Weekend Football Oct 3/4

[FiNeRaIn]

that's racist finerain

Todays goals, what noise when the first goes in.

http://www.soccer360.co.uk/rangers-vs-c ... -04-10-09/

[Alivey]

im offended by those goals

[Schards#2]

that's racist finerain

Not really. Just very, very, very, very dull.

The first one or two of these style jokes were mildly amusing. That was about 3 years ago.

[RoyalChicagoFC]

I watched Arsenal 6 Blackburn 2 two years ago with Adebayor running the show. They enjoy playing against Blackburn it seems...

Of late, yep.

B'burn always used to seem to make 'em at least work for it back in the Souness and Hughes days and beat 'em 2-0 in the slop @ Ewood as Arsenal were pi$$ing away the title in '02/3.

Also held 'em goalless for 180 minutes on the way to knocking 'em out of the Cup in the Fifth Round two years back, and who could forget the kicking Rovers dished out in defeat in that FA Cup semifinal --RvP ended up with hamburger mouth courtesy of Andy Todd's elbow after belting home his second.

Of course. They used to be their bogey team (Blackburn that is).

Blot on, too. Really painful stuff to watch, but Hughes and Fat Sam are just the sort of guys you can count on to get under Wenger's skin and stay there.

Great to see the Sox doing their best to prevent the Tigers getting into the postseason ain't it?

I'm torn --while I'm loving the starting pitching (Peavy 3-0 with a 1.35 ERA over his three starts and 17⅓ consecutive scoreless innings pitched, and who knew Freddy still had it in 'im) and am loath to cheer against my own team under any circumstances, I really detest the Twinks and would like very much to see their (and their fans') cocky asses left out of the October proceedings.

Of course, if idiot Detroit just could've done a job when they had 'em heads-up last week --to say nothing of useless Kansas City this weekend...and if our own guys could've pulled their own damned heads out before it was too late, there's a good chance they'd be right there in the mix on this final day.

[Archie's penalty]

] Blot on, too. Really painful stuff to watch, but Hughes and Fat Sam are just the sort of guys you can count on to get under Wenger's skin and stay there.

Great to see the Sox doing their best to prevent the Tigers getting into the postseason ain't it?

I'm torn --while I'm loving the starting pitching (Peavy 3-0 with a 1.35 ERA over his three starts and 17⅓ consecutive scoreless innings pitched, and who knew Freddy still had it in 'im) and am loath to cheer against my own team under any circumstances, I really detest the Twinks and would like very much to see their (and their fans') cocky asses left out of the October proceedings.

Of course, if idiot Detroit just could've done a job when they had 'em heads-up last week --to say nothing of useless Kansas City this weekend...and if our own guys could've pulled their own damned heads out before it was too late, there's a good chance they'd be right there in the mix on this final day.

Yep know what you mean. Sort of want to see Detroit there as Twins fans are a cocky bunch, but nice to see us playing some sort of say in the divisional race.

We could have made the playoffs but we would have been mauled out of sight by the other three great teams who have made it in the AL. The central is almost so weak you could almost make a case for no-one to go through to the playoffs from it this year...

Right I'm moving this discussion to the baseball thread.

[1871 Royal]

Lincoln won for the first time in ages with ex-basingstoke player Sergio Torres grabbing the goal

[Alivey]

lol @ the bbc crying that chelsea won and liverpool lost

[AF1]

[cmonurz]

And people mock Wenger's achievements.

[The Knitting Circle]

Arsenals trophies since 2004.......

[No Fixed Abode]

Did anyone see the Chelsea V Liverpool game yesterday? Gerrard and Torres suck big time! What's all the fuss about?

[TBM]

Arsenals trophies since 2004.......

FA Cup and Premiership

HTH

[The Knitting Circle]

Arsenals trophies since 2004.......

FA Cup and Premiership

HTH

they have won the premiership since 2004 have they


so just the 1 fa cup in 2005 then. same as what pompy have won

[TBM]

they have won the premiership since 2004 have they


so just the 1 fa cup in 2005 then. same as what pompy have won

They won it in 2004, yes.....

If you wanted to include just the FA Cup then why didn't you say "since 2005"

[The Knitting Circle]

they have won the premiership since 2004 have they


so just the 1 fa cup in 2005 then. same as what pompy have won

They won it in 2004, yes.....

If you wanted to include just the FA Cup then why didn't you say "since 2005"

it says since 2004. i forgot aboot the fa cup tbh.

my point is he has spent fcuk all but also but won fcuk all since 2004.
he is a good manager, his team plays the best football around and has done for years but for me he is not truely world class. no european honours to his name after all those years at a big club.

[Silver Fox]

TBF the graphic says since June 2004

[papereyes]

My thoughts are that, as long as Arsenal qualify for CL and have decent cup runs, his position is safe. They cannot compete financially with the other three teams in the big 4 - they have to rely on signings working, on cheap players coming through and being sold for a lot.

The only way they could possibly improve their finances was the move (which they did).

Further to that, while he's not spending, he keeps the pressure off himself. There was a wonderful little factoid about Aston Villa that all of their managers fell within a year or so of breaking a transfer record or spending £6-7 million plus. You buy big, you raise expectations and you increase pressure. Arsene avoids this.

As long as the CL income keeps flowing for a relatively small income, his position is safe.

[Ginger Ninjas]

Probably missing something, but isn't that graphic our of date? If United sold Ronaldo for £80M, then surely the net spend would be £60.5M at most...

[TBM]

Probably missing something, but isn't that graphic our of date? If United sold Ronaldo for £80M, then surely the net spend would be £60.5M at most...

How did you work that out?

[Tails]

Probably missing something, but isn't that graphic our of date? If United sold Ronaldo for £80M, then surely the net spend would be £60.5M at most...

How did you work that out?

Total Spending = £140.5M

Sale of Ronaldo = £80M

Net Spending (just taking into account the sale of CR) = £140.5M - £80M = £60.5M