[X-Offender]

Chelsea are just so lazy. And they were playng like this under RDM as well.

All their flare players seem to think that they should be allowed to pass through everyone and that a win is their right. Such an arrogant bunch they have. Hazard especially gives off this impression, and when are they going to stop insisting on Torres?

It's the Champions League aftereffects. It happened to us, it happened to Inter, now it's happening to them: teams who overachieved in the previous season that become too lazy/tired/demotivated in the next.

[han2503]

It's the Champions League aftereffects. It happened to us, it happened to Inter, now it's happening to them: teams who overachieved in the previous season that become too lazy/tired/demotivated in the next.

True, but Chelsea actually invested into the squad after the CL. Unlike us and Inter who took it to mean that we're the best and don't need to do anything. They have a really good set of players imo. The center of defense is the only area really lacking imo as Luiz is a nutso, Terry is in and out injured and nowhere near the level he used to be at and Cahill is meh for me.

@ MAB, wasn't RVP's last goal offside? At least I know that Serie A isn't the only league where such blatant mistakes are made

[Milan Are Brilli...]

@ MAB, wasn't RVP's last goal offside? At least I know that Serie A isn't the only league where such blatant mistakes are made

Don't know was only half watching it, don't tend to bother with most Saturday evening games, tend to be damp squids and usually focusing on the College Football by then.

If it was offside though things got evened out by a decision where RVP should have had a goal, which was ruled to have not crossed the line, even though it was incredibly obvious it was.

[han2503]

Don't know was only half watching it, don't tend to bother with most Saturday evening games, tend to be damp squids and usually focusing on the College Football by then.

If it was offside though things got evened out by a decision where RVP should have had a goal, which was ruled to have not crossed the line, even though it was incredibly obvious it was.

Don't know about that one, only switched on right before the RVP goal

Still like I said in the match thread against Catania. Trying to correct one mistake with another shouldn't be accepted as a good thing in football. It's ridiculous the amount of games which are ruined on a weekly basis because of this and until some technology is introduced it won't change

[Kazdoodle]

Thrash, black, death or plain heavy? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

Acid?

Thrash


and EXPLODE! 8D

[kurtsimonw]

Interesting game in the FA Cup today.

MK Dons to in AFC Wimbledon. Huge hatred from AFC towards MK because of the history. Wimbledon FC were going into administration and a rich bloke bought the club and moved them to Milton Keynes. A new club AFC Wimbledon was created as the fans felt they 'stole' their club.

I'll be amazed if there isn't a red card in this, even the players are slagging off each others clubs.

MK are considering dropping the 'Dons' name and have already officially dropped the Wimbledon history and handed back trophies, but theres still a hatred between the 2.

[kurtsimonw]

And the club stealing wankers won.

[Milan Are Brilli...]

Olympic stadium given to football team.

'Inspiring generations', ladies & gentleman (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

[Jack Sparrow]

Stupid actually. Especially with that track around it. It would suck.

[kurtsimonw]

I think it had to be done, and to West Ham. A football team is the only possible tennant that could afford to pay it properly.

I can't even believe Tottenham were being considered. Their plan was to knock the damn thing down and build a new stadium on the grounds!

[Milan Are Brilli...]

Couldn't give a F what it's like for West Ham to be honest. Before anyone says they are going to use it for athletics, no they aren't not to the level it could have been used for. First off there's another £115m that needs to be spent on it to turn it into a suitable football stadium, of which West Ham will pay 10% - where's the rest of the money coming from?! Tax payers... good job. Apparently an investment firm will put £40m into it but that still leaves £60m...

Oh, but it's ok because there maybe one weekend a year it's used for athletics?! There are tons of weeks this could have been used for athletics throughout the summer. I don't buy they need a football team in there to make it financially stable, if that was their business model then this country is led by bigger morons than I first thought, and that's saying something. A lot of European cities have athletic stadiums and get by financially with hosting... athletics. After this summer there would still have been a buzz for a good few years in athletics and they could have easily built upon that, get newcomers into the sport, get kids involved for potential careers within it etc. If it wasn't working 2 years down the line you could put your hands up and say, ok, we tried. You're still unlikely to cost the public £60m from this, something you are committed to doing by giving it to a football team.

Though, no, the majority of this country can't look past this sport and only this sport so we have to have it dominate, yet again, just like it did a few years back and then wonder why other sports suffer, shambles. I don't dislike the sport obviously but people need to realise there's more than just football over here, which in reality as an International team we hardly set the world alight with either.

[kurtsimonw]

I don't care for West Ham either. They're up there with Leeds, Newcastle and Spurs as irrelevant clubs who think they're relevant despite winning **** all. But in the region it's really them or Leyton Orient and Orient couldn't afford to keep it running, the tax payer would basically have to keep the stadium running as well as pay for it. West Ham will at least account for the running costs.

Of all the Olympic Stadia dating back to 1972 the only ones not used currently are the 1972 Olympiastadion (was used by Bayern and 1860 Munich between 1972 and 2005, was paid of by the time they left), the 1988 Seol Olympic Stadium and the 2008 Birds Nest (which is going to take 30 years to repay and is barely used). All others are still in use, most by major sporting teams from the area.

The Olympic Stadium will still be used for athletics and I don't know it would be be able to cope with just athletics because of the running costs. There's places around the Midlands that've closed over the past decade or so because they have no other income (some had small teams play, but even then not enough). If we want our legacy to be used for a few months a year where it's not going to bring that much money in (check attendances for other track and field events) and have the stadium eventually be pushed aside as running costs are too high, that's fair enough. I hate West Ham, but I'm more than happy for them to keep the stadium going personally.

Interestingly enough, there was more interest from American sporting bodies to use the stadium after the Olympics than there was athletics bodies, if they aren't going to make the effort then they aren't going to get the stadium. We'll see how much it gets used in the next 4 years before West Ham move in.

This post has been edited by kurtsimonw: Dec 5 2012, 03:57 PM

[Milan Are Brilli...]

This all prior to the Olympics mind, people thought that would flop too. Oh well, as long as football is catered for in this country everyone's happy...

It only takes looking at Wimbledon to show how to run something like this properly. Give it a few years and that will be a football ground with a week off for tennis.

[kurtsimonw]

Well it's to be expected that it revolves around football. At the end of the day it is the people who decide. It's the people who go and spend money on football each week. I imagine football attendances each year are probably over 100 times that of attendances for track and field meets, so it's no surprise why it's gone where it has.

When people put their money where their mouth is, things change. But in this case, they aren't so it won't.

[Milan Are Brilli...]

But football is looked after well, incredibly well in this country. Why should tax payers have to pay for £60m to make this a football stadium... ah forget it, whatever.