2011-12 European Football thread [R]

Man U getting a bye to the knockout stages I see. :eye rolls:

 

Man City get group of death- http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/25082011/58/champions-league-manchester-city-placed-group-death.html

Man City avoid group of death- http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/25082011/63/city-avoid-group-death.html

Same website people.

 

That's great! Good find. You ARE a Sexual Engineer.

 

Adebayor season long loan to Spurs official.

http://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/news/articles/adebayor-completes-loan-switch-250811.html

 

Those of you who were hating on Newcastle because they had Joey Barton on the books, can now love 'em. Barton is on his way to QPR for 4 years on a free.

 

Now Barton and Warnock can go on a killing spree together. A match made somewhere south of heaven (yet north of the Thames, oddly...)

 

Schalke looked really, really good last night after stinking up the joint in Helsinki. Hannover did what they had to do--not pretty but effective. 12 yellows (one was a second) in that game.

 

No offense to either Wolves or Aston Villa but this game sums up the Premier League. You have about 6 teams that want to win and the remaining 14 that don't want to lose. This is meant to be a local derby, passion, pride, tackles flying in from all angles, crowd noise, cards, goals etc. The first half was a non event.

 

wow just announced that Villa are 12k below their capacity today. No idea if that is representative of their usual average, seems surprising to me though.

 

Isnt that pretty much the way all of Europe is? Except Spain where there is only two teams

 

Are you kidding? This is Villa, at home, fighting for their lives against a team on top of the table. They would clearly be satisfied with a draw

 

it seemed like when they took n'zogbia they went a little flat - I would have kept him on. of course my opinion has nothing to do with n'zogbia being in my fantasy team.

 

Too much brisket. Don't try this at home, kids.

 

I know you are being sarcastic, but the Wolves will be fighting relegation again this year.

 

That was a nasty looking fall by Drogba. Hopefully he didn't hurt his neck.

 

That was pretty bad. He was out cold mid-fall and landed like a dead-weight-plank on his face.

I don't understand how GK's get away with punching people in the face. His eventual sending off was a bit harsh on the penalty, but ultimately justice was probably done.

 

3 matches in, and I'm not that impressed with Chelsea. I have hard time not thinking that if they had played a higher class than Stoke, Newcastle, and Norwich they'd have dropped more than 2 points.

 

Liverpool looking a lot like the Liverpool of old (when they were good)

 

I agree, although they are breaking in a new coach and a few new players. I expect them to hit their stride in a couple of weeks.

 

I'm sure they'll pick it up, but I hope it's before the Man United match.

More Malta, less Malouda.

 

BIG 4 (5*):

-Liverpool could take league this year.
-Chelsea is looking bad, if drogba is out long I'd be scared of them missing the fourth spot in the long run.
-Arsenal isn't looking great. The fabregas thing just made it even more difficult.
-ManU looking like ManU.
*-Man City- haven't watched a match yet (except Community Shield), and haven't played any strong opponent yet. we'll see how they do with spurs tomorow