marko Posted 14 May 2011 Share Posted 14 May 2011 Makes it even more a penatly in that case imo, why make contact/tackle if he was never going to get the ball? As for leaving his leg, I thought he was just carrying on running (As he was at a fair pace) and Robinson took him down. Well he's obviously going to head towards the ball isn't he - surely you don't think he should have just stood on his line do you? it's not like he went diving in with hands. Well the view from behind the goal certainly makes it look like Hernandez left his leg in and fell over theatrically. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arkie Bennett Posted 14 May 2011 Share Posted 14 May 2011 I thought it was a foul on Hernandez, but it was sickening to see players from both sides intimidating the linesman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FoxyPV Posted 14 May 2011 Share Posted 14 May 2011 Man Utd. Glad to see Wolves win. Hope they stay up. Blackpool / Bolton looks like a cracking game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MC Prussian Posted 14 May 2011 Share Posted 14 May 2011 Congratulations Manchester United. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScouseFox Posted 14 May 2011 Share Posted 14 May 2011 Manchester United, 19 times champions of England. Amazing. Not a vintage performance, but enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyT Posted 14 May 2011 Share Posted 14 May 2011 Even Nani and kuszczak singing "Are you watching Merseyside". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simmo86 Posted 14 May 2011 Share Posted 14 May 2011 Glad Utd have won it, now just for Blackpool to go down and Forest to stay down and I'll be happy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corky Posted 14 May 2011 Share Posted 14 May 2011 What a relegation battle, a Wigan win and Birmingham failing to tomorrow then five teams could go on the last day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScouseFox Posted 14 May 2011 Share Posted 14 May 2011 Can't see Blackpool going to Old Trafford and getting anything, so they'll go for me, and I'd think Wigan will join them. It could, and probably will, go down to goal difference though, which would be a horrific way to go down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bert Posted 14 May 2011 Share Posted 14 May 2011 What we have to take into account us, the Lino that awarded the penalty doesn't have the advantage of being behind the goal, or slow motion replays.... This is why we need some sort of technology. Thought it was a penalty at first. Well done United, shut them scousers up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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FoxyPV Posted 14 May 2011 Share Posted 14 May 2011 Another league title might be a step too far for Sir Alex FergusonA need to renew the current Manchester United squad may mean that the Scot could call time on his managerial career Out on the pitch there were hugs, high-fives and dances of delight while "Are you watching Merseyside?" served as the soundtrack from an exultant away end. Deep down, though, a nagging sense of anti-climax refused to depart the party. A record 19th league title should surely have been secured in swashbuckling, edge-of-the-seat style but instead Wayne Rooney's controversial equalising penalty was complemented by Blackburn's risky decision to settle supinely for a point. As three minutes of added time began and Nani, earlier replaced by Dimitar Berbatov and now standing on the edge of the technical area, prepared to celebrate with a vigour rarely apparent during his time on the pitch, United's back four passed the ball ever so slowly between themselves. With no Blackburn forward challenging for it, Steve Kean's side failed to snatch a single touch of stoppage time possession. If the testimonial type mood was briefly interrupted by Sir Alex Ferguson tapping his watch, he was soon patting Phil Dowd, the referee, on the cheeks before skipping off to celebrate in front of banners proclaiming: "Manchester United 19, Liverpool 18." It was a long yearned-for moment but United's manager is so driven a personality that you wondered if it felt quite as good as it should have done. An ability to live in, and enjoy, the moment is one of life's most important arts but fretting about the future has always been a big part of the human condition. Such anxieties quite possibly ensured that, on the very afternoon when he achieved a two-decade-old ambition to "knock Liverpool off their perch" a little voice inside Ferguson's head asked: "Is this another beginning or an end?" A sense of constant renewal sometimes almost Trotskyite in its ruthlessness has characterised his managerial reign at Old Trafford but the overhaul of the squad, which will surely be required after the impending Champions League final battle with Barcelona is over, seems unusually daunting. Ferguson may previously have shown a doubting world that there was actually life after, among others, Eric Cantona, Roy Keane, David Beckham and Cristiano Ronaldo exited stage left but the 2011 Old Trafford climate has turned strangely hostile to successful rebuilding. Admittedly the latest crop of bright United young things will shortly contest the FA Youth Cup final with Sheffield United but even if that side contains the new Paul Scholes and Ryan Giggs their maturation will not be instant. Instead Ferguson must somehow import fresh legs while operating to a budget restricted by not only the amount of debt the owning Glazer family have heaped on his club but the need to comply with Uefa's new financial fair play rules. Scholes and, particularly, Giggs may have raged against the dying of the light this season but all Indian summers end eventually and Ferguson is clearly in need of identifying new midfield string pullers capable of controlling tempo and dictating play, especially at the end of a campaign in which impressive results have often masked less than dynamic performances. Edwin van der Sar's forthcoming retirement means a new goalkeeper also looms high on the shopping list while Rio Ferdinand's persistent injury problems suggest his central defensive partnership with Nemanja Vidic is not necessarily labelled long haul. Similarly Owen Hargreaves's physical frailties allied to the fading of Michael Owen's attacking powers highlight the lack of both a Keane figure in the enforcement department and an Ole Gunnar Solskjaer-style striking assassin on the bench. Further complicating factors abound. While those "noisy", preposterously wealthy, neighbours at Manchester City suddenly possess serious transfer market pulling power, events to the west are almost equally worrying. No sooner than Liverpool have been put back in their box, than they are threatening to push the lid off it. Even worse there is an uncanny sense of deja vu about the recent renaissance down the M62. Not only is Kenny Dalglish, the man whose Blackburn side frustrated United's title hopes in 1995, back in charge at Anfield but they are spearheaded by a menacing young Geordie. The name is Andy Carroll rather than Alan Shearer but his partnership with Luis Suárez threatens to eclipse the Javier Hernández/Wayne Rooney axis. Significantly, Dalglish is a decade younger than Ferguson, who will turn 70 in December. United's manager claims retirement is not on his agenda but, given the scale of the task ahead, it would hardly be a complete surprise were he to suddenly quit while still on top. This was posted on the Guardian website at 1805!!! They've only been crowned champions and already they are spent force. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Bear Posted 14 May 2011 Share Posted 14 May 2011 The Guardian you say?............. From F365's Mediawatch: This being the day after Manchester United basically secured their 19th title (12th under Sir Alex Ferguson), it seems an appropriate time to revisit a piece written by The Guardian's Rob Smyth back in 2006.Here are edited highlights from the quite excellent and prescient article: * 'Usually, the best thing about pre-season is the hope: reality's incisors have yet to pierce the gums of optimism, and fans can live off the balmy, often barmy belief that this is their year. For supporters of most of the other 91 English clubs, that's the mood right now. For United fans? Forget it. After three seasons of papering over the cracks, it seems most United fans are awaiting the moment that the fault lines tracing a veiny path across Old Trafford are exposed.' * 'Almost everything about the club reeks of disarray. Owned by the Glazers, who push buttons from a remote hideaway like Dr Evil; run by a manager who shreds his legacy at every turn; almost exclusively represented by the inadequate (Darren Fletcher and Kieran Richardson) and the odious (Rio Ferdinand); unable to close a deal for West Brom's reserve keeper, never mind the new Roy Keane.' * 'United have made offers for dozens of players - nobody wants to go near them. And the one person who surely would, Damien Duff, was allowed to slip into the arms of Newcastle for less than United paid for Patrice Evra. You couldn't make it up. You don't have to.' * 'The problems are so obvious, so fundamental, as to be beggar belief that they have not been addressed. Just as the glory years of 1992 to 2001 will only fully be appreciated in 20 years' time, so will Ferguson's subsequent failure.' * 'Ferguson, an essentially honourable man, is partly suffering because of the impossibly high standards he set, and he carries the fatigued incomprehension of a man who is out of time.' * 'And the thing is, it is only going to get worse: Liverpool, Arsenal and Tottenham have all made shrewd, cheap signings and are going in one direction. United are going the other way: they are hugely dependent on Ferdinand and Rooney, but no number of Carling Cup medals is going to sate their ambition. Then there is the Glazer factor, the full, inevitable horror of which is only just beginning to emerge. United fans think this season is going to be bad. It hasn't even started.' Oops! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lcfcsnow Posted 14 May 2011 Share Posted 14 May 2011 Hernandez Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScouseFox Posted 14 May 2011 Share Posted 14 May 2011 Hernandez ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyT Posted 15 May 2011 Share Posted 15 May 2011 Chelsea 1-1 Newcastle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox92 Posted 15 May 2011 Share Posted 15 May 2011 Newcastle just made it 1-1 at Stamford Bridge. I do love deflections for some reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScouseFox Posted 15 May 2011 Share Posted 15 May 2011 Chelsea's kit is disgusting Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyT Posted 15 May 2011 Share Posted 15 May 2011 Chelsea's kit is disgusting It isn't that bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScouseFox Posted 15 May 2011 Share Posted 15 May 2011 It isn't that bad. Didn't look all that bad in the New Kits thread, but on tv it looks well weird, the stripes on the sleeves are horrible Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScouseFox Posted 15 May 2011 Share Posted 15 May 2011 Chelsea 2-1 Newcastle. Is Sammy Ameobi, Shola's brother? Presume it's not a massively common Geordie name? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyT Posted 15 May 2011 Share Posted 15 May 2011 Oooh Krul where were you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Facecloth Posted 15 May 2011 Share Posted 15 May 2011 We all dream of a team of Ameobi's!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyT Posted 15 May 2011 Share Posted 15 May 2011 Ooooh 2-2. Taylor with the equaliser for Newcastle in the90th minute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScouseFox Posted 15 May 2011 Share Posted 15 May 2011 2-2, ft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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