FOOTBALL!

[Crustybit]

It's great, the Australians are really up for it and they are in the group of death. I just hope England are in the same frame of mind, being an ex pat. this kind of shit really gets the blood flowing. I was so disapointed last European championship, I had to get up at bloody 4 am to see England get beat.
I also had the oportunity to stay in Germany to watch the world cup next year but I decided the surf was more entertaining. I hope I made a mistake.

[Guest]

I'd have thought if any group could be called the group of death, it's the one with Italy, the Czech Republic and USA (funnily enough, Italy, USA and Czechoslovakia were in the same group in 1990). Then again, I don't think FIFA's world ranking system is particularly accurate... (USA are currently 7th). How easy, on paper, is Germany's group, though? fix!

[Tommy BOO]

Saturday 10th December, 2005:

Premier League:

Bolton 1 - 1 Aston Villa
1-0 E-H.Diouf
1-1 J.P.Angel

Chelsea 1 - 0 Wigan
1-0 Terry

Liverpool 2 - 0 Middlesbrough
1-0, 2-0 Morientes

Newcastle 1 - 0 Arsenal
1-0 Solano

 

Championship:

Crewe 1 - 2 Norwich
1-0 Jones
1-1, 1-2 McVeigh

Crystal Palace 1 - 1 Wolves
0-1 K-H.Seol
1-1 Johnson

Derby 1 - 1 Preston
0-1 Davis
1-1 Smith

Sheffield Utd 3 - 0 Burnley
1-0 Neil Shipperley !
2-0 Webber
3-0 Shipperley!

Watford 1 - 1 Plymouth
0-1 Chadwick
1-1 King (90+2 min)

 

League One:

Barnsley 5 - 2 Scunthorpe
1-0 Devaney
2-0 Hassell
3-0 Richards
4-0 Shuker
4-1 Beagrie (pen)
5-1 Hayes
5-2 MacKenzie

Bristol City 2 - 0 Huddersfield

MK Dons 2 - 3 Doncaster
0-1 Fenton
0-2 Roberts
1-2 Smith
1-3 Heffernan
2-3 Wilbraham

Rotherham 1 - 2 Yeovil
(Rotherham sacked their manager after the game!)


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[Guest]

I can't sleep... thinking too much about the DS vs Liverpool game.

10.20am kick offs, what's that all about, why can't they hold this competition in Europe some time?

[Guest]

R.I.P. Rafael Benitez's father, who passed away this week


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Some brilliant goals by Crouch and Gerrard yesterday, and an interesting Champions League draw all round today!

[toshi]

Liverpool played very well last night, and I hope they will do in the final too.
it's going to be very chilly on sunday, a big cold wave is coming.

I heard that Toyota cup would take place in some other countries from next year.

[John Mc]

I think right now might be the most exciting time to be a Liverpool fan since the late 80's, and I was too young to appreciate it then. It seems like there's a big game every couple of weeks, our striker are scoring, the club feels like its moving forward and we haven't conceded a goal since I was doing my GCSE's. It's weird how quickly things can change, less than a year ago i can remember sitting through our defeats by Burnley and Southampton in utter depression but by tomorrow night we could be the best team in the entire galaxy.

[Guest]

http://fifa.entriq.com/fifa.html?w=480&h=360&startupurl=mms://fifa.lbwa.verio.net/fifa/match_4_500.wmv&startup=%20Deportivo%20Saprissa%200:3%20Liverpool

goals and other highlights from Liverpool vs Deportivo Saprissa

[Hew]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/4516140.stm

Are Fletcher and Van Nistelrooy about to get it on in that picture? Roy Keane wouldn't have stood for that. Oh yeah villa are still shit.
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[Tommy BOO]

[Guest]

Club World Cup final stats

*Liverpool - 22 shots to 4 (Sao Paulo didn't have any in the 2nd half)
*Liverpool - 17 corners to 0
*Liverpool - easily most of the possession and most of the chances
*Liverpool - 3 disallowed goals, at least 1 of which was wrongly ruled out (Pongolle's), but the ref was Mexican (why bother with a neutral venue, eh)
*Liverpool - further to travel, most time disruption and a day less rest
*Liverpool - obviously the better side, even without their strongest XI
*Sao Paulo - 1-0 'winners'
*Rafael Benitez (legend) - lost something really important this week (clue: it wasn't a football match. A football match that much of the media and many non-Liverpool fans will only deem important now that Liverpool haven't got the trophy, anyway).

[Dave w.]

in danger of getting into mourinho territory here. they scored we didn't, and anything else is pretty much irrelevant. yeah, we should have won but these things happen.

[Guest]

'we' did score... but it's not that surprising that at least the third disallowed 'goal' wasn't given against the South Americans when the referee and linesman were from Central America and North America, respectively. More bad organisation from FIFA...

[John M]

99.99% of the matches Liverpool have ever played have been with referees from the same continent as the opposition, I don't think you can blame that for the defeat. I think Sao Paulo probably are a better team than us, they looked as good as us going forward in most of the first half and seemed happy to sit back once they'd scored. We did that for 4 years under Houllier so we can't really complain about it. We played well and got beat and life goes on.

I was working yesterday and so I didn't see the Arsenal vs Chelsea game but it does take Mystic Meg to predict the papers today would be full of Wenger and Mourinho moaning about refereeing decisions. In a bid to make football more interesting i think any manager who moans about refereeing decisions in post match interviews should have their coaching badge revoked. Under this new regime I expect the only manager to be still in a job at the end of the season to be Stuart Pearce.

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