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

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

http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/569/fencdk.gif

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.