The Barclay's Premiership - 2004/2005 Season - Thread

[DQuaN]

And good results for Arsenal 👍 ManU drawing with the brummies and Chelsea loosing to city. We are 5 points clear at the top. Next week is the biggie though.

 

[Race Idiot]

Arsenal suck at the moment? Right?

 

[Mike Rotch]

I guess we'll see after this weekend. Even without Viera

 

[Race Idiot]

Don't you have like 5000 other tallented midfielders. I mean you did start the season without him.

 

[DQuaN]

Cesc Fabraegras (sp?) is proving to be a fantastic buy. And he is still only 17!!

 

[Mike Rotch]

Fabregas is awesome. It will be a tight one this weekend. Either ManU will "score" a goal in the 101st of the game, or Arsenal will win. No draws.

 

[Race Idiot]

Maybe Arsenal will win a penalty! We never know!

 

[DQuaN]

Well....... I'm off home now and wont be back till monday so...... We can talk then about the BIG game! Have a good weekend chaps 👍

 

[Rue]

So, Arsenal were cheated out of the big 50. Man U fans and players were so happy at the result, but maybe if they stoppped to think why they were so happy they wouldn't be smiling quite so much. They stopped Arsenal making it 50 games unbeaten - 50! And prevented themselves falling 14 points behind Arsenal in the league - 14! I know which club I'd rather be a fan of!

Oh and Rooney has just been added to my list of footballing gob****es which has been topped by Ruud 'Why the long face?' v. Nistelrooy for quite some time now!

 

[ExigeEvan]

So, Arsenal were cheated out of the big 50.

How did you work that one out?
Oh, so the penalty was dubious. But if that had been disallowed surely Ronaldo should have been awarded one.
And the Rio ferdinand 'foul' on Ljungberg. Well I woudl have given it but I think the fact Freddie knocked the ball so far ahead of him went against him and the desicion.

 

[Rue]

I was also thinking about van. Nisteltwat's obscene boot rake on Ashley Cole's shin in the first half. Had any one of the eight eyes of the officials seen that he wouldn't have been on the pitch. Same as McCann's stamp on Johnson head in the Southampton match. Yes, Ronaldo deserved a penalty, but who's to say it would have been scored? I didn't see any poultry on the pitch (other than the chickens that were the Manure players who went down under evey challenge), but granted, Ferdinand's challenge on Freddie was questionnable and more of a clumsy challenge than a premeditated 'fowl'.

Still Manure still have a lot of work to do, and that win masks the fact that they are still eight points off the pace and a shadow of their former selves. I'm hoping that Arsenal can start a run of 50 unbeaten matches starting at Manchester City (The only decent team in Manchester), and not let that gap in points get any closer.

Yes, I am angry at the defeat as you can probably tell. Mostly in the manner of the Manure victory. If they had won it fair and square then I wouldn't be so arsey. But hey, that's football!

 

[Mike Rotch]

Yes, I am angry at the defeat as you can probably tell. Mostly in the manner of the Manure victory. If they had won it fair and square then I wouldn't be so arsey. But hey, that's football!

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[Rue]

Nuff said!

 

[DQuaN]

*** ** **** ***** *** ***** *** ******* **** ***** **** ****** **** ***** Man U

 

[ExigeEvan]

If they had won it fair and square then I wouldn't be so arsey. But hey, that's football!

It's Manchester United -V- Arsenal....did you ever expect a 'fair and square' game?
I know a few of the Man U tackles were abit harsh, but I personally though alot of the Arsenal tackles in the first 15 minutes were 'over zealous' to say the least.

 

[DQuaN]

Rooney dived. No two ways about it. ManU should have had way more bookings and possibly a sending off. Coles tackle on Ronaldo in the box was textbook. Rooneys goal was well worked and well taken but things could have been very different, had things gone Arsenals way earlier.

 

[Mike Rotch]

Manure bend the rules to suit them. Whats new? The ref should have tucked in his vest better, some red was showing 👎

 

[DQuaN]

In Riley's last 6 games reffing at Old Trafford, he has given 6 penalties.

 

[Mike Rotch]

👎

We'll just have to teach Wayne 'Clooney' and co a lesson at Highbury.

 

[Race Idiot]

Ahh the good old violence over style works like a charm.

 

[Mike Rotch]

I think Ruud will agree. 3 match ban! 3 match ban!

 

[Race Idiot]

I only saw what he did to Cole on the news, man that was nasty. I missed the worst of the stuff because I caught the game early in the second half. Oh and Man U would really miss him at the moment with his awesome 2 goals this whole season.

 

[Mike Rotch]

I havent seen it, but a sentence with the words "rake" and "studs" and "foot" doesnt usually have great connotations.

Heh. Fergus + Tomato soup = 👍

 

[Race Idiot]

Oh and Chelsea are the b0x0rz and you knowz it.

 

[Tacet_Blue]

49 games unbeaten, and you're moaning because you loose just one

Rooney diving! I've seen that replay loads now, and Campbell sticks out a massive leg across him, there was no way past (was he meant to hurdle him?). And it was TWO nil anyway, so you can even scratch off that penalty if you want

Cheated out of a result? You must have heard the song "same old Arsenal, always cheating"...what goes around...comes around

I'm hoping that Arsenal can start a run of 50 unbeaten matches starting at Manchester City (The only decent team in Manchester), and not let that gap in points get any closer.

Manchester City They always make it to the European Semi Finals (not) and their tropy cabinet is just full of Premiership cups

The return match at Highbury is going to be one awsome game 👍

btw Ruuds foul on Cole was out of order and he deserves a ban.

 

[Race Idiot]

Let's just say that Arsenal and Man U are dirty teams. I'm sure Vieira will get away with a drive by shooting at highbury. But Roy Keane will get booked for giving Pires a funny look.

 

[ExigeEvan]

Coles tackle on Ronaldo in the box was textbook.

Text book penalty?
Because it was definetley a foul, there's no two ways of looking at it.

It'll beinteresting to see what happens after teh Ferguson and Soup incident. Reading the telegraph it sound like it was started by Wenger and a few Ars-anal players shouting explicits in the tunnel. Ferguson came out told Wenger to get control of his players and someone threw soup at Ferguson.
I hope action is taken, the soup could have scolded him!
Also one of the security staff got a bleeding nose, but it 'wasn't deliberate'.

 

[Mike Rotch]

Meh, Ferguson deserves a soup can against the head. He did a handsome job of paying off that ref. DQuan got it wrong, in 8 games at the "Theater of Schemes", he has awarded 8 penalties - all to manure.

Rooney had to hurdle Campbells leg? There are none so blind as those who will not see.

 

[Tacet_Blue]

Meh, Ferguson deserves a soup can against the head. He did a handsome job of paying off that ref. DQuan got it wrong, in 8 games at the "Theater of Schemes", he has awarded 8 penalties - all to manure.

Rooney had to hurdle Campbells leg? There are none so blind as those who will not see.

Ooooh, careful with those allegations the FA are investigating Wengers remarks about the ref cheating, they take that sort of thing very seriously.

Rooney vs Campbell...have you seen the SIZE of Sol Campbell, his left leg is about the same size as Wayne Rooney he should have known better than to leave it out in front of Wayne, he was asking Rooney to fall over it. If Sol had done that playing for England, critics would have said that a man of his experience should have known better than to try that in the penalty area, its asking for trouble.

oh and Pires has never dived has he

Pires: "I am not a cheat"

 

[Mike Rotch]

A) Please show me where I said Pies never dives 👍
B) I saw Wengers statement in question, and it doesnt make sense, so I doubt the FA will make a case stick
C) I wonder if Rooney and Sol will be buds in the next England training camp
D) Apparently Cole threw a pizza at Ruud - and Fergus got in the way. 👍