Premiership This Weekend

PHB

Man City vs. Man Utd - AWAY
Everton vs. Portsmouth - HOME
Fulham vs. Liverpool - DRAW
Newcastle vs. Blackburn - AWAY
Reading vs. Watford - HOME
West Ham vs. Bolton - HOME
Wigan vs. Middlesbro - DRAW
Aston Villa vs. Sheff Utd - HOME
Arsenal vs. Chelsea - DRAW

The Muppet

Man City vs. Man Utd - AWAY
Everton vs. Portsmouth - HOME
Fulham vs. Liverpool - AWAY
Newcastle vs. Blackburn - DRAW
Reading vs. Watford - HOME
West Ham vs. Bolton - AWAY
Wigan vs. Middlesbro - DRAW
Aston Villa vs. Sheff Utd - HOME
Arsenal vs. Chelsea - HOME

d22ontour

Man City vs. Man Utd - AWAY
Everton vs. Portsmouth - HOME
Fulham vs. Liverpool - AWAY
Newcastle vs. Blackburn - DRAW
Reading vs. Watford - HOME
West Ham vs. Bolton - DRAW
Wigan vs. Middlesbro - AWAY
Aston Villa vs. Sheff Utd - HOME
Arsenal vs. Chelsea - DRAW


Would make United champions.



16 times and counting...
17 years and counting...

PHB

I don't really care that much about the Arsenal result, as if we get a win against City today, which I think we will, then we need to get one draw against either Chelsea or West Ham.

county

Man City vs. Man Utd - AWAY
Everton vs. Portsmouth - DRAW
Fulham vs. Liverpool - DRAW
Newcastle vs. Blackburn - DRAW
Reading vs. Watford - HOME
West Ham vs. Bolton - HOME
Wigan vs. Middlesbro - DRAW
Aston Villa vs. Sheff Utd - HOME
Arsenal vs. Chelsea - DRAW

Dont be at yourself

That Man City game isn't a certainity by any means. This weekend is Chelsea's last chance - they need to beat Arsenal, and hope for Man City to do them a favour. Will we see the Man City 0-0 special today?

Kojak

Man City vs. Man Utd - Away
Everton vs. Portsmouth - Home
Fulham vs. Liverpool - Away
Newcastle vs. Blackburn - Draw
Reading vs. Watford - Home
West Ham vs. Bolton - Home
Wigan vs. Middlesbro - Away
Aston Villa vs. Sheff Utd - Home
Arsenal vs. Chelsea - Draw

zAbbo

Man City vs. Man Utd - Home
Everton vs. Portsmouth - Home
Fulham vs. Liverpool - Away
Newcastle vs. Blackburn - Draw
Reading vs. Watford - Home
West Ham vs. Bolton - Home
Wigan vs. Middlesbro - Away
Aston Villa vs. Sheff Utd - Home
Arsenal vs. Chelsea - Away

Im_No_Superman

Man City vs. Man Utd - AWAY
Everton vs. Portsmouth - HOME
Fulham vs. Liverpool - AWAY
Newcastle vs. Blackburn - HOME
Reading vs. Watford - HOME
West Ham vs. Bolton - DRAW
Wigan vs. Middlesbro - DRAW
Aston Villa vs. Sheff Utd - HOME
Arsenal vs. Chelsea - DRAW

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There's an excellent RealPlayer stream on the rojadirecta.com website for the Manc Derby at the moment.

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That was horrible on Ronaldo. Clear stamp, he'll be done by the FA later. Michael Ball. No need for it.

Ponster

seansouth wrote:

There's an excellent RealPlayer stream on the rojadirecta.com website for the Manc Derby at the moment.

Yep, True ESPN is uaually pretty good.

RasTa

What's the address for that steam? For some reason when i click on the link, it's not opening in sopcast. Tv ants isn't working for me either sincei upgrade media player.

Ponster

I don't think it's possible to stream w/o going via sopcast.

Turn off any anti-virus/peerguardian/anti-spam blockers and try again.

It can often be a firewall/router problem also.

Royale with Cheese

1-0 to united, innit

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Ball punished for his earlier horror stamp.

Fouls Ronaldo for a peno, which Ronaldo cooly slots home.

0-1.

leninbenjamin

united just playing keep ball now really.

daveg

Ball has to be done for that. Really bad thuggery.

besty

leninbenjamin wrote:

united just playing keep ball now really.

Last 5 minutes: United possession 86%

ROCKMAN

great save VDS

Royale with Cheese

ROCKMAN wrote:

great save VDS

Um nah. Horrendous miss Vassell

herbieflowers

oo-er!

ROCKMAN

Royale with Cheese wrote:

Um nah. Horrendous miss Vassell

TRUE i mean" great" as in big picture

herbieflowers

Utd hanging on!

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Is there a game on RTE/Setanta?

Royale with Cheese

Yeah, Fulham v Liverpool believe it or not

herbieflowers

No game on RTÉ, Fulham Pool on Setanta

daveg

Well they say it ain't over till the fat lady sings but the microphone is ready, she's walking towards the stage ready to start her singing.

Chelsea under massive pressure for tomorrows game.

~Rebel~

city really need to start practising penalties!

BKtje

or buy some confidence from somewhere

Attractive Nun

Arsenal's last big game of the season, at home, surely they're good for at least a draw with Chelsea. Unthinkable that United don't win the title now.

And I hope Michael Ball gets a heavy punishment for that stamp.

Royale with Cheese

Arsenal have nothing to play for really and nobody who can score. If Chelsea are up for it they'll win the game, but they've been looking a bit crap lately so I'm expecting Arsenal to get a draw.

Dave!

Good match there!

Vidic played a stormer, solid as a rock. Much better than his performance against Milan. Ferdinand was pretty good too. Vidic and Ferdinand both nearly got goals! Heinze was brutal - did he do anything except kick it back to VDS? 25 yards inside their half and he still kicked it back a few times. Dunno how we stayed afloat with only himself and Brown in defence (while the others were injured). Brown was pretty consistant.

Carrick didn't do anything outstanding, but didn't do any damage! Scholes played great... One of his better performances of late, but not as good as earlier in the season. Giggs had a terrible match. Gave the ball away a shocking amount of times, and didn't set up m/any opportunities. Ronaldo wasn't great, but then he DID spend the whole match getting kicked and stomped by Michael Ball :rolleyes: I can't believe he got through the match without even a booking. I would hope that he gets a suspension and a fine for his absolute thuggery. Disgusting. It was really great to see him give away the peno on Ronaldo, which Ronaldo converted, and which won us the match

Rooney didn't get many opportunities, but he seemed to be easily muscled off when he was on the ball. He's usually much stronger than that. Smith was decent enough. He didn't get any shots, but he was up there showing some muscle and keeping the pressure on.

I don't think we should kid ourselves about that peno It was a terrible peno, we were blessed by VDS's knee.

Good match.

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#there may be trouble ahead....#

Teves puts West Ham one up on Bolton after ten minutes.

:eek:

Football back in the courts :rolleyes:

Dave!

lol, indeed

PHB

Especially considering Tevez just put a second past Bolton. He's really putting himself on the market

PHB

The thing is, VDS did everything he could to put Vassall off. He got booked wasting so much time. I'd give the credit to the peno save to VDS, for totally psyching out Vassall. He made him take a bad peno, and then he procedded to save it.

We need one draw to win the league.
Can anyone envisage a situation where Chelsea beat United, West Ham need one point to stay up, United need one point to win the league, and we get a nice 0-0 draw, with both sets of fans going nuts

Royale with Cheese

2-0, oh dear. Tevez again. I can definitely see them being relegated by the courts

Royale with Cheese

PHB wrote:

The thing is, VDS did everything he could to put Vassall off. He got booked wasting so much time. I'd give the credit to the peno save to VDS, for totally psyching out Vassall. He made him take a bad peno, and then he procedded to save it.

Rubbish. It was an utterly awful penalty and VDS had fúck all to do with it. Nobody makes you take a bad peno, you either stick it away or bottle it like Vassell did. You seriously think VDS wasting a few seconds had anything to do with how awful that penalty was?

kensutz

With any luck they will get relegated by points or courts. If the results stay the same way next week is going to be very interesting.

Dave!

I don't think VDS made him take that badly..... As Royale with Cheese said, you either take a good peno or bottle it. There's only so much you can do if you're a keeper, and VDS did what he could, but really it's down to Vassell.

Mitch Connor

west ham 3 up, wigan 1 down..... ooooooooohhhhhhhhhh

kensutz

As it stands:


Sheff Utd 38 points
West Ham 38 points
Fulham 36 points

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Wigan 35 points
Charlton 33 points
Watford 24 points

kaisersose77

of course the longer it takes to take itis gonna put a bit more pressure on you, you could get a negtaive thought in a second and feck it up. If i was taking a penalty anyways I wouldnt want to be waiting.

leninbenjamin

Royale with Cheese wrote:

Rubbish. It was an utterly awful penalty and VDS had fúck all to do with it. Nobody makes you take a bad peno, you either stick it away or bottle it like Vassell did. You seriously think VDS wasting a few seconds had anything to do with how awful that penalty was?

I think there's statistical evidence somewheres that suggests that the longer the delay before taking a penalty the more likely a player is to miss, or something along those lines. can't remember where i heard it though...

it was a crap penalty though, a foot higher and it would have been in. there was more than a bit of luck involved.

The Muppet

PHB wrote:

The thing is, VDS did everything he could to put Vassall off. He got booked wasting so much time. I'd give the credit to the peno save to VDS, for totally psyching out Vassall. He made him take a bad peno, and then he procedded to save it.

We need one draw to win the league.
Can anyone envisage a situation where Chelsea beat United, West Ham need one point to stay up, United need one point to win the league, and we get a nice 0-0 draw, with both sets of fans going nuts

Spot on on the pen. Many pens blasted down the middle end up in the back of the net, good save from VDS in my book.

I don't envisage that scenario but I would settle for it.:)

PHB

Rubbish. It was an utterly awful penalty and VDS had fúck all to do with it. Nobody makes you take a bad peno, you either stick it away or bottle it like Vassell did. You seriously think VDS wasting a few seconds had anything to do with how awful that penalty was?

I think Dudek made Shevchenko miss that peno in the final shootout. Obviously, it doesn't work all the time, but I think that if a keeper puts off a player enough, he will take a **** peno.
It wasn't just wasting seconds, it was insisting that he put the ball back on the spot properly, and him waving his hands around before the goal. All of that contributed.

homerjay2005

the peno should never have been awarded, lets hope that thug ball who conned the ref to win the peno, gets the fine and suspension he deserves.

great day for united, lets hope we win it tomorrow.

Mossy Monk

homerjay2005 wrote:

lets hope that thug ball

Thug is putting it lightly. How did he go through that game without getting booked?

Pepe LeFrits

Actually pleased that Man United won today. Taking the title off Chelsea tomorrow would be a nice silver lining to finish off a fairly grey season for Arsenal.

homerjay2005

i think ball did get booked in the second half, not sure though. he definately deserved a straight red and then had 2 other rash challenges that warranted yellows.