Football The 2011/2012 Season Thread

[Ch3tan]

Bugger, forgot about the play-offs starting today. Those dirty hammers are winning 0-1.

 

[Everz]

Another fail for you! All season long, you need a holiday my little orange and black mate!

Stubborn git.

 

[Everz]

Next season georgie..

 

[georgie]

Next season georgie..

What, playoffs again?

 

[Shagrat]

And rooneys goal won the vote for best goal in the20 years the prem has been running. What a load of bollocks, there were a number that were better in a load of ways.

 

[Keitanz]

And rooneys goal won the vote for best goal in the20 years the prem has been running. What a load of bollocks, there were a number that were better in a load of ways.

It's because it was recent, way more people remember it so they voted for that :/

Flawed vote ftw.

 

[Billargh]

 

[megadave]

Wtf? Which goal?

 

[Shagrat]

His overhead kick against city when he shinned it

 

[Gray]

Without looking i'd imagine it's


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_kbJURsfzU


Hence why he doesn't like it... ;

/edit

Meh, maybe i was wrong then!

 

[Aoami]

And rooneys goal won the vote for best goal in the20 years the prem has been running. What a load of bollocks, there were a number that were better in a load of ways.

must be kids voting. were their any other united goals nominated? could just be fucking Malaysians.

 

[megadave]

That wouldn't even win goal of the month this month if it was an impartial vote

 

[Turamber]

It was a good goal but the winner? Load of bollocks.

Remind me of all the '100 best ever' lists in 1999... All completely dominated by people, songs, films from the previous 4 or 5 years. The vast majority of people are morons.

 

[eksdee]

The vast majority of people are morons.

I know you are but what am I?

 

[Raven]

Giggs vs Arsenal a couple of years ago lone run through pretty much the entire Arsenal squad, from the top of my head is better than Rooney's goal.

 

[DaGaffer]

Giggs vs Arsenal a couple of years ago lone run through pretty much the entire Arsenal squad, from the top of my head is better than Rooney's goal.

Doesn't count. That was in the FA Cup. The competition was best Prem Goal. I do think the Rooney goal is top 3 from the list they gave, but I actually think the Tony Yeboah one was the best. Ironically we've seen three goals in the last couple of weeks that are better than anything in the last 20 years.

 

[soze]

Every supporter of a different club will have a different goal. I prefer Bergkamp vs Newcastle, Henry vs Utd and RVP vs Charlton as they are 3 of my favourite goals.

 

[soze]

“[We want to make early signings] if possible, yes,” he told Arsenal Player. “We wanted at least one target to be sorted out early.

“Now we are in a position where the second part of our signings will be to take care of the players who are injured and to get them back for the start of next season.

“I think of course about Jack Wilshere, and about Abou Diaby. Per Mertesacker I think will be ready at the start of next season. Then, if you look at our squad, we have quite a big one and before we buy again we have to look at how many players we will have.

Where is that face palm meme

 

[Wazzerphuk]

So we have a 12:45 kick off tomorrow, only Prem game on the Saturday, hours before the FA Cup with no overrun and we're not on TV.

Fuck off will you? When are we going to get a remotely fair TV deal for this country? It's a disgrace when foreign territories get better access to more games than we do.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Chelsea want to acquire Battersea Power Station and grounds to build 60,000 seater stadium.

Why? They don't even sell out their Champions League group games at Stamford Bridge.

 

[Embattle]

Chelsea want to acquire Battersea Power Station and grounds to build 60,000 seater stadium.

Why? They don't even sell out their Champions League group games at Stamford Bridge.

That was talked about ages a go unless there has been some more information about it.

Seems there is now something official then - http://www.chelseafc.com/page/LatestNews/0,,10268~2759942,00.html

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Keep up fella

 

[cHodAX]

Chelsea want to acquire Battersea Power Station and grounds to build 60,000 seater stadium.

Why? They don't even sell out their Champions League group games at Stamford Bridge.

They live under the illusion that they can get 60,000 spectators in for 25 games a season at current or higher ticket prices when the truth is they could probably manage it for 10 games. They have seen what Arsenal have done and decided to cash in by moving to a new build and using the sale of apartments on the old ground to partially or fully fund the move. Thing is Arsenal can fill 60,000 even at silly prices but I have my doubts about Chelsea and if those numbers don't happen then how do Chelsea work within FFP?

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Yeah they don't seem to understand that Arsenal's fan base is considerably higher than theirs.

Also, Wenger's 900th Arsenal game tomorrow. And a stat to celebrate: Even if Arsène Wenger were to lose each of his next 100 games, he would still have the best win percentage of any Arsenal manager in history.

 

[cHodAX]

Also, Wenger's 900th Arsenal game tomorrow. And a stat to celebrate: Even if Arsène Wenger were to lose each of his next 100 games, he would still have the best win percentage of any Arsenal manager in history.

And the record for the longest period without any silverware?

 

[soze]

I love Wenger but I really wish he would stop saying players returning from Injury are like a new signing, as easily as they got injured last time they can get injured again. So if the squad was not up to it last time the squad is still not up to it

 

[cHodAX]

Soze gave me the thumb, bad bastard!

 

[DaGaffer]

They live under the illusion that they can get 60,000 spectators in for 25 games a season at current or higher ticket prices when the truth is they could probably manage it for 10 games. They have seen what Arsenal have done and decided to cash in by moving to a new build and using the sale of apartments on the old ground to partially or fully fund the move. Thing is Arsenal can fill 60,000 even at silly prices but I have my doubts about Chelsea and if those numbers don't happen then how do Chelsea work within FFP?

Chelsea could fill a 60K stadium. Not with fans, but with a location like that, they could get tourists in week in week out (who couldn't get in to The Emirates and value their lives too much to try Tottenham). Not exactly what Chelsea fans want to hear but it would be possible, especially as Chelsea have massively raised their international profile over the last few years (I saw a lot more replica Chelsea shirts when I was in South America than Arsenal ones). The only other team in England who could regularly fill a 60K stadium with its own fans is Liverpool.

 

[cHodAX]

Chelsea could fill a 60K stadium. Not with fans, but with a location like that, they could get tourists in week in week out (who couldn't get in to The Emirates and value their lives too much to try Tottenham). Not exactly what Chelsea fans want to hear but it would be possible, especially as Chelsea have massively raised their international profile over the last few years (I saw a lot more replica Chelsea shirts when I was in South America than Arsenal ones). The only other team in England who could regularly fill a 60K stadium with its own fans is Liverpool.

The problem with your theory is that it doesn't happen for Champions League games as Wazz has already said. Also how does moving it out to Battersea make that any more viable? Moving south of the river doesn't automatically mean it is going to be a better area does it? I don't know that part of London that well but isn't Chelsea fairly upmarket and Battersea less so? Surely that alone means less tourists?

 

[eksdee]

Stamford Bridge is already full of tourists tbh.