"What I do know is that at whichever club the opportunity arises for me, they're going to be very fortunate, because I'm the best manager I've ever been.
"Yes, I accept it's been a difficult last year, but coming on the back of the work I've had to do, I'm well set to go in and take another challenge.
"And that's the way football works. Everywhere I've been, I've been very fortunate to work at wonderful football clubs, and the next one will be the same.
"There will be opportunities. The phone's not stopped since I left last week"
If we'd just held on one more minute each half we'd have won, but can't say Barca didn't deserve it. On the plus side, I did have £1 on the correct scorecast at 300/1, so every cloud, etc.
Except for the two bollock-red old duffers who spent the whole game vitriolically berating every single member of the team for the whole game for apparently not "sticking it to them". Nobody can do self-laceration like old Celtic fans.
You'd have said before the game that we'd definitely take that, but the timing of it was just completely deflating. Still, it bodes well for the rest of the group stage that we hung in there with them. If we can take anything from the home leg we're still in a very useful position.
were very fortunate last night. To only lose by one goal, with an away goal in the bank, is more than they deserved. Juventus messing up is also a big result.
Chelsea still have their fate in their own hands. Two home wins will see them through and it is difficult to see Juventus taking maximum points from their own away trip to Shaktar.
The Torres problem is well documented. He is not in any sense a natural goalscorer and when he's not on song, he's not unfortunate, he's rank terrible.
is the biggest one in the group so far- Chelsea, Juve and Shakhtar would have all known that 6 points from their two games against the Danes would very likely be needed to qualify given that they'd all take points from each other. Never nice to lose but I doubt losing in Donestk will be too much of a turning point in the group.
I think some people think he does because he charges around and has lots of the ball, but it completely ruins United's shap/rhythm.
I'm not in KiK's 'majority' who want him dropped by England btw, he's a superb player, just think it's daft to play him anywhere apart from the front 2
he's been one of our best players in the last three games and played very well, but other players don't seem to know where to go when he's storming about all over the shop, particularly Cleverley. behind the striker in a 4-2-3-1 is his best position, imho onion, and our best formation too.
i don't see why clubs don't simply ban players from using all forms of social media. The cynic in me suspects it's because clubs are precious about it having a negative affect on their 'brand'.
There are instances of where footballers make good use of social media - players like Lucas, Vincent Kompany and Phil Neville, for example, provide little semi-interesting peaks into the lives of footballers, or interact well with their club's supporters, but it's a rarity.
On the whole, footballers shouldn't have a platform to communicate with the general public, because they're almost always thick cunts.
If they want to ban them because they think it's more trouble than it's worth or they can't be trusted then fair enough (I'm surprised they aven't already), but if at a match someone's shouting racist abuse from the crowd you don't send the player off
Full on wined and dined before sitting on my hands in the home end.
Ultimate prawn sandwich fan. I vowed I'd never do it again after the Chelsea game. But it's through work and I've spent 4 years turning down free tickets to stuff because we're a charity and supposed to decline gifts, so I've kept this on the downlow, secret squirrel like
If so I really wouldn't worry about sitting on your hands, watching more than about 25 minutes of each half before wandering inside to plunder the buffet will make you look like a die-hard
Just remembering the game last year - one of the most miserable I can remember. Despite living 20 mins walk away I was 10 minutes late. I was sat next to a giant fat man who also happened to be the stupidest man in the world who spend the 80 minutes I was there extolling his stupidity in a non stop monologue to me. Stewards were all over you if you so much as coughed. 2 posh wideboys tried to start a fight with an old man after he asked them very politely to sit down. Nothing on any note happened in the game. The angle of the away section makes seeing the game difficult as things look closer or farther away than they actually are. I lost all my mates in the crowd after the game and as it was NYE and I was hosting I had to walk home, but having walked towards H&I I was now 20 minutes further away from my house.
What is the news at the Bolton end in regard to appointing Dougie?
There hasn't been a press conference, announcment or anything on the Offical Bolton website that he is your new boss.
We announced he had left for you last night, but nothing has been confirmed for Bolton. Infact hasn't one of your caretakers said hs is in charge on Saturday?
I'm starting to wonder if Dougie done a "Mark Hughes" here.
Our board said that the first contact from Bolton was on Saturday, but there was stuff in the press saying they were in talks and offering a contract way before that. He was odds on favourite at the start of last week.
is watching CL away fans wander aimlessly around Angel. Crazy painted-blue German people, you weren't quite as good as the Olympiakos fans who subjected a supermarket (not the customers therein, the physical store itself) to homophobic abuse a few weeks ago, but I still love you.
I've told this one before, but being stuck on a tube full of Young Boys fans. After an annoucement one of them made a joke in foreign that basically went: *foreign foreign foreign Wankdorf foreign foreign Cockfosters!*
No idea what he said but everyone laughed a lot, including me.
I experienced and witnessed incidents of racism when I was a player.
There was one in particular, during a game against Spurs. After swapping several tackles with a rival player, he got up and racially abused me following one collision. I thought for a second then told him how disappointed I was that he would go down that route with me.
I told him that he was my boyhood hero, that as a kid I had photos of him on my wall. None of this was true but I thought it would make him feel guilty. Immediately, he responded: *Langers, I'm not racist. Some of my best mates are black. I only said it to put you off your game because I couldn't get near you.*
After the game, he came into my changing room and handed me his shirt.
linking to Soccerbase's Richard Langley records- they seemed to show that he never played against Spurs. I guess they could be wrong, or it might have been a reserve game or he's got his details a little muddied.
You can all throw rotten fruit at the racism denier now.
An apocalyptic rider looms on the horizon for the game as we know it. Maybe he brings death to all? Or he will galvanise and help us... Seminal moment for the game I love. It has given great woes and joys over the course of my life. I will fight for her. Right now, she needs me
started out well but collapsed defensively towards the end. Another outstanding performance by 20 year old DANISH centre back Jores Okore up to that point though. He could be world class.
question: if we weren't so bad at the back and there was no question at all to how much we deserved the games we've won, would you hate United less or more?
I mean, when we took the league back from Chelsea and played beautifully in the process, our popularity (relative lack of seething hatred our way) was at its highest since the 80s.
70% responsible for their second. No stamina, intelligence, determination or anything really. Dives into tackles for no reason, i guess probably just cos he can't be arsed watching the ball any longer. Will be so happy when i don't have to fear seeing his and gervinho's names on the team sheet.
absolutely hopeless. I didn't think they could be as bad as they were at Norwich at the weekend. at least not THAT bad. my lord. Had to stop myself from booing at the end - which i hate hearing - but honestly. Shocking
Coyle is insane
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20051338
"What I do know is that at whichever club the opportunity arises for me, they're going to be very fortunate, because I'm the best manager I've ever been.
"Yes, I accept it's been a difficult last year, but coming on the back of the work I've had to do, I'm well set to go in and take another challenge.
"And that's the way football works. Everywhere I've been, I've been very fortunate to work at wonderful football clubs, and the next one will be the same.
"There will be opportunities. The phone's not stopped since I left last week"
NO YOU'RE JUST SHIT, SON.
This quote:
."And if I was a betting man, which obviously I'm not allowed to be, I'd be putting money on Bolton to win the league".
Is he saying he's not allowed to because a) he works in football and it'd be a contentious thing to do or b) because he's a massive Christian?
Apparently, United gave 12,000 tickets to local schools & community groups for last night's game.
Whatever people think of them, that's an outstanding gesture.
Well done.
I am amazed you didn't go for a
'Small club having to give them away to fill the ground' kind of angle.
Well done.
:D
Apparently Jimmy Saville gave millions to charitable causes.
it's the moral offset for employing nani
Chelsea well beaten by a very good side last night.
Didn't see any of the Celtic game but it sounded pretty upsetting.
We were allowed to dream for 94 minutes last night :(
If we'd just held on one more minute each half we'd have won, but can't say Barca didn't deserve it. On the plus side, I did have £1 on the correct scorecast at 300/1, so every cloud, etc.
Can't wait for the home game now.
Incredible scenes in the Celtic pub I found in Kennington for 93 and a half minutes
Except for the two bollock-red old duffers who spent the whole game vitriolically berating every single member of the team for the whole game for apparently not "sticking it to them". Nobody can do self-laceration like old Celtic fans.
You'd have said before the game that we'd definitely take that, but the timing of it was just completely deflating. Still, it bodes well for the rest of the group stage that we hung in there with them. If we can take anything from the home leg we're still in a very useful position.
apart from seville
i can't remember ever being as stressed out about a game of football in my life.
we did well to keep it to 1-1 for as long as we did but part of me would rather we'd had a doing than having the agony of losing it like that.
peter taylor was sacked by bahrain a few days ago
that whole thing seemed pretty weird
I thought Chelsea
were very fortunate last night. To only lose by one goal, with an away goal in the bank, is more than they deserved. Juventus messing up is also a big result.
Chelsea still have their fate in their own hands. Two home wins will see them through and it is difficult to see Juventus taking maximum points from their own away trip to Shaktar.
The Torres problem is well documented. He is not in any sense a natural goalscorer and when he's not on song, he's not unfortunate, he's rank terrible.
The Nordsthing-Juventus result
is the biggest one in the group so far- Chelsea, Juve and Shakhtar would have all known that 6 points from their two games against the Danes would very likely be needed to qualify given that they'd all take points from each other. Never nice to lose but I doubt losing in Donestk will be too much of a turning point in the group.
*Nordsjælland
I don't think Rooney particularly works in midfield
I think some people think he does because he charges around and has lots of the ball, but it completely ruins United's shap/rhythm.
I'm not in KiK's 'majority' who want him dropped by England btw, he's a superb player, just think it's daft to play him anywhere apart from the front 2
united's rhythm
there was going to be more but you get the gist.
.
Jay-Z's Laugh
Why don't you think he should be dropped by England?
OPEN YOUR EYES.
I was really just saying I think he's good, I couldn't care less about England
Though if I did I'd point out that he's much, much better than every other English forward
Not once he puts an England shirt on
i agree
he's been one of our best players in the last three games and played very well, but other players don't seem to know where to go when he's storming about all over the shop, particularly Cleverley. behind the striker in a 4-2-3-1 is his best position, imho onion, and our best formation too.
:(
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-20033383
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Why are people such utter cunts?
It might not solve instances of numpty fans, but...
i don't see why clubs don't simply ban players from using all forms of social media. The cynic in me suspects it's because clubs are precious about it having a negative affect on their 'brand'.
There are instances of where footballers make good use of social media - players like Lucas, Vincent Kompany and Phil Neville, for example, provide little semi-interesting peaks into the lives of footballers, or interact well with their club's supporters, but it's a rarity.
On the whole, footballers shouldn't have a platform to communicate with the general public, because they're almost always thick cunts.
I'm not sure clubs should be banning players from Twitter etc because other people are cunts
If they want to ban them because they think it's more trouble than it's worth or they can't be trusted then fair enough (I'm surprised they aven't already), but if at a match someone's shouting racist abuse from the crowd you don't send the player off
Yeah, that's not what i said.
Cheers.
.
It shouldn't have to be that way round though.
blackburn away tonight
hope we can build on friday's improved performance. jones will hopefully keep the same starting xi.
Getting taken to the Arsenal game by one of my agencies on Saturday
Full on wined and dined before sitting on my hands in the home end.
Ultimate prawn sandwich fan. I vowed I'd never do it again after the Chelsea game. But it's through work and I've spent 4 years turning down free tickets to stuff because we're a charity and supposed to decline gifts, so I've kept this on the downlow, secret squirrel like
Assume you're in Club Level if not a full on exec box?
If so I really wouldn't worry about sitting on your hands, watching more than about 25 minutes of each half before wandering inside to plunder the buffet will make you look like a die-hard
No idea
Just remembering the game last year - one of the most miserable I can remember. Despite living 20 mins walk away I was 10 minutes late. I was sat next to a giant fat man who also happened to be the stupidest man in the world who spend the 80 minutes I was there extolling his stupidity in a non stop monologue to me. Stewards were all over you if you so much as coughed. 2 posh wideboys tried to start a fight with an old man after he asked them very politely to sit down. Nothing on any note happened in the game. The angle of the away section makes seeing the game difficult as things look closer or farther away than they actually are. I lost all my mates in the crowd after the game and as it was NYE and I was hosting I had to walk home, but having walked towards H&I I was now 20 minutes further away from my house.
Verbal
What is the news at the Bolton end in regard to appointing Dougie?
There hasn't been a press conference, announcment or anything on the Offical Bolton website that he is your new boss.
We announced he had left for you last night, but nothing has been confirmed for Bolton. Infact hasn't one of your caretakers said hs is in charge on Saturday?
I'm starting to wonder if Dougie done a "Mark Hughes" here.
Our board said that the first contact from Bolton was on Saturday, but there was stuff in the press saying they were in talks and offering a contract way before that. He was odds on favourite at the start of last week.
Something just seems odd.
Probably the only good thing about working near the Emirates
is watching CL away fans wander aimlessly around Angel. Crazy painted-blue German people, you weren't quite as good as the Olympiakos fans who subjected a supermarket (not the customers therein, the physical store itself) to homophobic abuse a few weeks ago, but I still love you.
I love European nights
I've told this one before, but being stuck on a tube full of Young Boys fans. After an annoucement one of them made a joke in foreign that basically went: *foreign foreign foreign Wankdorf foreign foreign Cockfosters!*
No idea what he said but everyone laughed a lot, including me.
And little clusters of foreigner teenagers lingering outside North London cornershops
and half-heartedly trying to get aggro with commuters at 5 in the evening is strangely entertaining.
Wenger's carbon footprint is disgraceful.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/premiership/arsenal-slammed-over-14minute-flight-to-norwich-16228917.html
ah so they were all jetlagged that explains it
I've got some sympathy for him
getting to Norwich by rail is a nightmare
not from London
that's the only place Norwich is even remotely connected to.
paul jewell leaves ipswich
no real surprise there as they've been woeful all season
aw goddamit
that was the only football thing I've been enjoying so far this season
that whole thing seemed pretty weird too
like he seemed far too relaxed in every interview i saw, given how badly they were doing
i hope chris hutchings gets the job full time
Richard Langley:
I experienced and witnessed incidents of racism when I was a player.
There was one in particular, during a game against Spurs. After swapping several tackles with a rival player, he got up and racially abused me following one collision. I thought for a second then told him how disappointed I was that he would go down that route with me.
I told him that he was my boyhood hero, that as a kid I had photos of him on my wall. None of this was true but I thought it would make him feel guilty. Immediately, he responded: *Langers, I'm not racist. Some of my best mates are black. I only said it to put you off your game because I couldn't get near you.*
After the game, he came into my changing room and handed me his shirt.
Seems it's gone now but I saw a tweet yesterday (NOT from a racist Chelsea fan, cheers)
linking to Soccerbase's Richard Langley records- they seemed to show that he never played against Spurs. I guess they could be wrong, or it might have been a reserve game or he's got his details a little muddied.
You can all throw rotten fruit at the racism denier now.
PS. This is meant as a defence of Spurs (I don't actually know why I felt compelled to defend them.
That's a little weird and unsettling), rather than an accusation.
I think it might have been an issue in the subbing
The version of his I read elsewhere was that the player previously played for Spurs but the game was against a different club
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND that allegedly said player is still at Spurs as a coach.
Such an odd, odd story though
Joey Barton's brain has done another big fart
An apocalyptic rider looms on the horizon for the game as we know it. Maybe he brings death to all? Or he will galvanise and help us... Seminal moment for the game I love. It has given great woes and joys over the course of my life. I will fight for her. Right now, she needs me
Having seen M'Bia play a couple of times now I have to say
We have absolutely had Marseilles' eyes out on Joey
M'Bia's been shite, hasn't he?
Admittedly, i've not seen much of QPR, but what i did see involved him being responsible for two goals.
erm, no he hasn't
What goals were those then?
Dortmund vs Madrid tonight should be a cracker.
Blackburn Rovers owners are still no nearer appointing a manager
good work numbnuts.
Freedman.
Might not be going to Burnley afterall? Seems to be in a state of limbo.
Richard Cawley ?@RichCawleySLP
The plot thickens with Dougie Freedman. Ipswich now linked. And no instant dismissal when I made contact with #cpfc.
I obviously I meant Bolton.
But saying that don't they need a manager?
It's a shame FCN dropped points against Juve last night
started out well but collapsed defensively towards the end. Another outstanding performance by 20 year old DANISH centre back Jores Okore up to that point though. He could be world class.
Think we'll drop points today
two taking-the-piss dives in two minutes from schalke
RUINING THE GAME
any of the games worth tuning in to?
The Ajax City game has been a decent watch
Flowing football from Ajax and 1-1 at the break
sounds good
will pop the second half on.
Dortmund-Real has been good.
Not pant-wettingly exciting or owt, but good.
i'll flip it over if it looks like City are going to win, I guess
Really hasn't disappointed
3-1 Ajax!
Champions League football is so fucking polite
santos getting ruined
so that's a surprise.
oh my god he's barely fucking championship standard
They need to put him on a diet..
he still looks ridiculously overweight a year on from signing for us.
Are City the worst
English Champions in Europe since Blackburn?
since man utd definitely
fucking hell gervinho's a complete moron
Does Mancini just need to give up on 3-5-2?
Whenever I've seen them switch to it (three times maybe?) they get pummelled for a bit, maybe concede then switch back after 10 minutes.
Arshavin
where have you been lad?
Dortmund seem to have sorted themselves out this season so far as European football goes.
They've bossed this game, as they did the City one. Mostly the same side as last year but so much more impressive in the CL now.
Pretty hopeless
Hmmm, Montpellier 1 - 1 Olympiacos
Not all bad then.
oh, 1 - 2
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
dortmund are looking excellent.
shame about man city, but at least they cant concentrate on the league
arsenal ;)
could be some very very interesting games in the next round if the likeliest teams finish 1st and 2nd, as things are looking now
Part of me thinks 'hahahaha, Arsenal and City losing eases the pain'
Another part thinks 'ffs, United have been just as dodgy as the other three English CL teams. NO JUSTICE'
^ sometimes I forget how much I hate Utd
but luckily they're very good at reminding me.
:)
excellent posts, these.
question: if we weren't so bad at the back and there was no question at all to how much we deserved the games we've won, would you hate United less or more?
I mean, when we took the league back from Chelsea and played beautifully in the process, our popularity (relative lack of seething hatred our way) was at its highest since the 80s.
Yeah but if Satan was destroying the world
and a crack team of Hitler, Pol Pot and Stalin rocked up to fight him and save us all, you'd begrudgingly say *go on lads*
Christ
santos is so, so bad
70% responsible for their second. No stamina, intelligence, determination or anything really. Dives into tackles for no reason, i guess probably just cos he can't be arsed watching the ball any longer. Will be so happy when i don't have to fear seeing his and gervinho's names on the team sheet.
Looking forward to seeing City in the Europa League, actually
It's shaping up to good tournament, and they're certain to add a bit of spice to it.
not sure we'll make it, chief
I still think it could be close
You'll take all 6 points at home, but beating Dortmund away will be a slippery banana.
nice result for malaga tonight
allegri can't be far off the sack now at milan, surely?
Denmark won 3-1 against Man City
nice.
Well
that sucked.
arsenal
absolutely hopeless. I didn't think they could be as bad as they were at Norwich at the weekend. at least not THAT bad. my lord. Had to stop myself from booing at the end - which i hate hearing - but honestly. Shocking