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Starbuck

Aug 9 2005, 10:29 PM

Here we go... the Premiership fully kicks off this weekend!!!

The SPL (Scottish Premier League) started last weekend with my local team Inverness Calley Thistle coming close to holding Rangers to a 0-0 draw.. Rangers squeeked it in the last 20 mins!

Inverness played very well in their first game... they finished mid-table last season & I think they will do well again this season.

Fixtures for this weekend...

Sat 13 August 2005...

Aston Villa v Bolton, 15:00
Everton v Man Utd, 12:45
Fulham v Birmingham, 15:00
Man City v West Brom, 15:00
Middlesbrough v Liverpool, 17:15
Portsmouth v Tottenham, 15:00
Sunderland v Charlton, 15:00
West Ham v Blackburn, 15:00

Sunday 14 August 2005...

Arsenal v Newcastle, 13:30
Wigan v Chelsea, 16:00

Come on CHELSEA!!!!!

saxamophonegill

Aug 10 2005, 12:24 AM

After Saturday's outburst by some of our fans (Hull City) I am ashamed to call myself a Hull fan. (Our fans were taunting QPR fans by chanting stuff about the London bombs) It's always the sad few that have to spoil it, but I will add that not all Hull City fans are like that, it's just the sad minority. Hopefully they will be caught and the stadium management has said they will be banned for life.

Dave

Aug 10 2005, 12:46 AM

saxamophonegill:
After Saturday's outburst by some of our fans (Hull City) I am ashamed to call myself a Hull fan. (Our fans were taunting QPR fans by chanting stuff about the London bombs) It's always the sad few that have to spoil it, but I will add that not all Hull City fans are like that, it's just the sad minority. Hopefully they will be caught and the stadium management has said they will be banned for life.

Yep, that was bad news and really hasnt done Hull any favours whatsoever, its sweeping across the football fan sites and it'll be the decent Hull fans that pay the penalty for a drunken few.

Stiill we both got a point from tonights game, both teams had chances to seal a win..Im a Sheff Wed fan by the way...dont care what happens this season so long as we beat Sheff utd twice !!

saxamophonegill

Aug 10 2005, 01:19 AM

hehe, good game

LauraKeane

Aug 10 2005, 01:30 AM

Well, most of us have already started our season...Leeds, being the typical up and down team that they are, have won 2-1, and lost 2-1 already. And we've already lost 3 players to injury, including 2 new signings. And we're apparently favourites for promotion...very strange! I'm just glad I've got another year away from the Premiership, I certainly wouldn't want to have anything to do with it until Abramovich gets bored of his newest toy, and leaves Chelsea to compete on the same level as Newcastle, Everton and Liverpool again...fighting for 3rd place. These noveau riches....

LauraKeane

Aug 10 2005, 01:32 AM

Dave:
Im a Sheff Wed fan by the way...dont care what happens this season so long as we beat Sheff utd twice !!

Rumour has it Steve Claridge will be joining you on Wednesday...don't know what role he's taking on though.

Dave

Aug 10 2005, 10:25 AM

LauraKeane:

Dave:
Im a Sheff Wed fan by the way...dont care what happens this season so long as we beat Sheff utd twice !!

Rumour has it Steve Claridge will be joining you on Wednesday...don't know what role he's taking on though.

Bookie.... I think !!!

..........

....motivator....the young lads need someone to kick them up the behind....the heads drop....to be honest I think another season in league 1 may have been the best thing for us....we were still on the long rebuild and we have too much debt.....footballs died and if the economic bubble bursts...and theres signs of it...then a lot of clubs will go bankrupt and many premiership clubs will too..

...too many wednesday fans are expecting far too much this season.....i'll settle for fourth from bottom and beating united twice and seeing warnock cry at hillsborough !!

Starbuck

Aug 16 2005, 02:11 PM

I wasn't panicking, honest...

Nice one, Crispy!!!

Starbuck

Aug 16 2005, 02:14 PM

Premiership fixtures for this week...

Saturday, 20 August 2005
Birmingham v Man City, 17:15
Blackburn v Fulham, 15:00
Charlton v Wigan, 15:00
Liverpool v Sunderland, 15:00
Man Utd v Aston Villa, 12:45
Newcastle v West Ham, 15:00
Tottenham v Middlesbrough, 15:00
West Brom v Portsmouth, 15:00

Sunday, 21 August 2005
Bolton v Everton, 13:30
Chelsea v Arsenal, 16:00

Tuesday, 23 August 2005
Birmingham v Middlesbrough, 19:45
Portsmouth v Aston Villa, 19:45
Sunderland v Man City, 19:45

Wednesday, 24 August 2005
Arsenal v Fulham, 19:45
Blackburn v Tottenham, 20:00
Bolton v Newcastle, 20:00
Chelsea v West Brom, 19:45

Miss Dissy

Aug 16 2005, 10:24 PM

poo to the football...the only sport worth watching is my beloved cricket

enjen2

Aug 18 2005, 03:07 PM

Miss Dissy:
poo to the football...the only sport worth watching is my beloved cricket

Hell yeah!

30something

Aug 18 2005, 05:24 PM

Hate football, but glad the seasons started cause Green Street/Hooligans is released on 9th Sept.......yippeeeeeee about football violence (West Ham/Millwall thing)....

saxamophonegill

Aug 18 2005, 06:04 PM

if you don't like football you don't have to read this thread!

Starbuck

Aug 18 2005, 06:19 PM

saxamophonegill:
if you don't like football you don't have to read this thread!

Exactly Gill...

Emelie

Aug 18 2005, 08:54 PM

Well I'm just happy that Man U won their 1st! Great! We might get a title this year... or so I hope.

Starbuck

Aug 18 2005, 08:55 PM

Emelie:
Well I'm just happy that Man U won their 1st! Great! We might get a title this year... or so I hope.

Not if my Chelsea boys have anything to do with it... I think Jose' wants to win the lot this year.

Starbuck

Aug 22 2005, 09:37 AM

Lucky win for Chelsea against Arsenal... *phew!*

And thank god they finally signed THIS guy...

Emelie

Aug 23 2005, 01:51 PM

And United has won again... Thanks to my fellow Swede Olof Mellberg

LauraKeane

Aug 23 2005, 02:59 PM

Emelie:
And United has won again... Thanks to my fellow Swede Olof Mellberg

Yeah, you're right - we did win at the weekend. Don't remember anyone called Mellberg playing though...

(Hate the term 'United' - the audacity!!!)

jracine

Aug 23 2005, 08:52 PM

Oh right you guys are talking about what normal ppl call soccer....

Just kiddin'

Emelie

Aug 24 2005, 02:27 PM

LauraKeane:

Emelie:
And United has won again... Thanks to my fellow Swede Olof Mellberg

Yeah, you're right - we did win at the weekend. Don't remember anyone called Mellberg playing though... (Hate the term 'United' - the audacity!!!)

He plays in Aston Villa and made the "pass" to van Nistelrooy so he could score the winning goal.

Starbuck

Aug 24 2005, 02:39 PM

Chelsea were VERY lucky against Arsenal... even Drogba didn't know how he got it in the net!!! God bless Drogba's knee!!!

Nicely timed to ruin Wenger's 500th match in charge of the Arse!!!

Congrats to Frank Lampard & his fiancee Elen Rives...

QUOTE

SOCCER ace Frank Lampard was “overjoyed” last night after his fiancée gave birth to a girl.

The Chelsea midfielder and model Elen Rives opted for a Caesarean for their first child.

Spaniard Elen, 28, particularly wanted her gran — who was 93 yesterday and on holiday from Barcelona — to see the tot.

Earlier Frank said: “It was planned around that rather than around football.”

The baby was born at the exclusive Portland Hospital in West London, where Posh and Becks’ sons Brooklyn and Romeo were born.

A spokesman for the England star said: “Both mother and daughter are doing fine.”

The planned delivery means Frank, 27, is unlikely to miss Chelsea’s game against West Brom tomorrow.

The £100,000-a-week star has been dating Elen for several years.

The couple — who live in an £8.4million house in Chelsea, West London — paid £15,000 to have their baby at the Portland.

The cost includes a Caesarean conducted by a senior consultant and overnight stay in a deluxe ensuite room with room service.

Frank talked last month about how much he was looking forward to being a dad.

He said: “It’s hard to anticipate quite how much it will change me, having a child.

“But I feel completely ready to have the responsibility and the happiness of that without it taking anything away from my commitment to football.”

www.thesun.co.uk

Apparently, they called the baby girl Luna, which is spanish for 'sunshine'.

Starbuck

Aug 24 2005, 11:30 PM

Latest scores...

Arsenal 1 Fulham 1
Blackburn 0 Spurs 0
Bolton 0 N'Castle 0 (Michael Owen's new club!

)
Chelsea 1 West Brom 0

flechesbleues

Aug 24 2005, 11:34 PM

Funtin':
Apparently, they called the baby girl Luna, which is spanish for 'sunshine'.

*wanders in*

sorry, have no interest in talking about football, but I had to jump on this one... Luna is Spanish for moon, not sunshine.

sunshine would be 'sol'

OK, *wanders out again*

oh, but p.s., while I'm here, John!

if by 'normal people' you mean Americans, then by all means, make that accusation... but... oh dear, I don't even have the will to continue this arguement!

Starbuck

Aug 24 2005, 11:37 PM

Just goes to show what the british papers know, FB.. I got that from The Sun!

BTW... Chelsea are 2-0 up... goals from Frank Lampard & Joe Cole.

Nice one, Frankie...

flechesbleues

Aug 24 2005, 11:41 PM

Funtin':
Just goes to show what the british papers know, FB.. I got that from The Sun!

oh good grief... for starters, they (the SUN) should know better, oh the irony

and yes, I think it's pretty fair to say that what's printed in the Sun definitely isn't 'reliable' or indeed 'news'

ok, resume conversations about football now

Starbuck

Aug 24 2005, 11:44 PM

flechesbleues:
ok, resume conversations about football now

Cheers... Diouf just scored for Bolton... 1-0 against Newcastle.

EDIT: 2-0 to Bolton now... some guy with an unpronouncable name!

3-0 to Chelsea... Drogba just scored.

Starbuck

Aug 25 2005, 12:28 AM

4-0 to Chelsea... Lampard just scored again!!!

Arsenal are now 4-1 up on Fulham... 2 goals from Thiery Henry & a 2nd from Cygan.

Starbuck

Aug 25 2005, 02:58 AM

4-0, final score... nice one boys...

LauraKeane

Aug 25 2005, 04:29 PM

Emelie:

LauraKeane:

Emelie:
And United has won again... Thanks to my fellow Swede Olof Mellberg

Yeah, you're right - we did win at the weekend. Don't remember anyone called Mellberg playing though... (Hate the term 'United' - the audacity!!!)

He plays in Aston Villa and made the "pass" to van Nistelrooy so he could score the winning goal.

Don't think you got my point, love...I know who Mellberg is!!! I was merely commenting on cocky Manchester United fans who think that they are the only 'United' in the world. They're not.

And Luna??? Are you kidding me??? Good ol' Vicky Beckham must be narked - she wanted that name for her first baby girl...

Back to football - the mighty whites are through to the next round of the Worthless Cup, despite a woeful performance at the Theatre of Elland - which I unfortunately paid £12 to witness. Ricketts even managed to score, which shows how terrible Oldham's defense must have been (and it was truely terrible).

On a completely different topic - has anyone got ntl? There's a great show on Channel 9 (think it's 9 anyway) where they're trying to sell you Prem Plus. And how are they trying to do this, I hear you ask?! By getting 3 models on to pretend they know something about football!!! One of them's a Chelsea 'fan'. Big surprise! It's hilarious viewing - I'd recommend it to everyone. Best bit - the male presenter challenges the girls to a quiz...

Q: Who was the first £1million player?

Models: "Well, we thought it was Alan Shearer but we had a chat and we think it's Trevor Francis..."

I'm sure you worked it out for yourselves...

Jordan210

Aug 25 2005, 05:41 PM

all this teams are rubish u souldsuport a team like coventry city like me now theres players lol

Emelie

Aug 27 2005, 01:05 AM

LauraKeane:

Emelie:

LauraKeane:

Emelie:
And United has won again... Thanks to my fellow Swede Olof Mellberg

Yeah, you're right - we did win at the weekend. Don't remember anyone called Mellberg playing though... (Hate the term 'United' - the audacity!!!)

He plays in Aston Villa and made the "pass" to van Nistelrooy so he could score the winning goal.

Don't think you got my point, love...I know who Mellberg is!!! I was merely commenting on cocky Manchester United fans who think that they are the only 'United' in the world. They're not.

I understood that (or had a hint) after I'd posted but I wasn't sure...

We are the only United in the world

Rhian Haf

Aug 27 2005, 01:24 AM

i think Everton will win Fulham away tomorrow 2-1 with Marcus Bent and Tim Cahill scoring the goals. Tim Cahill with a good header after around 80mins.

Starbuck

Aug 27 2005, 12:26 PM

Rhian Haf:
i think Everton will win Fulham away tomorrow 2-1 with Marcus Bent and Tim Cahill scoring the goals. Tim Cahill with a good header after around 80mins.

Shame they couldn't get through the qualifying rounds in Europe...

Rhian Haf

Aug 27 2005, 05:36 PM

Funtin':

Rhian Haf:
i think Everton will win Fulham away tomorrow 2-1 with Marcus Bent and Tim Cahill scoring the goals. Tim Cahill with a good header after around 80mins.

Shame they couldn't get through the qualifying rounds in Europe...

Yeah that disallowed goal by Big Dunc

ah well, next year maybe..... gotta keep our hopes up

LauraKeane

Aug 28 2005, 02:13 AM

Emelie:
We are the only United in the world

Getting more and more angry!!!

*sally*

Aug 28 2005, 09:19 PM

Emelie:

LauraKeane:

Don't think you got my point, love...I know who Mellberg is!!! I was merely commenting on cocky Manchester United fans who think that they are the only 'United' in the world. They're not.

I understood that (or had a hint) after I'd posted but I wasn't sure...
We are the only United in the world

At least the better United today!

Starbuck

Aug 28 2005, 09:20 PM

Chelsea beat Spurs 2-0 yesterday... a great day for me, as I saw Jamie yesterday too!!!

*sally*

Aug 28 2005, 09:27 PM

Funtin':
a great day for me, as I saw Jamie yesterday too!!!

Aww cool!

I wanna see Arsenal and Ajax when they play against Thun in CL. I really hope we can get tickets.

LauraKeane

Aug 28 2005, 10:04 PM

*sally*:

Emelie:

LauraKeane:

Don't think you got my point, love...I know who Mellberg is!!! I was merely commenting on cocky Manchester United fans who think that they are the only 'United' in the world. They're not.

I understood that (or had a hint) after I'd posted but I wasn't sure...
We are the only United in the world

At least the better United today!

Hmmmmm...had a bit of a dilemma about who to support today. I hate Newcastle and Manchester United alike, but there's something quite poetic about Newcastle losing. Leeds should be where Newcastle are today. And Manchester United will never get relegated - Newcastle could be. So I was *fairly* happy about Man Scum winning...well, at least as happy as I'll ever be. Souness won't last much longer...Newcastle will crash and burn...see you in the Championship geordies...

(although we won't be there much longer!!!)

Emelie

Aug 28 2005, 11:14 PM

LauraKeane:

*sally*:

Emelie:

LauraKeane:

Don't think you got my point, love...I know who Mellberg is!!! I was merely commenting on cocky Manchester United fans who think that they are the only 'United' in the world. They're not.

I understood that (or had a hint) after I'd posted but I wasn't sure...
We are the only United in the world

At least the better United today!

Hmmmmm...had a bit of a dilemma about who to support today. I hate Newcastle and Manchester United alike, but there's something quite poetic about Newcastle losing. Leeds should be where Newcastle are today. And Manchester United will never get relegated - Newcastle could be. So I was *fairly* happy about Man Scum winning...well, at least as happy as I'll ever be. Souness won't last much longer...Newcastle will crash and burn...see you in the Championship geordies... (although we won't be there much longer!!!)

Glad you supported the right team then, Since Man U won and's giving the boys in Chelsea a hard fight. Beeing the only 2 teams with full points!

LauraKeane

Aug 29 2005, 04:15 PM

Emelie:
Glad you supported the right team then, Since Man U won and's giving the boys in Chelsea a hard fight. Beeing the only 2 teams with full points!

'Support' is a very strong word...don't think I should have used that one!!! So as a Manchester United supporter, what are your feelings on FC United and the Glazers? I'm quite interested in this topic...

Emelie

Aug 29 2005, 04:38 PM

LauraKeane:

Emelie:
Glad you supported the right team then, Since Man U won and's giving the boys in Chelsea a hard fight. Beeing the only 2 teams with full points!

'Support' is a very strong word...don't think I should have used that one!!! So as a Manchester United supporter, what are your feelings on FC United and the Glazers? I'm quite interested in this topic...

Don't want to talk about it.

LauraKeane

Aug 30 2005, 03:24 AM

Is it really that bad?! I just don't understand all the fuss to be honest...

Starbuck

Aug 30 2005, 01:58 PM

Just read this on Bloomberg 9 minutes ago...

QUOTE

Michael Owen Agrees to Join Newcastle From Real Madrid
Aug. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Newcastle United has beaten Liverpool to the signing of Real Madrid striker Michael Owen, who is returning to English soccer's Premiership after failing to secure a regular first-team place in Spain.

Owen agreed to join on a four-year contract and will undergo a medical examination to make the deal official after the Spanish club accepted an undisclosed "club record'' offer from Newcastle, the English club's Web site said.

The fee beats the then world record 15 million pounds ($26.9 million) the team paid Blackburn for Alan Shearer in 1996, the Web site reported.

"Bringing Michael to St. James' Park will rank alongside the signing of Alan Shearer as my proudest moment at Newcastle,'' Chairman Freddy Shepherd said. "Newcastle fans love centre-forwards and Michael is a fantastic goalscorer. He's someone we would love to build the team around and we hope he can help us bring success to the club."

The deal is a 4 YEAR CONTRACT, believed to be in the region of £17 million!!!

Good to see Michael back in the UK where he belongs.

Emelie

Aug 30 2005, 05:35 PM

LauraKeane:
Is it really that bad?! I just don't understand all the fuss to be honest...

I think so.

Starbuck

Aug 30 2005, 11:48 PM

QUOTE

Tiago transfer finally agreed

The 10 million euros transfer of Tiago to Lyon has finally been fully agreed this afternoon, and now the clubs and player just await international clearance.

Tiago started 31 games for Chelsea and came on as a substitute in a further 21. He scored four goals. His last appearance was as a substitute in the Community Shield against Arsenal for which he earned a winner’s medal.

There were also winner’s medals for the Premiership and the Carling Cup where he was an unused substitute.

Tiago arrived last summer from Benfica where he had been a Portuguese Cup winner. He was popular with the fans, not least because his name fitted in with a widely sung chant. He was also popular with the players who all signed a poster of him for Paulo Ferreira to take to him.

From www.chelseafc.com.

Val

Aug 30 2005, 11:52 PM

newcastle are doing sh*t as per usual. but is it true that owen is being unveiled for us tomorrow?

Starbuck

Aug 31 2005, 12:00 AM

vallie:
is it true that owen is being unveiled for us tomorrow? [/quote]
Yes, it is...
[quote]England ace Owen's official signing will take place at St James's Park on Wednesday & he will be unveiled to the media at noon. Supporters will then be able to see the player paraded around the pitch from 1pm. Fans will be granted free access to the Sir John Hall stand to witness the big event with the gates open from 11:30am.

Taken from www.nufc.premiumtv.co.uk

Val

Aug 31 2005, 12:05 AM

thanks anita my dear!

remind me, who do you support?

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