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Just listening to my beloved Chelsea FC on the 'net playing Blackburn Rovers - we're 3-2 up, and the aging Gianfranco Zola has scored twice.
Now I was going to transfer him out of my fantasy football team but I was too lazy and he repays me like this!
Gotta love that gnome!
Sadly I got rid of my favourite player Jesper Gronkjaer in favour of our other winger Zenden, and Jesper only goes and scores his first goal of the season.
Oh well 5 mins to go.
....Shut up :)
Do you support Blackburn or something mate?
No one round here likes Football.
Besides, MUFC assrapes Chelsea anyways. :p
If assraping = us slaughtering you 5-0 when we won the Charity Shield in either '99 or 2000 (I forget) and us exchanging 3-0 wins at each others respective home grounds - oh and our last encounter - a draw.Quote:
Originally posted by mattvanstone
No one round here likes Football.
Besides, MUFC assrapes Chelsea anyways. :p
Matt - you got any space in your current fantasy league for me? I'm doing one at work, but could always do with another.
How do you keep up to date with results? Do you ever get to watch any live games?
Only 2 brits around here.
Right-o then.
'stead of dropping by and then pissing off with a sarcy comment, why not adopt a Premiership team?
Then you can join the future conversations I intend to have with mattvanstone as Chelsea (hopefully) maintain their lead over MUFC.
Which Fantasy League have you joined? I'm with The Times. I've just had to transfer out Desailly because he kept losing me points sadly. My midfield are letting me down bigtime but Henry and Shearer up front guarentees points there.
I'm with the Telegraph:
I have:
Cudicini
Craig Short
Danny Mills
William Gallas
Jason MacAteer (sp?)
Bolo Zenden
Ryan Giggs
N. Solano
JFH
Zola
Robbie Keane.
sadly I had Gronkjaer who I swapped for Bolo just as Gronk plays the best game of his Chelsea career - a double shame because he is my favourite Chelsea player.
Is there a decent online league you, me and manvanstone could join if we felt like it?
Yep, and I hate football. :bang:Quote:
Originally posted by xS
Only 2 brits around here.
Salutations Sambo - havn't bumped into you for a while. How's stuff?
I've been to Germany to witness WRC 2 Extreme - nice and I'm off to X02. Don;t suppose you happen to be making the trip to Seville too?
hmmm...last time CFC won anything?
/me thinks back to old.
Now if you want to say Arsenal or Liverpool are better than MUFC, you have a solid argument. Chelsea? Nope.
T'is true - we havn't won anything since the Charity Shield and the FA cup a few years back. As for Arsenal or Liverpool being better than MUFC - I don't think so. Look at their comparative European performances.Quote:
Originally posted by mattvanstone
hmmm...last time CFC won anything?
/me thinks back to old.
Now if you want to say Arsenal or Liverpool are better than MUFC, you have a solid argument. Chelsea? Nope.
Sadly we are famed for our underachieving superstars.
Oh, well - it's not like it's a glory thing.
Stuff is okay, but not great. And I won't be going to X02. I am thinking of taking a year out of this industry and doing some travelling and so on. Hmm. And I quit the Edge forums; too much bullshit posting all the damn time.Quote:
Originally posted by Nikorasu
Salutations Sambo - havn't bumped into you for a while. How's stuff?
I've been to Germany to witness WRC 2 Extreme - nice and I'm off to X02. Don;t suppose you happen to be making the trip to Seville too?
i wish i could go to a wrc event.Quote:
Originally posted by Nikorasu
Salutations Sambo - havn't bumped into you for a while. How's stuff?
I've been to Germany to witness WRC 2 Extreme
Oooo football thread!! :)
I don't have strong feelings about Chelsea. One of my closest friends supports Fulham and he loathed them. He won't even wear the colour blue because of Chelsea. Heh... I support Liverpool. I watch as many games as I can... I can't wait to get the new black away strip. It's really nice, of course, I already have 5-6 other ones.
As for watching live games, a nice note to anyone living in NA... GET FOX SPORTS WORLD or FOX SPORTS WORLD CANADA! You get tonnes of games from all around Europe and SA, plus Sky Sports News! It's practically the only channel I watch.
Oh, and as for MVS, well, ManUre supporter...Location: Los Angeles.. yup, that's far enough away from Manchester!
Heh, I know you're originally from England... but, well, you know..
Sggg...I was born in Manchester, England.
Read the rest of my post. I said I already knew that. ;)Quote:
Originally posted by mattvanstone
Sggg...I was born in Manchester, England.
Besides, everyone from Manchester supports City. :p
Man city sucks balls. Oasis likes them, that alone is reason to hate them...buwahhahahaha.
Stockport County is cool though, I would support them as well.
I love it when people say "we" as if they are on the team.
If you are on the team then pardon my commment.
Well, yeh City sucks and I must admit I laughed when they went down to Division 2. I am ashamed to say I used to know the guys in Oasis and I talked to them a few times about City... I also remember seeing the Manics (I don't really like them actually, but I got dragged to a show once) and one of their roadies wearing a City away kit after the show when we were hanging out... So, I was taking the piss out of City's relegation but he was good natured and gave me a nice Manics t-shirt. He was just happy to talk football with someone (this took place in NJ)...
If I was from Manchester I would support Macclesfield Town. That's the hometown of the sadly defunct band Marion.. They were Macc Town fansand got me a little interested in the team.
Anyway, in NA it's hard to support minnows, as they're never on television, except the odd cup tie.. but I do follow the tables. I am happy I get to see planty of Liverpool matches. :)
Speaking of Chelsea... and speaking as a fan of Icelandic football (really!).. I just have to say that Eiđer Guđjohnsen kicks arse! :)
He's no Milan Baroš (2 goals on his debut!) of course, but he's great. ;)
Oh Yes!Quote:
Originally posted by sggg
Speaking of Chelsea... and speaking as a fan of Icelandic football (really!).. I just have to say that Eiđer Guđjohnsen kicks arse! :)
He's no Milan Baroš (2 goals on his debut!) of course, but he's great. ;)
Eider rocks completely. He's is now officially 'off the mark' with two goals in our 3-0 stuffing of Newcastle. And what did the mighty ManU manage? To lose 1-0 to Leeds. Anyway, I think we're 4th now - about what I expected, and a million miles better than all the pundits reckoned. But then what do they know?
Nikorasu, you must buy this t-shirt. :lol:
I think Chelsea is a strong contender to win the league title. Since Abramovich bought the team, he's been spending more money than even Real Madrid in the transfer market. They just agreed to fee with Parma to get their striker Mutu. I was kind of disappointed to see Veron leave for Chelsea, but then again I think that there are plenty of people that take take his spot and probably play a better game. Of course I don't think Chelsea will even be runner-up with Man. Utd winning again and Arsenal finishing runner-up again.
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Abramovich should just bribe the hell out of everyone.
What was I gonna say? Oh, right.
BARNSLEY FOREVER! Yeah.
I think Chelsea might struggle with chemistry. In any sport it's hard to put so much talent together so quickly and expect them to be a team. It will certainly be interesting to see how they do this season.
I think chemistry will only become an issue if the team starts off poorly. There's a lot of hype and expectation around this team and if the struggle early on, it could lead to chemistry problems. I don't see Chelsea doing any better than 3rd spot. Can't wait for next Saturday.Quote:
Originally Posted by sggg
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Yeh, well, my point was that it may be very hard for them to start off well simply because they are unfamilier with each other and it may take time to gel.. We'll see. :)
Ah yes, watching Chelsea lose to Harry Kewell and the Mighty Reds will be nice indeed. Revenge for last season. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by spacecowboy
Michael Owen is my fav player from Liverpool. In my opinion, he's the reason England got as far as the did in World Cup '02. But I'll have to agree with you, I hope Liverpool beats Chelsea.Quote:
Originally Posted by sggg
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Wanting Liverpool to win anything maked you a most unusual ManU supporter. :p
Micheal Owen is a god though. ;)
I dislike Chelsea more than Liverpool, especially since Abramovich bought the team.Quote:
Originally Posted by sggg
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Yeh, I see where you are coming from. I am not a fan of the spending spree. On the other hand, it would be nice to see anyone besides Man U or Arsenal winning. So, I won't be supporting them or anything but I would rather see them on top than the usual suspects. :p
At least they have Guđjonsen. ;)
I don't think Owen will ever live up to his potential.
He's not the pure goalscoarer of Van Nistelroy, nor the skilled player of Dennis Bergkamp. He gets injured far too much to do anything of note.
Still a great player, just not as good as he could have been or was supposed to be.
What a bizarre thread to bump, but I get the point about the Chelski T-shirt. Maybe I will purchase...
I think Chelsea have a very realistic chance of grabbing third place this season, but I am a little worried about the first match at Liverpool. Not because of pre-season results (which have been ok) but because even since then, we've bought another shed-load (geddit????) of players.
Adding Bridge and Duff to the team, no issues of them not gelling. But replacing half the midfield and whacking Mutu in? It's going to be an interesting match...
Now if you'd said Henry or Gianfranco Zola instead of Bergkamp I'd have agreed, but for all his skill, he didn;t score enough goals last season for my liking.Quote:
Originally Posted by MVS
Bergkamp hardly plays, what can he do?