Blimey! We left it late. Class goal though biut!

Looking forward to City beating Spuds a bit later on!  Hopefully the curse of Sky will be on its own bank holiday.

I'd love you to win too Carnelian. We need a favour after dropping points to Wolves today.

Fed up of moaning about refs, decisions not going our way etc. We should have been out of sight without expecting the ref to do his job properly.

The Beeb reckon the Wolves sending off was harsh - and it did allow Arsenal 20 minutes of almost unchallenged possession - you should have found a winner!

 

I listened to the closing stages on 5 Live and the impression i got was that Arsenal failed to find the sort of cuteness or invention that was a trademark of the Invincibles. Remember them? Lol

Yeah I remember the Invincibles CS. And the Double Winning team of 71. and the League winning Graham team of 89.

And the stories I heard from the old heads around me on the terraces of the Chapman winning years.

 

Do you remember your team before Abramovich came in with all his money? Because if you do, then you must be one of a handful of Chelsea 'fans' who supported them when they were shit

Gareth Bale simply far too good for Norwich tonight. Ggrrr!

Sadly we're both disappointed.  Spurs were in a totally different class and if it wasn't for their poor finishing it could have been four or five nil.  TBH, I didn't realise Spurs were that good.  They dominated the match almost from start to finish with Norwich just chasing the ball almost all match. Norwich didn't deserve to get anything from that game. 

IIRC, Chelsea averaged around 13,000 gates one season when they were a mid table Division 2 side during the mid 80s. 

Far far too good! Should have been at least 3 with Spurs denied a clear penalty.

Good times though (on a personal level) - regardless of whether we were shit or otherwise/poorly supported or otherwise.

 

Several of the grounds i visited in those days no longer exist - and the high times under Bobby Campbell winning the Zenith Data Systems cup and Division 2 title, were; in their own way; very special!

sometimes we were lucky to get that!

 

ahhhhhhh the happy days of sitting on stone cold concrete benches..we weren't allowed cushions after it kicked off at home during the milk cup semi final v sunderland..trying to peer over the enormous electric fences......the pitch a million miles away from the stands and terraces....the delights of keith dublin,robert isaac etc...

 

god it seems a million years ago now.

ahhhh the zds cup!!.....went to the final v man city.we were 5-1 up then city scored......we were taking the piss and cheering...then they scored again....and again.....we managed to hang on for 5-4!

 

remember the cross channel cup?...think that was a batesy invention...us and le havre were the only teams in it...and we won!...glory days!...

Exiting the Shed for the luxury of the West Stand benches - would they even be considered seats nowadays?

 

Relegated from the old Division One via a play-off!

probably not cs!!..i remember in the winter taking two coats..one to wear and one to sit on cos those blocks froze yer arse off!

 

think that was the only season they did the play off with the 1st and second division when we went down.

 

remember the cup game v sheffield weds away?..3-0 down at half time then canners came on and turned the game around?...4-3 then big doug rougvie gave away a penalty so it ended 4-4!

 

there were some proper mental games in the 80's!

Simod / Zenith Data / Full Members...

 

I think Bates revived the Anglo-Italian cup under some murky tie in with the Full Members cup to get Second Division teams into Europe.

Do we think Blackburn will manage to stay up?

Recall attending what seemed like the biggest game at the bridge in years - League Cup semi - also versus Shef Wed - and getting stuffed! Then destroyed in the away leg also!

I enjoyed the League One season a few seasons ago, probably because we won it by a mile and Leeds hated us because they only just scraped promotion in a season when they started off as if they were waiting champions.

It's not looking good for Blackburn. However, i see they are linked with buying a new striker in January - Andrew Johnson from Fulham.

Leon Osman... what nob head, trips over himself and f*cking sticks his hands up to claim a penalty.

 

 

 

 

And the f*cking tool Webb points to the spot

Looks like Cahill is off to Chelsea. Hopefully it'll work out better for him than it did for Ben Haim.

Another home game tomorrow.

Away to Blackpool midweek. I wonder which lucky teams play there at happening times?

Hi Joe, nice to see your lot doing well.

 

Hi disley, what's your honest opinion of Cahill? Nobody was talking about him till he was linked with Chelsea. A couple of appearances for England doesn't count for much these days.

 

Nice to see Andy Carroll shoving defenders out of his way all through the game tonight and not getting penalised. I have never seen him play a single game where he isn't just pushing and shoving defenders every time he gets near them. Almost throws them to the ground. Numpty ref says no foul every single time. And there was me thinking football was played with feet not hands.

 

Chelsea: title race over we can now concentrate on 4th. Or 5th. Maybe 6th. I have emailed our manager and explained to him the reason he never sees anything that goes on in our games is because he spends the whole game crouched down on the sidelines like a bloody moron. I pointed out the ball isn't always played along the ground I hope that helps him I like to do my bit for my club.

If I may be so bold. I support a team which is affected by small strikers. They are constantly shoved out of the way by rough tough defenders. By the end of the game they are playing in front of the defence. Look at our goals for and against! We would love a striker like him!

Man Utd 2 Blackburn 3

 

Shocker!!!

As it stands if we win by twelve clear goals we'll be top!

RVP broke a record today- most goals scored in on calendar year the history of the Prem.

Bugger!

Well I'll take a old time 1-0 to The Arsenal!! I had tickets for todays game but let my mate take mine and she went with her son (who I normally take) as I have a stinking chesty cold which wouldn't have been helped by being outside for a couple of hours

And Brentford managed a 3-3 at home against MK Dons.

 

so apart from the evil lurghi I am well happy - hope everyone else is too.

 

Happy New Year Footie peeps, hope 2012 is good for you all xxx

No mate, Shearer still has the record by one goal. RvP has only taken the Arsenal record from Thierry Henry. We were willing Robin on today but 3 points were more important than a record for RvP

Maybe lower!

 

Chelsea 1 Aston Villa 3

 

You would think at home - and a goal up, that Chelsea should be capable of pushing home that advantage - but NO; they collapse! Too slow in defence and not inventive enough in attack.

 

Happy New Year to all on the Footie thread!

Don't think Prom is gonna be too chuffed

 

 

 

 

 

I was watching United vs Blackburn today... I thought United were just gonna go on and snatch the later winner, instead, Blackburn go and snatch it He went and fielded a considerably weaker side and De Gea had a shocker. Were Rooney and Hernandez injured?

 

I would be fuming if Mancini pulled that sort of sh*t. Don't hold out much hope for tomorrows game, not an easy place to go Sunderland and we have a habit of not taking our chances when presented on a plate.

I'm sure that if that big bloke keeps falling over for no apparent reason then City will be fine. Tis amusing that the deckchairs keep booing AJ 'cos he played for us. How pathetic is that?

Blimey!

Some great unbiased commentating from Martin Tyler.... ridiculous reaction

That's the spirit Joe 

 

The best striker in the PL by a ridiculous margin. Simply incredible player.

 

 

Footie again today! We have the late kick off at Fulham so hope we can step it up and have our shooting boots on today.

 

Brentford away to Charlton - that won't be easy.

 

 

I'm giving Blackpool a miss! Trial by radio coming up!

Another sad day in the footballing world.

 

R.I.P Gary Ablett whose died from cancer.

We are getting a right tonking.