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 Posted:   Nov 22, 2014 - 12:38 PM   
 By:   Jim Phelps   (Member)

Correction: Manchester United creep to fourth place on goal difference. Newcastle fifth, and your Gunners dip a bit to sixth. Liverpool at eleventh on the eve of their match tomorrow vs. Palace. Arsenal in eight, behind Swansea, who lost to City today.

Saw the highlights of Arsenal-United. That Mr. Rooney had acres of space between himself and the goal on that break, but that Mr. Lukaku set up an even more exciting break--and was upended in the process--in that Osman winner against your lads, Bill-o. Exciting stuff though sadly at the expense of your team getting a result.

I'll wait for the rest of the weekend to finish up before awarding the Who Dares Wins Award, if applicable.

Oh, and Leeds lose away to Blackburn, 2-1. Nice to see the Rovers on the way back up.

It's good to have league action back. smile

 
 Posted:   Nov 23, 2014 - 6:58 AM   
 By:   Jim Phelps   (Member)

Crystal Palace 1 Liverpool/Southampton 1, early on.

Nice to see that Manchester United's 2010-11 away shirt hasn't gone to waste, as the Reds are wearing it today. wink

 
 Posted:   Nov 23, 2014 - 7:14 AM   
 By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member)

good start for liverpool but they have looked very ordinary since their goal.
i think kev and thomas are right to be cynical and disinterested. They have been unlucky to lose sturridge but By liverpool standards this is mid-table mediocrity and they wont be breaking into the european places anytime soon.

 
 Posted:   Nov 23, 2014 - 7:20 AM   
 By:   Jim Phelps   (Member)

Liverpool and Arsenal will be holding hands in the lower end of the table if they keep up this crap play.

CL this week. Maybe Liverpool can make a go of it in the Europa League? That is, if Ludogorets don't beat them out of it; and I say this with all seriousness. Things are looking ugly for 'pool lately.

 
 Posted:   Nov 23, 2014 - 8:04 AM   
 By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member)

suspect arsenal wont have much trouble getting fourth - they just look pants against the best sides.
So far this game the only team likely to nick a winner was palace - Bolasie looks a handful - but last ten mins liverpool attacking a bit more. Just no one with a cool head to be clinical at the key moment for them.

 
 Posted:   Nov 23, 2014 - 8:13 AM   
 By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member)

oops, oh dear.

 
 Posted:   Nov 23, 2014 - 8:13 AM   
 By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member)

oops, oh dear.

 
 Posted:   Nov 23, 2014 - 8:18 AM   
 By:   Jim Phelps   (Member)

3-1 Palace in the 88th minute. Ouch.

 
 Posted:   Nov 23, 2014 - 8:58 AM   
 By:   Thomas   (Member)

One shot on target says it all. I can think of 20 million reasons Lovren shouldn't be there, little movement or guile up front and Allen was a one man midfield. Why he took him off and kept an anonymous Gerrard on beats me. I wouldn't be confident of Liverpool beating anyone at the moment. 4 defeats in a row, 6 in the League. Relegation form that!!

 
 
 Posted:   Nov 24, 2014 - 5:49 AM   
 By:   Tall Guy   (Member)

Oh, and Leeds lose away to Blackburn, 2-1. Nice to see the Rovers on the way back up.


Now there's a funny comment, given that in the last hundred years or so they've had one great season! And that one was founded on Jack Walker's millions. All in all, Rovers are a medium-sized, small town club with their glory years rooted in the 1800s who had a stroke of good fortune for a few years. They're exactly where a club of their size, fan base and history should be.

But that's the joy of football - just ask Wolfsberg... A small club (admittedly without Rovers's long history) who won their league in 2009 and made two reputations: those of Felix Magath and Edin Džeko. Mixed fortunes since...

 
 Posted:   Nov 24, 2014 - 5:51 AM   
 By:   Jim Phelps   (Member)

Okay, now why didn't you (or anyone else here) reply to my NFL question before? Not in your wheelhouse?

 
 
 Posted:   Nov 24, 2014 - 6:26 AM   
 By:   Tall Guy   (Member)

Okay, now why didn't you (or anyone else here) reply to my NFL question before? Not in your wheelhouse?


A word of advice, Jim. If you want a serious answer to a serious question, don't include it in a run of posts that includes "totty of the day"...

To recap, you said:

"I haven't followed the NFL (or MLB or any other sport outside of World Football and probably won't ever again) in four years, but I was reading on the Beeb website that the NFL have played a few games in England this season. Is the NFL "catching on" or is it just being forced down the public's throat?"

I have a good pal who's followed a team called "The Chicago Bears" for ages and whose Superb Owl party I've attended for most of the last ten years. Other than that. I'm not aware of anyone who has more than a passing interest in American football. Lots of people seem to attend the one game a year they have over here but I suspect interest would quickly be saturated if it were stepped up from that. They'd end up playing the games at Brentford's ground, or perhaps the Milton Keynes Bowl on the grounds that it sound vaguely American.

 
 Posted:   Nov 24, 2014 - 8:16 AM   
 By:   Jim Phelps   (Member)

Sorry 'bout that! Shame on me for underestimating the power of Totty. If I'd posted pics of that Argentinian blow-up doll woman that captured Bill's...heart...I doubt he'd ever concentrate on anything else again.

The reason I asked is because your BBC Sport was inflating--speaking of blow-up dolls--the alleged popularity of those NFL games but I would much rather hear it from someone I know, so to speak. smile Like I wrote previously, I have had no interest in the sports of my youth, as the sweet smell of world football's corruption has captured me for all time...

 
 
 Posted:   Nov 24, 2014 - 9:52 AM   
 By:   CinemaScope   (Member)

suspect arsenal wont have much trouble getting fourth - they just look pants against the best sides.
So far this game the only team likely to nick a winner was palace - Bolasie looks a handful - but last ten mins liverpool attacking a bit more. Just no one with a cool head to be clinical at the key moment for them.


I'm not so sure about Arsenal getting fourth anymore. They're losing games they should win, & they keep leaving their half empty neat the end of games, all their players surge forward wanting to have a go, lose the ball & concede a goal. schoolboy stuff. I think Arsene will have to go.

 
 Posted:   Nov 24, 2014 - 11:51 AM   
 By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member)

about time cinemascope but doubt it will happen. Agreed they arent playing at their peak and need a few players but they should still have enough to get 4th, with nearest rivals being Southampton, Newcastle, everton, tott and liverpool.
early days yet. Lots of time for surges and blips and injuries.

Hammers on verge of plummeting methinks. 4th to 6th in a week. Next stop 10th.

yeah jim id love to see that argie strump again. Our first date finished in sexual mayhem!!

As for the nfl - dont believe the bbc news, they are worse at twisting stories than the actual tabloids!!
No what the packed house means lots of uk based americans, quite a few travelling fans but the main reason is that middle class boasting thing where you go to a "big" sporting event at the weekend so that you can fkn dine out on the story to impress friends and workmates throughout the week.
Oh, Jack got tickets for timothy and I go to the NFL game at wembley - go giants woo woo woo, yah??"

 
 Posted:   Nov 25, 2014 - 4:23 AM   
 By:   Jim Phelps   (Member)

La Copa America 2015 (Chile) draw has been announced. Perhaps our World Cup compatriot, GustavoJoseph, will once again chime in and give us his thoughts. I know I'm looking forward to watching this tournament, which has its Centenario next year, so there will actually be back-to-back competitons in consecutive years. It will be held in the USA. smile

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/30169197

Uruguay won the last competition, held in Argentina in 2011.

 
 
 Posted:   Nov 25, 2014 - 5:15 AM   
 By:   Tall Guy   (Member)

"Copa America director Rene Rozas meets the tournament mascot - a yet-to-be-named culpeo fox"

Surely Mea is the obvious name.

Bill - nice bit of reverse snobbery there! Reminds me of the story of the yuppie couple deciding whether or not to go to the theatre, and one says "what about Troilus and Cressida?". The other says "The nanny will look after them, as usual."

 
 Posted:   Nov 25, 2014 - 5:20 AM   
 By:   Jim Phelps   (Member)

yeah jim id love to see that argie strump again. Our first date finished in sexual mayhem!!


I found her friend. I just wish she weren't so inhibited and shy...I'll get back to you when I find the other dame.

 
 Posted:   Nov 25, 2014 - 5:44 AM   
 By:   Thomas   (Member)

"Copa America director Rene Rozas meets the tournament mascot - a yet-to-be-named culpeo fox"

Surely Mea is the obvious name.


The mascot for Euro 2016 in France has also been unveiled. He doesn't have a name either, but he looks a right dickhead to me. Also looks like he may have been modelled on Jack Wilshere...

 
 Posted:   Nov 25, 2014 - 6:30 AM   
 By:   Bill Carson, Earl of Poncey   (Member)

he probably has a naselly voice too, like hes bunged up.

i pride myself in my reverse snobbery. being a cockney geezah, we are all working class ruffians, you see.

 
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