Wake up you footy fans!!!

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verbal gymnastics wrote:Is this goal celebration a John Cleese Ministry of Funny Walks tribute?
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He's slower than shit on a stick, but VDB has a lethal left foot.
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Fulham




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I hope so. Good to see McHead get that big goal for you.
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Fair dues to Hodgson, great string of results. Poor capitulation by Reading. Nani was a knob but I'd say Chelsea's chances of catching us were greatly reduced, still, let's see what Monday brings.
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Well well well it's going to the final day. Surely ManU can't throw it away, can they?

Time for me to eat some crow regarding Avram Grant. I don't know if he's any good as a tactician or if he does anything in training but you can't argue with the results.

Whatever happens, it's been a great season and if we pull out either of the trophies I'd be ecstatic.
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Interesting to see that amongst the relegation-fodder in the Championship were Southampton, Leicester, Sheff Wednesday and Coventry...all of whom were up there in the Prem a few years ago. I can only assume it's to do with the collapse of ITV digital around the time they dropped out the Prem, and the clubs splashing out in desperate attempt to get back up there.

It's been an interesting season though...the title race has been great, and it's good to see there are more teams now pushing for UEFA places.

I always think that the ban on English clubs after Heysel (which ended in 1990 but had effects on qualifying league places as late as 1994) had a very direct effect on the standard of British football (from top to bottom). A competition that English clubs had been dominant in for years suddenly was without them...and it took 20odd years for the clubs to recover the standard. Now for the last few years, English teams are back dominating the Champions League, and I can't wait for Moscow this year.
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Good points. Bollocking Ballack strikes again. They said on Radio 5 how he finally shone when Frankie was at his mother's bedside. You can imagine the smug git thinking 'Ja, zo now I get a chance to be ze star of ze midfield!' Sounded today like Chelsea turned it around after lacklustre first half. even Drogba's team-mates have taken to ignoring him once prone on the floor. Apparently in among the playacting was a genuine injury today, and they were all ignoring him! The Drog who cried wolf. sunday will be agony, though brilliantly exciting. Bolton and Wigan are both safe, and both have had enough decent form of late to at least force a draw. Who will survive out of Birmingham, Reading and Fulham? Form would favour Fulham, but surely Coppell can do the biz against Derby?
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Otis Westinghouse wrote:Good points. Bollocking Ballack strikes again. They said on Radio 5 how he finally shone when Frankie was at his mother's bedside. You can imagine the smug git thinking 'Ja, zo now I get a chance to be ze star of ze midfield!' Sounded today like Chelsea turned it around after lacklustre first half. even Drogba's team-mates have taken to ignoring him once prone on the floor. Apparently in among the playacting was a genuine injury today, and they were all ignoring him! The Drog who cried wolf.
Desperate rantings of a desperate fan. Ballack is going to terrorize you in Moscow - just watch.
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Seven days into this current season United had dropped 7 points (draws to reading and Portsmouth and a defeat at city) and i was thinking that we had blown the title already. Fast forward and we need to go to Wigan to win the league.... i will be there on Sunday hopefully to see us win our 17th league title and i will also be in Moscow on 21/5 where i expect to see Scholesy put Ballack in his pocket and United be crowned European champions once again :D

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As a neutral, I suspect you'll get one trophy each, with Utd picking up the first on sunday.

Ideally I'd like Utd to win both. It would amuse me highly to be able to say that Spurs won more trophies this season than Chelsea, Arse and Liverpool put together. 8)
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Nicely put! Desperate my arse. Well done Colrow for getting to Moscow. Blimey! In and out one day on the official footie visa, I take it. Shame, cos Moscow's well worth spending some time in (I was there 10 years back).
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Jackson Monk wrote:It would amuse me highly to be able to say that Spurs won more trophies this season than Chelsea, Arse and Liverpool put together. 8)
Now that's desperate.
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Well done Colrow for getting to Moscow. Blimey! In and out one day on the official footie visa, I take it. Shame, cos Moscow's well worth spending some time in (I was there 10 years back).
Hey Otis, we have sorted flights out with Swissair, half the price of the club one day trip (robbing Glazer b*stards!) so we fly out tuesday morning and back into Manchester Thursday night so I will be able to sample the sites of mighty Moscow!
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colrow26 wrote:
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Well done Colrow for getting to Moscow. Blimey! In and out one day on the official footie visa, I take it. Shame, cos Moscow's well worth spending some time in (I was there 10 years back).
Hey Otis, we have sorted flights out with Swissair, half the price of the club one day trip (robbing Glazer b*stards!) so we fly out tuesday morning and back into Manchester Thursday night so I will be able to sample the sites of mighty Moscow!
Ticketholders are going to be allowed in without visa is for a 72-hour period, not simply one day. Enjoy Moscow colrow. I hope you have a miserable flight back.
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I'm hoping it's going to be a stormer of a CL final...wish I was going.

I will be in Manchester though, hopefully seeing Rangers win the UEFA cup final - not that I support the Rangers, just that it'd be great for Scottish football.
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Ticketholders are going to be allowed in without visa is for a 72-hour period, not simply one day.
But how many will get out again?
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That sounds more sensible. Radio 5 seemed to literally be saying you had to leave on the same day and wouldn't be able to sight-see. I can heartily recommend the whole Kremlin experience, and of course seeing Lenin's peach-coloured and supposedly genuine body, Red Square of course, St Basil's (quite weird and basic inside), and the Tretyakov gallery, though the other main one ('Moscow State'?) also well worth it. But I really enjoyed wondering around too. I stayed in a bizarre hotel and had a favoured restaurant that someone showed me which involved a trek through some quiet backstreets. I was almost scared at times thinking of the whole history of the place, but nothing happened, needless to say. The local person I was with is Georgian so we sampled some excellent Georgian food. We also went to see CSKA Moscow, quite scary due to the hordes of shaven-headed, vodka-fuelled Muscovite boneheads rampaging around the place. Quite a scary breed. This was Sept '98, just after the Aug '98 economic collapse, which was very weird - imported books (my reason for being there) were something of a specialised luxury before, now they were just plain unaffordable. Fortunately things didn't worsen.
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Would love to visit Russia at some point. We were thinking about doing a cruise in the next few years around Scandinavia and the Baltic republics. It includes a two-day visit to St. Petersburg.
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I went to Moscow for business about a year or so ago. Brutally expensive - I think my hotel cost about $500 and it was not at all extravagant. The traffic was so bad in the city - during my stay Spartak was playing in a match against Inter Milan and the team bus was caught up in the traffic and they were forced to take the subway to the game - which they lost and then blamed their poor perfomance on the traffic. I agree with Otis about Red Square and the Kremlin.

Of course this match is sort of like watching the Yankees play the Mets or the Lakers play the Pistons or the Colts play the Cowboys. You just end up hoping for casualties.
Though this is almost a home game for Chelski.

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And fuck you! What are you moaning about, Hodgson came good, didn't he?

Sounds like I went at the right time. You've reminded me, the other thing that's unmissable in Moscow is the metro. Whole stations are works of art, brilliantly atmospheric, just wonderful.
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Otis Westinghouse wrote:And fuck you! What are you moaning about, Hodgson came good, didn't he?
If they don't win outright on Sunday at Pompey they could still be in trouble. Reading are away to Derby.
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I know, but he's still done well. They deserve to stay up.
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Not at all in the bag. I'm extremely worried about Reading winning at Derby. I don't think Fulham can win in Pompey - just looking for the draw and crossing my fingers that Derby shows up to play and can get at least a draw.
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Pompey have lost interest! Nothing to play for, and everything to not get injured for. In many ways this is an easier fixture than Reading's, and form is entirely in your favour. Fulham will do it.
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I don't know if that helps their chances, but it makes *me* feel better.


That was almost on topic.
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