Premier League week 6

Anyone seen a gif of Big Sam celebrating their goal yesterday surly ones been done !

TheCrazy58 wrote:

Hlebagone wrote:

Noah and the Bale wrote:

Kimbo wrote:I wonder who Stoke will target today? Carroll? Barton? Ben Arfa? I'm sure they will be throwing themselves into young Krul during corners. Dirty bastards.

I hope you smash them today

The whole board can cheer for Newcastle. Think how happy Kimbo will be!

Count me in

We want 5 more(with Ben Arfa hattrick)

Enrique is one of the better backs in the PL. First saw him play against Barca few seasons ago and I thought he'd regressed when I heard he was playing in the Championship but he's still very good.

I like Newcastle. They'll be a decent side if they can upgrade the likes of Perch and Nolan. Perch is particularly funny. Not quite sure what he is doing in this league and I'm guessing neither is he. Tiote looks like a speedster but not yet sure on his actual ability however he is a vast improvement on Smith and Butt.

Stoke are so defensive, they should just dig a trench and be done with it.

Jones has hit the post twice now... it's been all Stoke this 2nd half.

3rd time lucky indeed, Jones 1-1

Ameobi on for Newc.

Poor Kimmy

Beaten by Stoke

Perchhhhhhhhhhhhh OG

2-1 to Stoke

Exactly what they did to us the other week. Late mugging, by punting the ball into the box again and again

I'd almost forgotten what it was like to play Stoke. They were awful from the first to last minute, negative, constantly playing it in the air, always wasting time and disrupting the game. They deserved nothing from this game and none of their games should be on TV until they atleast try to pass the ball. It's no wonder alot of johnny foreigners look down on English football. Is there a more annoying sight in football than Rory Delap wandering about drying the ball?

We can't really complain, in that our goal was gifted to us and we didn't create a good chance all game, whereas simply via set-pieces Stoke could easily have scored four times.

I thought we started the game well, and didn't play badly throughout the first half - we kept the ball and probed, whilst Stoke increasingly sat deep and were naturally hard to break down in that state. With Ben Arfa, Enrique, the centre-backs, Tiote and even Barton (who I'm sure regards himself a footballer rather than a tough tackler or a box-to-box player, and who is, in fairness to him, best when passing the ball), we do have a foundation for retaining the ball and playing. My significant criticism would be that the movement of the front two was poor - Nolan never moves enough, whilst Carroll stood and looked for crosses rather than moving and attempting to interact.

In the second half, we were awful, we didn't start with any impetus; our substitutions were mistakes, for Ben Arfa's ability to retain the ball would have aided us more than Routledge's pace and Nolan's (perceived but actual complete lack of) ability to drop deeper and defend, and again Shola should have replaced Nolan rather than Tiote; and we couldn't defend set-pieces, which isn't going to be a strength of ours given that Williamson and Coloccini aren't dominant in the air, but nevertheless we marked poorly, players switched off, and the fundamental set-up was bad with Perch marking Huth and Carroll marking Jones.

In sum, I do think there are positives to take from our performances so far this season, but despite the impressive victory over Villa and the surprise result against Everton, after losing at home to Blackpool and Stoke we are arguably worse off in terms of points than we should have hoped.

On the plus side, Newcastle's weird form means you should get a result at City next week (before losing at home to Wigan the following game)..

Hughton needs to come with a way to beat teams that come to sit back, that's all, these last two home games don't make us a poor team or anything like that as we've cleary shown more footballing talent than the opposition.

If Williamson and Coloccini aren't dominant in the air and neither seems to be particularly pacy, what is exactly is their strong point? I'm assuming their reading of the game.

I can live with Stoke, they may be one-dimensional but they play to their strengths and the league needs variety. Its Wolves I can't stand, constant niggly fouls, trips, shirt-pulling and blocking. If they are hard but "fair" they wouldn't be bottom of the fair play league

From the Villa games at Wolves and Stoke the last few weeks, I would say Stoke are by far the worse for fouling and one-dimensionality and, well, just about everything. Admittedly Karl Henry has decided to make himself the new Michael Brown, which is not good. But otherwise they didn't seem bad.

Coloccini is a good footballer and links up with the midfield well, and Williamson is a decent enough all-rounder. Our CBs aren't really a problem, if we can get a good athletic 6ft+ RB that can help out during set-pieces the defence will be fine. We need Beye from a few years ago.

The problem with games like the one today is you can't draw any conclusions about how well the team will do against normal teams, Stoke are an anomaly. In terms of anti-football they are worse than any championship side we came up against last season, they've pretty much perfected it.

Kimbo wrote:I'd almost forgotten what it was like to play Stoke. They were awful from the first to last minute, negative, constantly playing it in the air, always wasting time and disrupting the game. They deserved nothing from this game and none of their games should be on TV until they atleast try to pass the ball. It's no wonder alot of johnny foreigners look down on English football. Is there a more annoying sight in football than Rory Delap wandering about drying the ball?

Ban those fucking towels. We aren't playing rugby.

What the FUCK is this cheating little c**t talking about?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/s/stoke_city/9034864.stm

Stoke manager Tony Pulis says some of Newcastle's attempts to influence the referee were "bang out of order" but praises his team's second-half performance in their 2-1 win against Newcastle.

His team is a fucking stain on English football that gets away with murder, and this little bald fuck is throwing baseless accusations at a team that his lot have just got a JAMMY win against. There isn't one person i'd rather fuck off out of the sport, he's worse than Allardyce! Ungracious little jellyfish!

Warnock, who should've been sent off, supplies the the the cross for Heskey's winner.

Lucky Lucky Brummies.

Deluded F*ck wrote:Warnock, who should've been sent off, supplies the the the cross for Heskey's winner.

Lucky Lucky Brummies.

We'll see who's lucky on Saturday

West Ham United striker Frederic Piquionne has won a golden ball.

Piquionne will be presented with a golden Nike ball for scoring the 10,000th Premier League goal with a Nike ball.

The striker's 29th-minute strike for West Ham against Tottenham at Upton Park earned him a golden T90 Tracer ball featuring the name of the first goal scorer with a Nike ball - Mark Venus - who scored for Ipswich Town against Tottenham Hotspur on the opening day of the 2000/01 season.


My first thought was who the hell was Mark Venus.

Di Caniooooo! wrote:West Ham United striker Frederic Piquionne has won a golden ball.

Piquionne will be presented with a golden Nike ball for scoring the 10,000th Premier League goal with a Nike ball.

The striker's 29th-minute strike for West Ham against Tottenham at Upton Park earned him a golden T90 Tracer ball featuring the name of the first goal scorer with a Nike ball - Mark Venus - who scored for Ipswich Town against Tottenham Hotspur on the opening day of the 2000/01 season.


My first thought was who the hell was Mark Venus.

So West Ham have won more trophies than Arsenal in the last 5 years?

Good for you Piquionne!

Di Caniooooo! wrote:West Ham United striker Frederic Piquionne has won a golden ball.

Piquionne will be presented with a golden Nike ball for scoring the 10,000th Premier League goal with a Nike ball.

The striker's 29th-minute strike for West Ham against Tottenham at Upton Park earned him a golden T90 Tracer ball featuring the name of the first goal scorer with a Nike ball - Mark Venus - who scored for Ipswich Town against Tottenham Hotspur on the opening day of the 2000/01 season.


My first thought was who the hell was Mark Venus.

Mainly known for his time at Wolves - he was part of the wolves team that continually failed to reach the EPL in the early to mid '90's despite being favourites every year.

Left footed - played CB or LB.

Loved Lee Dixon on MOTD 2 going on about United not having men on the posts - like that was the major issue rather than a corner kick being met at knee height on the six yard line

really havent noticed that boateng made his debut for city

how long has he played!
and was he good!
will he be a starter in the future and in what position?