5 years from now they'll all be playing for Watford anyway- The rolling Carling Cup Thread 2010/11

Redknapp said: "He looks like Socrates. He runs like him. If he can play like him we'll be all right.

"He does have that funny running action. There were two top Spanish clubs in for him.

"I couldn't get to Brazil with us being in the situation last year where we were trying to finish in the top four. So (chief scout) Ian (Broomfield) went over.

"We spoke to people in Brazil, we spoke to (former Brazil manager) Dunga and they all said: 'You've got a real good one there'.

"Ian saw him four times and he had no doubts. He raved about him. You don't get into the Brazilian national squad if you're a mug, do you?"

Sandro's debut has me terrified, tbh. He's got a funny run, and he's no mug- BOSH 8m

I've got some magic beans here that you might be interested in, Mr Redknapp

http://www.windows2universe.org/people/images/socrates.gif

HE'S READY.

http://i29.tinypic.com/2rylsb4.gif

HE'S READY.

^ all time

really looking fwd to this, for some reason the carling cup derbies have all been good games. maybe cos nobody gives a fuck, and we actually win them sometimes.

jenas strike rate in against gunners must be pretty good. available anywhere?

"Ian saw him four times and he had no doubts. He raved about him. You don't get into the Brazilian national squad if you're a mug, do you?"

ahem

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_Scheidt
"Scheidt has three caps for Brazil.

Footnotes

1. The 10 biggest wastes of money in football history"

great article!

3 Garry Birtles

Joined: Man Utd from Nottm Forest in Oct 1980
Transfer fee: £1.25m
Today his fee is worth: £3.2m
Today he would cost: £23.8m

Yes, there was a time when United got it wrong. Very wrong, and Garry Birtles was the pick of the bunch. Yet in 1980 few people raised an eyebrow at the transfer when Dave Sexton gave Brian Clough so much for a player who in a couple of seasons at Forest had shown himself to be the epitome of the modern centre-forward: strong, mobile and deadly. But his loss of form at Old Trafford was shocking and mysterious - one match report described his performance as 'bordering on the statuesque'. He took almost an entire year (from 22 October, 1980 until 19 September, 1981) to break an embarrassing duck and finally score his first United goal. A predictable cut-price sale back to the City Ground ended a long nightmare.

Sold for £300,000 to Nottingham Forest in 1982 after 63 appearances (12 goals).

always thought he was considered undisputed #1 tbh

9 Luther Blissett

Joined: Milan from Watford in 1982
Transfer fee: £1m
Today his fee is worth: £2.1m
Today he would cost: £16m

Ninety-five league goals in just 246 appearances established Blissett as one of the most prolific strikers in Britain, thriving at Graham Taylor's no-nonsense Watford. Quite why Milan thought his robust talents would be similarly successful in Serie A remains one of football's enduring mysteries. He scored five goals in 30 games and, according to one Italian newspaper, was 'famous for missing open goals and for the inexorable precision with which he would find the goalpost'. His name lives on in Italy, however, but not for footballing reasons. 'Luther Blissett' has become a byword for anarchy. In 1997 four men went on trial in Rome for travelling on a train without tickets. When asked to identify themselves, all said they were Luther Blisset and argued that 'a collective identity does not need a ticket'. They explained that they chose Blissett because he was 'just a nice Afro-Caribbean guy who had problems with the Italian way of playing football.'

Sold back to Watford for £55,000 in 1984 after 30 appearances (5 goals)

unusual details in guardian articles

rodney marsh only got one in three on the wing for city, so automatically gets in the top 10 biggest wastes of money of all time.

outstanding.

http://img375.imageshack.us/img375/1715/kissingermarsh.jpg

Here's Rodney Marsh with Henry Kissinger

more on the banaka Luther Blissett thing:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther_Blissett_(nom_de_plume)
http://www.lutherblissett.net/

Loving Martin O'Neill's brutality here:

When Martin O’Neill was tasked with bringing order to the mayhem left by Barnes and Kenny Dalglish, he gave the Brazilian a chance. But having seen him run ragged in a friendly with Irish side Bray Wanderers, it didn’t take the new boss long to get the measure of his man. Scheidt himself later told the Sunday Herald that O’Neill had hinted at his likely fate: “I like footballers who are not like you,” the Celtic boss had explained. “I like footballers who play well.”

http://www.wsc.co.uk/content/view/1675/29/

sounds like o'neill got verra excsayded

what is the title of this thread in reference to?

love this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEcPlgi2s-w

what is the title of this thread in reference to?

― r|t|c, Tuesday, September 21, 2010 1:25 PM (4 minutes ago)

the exciting youth players on show, tbh. it's throwaway effort and i hereby invite improvements

Tottenham: Pletikosa, Naughton, Bassong, Caulker, Assou-Ekotto, Bentley, Livermore, Palacios, Sandro, Pavlyuchenko, Giovani. Subs: Cudicini, Hutton, Huddlestone, Lennon, Jenas, Keane, Kranjcar.

Arsenal: Fabianski, Eboue, Koscielny, Djourou, Gibbs, Lansbury, Denilson, Wilshere, Nasri, Rosicky, Vela. Subs: Almunia, Sagna, Clichy, Arshavin, Chamakh, Eastmond, Emmanuel-Thomas.

It'll end 4-4 and end up decided on penalties, with long-term injuries to Koscielny and Wilshere.

Very twitchy looking Tottenham side, obviously.

wtf is this full strength side shit? wenger out.

Horrible diving cheating play by filthy foreigner Lansbury.

Boys vs men.

Henri?

Henri?!

He's even got a filthy cheating foreigner's name. Probably stole it, too.

Jacques Wilshere

http://img375.imageshack.us/img375/1715/kissingermarsh.jpg

lol tampa bay rowdies

also lol kissinger

these Arsenal youngsters probably all talk like Kissinger too

wtf is this shit nobody has a position. Bentley and bae at their amazing worst. Wtf.

Sent from my waaahfone

Sandro has been terrific, you can see him trying to get everyone around him marshalled. However, no-one seems to be listening to him :)

sandro is playin right fuckin wing

well you'd have to if bentley were in yr team

hes fuckin left wing

Hleb scores against MK Dons. Appears to have found his level.

assumed he'd have voted tory actually xpost

I'm wondering which of Sandro, Pav and Bentley is going to get scapegoated for this

Nice to see 'arry's brave English lions Pavlyuchenko and Sandro cleanly winning balls from football ruining foreigner Jacques Wilshere.

redknapp, tbh. Mess out there, we'll do well to ake half time one down with eleven men

Spurs blatantly going to equalise with their first shot on target, though.

yeah movement and marking are so bad the tackling has to be desperate. Naughton left with two men all half.

Appears to be 442 with all midfielders given free roles. Real muddle.

apart from the muddle, that makes them sound a bit like Holland '74

personnel matters

'arry bringing out the big guns.

ahahahahahaha

Spurs blatantly going to equalise with their first shot on target, though.

i love football

That was awful, and msybe off?

Would Arsenal not be as well just playing eleven outfield players at this point?

srsly.

Sandro beginning to look boss as fuck tbh

Love Fabianski. Best Arsenal player ever.

Look I don't really give a shit about this tin pot competition but can we not be tomorrow's "lol upset" story please?

fucking Lee Hughes oh of course now it makes sense

Brentford just missed a penalty to go 2-1 up on Everton btw.

that is not how naughton is pronounced

Fabianski has conceded six goals from his last seven shots on target at White Hart Lane.

Surprised Eboue didn't get a card for Assou-Ekotto lying on the floor trying to decide which leg to hold.

Read that as "Fabianski has scored six goals", seemed fair enough.

Liking Benoit's facial hair, he's clearly going for the full-on Snoop look now.

ah, lolqualizer for the Wolves.

tbh I'd rather they got beat than fuck about with gruelling extra time

Think Burnley fans might've quite enjoyed that win tonight.

whoah, eddie johnson appearance for fulham

SAME OLD ARSENAL, ALWAYS CHEATING

Cocks.

Bassong is maturing into a classic Tottenham centre back this season.

nah bassong has no business doing that.

Tackling and marking have been asking that all night.

Penalty tastic.

in both cases

I meant classic centreback in the Richards/Doherty lineage.

harsh tbh. Contributed more than bentley tonight, even bae defended well all 2nd half

Bentley u cunt you bring nothing you cunt

SHALL WE BUY
SHALL WE BUY
SHALL WE BUY YOUR DVD?
SHALL WE BUY YOUR DVD?

naughton has had a decent game for being at fault for two goals, and not really being in position for the others.

Oh Evertonpaws

Beckford's season keeps getting better.

Oh, was it Beckford who missed then? Marvellous.

I'm going to go back to listening to this Wendy & Lisa record. Wake me in 1990.

TBF Jagielka missed the 5th to kill it but Beckford missed the 4th

29 attempts at goal! 16 corners! I think we probably should've put that one to bed a while back. Still, it's far too early to care about football. 76F tomorrow FFS!

According to BBC it was some dude called Steve Jagielka. Wiki tells me he plays for Hednesford Town, so maybe you can declare the game invalid? :-)

savouring mark hughes's contention that there are times when it's 'unnecessary' to break other players in two. that must have hurt him.

lol @ last night. Still, really wish we didn't play such a strong team. And then for our bench/subs to consist of Clichy and Arshavin etc. was ridiculous. The Kiddie Cup is for the kiddies.

well i wasn't thrilled to see bentley out there either tbqfh

When has Bentley on the left ever worked? Dunno what Redknapp was trying to achieve with that. Kranjcar, even Dos Santos on that side would have been better.

yeah, i struggled to work out if Dos Santos was right wing or alongside Pav up front the whole first half tbh.

bentley is a better striker than winger anyway, i think. given that he's decided never to pass, he's as well to get the ball within sight of goal so he can have a crack straight away rather than slowing everything up with pretty average fannydangle

Maybe Arry didn't want a Carling Cup run alongside other commitments?

That's clearly the case. Previous seasons we'd have played a full first team.

clear enough arry wanted to rest them, but that team should have nonetheless played to a much higher standard- arry dont control that

Not saying just resting players, wondering whether positional/tactical oddities were inspired by desire to be out of the cup.

and i think a cc run could have given valuable playing time to a lot of players that aren't going to get it in the league/cl like naughton, prob dos santos, few others.

sandro looked impressive.

xp

picking bentley, you mean.

We had to bring on our 2 main strikers in order to finally beat down the wriggling corpse of Notts County in extra time, don't know what you're moaning about really.

He must have *really* hated Robbie Keane during that second half

well tbf robbie did miss from 2 yards a few times iirc so it's prob all cool between them again

good starts!

lol citeh

chelsea newcastle!

6 mins extra time ffs

lol Chelsea

matt le tissier watching chelsea-newcastle on soccer special was proper funny.

come on numpton, do it for dommy p

Chelsea out, City probably out, Liverpool struggling to beat Northampton at the moment. Not a bad evening.

scunthorpe had 19 shots on target and 10 off, blimey

yeah by all accounts kuzcsak motm

Oh, Liverpoolpaws.

oh shit son

That's way too early to be scoring in extra time. Offensive naivety, that. End up 4-2, prob.

rafa ou- no wait a minute

Hodgson to Man City

Hodgson never in in the first place would be better.

Yeah he's taken a thriving successful side and turned it into oh hang on

He's taken a side that had one really bad season and made them worse. Early days and all that etc But not filled with confidence about the guy.

paul ince's son coming on.

lol, jan molby blaming it on rafa.

two great opening goals in utd game

Didn't see them. I turned on when it was already 4-1. Could do with seeing highlights, especially the Chelsea-Newcastle game.

1st 3 goals were nice, missed the rest I think

skysportsnews just going through all goals now. gomez scored a beaut for wigan.

doh, away from the tv now. bbc have got highlights at 11.30 though.

givet nice for b'burn

jeez cracking night actually

:(

Plucky Liverpool just don't know when they're beaten

wassa matta u

ah shit!

It's just like that magical night in Istanbul...

Jeez Northampton have one cleared off the line

Sounds like a good, even contest tbh

From Chris, Washington DC, via text: "As an Everton fan, it was hard to stay positive after yesterday. But this helps."

Good timing on the BBC minute by minute

From Chris, Washington DC, via text: "As an Everton fan, it was hard to stay positive after yesterday. But this helps."

2222: GOAL Liverpool 2-2 Northampton (Ngog)

xpost ha

I wonder where Alan Green is?

eek, frantic end to the match.

Ah well, the big club always wins the penalty shoot-out.

Everton zing a nice touch

ALAN MCNALLY COMMENTATING LIVE ON PENOS, AND ITS AMAZINGLY SHIT

ah sry caps

THIS DESERVES THEM

It's so wet no one can hit the target. Call it off, ref!

How anybody can hate on penalties as a decider I'll never know.

O

M

G

dfjibvsdv

Here we go....

ronan already rushing to a keyboard to claim it doesn't matter

Fucking hell is there no end to this?

GET IN

YAAAAAAYYYY

HOPE YOU SAW THAT ONE IN HEAVEN, DOM

Never in doubt though really

OMG.

At this rate, Arsenal might actually win a trophy this season.

lolololverpool

classic cup night imo

At this rate, Arsenal might actually win a trophy this season.

Putting money on this tomorrow. Name's on the trophy.

In a strange way as long as we don't go down or go bust there are moments when I'm almost enjoying how shit we are.

Path's clearing nicely for our run to Wembley.

xp can fuckin well sympathise with that

fucking jobsworth stewards blocking the players from getting to their fans.

I just hope San Te lost interest in footy before the season got going

22,577 at anfield. tickets were £22. decent attendances at spurs and chelsea - anyone know how much they were charging for tickets?

Probably more than £22. It was Arsenal after all.

Rafa Benitez is currently sitting at the top of Serie A, by the way.

£20 even, not £22. important info i know.

xpost
Yeah 4-0 over Bari tonight. Made me smile:)

Found myself seriously wondering whether losing to Northampton on pens is a step forward from losing to Reading without

xxxp yeh 35,883 at white hart lane. 41,511 at chelsea.

Was only £15 at Highbury for a League Cup tie a few years back...2003 vs Wolves? A 16-y-o called Fabregas scored.

tbf those games could've gone either way

Found myself seriously wondering whether losing to Northampton on pens is a step forward from losing to Reading without

― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, September 22, 2010 9:52 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

Well 2 divisions diff tbf

Too Good To Go Down?

Didn't realise how lowly Lowly Northampton Town were - 85th in the football league o_O

Aye, we were sitting in the car listening to the penalty shootout trying to work out if losing to Northampton was worse than losing to Brentford. Turns out it's way worse.

Ipswich v Northampton

West Ham v Stoke

Man Utd v Wolves

Leicester v West Brom

Aston Villa v Burnley

Wigan v Swansea

Birmingham v Brentford

Newcastle v Arsenal

At this rate we could be looking at a lower league team in the final, love when that happens.

Quality accidental just about over the line goal from the otherwise awful Bebe tonight.

http://www.101greatgoals.com/videodisplay/bebe-wolves-7337452/

Nah, i thought Bebe did alright. Not expecting miracles from him just yet. Hernandez on the other hand has already secured his status as a Utd cult hero

I only caught from 50 minutes or so onward and he put one good ball in for Macheda to sky over the bar and apart from that just ran into trouble and gave the ball away and generally looked like someone not good enough to play for the Man Utd second string. He wasn't alone though, Macheda and Obertan were doing their best to show why they don't get a game for the big team.

tbf i had had a few pints by the time i watched the match but i wouldn't dismiss him just yet. Looks like he's got a bit of pace at least.

Also tbf be looked to be tired so maybe it's lack of conditioning rather than ability. Maybe.

Still, Hernandez

Indeed - looks amazing from what little I've seen of him so far. It'll be interesting to see how Rooney is accommodated on his return if Hernandez keeps up this form.

Here's hoping we can have our Mexican score against a knackered side so the pundits can call him the next great Premiership striker.

next great Premiership striker

I think you'll find the benchmark for ridiculous hyperbole is "future Ballon d'Or winner"

Eboue is taking clueless pot shots like he's playing against North Korea in the last five minutes of his World Cup campaign.

Ess Chesney has clearly been learning from Flappy.

Gibbs clearly fashioned by the same glass blower as RvP.

Newcastle keeper with the very definition of the word 'fumble'.

No idea how that went in. Truly bizarre.

Proper comedy defending lets Feo slip number two past.

Think Gutierrez needs some suspenders to go with his girl's stockings.

Maybe a nice garter belt.

Feeling for my russki guides tonight, having to get hyped up for every shambolic Newcastle attack. I do like how they sometimes use first & last names interchangeably - "ce-esc ... neek-lass" etc

Craig Eastmond definitely not winning the Ballon d'Or.

Joey Barton getting his edge back a bit, good to see.

Andy Caroll really is a potentially awesome frontman

He really fucked us up.

Oh.

Feeling for my russki guides tonight, having to get hyped up for every shambolic Newcastle attack. I do like how they sometimes use first & last names interchangeably - "ce-esc ... neek-lass" etc

― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 27 October 2010 20:26 (1 hour ago)

I'm certain I heard the phrase "miles offside" from them.

just on that bebe goal- is there any other team at any other stadium in the world where it would've been given?

was thinking that

England, Wembley Stadium, 1966

although Bebe's actually crossed the line

they're just making sure they dont have another pedro mendes i suppose.

the cunts.

I've heading off to Upton Park in the snow tonight and potentially walking six miles home. If I never post again, assume my frozen body is somewhere on Wanstead Flats.

Are these still on?

Fucking hope so, it took a lot of effort to get that ticket and I haven't been to a match for more than two years (since fatherhood impinged on my freetime).

bloody kids these days

So 424? Or maybe even 244 if eboue and djourou play in their natural position?

So fucking gutted. Fate has thrown everything at me to prevent me going to a football match today.

The chances of me getting an away ticket to a United match again are slim-to-non-existent: this was the perfect combination of a)huge allocation of nearly 6,000 tickets, b)match quite near my flat, but far from Manchester and on a midweek evening and live on TV anyway, so less attractive to Mancunians, c)very cheap tickets because it's the Carling Cup, d)being very fortunate in finding someone with a spare.

1-0 Hammers - huge deflection sending the keeper the wrong way. My stream gave the goal to Man Utd for a minute.

What happened nbs?

I spent the day fretting about the weather as the snow fell down relentlessly and the temperature was forecast to fall to -3C by the time of the match. Would it get called off? Would the trains/buses be running? By the time I left work to frantically get ready, it seemed likely that thing would go ahead.

Then I got home to find our boiler had stopped working and the flat was freezing. After twenty minutes of desperate fiddling and reading and experimenting I got it working again then picked up my daughter from nursery before my wife got home.

I was literally just about to leave when my two-year-old daughter jumped and fell off our bed and banged her head on the wooden floor. She didn't seem right and kept trying to go to sleep, so we got worried and I drove us off to casualty. By the time a nurse saw her she was right as rain and smiling and chatting and dancing, and the nurse said there didn't seem to be anything wrong with her, but it was best to see a doctor just to check. This was about an hour before kick-off. We were told she was second in the queue. We waited 45 minutes. We were then told she was third in the queue. At this point I finally gave up all hope of going to the match. I've come home alone and will have to drive back to the hospital at some point (ten mintues? three hours?) to get my wife and child back.

zomg spector????

LOOOOOOOOOOOOL

Glad yr kid is ok, also glad at yr scoreline

AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!

no fucking way

LOOOOOOOOOOOOL

― con suelo, Tuesday, November 30, 2010 2:16 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

where exactly did he line up, central mid?

Best wishes nbs, the game is nothing compared to that.

"john spector, man of the moment" says the announcer
wow phrases i never thought i'd hear

feelin' bad for lolling @ spector after nbs' post, best wishes obv

this is entertaining. NBS, hope your daughter's doing better than your team.

Arse 1-0 up against Wigan.

love the hat

http://i55.tinypic.com/1z57tjd.jpg

You could say Spector is the ghost of Utd's past

hope kid's ok nbs.

Score here? I'm watching kirsty bloody allsopp

What is wrong with you man?

west ham up 2-0
arsenal up 1-0

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/50230000/jpg/_50230236_hammers466.jpg

just remembering I saw a blurb earlier linking spector w/ a move to Koln in das Bundesliga, hmmm

http://i54.tinypic.com/s1lzs3.jpg

BENDYBUS STAKES HIS CLAIM AS ARSENAL'S NUMBER ONE BENDYBUS

feck me.

subbing one twin for another shows a lack of imagination, imo

What happened to Bebo? Hooked at h/t?

aye, taken off for Macheda.

Jonathan Pearce talking this up like the biggest shock ever - it's not like this is the same Man Utd we were comparing with Real Madrid this morning. Still funny all the same.

Van Persie stakes no claim on nothing, not ever. Apparently he's been subbed, but I wouldn't know because the stream is fucking nob.

Hold on, that's Cole notching his 50th career goal? He made his debut in 2002.

not like this is the same Man Utd we were comparing with Real Madrid this morning

Then again - O'Shea, Giggs, Brown, Hernandez, Anderson, Fletcher presumably all on better money than the West Ham first XI.

Poor bebe.

very poor from what I've seen

I suppose that's the best you can get for £1m less than a van der Vaart.

Value in this here Market.

Wenger out if Arsenal don't win this cup now

Back from hospital again, daughter fine. Saw almost none of the match on the TV, but heard some on the radio while driving back and forth. Not a great day.

glad everything is okay

not having seen this first time round, clattenburg, eh?

spector just scored. will wait to see if clattenurg can think of a way to get this chalked off in the next 10 mins.

http://i51.tinypic.com/t0teyw.jpg

bebe, then

certainly half an ozil.

Yes, the middle half. The bit with no feet or head.

beat me to it

unlike bebe would be wont to do, based on recent evidence.

So, how much did quieroz pocket from his signing? Let's just have it out in the open.

All of it?

man that's some scurrillous shit you wanna be careful

Quiroz is very CONTROVERSIAL MOD EDIT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TtruzMfXZU&feature=player_embedded
80,000 a week

Ipswich may have given us Chris Kiwomya, but there's no room for sentiment. We must beat them.

Miquel is supposedly going to start = me excited about this comp again.

'new Pique'

Only because all the others are dead = not good news.

More like the new Sylvestre:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_MiRWo4Myw

Yeah but the carling cup feels wrong without some youngsters we will forget ever played for arsenal in a professional match in 5 years time

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/01/11/article-0-0CB9A9DD000005DC-25_634x359.jpg

I forgot all about last night and don't know what happened here, but I loved this photo

foster casually let the ball through his legs, more or less. a decent 7/10 lol.

Van Persie got hit by a tractor on the way and couldn't make the squad.

SAME OLD IPSWICH, ALWAYS SCORING DISALLOWED GOALS FROM OFFSIDE POSITIONS

Conor Wickham: is he better than Bale?

CLUB IN CRISIS

Given that this was practically Arsenal's proper team that was awful. Although obviously speaking as a L'pool fan I would happily take Arsenal's problems over ours. Cesc had a good first 15 mins then didn't do a lot imo, except knee one over from about a yard.

can't believe that line-leading overhead-kicking dangerman tamas priskin is the same guy we had on loan at qpr most of last season. one of the most pointless bastards ever to wear the hoops, and that's saying something. damien donkey delaney solid at the back too!

P fucking shocking. Playing the shitty youths means we can get away with losing away games to Championship sides, whereas this could really hurt morale.

First world problem. You'll clean up in the replay, Jewell'll be in charge by then.

Not a youth side at all, apart from Chesney:

53 Szczesny
06 Koscielny
20 Djourou
27 Eboue
28 Gibbs
04 Fabregas
14 Walcott
15 Denilson
19 Wilshere (A Song 68)
23 Arshavin (Vela 80)
52 Bendtner (Chamakh 68)

Why can't we just spend 500m on a team, huh?

If we win by one goal, it's extra time, no matter how many away goals have been scored. After extra time, away goals count. So if normal time finishes 2-1 to us, we play 30 minutes more, and have to win 3-1 to go to the final, because if we don't score we're out.

TRACTOR PARKED. DENILSON IS SITTING ON A HAY BALE AND ARSHAVIN IS SNUFFLING AROUND.

RIP Wenger's team selection.

It's at times like this we need the leaders like Denilson to step up.

tractor, combine harvester, and plough.

denilson wears an invisibility cloak for half of a game.

was just going to say, can we buy bendtner from you?

laurent "suck it" koscielny

you can all fuck off as well

Still on for Ipswich to score on the 89th minute.

jason scotland hat trick on the cards.

ref doesn't know the rules?

SAME OLD HALSEY, ALWAYS CHEATING

ref's a woman

quality counts

FA gynocracy does nothing to stop Arsenal's phallic rise.

Hope Sky Sports never interviews Arshavin about women drivers.

Maybe they could ask Paul Jewell after the match about cars and women...

"An idiot on the pitch, there"

They're just noticed Denilson...

2002: BREAKING NEWS - ARSENAL CAPTAIN CESC FABREGAS HAS BEEN RULED OUT OF SUNDAY'S CARLING CUP FINAL AGAINST BIRMINGHAM BECAUSE OF A HAMSTRING INJURY

ALL CAPS DRUDGE_SIRENS.JPEG

Wenger, Feb 2010: “If you win the League Cup, for me, you cannot say that you win trophies.”

Can anybody tell me if the final is on Itv or BBC?

bbc

Cool, ta.

Arsenal

* 53 Szczesny
* 03 Sagna
* 06 Koscielny
* 20 Djourou
* 22 Clichy
* 07 Rosicky
* 08 Nasri
* 17 A Song
* 19 Wilshere
* 23 Arshavin
* 10 Van Persie

Substitutes

* 01 Almunia,
* 18 Squillaci,
* 27 Eboue,
* 28 Gibbs,
* 15 Denilson,
* 29 Chamakh,
* 52 Bendtner

gonna play the youths against Barca now.

the cc final omission is the final straw that's needed to forge bendtner's transformation into big nicklas bendtner, midtable journeyman forward and martin o'neill's project player at fulham in 2k13

Still can't get over Brentford being 60 secs from knocking Birmingham out ;_;

what are the lyrics to that clover song the arsenal fans always sing (ie it is their only song)? it is hateful and pish.

Doesn't every club sing that?

things that lee bowyer deserves to have happen to him-

#1 fed to pigs

#2 curbstomped by ms13

#3 shanked in the throat with a sharpened comb in pentonville

#4 miss a penalty in about 120 minutes' time

Doesn't every club sing that?

― James Mitchell

quite possibly. but it's the only arse song i can say i know form watching them on the telly.

#5 ensuing midlife crisis causes him to become an oxycontin addicted 250lb trisha watching bankrupt assailed by visions of cockroaches gnawing through his cerebral cortex

spelled from apparenly and also probably only song whether youre on the telly or no (can't imagine the library upscaling to the emirates can have done much for the atmos).

apparently, jesus fuck i am dyslexic.

this birmingham side are the slowest pl side oi can remember

no pace in their starting xi

sorry for talkin loike a poirate in that post

lol what a shit goal

get into these fuds.

HE'LL NEVER BE THE WORLD'S GREATEST FOOTBALLER

glasgowish pridge y'all. big eck runnin' tings.

eric pridge

hoping for an introduction of the only epl player with a nickname based on a racist depiction of a brazilian in a latin american comic book.

maybe mcleish h8s fast ppl more than he hates human dignity or his own children, hence his lack of trust in beausejour, jerome, cristian benitez et al?

srsly stephen carr looks like the fastest player in this late mediaeval freakshow of a team, all kyphotic peasants and consumptive lepers coughing black bile as the trundle about

during the world cup my pal and i figured that beausejour was french for lovely day and sang it to the tune:

une beasejooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooour.

damn those brum supporters are the noisiest collection of racists since phil anselmo conducted prussian blue in an adaptation of stravinsky's 'les noces'

Deafening noise and a splash of blue at one end of Wembley. Birmingham's goal was exactly what Alex McLeish had in mind when he picked Nikola Zigic. He may sometimes take five touches when four will do, but that header is why he is in ahead of Martins and Jerome.

RIP RVP

LOLin van persie, can't even score a wonder goal without getting injured.

quality goal, quality shattered tibia.

damn rvp u sweet princess! tear those brummie rectums with yr big fucking rvpist dick

nice to see bowyer getting sonned by the scarcely less vile liam ridgewell

the former kfc racist assault man will be devastated to have been injured by the ex-villa cunt

nice to see drogba on the left of me vialli on the right, stuck in the middle wi lorro

Wonder if Bowyer thinks about what its like to be an Asian student outside a nightclub in Leeds when he's rolling around on the floor?

nae empathy empathy, he's all dumb psychopathy

Chief football writer Phil McNulty's HT snapshot from Wembley: "Enthralling first 45 minutes. How Birmingham will wish they could have held their lead until the interval but Arsenal may just feel the momentum is with them now."

UNE BEAUSEJOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOR

right, let's not bottle opener this thread,this is his nickname in chile

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_UKuzp2JdRmY/SiBViIyuU7I/AAAAAAAAAII/zqE6FDZ-rOA/s320/palmatoria.jpg

McNulty almost as good as Shearer: "What Birmingham have to do is get that ball into Zigic."

something so annoying about arsenal in the final third. stop being pussies and hit it like you mean it jeeez

bendtner's dumb face kindof reminds me of calvin johnson's dumb face

HA!

ah well, settle for the treble.

stupidest fucking thing i've ever seen

wish i could remember the list of shite players eck brought in at rangers to the tune of willy maley

and he gave us nacho novo and alec rae

meh

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BBC's pitchside reporter asking Ben Foster what he made of the winning goal on the basis that he was the least likely person in the stadium to have seen it.

listen to some dignity plebs

a titanic effort indeed

women & children first

What's all this "it's tradition for the losers in the Carling Cup final to receive their medals first" As opposed to what other finals??

"Carson Yeung, who's invested his money into the club..." - am I wrong to slightly doubt that?

Does carling come in champagne bottles now?

Liverpool could lose out on a Europa League place cos of that result. Every cloud and all that.

Can Clichy defend?

so unless liverpool get 5th, or win the europa league liverpool will likely have no european football next year?which is appaz the first time since 1999

By Philip McNulty
BBC Sport chief football writer at Wembley

the artist formerly known as??? he's taken a more serious direction with his work...

Well, he saw how well it worked for Andy Cole...

Think Liverpool can finish 6th and qualify for the Europa if the FA Cup finalists both finish in the top 5 right?

Think Liverpool can finish 5th tbh

The only entertaining thing yesterday was watching Obafemi Martins' backflips from the angle where you can see Barry Ferguson flinching at the final flip as he thinks he might get kicked in the face. Especially when you see it from the other angle and it's obvious he's miles away (though his poor spatial awareness and lack of ability to judge distance might explain some of his tackling).

(there might have been more entertaining stuff, but I mostly kept falling asleep so only saw about 20 minutes tops)

For some reason those Mitre footballs always look a lot smaller than the Nike and Adidas balls.