2007/2008 Premiership Footy Thread

Moyes & Torres win monthly awards

Everton boss David Moyes has been named Barclays manager of the month, with Liverpool striker Fernando Torres winning the player award for February.

Everton were unbeaten in the league for the month as they put themselves in contention to land fourth place and a Champions League spot
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Source: BBC Sport
 
mercurial said:
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Arsene's response to the special knobs statement about "killing Chelsea":
Why should you always have to kill other people to exist yourself? If you do that, then somewhere, you feel you are not good enough. If you have to come out all the time to destroy people, what is life about? Winning and destroying people can never be everything.
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Didnt see an FA cup thread but POMPEY HAVE DONE IT!!!

1-0 Pompey beat a 10 man ManU
Penalty goal.

GO POMPEY YOU BEAST YOU!!!.

Chelsea to win the FA Cup
 
3-0 poor Newcastle so unlucky. Torres and Gerrard linking brilliantly
 
jsheed_sa said:
Didnt see an FA cup thread but POMPEY HAVE DONE IT!!!

1-0 Pompey beat a 10 man ManU
Penalty goal.

GO POMPEY YOU BEAST YOU!!!.

Chelsea to win the FA Cup
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:D
That puts a damper on all this treble twang eminating from the rump of the Man USA supporters lol...
Glad I quoted them for posterity ha ha ha!
 
Did u go n make an FA cup thread now? Must not feel like a bright idea since Manure's exit :p
 
We've all had a good laugh at Alex Ferguson's quite remarkable rant against everyone and everything, but his spluttering has done exactly what it was probably designed to do.

And that is take attention away from United's inability to close out a game they should have been comfortable in.

"I think this game was decided when Ronaldo's penalty was refused" barked Ferguson after the game.

Seriously? An incident in the seventh minute decided the game?

Yes, Cristiano Ronaldo should have been given a penalty for Sylvain Distin's bodycheck, but even without that penalty United should have been a long distance clear of their limited opponents.

Wayne Rooney and Carlos Tevez combined to make a horrible mess of a virtual open goal in the first half, Michael Carrick did similar with an actual open goal in the second, while Patrice Evra bafflingly tried to pass when clear on goal late on.

Portsmouth on the other hand, mustered just two shots on goal in the entire game, and one of those was the penalty. By the time Tomas Kuszczak was sent-off, United should have been at least two or three goals up.

Martin Atkinson had a poor game, but he was not 'on Portsmouth's side'.

Part of Ferguson's whine was about Atkinson's timekeeping, which was curious given that an extra minute was played at the end of the game to the four signalled while United chased the win.

Ferguson went on to complain that United's players were not getting enough protection from dangerous challenges, spectacularly failing to note that the only really dangerous challenge of the game came from Rooney, when he launched himself at Niko Krancjar. The fact that he barely made contact is beside the point - if the roles were reversed then Ferguson would have screamed bloody murder. Well, even more so.

Presumably he was referring to the fouls on Ronaldo when he said he agreed with Arsene Wenger that "someone's going to get a serious injury in our game."

Perhaps someone should point out that Wenger, however unwise and hasty his statements about Martin Taylor were a couple of weeks ago, was talking after Eduardo's leg had just been snapped in two, not after one of his players had been pushed over.

While the criticism of the officials may have been justified, United did not lose this match because of Martin Atkinson, but rather their own profligacy, and Ferguson was simply being dishonest in not acknowledging that.
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Football365.

I agree that it was not just the penalty that cost us the game and clearly should have scored from at least one of our 1000 chances.

Also, I agree that the worst tackle was from Rooney. For my money he should have been sent off for clear intent to do GBH.

However, as fergie said, the penalty was not the only bad decision the ref made. I also counnted at least 8 fouls made by Diarra, mostly on Ronaldo. He managed to escape with only one yellow card. Persistent infringement is meant to be punished as well.

I must say it was funny how we managed to do literally everything but score. Open goals a plenty. Fun times :)
 
Manchester United star Ronaldo has revealed he is thinking of changing his approach to the game because of refereeing.

The Portuguese believes referees sometimes do not protect the skilful players in the Premier League.

The 23-year-old was making his comments after United controversially went out of the FA Cup to Portsmouth, losing their quarter-final 1-0 at Old Trafford thanks to a Sulley Muntari's 78th minute penalty

But referee Martin Atkinson failed to award United a first-half penalty following Sylvain Distin's foul on Ronaldo in the seventh minute.

The Portuguese winger had earlier been on the receiving end of a challenge by Lassana Diarra that also went unpunished.

Afterwards he said the failure of English referees to protect skilful players has left him questioning his approach to the game, raising question marks over his willingness to remain in the Premier League.

He said: "Sometimes I say that this is the best league in the world, but sometimes they don't protect the skilful players.

"After what happened to the Arsenal player (Eduardo da Silva), I am scared to do my skills.

"The referee against Portsmouth was unbelievable. In the first five minutes, there were three fouls and he took no action and then he failed to give a penalty. It's difficult to play like this.

"Sometimes they just protect the defenders and I am thinking about having to change my game because it is difficult to play like that.

"Diarra did not even try to play the ball when he tackled me and he wasn't even booked. It's a joke.

"So often, there were fouls and the referee did nothing."
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Exactly.
 
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