ILF regulars won't be posting in the Capital One Cup thread 2012/13

2017 RED CARD - Sunderland - Lee Cattermole

We've been here before. Sunderland midfielder Lee Cattermole is shown a straight red card at MK Dons. Cattermole, charging forward with the ball, takes a poor touch and flatters into Adam Chiksen trying to retrieve possession.

red card from 5 years in the future. lee still up to his old antics.

i was unaware of the proceedings of this year's capital one cup prior to reading a puff piece about former arsenal mascot current arsenal capital one cup star nico yennaris

I can't believe Villa won! This one victory will be our consolation prize for going down.

Bet Milner and Barry feel like right chumps for leaving now, look at what they're missing. Villa not going down this season, I mean we've got Charles n'zogbia ffs. QUALITY IN THE SIDE. 40 points and survival, or I'll eat my pet labradoodle.

A surprisingly good strike by the Fat Brazilian

both fat men looking decent tonight

liverpool in control, assaidi exciting, coates looking solid, sahin and henderson keeping it ticking over nicely in the middle. pacheco not involved enough, needs to come deep and show for the ball, but working hard, tracking back. both keepers gifted the other side a goal.

What the heck is going in the Arsenal vs Coventry game?

nnnghhhh

16 year old jerome sinclair coming on!

I approve

Strong QPR side getting beaten by Reading atm.

amazing goal sahin!

great run by suso, feeds assaidi, perfect cross, sahin taps it in. amazing passing before it reached suso too. excellent stuff.

Chelsea away next round which means two trips to Stamford Bridge in four days followed by Arsenal at home

not seen a liverpool player dribble the ball like suso did for that second goal in about 15 years.

more an indictment of recent style of play but still.

bit harsh on jones earlier, didn't realise olsson had stuck his arm in his face.

Fucking hell that tackle on Henderson!!

aye meant to mention that earlier, not even a yellow.

i want rodgers to succeed so badly.

Yes. There's so much goodwill towards him, I'd like to know how to engender it. He's like the antiRoy.

it's the style of play for me, plus the faith in the youngsters. i still amn't totally convinced, it's so early, the next few games will be a real indicator.

style of play, approach to the game. The results early on are as bad as Roy but I really didn't want to go where Roy was seemingly keen on going, had no faith that it would be either attractive or successful. So far the only thing I'm unhappy about is a deterioration in our defensive play.

Just keep calm, guys, it's all going to be OK

i know

Rodgers looked like he really needed that win last night

There'll be a lot of bullshit written about Rogers for a while I reckon. British football journalists are just inherently suspicious of and condescending to managers who want to play in any other way than punting it forward at the first opportunity. Spurs have won three and are unbeaten in six and we're still getting "phew, AVB will be relieved after that!" opening paragraphs.

MATT DC SAYS AVB HAS BOUGHT HIMSELF TIME TO GET IT RIGHT

he can say whatever he wants just as long as he keep calling him rogers imo

RTC BACKS DC IN AVB ROW

did we have a League Cup thread for me to go "lol Wenger out" in?

― chow mein kampf (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 30 October 2012 20:24 (6 minutes ago)

game on!

lol, a hoy hoy will be loving this

4-0's a dangerous score though, etc

nah only in the reverse iirc

unsporting of Villa to pick tonight to play football imo

robbie fowler looks about as healthy as i've ever seen him

comedy comeback afoot at Reading

reading, that's where arsenal are vikings

Quite fancy Reading for a last-minute winner here

"I'm an Arsenal fan who actually left before getting to the game," says Joe Chapman. "I was stuck on the M4 so long the game had begun by the time I reached Junction 11. Seeing the massive queue from there to the ground I decided to cut my losses - not much point spending £8 at the car park to go and see a half of a match that only cost £15 - so turned round and came home."

Preserving this guy just in case.

GIROUD sung to the tune of Hey Jude right now lol

CHAMAKH to the tune of Get Back?

GERVINHO to the tune of Phil Collins' "I Missed Again"

watching a bit of leeds saints. basically a training drill for a totally hamfisted leeds to try and put ball in t'net vs a nonexistent. good set of solid young lads playing for leeds, sam byram in particular

ooh shit swindon 2-2 gonna watch me some paolo

omg Arsenal fans now giving it some Miquel's Silver Hammer

bfitw

2-2 YES COME ON YOU BLACKSHIRTS

BBC has Villa as 70 percent possession ouch

oh well i would watch paolo if i could, radio it is

lol i had totally forgotten chelsea united was happening again tomoz. shame it'll probably be reserves

now BBC has Villa as 45 percent possession, that must've been some 3 minutes for Swindon

4-3!

aw, benteke scores

fou four

omg 4-4

unsporting by Villa.

Leeds gub Southampton, Wigan-Bradford crowd on suicide watch.

route one setpiece

lol two arsenal players throw their shirts into the crowd, crowd tells them it's extra time and chuck them back

in your face Joe Chapman

Just caught the last ten mins of the Arsenal comeback. Please tell me the Beatles chants really happened.

i feel the Miquel's Silver Hammer one may've been a fib

even by the standard of lumbering 6'2, 15 stone forwards, pogrebnyak (which means undertaker or sthing like that iirc) permanently looks half-cut

there was definitely some Ob-La-Diaby-Da at one point, nbs

are we gonna get snoball itt or

and lo! it was but a dream

this is the most subdued five goal comeback imaginable

hard to gaf when u dont gaf

lol Keown: 'all credit to Reading, they've kept going'. A man of the highest standards.

keowns daily mail articles are worth reading, they're always wrong in the most inexplicable yet uninteresting ways

reading have got this same ref against us on saturday

hopefully be too knackered to get righteous tho

when you win the Prem and the Champions' League as often as Arsenal it's difficult to muster up enthusiasm for a pissant little competition like this

http://www.nutjob.eu/images/Clattenburg.png

posted above my stream btw

how can he hate foreigners when he's Swedish himself?

maybe German

alright i take back my original question

this competion is the Europa League's only rival tbh

koscielny is a bit erratic but still a boss recovery defender

bosscielny cozen will have called him

bosscielny
About 27,000 results (0.43 seconds)

oy....

fucking google won't let me search for Gervohno

can we get some jernaine meade / jonathan meades xover pls

haaaaa 5-5

awesome

must be dudes at Wigan thinking they've died and entered some Third Policemanesque hell

gravedigger for wenger

'mad stad' ;_;

Pogrebnyak is still playing football?

i feel relatively certain that there are no dudes at wigan likening their positions to literary metaphysical torture

NEVER IN DOUBT

^ unmetaphysical

this is just silly

7-5

Bradford have knocked Wigan out

typical Arsenal

thank god Arsenal have the great Bould

Joe Chapman probly feeling a bit of a tool right now

poor decision-making from the boy Chapman

now watch these cunts perform a rock solid defensive masterclass on the weekend

havent bradford got some sort of awesome record on shootouts

Seven in a row I believe

Shame on the 1000 or so fans who left here early.

lol even better

niall quinn saying it's the most amazing game he's ever seen

smh pleb

I Love Shitty Defending

Reading 5
Roberts 12, Koscielny (og) 18, Leigertwood 20, Hunt 37, Pogrebnyak 90+25

Arsenal 7
Walcott 45+2, Giroud 64, Koscielny 89, Walcott 90+6, Chamakh 90+13, Walcott 90+31, Chamakh 90+33

i like the guardian's suggestion there was 40 minutes stoppage time

carl jenkinson has exactly the voice u would want him to have

Ha, was just copying that too

bosscielny
About 27,000 results (0.43 seconds)

oy....
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Tuesday, October 30, 2012 10:07 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I only said it once but everyone who heard it went on to use it

these are some decent goals, except for that shit the arse gk let in from leigertwood

i like the guardian's suggestion there was 40 minutes stoppage time
― r|t|c, Tuesday, October 30, 2012 10:30 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

just came in; this genuinely had me bamboozled. first thought was leg break

so can chamakh come back inside yet

fucking hell that was crazy. was in a pub in reading (should have been at the game if my mate hadnt needed a hospital visit this week) and saw an overenthusiastic 18 year old in an arsenal shirt get torn to shreds as he got more butthurt throughout the first half and just laughed my tits off in disbelief at the rest of it. the kid went home at 4-2. never have i seen a pub full of fans, roughly 75-25 cut of support just laugh through a whole football match regardless of what was happening. nothing made sense, everyone was unbelievably shit and between this and the g nev torrgasm football has been hilarious this year.

yeah i saw the 8-2 in a pub, was much like you describe

http://www.101greatgoals.com/blog/the-ridiculous-tweets-when-arsenal-were-losing-to-reading/

http://hereisthecity.com/2012/10/31/arsenal-fans-react-on-twitter-to-marouane-chamakh-scoring/?

The long-term solution? Interestingly, there is a case for rotating Van Persie and Chamakh depending on whether Arsenal are playing at home or away.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/sport/jeremywilson/100014356/robin-van-persie-v-marouane-chamakh-the-big-dilemma-that-awaits-arsene-wenger/

wonder if those guys are going to sit down to watch utd-che with a nice dinner of sauteed dog shit or if they are LIARS.

Have you ever overreacted to an Arsenal setback?

i am a football fan

fanateur

people have pointed and mocked me enough for me to know that it is part of the tradition

not enough!

idk i feel in the last year or so a hoy has gone from some sort of a real football fan to an almost totally meta football fan

he experiences no emotions at the recurrent ankle injuries of abou diaby except a wry 'lolbou lolaby' in the direction of the fates and the faintest shudder of contempt for the reflexive ululations of the emirates faithful

broken lolaby

I think continued exposure to Internet football discussions makes everyone go meta to an extent. On the way back from the game last heard I heard how Reading vs Arsenal was going and I didn't think about selections or performance or form or character, I thought about how it would be playing out on twitter and ILF.

last night*

yeah, there's that.

Maybe we should take a month off- would we return better or worse i wonder

suspend i love football for a month?

wouldn't that further entrench deems in his soul-destorying f365 habit

destory of my life

In two dozen posts we've gone from talking about the game, to talking about fans' responses to the game, to considering a hoy hoy's response to those fans, to reflecting on own response mentally working through that chain. And now I'm pointing that out.

there was a pretty large gap between the media reactions to last night's game (quinn's hyperbole etc) and its actuality

for a 12 goal game with a 4 goal comeback, it really wasn't that amazing.....a demoralized basically championship level side vs a load of kids and £60k a week squad players with nothing to lose

there were some nice goals but the overall level of play was fairly scrappy, and it didn't even seem that urgent during the last 20 minutes of normal time, with extra time played at a leisurely tempo

the most memorable aspect imo was coquelin and giroud retreiving their shirts from the crowd at 90 minutes

my f365 habit reflects that i can't/won't access ilx at work. Except on this phone. It's an ever-worsening fix tho

yeah the game was dire and does not tick ilf boxes for a classic even if it does in the outside world. none of the goals were interesting enough that they'll be remembered in a month, bar martinez's cock up and the drama was p much suspended until the last 5 minutes of the game & of et. Maybe most importantly, most of the players played like the dogshit twitter now needs to eat, there was nothing inspirational or exciting abt the plays it was just bad defending, ogs, cock ups, tap-ins etc for the most part. funny tho.

plus i missed the lols of last sunday so

i think my meta-ness has come from the state of dogma around arsenal. we won't be good enough to win anything anytime soon or bad enough to really make me/us go crazy and there is nothing on the horizon* that says that it is subject to change anytime soon. a big win could be enjoyable , a big loss heartbreaking but really the stakes aren't that high and i might as well just enjoy it and chuckle. there aren't any real hate figures about to channel it into outside the club either, considering that ebjt is nearly done and spurs are as likable as they have been in my lifetime.

*of course in 2014 wenger's contract ends and we can renegotiate and get that warrior money for a potential new manager to go crazy with but really it'll just stay the same unless ffp actually does something, fergie dies and he have another couple wilsheres lined up no-one knows about

also arsenal fans are fucking horrible creatures and v slowly i want to back the fuck away from the crowd

wild success for avb would be getting spurs to that level, tbf

Utd make ten changes. Ideally now Chelsea will put out a full-strength team.

lol at marin not starting

This is turning out to be such a bad move for him. Loaned out in January?

Meanwhile De Bruyne going great guns at Werder.

Chelsea: Cech, Azpilicueta, Cahill, Luiz, Bertrand, Romeu, Mikel, Moses, Mata, Piazon, Sturridge. Subs: Hilario, Ramires, Oscar, Hazard, Ferreira, Marin, Saville.

So 4 or 5 regular starters.

Joe Cole is playing. My will to find a stream is waning.

I still reckon Cole could come good

Saville

I had no idea Macheda was still at United

Villa at OT. Never Forget...well I don't anyway.

MUFC fans unfurl banner that reads: "Clattenburg, Referee, Leader, Legend"

gif

That's pretty excellent, unless he did it (not sure if that doesn't make it better actually)

Yep, heard about that pisstake of the Terry poster earlier. There's supposed to be another one saying 'Chelsea FC: fighting racism since Sunday' (or something like that)

As far as I can make out. Henderson is playing RB, and Downing CM. Idgi.

Ho ho xp, you loveable scamps you

Gift of a goal

On closer inspection Liverpool playing 2 at the back, 7 in MF, with 1 striker. Hmm.

And now Carra's been flagged for offside! Have no idea what is going on.

Green and Pleat going mental about all the hilarious shenanigans at Chelsea. tbh that just makes it funnier.

http://www.101greatgoals.com/wp-content/gallery/gimages/1351713230524.gif

you've seen them given

Swansea looking the more likely. Yesil struggling. Cole yet to come good.

p

shevchenko sitting with abramovich

Swansea've got to score that

First time I've seen a player berate someone for the quality of their finish rather than for lack of a pass.

Cos I don't think the return ball to Michu was on.

woeful

even more woeful

ffs I step out to get some baklava and

well you missed a free header from a corner - goal. Cole missing a free header from 7 yards out. No less than Swansea deserve so far tbh

ha just checked the min by min and I appear mto have typed the exact same phrases as BBC dude. How embarrassing.

as mentioned upthread

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A6j9XlOCUAEENEv.jpg

"Red men, what's the score? Red men, Red men, what's the score?," is the chant from the away end - the Kop is not amused.

Surely they were chanting 'Brendon' not 'Red Men'???

Or not, that image isn't showing, is it?

Phones, fuck em.

ffs I appreciate the sentiment, but where's the execution? That's not going to be troubling any tifo slideshows.

yeah no pride

I can see it Onimo.

Amused at 'Red Men'.

Worst LFC 'free' signing - Cole, Voronin, Jovanovic?

I'm going with Cole.

I thought it was 'Method Men, Method Men what's the score?'

Well then they should have spelled it out M.E.T.H.O.D Meeeeeen!

I'm watching Dundee United vs Hearts while you are all enjoying the Reddy Men and anti-anti-racist zings. It's a great advert for English football.

Brad Jones looks awfully like Ryan Tubridy

Great from Nani. United ahead for the third time tonight.

Gerrard and Suarez on, I like it

That sounded like "time to blame the referee" from the United end

any stuff on spurs?

any scores at all in fact, youse guys can be pretty obtuse

Bale 1:0
Utd 3:2
Swansea 1:0

This game has been a little bit like when Hungary visited in 1953. Happily, England have gone on to become quite a bit better than Hungary.

So we'll win a trophy in 13 years and then none for 45+ years?

Ah post my old friend.

Ah Downing my old friend

Hello Harkness my old friend

lol

This game has been a little bit like when Hungary visited in 1953. Happily, England have gone on to become quite a bit better than Hungary.

― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, October 31, 2012 9:18 PM (7 minutes ago)

too true, england have really had the last laugh these last glorious 59 years

btw darragh verthonghen just og'd. 1-1.

and now norwich 2-1.

Hey Red Men - what's the score?

2-0

Dempsey just missed a pen for Spuds.

make that 3

Nice break from ye Swans

when did you stop thinking of Liverpool as one of the big clubs?

not yet

what shit is this

last second pen for chelsea

Gah! Penalty to Chelsea in the last second of injury time.

hazard scores

Chelsea-United so good they demanded another 30 mins

suarez pulls one back. 1-2

wooton looks a bit champo but keane has been pretty impressive

Norwich thru

ramires gamed that pen big time

sturridge is such a knob

suarez amazing move in the box, goalie blocks.

ffs

bditw

wooton shows his class again

Hopeless defending

Comedy header back there. Urgh. Still, one of them has to win I guess. Oop, red cards coming?

that was keane, cursed the poor fucker

3-1 Swansea

lol my stream must be behind. turning off now.

oh well

Oh I'm miles behind. I guess The Champions are probably out by now?

yep, full time about 3 minutes ago

great fk from luiz off the bar elicits strangled scream from tyler

keane made an awesome tackle shortly after the goal

he just looks so irish (played for the youth teams apparently) and we must cling onto these glimmers of hope

sturridge has been pretty useless

Stalingrad is my bedtime reading atm, I'm imagining this Utd-Chelsea series as something similar

Red place once scared to visit beating yard

Bishop on Twitter: "Oh! What has Anfield turn to? A place once scared to visit by all clubs in the country has now turned to beating yard for Red"

Wonderful goal

Alan Green apparently confused by what a Quarterback does.

Also 5-3 to Chelsea.

How did Hazard think to play the pass there?

Man Utd penalty...

5-4

Best competition

no

RIP defending

so much better than the fa cup

Well, that was entertaining I suppose

Onimo, that (once scared etc) sounds like a cryptic crossword clue

real madrid are playing in the copa del rey in a stadium about the size of their c team, camera right next to the players but still it just doesn't have the gritty realness of england's storied capital one cup

give the camera to Ken Loach then

oh it was wooton with the terrible backpass

fergie publicly blaming nani for losing the ball in the run up to the equaliser

when does the RPL transfer window open

nani is a moron tho

leeds - chelsea

Leeds v Chelsea
Swansea v Middlesbrough
Norwich v Aston Villa
Bradford v Arsenal

http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/chelsea-disgust-me-says-neil-warnock-on-clattenburg-complaint-8255577.html

Leeds-Chelsea is gritty realness

chelsea 1992 v chelsea 2012 basically

i wonder how anyone talks to bobby di matteo for longer than 2 minutes

same face all the time, perhaps a tiny weak smile, narrow eyes slowly moving side to side like a haunted painting

maybe if you combined him and phillip cocu ((O___O)) you might get a normal person

i support chelsea and i fucking hate leeds

Welcome aboard! We've had a vacancy for a Chelsea fan for a while.

sometimes Barney Ronay paints the best pictures:

Watching Arsène Wenger and Brian McDermott on the touchline during the 7-5 at the Madejski there was a shared sense of some collective bungle in train, the two managers standing helpless and baffled like empty-handed men at the top of a scaffold surveying, for a frozen moment, the wreckage of the ruined chandelier down below

http://www.socialistrevolution.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/bradford-wastefiel-occupation.jpg

this is shit but it looks like it's going to ET so you ought to watch it

Just as well they put out their full-strength side

How are Bradford's shirts made by Nike? You'd think they might leave that market to Bukta or Matchwinner.

OMG 1-0 Bradford

every faith in Arsenal's ability to choke here

Jeez. I hope Gervinho's down to take a crucial kick.

LOOOOOOOOL

Wenger already brushing up his CV

Make it stop.

but not yet

2-1, pressure back on Bradford here

pressure RIGHT back on Arsenal

Great kick

ooooooooh

OH NOES

ughhhh

http://www.p45s.com/P45.jpg

Fucking hell Arsenal

Bradford gave them every chance as well

only the treble left now

Why did a hoy hoy have to take this week off?

oh come on a hoy loves this as much as you do

that dude is in for the meta like some kind of caterpillar

surely only Big Sam can turn Arsenal around now

i fucking hate arsenal though

maybe a triumphant return for George Graham

Kroket (Trusted Member) on 7 minutes ago
Even against Bradford City we're being served the same uninspired drab we've been seeing for years now. There's absolutely nothing that indicates we're at least working towards some sort of vision or philosophy. We badly, badly need some fresh ideas.

DiamondGooner (Forum Member) on 5 minutes ago

say yes wrote:No it wouldn't. Top clubs don't sack their most successful manager of all time before Christmas because he lost to Bradford on penalties

Tell me when was the last time Wenger was successful? oh that's it 8 years ago.

Chelsea just sacked the manager who got them the Champions league, Wenger's never even done that.

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Coypus (Forum Member) on 5 minutes ago
He sold and he sold and he sold until there was no core

krengon (Forum Member) on 4 minutes ago
Honestly think this one is more on the players than Wenger. That was almost our first team, it's a disgrace they couldn't beat a league 2 side.

monkus (Forum Member) on less than a minute ago

krengon wrote:Honestly think this one is more on the players than Wenger. That was almost our first team, it's a disgrace they couldn't beat a league 2 side.

But the problem is the manager has completely failed to re-motivate the players to a better performance. I can stand one awful result but not sustained awful performances with no fight and no zest.

If the whole team cared about this club and invested as much as Wenger did then we'd be fine but they don't, and its his job to make them.

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bingobob (Forum Member) on less than a minute ago
Been saying it for years he should have left when we had Fabregas, Nasri, RVP, Gallas etc in the squad so a new man could come in and challenge now any new manager that wil come either this season or in seasons in the future has a mountain to climb as potentially Everton are ahead of us Spurs potentially ahead of us (we will know come June).

When wil people stop seeing this as reactionary.
Keeper had a great game Wenger just say it wasn't good enough there was a lack of quality admit it fs

This actually is a resignation defeat. I've been lolling as if it doesn't matter but will be pretty sad if Wenger walks now; everyone else should leave instead.

oh come on a hoy loves this as much as you do

― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Tuesday, 11 December 2012 22:32 (3 days ago)

he doesn't. i was speaking to a guy on monday who supports west brom and he was on some bollocks like "you can't be a real fan until you've seen your team relegated, arsenal fans need a shock." etc. for me at least, that is some stupid fucking reasoning. i've had some of the biggest emotional moments of my life with arsenal, whether tony adams winning the league v. everton and cesc making vieira his bitch or seaman getting lobbed and henry leaving etc. etc. Even if I hadn't experienced lows before as a football fan, I still wouldn't want to chase or encourage them. I still support my team to do the best they can.

the people inside the club seem to think wenger now is the club. there are talented players, many fans, high class facilaties and many potential candidates ready to do a better job than him. 15 years ago he was making an old guard look out of touch and it is happening to him now by the next generation. Its a shame but it happens. It only hurts more when you pull a plaster off slowly, we should have ripped it off long ago.

otoh
its p funny.

I haven't seen anything from Amy Lawrence this week either; is that who you've been shacking up with?

pretty nice counter-attacking goal from Leeds just now

luiz :/

leeds fans :/

tragic equalizer in this match i don't really want anybody to win

winner plays one out of rangers, linfield, stoke, cardiff or milwall

Rafa's corner tactics

stick a fork in them :(

pfft.

Moses seems like a game lad

he is but a quail compared to the waddling partidge that was dirk kuyt

Rafa's Chelsea certainly grant no quarter to the weak; this is kind of the opposite to Rafa's Liverpool.

Classic start...

lol

every fucker that stood and watched that with a gormless goldfish expression and an arm in the air deserves to have the aforementioned limb severed with a pair of nail scissors

Why do Bradford have a star on their strip?

If Lambert had been playing Bent for the last two months, he might have scored that

whats happening where

Bradford a goal up, Bent misses a sitter, I type that, twenty seconds later the commentator says it for real.

did I say one goal up??

loving this

bloody hell, just hit the bar too

hiss

Get in! McHugh ffs.

3-1! you can't beat the magic of the capital one cup.

Beauty of a header - lol Benteke beaten in the air for the last two goals.

hurrah!

CAN A MOD GET THAT PLS ffs

Half-and-half scarves out in force

It took me five minutes, but I've worked out what Darragh's on about now

Can't say fairer than that. Looked like a good game from the bits and bobs I caught when I wasn't busy gouging my eyes out with a rusty spoon.

classic lolcup action, Lambert looked a bit like a bloke who was wondering what time he'll have to sign on next week

Why oh why did Chelsea have to go and still be in this tournament?

what a guy

get in

crazy how much more Ba has done than Torres since coming on, and he's been really unlucky with the refereeing decisions

Woo! I made the right decision to not watch and risk jinxing this.

If this is still a Chelsea-Villa final now ...

this michu thing is ridiculous. 2m... it's just bizarre.

this appears to be first ever post on ilx about him. Ahead of the game

Number None wrote this on thread "The Championship is not an option" - I Love Football off-season and transfer speculation thread 2012 on board I Love Football on Jul 17, 2012

this seems like a bit of a bargain

Rayo Vallecano have confirmed to Sky Sports that they have accepted a bid from Swansea City for midfield ace Michu.
A host of Premier League sides including Manchester United, Fulham, Stoke City, Liverpool, Southampton, Sunderland, Wigan and West Brom have been linked with the 26-year-old who is also interesting Sevilla.

But Swansea are now in pole position to land the goalscoring midfielder after a bid of £1.5million was accepted.

Michu scored 15 goals in La Liga last season, and has already admitted he would like the chance to play in the Premier League.

big michu, larry hoover, scoring goals, hallelujah

― r|t|c, Saturday, 18 August 2012 16:13 (4 months ago) Bookmark

prefer this one tbh

I turned on to see a replay of Ba getting booked instead of being given a penalty, within seconds Ivanovic had set up a second Swansea goal and then almost immediately Ba equalised except it was offside. Was this excellent timing or was the whole game insane?

nah it was mostly just Chelsea knocking it about ineffectually

I do try to go the odd day without being all 'old football was better', but ...

It is very wrong that it's completely inconceivable that Swansea could put together a title push next season. It's barely even possible that they could be in the running for the top four. Getting £15m for Michu and then rising back to high midtable is about as it good as it can feasibly get for them. There's a nice piece by David Conn about them taking a different path, but this is as far as it goes - the gap they're pushing against now is unbridgeable.

not completely inconceivable. carlos slim purchases them, rest history

AHAHAHAHA but seriously though, you're right - the crass distortion of 'my village versus yours' has robbed upstart villages of much pulling-power. on the other hand, it's an even greater achievement to outplay or outmanoeuvre a pompous, glory-demanding moneybags under the present conditions - in some particularly Zen sense, Swansea have already won a title - by reconsidering what it is that we should be venerating - the trophy or the statement made

course it'd be even nicer if they won the actual trophy

unless it's against bradford in which case they're eurosplashing monsters

qualifying for the cl and the subsequent run (hell, even just the two milan clubs) was so, so much better than a league cup, i can't even. league cup win is maybe in my top ten moments of past five years, if it was even last five, because can i be bothered to look up or remember a league cup win no

IK otm.

unless it's against bradford in which case they're eurosplashing monsters

It'd be a bit like when Portsmouth won the cup (the real cup) - in any other season that would have been fantastic news, but a bizarre series of results meant they were the only Prem team in the semis so it ended up feeling like an anticlimax. Except, I think I'd be happy if either team won this time - just don't let Chelsea get to the final.

qualifying for the cl and the subsequent run (hell, even just the two milan clubs) was so, so much better than a league cup, i can't even. league cup win is maybe in my top ten moments of past five years, if it was even last five, because can i be bothered to look up or remember a league cup win no

It's partly about expectations and history, though. Spurs are a big club who punched below their weight for a decade and a half. When I was at school they won multiple FA Cups (and somehow lost to Coventry), the UEFA cup (when that meant something), and put in at least a couple of decent title challenges - to me, that's the level they're 'supposed' to be at, so a League Cup win is bound to feel relatively underwhelming. Whereas it must have meant a lot more to Middlesbrough and Birmingham and presumably would to Swansea, let alone Bradford.

all true (notwithstanding my starting taking an interest in idk 94 maybe, which gives me a v different perspective) but i'm saying as a spurs fan vs other spurs moments of recent times, not in a 'i'm blasé about everything since 61 tbh' iykwim.

kinda feel like Lambo's gone a bit too ham in the buildup to this one

I like how he's taken this thing as a massive diss, while himself having to employ the 'no disrespect to Bradford' get-out a few sentences later.

yeah, and he's also got this weird "we're the favourites to win and it'll be a huge boost to our system to get to Wembley" eggs-in-one-basket hubris thing as a sidestory to the priestbeef

I guess I meant season rather than system

life-support system

Just been sat on the train heading out from town towards Aston, crowded with villa fans, not a level head amongst them. We're either about to bosh bcfc 8-0 because we're villa and in the ep league and just because. Or alternatively we're about to get turned over 2-0 on our own patch and Lamborghini should be strung up from the nearest tree/lamppost. Can't anyone just be cautiously optimistic about this ffs? A degree of confidence is fine so long as you remain suitably wary

Also lamborghini = phone autocorrecting lambo. Defs need a few more wins under his belt before I start bestowing him with cool monikers

I can't really conceive of a Villa aggregate win because I can't conceive of a scenario where they don't concede a goal and collapse completely at some point

Like they "just need to win 2-0" or whatever, this is not happening

I am fashionably blasé about the fortunes of poor old Aston Villa, in keeping with the style of the Guardian liveblogs of the time

I think it depends on which Bradford City turns up really. If we get the Bradford City who have now pulled the pants of Wigan, Arsenal and the Villa down over consecutive games... well, then we're in trouble. But from what I can gather theyre not actually looking any too clever in the league. Admittedly this'll be the biggest game of their season so far, but still - maybe they won't turn up like they did in the first leg?

Also not entirely inconceivable that we play like we did during the first half against West Brom and stick a couple of goals past them. For a brief 45 minutes we looked like the team that did Norwich and Liverpool back-to-back earlier this season, back when everyone got excited very quickly all of a sudden about the prospect of Villa as a bunch of fearless young bucks playing a high pressing high energy 3-5-2 with Benteke cast as some kind of Belgian golem haunting the nightmares of defenders. That narrative lasted all of 5 minutes, didn't it?

Tyler's clearly already composed his moving "plucky Bradford fall at the final hurdle" spiel

Bye bye Villa. :(

should've had 3 or 4 by half time. what a bunch of flakes.

lol at villa midfielder looking up in the centre circle to see no team mates around him but for the five stood still in the bradford box

oohh

shit

it's a tease.

midfield problem solved by shay given coming out to the halfway line to launch it

fabian delph officially brain dead

http://www.totalcarcrashes.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/car_lamborghini_crash_marcielago-533x400.jpg

plucky Villa fall at the final hurdle

Bratfud!

Record setting Villa side.

That's Villa relegated imo

hurrah!

wish villa no ill will really but lambo is just the worst horrible cunt

Chelsea better not turn it round tomorrow

I'd've felt cheated without the nailbiting tbh, so well done Villa for that at least

Oh Lambo!

matt duke: "you could smell it in the dressing room before...you could smell that we had a chance"

never let paul tait take the stadium tour

Let's not forget that Villa won the game tonight.

nult on bbc: "one of the most remarkable football stories of recent times"

really? it's not that rare for a lower league side to knock a top tier side out of the cup, is it? i mean okay they're in a final, but still.

nult though, eh? who the fuck knows what goes on in that man's head.

It's pretty rare for a fourth tier team to knock out a succession of top flight teams and get to the final at Wembley. I can't ever remember it happening.

This is fair. Didn't really think of it like that, selfishly preoccupied with what it means for Villa, haven't considered the fairytale Bradford element to all this. Perhaps feels kinda strange on the night to talk about it like McNulty is up there ^ ^ ^ ^ because the real bravura and heroics mostly happened in the first leg. But yeah, is pretty crazy the run theyve gone on so far. Would be delighted to see either them or Swansea win it now

It's the first time a fourth tier team has got to a Wembley final (excepting playoffs and minor trophies). Rochdale made the final in the sixties but it wasn't a Wembley thing at that stage. Certainly one of the most remarkable cup stories in my lifetime.

Lump it on chelsea and wipe yer misty eyes folks

LOL!!! Ballboy down clutching his side!

WTF was that!?

Kid has a bright future in football with that play acting :D

He's acting his way to the medical centre like a trouper

Oh jeez, Hazard off. No way.

HAHAHAHAHA, Hazard booting the ballboy! He's gotta get in shit for that!!

Hazard looking to outcunt his captain by assaulting children.

hazard you disgusting piece of shit

what happened? was it like a misplaced tackle or like he couldn't stop running before he hit the boy or was it malicious and just a proper swipe at him?

Now I don't feel like I'm missing out by watching this snoozefest instead of the Arsenal West Ham game. Kid was asking for it imho. Also looked too old to be a ballboy

he kicked the ballboy in the stomach

http://i.minus.com/ixScpkduftksE.gif

fuuuuck what a cunt

wow

Wtf

Hazard basically not happy to be out-cunted by a ballboy, took it to next-level cuntery - even by JT's standards

If he had done that in front of swansea fans there woulda been a riot

wtf are you guys seeing here? Augustus Gloop lies on the ball, our hero boots it out from under him, then the little brat throws a Slaven Bilic

ahahaha Chelsea fan applauding it

I read the BBC coverage and never did I think it would deliver like that.

e ain't dan naffin rong az e

eden hazard is a great player

the ball was there to be won

ballboy timewasting deliberately

unequivocally acceptable behaviour by adult footballer eden hazard

it's not rly teammate cucking / racial abusing / tourist mocking level turpitude

somewhere, suarez is smiling

cozen otm basically

It's not like he shot the ballboy ffs

He would probably argue that he's kicking under the ballboy to get at the ball, and the kids gone down easy there, but still, HE KICKED THE BALLBOY IN THE STOMACH! That's way worse than being a racist.

Hazard's job is to kick the football, the ballboy's one job, his only job, is to return the ball promptly, which one of them has fucked up here

The ballboy is probably Welsh fyi

was it worse than nalbandian or henman

it was a sly dig. Don't know how anyone can think otherwise

my twitter feed is awash in american epl fan disgust

ballboy ‏@ballboymusic

So, after all these albums and hard work, turns out I just needed to let a #cfc player boot me in the ribs to get trending #generationochaye

ballboy is on twitter and announced time wasting! https://twitter.com/CHARLIEM0RGAN/status/294135719700602881

Hazard vs Ballboy, which one has successfully proven the theory of nominative determinism here

Eden Hazard fed up with Suarez, Terry and Balotelli hogging the spotlight as the EPL's three top level heels. This was his big move to smash that glass ceiling. I like him more than ever tbh

he doesn't really get hashtags then

Benitez was hired as the cup specialist, right? Just making sure that isn't lost.

can I get an ILX2 NEW USERNAME TRANSLATOR COMPENDIUM ruling pls

is windsor davies pete w

Worse than nalbandian cos he kicked some metal onto a mans ankle, and hazard kicked a ballboy in the stomach.

Worse than henman because the ball girl ran into the ball, and hazard etc.

Xp

xp nah i'm new

If people are only seeing the gif, it's worth pointing out that we're not talking about a cute wee 8yr ballboy or something. We're talking about a teenager deliberately being a nutsack because he thinks he can get away with it, and Hazard not realising that kicking a kid in the belly in front of the home viewers might not be a smart move.

i thought you were ferg

nalbandian did break the skin but it was very much ~in the heat of the moment~ and outward manifestation of inward turmoil... not pointedly /about/ the line judge

hazard blatantly frustrated by ball boy and kick a direct expression of this

ruling: worse

Can't we just all agree that Hazard's wrapped up 'moment of the season' there?

"and Hazard not realising that kicking a kid in the belly in front of the home viewers might not be a smart move."

This is the issue here really I think. It was just about the funniest thing he could possibly do at that moment, but really what possessed him? I can't, won't, believe that he expected that to go unnoticed. He's either a total moron or a primo troll. Possibly both.

http://i.minus.com/iYSwHAr41O3kb.gif

Can't wait to see how Suarez ups the ante now

so does the kid apparently already being some kind of early-stage lad banter moron forestall the slew of moron lad banter parody Twitter accounts here or,

Jonny Lancaster on Twitter: "English league cup final without a top-flight English team. How very postmodern. #bbcfootball"

Posts very much in non Post 92 character

Not sure which one Suarez needs to up the ante to - ballboy indulging very much in Suarez-dive-in-front-of-Moyes behaviour.

Swansea captain Ashley Williams on Eden Hazard's sending off: "Demba Ba told me the ball boy held onto it but I saw him kick him and you can't do that to a young boy."

Yes you can if the boy is being a w**ker. That's the problem with kids these days. They rule us with their bloody rights. I say get the belt out and discipline them. Or if you're Hazard, kick 'em.

@beloddie: You'll win nothing kicking kids.

Chelsea FC Chelsea FCVerified ‏@chelseafc

Has football gone mad? Hazard is sent off for kicking the ball under a ball boy attempting to smother the ball rather than return it. #CFC

Yes, Chelsea. Football has gone mad. How odd you hadn't noticed that before...

Lol at football going mad like the concept of football suddenly warping into some strange universe where up is down and left is right and kicking kids on TV is not really on.

Best solution I've seen yet: "Let's ban that ballboy and Chelsea from everything. Problem solved."

Chelsea should hire the ballboy

the whole world acting like there's anyone alive who wouldn't've taken a kick at that kid in those circumstances

Torres would've missed that boy tbh

haha

poor little mite

http://i.minus.com/ipbd8GD5P5EhD.gif

god he looks like like a snivelling little cunt

He did get kicked in that side though, even though he probably earned a part in the school play tonight.

bawbag

Hazard otm

the winter break should do ease hazard's adaptaton tho, week in the canaries will do him more good than harm in the end

should've kicked that tyke in the canaries imo

some furious headline brainstorming going on right now i'd imagine

just checked to see if there was already a bantuh account at

https://twitter.com/swanseaballboy

and there is

why can't you have gifs as fb cover photies

thanks zuckerberg

Hi hi lbi
How many kids did he kick tonigh'

Swansea Ball Boy ‏@SwanseaBallBoy

RT for the ballboy everyone!

= 1339 rts

just checked to see if there was already a bantuh account at

https://twitter.com/swanseaballboy

and there is

― moët plaudit (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 22:24 (24 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

just straight up asking Four Four Tom for a retweet

fuckin...

is there an ivanovic's butt tumblr?

asking for a friend

Hi hi lbi
How many kids did he kick tonigh'

― standard disclaimer applies (darraghmac), woensdag 23 januari 2013 23:24 (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

:-)

ballboy got what he deserved. he should be publicly flogged and sent to afghanistan.

wtf are you guys seeing here? Augustus Gloop lies on the ball, our hero boots it out from under him, then the little brat throws a Slaven Bilic

This is exactly what happened. Harsh sending off imo, although Hazard was stupid to get involved. The ballboy deserves a real booting in his ribs to see what it would really feel like.

btw happy to see Swansea go through

occupational hazard, eh lads?

http://i.imgur.com/AIXBiIf.jpg

Swansea should be sanctioned for ballboy's actions, actually believe this. Nothing in what Hazard did imo. Ballboys go down like a sack of spuds these days tbf.

apparently south wales police are interviewing the bellboy. 6 months for time wasting imo.

Wait - there was a bellboy too?

Rafa says there's fault on both sides.

http://www.limmy.com/playthings/beatboy/

wait uh

Chelsea FC ‏@chelseafc

Apologies for earlier ballboy tweet. Hazard has now met with the ballboy and has said sorry. #CFC

lol

My own teeth are splintering just imagining how hard Hazard must be gritting his

Charlie Morgan. Swansea. Football. & LAD

@CHARLIEM0RGAN The king of all ball boys is back making his final appearance #needed #for #timewasting

Klats are u gonna go after the ball boy, I feel like you're gonna go after the ball boy

I mean I guess he's probably gonna end up in witness protection or whatever anyway but

trying hard to get #ballboytoAfghanistan trending

he's 17 apparently

I think I might, yeah. I've got a cricket bat in my hand right now, actually, and it's getting itchy

Chelsea manager Rafael Benitez: "Eden Hazard has been in to see the ball boy and the two have apologised to each other.

"The ball boy knows he was wasting time. We are disappointed to lose the player but we cannot change things."

"They both recognise there was a mistake.

"The boy was apologising for time wasting. Hazard was frustrated and tried to get the ball. He was kicking the ball and getting the ball.

"We can analyse if for half an hour but we know that both are wrong."

rafa otm

Liverpool Rafa would never have tried to be so even-handed

ballboy looks like gollum

he was one game from retirement too

17 ffs, should've hit the wee bampot harder, eden.

laughing to myself at the thought of hazard brutally wailing on him, i guess i'm a bit cruel.

can't believe the beeb are involved in covering up the full extent of the incident
http://i.imgur.com/MbdRoOz.gif

Henry Winter @henrywinter
Rafa Benitez finishes a lively press conference by saying that ball-boy incident is reflective of a fame-driven "Big Brother society"

the future is a footballer stamping on a child's face forever

opened this thread solely to congratulate whoever posted "time was you could kick a ballboy in the street"

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

thread needs
http://i.minus.com/iF4yEmrUuaDPP.gif

probably didn't ever need to see paulo ferreira's azonto

Mencap cant believe his luck there trevor, theyve all gone to sleep

http://images.4chan.org/sp/src/1358986728030.gif

lmao i just got home what fuckery is this

i just got home too assume this fuckery is hilarious thanks driver

disappointingly i find myself on eddie's side

the ballboy's union have been on a wind up for years now, just a shame it didnt happen at the brittania is all

still i'm lolling tho

they execute kids who do that shit in Stoke

nahh pulis got those lil cunts well trained, if it's your throw forget ever getting it back as quick as delap's apprentice ryan shots does

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VogHwP0C5VY

anyways after a period of reflection i have decided the moral of this story is fuck chelsea

that's not a moral it's an axiom

http://i.imgur.com/AIXBiIf.jpg

this photo has a real lovely renaissance quality imo, maybe get franco zola to fresco that shit up on the ceiling of fulham broadway tube

Nilmar made the same point on Facebook.

I'm sure I saw it carved in marble at St Peter's

The Passion Of The Bantz

Ballboy... BALLBOY??!!!

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m03gpaI5bJ1qbdc66o1_400.jpg

remember when Jimmy Hill got angry at a Blackburn ballgirl because she gave the ball back "too quickly" thus enabling Liverpool to score

the game's changed man, the game's changed

http://i.imgur.com/dw6nrEr.png

Mario otm

Aye, wee prick should be happy he didn't get a boot in the balls

I literally have no sympathy for him whatsoever.

I don't think anyone does really? Hazard still deserves everything he gets though

Nah, no ban. He deserves praise for kicking the growing problem of uppity ballboys in the ribs before it could flourish.

Sir Eden Hazard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTxIxM6oRbE&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Rafa Benitez finishes a lively press conference by saying that ball-boy incident is reflective of a fame-driven "Big Brother society"

The ballboy currently has 96k followers on twitter - closing in on CBB's Claire from Steps.

so that wanky sock puppet video is the first opinion i've heard that doesn' support Eden Hazard, they use the phrase "role model" so i assume they're not fitba fans tho

Could ILF release a charity single to raise funds to pay for the ballboy's medical costs?

worse than the ballboy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=aStnodvgI-o

http://i.imgur.com/HNGyjyE.jpg

fucking Muang U

I love supporting Chelsea

A player kicking a teenage ballboy has made Chelsea a more popular club for many people. Cashley must be fuming that his shooting of work experience kids wasn't met with the same approval.

Kickin a ball a wee cunt was viciously smothering u mean

ah come on he kicked the kid and maybe got a bit of the ball

he stamped on the boy's head as he stepped over him too

http://images.4chan.org/sp/src/1358986728030.gif

back and to the left

cobblers he shd've Riverdanced on the "little" twats face

Pair of millionaire brats scrapping for the entertainment of the baying hordes, this is everythin nv has ever dreamed of

i only wish Keano were still playing, they'd still be looking for the kid in the Bristol Channel

http://www.101greatgoals.com/wp-content/gallery/gimages/thumbs/thumbs_ldaneour.jpg

Ben Davies

Nickname Ben.

He goes under the radar a bit in terms of banter, so we haven't really nicknamed him.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/feb/22/swansea-city-garry-monk-team-mates/print

Ashley Williams

Nickname Car-boot head – because he's got a massive forehead.

A big character.

Ki Sung-Yeung

Nickname Ki.

how do they lack imagination to such an extent? it drives me bananas

Nathan Dyer

Nickname Chris Rock – because he looks like the comedian – or Midget.

Zavon Hines midfielder

Zavon was born in Jamaica and he's always listening to music on his headphones. He came through the West Ham system and he's got lots of ability. He's great on the ball and when taking defenders on in one-on-one situations. We call him Chris Rock; there's a strong resemblance to the American comedian there

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/jan/21/bradford-city-matt-duke

http://img.skysports.com/09/11/218x298/ZavonHines_2381052.jpg

http://www.thefootballsocial.co.uk/images/players/swansea%20city/Nathan%20Dyer.jpg

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01209/chris_rock_1209313c.jpg

Swans might get away with it, but I think the Bradford boys might be pushing their luck a bit.

http://www.swanseacity.net/cms_images/player/302149_231x264.jpg

yeah Dyer's got a look of Chris Rock round the eyes and mouth.

Hines' resemblance is hmmmmmm

more like 30 rock guy imo from pic posted

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/66045000/jpg/_66045040_managers.jpg

wd like to see Swansea's excellence rewarded but ctfo, who doesn't love an under-underdog?

Ah, a pity, that was a great save. And an even better celebration

Dyer bringing the pain

decided to properly honour this event by listening to it on 5live

if alan green is feigning bemusement at why inflatable sheep are falling down the stands then he's doing a very good job

robbie savage sagely advises bradford "you might as well get beat 4 or 5 now, have a go"

― r|t|c, Sunday, 24 February 2013 16:25 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

savage also daringly calling him mishu

means little bear in polish so that's nice

― r|t|c, Sunday, 24 February 2013 16:28 (1 minute ago) Bookmark

there's a distinct lack of polish to his commentary

That man again. I'm happy to see Swansea win, but hope Bradford don't end up getting totally humped.

krakow finish

he's a really clever in those situations

Michuuuuuuu

paul jewell calling him mckew now

McHugh's playing for Bradford iirc

Are you it's not Pugh, Pugh & Barney McGrew?

I'm calling it now: Swansea are going to win this

have some dignity chaps

lol at Dyer

splendid penalty that

Not very dignified, but De Guzman is a prize prick. Give it the boy on the hattrick man, no one thinks you're owt special for scoring a fuckin pen

i imagine michu was saying something like 'mate don't worry, we're all going to end up with hat tricks'

I'm happy to see Swansea win, but hope Bradford don't end up getting totally humped.
― A Yawning Chasm (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Sunday, 24 February 2013 16:42 (36 minutes ago)

Forlorn looking hope now

id lol if dyer got subbed

GET INVOLVED
Former England international Gary Lineker: "This is a blindingly obvious statement, but what a sensational signing Michu has been."

Fair point Gary - he's been top-class today.

irl lol

;) <- Laudrup

Hope De Guzman gets a hat-trick and dedicates it to Dyer