I think that was the deciding factor of the match. Being a man down at the very beginning of a CL final, and not any man but the keeper himself .. that just piles up the pressure of the whole team.

FT Villa 0-0 Fulham. We just can't seem to win the games that give us a real chance of pulling away, today would have been a huge win, but it wasn't too bad. That said, we were fantastic, we battered them but just couldn't break them down. The post the cross bar, bad misses and good saves. Another day it could have easily been 4-0. Credit to Fulham though, they defended supberly at times. Gotta hope Arsenal don't beat Chelsea tomorrow!

On an added note, congrats to Brad Friedel today, he broke the record for most consecutiver Premier League appearances at 167 which is just over 4 seasons straight. Marked it with a clean sheet too. Well done Brad.

So the London derby and the Manchester derby on today.

Hopefully Man U draw and Chelsea win. I'm sorry Locke but Chelsea are the only team right now capable of putting up a fight against Man U and a win for them would be better imo. Since I don't want to see Man Yoo winning the title again this season

Watching the Manchester derby ... Hope City beat them

^^^ So far Man Yoo are really playing a lot better, Berbatov really close to scoring from a header.

True, but if they waste more chances ( did you count how many chances the had but squandered away !? ) they might regret it later on

Yep, Man City now really close, all Richards needed to do was tap it in, but he thought he was off side so he left it, but there was a Man U player on the goal line. So close

Man City now getting more into the game and pegging Man U back

Man !!! The only United player i ever liked was Cantona ... But Rooney has really impressed me, he is not your ordinary forward, he is truly something special.


EDIT: speaking of the devil

Yep, what the hell happened in the box, the ball was being kicked at like it was 5 year olds playing in the school play ground

Ronaldo sent off, 2nd yellow, blatant handball in the box (trying to do a Scholes there)

Heard they had a hard time getting him off the pitch.

7 yellow cards in a game (including the red). They sure do like it tough, those Manchester chaps.

City keeper pushes up for a corner kick. Man U manage to get the ball and are on the counter, while the keeper is sprinting back to get to his goal, Rooney from nearly the half way line chips the ball towards goal. The keeper somehow manages to get there and literally pushes the ball off the line!!

FT Man U win as I'm typing this

He had the sad face on. And apperantly his excuse was that he thought he heard the ref whistle as the ball was played in so he pushed it away with his hands

Rooney is the man.

Ronaldo's sending off was a joke, what a prick.

I'll try and catch it on Youtube!

Enjoyable as fu*k though.

Rooney is always the man. Even when he misses 3 sitters per match.

Ronaldo's situation it's difficult. He sees players like Ferdinand, Rooney, Carrick, Fletcher that can do whatever they want in the pitch [bad tackles, provoking everyone around, <...> attitude, insulting the ref 10 in 10 minutes]... and he can't do anything or he's sent off. Must be hard for a foreign player to play in UK.

City is not going anywhere with that idiot as a coach.

Well I saw him make countless getures towards the ref, particulary when he got the yellow when he was clapping at him and waving him off and no action was taken, so most Man U players get special treatment. Ronaldo usually brings things upon himself.

And I don't see any discrimination from the refs towards foreigners seeing as 3/4 of that league is made up of foreign players

Rooney was the first player to actually get sent off for sarcastically applauding the ref, did Ronaldo get sent off? It seems he gets the special treatment, he always does. Then again, when a girl plays a mans game, you'd expect him to be protected.

Arsenal have turned 1-0 to Chelsea into 1-2. Van Persie with a great brace.

Losing another game at home. Something that just wouldn't have happened under Jose.

Rooney is a victim. Always was.

A good lookin' girl tough. It seems her France Foobtall photoshoot went well...
I'll post the pics soon.

Clichy goes studs up on Bosingwa, then nearly volleys Ivanovic.. and Clichy gets the free-kick?

Invanovic has been shite, by the way.

Congrats, Lock. I still think Chelsea has a pretty solid chance at the league title, though. Now, only if Liverpool could somehow mysteriously fall back to fifth place, that would make my day! And then some.

By all means do.

+1 cookie to Locke. Well done to Arsenal!

What a shite weekend. Scolari's not good enough, terrible home record.

so chelsea lose in bridge again they didnt manage to win agains any of the top teams i think

"I told you so..."

As usual. Totally overrated player.

Surprised nobody's mentioned it (disinterest, perhaps?) but Ronaldo won the Ballon D'or, beating Lionel Messi by 165 points.

No surprise, completely deserved it.

To be fair I didn't expect too many people to be gladly writing about it on this board.

Bah, that diver. I thought it would be Rooney. The white-Pele'.

ya i can understand why people dont like him, he is a big d0uch, then again theres a lot of them especially in the football world. but myself i dont let that effect me when judging the value of a player, he was the best in the world and won it deservingly.

Don't insult Rooney like that.


Yeah, people take his cheating/attitude too much into account with this. He was by far the best player in World football this year and won it deservingly. Doesn't mean he's not a ****.

That's what you guys call him: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLcZ9yoTgH0...feature=related

I saw my mate the other day,
he said to me he's seen the white Pele,
so I ask who is he, he goes by the name of Wayne Rooney.....
WAYNE ROONEY WAYNE ROONEY...
he goes by the name of WAYNE ROONEY

Nobody mentioned it because
1. He's a big fat c***
2. We all knew he would get it
3. We love Rooney and we knew Porty would insult him! Now look at what you've done.

I know. I still think it's an insult to call him 'white Pele' though! Had Rooney been around in the 1960s..


Agreed.

Arsenal 1-0 Wigan, Adebayor with the goal.

In Kurt's honor (since he's at the game and may well be hung over anyway), Fishdoll dons his flashing claret-and-blue antlers and prepares to cheer on Villa against Everton.

Let's just hope Villa wins, that way Kurt can rest peacefully this week.

A cookie and some heart medication to Kurt. Villa win the game with the gamewinning goal in the last 20 seconds of the game.

Best. Game. Ever.

We started off with Stevie Sidwell scoring a cracking 25 yarder after 30 seconds, quickest goal in the EPL this season. Lescott, a Villa fan, scored an equaliser before HT. Ashley Young intercepted a bad Jagielka backpass and finished off really well 10 minutes into the second half. Lescott scored in the final minute of injury time to equalise and then celebrated in an over the top fashion in front of the fans of the teams of which he supposedly supports - what a prick. With the game seemingly over, Laursen heads the ball forward, Gabby gets a touch onto Young who then plays the ball one side of Lescott and runs around the other side of him, and keeps a cool head to finish in the dying seconds.. then runs the length of the pitch to celebrate in front of us, making fun of Lescotts celebration 30 seconds earlier.

It was so fantastic.

just watched it on match of the day really gud game i hope villa get to 4th at end of season

Must have been. Great description Kurt. Almost felt the emotions...

I can't stand that guy...