EPL Discussion Thread Season 2009/2010

[Bully]

only a little over a four weeks to go. Planning my holidays for the first weekend and there is a few games during the week aswell!!

[whufc]

Good luck to Manchester City trying to keep Robinho, Tevez, Adebayour, Santa Cruz and Bellamy all happy, im sure a few of them are going to enjoy playing reserves football against Plymouth on a cold wet tuesday night in front of 100 people.

[Bully]

yes agreed they will be a chelsea a few years ago when they had to many stars and only 11 positions on the field

good luck to them!!

To much money to spend if you ask me. If they win the league this season then we can say they def are following in chelseas footsteps in buying the championship

[whufc]

I don't think Man City will be a threat this season (at this stage). They will score plenty of goals but unfortunatly for them you can only have so many strikers on the park at once. A game of soccer does require midfielders and defenders.

[Bully]

agreed with what your saying, dont think i could hack another manchester team in the running for the championship anyway.

[devilsadvocate]

I don't think Man City will be a threat this season (at this stage). They will score plenty of goals but unfortunatly for them you can only have so many strikers on the park at once. A game of soccer does require midfielders and defenders.

Well said mate.

At this stage, their team looks something like:

Given

Richards Kompany (who's really more of a midfielder) Bridge

Barry Dejong

Wright-Phillips Tevez
Santa-Cruz Adebaywhore
Robinho

Hughes has lost the plot!

[Bully]

heard a few rumours bout peter crouch may be on his way to the spuds??

[whufc]

im spewing, i really wanted to put Tevez in my fantasy dream team, but there is no way i can be guarenteed he will play anymore than he did when he was at man poo.

[whufc]

Also surely Benjani will be on the way out then, wouldn't my West Ham buying him.

[devilsadvocate]

heard a few rumours bout peter crouch may be on his way to the spuds??

Crouch will be in if Klaas Jan Huntelar doesn't sign on from Real.

A I mentioned earlier, Spurs ITK have been going bananas posting that we've signed Viera.

[whufc]

heard a few rumours bout peter crouch may be on his way to the spuds??

Crouch will be in if Klaas Jan Huntelar doesn't sign on from Real.

A I mentioned earlier, Spurs ITK have been going bananas posting that we've signed Viera.

Aren't Sunderland a good chance of signing Crouch

[johntheclaret]

heard a few rumours bout peter crouch may be on his way to the spuds??

Crouch will be in if Klaas Jan Huntelar doesn't sign on from Real.

A I mentioned earlier, Spurs ITK have been going bananas posting that we've signed Viera.

Aren't Sunderland a good chance of signing Crouch

Deal is off whufc. Crouch now an interest for Spurs. £12m is a lot of carrots though, but this might encourage a move from The Cats again to lure Bent.

[johntheclaret]

heard a few rumours bout peter crouch may be on his way to the spuds??

Crouch will be in if Klaas Jan Huntelar doesn't sign on from Real.

A I mentioned earlier, Spurs ITK have been going bananas posting that we've signed Viera.

Which Viera. Panasonic?

[johntheclaret]

heard a few rumours bout peter crouch may be on his way to the spuds??

Crouch will be in if Klaas Jan Huntelar doesn't sign on from Real.

A I mentioned earlier, Spurs ITK have been going bananas posting that we've signed Viera.

Aren't Sunderland a good chance of signing Crouch

Deal is off whufc. Crouch now an interest for Spurs. £12m is a lot of carrots though, but this might encourage a move from The Cats again to lure Bent.

Quoting myself I know:

Thanks to Skysports


Hart admits club have no choice but to cash in on striker.
Paul Hart has confirmed Portsmouth have accepted an offer from Tottenham Hotspur for striker Peter Crouch.

The 28-year-old started out at Spurs and his career now appears set to come full circle as he prepares to discuss a return to White Hart Lane.

Crouch held talks with Sunderland earlier this month, but rejected a move to the North East due to geographical reasons, according to Black Cats boss Steve Bruce.

Spurs and Fulham had been mooted as suitors of the England international, with Harry Redknapp stating his interest in signing Crouch again.

The Spurs manager had feared a deal would be 'too expensive', but Pompey have now accepted a bid, believed to be in the region of £10million.

[johntheclaret]

and of course, that would open the door for Bent to move on.

also thanks to Skysports

Bruce confirms Bent talks

Black Cats hoping to agree fee for Spurs striker

Sunderland boss Steve Bruce has revealed he is doing his 'utmost' to try to sign Tottenham Hotspur striker Darren Bent.

Bruce is anxious to improve his attacking options at the Stadium of Light and has already missed out on Portsmouth forward Peter Crouch.

Bordeaux ace Marouane Chamakh remains a target and England international Bent has also been heavily linked with a move to the North East.

The Black Cats' interest in the 25-year-old has now been confirmed, with Bruce admitting talks are ongoing between the two clubs.

A fee is believed to be the sticking point, with Spurs reportedly wanting to recoup the £16.5million paid to Charlton for Bent two years ago, while Sunderland value him at £12million.

[johntheclaret]

I thought I would put this story in here as it seemed as good a place as anywhere. Another great article by Des Kelly, in response to Bowyer's bleatings this week. It really shows the ugly side of some playing in English football

Bowyer is right. He’s no Keane

Lee Bowyer has been complaining. The sensitive flower says he is misunderstood and he is a victim.
The nearest thing the English game has to a natural Jeremy Kyle Show guest tells us: ‘My record isn’t that bad. If you are talking about football there have been a lot worse. I’ve not done stuff like Patrick Vieira or Roy Keane.’

We’ll come to the football, but first let’s examine the record of his, the one he claims ‘isn’t too bad’.

We can start by remembering how Bowyer failed a drugs test. Then recall how he was convicted of affray for throwing chairs around a McDonald’s restaurant after telling a young Asian employee: ‘I don’t want to be served by no Paki’.

He was accused of grievous bodily harm after the beating of an Asian student on the streets of Leeds, which left one man with a broken leg, cheek, nose and a scar on his face where he was horribly bitten.
Bowyer’s friend was sent to jail for that attack. Bowyer was cleared, although the judge deplored the refusal to name the four companions who chased Sarfraz Najeib.
Bowyer later agreed to pay £170,000 out of court to Najeib after a separate civil action.

But let’s return to football. It’s not the six-match ban for stamping on a player in a UEFA Cup tie that we should be offended by; it’s not his on-the-field punch-up with Newcastle team-mate Kieron Dyer.
It’s the fact that Bowyer dared to mention himself in the same breath as Keane and Vieira.
He did get one thing right. Bowyer hasn’t ‘done the stuff they did’. Keane and Vieira were superb midfielders; they won trophies galore.
Bowyer will be remembered for what? ‘I’ve never been a racist and I’m not a thug,’ he says. Quite.

[devilsadvocate]

Then recall how he was convicted of affray for throwing chairs around a McDonald’s restaurant after telling a young Asian employee: ‘I don’t want to be served by no Paki’.

Just to clarify for us Aussie mugs (including my own ignorant self), that in England (and in fact anywhere outside of Australia for that matter) calling someone from Pakistan a 'Paki' is NOT COOL. It's as bad as dropping the N-bomb.

Before I put my foot in it BIG TIME, I thought the term 'Paki' was just an abbreviation similar to 'Aussie', used to refer to someone from Pakistan, generally when we were up against them in the cricket. How wrong I was!

While working in Slough, I became good mates with 3 blokes of Pakistani descent. All top blokes. Anyhoo, one day we were off for a kebab for lunch and I asked the bloke sitting at the booth next to me if he was keen for a kebab with the paki boys. He kindly informed me that I better not say that again or it might be the last thing I say if the wrong person is around to hear it. When I asked why (and explained about the above) he explained that it's a racial slur aimed anyone of general asian decent and highly offensive.

Needless to say, when we play Pakistan next, I'll be referring to the as Pakistan.

[JK]

Then recall how he was convicted of affray for throwing chairs around a McDonald’s restaurant after telling a young Asian employee: ‘I don’t want to be served by no Paki’.

Just to clarify for us Aussie mugs (including my own ignorant self), that in England (and in fact anywhere outside of Australia for that matter) calling someone from Pakistan a 'Paki' is NOT COOL. It's as bad as dropping the N-bomb.

Before I put my foot in it BIG TIME, I thought the term 'Paki' was just an abbreviation similar to 'Aussie', used to refer to someone from Pakistan, generally when we were up against them in the cricket. How wrong I was!

While working in Slough, I became good mates with 3 blokes of Pakistani descent. All top blokes. Anyhoo, one day we were off for a kebab for lunch and I asked the bloke sitting at the booth next to me if he was keen for a kebab with the paki boys. He kindly informed me that I better not say that again or it might be the last thing I say if the wrong person is around to hear it. When I asked why (and explained about the above) he explained that it's a racial slur aimed anyone of general asian decent and highly offensive.

Needless to say, when we play Pakistan next, I'll be referring to the as Pakistan.

LOL we had a Pommy bloke working with us, and at one stage he questioned a cricket score with me .. I can't remember exactly what it was, but I said something like "The Paki's are the most undisciplined team going" .. Lol .. Well this bloke looked mortified and told me how Im not allowed to speak of the Pakistani's that way - I had no idea what his beef was, I'd only ever meant it as a short version of the word Pakistani, certainly not as a detrimental term or anything

[Bully]

less then 2 weeks to go fellas. Is the charity sheild on SBS this weekend? as its on Setanta and i dont have that?

[johntheclaret]

less then 2 weeks to go fellas. Is the charity sheild on SBS this weekend? as its on Setanta and i dont have that?

Is Setanta still going over there. Only the Irish channel left over here as all the others have gone.