Football 2011/12 Football Season
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BLACKBURN V BOLTON - TACTICAL PREVIEW
Both teams are going to attempt to lump it forward to their strikers - with Bolton the most likely to pass it once between their centre-halves to pretend they're playing tiki-tika. The midfield zone will be a barren, deserted place, but Blackburn are more likely to enter it in order to win a free-kick their goalkeeper can then lump into the penalty area.
Roy Hodgson was sacked as Blackburn manager basically because he wasted £7m on Kevin Davies (but he did get out of Liverpool before they pissed £35m up the wall) and it is difficult to believe that not 12 months ago Davies was playing for England. Oh, and good luck with that £18m you wanted for Gary Cahill, Owen.
Both teams are going to attempt to lump it forward to their strikers - with Bolton the most likely to pass it once between their centre-halves to pretend they're playing tiki-tika. The midfield zone will be a barren, deserted place, but Blackburn are more likely to enter it in order to win a free-kick their goalkeeper can then lump into the penalty area.
Roy Hodgson was sacked as Blackburn manager basically because he wasted £7m on Kevin Davies (but he did get out of Liverpool before they pissed £35m up the wall) and it is difficult to believe that not 12 months ago Davies was playing for England. Oh, and good luck with that £18m you wanted for Gary Cahill, Owen.
I hope, quite frankly, that Liverpool Football Club never win another match.
The handling of this affair by the Club as a whole is an absolute disgrace. Having been warned, along with Manchester United, to keep quiet on this issue since the allegation was made, Dalglish managed to prejudice the enquiry by calling the FA a bunch of hypocrites and the delay a "joke". On hearing the sentence, Liverpool have undermined the process, declared Suarez innocent of a crime he has admitted committing and given full unconditional support.
What is worse, of course, is that Liverpool have descended fully to the tribalism that comes part-and-parcel with football, and got to the point that they're essentially accepting that anything goes so long as the Liverpool badge is on the front of the shirt.
Of course, on the flip side of that, Manchester United have emerged thus far from the process with a great deal of credit for maintaining the dignified silence which could so easily have been broken considering the barbed accusations aimed at the club's vice-captain coming from the direction of the M62.
These two sets of supporters have been at each other's throats with execrable chanting relating to Hillsbrough, Heysel and Munich adding to an unacceptable level of bile. The most sad thing to see is Liverpool Football Club diving in at the deep end and joining their supporters on the barrages.
I think I'm going to be controversial here and disagree, how a player can get a ban for something which was never actually proven and it is a one mans word against another is frankly rather stupid. Liverpool aren't defending a racist player, they're defending a player from wrongly being called a racist, (the fact that Evra apparently used words back at Suarez seems to have slipped under the carpet). If Terry doesn't receive a similar ban for comments which have been shown on tv to have been proven it will show horrible bias within the FA
John Terry's case is different as it is being dealt with by the Police as it was reported by members of the public to them, the Suarez case was dealt with by the FA and the burdon of proof if less. The simple fact for me is that Suarez has admitted to using language which would be acceptable in Uruguay but he's not in Uruguay he's in Britain and different standards apply.
My main problem is that he has been found guilty by the FA, as a minimum both Liverpool and its players should be on a disrepute charge for questioning the FA decision so publicly. The FA must have listened to arguments from both sides and considered the evidence before coming to a conclusion. It's not for the team or the players to then openly question that conclusion, if the club has a problem there are routes they can take to appeal against the FA judgement.
My main problem is that he has been found guilty by the FA, as a minimum both Liverpool and its players should be on a disrepute charge for questioning the FA decision so publicly. The FA must have listened to arguments from both sides and considered the evidence before coming to a conclusion. It's not for the team or the players to then openly question that conclusion, if the club has a problem there are routes they can take to appeal against the FA judgement.
No-one has been called "a racist". He has been charged with "using racist language". The correct thing to do would be to make no comment, back their player and launch an appeal. What they've actually done is back their player, commented long and hard about the FA conspiracy that Kenny Dalglish has invented and acted like a 9 year old.
It is far more the tribalist, no-class reaction that has alienated me against that club. The reaction has made Sir Alex bloody Ferguson look reasonable, and I don't think Liverpool's raison d'étre is to make United look good.
landogeorgelewis1
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Whoop bring on the made christmas schdule of Football. Actually off to the Riverside on Monday to see the Boro take on Hull should be a good game as their bringing over 2000 with them.
landogeorgelewis1
Champion Elect
Cheers Mjo. Hope MKDons have a great christmas period aswell 
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Boro's got:
Hull and Peterborough at home the next two games. Plus on Jan 2nd we're away to Blackpool! Lovely jubbly not!
.Boro's got:
Hull and Peterborough at home the next two games
. Plus on Jan 2nd we're away to Blackpool! Lovely jubbly not!landogeorgelewis1
Champion Elect
MCLS - We'll try our best but it depends on injuries and suspensions go for us.
But looking forward to going to the game tomorrow.
But looking forward to going to the game tomorrow
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I wouldn't mind that either! Us Dons fans really hate them.
First Division scores from this day, 1963!
Blackpool 1-5 Chelsea
Burnley 6-1 Manchester U
Fulham 10-1 Ipswich
Leicester 2-0 Everton
Liverpool 6-1 Stoke
Nott'm F 3-3 Sheffield U
Sheffield W 3-0 Bolton
West Brom 4-4 Spurs
West Ham 2-8 Blackburn
Wolves 3-3 Villa
Some defenders had been overindulging...
Blackpool 1-5 Chelsea
Burnley 6-1 Manchester U
Fulham 10-1 Ipswich
Leicester 2-0 Everton
Liverpool 6-1 Stoke
Nott'm F 3-3 Sheffield U
Sheffield W 3-0 Bolton
West Brom 4-4 Spurs
West Ham 2-8 Blackburn
Wolves 3-3 Villa
Some defenders had been overindulging...
They're currently making great sport beating crap teams by massive margins.
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