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[Ronnie11]

GAAH!!This thread has become a man u vs liverpool thread...or carra vs ferdinand.....they were both good in their prime...

[Karan85]

Fair enough
Was getting a bit tedious anyway.. Clearly we'll never agree

Juventus play tonight.. anyone watching ?

ps: Owen was just an example. I had no idea about your dislike for him

[XTerminator]

nobody mentioned gary neville B-)

personally,id say carra is world class,atleast was,till age caught up with him.ditto neville.

[dreamcatcher]

I would rate neville a bit higher than carra though. Just kidding.

Arsenal have drawn Ipswitch Town for the carling cup semis. Did not know that the semifinals had a return leg as well. Damn!!

[XTerminator]

ipswi[bold]t[/bold]ch

[Liverpool_fan]

^
Doesn't Roy Keane manage them? Interviews would be worth watching for this match.

[XTerminator]

ye Keano manages them.pretty inconsistent team,that.loses to the lolest of opponents or manages to beat the best.

[Rahim]

Real Madrid [ Images ] coach Jose Mourinho has been given a two-match ban for improper conduct by UEFA [ Images ] after allegations that two of his players deliberately got sent off in a Champions League [ Images ] match against Ajax Amsterdam.

UEFA on Tuesday also handed out fines related to events in the November 23 Group G game including 120,000 euros ($156,300) for Real, 40,000 for Mourinho and lower amounts for players Xabi Alonso, Sergio Ramos, Iker Casillas and Jerzy Dudek.

[Arsenal_Gunners]

Ipswich vs Arsenal
w000000t

[ico]

hahahahahahahahhaha

[Arsenal_Gunners]

Almost certain to be the first of our 3 trips to Wembley this season.

[ico]

Still Keano must be praised for getting his team till here.

[Liverpool_fan]

Almost certain to be the first of our 3 trips to Wembley this season.

Good job you used the word 'almost'. Otherwise the Ajai or Cockerel lesson hasn't sunk in, isn't it?

[Arsenal_Gunners]

It was a joke anyway.(or was it?)

And no,more 'bets' to follow.

Russia gets the 2018 WC.Shocking that England lost!
Atleast Shava is there

[Kl@w-24]

Qatar for 2022, Russia for 2018...

[Ronnie11]

Qatar for 2022, Russia for 2018...

So FIFA went for untapped market...would say its a good move...

[Kl@w-24]

I'm okay with any country as long as they ban those feckin' vuvuzelas or their European/Asian counterparts.

[Arsenal_Gunners]

England came last of the four,what a farce.
Qatar

[Karan85]

So FIFA went for untapped market...would say its a good move...

Qatar is hardly a market. Its tiny.

Russia makes sense, they have never hosted it and they have/will have the infrastructure in place by 2018. Qatar is going to be a joke. Air Conditioned stadiums

[ico]

Vuvuzelas are class.

You haven't used one, so you don't have any fu(kin idea.

[Kl@w-24]

They've been used on my ears so I do have a fu(kin' idea.

[iinfi]

its the national day here and all locals r celebrating as if there is no tmrw ... blowing horns and trumpets n vuvuzelas n wat not .... saw a two idiots driving at 120kmph inside the city...
this is the best season if u want to have world cups in this part of the world .. hope FIFA has the brains to have the WC in dec-Jan instead of the traditional summer time...
its 50deg in summer .. n inside stadiums it will be 60+... u cant play soccer ....

[Arsenal_Gunners]

WC can only be held in off season=Summer
Air conditioned stadiums ftw. What about alcohol though?

[Karan85]

Oh dear Reina

[Ishu Gupta]

@ Reina.

[iinfi]

Qatar's World Cup victory shows full extent of Fifa's greed – Telegraph Blogs
^^^
LOL

WC can only be held in off season=Summer
Air conditioned stadiums ftw. What about alcohol though?

in December it will be off season in argentina russia etc

but have they decided at wat time of the year they r gona hold it??

due to global warming by 2022 the temperatures are likely to rise by 2-3 deg. and this will make things even more worse ....
that shake has said they will use cooling systems to bring the temperature down by 20 deg. such diff in temp outside n inside the stadium is enough to make players fall sick ...

[Ronnie11]

Qatar is hardly a market. Its tiny.

Russia makes sense, they have never hosted it and they have/will have the infrastructure in place by 2018. Qatar is going to be a joke. Air Conditioned stadiums

Come to think of it...yeah even i agree now that qatar wasn't the best of choices here....back russia as such but no idea y they chose qatar...

[ico]

Disregard that, still Reina is the best keeper in the league.

anyways, I'm happy for Russia.

[Arsenal_Gunners]

Would have liked England to win but Russia deserve the WC and I am looking forward to it.Hopefully they'll deal with racism in time.
Oh and I bet the likes of Stoke will boo Arshavin

[Liverpool_fan]

Pathetic choices. How did Russia which has clubs like Zenit St.Petersburg among others, the most racist fans in Europe win the bid?
As for Qatar, meh. If however they can host it in December, it will be fine. But that is near impossible to achieve.
Russia is a worse choice than Qatar, IMO if you think in terms of social responsibility of FIFA.