Football Banter

^^^ Marco Van Basten is the bookies favourite.

(22-05-2011 21:47 )Charlemagne Wrote:  I'm sorry to see that Blackpool have been religated..
They have playe some great attacking football.
But you have to ask the question about their defense.... they didn't have one. They have the worse back 4 that I have seen in the Premiership.

You've obviously forgotten Derby a few seasons back. A quick check on Wikipedia shows they let in a massive 89 goals during the 2007-8 season. Blackpool's defence, which conceded 78 this time, seems positively robust by comparison. Even Burnley conceded more last season (82).

(23-05-2011 00:16 )lancealot790 Wrote:  I was truly sorry to see Blackpool relegated today, they have been a credit to the premiership this season. They along with the other two promoted clubs have at times played some great football provided great entertainment and produced some shock results along the way. I would love to think that the clubs who come up this season will learn from the way Blackpool, Newcastle and West Brom have tried to play attacking football and not be intimidated by their opponents. It,s amazing what you can achieve when you forget about results and just try to play attractive football.

To all the Blackpool fans out there i think i speak for all true football fans when i say that your team have done you proud this season and we hope to see you back in the premiership at the first time of asking.

I remember a few seasons ago West Brom playing similar football and they were called naive.

So poor old Carlo gets to carry the can for Chelsea's trophy-less season, albeit most at fault would be Abramovich himself, but I doubt anyone at the club would ever dare suggest that to him.

(23-05-2011 07:34 )eagle_si Wrote:  

(22-05-2011 21:47 )Charlemagne Wrote:  Blackpool have the worse back 4 that I have seen in the Premiership.

You've obviously forgotten Derby a few seasons back. A quick check on Wikipedia shows they let in a massive 89 goals during the 2007-8 season. Blackpool's defence, which conceded 78 this time, seems positively robust by comparison. Even Burnley conceded more last season (82).

Yes these other teams had a worse goals record.
Blackpool would have conceeded far more goals if they hadn't been saved on countless occassions by a great goalkeeper in Matt Gilks.
He has been worth at least 10-20 goals this session.

I too was sad to see Birmingham and especially Blackpool go down who have given 100% entertainment to the Premier League and not the usual which a lot of promoted teams have done when they have gone to places such as Old Trafford and Stafford Bridge by playing defensive football. Blackpool have given their all and had a right good bloody go from the word go so the fact they have been relegated just goes to show that their simply isn't any justice. Birmingham on the other hand have just gone through a bad period since winning the Carling Cup and too were very unlucky, but lesson's to be learned is that you just can't afford to be complacent when it comes to the Premier League as it has proved to be costly. As for my team Dundee United well I'm absolutely delighted that Celtic won the Scottish Cup on Saturday because that result has just put my team into Europe, hopefully the draw will be kind to us and we could make in into the group stages, a lot of people and especially in England tend to forget that during the eighties Dundee United were a force to be reckoned with when it came to Europe culminating in reaching the UEFA Cup Final in 1987 after beating the likes of Barcelona home and away onroute to the final.

(23-05-2011 11:13 )StridentOnanist Wrote:  So poor old Carlo gets to carry the can for Chelsea's trophy-less season, albeit most at fault would be Abramovich himself, but I doubt anyone at the club would ever dare suggest that to him.

ray wilkins might have done due to him being sacked in november, there several different stories why wilkins got sacked from anti-semetic to calling abramovich a murderer, gangster etc.

did not know fulham had gone 37 league games without a red card then zoltan gera comes on as a sub and gets sent off in the last game of the season, what an idiot.

qpr would be the strongest out of the 3 championship teams to stay up. they have money, some quality players, a manager that was shafted by the premier league wanting revenge by keeping qpr in the premier league.

afc wimbledon promoted to league 2 and are 46 games away from meeting mk dons in professional football. a record 6 promotions in 9 seasons. they too got shafted this time by the fa allowing the owners of wimbledon fc to move to milton keynes. this not the nfl.

(21-05-2011 22:56 )snookered147 Wrote:  Picture the scene. 3 of the four relegation games are over. One match remains and in the last minute of stoppage time a penalty is awarded. If it goes in it could have a dramatic effect on the fate of 2 or maybe more teams. The populations of various stadiums all hold their breath and........

If ITV had the Premiership rights then the Tic-Tac men would probably have made another unscheduled appearance just as the penalty was about to be struck!

(22-05-2011 21:47 )Charlemagne Wrote:  I'm sorry to see that Blackpool have been religated..
They have playe some great attacking football.
But you have to ask the question about their defense.... they didn't have one. They have the worse back 4 that I have seen in the Premiership.

Saw them yesterday against a totally demotivated United looking to avoid injuries ahead of this coming Saturday and couldn't believe how dreadful they looked at the back! Unbelievably naiive and certain to lose their best players and maybe their manager too, and any remote chance of returning to the Premiership any time soon as a result.

(23-05-2011 01:16 )Stillroom Rock Wrote:  And just think next week 2 teams will battle it out for the right to go through this shit this time next year

I'm not so sure on this one. Swansea in particular play very good football and I think will be a very tricky place to go to next season should they secure promotion next Monday. Queens Park Rangers and Norwich have also gone up by playing football the right way; perhaps the top flight is undergoing some sort of cleansing where negative-minded managers and their teams are concerned!

(23-05-2011 07:34 )eagle_si Wrote:  

(22-05-2011 21:47 )Charlemagne Wrote:  I'm sorry to see that Blackpool have been religated..
They have playe some great attacking football.
But you have to ask the question about their defense.... they didn't have one. They have the worse back 4 that I have seen in the Premiership.

You've obviously forgotten Derby a few seasons back. A quick check on Wikipedia shows they let in a massive 89 goals during the 2007-8 season. Blackpool's defence, which conceded 78 this time, seems positively robust by comparison. Even Burnley conceded more last season (82).

You must be forgetting Swindon Town, who admittedly in a 42-game season in 1993/94 lost 0-5 at home to Liverpool on the last day of the season to achieve the unenviable distinction of conceding exactly 100 goals in their only Premiership season.

(23-05-2011 11:13 )StridentOnanist Wrote:  So poor old Carlo gets to carry the can for Chelsea's trophy-less season, albeit most at fault would be Abramovich himself, but I doubt anyone at the club would ever dare suggest that to him.

Abramovich certainly has much to answer for, given his constant chopping and changing of managers, but Ancelotti was no great appointment. Yes he won two Champoins Leagues, and I recall his AC Milan team of Kaka et al giving United a real footballing lesson in the Semi-final of 2007, but I always think back to how good a side that Milan side looked back then and the personnel they had and wondered how the hell the man only managed to win ONE Serie A title in eight years with THOSE players!!!

I don't think you can say any of the teams that were relegated were unlucky. West Ham won the fewest games, Blackpool conceded the most goals and Birmingham scored the fewest. Birmingham can't blame their form on hangover from the Carling Cup, it was in February! Their form leading to it wasn't world-beating anyway. The fact is they create absolutely nothing in attack, and if you don't score you can't win. If a team had Birmingham's defence and Blackpool's attack they'd probly be a midtable team but both these teams simply lacked the balance needed to survive.

(23-05-2011 18:40 )n01scruff Wrote:  I don't think you can say any of the teams that were relegated were unlucky. West Ham won the fewest games, Blackpool conceded the most goals and Birmingham scored the fewest. Birmingham can't blame their form on hangover from the Carling Cup, it was in February! Their form leading to it wasn't world-beating anyway. The fact is they create absolutely nothing in attack, and if you don't score you can't win. If a team had Birmingham's defence and Blackpool's attack they'd probly be a midtable team but both these teams simply lacked the balance needed to survive.

Birmingham put most of their blame on relegation down to injuries according to Mcleish. To be fair they did have a lot of injuries. But that is not enough to use as an excuse as every team has injuries.