giggsy
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But no Mt Fuji on view. Will they postpone it?
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And here is the ref table at the moment. Mike Dean doing well. (He must have reffed a couple of Chelsea games).
Referee M R Y Average
Mike Dean 5 4 31 7.00
Phil Dowd 2 0 10 5.00
Steve Bennett 6 4 22 4.33
Peter Walton 3 0 13 4.33
Rob Styles 4 1 16 4.25
Andre Marriner 3 0 12 4.00
Mark Halsey 5 1 18 3.80
Howard Webb 5 0 19 3.80
Alan Wiley 5 1 17 3.60
Keith Stroud 2 0 7 3.50
Lee Mason 3 0 10 3.33
Mike Riley 6 0 20 3.33
Mark Clattenburg 5 0 16 3.20
Steve Tanner 3 0 9 3.00
Chris Foy 4 0 10 2.50
Martin Atkinson 3 0 7 2.33
Lee Probert 3 0 5 1.67
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They should stop shagging and start playing decent footie should Nani and Anderson. Rubbish rubbish game.
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Always the same flavour. Someone has paid up for his rations.
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And so Chelski starts to implode. As long as they aren't on for it on Sunday and United thrash them.
We have in the past been had some bad games against teams who have been in turmoil with sudden caretaker managers.
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Quote:I HATE it in pubs in the uk when there is some weird dude trying to turn taps on for you and sell you a squirt of fake cologne, and then try and demand a tip out of you.
Blimey which pubs are you going to?
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Some quotes to remember him by. I particularly like the most recent egg/ommellete one.
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"Please don't call me arrogant, but I'm European champion and I think I'm a special one"
Mourinho introduces himself to the English press after arriving from Porto in summer 2004.
"In the second half it was whistle and whistle, fault and fault, cheat and cheat. The referee controlled the game in one way during the first half but in the second they had dozens of free-kicks. I know the referee did not walk to the dressing rooms alone at half-time"
Mourinho claims Sir Alex Ferguson had unduly influenced referee Neale Barry at half-time during a Carling Cup semi-final against Manchester United in January 2005. He was fined £5,000 by the Football Association for improper conduct.
"I don't regret it. The only thing I have to understand is I'm in England, so maybe even when I think I am not wrong, I have to adapt to your country and I have to respect that. I have a lot of respect for Liverpool fans and what I did, the sign of silence - 'shut your mouth' - was not for them, it was for the English press"
Mourinho defends putting a finger to his lips during the 2005 Carling Cup final against Liverpool, an action which resulted in him being sent to the stands.
"When I saw Rijkaard entering the referee's dressing room I couldn't believe it. When Drogba was sent off I didn't get surprised. There is something that tells me that in London the referee will be Collina, the best in the world. A perfect referee with personality and quality"
Mourinho claims in Portuguese newspaper Dez Record that Barcelona coach Frank Rijkaard visited referee Anders Frisk's dressing room at half-time in the first leg of the teams' Champions League last-16 clash in February 2005. Mourinho was banned from the dug-out for two matches and fined £9,000 by UEFA for bringing the game into disrepute over his claims.
"I felt the power of Anfield, it was magnificent. I felt it didn't interfere with my players but maybe it interfered with other people and maybe it interfered with the result. You should ask the linesman why he gave a goal. Because, to give a goal, the ball must be 100 per cent in and he must be 100 per cent sure that the ball is in"
Mourinho questions the validity of Liverpool forward Luis Garcia' s goal which puts Chelsea out of the Champions League semi-finals on May 3, 2004.
"It is not a red card, of course not, and for the second time we have to play 55, 60 minutes without a man and the game is completely different. I shouldn't speak about the game, because the game is not a game"
Mourinho blames a first-leg defeat to Barcelona in the Champions League last 16 in February 2006 on the sending-off of Asier del Horno.
"We have played against them four matches in two seasons. (When it was) 11 against 11 they never beat us. That is the reality"
After 1-1 draw at the Nou Camp in 2006 which sent Barca through to the quarter-finals 3-2 on aggregate.
"The goalkeeper has the ball in his hands, slides and the number 10 cannot get the ball. He goes with the knee into his face"
Mourinho accuses Reading midfielder Stephen Hunt of deliberately injuring Petr Cech after the pair collide in the first minute of last October's match at the Madejski Stadium.
"It is not possible (for) penalties (to be awarded) against Manchester United, and it is not possible (to get) penalties in favour of Chelsea. If somebody punishes me because I tell the truth, it is the end of democracy, we go back to the old times"
The Chelsea boss fumed last weekend after seeing his side's penalty appeals against Newcastle turned down, a day after United were given the benefit of the doubt over a strong injury-time penalty claim by Middlesbrough in their clash at Old Trafford.
"A player who wants to be the best one of the world, and he already may be, should have the uprightness and the sufficient maturity to verify that against facts there are not arguments. If he says that it is a lie that Manchester United have conceded some penalties this season which have not been awarded against them, he is lying. And if he lies he will never reach the level that he wants to reach"
Mourinho hit back at Ronaldo after the United winger claimed his penalty rant proved his countryman "doesn't know how to admit his own failures".
"It is omelettes and eggs. No eggs - no omelettes! It depends on the quality of the eggs. In the supermarket you have class one, two or class three eggs and some are more expensive than others and some give you better omelettes. So when the class one eggs are in Waitrose and you cannot go there, you have a problem"
Shorn of the likes of injury victims Frank Lampard, Michael Ballack, Ricardo Carvalho and Didier Drogba, Mourinho cooked up a surreal analogy ahead of Tuesday's fateful draw with Rosenborg.
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Quote:Gabriel Heinze was so confident of his move to Liverpool from Manchester United that he celebrated by buying a brand new £74,000 Porsche. But when the move went pear-shaped, Heinze, who eventually joined Real Madrid, was forced to sell it back for a £7,000 loss. (Daily Mail)
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I wouldn't say favourite song, but one that means a lot.
And Morrissey looks very earnest in the vid/
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You referring to the Ronaldo story there bofc?
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Sad news, though not entirely unexpected.
Ole has a special place at United.
20LEGEND indeed.
This one is popular chant at OT. Warning, might cause offence (but probably not).
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That was a frustrating game but a great goal and 3 points so it will do for now. But we need to sort out our current "problems".
After talking about him on here yesterday, Brown went and had one of his rubbish games.
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O'Shea has been a hero a few times actually, he is a good player to have around. Silvestre and Brown have both had their moments (both good and not so good), but to say they are "absolutely shite" is a bit over the top.
Anyway, I'm off to Old Trafford now. Hopefully we will actually win a game today
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Quote:Ferguson...also turned his guns on Gabriel Heinze's representatives, and agents in general, after the defender moved to Real Madrid last week when his proposed move to Liverpool was ruled out.
'Agents just want to make money, and what has just happened was the culmination of a drip, drip effect that has been going on all the time,' Ferguson said. 'We looked after Gabby, we signed him and let him play in the Olympics, which meant he only started playing for us in the October. Then after one year at the club his agent asked us to sell him. He then had a bad injury, was rushed back to play in the World Cup, came back to us unfit and we had to rehabilitate him all over again.
'We liked the lad, but I don't think he knew what was being asked on his behalf. He was given a solid financial package but we were soon being asked to make him the best-paid player at Old Trafford. I don't necessarily blame the player, I don't think he was being told the truth half the time, but this whole business of dealing with agents is getting ridiculous. We are presently looking into Liverpool's role in the affair, too. It's too early to say whether we will be asking the FA to investigate that, but it's a possibility.'
United treated the guy really well on a number of times. To think that he (or his agents) think he should have been the best-paid player is just totally ludicrous. Cuckoo land.
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I'd love to be able to comment properly on this. Maybe this coming winter.
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Have you tried Liverpool?
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Good news mate. My dad had what sounds like something similar a few years ago - and is just fine now.
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Glad you are getting the games. Hope it isn't cheaper than us
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There was an earthquake in Manchester the other day. 2.5 magnitude apparently. I didn't feel anything but some people in the office were a bit spooked for a few minutes. Didn't even make the local news that night!
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Premiership is go!
Hope you get your games over in Japan. We have to get both Sky and Sultana (or something) here if we want the maximum number of games now. Skys stranglehold is over. Perhaps this has something to do with the situation over in Japan as well.
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RIP Tony Wilson.
He has died at 57.
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Near posh Wilmslow.
(And "Posh" herself used to live near here. In a much bigger house!)
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"eating sweets and drinking fizzy drinks etc in the morning b4 school"
BEFORE school?
I remember my school lunches were stody affairs but I actually quite liked them. There was tuck shop at morning break and I remember buying some crisps every now and again. But I cant imagine drinking fizzy drinks before school What are the parents on.
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He sure won't be playing here again..... after all we did to help him recover from his injury as well.
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