500 - BBC1 - Slovenia v USA
1930 - ITV1 - England v Algeria

Saturday 20th June
1230 - ITV1 - Netherlands v Japan
1500 - BBC1 - Ghana v Australia
1930 - ITV1 - Cameroon v Denmark

Sunday 21st June
1230 - BBC1 - Slovakia v Paraguay
1500 - ITV1 - Italy v New Zealand
1930 - BBC1 - Brazil v Ivory Coast

Monday 22nd June
1230 - BBC1 - Portugal v North Korea
1500 - BBC1 - Chile v Switzerland
1930 - ITV1 - Spain v Honduras

Tuesday 23rd June
1500 - ITV - Mexico v Uruguay and France v South Africa
1930 - BBC - Nigeria v South Korea and Greece v Argentina

Wednesday 24th June
1500 - BBC - Slovenia v England and USA v Algeria
1930 - ITV - Ghana v Germany and Australia v Serbia

Thursday 25th June
1500 - ITV - Slovakia v Italy and Paraguay v New Zealand
1930 - BBC - Denmark v Japan and Cameroon v Holland

Friday 26th June
1500 - BBC - Portugal v Brazil and North Korea v Ivory Coast
1930 - ITV - Chile v Spain and Switzerland v Honduras

Choosing between ITV Sport and BBC Sport is like choosing between Osama Bin Laden and Adolf Hitley.

Na to be fair to BBC, they've booked their ideas up recently. But no doubt the World Cup (like Euro 2008) will be littered with ignorance and factual errors regarding anything 'non Premier League' by the so called football experts.

Oh Dear! 18th June looks like an all day drinking session or a Black 'un as we call 'em. The 24th has a potentially fatal look about it too.

It could be worse. It could be Sky.

Interesting

Good old-fashioned  centre forward mind! Wish we had him!

What,someone who, (allegedly,) beats up fans and team-mates GJ ....Wouldn't be doing us much good if he was in the nic either!

He scores goals. That's what I look for. There have always been training ground fights, even at Rawcliffe. As for the fans, anyone who hangs around  that area................

I think their coverage is superior to that of BBC and ITV. By coverage I mean commentary on the games. (it's not great though).





Having said that, Phil Thompson's statement last week about Messi 'not even having a good season' so shouldn't be compared to Rooney was highly amusing and ignorant.



The best 1 from the BBC was Motson saying in Euro 2008 that Ruud Van Nistelrooy has vanished into obscurity since leaving United, despite him being top scorer in La Liga that season. Another good one was Lee Dixon commenting a few days after Arsenal against Roma saying Totti was so bad that you wouldn't have even known he was playing... errr because he wasn't playing Lee He blatently hadn't watched a game that he was supposed to be commenting about on football focus 3 days later.



Oh and I love how the British pundits totally don't even mention Cristiano Ronaldo anymore when talking about the best players in the world. As soon as he leaves the Premier League he's not in the same class as Rooney anymore



There are some classics.

I'm sure that if BBC charged 40 GBP per month or 480 a year for football coverage..... etc etc. No need to say more.

Real Madrid aren't in the senior competition, they play in a weak league. Portugal struggled to get to the finals. How shall we measure his ability?

I'm leaving for the match! Good luck everyone!

LOL Hughes really has made some joke signings

RSC = Always injured
Lescott = now injured for 4-6
Toure = Had one good game against fulham, been crap every other game.
Adebayor = Usually banned

Who says it's a weak league? The british pundits who cream themselves over thee Premier League every week, that's who. Ignorance! If each team from La Liga played a match on neutral territory with the team in the same league position of the Premier League, I'd say it'd pretty much be even in terms of wins for each league. Are you telling me that Cristiano Ronaldo has lost all his ability over the space of the summer? He's scored goals for fun in that 'senior' competition this season.
It's what I absolutely despise with a passion about the so called football experts in this country. They are so bloody ignorant and dismissive about anything non-Premier League.
 
Another example is about a week ago Inter were a poor team who have no chance of winning the big prize. Now all of a sudden they beat Chelsea, Sneijder is a world class midfielder (which he always was anyway), they are a class team with a huge chance of winning the CL and they are littered with players 'who should be playing in the Premier League'.
It's just like, they form these opinions of the european leagues and teams based on absolutely nothing because most of them don't even bother watching anything non-premier league, then as soon as they knock out one of our sides, said team are a fantastic team with fantastic players for about a month or something. It's crap.

Wembley on Sunday

Nice job Zola Clown, stadium is half empty after 60 mins

LOL they are fickle as ever, still hope Ronaldo does well, apart from if England get Portugal at some stage in the World Cup.



These same pundits said United would struggle a lot without Ronaldo and not win anything but we've actually scored more goals this season now without him due to Rooney becoming the main man which he enjoys and the other players having the freedom to chip in and praising us now they've been proved wrong like it never happened.



Even we all could do the job as a pundit.