Football The 2010/2011 Season Thread

[Raven]

Scholes is just an old school player stuck in softie Euro rules football. Carragher is just a shit player.

 

[CorNokZ]

True

 

[Deebs]

Fucking gutted that Shit Uniteshit didn't lose. Really wanted ArseAnal to go thru. Only because I like them more than Shit Uniteshit.

Anyway, Man Shitty to win the FA Cup.

 

[Keitanz]

Scholes is just an old school player stuck in softie Euro rules football. Carragher is just a shit player.

Lol, biasm at it's best, I can at least say that Scholes is a class player..

 

[Cerb]

Yeah from the guy who had a go about saying giggs was a legend

 

[Keitanz]

Yeah from the guy who had a go about saying giggs was a legend

I don't remember that tbh :s

 

[Ch3tan]

Lol, biasm at it's best, I can at least say that Scholes is a class player..

How can he be biased.... He's not a united supporter.

 

[Raven]

Correct. I am a good old fashioned neutral fan.

 

[Achilles]

Really? How many bad injuries has Scholes caused? Go on, name them.

Thats very difficult to do for any player without a signifcant amount of effort. Every player has unfavourable traits. For example, Gerrard dives. As a Liverpool fan I can admit that. I wish he wouldnt do it, but i can still accept it. Scholes is a fantastic player, one of only about 5 modern English players who is genuinely world class. However I dont really see why you cant accept that he has a darker side, or whatever you want to call it to his game.

 

[cHodAX]

However I dont really see why you cant accept that he has a darker side, or whatever you want to call it to his game.

Darker in regards to being prepared to foul someone to help the team win? Yes, he has always been like that though, it is part of the winning mentality, not a nice part but a vital part. He doesn't set out to injure though and because of that alot nasty looking tackles have actually ended with Scholes being red carded yet the opposition player back on his feet because Scholes pulled back a bit and didn't snap the guy for the sake of it. We all know the public perception of his tackling but I don't honestly thinking you can say someone has a dark side to his game unless they have a history of injuring fellow professionals. You know the sort, Vinne Jones etc..

 

[gohan]

Darker in regards to being prepared to foul someone to help the team win? Yes, he has always been like that though, it is part of the winning mentality, not a nice part but a vital part. He doesn't set out to injure though and because of that alot nasty looking tackles have actually ended with Scholes being red carded yet the opposition player back on his feet because Scholes pulled back a bit and didn't snap the guy for the sake of it. We all know the public perception of his tackling but I don't honestly thinking you can say someone has a dark side to his game unless they have a history of injuring fellow professionals. You know the sort, Roy Keane etc..

fixededed

 

[cHodAX]

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I can't argue, Keano is a nasty peice of work.

 

[Achilles]

You know the sort, Vinne Jones etc..

...Roy Keane, yeah i know the type . Again its very hard to tell what his intent is, whether he pulls out of tackles etc. I have to admit some of his more notorious challenges look absolutely horrific at full speed and real time, but at slow mo look bad, but not terrible:

YouTube - UCL Final 09 Barcelona - Manchester Scholes brutal tackle


I just think IF he genuinely is just a bad tackler, he would have improved it enough by now for it not to be an issue. The fact that he he still going through the back of people like its Friday night in Soho makes me think its something else.

 

[Corran]

Learning to tackle properly isnt an easy thing... and a player that prone to dive in is hard to train out of doing so because you got to try retrain a subconcious decision.... there are actually very few defenders that know how to tackle really well, let alone trying to teach scholes to tackle. I am not surprised that he has never learnt the skill, and it doesnt help that he grew up in a time when some of what hee gets booked for now was allowed.

In the old days it was fine to follow through the player after getting the ball, nowdays you get booked for it... I never cared about going through a player after winning the ball 15yrs ago, it was deemed as good defending to shake up the attackers with hard tackles that were clean but knocked them down. Go in with any force now and you get moaned at. Was surprised Rooney got away with the one he done on the touchline yesterday.

 

[megadave]

So it's not his fault? Lol

 

[cHodAX]

So it's not his fault? Lol

It's his fault but it isn't his game, he works hard and plays hard but sometimes you misjudge and make a foul. He has had plenty of yellows, reds and bans so it isn't as if he has been getting away with it for years.

 

[megadave]

He's one of the most experienced players in the league, probably second to Giggs yet goes in hard, fast, late and from behind on a very regular basis. If it was in another player they'd get red cards all the time and be chastised by the masses but because it's Scholes everyone just laughs it off like it's fine.

Made some sweet passes yesterday though

 

[megadave]

'Anderson has been too erratic to justify what Porto's official accounts reveal is a €30m (£25.8m) price tag' uke:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2011/mar/11/michael-carrick-manchester-united?cat=football&type=article

wtf

 

[cHodAX]

United beat the Scousers in the FA Youth Cup quarters.

VIDEO: Liverpool 2-3 United (FA Youth Cup Quarter-Finals)

two nil down and we won three two, doo-daa doo-daa.

 

[Ch3tan]

Errr, no. The combined fee for nani and Anderson was around 30 million. Can check united accounts for that year to estimate that.

 

[cHodAX]

'Anderson has been too erratic to justify what Porto's official accounts reveal is a €30m (£25.8m) price tag' uke:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2011/mar/11/michael-carrick-manchester-united?cat=football&type=article

wtf

It is a nonsense mate, another made up story or a typo. £15.8 is much nearer the mark to what we have been hearing for over three years.

 

[Ch3tan]

Hmmm further research reveals it may not be bullshit, or
Porto have been releasing very dodgy accounts; The Swiss Ramble: Porto's Buy Low, Sell High Strategy

 

[megadave]

Normally i would put it down to bullshit but it seems a reliable source. Perhaps it's due to inflation or changes in the exchange rates? Meh

 

[Ch3tan]

Very dodgy; most other sources say Porto raised 50million in transfers that season. Now pepe was 30million to real, so ando couldn't have been more than 20 million euro

 

[cHodAX]

Lol, this gave me a good chuckle.

Police have confirmed that 2 Premiership footballers have had their houses burglered last night.

Ryan Giggs lost:
2 Champions lge medals-
11Premiership medals-
5 F.A.Cup medals-
2 World club Champions medals-
8 Charity Shield medals-
1Super cup medals and
2 League Cup medals.(stand to correcton coz I lost count)

Steven Gerard:
Had his Kettle and his Toester stolen !!

 

[Vladamir]

Toester

 

[cHodAX]

Toester

Not my spelling.

 

[Vladamir]

Lehmann coy on Arsenal deal | Sky Sports | Football | Premier League | News

Bring back Lehmann!

 

[gohan]

you all seem to forget that 3 years ago 30 million euros was only like 20 million sterling


so the reported figure at the time would have been correct but if united paid in instalment then the euro fucked them over abit

 

[gohan]

Lol, this gave me a good chuckle.

doesnt really work tho cos gerrard has 2 fa cup medals 1 champ league 1 euro cup 1 league cup 1 euro super cup and 1 charity shield that i can recall of the top of my head, may be 2 league cups tho and possibly 2 charity shields

granted it's nowhere near as much but it's not to be stiffed at

would work better with frabregas xD