Football The 2013 / 2014 Season Thread

[megadave]

matic was great, what a result

 

[ileks]

matic was great, what a result

Yeah he looked really good. Hazard was brilliant as well. He must be absolutely knackered after playing like that for 90 minutes.

 

[caLLous]

And Willian.

 

[Shagrat]

arsenal back on top then!

 

[eksdee]

Willian, Hazard, Matic were unreal, but a great team performance all round. Absolutely criminal that we didn't score more tbfh. Eto'o puts in a good shift but he just isn't quite the striker we need anymore.

 

[Billargh]

Well done Chelsea, didn't see the match but that's some feat. Will watch it tomorrow sometime!

Also, Joe Kinnear is gone.

http://www1.skysports.com/football/...oe-kinnear-resigns-from-newcastle-united-role

 

[caLLous]

Well, colour me surprised.

 

[Billargh]

Pardew's chuffed to bits.

 

[Moriath]

Pardew's chuffed to bits.

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Too late to save their season

 

[caLLous]

Hrrhrr.

Manchester United Midfielder Michael Carrick Mocked on #AskCarrick Hashtag

 

[Billargh]

Too late to save their season

Our season is going perfectly for our owner. We're not doing well enough to be hassled by pesky Europe, we're not doing bad enough to get relegated and we're out of those annoying domestic cup competitions. This is exactly where MA wants us to be.

I can't help but feel the resignation of Kinnear is just something to appease the fans though, to get them off his back, to stop people cancelling season tickets and to try and pry them back to home games. I don't think it will work.

 

[caLLous]

Or he was taken on specifically to get Pardew out of his long contract and it didn't work...

 

[Billargh]

Or that. Pardew won't get sacked, he'll just keep getting pushed until he jumps.

 

[Aoami]

Pardew shouldn't be sacked either. He is doing a decent job with what he's got. You Geordies are starting to sound like Scousers.

 

[Billargh]

No one (or anyone with sense) is saying Pardew should get sacked, he's doing a decent job with the pitiful resources he's got.

 

[Aoami]

OH sorry, i thought you were implying that he should be

 

[Billargh]

Nah man, I really don't rate Pardew that much but if we were to give him the boot, we certainly wouldn't get anyone superior in.

 

[Hawkwind]

Alan Shearer still saying no then?

 

[caLLous]

 

[caLLous]

 

[caLLous]

Um, Laudrup has gone... I know they're struggling but I didn't see that coming. They'll surely struggle to find someone as good as him at this stage of the season.

 

[Olgaline]

Stupid call. (should have waited until summer)
he cant help that his best players are injured without ample replacement (wich he asked for and denied in both transfer windows)

 

[Ch3tan]

Clearly more going on than we know about. On the face of it it seems stupid, however their have been constant rumors about other clubs going for him since started there, might be the club have pushed before he jumps and tried to get some stability in before summer.

 

[Olgaline]

If that's true,
then I'd call it a very, very poor and distasteful stab in the back.

I do think you are right though, about there beeing more to it than meets the public eye.

 

[Aoami]

Dunno about that. If we lost 2-0 to that West Ham side i'd be saying get rid of the manager and sack all the players while you're at it.

 

[Olgaline]

"First major trophy, PRL 9th, Michu, Chico, Davies, Pablo, De Guzman, shelwey,past european group stage, through MU away in FA - 19 month"

 

[Billargh]

It's that pesky Europa League's fault! Pardew was right to condemn it all this time.

 

[Aoami]

I don't think this Muelensteen or w/e is going to last long... no. 2 seems to suit him better.

 

[Raven]

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/sport...-any-signatures-on-leaving-card-2014020583294

 

[georgie]

Um, Laudrup has gone... I know they're struggling but I didn't see that coming. They'll surely struggle to find someone as good as him at this stage of the season.

w00t!
Cardiff do stupid shit, Swansea try to out-stupid us.