Re: The Football Chat Thread : Tue Aug 23, 2011 4:45 pm  

Roddy B wrote:

The weaknesses he arrived with have now been removed and he's arguably the most complete goalkeeper in Europe.

Peach. You should let Del Bosque in on that one Robbie.

Re: The Football Chat Thread : Tue Aug 23, 2011 4:54 pm  

If we're going down the ludicrous geography route to score points, then how dare Bolton Wanderers call themselves Bolton and how very dare Chelsea call themselves Chelsea??

Re: The Football Chat Thread : Tue Aug 23, 2011 6:12 pm  

Why would I have any opinions about the location of Chelsea and Bolton?

That's like me asking "why did United fans come up with four different chants about City in the first ten minutes in a game against Spurs?"

Re: The Football Chat Thread : Tue Aug 23, 2011 6:37 pm  

Enfield Exile wrote:

Why would I have any opinions about the location of Chelsea and Bolton?

That's like me asking "why did United fans come up with four different chants about City in the first ten minutes in a game against Spurs?"

Carlos Tevez is a blue, he hates munichs. First chant when he came on sunday. Swings and roundabouts.

Re: The Football Chat Thread : Tue Aug 23, 2011 7:34 pm  

Mark wrote:

Carlos Tevez is a red, he hates munichs. First chant when he came on sunday. Swings and roundabouts.

It was actually "a blue". To be honest quite a few of us try to change the last word to "Fergie" but havent had a lot of success. Mind you some City fans are still singing " Fergie, Fergie sign him up ", I'm not sure whether its meant to be irony or just stupidity. Probably a mix of both.

Re: The Football Chat Thread : Tue Aug 23, 2011 8:16 pm  

Four of the Spanish teams in Europe (València Villarreal, Atlético and Sevilla) are without shirt sponsors, after failing to agree deals. Nine Primera Liga teams will be without revenue from an official shirt sponsor for the coming season, with Malaga actually paying UNESCO for theirs. To give you an idea how bad things are financially in Spain, shirt sponsorship deals (per season) pay between €0.4 and €2m (except top two).

Re: The Football Chat Thread : Tue Aug 23, 2011 8:26 pm  

Enfield Exile wrote:

Cleverley have hardly set the world alight before this season. Admittedly Cleverley is young but he couldn't get into Wigan's central midfield on a regular basis.

Strange. Sure he played most weeks.

Re: The Football Chat Thread : Tue Aug 23, 2011 8:37 pm  

Conroy wrote:

Strange. Sure he played most weeks.

And was superb.

Re: The Football Chat Thread : Tue Aug 23, 2011 9:12 pm  

Catalancs wrote: Four of the Spanish teams in Europe (València Villarreal, Atlético and Sevilla) are without shirt sponsors, after failing to agree deals. Nine Primera Liga teams will be without revenue from an official shirt sponsor for the coming season, with Malaga actually paying UNESCO for theirs. To give you an idea how bad things are financially in Spain, shirt sponsorship deals (per season) pay between €0.4 and €2m (except top two). I think the oddest football story I've seen this summer was the Ashley Madison, erm, "dating" agency offering €3m a year to sponsor Atlético's shirts - can't find a better link than this right now. Apparently when Atlético turned it down they offered the same to Sevilla, also turned down - the deals included extra payments if players were caught being unfaithful. Makes for some nice looking football shirts though, I'd snap up the unbranded Atlético shirt if it wasn't for the belly. edit = Bit more on the Ashley Madison thing and depth in this article.

Catalancs wrote: Four of the Spanish teams in Europe (València Villarreal, Atlético and Sevilla) are without shirt sponsors, after failing to agree deals. Nine Primera Liga teams will be without revenue from an official shirt sponsor for the coming season, with Malaga actually paying UNESCO for theirs. To give you an idea how bad things are financially in Spain, shirt sponsorship deals (per season) pay between €0.4 and €2m (except top two). I think the oddest football story I've seen this summer was the Ashley Madison, erm, "dating" agency offering €3m a year to sponsor Atlético's shirts - can't find a better link than this right now. Apparently when Atlético turned it down they offered the same to Sevilla, also turned down - the deals included extra payments if players were caught being unfaithful. Makes for some nice looking football shirts though, I'd snap up the unbranded Atlético shirt if it wasn't for the belly. edit = Bit more on the Ashley Madison thing and depth in this article.

Re: The Football Chat Thread : Tue Aug 23, 2011 9:53 pm  

Roddy B wrote:

Why has Joe Hart suddenly been deemed this God amongst insects?

Have you got this from the same place that builds Foster up to be a God too

Roddy B wrote:

I have a mate who supports City, we went into Manchester recently and he was bigging up Citeh and their signings, as they do. But then he said Hart was better than Reina, which I found unbelievably odd, because, even as a joke, it wasn't funny, it was just outright strange.

I find this quite odd, the fact that a City fan is being criticised for thinking his 'keeper is better than Reina eventhough you're doing the same thing just the other way round? Why is it you're ok to think Reina is so good but City fans can't do the same for Hart?

Fan in thinking their players are better than other players shocker, surprised this isn't big on SSN