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davidcotton

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Rob Green sent off, West Ham don't have a sub goalie. :|

Birmingham beating Barnsley 3-1 away from home, very happy with the performance tonight. :)

West Ham end up winning 4-1 without a goalie! Sod Redknapp (how long till the wheels fall of that bandwagon anyway?) how about allardyce for England?

Cheers

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DeadRussian

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Just finished watching a cracking game of football. Nottingham Forest youth team vs Chelsea youth team in the cup quarter finals. Forest were 3-0 at half-time, but Chelsea dominate the second-half to win it 4-3. It probably didn't help that they bought our best youth player last month for £1.5 million.

In other exciting football news - guess who I spoke to on the phone today? That's right. Former Manchester City midfielder Paul Lake. I know, I couldn't believe it either.

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monobrow

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Just finished watching a cracking game of football. Nottingham Forest youth team vs Chelsea youth team in the cup quarter finals. Forest were 3-0 at half-time, but Chelsea dominate the second-half to win it 4-3. It probably didn't help that they bought our best youth player last month for £1.5 million.

In other exciting football news - guess who I spoke to on the phone today? That's right. Former Manchester City midfielder Paul Lake. I know, I couldn't believe it either.

Gutted. I saw on twitter that they were 3-0 up, then next time i looked it was 3-3. AND seemingly with Mr. Bamford!

Which one was Paul Lake? The brilliant one that had to retire young with serious injuries, or the one that scored a belting goal once and then hung around the lower divisions?

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DeadRussian

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I don't think Bamford played for Chelsea, did he? Wasn't sure he'd be allowed.

Paul Lake was indeed the reasonably talented one who spent his whole career at Man City, but spent the majority of that time injured. He's considered a bit of a cult figure around City parts, I believe.

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a big boy

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Congratulations to Porto, for managing to make Liverpool look reasonable.

Manchester City's Hulk chants were unsporting, claim angry Porto

• Porto preparing official complaint to Uefa over City chants

• Fans sang 'you're not incredible' as striker Hulk struggled

The opportunity for Manchester City's supporters was too good to pass up. Their team were on their way to a 4-0 win against Porto and the opposition had a striker going by the name of Hulk who was showing signs of frustration. "You're not incredible," the home fans sang.

Hulk, real name Givanildo Vieira de Souza, certainly did not look like he had superhuman powers as Sergio Agüero inspired City to a 4-0 victory to send them into the next round of the Europa League with an aggregate 6-1 victory.

Porto, however, have not seen the funny side. The Portuguese club are now preparing an official complaint in which they will ask Uefa to open disciplinary charges against the Premier League leaders – and they are denying it has anything to do with an apparent humour bypass.

Rui Cerqueira, the club's spokesman, said the matter would be reported on the grounds that City's supporters had acted in an improper way. Hulk had also been targeted with chants of "cheat" because of the Brazilian's tendency to look for free-kicks and Porto will claim he was the victim of unsporting behaviour that warrants an official investigation.

The allegations have been met with bewilderment at the Etihad Stadium where they could be forgiven for wondering if it is tit-for-tat retaliation after what happened when the two teams met at the Estádio do Dragão last week. Uefa has opened a disciplinary case after two of City's black players, Mario Balotelli and Yaya Touré, were racially abused – just as Didier Drogba and William Gallas were when they played there for Chelsea in 2004.

Porto, however, have made it clear they are outraged by City lodging a complaint. The Porto version of events that it was actually both sets of supporters chanting in support of Hulk and "Kun" Agüero. "Kun, Kun, Kun; Hulk, Hulk, Hulk," Cerqueira said at the time, demonstrating the chants. "These can be easily confused with racist chants."

All of which was a strange explanation given that Agüero was not even on the pitch at the time. Incredible, you could say.

http://www.guardian....nsporting-porto

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Kelthink

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Da England squad:

Goalkeepers: Scott Carson (Bursaspor), Joe Hart (Manchester City), Robert Green (West Ham United).

Defenders: Gary Cahill (Chelsea), Ashley Cole (Chelsea), Leighton Baines (Everton), Glen Johnson (Liverpool), Phil Jones (Manchester United), Micah Richards (Manchester City), Chris Smalling (Manchester United), Kyle Walker (Tottenham Hotspur).

Midfielders: Gareth Barry (Manchester City), Tom Cleverley (Manchester United), Stewart Downing (Liverpool), Adam Johnson (Manchester City), Steven Gerrard (Liverpool), James Milner (Manchester City), Scott Parker (Tottenham Hotspur), Ashley Young (Manchester United), Theo Walcott (Arsenal).

Forwards: Darren Bent (Aston Villa), Fraizer Campbell (Sunderland), Daniel Sturridge (Chelsea), Wayne Rooney (Manchester United), Danny Welbeck (Manchester United).

Pfft. Not even sure what Gerrard and Downing have done to warrant a place, Gerrard's definitely not at full fitness yet.

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The Fox

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Wait, how many fucking right backs do you need? Richards, Johnson AND Walker?! And Smalling and Jones have both played there frequently too.

Actually, if Jones is in as a centre back then I can only assume Pearce hasn't watched any football. He's obviously talented but has looked pretty atrocious in that position every time I've seen him there. Positionally he makes Thomas Vermaelen look like Franco Baresi. There's no way on earth he's a better centre back right now than Lescott or Jagielka.

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BlinkyBear

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Pretty unremarkable. Bye bye fat Frank (until 'Arry brings him back in a nepotistic splurge of course).

Walcott instead of Oxlade-Chamberlain is pretty ridiculous though. Ox has supplanted Theo in the Arsenal side for a good reason.

We most definitely do not need The Ox playing 20 minutes for England picking up chronic knee-knack, so I'm more than happy he's not been called up. Not that it matters; he'll be in the Euro squad anyways.

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redbloodcell

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Pretty unremarkable. Bye bye fat Frank (until 'Arry brings him back in a nepotistic splurge of course).

Walcott instead of Oxlade-Chamberlain is pretty ridiculous though. Ox has supplanted Theo in the Arsenal side for a good reason.

Isn't there an u21 match coming up too?

Its rather short at CB, I guess he's thinking that Richards and Walker can cover there if needed. Which is silly.

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JamesTW

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Another new England home shirt then:

The-new-England-jersey-007.jpg

As usual with England shirts lately, it looks like a £3 Primark t-shirt. I wonder if they're going to follow up the last kit's weird royal blue shorts with RED SHORTS, just to make it look even worse.

It's white shorts, white socks, they'll look a bit like the rugby team

http://www.footballshirtculture.com/12/13-kits/england-euro-2012-umbro-home-football-shirt-leaked.html

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Daley

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Interesting snippet from popbitch:

There's a whisper going around the FA that, despite everyone's assumption, Harry Redknapp isn't the automatic first-choice of all the selection panel. They are keen on Pep Guardiola.

Sounds ludicrous, but the Barcelona manager has been backed down from 50-1 to 7-2 in the last week.

Although if it's true that he is fed up of the Spanish press and considering leaving Barca, I dread to think what he would make of the English press. Especially once they work out he's foreign.

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