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.

yes they are making a space at Ford Open as we speak - will manage the prison team to 3rd in the prisons league ( behind HMP Manchester A and B teams.)

We have a chant "Robin Van Persie, he scores when he wants".

Yesterday watching the Citeh Spurs game in the Arsenal Supporters' pub, they were singing "Harry Redknapp, pays tax when he wants."

Ha! Ha!

Just watching the court illustrations of him. Very flattering !

Its easy to see why Arsenal lost, they went down to 10 men!

Or as the pundits said "bringing on Arshavin"

loved your 'rubbish all over the Reebok'.

The chant for Nani was:

"Shit Michael Jackson,
You're just a shit Michael Jackson...."

yes that was from the youtube piss-take of the "Downfall" final scene, where Hitler ( a mad ManU fan) has just learned Ronaldo is going to Madrid - "Nani? He's just a poor mans Michael Jackson"

Youtube "downfall" if you haven't - there's an excellent one about Chelsea missing the penalty in the Euro Final against us. (Hilter is a mad Chelski fan there).

Downfall is the gift which just keeps on giving, isn't it?

Liverpool v Man Citeh in the Carling Cup. The Scousers 1-0 up from the first leg.

Andy Carroll just isn't trusted any more, is he? Arsenal need a cut-price striker (although the way we play wouldn't really play to his strengths).

just watching the game against the Scousers - they are actually boo-ing Patrice Evra every time he touches the ball. And boo-ed pretty widely not just a couple of thickos. They are really shamelessly racist.

and Dalgleish reckons all of the fans can consider themselves well-behaved...

(rubbish result of course..)

No income tax,
No VAT,
No Premier points off Man City,
In the dock,
an' face so pale,
'Arry Redknapps going to jaaaaaaaaaaail.

Is that from the Tuesday Club podcast, Dan?

Nice

So much to talk about!

Where do we stand on the Terry issue? Should the legal process over-ride the apparent strenght of feeling amongst the other England squad members? i.e. innocent til proven guilty, so just keep quite and 'get on with the game'?

And KenDodd - is there a Champions League place in sight for The Black Cats? And can we have Martin O at ManU when The Wizard eventually retires?

BB - nice sneaky win there! But weren't Blackburn just so lacking in defence? ( I base this in the highlights - vP was being invited to score, as if he needed it.)

Bring on the Chelski today. Really hoping Paul Pogba keeps a place in midfield - saw some U-tube focus on him from Tuesday night's game. We all knew he was exceptional, but could he do it at PL level? Well, yes.

Innocent til proven guilty but I cannot stand John Terry.
Think we have a good little player in Maclean. Til someone steals him with a big money offer.

Terry - trouble is the threshold for guilt is 'beyond reasonable doubt'. The threshold for players in the squad is 'we know what he is like'. BBC footie correspondent yesterday was saying he had seen various messages passed round amongst the players, which are unlawful to reveal as yet, and they were hardly 'supportive'.

ive been a man u fan since 1976 and a fan of my hometown wrexham since then too. I am also a footy fan. I love man u and have been to many games, league, champs league, carling cup, fa cup, etc but also appreciate other team players such as gerrard, oxlaide chamberlain, van persie, bale, aguero, silva, etc... lambert is a great manager as is o neill and swansea are a fine footy team to watch. gutted we didnt win todays match vs chelsea but am happy with a very gutsy well earned point. as for wrexham we have every chance to go up into the league this season

as for chelsea lampard is a good player, i love drogba. never rated terry and i feel anyone supporting him right now deserves a ban!

What about the fan who handcuffed himself to the goalpost. ha ha.
The Man U, Chelsea 3-3 game today was a corker.
As spurs fans that suited us just hansomely, thank you very much.
So, who is going to get the 4th spot?
Arsenal and Liverpool finding form. Chelsea struggling a bit more than those 2, or so it seems. And even Newcastle in with a chance, but i can't see it. Dh would prefer Liverpool to get it over Chelsea and Arsenal, obviously, But i can't see that happening. I said Villas Boas would get the sack, but dh thought that was coming anyway.

My bet?
Man U - Champs
Man City - Runners-up
Spurs - 3rd
Arsenal - 4th
Liverpool - 5th
Chelsea - 6th

changingman- can I put all of that to music? Another MUFC fan round here will be massively appreciated. Maybe today wasn't the right sort of game for Pogba, but I think he needs to get a bit more action - he has yet to sign a contract.

I can't take my eyes off David Silva. Dh is the same. The man plays the most beautiful football. Ever.

going down?
Wolves
B'burn (keane will lose his job before end of season)
Wigan

Pan - pogba is a class player with class potential. as was morrison and ferg was the right type who could have managed him. however if we can keep him, fryers also good potential. feel sorry for berba though