Archive for November, 2006


Nov
30
2006

Arsenal, Newcastle, Liverpool & Tottenham lack motivation

Once the title is out of your hands, it’s a long, long road to the end of the season.

And for these four sides (Arsenal, Newcastle, Liverpool, Tottenham), they’ve got very little to play for except in Europe, and it shows in their league performances.

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Nov
30
2006

Mourinho trash-talks Manchester United for Chelsea’s benefit

At first impression it serves no purpose - if Mourinho was trying to put the Manchester United camp under pressure by claiming that Chelsea would be on top of the table pretty soon, he’d know from experience and common sense that Manchester United are hardly going to be bothered with such petty shots, especially if they come from Chelsea’s direction.

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Nov
30
2006

Liverpool have no one to blame but Benitez

Tagged: Liverpool

It goes something like this:

  • Manager makes stupid signings.
  • Manager cant get his players to play like a team.
  • Manager keeps rotating his squad until they’re so bad they can’t play at all.
  • Manager gets unlucky with injuries.
  • Manager lays all the blame on the opposition team.

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Nov
30
2006

Arsenal’s moment of truth: Evolve or suffer

They say you should never kick a man when he’s down - however, it’s an equal travesty to not consider the reality of the situation, so hear me out before you start screaming.

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Nov
30
2006

All-Star Premiership Team: Who’s Your Pick?

Chris over at COS has hit a home-run with his ‘Premiership Dream Team‘ post.

The basic premise is this - if you could sign one player from each Premiership club, who would it be?

I’ve put my selection below - let me know what you think (and what you pick) in the comments.

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Nov
28
2006

Premiership Title Race: Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool or Manchester United?

Everyone who loves football watched United draw with Chelsea at the Theatre Of Dreams. Many a pundit and even both managers came out with their own conclusions about the results. One factor remained however: The status quo has not really changed.

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Nov
28
2006

Chelsea won, Manchester United lost

Mourinho was right, and Ferguson’s face showed it during the post-match interview:

Manchester United lost a fantastic opportunity to stake a claim to the title.

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Nov
27
2006

Dynamic Dyer propels Newcastle to fine win over Portsmoth

Newcastle recorded their first home league victory since they beat Wigan on the first day of the season and their first league win since beating West Ham on 17th September, in beating Portsmouth rather easily 1-0.

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Nov
26
2006

Manchester United 1-1 Chelsea: It’s just these two, and there’s a long way to go

Scrappy, always threatening to explode but just avoiding it, end to end and at the end of the day, cruelly exposed the deficiencies of both sides while making sure it brought out the best in them as well.

Like it or not, Manchester United and Chelsea have made this year’s title challenge a two-horse race, and on today’s evidence it will the Premiership race will be long, tough and pretty entertaining.

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Nov
26
2006

Live Commentary: Manchester United vs Chelsea

Peter Liaros, our Manchester United channel correspondent (fancy term that means that Peter’s a United fan) will be live-blogging the Manchester United-Chelsea game.

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Nov
26
2006

Manchester United: Rooney signs 2 year contract extension

Wayne Rooney has agreed a new £100,000-a-week contract with Manchester United that will keep him at Old Trafford until 2012.

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Nov
26
2006

4 reasons why Chelsea are better than Manchester United

Catch the Manchester United v Chelsea game live here

Yesterday we talked about several things that made Manchester United better than Chelsea - or in other words, different areas of the team in which United had an advantage.

Apparently, some people jumped the gun and got all offended at the mere thought of someone pointing out deficiencies in their club.

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Nov
25
2006

Manchester United vs Chelsea - Preview

Catch the Manchester United v Chelsea game live here

Manchester United kick off on Sunday afternoon against Chelsea at Old Trafford in a game that will most likely define the rest of the season. A win for United and they will fancy their chances for the title with a 6 point lead. A defeat, and we’re back to the starting blocks.

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Nov
25
2006

4 reasons why Manchester United are better than Chelsea

Catch the Manchester United v Chelsea game live here

Both sets of fans have been going on and on about why their team will win on Sunday - and after having watched both teams since the start of the season, I’ve picked out a number of reasons why Manchester United is going to win (simply because they are SO MUCH BETTER on certain areas of the pitch than Chelsea).

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Nov
25
2006

UEFA: Let the captains do the talking

Would you believe it? First it was FIFA, and now UEFA are finally talking sense about improving the state of the game.

Uefa is considering copying rugby’s lead by allowing only captains to talk to referees during games.

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Nov
23
2006

Kevin Nolan on diving

An extract from Kevin Nolan’s weekly column at BBC, where he’s talking about diving (in reference to Torquay’s chairman’s announcement that he’d sack divers after the their third offense - the players aren’t happy, apparently):

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Nov
23
2006

Liverpool’s luck goes from bad to unf**kinbelievable

Tagged: Liverpool

Liverpool lost Gonzalez, Pennant and Alonso to injuries last night, and as luck would have it, it was just when Gerrard was coming back into form and the Kuyt-Crouch partnership looked like something Benitez might just stick with up front.

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Nov
23
2006

Bollocks in the press about Saha and Manchester United

Daniel Taylor of the Guardian writes about “Saha’s confidence crisis“, but for the life of me I can’t understand what he’s on about.

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Nov
23
2006

Bellamy in trouble, again

Tagged: Liverpool

The Wales international is alleged to have assaulted 19-year-old Sophie Palmer and 20-year-old Holly Smith during a night out in Cardiff city centre during the early hours of February 5 this year.

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Nov
23
2006

Premiership team of the season (after week 13)

Team of the season? But it’s still November, dammit!

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Nov
22
2006

FIFA moving too slow in introducing video technology

FIFA has finally moved on introducing video replays in football and will start by using replays for goalline decisions in next year’s World Club Championship.

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Nov
22
2006

Liverpool aren’t as bad as everyone thinks they are

Tagged: Liverpool

Rafa Benitez thinks that Liverpool are not respected enough for their recent achievements.

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Nov
22
2006

Chelsea 90 minutes away from winning the first battle against Manchester United

Jose Mourinho would have smiled after watching Manchester United stumble against Celtic last night.

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Nov
22
2006

Arsenal need Walcott in Porto

Fantastic comeback by Arsenal last night - they went down to a good goal, but rallied well in the second half and put up enough pressure in the last 15 minutes to squeeze in two goals.

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Nov
22
2006

Manchester United are not CL-winning material yet

A familiar script for both Manchester United and Celtic.

Manchester United - away from home in the Champions League, for the first time in many years, played their natural game but lacked the flair and confidence that you normally associate with them. Poor first-touches, no final balls, sloppy finishing.

But for the players, this was Liverpool in the Premier League form table, not Manchester United.

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Nov
22
2006

Champions League Matchday 5 Report (1)

The first half of Matchday 5 is up, and here are the results:

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Nov
21
2006

Unlucky Arsenal should thrash Hamburg

As a Man Utd fan, sympathising with anything Arsenal is pretty rare - I’m more fond of poking fun at them and then laughing at outraged Arsenal fans who take jibes too seriously (note: Rocky and ArseBlogger, I’m talking about you two particularly).

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Nov
21
2006

Celtic vs Manchester United - A giant-killing on offer

Whisper it, but Manchester United are not favourites going into the Champions League clash at Celtic Park.

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Nov
21
2006

Champions League Matchday 5: Preview

A short preview of all the games from Matchday 5.

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Nov
21
2006

West Ham bought by Eggert Magnusson (yes, it’s done)

After months of speculation, West Ham have now joined the ranks of Manchester United, Chelsea and Portsmouth in selling out to rich businessmen.

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