The Football Thread

[footstep]

VEF football predictions pool week 7 :http://www.vintage-erotica-forum.com...&postcount=920

[qwerty007]

Did anyone see the Cesc Fabregas dive to set a Sevilla player sent off?

Man, do I hate this stuff.


http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/blogs/soc...3927--sow.html

[Markus R]

Originally Posted by qwerty007

Did anyone see the Cesc Fabregas dive to set a Sevilla player sent off?

Man, do I hate this stuff.

Agreed. At least there is some honesty and sportsmanship in the game as shown by Lazio's Miro Klose last week:

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/soccer...4470--sow.html

[victor meldrew]

One Premiership record the club did not need. Just awaiting news of the fine.

Champions League Result

Spartak Moscow 2 Celtic 3

Think we can expect a certain Celtic fan to be very happy and very very pissed later, they now, for a couple of hours, top the group

[trugoythewhitedove]

And in the death
As the last few corpses lay rotting on the slimy
Thoroughfare
The shutters lifted in inches in Temperance Building
High on Poacher's Hill
And red, mutant eyes gaze down on Hunger City
No more big wheels

Fleas the size of rats sucked on rats the size of cats
And ten thousand peoploids split into small tribes
Coverting the highest of the sterile skyscrapers
Like packs of dogs assaulting the glass fronts of Love-Me Avenue
Ripping and rewrapping mink and shiny silver fox, now legwarmers
Family badge of sapphire and cracked emerald
Any day now
The Year of the Diamond Dogs

"This ain't Rock'n'Roll
This is Celtic winning away in the CL"

A day off for me, so after two hours cycling back and forth in the bucketing rain (My mum had to be escorted to the hospital - she's fine), I jumped out of the shower with 02.25 Minutes gone.

We were on the back foot but not looking too troubled. This has become a feature of Neil Lennon's time in charge when we are playing a team out-with Scotland. Width in the midfield. I'm not usually a fan of this style but when your wide men are Samaras and Commons, then you do have a chance.

A Wanyama tackle in the middle, good run and ball from Lustig down the right, then Hooper on time with that one touch from which strikers make so much money. He's worth it for me.

He ought to have scored a second goal on 30 minutes/ish but allowed himself to drift offside as he met a really sweet Samaras ball in from the left. Poor from Hooper, as he was farther away from the ball than the two defenders he was up against - as the net bulged to no purpose.

Then two (Now Traditional) defensive mistakes, saw Spartak in front. No surprise. The game goes back and forth at a changeable pace until - on the hour - Hooper is clean through on goal, when one of two defenders brings him down. The ref then allows FIVE minutes to be wasted between foul - red card - defensive substitution - and our (poor) free kick.

The rest of the game flows like you might expect - our players grow into giants, while theirs experience unexpected injuries. Often. We get a deflection to go 2 - 2, then Spartak set about shutting down. I could go on all night about our 89'th minute winner. Suffice to say that it was a genuinely sweet header from Georgios Samaras. Really.

For all the money they have supposedly spent, Spartak are a good team - who could well beat us at home if we're not at it - but not a real, "Top" team. I was worried about the artist formerly known as Aiden MaGhinho, however, he was extraordinarily quiet. So much so that he got the hook. Still worth a watch at home though.

Home and away against Barca' in our next two games. And they, of course, still require points in order to qualify. It's been a nice evening, but let's not get too carried away, eh ?

Originally Posted by Inglorious

Champions League Result

Spartak Moscow 2 Celtic 3

Think we can expect a certain Celtic fan to be very happy and very very pissed later, they now, for a couple of hours, top the group

Sir, I am appalled; you regard me as some form of drunkard ?

Why, as soon as I get somebody to hold my pint, I'll...

[footstep]

Congrats to Celtic.A great and impressive result!(Glad your mom is doing better...)

[trugoythewhitedove]

Originally Posted by footstep

Congrats to Celtic.A great and impressive result!(Glad your mom is doing better...)

Very kind of you to say, mate. She's a game old bird. 72 and she was up a ladder pruning some ivy, when the ladder gave way. Broke her wrist and her shoulder. She's well on the mend though.

Looking forward to Zenit v Milan, then City v Dortmund. Looks like an excellent double header - Milan and City both in need of a result.

Newcastle 0 United 3

Seems the rumour of our demise has been exagerated

Superb first twent minutes from us today, resulting 2 goals, both from corners (we never score from corners), a third cross come shot from Cleverley.

After last seasons 3-0 defeat at Newcastle, and our current form I was dreading this game but our best performance of the season. (Even Evra had a good game)

I notice Tony Pullis comlaining abot Suarez diving again today (Brendan Rodgers claims not have seen it)

@ IngramJohn................ your regular thoughts and uplifting posts are missed mate, look forwward to you coming back to the thread on a full time basis

[jokerman]

My appologies for any thing earlier . I hit the wrong post.
Re Toon. We lost that match in the first twenty minutes.

We were denied a Stonewall panalty. And it was a goal.

However after our great escape aganst Everton. These things unfortunately happen.