It's the sort of scenario that generally happens to us:- QPR 1 - 2 Wolverhampton - Substitute Kevin Doyle scored the winner and provided an assist as Wolves came from behind to beat 10-man QPR and record their first win in 12 games. QPR took the lead when debutant Bobby Zamora drove in before Djibril Cisse saw red after he raised a hand to the neck of defender Roger Johnson. http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/16778841
Hull's next four games are: Man U away Everton away West Brom home Chelsea away Let's hope we can get ahead of them in that run...
Milan 1 Inter 0. Get in! Very aggressive and competitive game between 2 teams now both second rate in both European and Serie A terms. Milan 1 up at half time despite having Torres in their team.
Watching the last 20 mins - Torres subbed off, score level @ 1-1. AC just missed a great opportunity for the go ahead goal with only the keeper beat. please log in to view this image Inter fans showing what they think of the repeated announcements reminding fans that flares are banned
That's like a vicars tea-party compared to this... Probably the most hate-filled 'derby match in World football, Argentina's Boca Juniors v River Plate... https://vine.co/v/OJ3nxt6PW0Y
please log in to view this image please log in to view this image Actually, Gaston Ramires was born in Fray Bentos, Uruguay. please log in to view this image
Stan, hows my old team Sampdoria doing these days? Last time I looked they were flying it up in 3rd or 4th place. They were always my 2nd team. QPR first, Samp 2nd. Everyone my age used to have an Italian team as their number 2 due to Gazetta football Italia on Channel 4 every Sunday. My bro was Inter and I went with Samp cos they had a great team back then. Gullit, Lombardo, Vialli, Platt, Mancini etc. They've a peculiar looking ground, them and Genoa. There's a big red Gaff stuck in the corner. Werid
They're doing ok Swords... http://uk.soccerway.com/national/italy/serie-a/20142015/regular-season/r27139/
Samp 4th, Milan 7th. Sampdoria were a very good team back when I lived over there, and thats when Serie A was easily the strongest league in Europe. Milan, Inter, Juve, Napoli, Samp all very strong. Went to that stadium a couple of times, it's quite intimidating, I think the strange design is due to the odd shape it's squeezed into. People forget what great players Vialli and Mancini were. Didn't realise Gullit had played for them, must have been after both he and I left Milan. What a player he was in his pomp.
I know Gullit did because I got his name printed on the back of my shirt. Everyone was asking why I had it spelled with a "G" and not a "H". When he left the Club I got my mum to steam the iron on the letters and peel them off. You could still see the "Gullit" indented into the shirt. Don't know what I was thinking. What's the deal with that building in the corner of the stadium Stan? Is it for the press and cameramen or something?
No idea mate, though there are towers in all four corners as far as I can remember, one seems bigger at the bottom. Might be offices etc, its on a very tight plot, the stands are very steep and close to the pitch. Samp/Genoa; Juve/Torino, Atalanta, Verona and Bologna were all an easy drive from Milan, went to quite a few away games as long as the matches I played in (very poorly and usually hungover) for a pub team on Sunday mornings finished early enough, or weren't too far out of town in the wrong direction. Atalanta (in Bergamo, only 25 miles west of Milan) was particularly fiesty, but the worst experience was away to Verona, last game of the season. Milan needed a draw, I think, to be champions, had two players and the manager Sacchi, sent off and lost to two massively offside goals. Napoli, led by Maradona, won the Scudetto. It was so unfair that the Milan fans were on the verge of serious riot, and we were tear gassed getting away from the ground. Apparently something very similar had happened in the 70s - title lost at Verona on the last day of the season, to a bent ref - the father of the ref at the game I was at.
Problem Harry has is our pacy wingers aren't good enough at the rest of the game. Barton did well yesterday and other than Dunne (who'll be a leave a major hole to fill next week) MOM, and Fer made space well for Yun. We played well but not well enough to beat Newcastle. We need more creativity, a fit Adel or a fit Nico or a fit other no 10 in January.
