The rolling Football thread

[BelfastBloke]

There are quite a lot of football fans on MN, and also loads of football-haters. If we hide here in Dadsnet, none of the detractors will find us. But if they do, they are welcome to come here and moan.

You don?t have to be male to post here, of course. (No-one would say women can?t post in the Dadsnet section, just like no woman would EVER say men aren?t welcome on Mumsnet?)

Footy fans please sign in with

1. Which team you support.
2. Which team(s) you loathe.
3. How you are getting your kids to follow the correct team.

1. A thought on the season so far (Premiership/Championship/Champions? League/FA Cup/League Cup/(el clasico?)/World Cup bids.

Man Citeh really do have an incredibly deep squad, don't they?

Their game v Bayern is a much more interesting match-up than Man Utd's or than Real Madrid's

Looks like MCFC's squad will be one player light after tonight. Usual stuff being said about him.

Did you watch the Man Utd game, Pan? 3-3 sounds exciting.

What's the difference between a tramp and Tevez?

Nothing, neither will leave the bench.

That really is a shocking story about Tevez, when you think about all the strikers who could have been on the bench that Tevez was keeping off.

The recent captain of the club, refusing to play? A coach has to stand or fall by his results - Tevez has given Mancini the perfect excuse for failure in Mac City's most important game for a generation.

still shocked at the Tevez thing. Wonder whether Mancini will regret using the word 'never'. He seemed dazzled in the headlights of the media, "I can't azzept".

Dan, love that tramp joke. Have just text it to my dh.

No, I don't have sky at home, BB , but followed events on the BBC script thing. Just sounded so so sloppy and lacking in concentration.

Tevez - he wasn't unlike this with us. He demands to play in every game, when you actually need 4 fresh strikers to play across all competitions. When he tried to appeal over SFA's head to the fans for him to stay you knew he was out. As we know it's a squad game these days, not designed for names and egos.

From the Guardian:

" If a player paid £250,000 a week refuses to pitch in to the biggest match in the club's recent history when asked by the manager, it seems a breach of his contract fundamental enough to warrant City terminating it. However, Tevez is saying his was a substitute's frustration and that he was prepared to come on. When Mancini told him to warm up, Tevez's case goes, he said he was already warmed up. The manager told him if he would not warm up, he couldn't play, so he did not play.
That is not a defence likely to win him many friends, but if those facts are established following internal interviews, Tevez could argue his misconduct was not quite serious enough to warrant dismissal. Ian Lynam, a partner at Charles Russell solicitors, said an act of "disobedience" would not normally amount to an instantly sackable offence ? which shows, at least, that the Tevez case is arguable both ways and therefore potentially messy and protracted.
Even if City pick their way through that employment law thicket and decide they have the right to summarily dismiss Tevez, difficulties lie beyond. Cancelling his contract would mean not paying him any more, and they would effectively be giving him back his registration. That would make him a free agent, meaning the club depriving itself of selling for a transfer fee the player who Mansour bought in 2009 for, according to reliable sources, £45m."

That is the problem, sack him and he becomes a free agent which is what he wanted all along. I do not see a happy answer to this problem. Looks like the relsationship between tevez and Man C has broken down.
Btw, they did get stuffed by Bayern the other night who did look a class act.
BB I do not hold out much hope today, Arse's defence is too suspect still. If it is a big defeat (4-5 goals to nil) Wenger will be getting flak again big time just when I thought he was managing to move onfrom the Man U debacle.

Half time and we're playing ok, but losing by a goal. I've been expecting to lose, and I suppose still do, but it's quite even at the moment.

Mind if i join in?

1. Swansea City.
2. Cardiff City.
3. They don't have a choice. There is only one football team in this house.
4. Well, it's been a huge step up for us. A bit of a baptism of fire. Fair play to Brendan Rodgers though, he's perervered and hasn't changed our playing style, and it's starting to pay off for us, albeit slowly. Realisticly speaking though, we haven't a hope against the big clubs - United, Chelsea, City, Arsenal. We can't compete against their money. But we'll give it a go.

SZCZ denies Adebayor! After we score the equalizer. Come on Arsenal.

And welcome deemented

You know BB I would take that result given the start we have had to the season. We played well at times, but just need to get a bit more consistancy in the play. The team will get better and the youngsters and the transfer window in Jan will allow us to strengthen the squad.
4th in the league though? That'll be a big ask I think at the moment.

Spurs beat Arsenal both Home and Away in 2010. Yesterday's win was a good one. Parker played well. Arsenal had chances. Spurs didn't play that well, I didn't think. St Totteringham's day ? I think there is every chance that Spurs could finish above Arsenal in the table this year. And that couldn't have been said before. Arsenal fans should be worried.
I am not sure that Spurs can get back into Champions League. They had their chance, and blew it. And have no one to blame but themselves. And who are they going to Oust, in order to get there ? Man City? I don't think so. Saying that, Man City , who had been on fire in the Premiership, looked truely amateur in the Champions League the other day.
We'll see.

Nah, I see it as a three way race for the 4th spot between Liverpool, Arsenal and Spurs.

Apparently our fans were singing, 'What's it like on Channel 5?' to Spurs; I suspect we're about to find out next year (if we even finish that high - but I think we will. However, the massive, long-term injuries keep coming ...)

Life rather busy at the moment, but I can always spare a moment to talk about the Mighty Spurs!

Lovely victory by the Lily Whites I felt. :D I should think that we will have that 4th spot without too much trouble. City have been playing some lovely football since the start of the season, but we will see. Liverpool... hmmm... this jury is out on them, that said, they had such a disastrous start to last season and finished strong. I'd pretty much written them off. Arsenal... well my son (thanks to his swine of a brainwashing godfather) is a Gooner. So obviously dancing in my son's face re the aforementioned victory may be considered, by some, to be an unnatural act by a mother. I call it... tough love! :D

At least The Arse know that they have players to come back from injury and we will be a better team for it. Like I said they are missing quite a bit of confidence currently and it really shows.
If only we could spend the £60m we have on a couple of quality players. A striker for Van Persie to play off and another versatile back who can cover all positions. (Do they exist?)

I support Man U.

I am also Scottish.

AIBU to be heartily sick of the sight of Spanish footballers. Shouldn't they play with an impediment? Like, they can only kick the ball with their left feet. Or they have to play in stilettoes. Anything.

YABU

I know. But I am liking it.

Ok. Stopped liking it, and will return to full, dreamy, footie-the-way-God-intended admiration.

So a successful Champions' League week for all premiership clubs, and a decent programme of games coming up this weekend!

Footy gets us through when life batters us about a bit.

Come on Citeh (i suppose, purely to make the Premiership more interesting.)

(and to irritate Pan)