Football Banter

(11-05-2011 22:05 )terence Wrote:  arsenal have been in the champions league 11 seasons in a row, 12 next year, writing them off for the champions league any year is foolish to say the least!

Writing Arsenal off for the champions league in any year is up there with one of the stupidest things I've heard lol

ok then son if you think thats stupid then thats ok by me. you have your opinion as well. like i have already said in earlier posts i think man city and chelsea will spend again and get stronger, and man utd will do something and i think fans of other teams should be careful of the scousers. so some1 i believe will drop out of the top 4 and i think it will be arsenal. like i have said to terrence, if i am wrong i will eat humble pie, ok son! now carry on with that law degree. me and your mum didnt pay for you to go to college so you could stay up till all hours sat on your fucking computer!

(12-05-2011 00:19 )HImyNAMEis..... Wrote:  

(11-05-2011 22:22 )Phoenix Wrote:  BUT let's just say I'm not buying into the whole 'Liverpool are back' vibe that's going on
Yeah sure they've probably been the 3rd best team in 2011, but it's not like they've been competing in other comps or had any pressure to succeed or even live up to any expections since their season was pretty much declared a scratch by Feb
So right now I'm expecting this years Top 4 to do the biz again next season

HALLE-FUCKING-LUJAH best post ive read in along while. dissapointed malicious as gone over to the dark side, even though he did declare his for me not so long ago

on the spurs players leaving debate, im hopin' modric will want to leave spurs because with the mersey mongs likely to be gettin' the europa spot they will have no european football and a couple of weeks ago SAF said he would of chose modric for PFA award so he's a fan and with scholes likely to retire at the end of the season he's a perfect replacement.

fonz, like a famous scouser said "but you will never stop me from loving you, it doesnt really matter what you put me through, you will never stop me from loving you" i love you fonz sorry you dont agree with my top 4 prediction!

(12-05-2011 00:25 )mitchell Wrote:  Congratulations Phoenix you've just taken over from malicious fan as my new Football Banter enemy!!!

(12-05-2011 00:25 )mitchell Wrote:  Errr, now I'm not gonna start goin on about league positions (I'll leave that to Master Yoda upon his return) as I've only started to take notice of it since we started to creep up on the dreaded 5th place but to say we've not had any pressure to succeed is just about the biggest miss guided quote of the decade,

Liverpool Football Club are (For the next 2 days) the most successful club in England & every season are expected by most to challenge for the title, This I don't understand as we've not won a league title for 21 years & have never won or even challenged for the Premier League yet every season when as you say "their season was pretty much declared a scratch by Feb" which seems to happen almost every season but still people are shocked when we don't get a European Cup place & even tools like Graeme Souness come out with, 'Oh it's gonna take 10 years to turn this team round' yeah try 4 months with all but 4 of the same squad, the reason for statments like this is because Liverpool are under immense pressure to 'get back to the glory days' but most don't realise or just want to ignore the fact that the Premier League is now the most difficult league in world football to compete in & has a history of having only 2 teams challenge for the winners spot i.e. Arsenal taking over from Chelsea in 2011 only for the roll to switch again in the past month or 2, put us in the top 4 next season & that brings even more pressure on us than we already have, I could go on & on with this post but it's already past 01:30am & I wanna go to bed.

I’ll clarify when I say Liverpool have not had any pressure to succeed, I meant Dalglish did not have any pressure to succeed. By the time he came in, many Liverpool fans said along the lines of “we’re now building for next season”. So I find it hard to believe any fans were expecting to be pushing for a European place in January and I’m assuming were probably just hoping for an improvement on their early season form. Obviously, Dalglish has succeeded any ‘expectations’ but there was no pressure for him to succeed in the job, partly because of who he his, which made it a smart appointment, but mainly because of your poor season up till then.
Next season, this won’t be the case with many fans expecting a title challenge, of course, with Suarez, Carroll and maybe some other signings you may well be title challengers next season, but you just have to look at Arsenal to see the difference between playing with and without pressure.

(12-05-2011 00:25 )mitchell Wrote:  I'm not saying your a glory fan of the Roman Abramovic era but all your most notable success has come since his mi££ions started to be spent & this may have... Has gone to the heads of 'some' Chelsea fans & this is the reason for talk like this, the same can/will be said of the Oasis mob, If it wasn't for all the money they'd be in the same boat as Everton & the tw@t Garry Fuck wouldn't be looking so smug, Kaka "Bottled it", oh please!!!

Didn’t understand this part, but anyway obviously we wouldn’t have had the same success without Abramovich’s dough. But we were miles ahead of Citeh before he came along with already being in the Champions League (At the expense of Liverpool I’m sure you’ll remember ) and being serious title contenders a few years prior so comparisons with both them and Everton don’t really work.

Kenny's used to the pressure Pheonix.He won 3 Championships in 5 and a bit seasons in his first time as manager.Do u think us expecting him to go and challenge next season will bother him?Not a chance lad.Kenny expects it aswell.He's a winner.

I can't remember the 87/88 side that Kenny had, only seen them on Dvd but the word is that it's the blueprint for what he's trying to build now.That side was one of the best teams ever anywhere.

Hope he can build another one.

(12-05-2011 12:09 )groundnpound Wrote:  I can't remember the 87/88 side that Kenny had, only seen them on Dvd but the word is that it's the blueprint for what he's trying to build now.That side was one of the best teams ever anywhere.

and hopefully there's no repeats of this madness!!!

Finally.3 year deal signed DELIGHTED

(12-05-2011 12:09 )groundnpound Wrote:  I can't remember the 87/88 side that Kenny had, only seen them on Dvd but the word is that it's the blueprint for what he's trying to build now.That side was one of the best teams ever anywhere.

Being old enough to remember that team, I'd have to agree. If I remember rightly, it was the first season with Peter Beardsley and John Barnes. Barnes in particular was pretty much unplayable at that time.

There are only three other club teams that rank alongside that one IMO (from my time watching): the Milan team of the early 90s (Gullit, van Basten, Rijkaard), United's treble-winning team (in particular the Beckham-Keane-Scholes-Giggs midfield) and the current Barcelona side. But that discussion probably deserves a thread of its own.

(12-05-2011 12:33 )groundnpound Wrote:  

He fucked us up but think he is ideal for use. don't think u will be challenging for the Prem next season unless u bring in at least 3 quality players in...