Weird instincts. Why did he threw his feet at the ball?

bayern just beat wolfsburg 2-0. this means they start the weekend 18 points ahead of everybody else.
great goals by mandzucik with a bicycle kick and excellent pass from mueller to robben who fucking nailed it w/ the left foot. must-watch highlights! (the goals anyway, the rest was kinda dull)

tomorrow: dortmund/frankfurt, which should be great. but most likely wont be able to catch it. damn!

England and Chelsea footballer Frank Lampard is to write a series of children's books, publisher Little Brown has announced.

I have a few suggestions in the field

Jamie Redknapp and the LITERALLY giant peach
Ade Akinbayi and the chocolate factory
Alice in Sunderland (In fairness, thats already been done)

fucking shit, atrocious ref in dortmund/frankfurt match threw out schieber. first, it was a yellow card for a non-foul (his foot was high trying to go for a ball but it wasn't a real foul, much less a yellow card kind of foul). then when jumping up for a header his elbow hit a frankfurt player in the nose. the thing is, it wasn't a foul but an unfortunate collission. 2nd yellow card. utter bullshit.

now here is where it gets fucked-- schieber was subbing for lewandoski who is suspended for a red card from last week. i guess someone else can come in as centre forward next week or maybe they'll try a different formation but it's fucked for dortmund.

OUCH.

still, 2-0 ahead at half-time.

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EDIT: reus hat trick lololol. ended 3-0. another ridiculous expulsion on a frakfurt player after hummels feigned injurty-- this simply because the idiot ref opened the door to such shenanigans early on. atrocious.

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ps HA HAAA HAAAA hilarious flowchart. it's from last year though. still, good fun.

Arsenal ............ :)

*titters*

come on Brentford

Lets hope he runs the show again

im watching liverpool/swansea right now and it's just 3-0 at 50' .

watching the liverpool attack, i gotta say--

1) nice to see coutinho up there with suarez. about time they put another man on the attack. what took you so long, brendan rodgers?

2) is tiki taka finally starting to pay for rodgers? that 3rd goal was awesome the way the ball was moved.

k gtg

OH SHIT 4-0 LOLOLOL

Anyone else hearing the rumours that Moyes is being lined up to replace Wenger?

Yep, great goal!


Hard to imagine them without Wenger but if I supported Arsenal I'd be desperate for a change at this point. I read that Wenger's pocketed something in the line of £50 million since he last won a trophy - talk about doing a number! Most managers would've been out on their arse long ago. The team just don't play at the level they should anywhere near often enough. Past glories should only get you so far...

That said, I think Moyes' style is pretty far removed from the very specific way Arsenal play. I mean, I'm a big fan of Moyes, and Everton are one of my favourite English teams, but Arsenal would be a totally different proposition. Not sure if he'd fit in at that club.

when i saw being liverpool earlier this season rodgers fired andy carrol cuz he wouldn't adapt. well he loaned him out or something to west ham. and demonyo was ecstatic about it.

then liverpool went on to a long string of fails and disappoints.

but now that goal was pure tikitaka genius.

wondering if after months & months the new system is starting to pay off? yes/no/maybe? i really haven't been following liverpool enough. except last week when they had control & lost (lol). this one? have they finally...?

It'll never happen.

I agree it's unlikely but judging by Wenger's tantrum in that press conference the other day, I wouldn't be surprised if he walked at the end of the season.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/v...contract-video

dammit, nobody wants to answer my liverpool questions.

anyway, WENGER-- i'm not saying anything until after the end of today's bayern match.

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edit: here we go.................

bayern are a joy to watch.

yes. yes they are. they only get on my balls when they play backwards-- i understand the tactical reason for this but it gets on my balls anyway.

podolski's goal was a total defensive fuckup by bayern, but eh, he used to play for bayern too so that's okay.

in any case, i have nothing against wenger from what i saw-- arsenal put up a fight, especially in the 2nd half, but they just don't have the players to do more.

i saw wenger's interview, i don't think he had anything close to an outburst in french terms-- the french priests in my school were lots crankier and more impatient with stupidity than he was with that journo. of course the press makes their money from this sort of kremlinology, but i think there's nothing to it.

Yes they are...scrappy goals aside mind Arsenal really did put up a good fight and as thingymajig said especially in the second half. Knew I should've put a bet on at the beginning of the champions league for Munich to win.

Bayern were brilliant, at least in the first half. They did seem to wind down a bit in the second. Overall though Arsenal clearly couldn't compete and Podolski's goal really flattered them. For pure clash of the titans epic spectacle value, I really hope Bayern meet Barcelona in the final.



With the Liverpool thing, I definitely think they're starting to look a bit like a Rodgers side than a Dalglish one. Bringing Sturridge in has definitely helped Suarez. If the season started now I think they'd be strong contenders for the title.

Whatever some of us may think of the idea, it's confirmed that goal-line technology will be brought in for the next World Cup.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2...rld-cup-brazil

as long as it can tell it was matri and not marchisio, and can't be hacked by singapore mafiosos....

oh shit, barca is BONED!

Fuck yeah!

i would enjoy this more if milan wasn't berlusca's team, but barcelona fucked the dog all day and deserved what it got. ouch!

plus those horrible fucking sunny D uniforms.

I only saw the second half. Milan looked excellent but it seemed like a very below par Barcelona. It's starting to make Bayern look like firm favourites.

we'll never know until we know.

i watched part of the galatasaray/schalke game and galatasaray is kicking ass. they just hired drogba! plus they have muslera (the uruguayan gk) and wesley sneijder. sure, none of them are superstars, but still, good enough to make schalke suffer-- so far, anyway (gotta watch till the end when i get time, started with a quick goal by galatasaray).

Well seeing as me bloody digi. box decided to die on me tonight I wasn't able to watch the Liverpool game. Sounds like it was a good one too, and as much as I dislike Liverpool you've gotta hand it to them, when they try, they try hard.

Well done Spurs, saw the goal - cracking late strike from Dembele! Should be an interesting game against Inter in the next round.

i was going to watch the barca-milan game after work with a buddy so i was just watching the gala-shalke game on my computer at work and then to my utter disbelief they fucking flashed scoreline to the barca vs. milan game during the other game (I HATE WHEN THEY DO THAT) and was too bummed to even watch it later. its hard to believe it. it will be difficult to turn the tie around but if anyone can do it its them

Norwich-Everton, what a game!!! H8kurdt is no doubt vomiting somewhere.

*buries head in the sand* A fucking disgrace. Moyes is definitely gonna be leaving in the summer because of that game.

sorry to hear mang.

meanwhile, in germany (lol), bayern creamed werder bremen 6-1.

it was fun to see bayern's deep bench at work: contento subbing for alaba, luiz gustavo for kroos, shaquiri for schweinsteiger, robben for mueller and gomez for mandzukic (hilarious that these 2 guys have become subs), then tymoschuk and pizarro coming in....

i only wish it had started with neuer resting, as i understand he's been nursing a broken finger.

but 6-1... ha ha ha. daaamn...

Yeah, I read somewhere that Moyes might be looking at a move to Germany, but who will replace him?

hmmm:

waiting for teh dortmund / monchelgladbach match which starts in 15'

btw, coming up this wednesday, bayern/dortmund play on the german cup quarterfinals.

!!!

I'll try and watch that. It might be a bit more competitive. Watching Bayern in the Bundesliga seems mostly like a case of guessing how many goals they'll win by.

this year definitely.

meanwhile, dortmund keeps suffering from the limitations of its bench. with lewandowski out on a red card suspension, and schieber out on yellow cards, they have nobody to convert. reus was put in place but he's more of a winger. it's all wrong, just wrong, fuck this.

(the suspensions shouldn't affect the DFB Pokal match i think)

the leverkusen match is about to start and my guess is they will leapfrog ahead of dortmund today for the 2nd place. that's a team to watch btw. they beat munich last year at the allianz arena.

ps - leverkusen fucked the chance to get ahead and could only tie 0-0 with last-place greuthen furth. stupid fuckers!

Well done to Spurs last night. On the balance of play they probably deserved the win and would've probably been out of sight a lot earlier in the game had Jaaskeleinen not pulled out a load of wonder saves. Bale was the difference maker in the end. Not to say that losing in extra time doesn't hurt like hell. And on the 20th anniversary of Bobby Moore's death, too.

FUCK YER MUM IN THE ARSE!

Love Baines me.