The Weekend Premiership Thread: Delicious Derbies Included

PDN

Babybing wrote: »

You dont expect to win a home game against a second string Spurs team?

He didn't say what he expected. He said Arsenal shouldn't have won.

I presume English is not your first language?

Mossy Monk

Babybing wrote: »

You dont expect to win a home game against a second string Spurs team?




That says it all imo.

Three points after a poor performance. what is embarrassing about that?

leninbenjamin

Babybing wrote: »

You dont expect to win a home game against a second string Spurs team?

Of course i would have. and they did. but they shouldn't have based on the performances of the two teams. yet they did because Spurs are a shambles basically and because Arsenal came up with the goods when they had to, unlike Spurs.

You're adding a strange slant to this if i may say so....

mayordenis

well unlike spurs arsenal have been winning all season for me they were actually reasonably comfortable, and in any derby game you don't expect either team to run away with the game regardless of the considerable gulf in talent between the two sides.

Fuzzy_Dunlop

Haha you can always count on some spurs fans to put their own little spin on things. 'We managed to throw away a game in which you played woefully, you guys really should be embarrassed with coming back and taking 3 points' Nice logic there

Running Bing

PDN wrote: »

He didn't say what he expected. He said Arsenal shouldn't have won.

I presume English is not your first language?

I know he didnt say that. I never stated he did?

I presume English is not your first language.

Fair enough you lads are happy with that performance thats fine. I just expected that going to a team at the top of the league with ambitions of winning it with a second string team we would have been given a football lesson. We were'nt, I am surprised thats all I am saying.


If you lads are confident you will be top come May fair enough, thats all that matters. We'll wait and see.

Running Bing

playa3 wrote: »

Haha you can always count on some spurs fans to put their own little spin on things. 'We managed to throw away a game in which you played woefully, you guys really should be embarrassed with coming back and taking 3 points' Nice logic there

Im not putting any spin on things. We lost 2-1, thats a fact.


Im just giving my opinion of the Arsenal performance.

leninbenjamin

Babybing wrote: »

I know he didnt say that. I never stated he did?

you mightn't have said it explicitly but you fairly damn implied it though.

Mossy Monk

Babybing wrote: »

with a second string team we would have been given a football lesson

Some impressive players there for a second string team.

Evil_Clown

The arsenal performance was poor, this will happen sometimes
Many pundits and managers have said that a sign of a good team is to not play well and win. What happened today ??

Arsenal were always criticised for not being able to win ugly
Well I give you winning ugly and it still feels great.

On a lighter note ha ha ha top four tottenham suck !!!!!

PHB

Torres, world class! Kuyt, my class

mike65

Citeh have opened the scoring

Yossi!!!!!!!!!!!! Liverpool one up

Mike.

mayordenis

sexual ****ing healing

mike65

Rofles.

Mike.

jank

Two things have surprised me today.

1. The Arsenal performance-embarrassing for them imo. This is basically the second string Spurs team and we ran them close. I imagine that is pretty humiliating. I really dont think they will win the league if they play like that aginst our ressies.

2. The Arsenal fans-Supposedly 55,000 of them in there today...can you hear them? no? didnt think so. Prawn sandwiches for everyone.

Typical Yid response.

Arsenal played ****, i thought Spurs were actually very good but they still lost!
8 years and counting.

Arsenal will have to up their performances from now on though...

KdjaCL

lol horrible own goal




kdjac

PHB

lol, comedy of errors.
Harry 'England Manager' Redknapp looks flabergasted.

mike65

Torres is all over the place, sounds like Pompey need to make a sub at LB.

Portsmouth were 7-1 for a win, which seemed foolishly generous at the time. I was'nt tempted.

Mike.

Guy:Incognito

Yossi should have laid that off, those tight angkle shots with players in the way always get skewed wide. He had a great opening for about a second to slide it to Kuyt for a tap in.

KdjaCL

is the sound broke at pool match or is unaturally quiet?


kdjac

mayordenis

whoever sorts out setantas coverage definately doesnt mic the stadiums like sky do, but it is a bit on the quite side.

Guy:Incognito

KdjaCL wrote: »

is the sound broke at pool match or is unaturally quiet?


kdjac

Just havign a quiet day. An early 2-0 lead and a comfortable game tends to mean the team dont need much encouragement,

Plus everybody probably has scarves over their faces.

Guy:Incognito

What an utterly pointless card for Arbeloa to take, gob****e.

mike65

Its quiet on the radio as well. There's no tension.

Mike.

PHB

Can someone please explain to me why you'd play a high line against Liverpool?

Guy:Incognito

mike65 wrote: »

Its quiet on the radio as well. There's no tension.

Mike.

Would you rather Pompey got 2 to create a bit?:D

Guy:Incognito

PHB wrote: »

Can someone please explain to me why you'd play a high line against Liverpool?

Don't question Harry's tactics, he's a genius dontcha know.

PHB

Like come on, play deep, let them play high, use your pace to hit them on the counter. Instead, it's allowing them to play deep, Portsmouth to play high, and allowing Torres pace to punish them on the counter. Cop the **** on like.

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PHB wrote: »

Like.. like.

Are you from Cork?

mr_angry

mayordenis wrote: »

whoever sorts out setantas coverage definately doesnt mic the stadiums like sky do, but it is a bit on the quite side.

The stadiums are miked-up as standard. Sky send commentators to the actual game though, and presuambly their own mics pick up a lot of ambient sound. By the sounds of things, Setanta have a couple of guys sitting in a studio somewhere, doing things on the cheap.

mike65

Ho-hum. Pool have forgotton how to keep a clean sheet.

Mike.

mike65

Some goals flying in late on Torres again plus Reading and Wigan go ahead.

Mike.

leninbenjamin

mr_angry wrote: »

The stadiums are miked-up as standard. Sky send commentators to the actual game though, and presuambly their own mics pick up a lot of ambient sound. By the sounds of things, Setanta have a couple of guys sitting in a studio somewhere, doing things on the cheap.

it's just the mix. some guy in the editing room will be responsible for blending the sounds of the stadium and commentators together. Sky actually are the worst for this i think, they regularly drown out the commentators.

also: I find it really hard to believe that Setanta wouldn't have a commentator in the press box seeing as RTE do.

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:mad:

Bleedin' Sunderland.

mike65

Nice work son. Torres 14 goals this season.

Mike.

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Long and Hunt, you beauts.

GET IN!!

mike65

Looked like that was'nt going to be given for a moment but your good friends are doing the business.

Mike.

GuanYin

There is no way in earth, the linesman could have seen that go overthe line. Awful decision.... (that said, happy they scored)

OPENROAD

Babybing wrote: »

You dont expect to win a home game against a second string Spurs team?


Second string spurs team, who normally plays insted of Robinson,Chimbonba,Marlbranque,Lennon,Keane,Berbatov.

OPENROAD

jank wrote: »

Typical Yid response.

Arsenal played ****, i thought Spurs were actually very good but they still lost!


Didn't think they were very good,they did enough to get a draw, but Arsenal more shots on target, possession. We were not totally on form today, but this team will fight and fight. The sign of champions grinding out results imo,even if that twat had scored the pen, I am sure we would have scored.

Mr.Nice Guy

I wonder if that O'Hara lad for Spurs has any Irish ancestry. He looked a tidy player.

mikemac

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

I wonder if that O'Hara lad for Spurs has any Irish ancestry. He looked a tidy player.

Oh sure, he has an Irish sounding name so he must be Irish

Nope, he's fully English and my stint as a manger in Football Manager 08 confirms this.

OPENROAD

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

I wonder if that O'Hara lad for Spurs has any Irish ancestry. He looked a tidy player.

Think he might have had a pint of Guinness once.

Nunu

The Premiership now....what are Giles and Cunningham smoking?
There is no way Hunts goal crossed the line!

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It was definitely over.

Definitely, without a doubt over the line, one hundred percent.

I love the paddy power segments before and after the ad breaks on that show. Very funny.

Nunu

DesF wrote: »

It was definitely over.

Definitely, without a doubt over the line, one hundred percent.

I love the paddy power segments before and after the ad breaks on that show. Very funny.

No way the whole ball was over, it actually looked bang on the goal line. The only angle RTE showed is misleading being that the camera is looking in about 12 yards out.
Sky will vindicate me with proper analysis of it...or maybe even the BBC later on?

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It doesn't matter what kind of propaganda Sky or BBC come up with. The ball was over the line.

Nunu

DesF wrote: »

It doesn't matter what kind of propaganda Sky or BBC come up with. The ball was over the line.

Oh, I see:D

mike65

Having just seen the goal I'd have given it (assuming I wasn't 60 yards away facing the wrong direction). The angle was not perfect but looking at the keepers arm as he scooped the ball out I think all the ball was across the line.

Mike.

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mike65 wrote: »

Having just seen the goal I'd have given it

Yeah, because it was over the line.