Angry Fans
We’ll be offering a free sports prize to the star contribution each week. This week Fergie, Wenger on protection for players; Ronaldo’s McDonagh’s film; Everton’s season is over again; Torres signing of the season; Cahill’s celebrations and a disrepute charge; Pool deserved to lose to Utd; How will Utd replace Scholes; Arsenal’s squad not strong enough.
goes to Derek Turner for his observations on how Fergie will replace Scholes. Lets have an address please and our glittering prize will be on its way to you.
THE passion exuded by Ferguson and Wenger regarding player protection seems to have waned somewhat. A few short weeks ago we had an apoplectic Fergie decrying the rough-house treatment of Ronaldo, while Wenger was calling for life-bans. Yet in the past week Fergie has been content to send his troops out to kick Torres off the field, while Wenger made the incredible assertion that Diaby's lunge was a "protective" tackle. All this and Roy Keane (!!!) has been anointed as the moral guardian of the modern game. Excuse me while I go and puke.
And somewhere in the distance the can be heard the sound of Tommy Smith and Ron Harris chuckling softly...
RONALDO has beaten George Best’s record. Now he could Outstrip Denis Law’s 46 goals in a season. And still people doubt him. What are they on?
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Whatever is the opposite of a performanceenhanching drug, I suppose. And speaking of Denis Law, wasn't Ronaldo's back-heel very much out of the the great man's textbok?
WENT TO see the Martin McDonagh film “In Bruges” last week. Not a single football reference in it at all. Very disappointed. And it made me angry, so I thought I would write to you Liam.
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Know how you feel, Pat. A bit like myself when, as a young fellow, I was pained to discover that I couldn't venerate a supernatural being called 'Our Lady Of Perpetual Soccer'.
SO that about wraps is up for Everton then. Another season not breaking through, and not getting anywhere in Europe. So far, so predictable.
FERNANDO Torres was the best signing of the summer and it was appropriate that he should score the winner in his first Merseyside derby. If there hadn’t been so much nonsense off the field with the two bickering Americans we would Have made a title challenge this season. Wake up Yanks, and if you can’t run the club properly then sell it to someone who can, and soon.
Remind me: how many gilt-edged goal chances did they pass up, exactly?
CHELSEA must have used up their luck for the rest of the season (and for next season) in the game against Middlesbrough. Third place at best, and out in the semi-finals of the Champions League. And would anyone be sorry? Nope.
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Always nice to hear from Jose.
WITH all the hoo-ha about Mascherano being charged with improper conduct I wonder why Tim Cahill was not charged with the same offence after his disgusting celebration of his goal v Portsmouth. Cahill dedicated his goal to his brother who got six years jail for nearly blinding another man. Thankfully justice has been done and this creep is out for the rest of the season. Good riddance
MASCHERANO running halfway across the pitch to ask the ref what was happening? Did someone make him captain? He looked like a guy who was asking to be sent off; must have had a friend’s wedding to go to. What happens if we make the Champions League Final? Is he going to lose his nut again? Stevie G should have stepped in and put a stop to it.
LIVERPOOL deserved to be beaten by United last weekend. There are no arguments about that. The sending off made it harder for them to get into the game as the system they have allows Gerrard to get forward to link with Torres. United more than likely would have won and I can accept that. However, the nature of the sending off more than annoys me. Alex Ferguson has some nerve to say that Mascherano was pestering the referee. This from the club that invented the nerve-pop when Roy Keane was at the club! I will also say this: if Mascherano had been Wayne Rooney, Steven Gerrard or Ryan Giggs he would not have been sent off. Both Torres and Mascherano were booked within a minute because the former had been fouled twice. If they were British/English they would have been warned. Since the foreign influx to the Premiership, foreign players meet the ire of referees more easily when it comes to questionable sendingsoff. Mascherano and Fabregas have 14 yellow cards between them and one red, yet they would not be seen as the dirtiest players in the history of the Premiership. Ronaldo, too, has four yellows and one red and Torres has four yellows. Arsène Wenger has highlighted this in the past. Finally, is referee Bennett the most suitable referee for big matches — his over-zealousness in sending off players clearly says no!
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Lots of interesting, not to say colourful points Dermot and here's another one: if a player is on one yellow shouldn't he be on red alert to the distinct possibilty of a second. I can appreciate that he might get a heat of the battle, last-ditch tackle wrong but insisting on having 'a word' with the ref?
HI LIAM. I support Manchester United and am obviously very happy with the season to date. However I feel Sir Alex faces one of his most difficult tasks in the next 12 months and that is when the ginger genius Paul Scholes retires. I believe trying to replace Scholes will be a near impossible task. He is in my humble opinion the best player to play for United during Fergie’s reign. In the modern game which is blighted by greed, bad behaviour, over-hyped players, Scholes is a shining example of how to be a professional footballer. His passing, movement, vision, shooting and all round ability are second to none and there is no better site in football than watching Scholes control and dictate a game. The guy is the most underrated player of his generation and if he were any other nationality he i.e. Spanish, Italian, Brazilian, he would hero-worshipped. It is baffling that the English national team played him out of position in his last years of his international career. Also it annoys me when the media continously mention how Roy Keane missed United’s 1999 Champions League final and rarely include the fact that Scholes was also absent. Whilst I realise that the past couple of seasons have seen the guy suffer two major injuries which have taken their toll, we should all appreciate the player and enjoy however long he strolls around the pitches of the premiership.
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As a fellow member of the Paul Scholes Appreciation Society, I'm pleased to award you our Letter Of The Week prize.
IF ARSENAL are ever to mount a serious challenge for domestic titles, they will have to spend some serious money. Compared to the squads of Man U and Chelsea, they are very weak. Since Henry’s departure, they lack any impact player who can win or salvage a game out of nothing. Man U have Rooney, Liverpool have Gerrard, Chelsea have Drogba. As well, the Gunners’ subs bench is made up of very ordinary players. Against Chelsea last week, if they had an injury to a central defender they would have had to bring on Senderos — looks like a farmer, moves like a cow. Drogba would have scored at will. Arsenal’s group of very talented players will continue to be also-rans until Wenger expands his horizons a little.
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"If Arsenal are ever to mount a serious challenge..." Did I miss something this season? Is the season over? And who won the Champions' League???
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