The Football Thread

[buttsie]

Originally Posted by victor meldrew

Is it remotely possible, that for the second year in a row, we (WHU) can survive the drop, due to three teams, Wigan, Wolves and Blackpool, being poorer than ourselves?

Answers on a postcard................

NO

Compare the bottom 3 to past years and quite seriously none of them might be relegated
even if their recent form isnt all that flash

Wolves gave Man U their first defeat(2-1)of the season not long ago in a run of games where they looked more like a top 6 side than bottom 3
Wigan only beaten by a solitary goal by Chelsea recently have been around the mark
West Ham up until the last 2 games were scoring which isnt the sign of a typical bottom 3 side in recent years

Blackpool on the other hand have been diving like a Sub under attack since the Charlie Adam transfer saga...6/7 recent losses in a row says their shot and going down FOR SURE


Any team in the bottom 6 could go down it just depends on who in the bottom responds to their recent defeats best when the 6 point games begin in earnest

Black Pool v Wigan for example

[shodan2011]

Interesting set of fixtures in League 1 tonight:

Brighton v Dagenham & Redbridge
Leyton Orient v Carlisle
Rochdale v Southampton
Walsall v Brentford
Yeovil v Notts County

Here's hoping Brighton give the Daggers a good thrashing and Yeovil and County draw. Of course, the Saddlers have simply GOT to beat Brentford. If we don't win, it's pretty much all over for us this season. There'll be too much to do in the last five games to survive, I think.

Anyone seen Road Dogg lately? I want to know whether I finished bottom again in the predictions compo.

[Greenman]

Originally Posted by jokerman

Two goals from Carroll. Just two of the thirty five million reasons that we're going to regret selling him.

Yes it looks like you might also be losing Jose Enrique too-who would you get to replace him? One consolation at least you will still be in the Premier League next season.

[Jeff Vader]

Originally Posted by buttsie

NO

Compare the bottom 3 to past years and quite seriously none of them might be relegated
even if their recent form isnt all that flash

Wolves gave Man U their first defeat(2-1)of the season not long ago in a run of games where they looked more like a top 6 side than bottom 3
Wigan only beaten by a solitary goal by Chelsea recently have been around the mark
West Ham up until the last 2 games were scoring which isnt the sign of a typical bottom 3 side in recent years

Blackpool on the other hand have been diving like a Sub under attack since the Charlie Adam transfer saga...6/7 recent losses in a row says their shot and going down FOR SURE


Any team in the bottom 6 could go down it just depends on who in the bottom responds to their recent defeats best when the 6 point games begin in earnest

Black Pool v Wigan for example

Wolves problem at the moment can be summed up in four words: Kevin Doyle is injured. I've had numpties complaining about how he doesn't score enough, he spends too much time outside the box, doesn't shoot enough - then when he misses a game we are spanked twice in a row, the attack looks slow and lacks a leader, a focal point.

Unless Mick can devise some plan, formation that allows Fletcher and Blake to metamorphose into Batman and Robin we'll struggle to score, and as we're currently second last, and need to win and thus score, we're deep(er) in dog doo.

[m100]

Now only man city's semi final stands between the two biggest spending teams ending the season potless, and two managers ending the season jobless.

Apparently fernando torres is going to Blackpool at the end of the season.

Nothing to do with football he's just off to see what other donkeys do for a living.

Local plumbers in Liverpool are now charging double to install toilets owing to the number of liverpool fans pissing themselves.

[jokerman]

Originally Posted by Greenman

Yes it looks like you might also be losing Jose Enrique too-who would you get to replace him? One consolation at least you will still be in the Premier League next season.

Bloody well hope so. But at the moment were not safe just yet. If Enrique goes, I've no idea who we're going to replace him with.

As for a replacement for Carroll, next season we'll probably spend £20m replacing him with Ballotelli. It's the sort of stupid daft thing that we'd do.

[Road Dogg]

Originally Posted by shodan2011

Anyone seen Road Dogg lately? I want to know whether I finished bottom again in the predictions compo.

Hi mate, been round Mrs Road Dogg's for last couple of days, queued up Monday morning to get my Cardiff and Watford away tickets, over 2 hours but well worth it, the beginning of the promotion piss up parties

Another win tonight playing our first choice XI, left a few out on our trip to Scunthorpe, all played tonight and Paddy Kenny get's his 23rd clean sheet of the season 4 more points and we're back, could even clinch it at home to Derby next Monday night should results go our way next weekend

Just got in now from my g/f's so gonna have a look at the VEF predictions ]

Great win against Brentford by the way

[Road Dogg]

VEF round of prediction champs are IngramJohn and Shodan2011




After a superb start by most of us on Friday and Saturday nights it looked as though records could be broken though in true VEF style it fell away and only one more correct score was nailed by tmee2000 in the Beira-Mar v Olhanense game which finished 1-0 to the hosts.

After scoffing at Dumbassgo's prediction of 2-2 in the game between Portimonense and Porto, he came mighty close to nailing maybe the correct score in VEF history, Porto had only conceded 3 away goals all season prior to this game and Portimonense had only scored 15 at home all season, it required an 87th min winner for Porto to win 3-2, very good prediction and very unlucky at the same time.

Benfica went down 2-1 at Naval, guvn00rr came closest with a 2-2 draw for this one, rest of us had wins for Benfica and no one gave hope for Rio Ave who went to Pacos de Ferreira except for IngramJohn but even he couldn't predict that they would win 6-1 in an absoulte rout of Rio Ave, but that result was enough for him to have one hand on the cup alongside shodan.

IngramJohn and Sodan2011 will select what league we will be playing in next weekend, great work guys

Updated overall table below

[footstep]

to IngramJohn and Shodan2011; yesterday no surprises man uted and barca are on the way.Tonight i guess shalke and real will finish the work

[dohupa]

Really really hate to say that, but Man U plays the most exciting football in Europe at the moment. As I said before, I'm one of the very few who don't actually like Barca's Subbuteo like passing game.

Outstanding performance by Giggs throughout the game last night and although Drogba brought some hope back to Chelsea, albeit only lasted about a minute ish. Can't remember who was near Park at the 2nd goal, however it was piss poor defending - Ivanovic maybe?

Anyone know what's the story with Torres? If you remember, I was all in for selling him at the right price; I mean costing 50 million quid, isn't it about time starting putting the ball at the back of the net?