Not if Barton's got any thing to do with it. He seems to have no regard for anyone but himself.

I don't think that he should get away with it, but I do think that the game is heading in the wrong direction. It's true that we have a better and entertaining "product" but I wouldn't want to lose the characters.

There's a limit though surely?

Pusss cat ..meoww!

I've been watching the game for five decades. In the old days the players often had a fight, and if you were really lucky a mass brawl. That's how they sorted things out. Nowadays it's all play acting and handbags. If Tevez or the other tart had been mortally wounded I could understand the fuss but it's all a load of bolleaux enacted by people earning more in one week than I earn in a year.

You can't go round kicking players in the back of the legs deliberately... or elbow them in the face. That's how injuries occur, if they want to stop the best players playing, then mark them up and cut them out the game... not go out to put them out the game.

I understand it's a pain in the backside when players go down at a soft touch... what he did wasn't exactly a "soft" touch though... the game goes completely out the window if players are allowed to go about giving the best players a dead leg. Even worse that he tried it after he was sent off and a stoppage.

It looks like Chelsea are struggling to get Gary Cahill and David Luiz fit for the CL final next weekend:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18034072

Could be starting the game with two make-shift centre backs! Pity Alex wasn't retained!

 

On the plus side Bayern Munich were thrashed 5-2 by Borussia Dortmund at the weekend in the German cup final. Dortmund are very much the dominant club in Germany at the moment.

Yes I watched that later on. An excellent result!

However, that was the Westphalian's cup final. The cheating Bavarians have their eyes on the big prize.

That's an interesting interpretation. I don't want to take anything away from City, because over the years their fans have stuck with 'em through thick and thin, and they now have a beneficial owner who is more interested in what he can put in rather than take out.

 

So in general terms. Increasingly we have a number of players who make a sport out of winding up players for an hour or so, and then go running after the officials, when they finally retaliate. I've had enough of all this play acting. If like me you watched your grandkid's leagues you would notice that they are copying this sort of behaviour. It's all very well saying, "Ignore them!" but people at Barton's end of the Spectrum, in spite of trying, can't do it. 

 

As for the game going out of the window, as you know I've just been to the Fatherland to watch a sell out game. I more or less got the  last couple of tickets. My friends said, "But GJ, they are 30€ apiece!!" They still can't get their heads around our pricing. The game was as good as anything I've seen this season, and they didn't have a bunch of overpaid tarts falling over for no apparent reason.

Looks like McLeish is gone:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18056282

Well Joey Barton you made a complete and utter w*nker of yourself..yet again..when will you grow up or at least get a brain that functions?

 

They should throw the book at you..preferably with a huge brick inside of it. It  may knock some sense into you. Though I have my doubts

This is bloody brilliant, "They got love bites and everyfink!" 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...HQ&feature=share

Steve Kean you naughty boy.

 

http://youtu.be/9xcB9XfLjL8

Got to laugh at Blackburn fans... now had the fan who had the footage released it early before the season had even started, the board would've sacked him immediately

Euro 2012 squad tomorrow... and apparently.

 

 

Ferdinand out, Walker out (inj), Crouch out, Carroll in... and the most bizarre one of all, is that despite Walker being out injured, Micah Richards has also been left out

I'm really looking forward to the competition but not expecting a great deal from our team. I do hope that they over perform mind. I can't see beyond Germany and Spain. The Dutch are all worked up about it too.

As it happens and amongst the high street turf accountants........

Spain 5/2

Germoney 3/1

Holland 7

England 9

France 11

 

Stewart Downing is also in... Has he actually made an assist this season?

36 league games, 0 goals, 0 assists.

 

As an example of someone left out... Lennon - 23 league games, 3 goals, 7 assists.

It's also worth pointing out that it was Carroll on the end of those Downing crosses leading to that 0 assist tally.

 

Will be fun seeing that repeated during the tournament.

#HodgsonOut trending on twitter already.

 

 

 

 

That's about as good  as it gets.

In and amongst the crap he has the main players.

No-one expects anything so he might end up surprising us.

King Kenny has left the so-called bin dippers according to our football forum.

That information is correct:

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18073446

Liverpool fan outside Anfield on TV :"Problem with Kenny is you should never go back"

Reporter:"Who would you have now?"

"Rafa"

Shame Holty's not in the side is all I'll say!  Second Prem English goalscorer after Rooney and has scored against all the top sides but not good enough for bloody England.  Woy should have taken a chance on Holt.  What's the worse that could happen? England have a shit tournament?  Oh, that will be a change! (sarcasm set to 100%)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/spo...a.html#ixzz1v52St6mF

 

 

Bayern doing a very good job of making themselves the most hated club in the world... they may even surpass Man Utd, some f*cking feat that It's every week their president has something to say.

The last time we had such a comeback (Gillingham)... in the same week an English side went into the Champions League final and did the same against Bayern Munich.

 

 

That's me down the bookies in the morning

Any club that has 12,000 of their season tickets available at the equivalent of £104 can’t be all bad, surely?

I dislike the cheating Bavarians as much as  you do, but that's fair comment IMO. The Germans have a  different ownership set up to us.

Indeed.

Now that the Panini season is upon us....

I always run my own book and assist the grandson, and my friend in Hamburg.

If I was a footballer I think that I would have a photo professionally done and submit it. There are some beauts in there. She reckons Germany are the most fugly, I think it's a bit nearer to home.

I can't believe Zat Knight is negotiating a new contract. I was hoping that we'd seen the last of him...

 

Klasnic, Reo-Coker, Gardner and Steinsson have all gone along with a bunch of wasters like Sean Davis, Robbie Blake and Paul Robinson. It was revealed that Sean Davis cost the club £5.4million in wages. He played 3 times in 3 years.

 

Jussi is in talks but it's pretty much expected he'll walk. West Brom was a rumoured destination.

 

 

He's such a tool

It's not the first time.

You would think after last time he would've learned his lesson... Guess not. Just like some of our fans and the stupid tattoos.

I'll never understand why we let Vaz Te go.