Needs a Lambert poster
Big day in the EPL today, as Hull City play host to Stoke City in an all-frustration six-pointer. Then a couple of games involving teams who looked bad in the Europa League on Thursday. Oh, and Chelsea v. Manchester United happens too. There’s a jump, then a partial schedule of games and then your comments. See you below.
All times Eastern Standard
EPL
8.30 Hull City-Stoke City (Setanta)
10.00 Wigan-Fulham
10.00 West Ham-Everton
11.00 Chelsea-Manchester United (FSC, FSE)
Serie A
9.00 Lazio-AC Milan (FSC)
9.00 Cagliari-Sampdoria
2.30 Internazionale-Roma (FSC)
La Liga
1.00 Valencia-Real Zaragoza (ESPN2)
3.00 Sevilla-Villareal (GolTV)
Ligue 1
11.00 Lille-Bordeaux (Setanta)
11.00 Toulouse-Stade Rennes
3.00 Lyon-Marseille (Setanta)
SPL
7.45 Falkirk-Celtic
Eredivsie
8.30 AZ-Feyenoord
10.30 Twente-Ajax
MLS
3.00 Houston-Seattle (Telefutura)
7.30 Galaxy-Chivas USA
Definitely want a Chelsea win today. Lesser of three evils at this point.
Jozy gets the start!
Jimmy Bullard looks up for it
“Rio Ferdinand, David James and Steven Gerrard have been given a stark warning to sort out their fitness issues if they want to be in Fabio Capello’s World Cup squad.”
Translation: we won’t a get’a out’a the group’a stages without’a them because’a my team’a kinda sucks’a.
Holy crap, I want to punch Rory Delap. I could grow a beard in the time it takes that SOB to make a throw.
I consider myself a fairly stupid man. But when I come across gems like the following, I feel like Hawking having sex with Deep Blue.
Thread from the LFC site forums.
Title: Voronin could be our Ibra
Body: Seriously people talk about how good Ibra is, but Voronin has all the attributes to be just as good, he just needs more time on the pitch to show what he can do.
And the guy was not kidding.
Best response: He can’t even be our Ngog.
Falkirk-Celtic still at 0-0 53 minutes in. It saddens me how much that league sucks most of the time.
It’s a good thing I said something. 1-0 Celtic off of a poor free kick.
Gary Caldwell cannot be stopped.
How much longer does McGeady play in Scotland? Is he actually good enough to play anywhere better?
OH IT’S A SCORING MADHOUSE IN SCOTLAND!
Hull losing already. Shocker.
Horrific defending from Hull on the goal.
Crespo scores for Genoa. What a fall from grace he had. Should be Robbie Keane in a few years hopefully.
The Moutinho I’ve never heard of and feel safe is saying sucks, scores to put Falkirk up.
Wondering what Lothar Matthaeus is up to?
I hope people are watching Genoa v. Siena. There have been about 5 backpasses by Genoa so far (in the first 20 minutes) that have been rather… exciting. Genoa’s dominating the game, but Siena could have scored 2-3 goals on bad backpasses.
Good lord this Celtic game is crazy nuts.
It’s a goalkeeping lollercoaster for Genoa. Mishandled the ball on the edge of the box, Siena can’t do anything with it. If Siena didn’t suck as bad as they do, scoreline would be very different.
PBPhilBrown was on fire last weekend. This week I think even he knows its over…
Decisions, decisions…less than 6 hours of sleep, I’m an old, old f**k, and I might still be slightly buzzed from last night. Go to the bar for Spartak-ManUre, or stay home?
Leaning towards the bar and the cute bartender half my age…
cute bartender is always the correct answer
Jozy has missed two excellent chances today
Jermain Defoe broke Craig Gordon’s arm yesterday.
http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11695_5682120,00.html
I thought it was dirty, but apparently I am alone on that.
Jozy off for Venegoor of Hesselink
Charlton are about to get bounced from the FA Cup by something called “Northwich Victoria.”
Too bad about Gordon. Defoe did seem to kick out, but it’s hard to tell. I want to say he didn’t but it looked to be a very sketchy move when it happened.
@NYK: cute woman serving me pints of draft beer >>>>>>>> neither of the above.
F**k you no spoiler alert a-hole. (on FSC later)
Oh, and, nothing personal.
Stoke down to 10 men on 87′. Faye is shown red for trying to turn Nicky Barmby into a double amputee.
I just saved you eighty five minutes of tedium.
Before I head out – I thought Defoe did a “professional foul-without-looking-like-you-fouled” move on Gordon. Dragged the bag leg, probably not to intentionally hurt him, but to create a small amount of contact that might be leveraged to his advantage…
Of course, I’m the guy who’s never actually played the game…
Wigan go up on Fulham through Boyce. Apparently some shambolic goalkeeping was involved.
No Berbatov, no Vidic. Guess that means Drogba will have to abuse some other massively overrated defender.
I’m pretty sure Defoe didn’t intend to injure Gordon, but I don’t think there’s any question that he left a foot in.
Jozy’s replacement puts Hull ahead.
Venegoor puts Hull ahead at the death! Looks like Phil Brown lives to tan another day.
off to the bar, and rooting for the meteor…
Chelsea: Cech, Ivanovic, Carvalho, Terry, Ashley Cole, Essien, Lampard, Ballack, Deco, Drogba, Anelka.
Subs: Hilario, Joe Cole, Mikel, Malouda, Paulo Ferreira, Kalou, Alex.
Man Utd: Van der Sar, O’Shea, Brown, Jonathan Evans, Evra, Fletcher, Carrick, Anderson, Valencia, Rooney, Giggs.
Subs: Kuszczak, Owen, Vidic, Scholes, Fabio Da Silva, Obertan, Gibson.
That is a very very weak United side, Chelsea better not f**k this up.
Has anyone told y’all bout Jonny Evans?
Rapier Ape?
That Chelsea squad, while very good, is f**king old.
Everton lead through Saha.
1530: GOAL West Ham 0-1 Everton
1530: It’s gone a bit scrappy at Upton Park, not the best so far. West Ham are still on top, Everton have not offered anything at all.
In fairness, Georger, most of the soccernet fellows are preoccupied with writing effusive copy for the ManU match. They can’t really pay much attention to any other matches.
Love it when that happens. Like above where I denigrated the SPL and lack of goals in one game, only for it to finish 3-3 35 minutes later.
Nah that’s the BBC. He laughed at himself after the fact.
Scott Parker is a gaping a-hole.
West Ham in the drop zone if they lose today.
Still liking that fifth place finish pick.
Dempsey equalizes from the spot for Fulham.
Titus Bramble conceded that PK, BTW.
Oh, Deuce. I didn’t pick you up this week, though tempted, because I figured you were due for a sulk. You’re an a**hole for doing this to me.
That Genoa-Siena match is off the chain.
FA Cup 2nd round
Northwich v Lincoln
Northampton v Southampton
Hereford v Colchester
Tranmere/Leyton Orient v Aldershot
Kettering v Leeds
Gillingham v Burton/Oxford City
Wrexham v Swindon
Wycombe/Brighton v Rushden & Diamonds
Wealdstone/Rotherham v Luton/Rochdale
Milton Keynes Dons v Exeter
Gateshead/Brentford v Walsall
Carlisle/Morecambe v Norwich
Accrington v Barnet
Oxford United v Barrow
Bournemouth v Notts County
Stockport v Torquay
Cambridge United v York
Bath City v Forest Green/Mansfield
Port Vale/Stevenage v Huddersfield
Staines Town v Millwall/AFC Wimbledon
So this holiday is about bellhops?
Jozy starts, Hull wins. Even Phil Brown has to see that correlation right?
Jozy gets pulled, his replacement wins the game, is the more likely correlation.
That Brown will see anyway.
Sorry Darren Fletcher, you’re not allowed to try flicks.
Lampard is a dirty f**king t**t
Clear penalty by EBJT there! How does that go uncalled?!?!?!
This guy is butchering Ancelotti’s name, but he won’t use a bolt stunner so that he doesn’t feel the torture, he wants him to feel it.
@Georger – I’ve been asking for weeks if it is pronounced “An-CHE-lotti” or “An-SA-lotti” but no one loves me enough to answer
I think it’s “che,” the play by play guy is getting it right, the other guy, who reeks of cheap gin and hemophilia, is putting a hard “k” in there somewhere.
*yawn*
This isn’t keeping me awake (though the caffeine is)
Everton get a second, and immediately concede. LOL
Via an OG, that is.
Check that, seems like the goal is being credited to West Ham, but it looked like an OG to me.
Y’know Phil, it’s absolutely unAmerican that you’re not watching Spartak-ManU right now.
I had to get my Timmay fix, NYK.
Yeah. “No malice”. Right.
Question–why was EBJT staying down? He headed cleanly after clocking Valencia with the elbow.
HEY! Don’t blame me for u75′s trash talk!
Yes, my all red avatar is completely different.
“Question–why was EBJT staying down? He headed cleanly after clocking Valencia with the elbow”
The old “I’m hurt too you can’t book me” routine, a fan favorite.
This game is groin grabbingly dull.
if grabbing your groin is dull, you’re definitely doing it wrong
All apologies, NYK.
And now West Ham’s goal has been changed to an OG on Hibbert, as it should be.
He hee hee hee.
WAYNE ROONEY IS THE FIRST PLAYER TO EVER TRACK BACK ON DEFENSE, HERE’S A COMMERCIAL FROM PROACTIV!
West Ham are throwing everything but the kitchen sink at Howard, and he’s making some great saves.
Terry has his ba-ba, he’s okay now.
Well, it was a head injury of sorts, based on where EBJT grabbed. I guess he feels the game is Georger-level dull as well.
Almost a fight between Cahill and Berhami!
Oops, sorry, guess I should have made that a little more obvious. Please add a “/dick joke” to my previous post.
I killed the thread. Apologies.
Aaaand West Ham are in the zone.
Mark Hughes: Don’t fire me yet!
http://soccernet-assets.espn.go.com/news/story?id=695819&sec=england&cc=5901
Mark Hughes: I really don’t want to manage Hull!
Wow Giggs f**ked that up
this match is mind-numbing
I’m taking a nap and waiting for NFL. This is teh suxxorz.
@NY: I do home you mean mind-numbingly boring.
Wow. Hope instead of home. Still too early for me.
from BBC livetext: “Carlo Ancelotti comes over all Italian on the touchline, gesticulating with his hands.”
Anyone know what that means?
Joe Cole is still alive? Interesting.
@jgaugust – indeed I did.
“from BBC livetext: “Carlo Ancelotti comes over all Italian on the touchline, gesticulating with his hands.”
Anyone know what that means?”
Italians talk with their hands all the damn time.
I think Drogba’s dead. Jonny Evans is not only a rapist, but he just assaulted Didier too.
oh, ouch. I think Drogba might actually be hurt for once.
I guess I’ll give Drogba the benefit of the doubt.