Other football

[FanchesterCity]

Let's hope the suggestion that PL will be too frenetic for Schweinsteiger turns out to be true.

I hope it's the sort of season that makes him want to hang up his boots rather than be hailed as a miracle buy by the genius that is LvG.

 

Great player, but I don't want him great for that lot.

[Gym Beglin]

Opening fixtures are wank, you just take the 3 points however they come.

 

United will be handy but beatable.

[Boss]

Walker is utter shite.

[Guest Super Sub]

Ditto, I wasn't knocking Bournemouth, just it's a new name on the fixture list that makes me look twice.

I'm sort of agree about boring teams, but I've always considered it part of the game. If a teams wants to set up defensively, or aggressively, it's a valid way to play. It's not good to watch, but other teams can't complain if it's within the rules (imo). Stoke were an example of that, but they're playing better football these days.

I reckon Everton could become the new Stoke they way things are going!

I am not even talking about how teams set up I don't care how they set up. I think Stoke are great but maybe it's just me but I find some teams not the way they play or set up just boring and don't float my boat for some reason. Maybe it's because they have hung around the Orem for so long and their stadiums are empty and they just seem to be in the prem making up numbers.

[Jairzinho]

This is one of the shittest pre season friendlies I've ever watched.

[Megadrive Man]

Spurs offering nothing here.

 

United back to fluking victories at home again. 

[cuppatea]

Michael Owen: "He's so difficult for a striker to play against, Smalling. He's so strong, you just can't get past him"

 

[FanchesterCity]

When Moyes was at United, other teams smelled blood and took them on. Nothing's changed, they are beatable. But LvG seems to have got people believing they are to be feared again. grrr

[Guest Super Sub]

Bournemouth play villa on Setanta at 3 o'clock so I think I will give it a watch.

[FanchesterCity]

Michael Owen: "He's so difficult for a striker to play against, Smalling. He's so strong, you just can't get past him"

 

 

That'll explain why the world's best teams are queuing up for him Michael.

[KevieG]

Why the fuck aren't spurs having a go?

[torahboy]

A game that summarises football in England, in Britain; the least incompetent might win. There has not been a moment of anything approaching decent football in this cunt of a game. Awful.

[FanchesterCity]

Watford accurately reflecting their local environment with a million nationalities in the lineup.

[Guest Super Sub]

Spurs obligingly bending over letting United give it to them.

[magicrat]

Why the fuck aren't spurs having a go?

They're still on the beach, 

[FanchesterCity]

Mixed bag for Liverpool this. On the one hand, it puts Spurs in a poor light, and does nothing to suggest they'll be better than Liverpool this year, but on the other hand, it's United grabbing points. 

[FanchesterCity]

They're still on the beach, 

A nudist beach at that.

They're totally exposed and it's not a pretty sight, revealing they've very little up front.

[Boss]

The annoying thing is they'll press like fuck when we play them at Anfield, but they haven't even mustered the effort to have a go at the mancs.

[magicrat]

Cross the ball you useless Spud cunt

[torahboy]

Mixed bag for Liverpool this. On the one hand, it puts Spurs in a poor light, and does nothing to suggest they'll be better than Liverpool this year, but on the other hand, it's United grabbing points. 

 

 

What the fuck are you on about?

[FanchesterCity]

The annoying thing is they'll press like fuck when we play them at Anfield, but they haven't even mustered the effort to have a go at the mancs.

There's a few teams like that - who'll totally up their game for some, and then bend over for United.

[magicrat]

Slur looks like hes done a couple of bottles of Chablis for lunch

[liverpoolsno9]

Spurs are absolutely fucking dreadful here. They remind me of us last season, striker so isolated,awful midfield giving possession away really easily, loads of shitty passes between GK & defence, really really slow tempo. Awful.

[FanchesterCity]

What the fuck are you on about?

 

Easy enough concept to grasp. Spurs are considered potential competitors for 5th, whilst if Liverpool are to get top 4, you need top 4 candidates to drop points. It's a question of which is the better result to benefit you. 

[Special K]

It's been such a terrible game that BT resort to showing 12 replays of a header that was going wide