[Adrian Powers]

Liverpool V United today.

I'm pretty nervous which is a good sign because it means I think we actually have a chance Torres is showing signs of being close to his best and Gerrard has played better over the last 2 games. I'm worried about our defence but I reckon Carra will hammer Rooney before Vidic gets sent off for fouling Torres after he's beaten him for the 10th time and Gerrard will score from the resulting penalty.

Easy!

Edit: Football thread! That should make it easier to find this in the search

I actually think Rooney will make Carragher look sort of lame and frail, I'm hopeful that he won't but I think it's a very possible outcome...

If 'Pool and Blackburn can pull nothing short of a miracle between them then we may well clock out at the top of the table this weekend!

[Dragonz Dancer]

I actually think http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f156/rothwellwhite26/Shrek06small.jpg will make Carragher look sort of lame and frail, I'm hopeful that he won't but I think it's a very possible outcome...

Sorted it :thumbsup:

[Chad Holloway]

Arggh lost 2-1.

Pretty disappointed on 2 accounts. Firstly was our poor link up play between midfield and attack and the second was because of the (probably predictably ) ref.

We're still missing Alonso and what we did well in the last 2 games was allow our 2nd center midfielder to push on. Here they stood back too much and the only option between Masch and Lucas - Gerrard and Torres was the wings and Maxi and Kuyt are hardly top quality wingers (great cross by Kuyt for Torres' goal though). Also when we did make second half chances Torres fluffed up twice, which is due to the fact the pitch was pretty crappy (bobbly and slippy).

Now the ref. The pen decision for United was a shocker. It's a foul and a booking but Masch clearly fouled Valencia about 5-10 yards outside the box. Valencia carried on playing until he flung himself down in the box. It's a shocking decision. If someone was slide tackled on the half line and then continued to stumble on into the box before flinging themselves down would it be a penalty? No! So it shouldn't have been a pen here either. Shocking decision. Then we had Neville trying to karate kick Maxi in the face without being penalised and then Fletcher kicked Kuyt over and tried to start on him after Kuyt did the terrible thing of fairly winning the ball of off him. That one should've been a red card in my opinion - violent conduct and stuff and nothing happened.

I groaned when I saw Howard Webb walk out today. It turned out by worries were right :/

Also Carra was fine against Rooney. He did bugger all today.

[matt]

I actually thought Rooney played quite well, holding up the ball and letting the midfielders surge forwards and support him. Countless times I watched him recieve the ball with his back to goal and I don't really remember him losing out on too many, he's just so solid. He did a much better all round job than Torres. Torres scored a brilliant header, went invisible, fluffled a few chances and then the final whistle went. I wanted to see him terrorise Vidic (He's such a [censored]) but it never really happened to the extent I was expecting .

Vermaelen was also penalised and sent off for something that wasn't really a penalty yesterday, Reina's save was almost identical to Almunias except he shoved it straight back down Rooney's throat whereas Al got it round the post, it was a little unfortunate.

I'm going to leave before the Utd fans arrive, not top of the table anymore :meh:

[Kahli St Dennis]

I'm going to leave before the Utd fans arrive, not top of the table anymore :meh:

Leeds fans say "We all love George Graham" :foodndrink:

[Avril Churchill]

Rangers 1 - 0 St. Mirren

Good on the team to go on and win from 2 men down. First trophy of the season in the bag.

[Greg Cavaliere]

Leeds fans say "We all love George Graham" :foodndrink:

I remember when Georgie Boy first took charge of us if you had problems sleeping then all you had to do was go to Elland Road boy was it boring to start with. Then just as he started to get things right he buggered off back to London :shocking:

[Celestine Stardust]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/c/celtic/8586352.stm



Aww man There might actually be some competition for the league next season now :/


EDIT: Fun fact: Walter Smith has now seen off a THIRD of all Celtic managers.

[Eire Charlotta]

Hearts 1 - 4 Rangers

Cracking game. And here's one from the BBC live text:

1548:
It's raining goals in the SPL: Hallelujah!


1546: HALF-TIME CELTIC 1-0 KILMARNOCK

1545: GOAL! FALKIRK 1-3 HIBERNIAN (SOL BAMBA)

1544: GOAL! HAMILTON 1-0 ST JOHNSTONE (JAMES WESOLOWSKI

1543: GOAL! DUNDEE UTD 2-0 MOTHERWELL (PRINCE BUABEN)

1537: GOAL! DUNDEE UTD 1-0 MOTHERWELL (ANDY WEBSTER)

1536: GOAL! ABERDEEN 1-0 ST MIRREN (ZANDER DIAMOND)

1535: GOAL! CELTIC 1-0 KILMARNOCK (ROBBIE KEANE)

1534: GOAL! FALKIRK 1-2 HIBERNIAN (ANTHONY STOKES)

[Sweets Sweets]

Its raining goals at Luton as well

H\T Luton 7 Hayes & Yeading 0
Kevin Gallen 7 , 23
Claude Gnakpa 11 , 13
Keith Keane 26
Tom Craddock 31
Jake Howells 35

[Emma Copeland]

Chelsea have beaten Villa 7-1 today as well. Obviously Liverpool haven't played otherwise we'd have broken the goal fest with a lame 0-0 draw / 0-1 defeat.

[D LOpez]

11 points clear...

[Poetic Vice]

You support Norwich?

[lucile]

Meh, we need someone to counteract the alarming number of Leeds fans in here.

[An Lor]

St. Johnstone 4 - 1 Rangers


Let's pretend that didn't happen. We can afford to.

[Catharine Krupinski]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/m/man_utd/8595930.stm :rofl:

[josh evans]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/m/man_utd/8595930.stm :rofl:

Love this misquote at the link you gave
"And Bayern coach Louis van Gaal said he hoped that Rooney's injury was too serious." bwuahahaha etc

[Jose ordaz]

Getting very nervous now, I'm really looking forward to the game but I'm scurred. The hairs on my neck are standing on end, it's gonna be good for the neutrals at least.

On the bright side we have pretty much a full strength team out (Except RvP) http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/team-news-fabregas-and-gallas-both-start

Heres hoping Almunia doesn't play like a [censored], again.

[Claire Jackson]

You support Norwich?

Yeah, not hugely though, I only go to big games and I don;t really follow it that much. Didn't go to the Norwich/Leeds game either, though I did hear a really good version of 'Always Look on the Bright Side of Life' from our fans...

[Javaun Thompson]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1262650/West-Ham-six-new-pink-Ann-Summers-kit.html

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/2915909/See-the-incredible-new-innovation-set-to-take-football-by-storm.html


:lol:

[Adam Baumgartner]

Yeah, not hugely though, I only go to big games and I don;t really follow it that much. Didn't go to the Norwich/Leeds game either, though I did hear a really good version of 'Always Look on the Bright Side of Life' from our fans...

:laugh:

HEY! What could be bigger than Leeds? Doubled your gate at least.

[Carlos Rojas]

:laugh:

HEY! What could be bigger than Leeds? Doubled your gate at least.

We always do every home team Leeds play is always thier biggest gate of the season

[Lizbeth Ruiz]

We always do every home team Leeds play is always thier biggest gate of the season

It is always nice to relax at a home game, safe in the knowledgte you'll be beating your visiting opponents. Does wonders for the gates! Unless you're Man Utd (Your sig reminded me) mwahahaha


HOLY [censored] WE'RE THE SOCCER THREAD!

SOMEONE WILL PAY... :flame:

[Kortniie Dumont]

:laugh:

HEY! What could be bigger than Leeds? Doubled your gate at least.

Man U?


Ooohhhh!!!

Just kidding, I hate them too.

EDIT:

Oh this is too far! My beautiful football thread has turned into an abomination! EVIL IS ARIFE!

HOLY [censored] WE'RE THE SOCCER THREAD!

SOMEONE WILL PAY...

GODAMN IT TIHS MAEKS ME SOO MADD I'M TYPNG IN CAPS!!!!

[Robert Garcia]

Oh this is too far! My beautiful football thread has turned into an abomination! EVIL IS ARIFE!