It'd be a great final send off for players like Buffon and Pirlo to win the CL against this Barca team, they've got one hell of a task there though.
I look forward to the English play offs but Brentford seemed out of their league against Boro.Hope the Ipswich v Norwich is much better. Shame really.I'd loved to have seen a London club replacing another......
Happy StevieGday to everyone. It's a day when you can pretend to have no regrets and bask in the glory of thousands celebrating your sacrifice as an heroic failure.
Could've done with a favour from Sherwood today. Thanks, Tim. Villa resting for the cup final, obviously.
Villa now have the worst goal difference of all the teams still fighting relegation. It could come back to haunt them if goal difference becomes a deciding factor - now 1 worse than Newcastle, 5 Sunderland, 9 Hull and 12 Leicester
I was just thinking of the goal difference of Spurs and Southampton.Crikey.That's some difference.Without Kane it may have been double!!!!!
Steven Gerrard, the last top player to spend their entire career at one club. ...with the obvious exceptions of Xavi and Andres Iniesta.
Why has this average player - a player who failed for England, time and time again - been given so much air-time? It's laughable, and serves only to feed the delusions of Mousers up and down the country. You couldn't make it up! Schmiekal leaving United was bigger news, and didn't get even a fraction of the coverage. TalkSport have been running an entire day debating where Slippy stands in the "pantheon" of 'Pool legends! (I'm not making this up). Far be it for me to burst any Mouser bubbles, but Lawro is a bigger 'Pool legend than Slippy, and he's now a part-time tramp.
Yep and it just proves my personal belief that there tends to be extremely short memories in football. Only last year, Gerrard captained what I can only describe as the most pathetic England team I've ever had the displeasure of watching at the Brazil World Cup yet he's now lauded as though he was a footballing genius who won everything and had a rich a varied career. Ridiculous! I can't understand why spending 17 years at the same club is treated as something special when everyone could see it wouldn't amount to much. For me, it shows he lacked ambition and preferred safety in familiarity rather than challenging himself to become a better player by going to another bigger club, notably overseas when he had the chance in his mid-twenties. Instead, he took the safe option to only remain a good player in an average team when he could have developed into a very good player in a great team and won a great deal more trophies and respect worldwide. Now's he off to America for the pay cheque to again, be a good player in what can only be described as a crap team.
I think replays will confirm this was a "routine" save. But the earlier one you mentioned was definitely a top class stop.
Yeah, maybe I missed the replays typing that post. I still thought he did well to read it though. Bony's goal has just cost me £25+. Had 10p doubles on correct scores this weekend and after guessing QPR's yesterday I'd have had a roughly 250/1 bet double come in if this match finished 3-2(22/1). Not so much the money but it would've been nice to win at such long odds and it's the second time injury time goals have lost me bets this weekend
The thing about the talk of his 17-year stint at Liverpool is that it's founded on a pack of lies: he was happy to accept a trial at Man Utd when he felt Liverpool weren't offering him a YTS contract quick enough, just as he was set to join Chelsea until somebody posted a bullet through his mother's front door - and prior to that he'd been stalling on signing a new contract for the entire 2004-5 season. That's at least two cases where he could've played for any Premier League club other than Liverpool, indeed if Man Utd snatched him from under Liverpool's noses it's quite possible he would've never played for Liverpool, and it's being overlooked just as much as the way his being described as a one-club man has been bollocks since January.
City seal a top 3 place and will finish ahead of Utd. The result also means that Swansea can no longer catch us, Southampton or Liverpool.
