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If I nap in an armchair, I'm fine -- if I go horizontal, I'm finished. They can be completely refreshing.

I don't think I have agreed with anything you have ever said before.

That's the problem with him, its form not substance. He rarely goes 100 per cent to chase down a ball - he goes for it, but there's no belief he's going to get it. The difference between him chasing someone down and Kuyt or Mascherano doing it is palpable. He's just not cutting it at the moment. He's obviously a good player. But he should focus on grabbing his opportunity when it comes--and not being such a moaning twat. I seriously hope he makes it here--but he's doing himself no favours.

No matter how hard he tried, Ashley couldn't turn the vibrtaing phone off

Is that maradona she's with?

It's Ulrika, and she doesn't need to be drunk.

Will those shithouses at the FA, FIFA and UEFA still say Morgan hasn't got a case to answer for? I read the FA will only upgrade yellows to reds in "exceptional circumstances". Obviously nothing exceptional about the deliberate elbow Morgan gives Hume then. Will D'Urso be sacked and told he is unfit to referee a game of football again? Will Morgan face jail time? Why has this been brushed under the carpet? If they can try and put Cantona in prison for kicking a fan, if they can ban Robbie for sniffing a white line, why can they not do that twat Morgan for GBH?

The question is, if you get fouled in the box and DON'T go to ground, what are the chances of getting a penalty? You hear some commentators, well analysts, commentators are too fucking thick, going on about "he's brave, he's stayed on his feet" etc. etc. What they don't say is that if you get fouled and stay on your feet, it is still a foul. Referees systematically do not give them. So you have situations where players have to exaggerate to get a decision they should have got anyway. Gerrard's going to ground against Atletico was, for me, a symptom of that. Was it a foul? Yes. If he had stayed on his feet, would he have got the penalty? No. With Gerrard, that is the problem--not diving for diving's sake. It was the same in the CL final. Did Gattuso foul him? Absolutely. If he had stayed on his feet, would we have got a penalty? Never in a million years. When Riera went to ground and got a yellow card for diving in the CL, he was fouled. It was a cast-iron penalty. He got the yellow card because the referee thought he had dived. Would he have got the penalty if he had stayed on his feet? Never. For me, this is the problem that cunt Platini should be dealing with. Why do referees NOT implement the laws of the game properly and fairly. The laws are really fucking clear. It is a foul if a player • kicks or attempts to kick an opponent • trips or attempts to trip an opponent In other words, if you attempt to foul someone--and don't--you still give away a free kick--or a penalty. Referees NEVER give that. And that is why players like Gerrard go to ground. I want to make it clear that this for me is totally different from cheating cunts like Ronaldo and Vieira. That is simulation pure and simple. I think Gerrard is a reasonably honest player -- not a paragon of virtue, but honest enough -- and the abuse he has taken elsewhere in this forum is well out of order.

But he never did it in games like Riise did....:)

Footballer broke ref's jaw after sending off By Tim Walsh, PA Tuesday, 25 November 2008 A football referee was left lying unconscious on a pitch with a broken jaw after he sent a player off for violent conduct. Ref Andy Parker had red-carded 20-year-old Joe Preston during a game in Leicester when, it is alleged, the player ran back on to the pitch and punched him. The St Andrews FC midfielder was swiftly suspended and police and the local Football Association (FA) branch are now investigating the incident, which happened at his club's Canal Street ground on Saturday. Mr Parker, 50, of Whitwick, Leicestershire, said: "I sent a person off for violent conduct and he's taken exception to that. He didn't like it. I showed the red card, turned away and suddenly 'bump' I am on the floor. "I've never seen anything like this in my life. I am totally gobsmacked." The incident happened during the East Midlands Counties League match between St Andrews and Gedling Miners' Welfare as the home side were 3-1 up. The game was abandoned after 85 minutes. St Andrews joint manager Darren Bradley said: "We don't condone Joe's actions and he will never play for the club again after this, but he is completely gutted and he can't believe what he did. "I think the whole place was stunned. The lad was genuinely distraught. "He's had a lot of pressure on his mind. What I do know is that he's taken himself to the doctor to get help with anger management." Mr Preston, of Thorpe Astley, had played with the club since junior level. He told the Leicester Mercury he was ashamed of his conduct, saying: "The referee didn't deserve what happened to him. I had no right to do what I did. I am writing him a letter apologising for my action. "I don't think I could tell him face to face, as I am ashamed of myself. He was just doing his job and I was completely out of order." Chris Parkin, football operations manager of Leicestershire and Rutland County FA, confirmed the player was the subject of an investigation by the body. He said: "A player has allegedly struck a referee. It's been reported to us and we are following due process as laid down by the FA." He said the player had been suspended immediately and charged under FA regulations with assaulting a match official. Such incidents are "thankfully extremely rare", said an FA spokesman. The association is trying to improve players' behaviour towards match officials through its Respect campaign. The spokesman said: "Every season there are a handful of very serious assaults in which the police get involved and they are completely unacceptable. Anybody who attacks a referee in that way will be banned for life. This is at the very extreme end. "What we are concerned about is that referees are walking away from the game every season because the general conduct is poor towards them." Leicestershire Police confirmed a 20-year-old man from Leicester had been arrested and bailed in connection with the incident in the city at the weekend.

No, has to be in Jermainy

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO :wallbutt: If Dossena does nothing more, which face it, is likely, he'll at least have helped get rid of Riise. It's not that Riise was bad, he was just stale, refused to learn, and would never imporve any more. Plus he sold his Istanbul medal on eBay FFS. (Allegedly). Now this really has fucked up my posting average.

I do that a year. Fuck, just screwed up my average.

Big Alcoholic Dane's Advanced Intense Dieting Syndrome

And arguably with a slim, dedicated, Molby - who wasn't a pisshead - we could have won more.

He's doing no worse than Molby did. Molby had a hundred times more talent than Pennant - and he pissed it up the wall. He let down Liverpool more than Pennant has ever done - and with a lot less reason, time and time again. Yet Molby is a hero on here. Pennant has issues, there is no doubt about that. His dad is on his way to prison for dealing crack cocaine, he's just been told that his career is finished and that he won't feature again for Liverpool (apparently), he's probably an alcoholic. I don't think he's got the intellectual ability to reason through it - so what does he do? He escapes into booze. It's not good, but it happens on a daily basis to millions of people. I don't rate the player myself - never really have done. But give the lad a break for fuck's sake. All Molby had to contend with was a relationship that went wrong because he was shagging around. I'm not saying Pennant deserves sympathy, but a maybe just a little less slagging off.

we win in istanbul -- but it's close, and goes to penalties.

Fair enough, but I assume you know less about cricket and golf than you do about football. What is the media's job with football? It's not education - it's titillation. It's making people talk about football, about the station, all of which increases their figures and pleases advertisers. You get the coverage you deserve. If people stopped using call back shows to slag people off, the coverage would change. But this is what the opinion groups and general public have highlighted as being successful, so it sticks. And as bad as Sky/Setanta might be -- it is a million percent better than anything else related to football coverage in the world. The US and Canadian coverage is cringeworthy. At least people in the UK generally have an opinion about what they are showing.

Poor bastard - he must be going through a lot of crap with his old man on the road to the nick. JP might deserve a bit of slack, no?

Didn't know Ronnie Rosenthal wore a helmet.

Is it the same guy? There are 2 Hayes' - one had a store in Southport and this one didn't. I've bought a fair amount of stuff off him (mainly programmes but also some signed stuff) -- looks fine to me. I'm not an expert though... however, I did take some stuff I got from him down to Toronto when the masters were here - had a team pic with some sigs already on it and wanted to complete it - Fairclough and Molby both recognized their own autographs, so some of it at least is genuine.

Not so long ago people were giving Alonso bollocks because he never hacked down Walcott in the Champiosn League game

back to the original post, the worst - and absolutely the worst person for this, was Riise. There was hardly a week went by without him on the Official site saying how hard he was working and how he was going to improve.

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA. Oh fuck me, that's priceless. I've watched every single one of Roma's games this season. Apart from the last couple (where he's been dropped) - there's been a common thread to Roma being shit. JAR. In almost every game they have lost, the same thing happens: During an opposition attack, Riise jogs into his penalty area around the penalty spot mark, turns, watches the ball from the right find a man unmarked on the left of the box, makes a half-arsed effort to get there, turns his body to avoid the ball in that traditional way of his, watches the ball sail into the net, turns towards the keeper and asks "Whose fault was that?" He was lucky there is a lot of naiveté in the PL, and in the CL, Benitez's systems helped him get away with it. But in Italy, he has been found out in the space of a couple of weeks. He's a decent player - but he wasn't good enough for Liverpool. Dossena may not be any better - but Benitez is at least trying to change things around. And if we win the CL or PL this season, I bet you Dossena doesn't flog his medal on eBay and then tell porkies about it.

He's a good player, that's obvious, but he's not played well for us (not as an attacking threat in any case). rebel23 is spot on -- he refuses to shoot. In fact, he seemed today to be as "gentle" as possible towards his old club -- and had no bite whatsoever. I like him, but if he carries on like this, it won't be long before he's making cameo appearances.