"Liverpool really f**ked us over by not scoring more against us last week" We set them such low standards. And they fail to achieve even that. No wonder they have finished below "small club" Spurs 4 seasons running.
One pundit made the comment that Goofy is only playing as well as he is because he's "out to prove everyone wrong" after his appalling behaviour of the previous season. The pundit referred to it as Goofy's "revenge" season, and he questioned whether or not he'd be able to reproduce it ever again. I think the pundit has a valid point. Myself, I think Goofy's form is a "come and get me" plea to one of the big boys, like Real.
Gary Neville accurately summarises Liverpool's disgraceful intimidation of referees: [video=youtube;eyqQvkl4GTk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyqQvkl4GTk[/video] I wonder if Taylor will now be banned from West Ham games like Clattenburg was from Everton games after falling for similar underhand tactics?
I don't think that he broke any rules. He pointed out mistakes, but he did so fairly evenly and didn't suggest any bias. Managers generally get into trouble when they claim dishonesty or uneven calls from officials, which I don't think he did, from memory. You can say that a referee was poor, but you can't call him a cheat.
Dear, oh, dear, Red! You're going to have to do a lot better than that, my friend! That wum was so weak, it can barely stand up!
What I didn't like is that Carragher tried to deflect the blame to the 'keeper again. He got the ball in time and cleanly, if it was a defender sliding in we'd all be calling it a great tackle but Carragher just focused on the argument that the 'keeper didn't need to come out. He didn't need to but it was a pretty routine stop by him, he was always getting to the ball even though he didn't get as good contact on it as you'd expect. No surprise to see Neville refusing to blame the referee for believing Suarez either. He's got a pile of Premier League titles that he's won with the help of referees allowing his team to make the decisions. I don't even care about what Suarez is doing, to be honest. It's nothing new and many players will lie through their teeth at every opportunity these days. These decisions are really worrying though, either he's taking Suarez's word for it that it's a penalty or he's guessing about an incident he hasn't seen. It's good to see he's been dropped, although it should be permanent he's always been a poor ref.
Oh God, I've just realised he wasn't even dropped. He's 4th official for a FA Cup semi final! Pathetic.
Neville absolutely despises us, he won't be able to keep the unbiased facade up for long. The longer United wallow in the wilderness, and it's gonna be for some time, the more his hatred will grow and seethe through his mask of impartiality
Thats quite laughable, he could have shown numerous examples of intimidation of referees, by most teams, including Liverpool. Yet here he highlights a player (surprise, surprise, Suarez) who has the audacity to make a claim of a penalty (never seen that done by anyone, in any game) who with that solitary action, in a split second moment, intimidates the poor defenceless referee to give a decision. Neville slowed down the action yet it still was over within seconds, is that really how week our Refs are? Interestingly he doesn't (at least in this chosen clip) care to mention the Carroll goal were our own players were prity forceful to both the ref and the linesman (far more intimidating than a solitary appeal in the eyeline of the ref) where he was so intimidated he ruled against his own colleague in the other teams favour.
Stats don't lie, Tim "Cringe" Sherwood is the best manager Spurs have had in the prem. And AVB is the second best that's the funniest stat I have ever heard. Id hate to see who the worst was if them two buffoons are the best.
"Id hate to see who the worst was if them two buffoons are the best." Bet you'd hate to support a team who finished way below any of them buffoons.
It's no coincidence that they've also had amongst the most talented and expensive squads we've had in recent years. If you take out Redknapp's first season when he inherited a team bottom of the league then I'm sure his stats are up there with them too. It's also hard to compare the squad Jol had to this one, back then we had players like Stalteri and Rasiak and worked with a wage budget that was half the teams above us.
