The Barclays Premiership / Champions League Thread
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ktnpl
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Great squad and team work won it
One of their party songs ...
Great squad and team work won it
One of their party songs ...
j8833t
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YouTube - for all MAN UTD FANS!!! *Glory Glory Man utd*
This is the ONE.....All Man U Fans rejoice !!!
YouTube - for all MAN UTD FANS!!! *Glory Glory Man utd*
This is the ONE.....All Man U Fans rejoice !!!
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Now, I await only one BIG game ........
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYbFcsVvfiU[/YOUTUBE]
Rooney-Ronaldo-Berbatov/Tevez vs Messi-Eto'o-Henry......
Scholes-Giggs vs Xavi-Iniesta......
Ferdinand-Vidic vs...... oops wait. Marquez, Alves are out. Only Puyol left? Abidal can play after seeing red in the semi against Chelsea?
Iniesta and Henry also rumoured to be out........
Now, I await only one BIG game ........
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYbFcsVvfiU[/YOUTUBE]
Rooney-Ronaldo-Berbatov/Tevez vs Messi-Eto'o-Henry......
Scholes-Giggs vs Xavi-Iniesta......
Ferdinand-Vidic vs...... oops wait. Marquez, Alves are out. Only Puyol left? Abidal can play after seeing red in the semi against Chelsea?
Iniesta and Henry also rumoured to be out........
limrichard
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Congratulation Man U .... now you have to match Pool's achievement in Europe to show you are good and complete. The crunching time will come this May 27 when you take on Barca. Liverpool, take heart, you did not do too badly this season and you beat the Champion twice this season.
Congratulation Man U .... now you have to match Pool's achievement in Europe to show you are good and complete. The crunching time will come this May 27 when you take on Barca. Liverpool, take heart, you did not do too badly this season and you beat the Champion twice this season.
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Granted, Liverpool was Man Utd's greatest threat this season. They played great football, and was lethal in many aspects, especially against the great teams. However, the lack of depth means over-dependence on Gerard and Torres, and they slipped whenever one of them was absent. I think that was the critical differences between the two teams. Man Utd did the same in 1999, with 2 pairs of strikers. Look at Man Utd's midfielders - from Scholes to Carrick to Giggs to Fletcher to Anderson to Park plus Ronaldo and Rooney playing cameos at times in the midfield...... on the Merseyside, only Gerrard, Mascherano and Alonso impressed me. Lucas is a waste of time.limrichard said:
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Basically Man U had at least 2 1st team players for each position, while Liverpool and Arsenal had only one. Kudos to AF for managing the egos within the team such that even when they (Scholes, Carrick, Giggs, Fletcher, Anderson, Park ) were benched they didn't KPKB except for Ronaldo (who if we believe the rumours will prob be sold)
Basically Man U had at least 2 1st team players for each position, while Liverpool and Arsenal had only one. Kudos to AF for managing the egos within the team such that even when they (Scholes, Carrick, Giggs, Fletcher, Anderson, Park ) were benched they didn't KPKB except for Ronaldo (who if we believe the rumours will prob be sold)
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I think united won the title without ever really getting to 5th gear. Liverpool kept faltering at the key points mid season.chelsea are have too much problems within the club, Arsernal were too young, and lack real quality.Lets hope liverpool can make a real challenge next year. But having said that united certainly has the most talented squad in EPL. congrats on the title.
I think united won the title without ever really getting to 5th gear. Liverpool kept faltering at the key points mid season.chelsea are have too much problems within the club, Arsernal were too young, and lack real quality.Lets hope liverpool can make a real challenge next year. But having said that united certainly has the most talented squad in EPL. congrats on the title.
Newcastle
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bro, i dunno about u but I am darn sad about Newcastle getting relegated...
sad....but they deserve it...despite Man Utd doing newcastle a favour by beating Hull with a youth team....all newcastle can do is to lose to Aston Villa via a own goal.... Newcastle really tried their best to get relegated...
kenntona;439370 said:
bro, i dunno about u but I am darn sad about Newcastle getting relegated...
sad....but they deserve it...despite Man Utd doing newcastle a favour by beating Hull with a youth team....all newcastle can do is to lose to Aston Villa via a own goal.... Newcastle really tried their best to get relegated...
Breyton
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I should think at least half of them will find new teams... Downing has been linked with various clubs and has been want-away for some time. Players like Owen, Martins, Aliadiere - unlikely to want to play in the Championship. Most of them should have relegation get-out clauses in their contracts.
Anyway, 3 months of football starvation coming up.... now can only watch F1.
kenntona;439370 said:
I should think at least half of them will find new teams... Downing has been linked with various clubs and has been want-away for some time. Players like Owen, Martins, Aliadiere - unlikely to want to play in the Championship. Most of them should have relegation get-out clauses in their contracts.
Anyway, 3 months of football starvation coming up.... now can only watch F1.
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Newcastle
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not only keegan....ashley, kinnear, shearer....owen......everyone...
Viduka seems to be the suay sin... he was with leeds when they go down...now newcastle..
sianz....quitting football to watch netball....sigh....
football desert coming for next 3 mths siao..;
hitmee;439416 said:
not only keegan....ashley, kinnear, shearer....owen......everyone...
Viduka seems to be the suay sin... he was with leeds when they go down...now newcastle..
sianz....quitting football to watch netball....sigh....
football desert coming for next 3 mths siao..;
Re: The Barclays Premiership / Champions League Thread
Newcastle's decline - the key moments
Newcastle's 16-year-old top-flight adventure drew to a close on Sunday as the unthinkable finally became a reality. Life has never been dull on Tyneside since Kevin Keegan dragged the club back into the Premier League in 1993 with genuine title challenges, near misses in the FA Cup and Champions League football combining with frequent managerial changes and chaos on and off the pitch.
Here, PA Sport's Damian Spellman looks at some of the key moments in their recent decline.
1 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE MISERY
Having finished third in the Premier League to earn themselves a Champions League qualifying berth, the Magpies beat Partizan Belgrade 1-0 in Serbia, but on August 27, 2003, lost 1-0 at St James' Park in the return leg and then slipped out of the competition in an agonising penalty shoot-out. They went on to reach the UEFA Cup semi-finals and finish fifth in the league, but their flirtation with Europe's aristocrats was over.
2 SIR BOBBY ROBSON'S DEPARTURE
On August 30, 2004, Robson's largely successful five-year reign was brought to an abrupt close when he was relieved of his duties with the club having failed to win any of its first four games of the season. The man who had dragged them from the foot of the league table into Europe in the wake of Ruud Gullit's ill-fated tenure was effectively shown the door for finishing fifth in his final full campaign.
3 CRAIG BELLAMY'S EXIT
Striker Craig Bellamy's feud with Graeme Souness came to a head when the Welshman publicly accused his manager of lying over his absence from the side at Arsenal on January 25, 2005. He was eventually loaned to Celtic and later sold to Blackburn, costing the club one of its most problematic, but influential performers.
4 LEE BOWYER AND KIERON DYER BUST-UP
The football world was given an insight into the club's internal disintegration when, on April 2, 2005, midfielders Lee Bowyer and Kieron Dyer fought each other on the pitch and had to be separated by Aston Villa's Gareth Barry. The shame-faced pair were marched out to apologise in front of the cameras by manager Graeme Souness, but the damage had been done.
5 UEFA CUP HEARTACHE IN LISBON
The Newcastle faithful dared to believe their club's long wait for silverware was drawing to a close when they took a 2-0 aggregate lead over Sporting Lisbon with 70 minutes of the second leg of the quarter-final remaining on April 14, 2005. However, injuries to Titus Bramble and Kieron Dyer contributed to a Sporting fightback which saw the Portuguese side run out 4-1 winners on the night.
6 ALAN SHEARER'S RETIREMENT
Against the odds, Souness managed to persuade star striker Alan Shearer to delay his retirement plans by a year, although it was his successor, Glenn Roeder, who was at the helm when the striker fired home his club recording-breaking 201st goal against Portsmouth on February 4, 2006. His career was to end three games prematurely shortly after he had taken his tally to 206 with a penalty in a 4-1 derby win at Sunderland, and both his goals and leadership have been missed ever since.
7 DEJA VU IN ALKMAAR
The UEFA Cup provided the stage for another disappointment in March 2007 after Glenn Roeder's successful spell as caretaker had earned the club another crack at Europe. A 4-2 home win over AZ Alkmaar left the Magpies with one foot in the semi-finals, but Shota Arveladze and Danny Kovermans levelled the aggregate scores to send the Dutch side through on the away goals rule after Scott Parker's late effort was disallowed.
8 DERBY DEFEAT
Sam Allardyce was drafted in as the safest possible pair of hands when chairman Freddy Shepherd decided the time had come to try something different. However, his approach won him few fans and the misery of his reign was summed up in a 1-0 defeat at Derby - the only game the Rams won as they plummeted back into the Football League with a record low 11 points - with his side not managing a single effort of any note on goal on September 17, 2007.
9 THE END OF ANOTHER KEEGAN DREAM
New owner Mike Ashley thought he had pulled off a masterstroke when he persuaded Kevin Keegan, who had written himself into Geordie folklore as both player and manager, to return to the club in January, 2008. But eight months later, he was on his way once again after finally losing patience with the influence of executive director (football) Dennis Wise over the club's controversial transfer policy.
10 LIVERPOOL HUMILIATION
On December 28 last year, title-chasing Liverpool arrived on Tyneside and served up a demolition job which illustrated graphically just how far the Magpies' fortunes had dwindled. Keeper Shay Given produced a master-class of his art, and yet was still beaten five times, persuading even the most loyal of Magpies servants that the time had come for him to call it a day.
Newcastle's decline - the key moments
Newcastle's 16-year-old top-flight adventure drew to a close on Sunday as the unthinkable finally became a reality. Life has never been dull on Tyneside since Kevin Keegan dragged the club back into the Premier League in 1993 with genuine title challenges, near misses in the FA Cup and Champions League football combining with frequent managerial changes and chaos on and off the pitch.
Here, PA Sport's Damian Spellman looks at some of the key moments in their recent decline.
1 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE MISERY
Having finished third in the Premier League to earn themselves a Champions League qualifying berth, the Magpies beat Partizan Belgrade 1-0 in Serbia, but on August 27, 2003, lost 1-0 at St James' Park in the return leg and then slipped out of the competition in an agonising penalty shoot-out. They went on to reach the UEFA Cup semi-finals and finish fifth in the league, but their flirtation with Europe's aristocrats was over.
2 SIR BOBBY ROBSON'S DEPARTURE
On August 30, 2004, Robson's largely successful five-year reign was brought to an abrupt close when he was relieved of his duties with the club having failed to win any of its first four games of the season. The man who had dragged them from the foot of the league table into Europe in the wake of Ruud Gullit's ill-fated tenure was effectively shown the door for finishing fifth in his final full campaign.
3 CRAIG BELLAMY'S EXIT
Striker Craig Bellamy's feud with Graeme Souness came to a head when the Welshman publicly accused his manager of lying over his absence from the side at Arsenal on January 25, 2005. He was eventually loaned to Celtic and later sold to Blackburn, costing the club one of its most problematic, but influential performers.
4 LEE BOWYER AND KIERON DYER BUST-UP
The football world was given an insight into the club's internal disintegration when, on April 2, 2005, midfielders Lee Bowyer and Kieron Dyer fought each other on the pitch and had to be separated by Aston Villa's Gareth Barry. The shame-faced pair were marched out to apologise in front of the cameras by manager Graeme Souness, but the damage had been done.
5 UEFA CUP HEARTACHE IN LISBON
The Newcastle faithful dared to believe their club's long wait for silverware was drawing to a close when they took a 2-0 aggregate lead over Sporting Lisbon with 70 minutes of the second leg of the quarter-final remaining on April 14, 2005. However, injuries to Titus Bramble and Kieron Dyer contributed to a Sporting fightback which saw the Portuguese side run out 4-1 winners on the night.
6 ALAN SHEARER'S RETIREMENT
Against the odds, Souness managed to persuade star striker Alan Shearer to delay his retirement plans by a year, although it was his successor, Glenn Roeder, who was at the helm when the striker fired home his club recording-breaking 201st goal against Portsmouth on February 4, 2006. His career was to end three games prematurely shortly after he had taken his tally to 206 with a penalty in a 4-1 derby win at Sunderland, and both his goals and leadership have been missed ever since.
7 DEJA VU IN ALKMAAR
The UEFA Cup provided the stage for another disappointment in March 2007 after Glenn Roeder's successful spell as caretaker had earned the club another crack at Europe. A 4-2 home win over AZ Alkmaar left the Magpies with one foot in the semi-finals, but Shota Arveladze and Danny Kovermans levelled the aggregate scores to send the Dutch side through on the away goals rule after Scott Parker's late effort was disallowed.
8 DERBY DEFEAT
Sam Allardyce was drafted in as the safest possible pair of hands when chairman Freddy Shepherd decided the time had come to try something different. However, his approach won him few fans and the misery of his reign was summed up in a 1-0 defeat at Derby - the only game the Rams won as they plummeted back into the Football League with a record low 11 points - with his side not managing a single effort of any note on goal on September 17, 2007.
9 THE END OF ANOTHER KEEGAN DREAM
New owner Mike Ashley thought he had pulled off a masterstroke when he persuaded Kevin Keegan, who had written himself into Geordie folklore as both player and manager, to return to the club in January, 2008. But eight months later, he was on his way once again after finally losing patience with the influence of executive director (football) Dennis Wise over the club's controversial transfer policy.
10 LIVERPOOL HUMILIATION
On December 28 last year, title-chasing Liverpool arrived on Tyneside and served up a demolition job which illustrated graphically just how far the Magpies' fortunes had dwindled. Keeper Shay Given produced a master-class of his art, and yet was still beaten five times, persuading even the most loyal of Magpies servants that the time had come for him to call it a day.
Newcastle
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this has to be the most bizarre incident..... I mean since when did you see your own teammates fight each other? in fact they fought till bowyer and dyer's jersey tore....
I would rather they go land a punch in keane's face or the referee's groin....
gosh.....i am still so embarrass over this incident
kenntona;439572 said:
this has to be the most bizarre incident..... I mean since when did you see your own teammates fight each other? in fact they fought till bowyer and dyer's jersey tore....
I would rather they go land a punch in keane's face or the referee's groin....
gosh.....i am still so embarrass over this incident
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[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFLeTm46CqQ[/YOUTUBE]
Other teams, it happened too.... Recently Carragher and Arbeloa when Liverpool beats WBA 2-0. Almost, almost.
What about these?
Grobbelaar and McManaman......
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFqYv27kHc8[/YOUTUBE]
Fuller slapped captain Griffin......
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DffkvWEvYVc&NR=1[/youtube]
And Adebayor hitting Bendtner.......
Newcastle said:
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFLeTm46CqQ[/YOUTUBE]
Other teams, it happened too.... Recently Carragher and Arbeloa when Liverpool beats WBA 2-0. Almost, almost.
What about these?
Grobbelaar and McManaman......
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFqYv27kHc8[/YOUTUBE]
Fuller slapped captain Griffin......
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DffkvWEvYVc&NR=1[/youtube]
And Adebayor hitting Bendtner.......
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