16 November 2007

I will also marry Steven Gerrard by year's end

Keane targets top four finish

Robbie Keane believes it would be 'daft' to write off Tottenham's chances of qualifying for the UEFA Champions League this season.



Spurs have made a less than impressive start to the season and are currently languishing in 14th position in the Premier League after winning only two of their opening 13 games.


I believe they will probably wind up finishing very solidly midtable but to finish fourth they probably need a real keeper and a couple defenders in January--oh yeah and for Liverpool Chelsea Pompey and Blackburn to suddenly withdraw from the Premier League.

Of course, after posting this Spurs will beat City in the Carling Cup and the League in December and I will rue ever writing this.

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an admin note

This blog's time is in GMT for reasons which I can not fathom (well more to the truth remember)... so when it says that i posted nonsense at 3 this morning I can most assuredly tell you that I posted my nonsense at 10 last night.

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15 November 2007

Post of little original content.


Italian policeman who shot dead football fan faces murder charge - Forbes.com
An Italian policeman who shot dead a young football fan has been charged with murder, his lawyer told reporters on Thursday.


Murder and not manslaughter Hallelujah.

Also,

Keeper Carson to make England debut against Austria | Breaking News | Guardian Unlimited Football
Aston Villa goalkeeper Scott Carson will make his England debut in Friday's friendly against Austria.


Chuffed for him. He's quality.
Wall of Support for Israel | Fanbanta
Wall of Support for Israel
Pledge your support for Israel in Saturday's crucial Euro 2008 Qualifier.

It's England's biggest game of the season - and they're not even playing.

England need Israel to stop Russia from claiming maximum points on Saturday, otherwise we're not going to Euro 2008.


Wall of Support for Israel sounds like some Zionist tirade. But with the situation against Russia this weekend, I guess I'll let it go.

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14 November 2007

Cookie Coleman is a party animal

Football: Coleman excuse fails to wash | News | Guardian Unlimited Football
Real Sociedad are investigating coach Chris Coleman's late arrival at a press conference, amid reports that he was seen at a local nightclub in the early hours of last Friday morning.

Coleman claimed a faulty washing machine had been the reason for arriving 90 minutes late on Friday only to be forced into a statement on the club's website in which he admitted that it had been an "excuse" after being out the night before until the early hours. "I was in the wrong place at the wrong time," said the former Fulham manager, who has taken the second division club to four wins out of 12.

Right. That's him back to England then.

It is seriously uncool that the club allowed their manager to hang like that. Who cares if he was out late partying or if he was late because of his washing machine? You need to present a united front with your manager--especially if you've won 4 outta 12. Don't force your manager to embarrass himself more. It's just unnecessarily mean and unfair. It probably wouldn't have been that big of a deal if the club didn't make him admit what really happened.

That said, what kind of professional fucks around like that? Also from experience, I know if you're 90 minutes late from being out late and drinking--you can get there on time. It's only when you get to like 3 hours late that you can use partying as an excuse. He's too old to party.

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13 November 2007

MyFootballClub picked a club.

MyFootballClub has agreed a deal in principle to purchase a controlling stake in Ebbsfleet United FC. Placed 9th in the Conference, Ebbsfleet United FC is one promotion from reaching the Football League for the first time in its history.


I think i will put in my 35quid or however much it is, but I really don't hope that it stops a team on it's way to the league. It's got a very convoluted system. Including members of myfootballclub.com voting on players and starters etc etc. It's really bad.

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12 November 2007

Aussies are funny.

Sky Sports | Football | Premier League | News | Cahill hits out at Essien
Everton ace Tim Cahill has hit out at Chelsea midfielder Michael Essien for his tackle on Leon Osman.

Essien was booked for a late lunge on Osman during the 1-1 draw between the two sides at Stamford Bridge on Sunday.

Osman escaped serious injury in the tackle and Cahill believes Essien should apologise for the challenge.


Cahill then followed up by saying that he believes that Ronaldo and Gerrard should stop diving and he believes in Santa.

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my scallie cred is plus 2000

Quick post: After a bit of an ebay splurge--I now have 8 replica Man City shirts. I'm playing catchup with Footie Geeza and Footie Neighbor

I also have big fuck off hoop earrings.



Try not to hate.

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11 November 2007

Italian football is out of control

I'm so angry right now about the state of Italian Football. I am ranting at a friend on IM over the corruption and violence and how everything just needs to fucking STOP.

  1. After what happened in Sicily last year the whole season should have been behind closed doors
  2. "Italian Bizzies Are ASSHOLES" from the beating of Man Utd Fans in Rome this year to today's shooting, these fuckers are out of control.    Something to be said against compulsory police service--if they don't wanna be there, they won't give a fuck.  HOW THE HELL DO YOU SHOOT SOMEONE TO BREAK UP A FIST FIGHT??  Further, I believe that a lot of the violence in Italy has escalated due to poor crowd control.  NOT hooliganism. 
  3. Match Fixing -- How could a team punished for Match fixing be allowed to compete in MUCH LESS WIN the fucking Champion's League?   I'm not even going to get into the laughable punishment that Juventus received.  

It's just a horrible situation all around, obviously. While it's really easy to blame the people involved and the hooliganism which of course is a factor, the institutional corruption of Italian government and Football plays a much bigger part. I'm a radical at heart--so I see a lot of the violence as a reaction to this. Hopefully--this will be the sign that UEFA and FIFA need to clean up Italian football. If they can stop trying to deflect attention away by calling English (and Liverpool specifically) supporters the worst in Europe and actually pay attention to what's going on. If not, a lot more people are going to die both supporter and police.

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Fantasy Team: Why the fuck do I have Michael Owen.

Now, let me explain that this is the stupidest fantasy league among the 3 I pay attention to (I have a premierleague.com team that's middling and a yahoo team that's like 90th percentile--don't hate). It is also the highest stakes because it's the one that my local does and you win shit--I mean stuff.



Anyway, you get 55 million pounds and only 20 transfers a year (which is why I'm riding out the RVP injury). You get 3 points for an goal 2 points for an assist and a complicated system with defenders (1 point for 60 minutes on and 2 points for a clean sheet and minus 1 point for the second goal conceded and every goal thereafter). Pick a captain and their points are doubled.

There are no points for tackles or balls won or anything else, so it's really hard to get a good team because obviously the goal scorers are expensive. You hope for some dark horses like Petrov (MC) or Elano. Of course they've done SFA since I put them on.

I had a really good week this week because of fucking Cristiano Ronaldo my captain--from three people. THAT IS NOT HOW YOU WIN. I mean I'm still doing really well locally and I'm also winning the Philly Scouse Contingent mini league, but I'm really ashamed of my team. If I could get more than 20 transfers I'd put Almunia in goal and get rid of Owen and Geremi. I think I put them in after a bad injury week and Newcastle must have had a decent week--but I'm not sure when that is.

I'm sorry I subjected you to my shitty team.

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