The Football.....

[Accy cyclist]

What an amazing night at the Greenhous Meadow. Seeing it full under the lights was something else and an amazing atmosphere

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The Shrews were fantastic, gave it absolutely everything and for 5 minutes after we equalised i dared to dream!!

Gave Jose a huge scare. No flash suit for him tonight, far too wet!

Keep an eye out for the name Ryan Woods. He will be Shrewsbury Towns next player to graduate to the Premiership.

I notice you have Andy Mangan and Bobby Grant two ex Stanley players playing for you.

 

[Dayvo]

I've been a long-suffering Tottenham fan for more years than I care to remember, but Spurs have always played attacking entertaining football in the 45+ years that I've been following them.

I read on the BBC website this morning that They have won only three league games at home all season, with Pochettino claiming the small size of the White Hart Lane pitch is stifling his side's attacking ability.

Utter bollox! Didn't stop them playing 'extensive' football before! I suggest it's more to do with him playing 'safe' football so he doesn't lose his job, which I suspect he will, and well before the season ends.

 

[MarkF]

On the other hand, Citeh were the holders, need to find their rhythm if they're going to challenge Chelsea in the premiership and get any hope of surviving in Europe. And, if they weren't all that bothered, why did they pick up cards on the way?

Will that City starting line up be very similar to the one v Man U this Sunday? Nope.

However, it has become the only trophy clubs outside the top 4 or 5 megarich can win, and even then it is usually one of those that win it. The league title and F.A. Cup are well sewn up by the megarich clubs, with the exception of only Everton, Portsmouth and Wigan in the last 20 years winning the F.A. Cup, and look what happened to Portsmouth and Wigan after they did so.

Agree but you won't find an L2 club getting anywhere near the FA Cup final. I watched my L2 club beat 3 "couldn't be arsed" PL teams (Wigan, Arsenal & Villa) on the way to the LC final. A look at the line ups tells you a how much they care, only when a big club has muddled it's way through to the semi's does it take on some importance, not much.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Will that City starting line up be very similar to the one v Man U this Sunday? Nope.

I didn't think it was a weak team they put out last night. And I'm not sure that Pellegrini knows what his strongest team-that-plays-as-a-team is at the moment - it hasn't been a good week for them. Sure the stakes will be higher for the Manchester derby but, on recent form, there no longer seems to be so much of a gap between the 2 teams.

Not that I expect an United victory....

 

[MarkF]

I didn't think it was a weak team they put out last night. And I'm not sure that Pellegrini knows what his strongest team-that-plays-as-a-team is at the moment - it hasn't been a good week for them. Sure the stakes will be higher for the Manchester derby but, on recent form, there no longer seems to be so much of a gap between the 2 teams.

Not that I expect an United victory....

No, it wasn't a weak team, but it wasn't the team Pellegrini would have put out in an "important" game either.

I think the return of Demichelis would help City, it wasn't broke so why did he try to fix it?

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

No, it wasn't a weak team, but it wasn't the team Pellegrini would have put out in an "important" game either.

I think the return of Demichelis would help City, it wasn't broke so why did he try to fix it?

Demichelis was playing last night, wasn't he?

 

[AndyRM]

Should buy Pardew a bit more time to continue the long term damage

Excellent, I can end my tedious support for Scottish fitba and stick up for something else.

Pardew is easily Newcastle's best manager since Bobby Robson (Hughton scooshing the second division doesn't really count), and it's a shame that a vocal group of fans are too deluded to recognise his achievements, which include a European quarter final, and two of their highest finishes in a decade. Given that the clubs stated policy is to buy prospects on the cheap and sell them at a profit I'm really not sure what people expect. Ashley is a calculating businessman who hasn't become a billionaire by accident, and represents the real problem at the club: he's banned local media and alienated fans but cunningly swerves attention having installed Pardew as the mouthpiece of the club. I'd love to see his job description...

And yet without Ashley's money, the club would be in a far worse position. It's looking increasingly likely that he's jumping onto the Bad Ship Sevco (who have a support with a sense of entitlement which surpasses Man U and Liverpool combined) soon and I'm not entirely sure where that leaves Newcastle. Certainly they'll need an owner with deep pockets, and who understands the peculiarities of a support which seems, for the most part, stuck in the 90s.

 

[gavgav]

I notice you have Andy Mangan and Bobby Grant two ex Stanley players playing for you.

We do indeed. I was a bit wary when we signed Mangan, due to his bad boy reputation, but he's done the business for us so far and is the goalscorer we have been missing for a long while.

Grant is on loan to us from Blackpool. He's clearly not fit, after a serious injury, but he looks a class act and so hopefully we can keep him and get his fitness to what it should be

 

[MarkF]

Demichelis was playing last night, wasn't he?

Oh.

 

[AndyRM]

I believe Newcastle may have turned the proverbial corner. That was a dull, dull game, but once again Pardew's substitutions come up good.

It must infuriate Gerrard that he's playing in a team which looks utterly disinterested.

 

[cyberknight]

Apparently Derby are playing somebody or other soon , there was a draw to see who could get the night off to watch it , i almost felt like putting my name in the hat just for the night off and to pee the footie fanatics off if i got it

 

[Brandane]

So Rangers and Celtic have been drawn together in the semi final of the Scottish league cup. Yaaaaawn. Unfortunately one of them has to win .

 

[AndyRM]

So Rangers and Celtic have been drawn together in the semi final of the Scottish league cup. Yaaaaawn. Unfortunately one of them has to win .

I've just read the BBC article which jizzes all over the 'fantastic atmosphere' and how it's brilliant for everyone. Depressing stuff really.

If Ra Cellic don't waltz through that shambles I'll be surprised. The only thing to look forward to in that game is the possibility that someone will set Scott Brown on Destroy Everything mode and he'll break Ian Black's legs, and escape with a telling off.

 

[Brandane]

I've just read the BBC article which jizzes all over the 'fantastic atmosphere' and how it's brilliant for everyone. Depressing stuff really.

I had to attend a lot of Old Firm games on a professional basis between 1982/2001. I had to deal with a lot of stuff that I am not allowed to discuss on a public forum. Suffice to say - fantastic atmosphere, my arse. It might be a great day out for the knuckle dragging street fighters that attach themselves to both teams, but not for anyone of sound mind.

 

[AndyRM]

I had to attend a lot of Old Firm games on a professional basis between 1982/2001. I had to deal with a lot of stuff that I am not allowed to discuss on a public forum. Suffice to say - fantastic atmosphere, my arse. It might be a great day out for the knuckle dragging street fighters that attach themselves to both teams, but not for anyone of sound mind.

I know what you mean. I made the mistake of accepting an invitation from a Rangers supporting mate to an Old Firm derby once. I have never experienced an atmosphere so hateful in my life. There was little, if any, attention paid to the game. The most depressing thing was seeing kids encouraged to join in with the sectarian bile.

You were polis no? I can only imagine the shite you had to put up with!