English Premier League 2012/2013

Deano

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20 Sep 2012 12:31:21

This weekends fixtures:

Swansea v Everton
Chelsea v Stoke
Southampton v Aston Villa
West Brom v Reading
West Ham v Sunderland
Wigan v Fulham
Liverpoo v Man Utd
Newcastle v Norwich
Man City v Arsenal
Tottenham v QPR

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20 Sep 2012 12:40:34

By Deano | Permalink | On 20 September 2012 - 13:31 PM

Liverpoo v Man Utd

\o/

K3V0

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20 Sep 2012 12:52:32

Going to be tough to get a result at Anfield, they'll be right up for the game given the recent news.

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20 Sep 2012 13:02:03

Skrtel to do everyone a favour and break that cunt Van Persie's legs.

K3V0

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20 Sep 2012 13:03:24

By atyj1 | Permalink | On 20 September 2012 - 14:02 PM

Skrtel to do everyone a favour and break that cunt Van Persie's legs.

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By atyj1 | Permalink | On 20 September 2012 - 14:02 PM

Skrtel to do everyone a favour and break that cunt Van Persie's legs.

Oh, he mad.

2D Pitch FM

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20 Sep 2012 16:32:19

Think we should win because Liverpool don't look too good. But we seem to play shit at Anfield all the time now.

SCORE DRAW.

Carroll.

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20 Sep 2012 16:56:04

We'll beat you, it'll kick start our season, we'll be flying high, confident...

at least till the weekend after.

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20 Sep 2012 16:56:28

By atyj1 | Permalink | On 20 September 2012 - 14:02 PM

Skrtel to do everyone a favour and break that cunt Van Persie's legs.

Is that you, TS?

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20 Sep 2012 16:59:40

By Carroll. | Permalink | On 20 September 2012 - 17:56 PM

We'll beat you, it'll kick start our season, we'll be flying high, confident...

at least till the weekend after.

No. SCORE DRAW.

K3V0

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20 Sep 2012 17:01:23

By Tarrantino | Permalink | On 20 September 2012 - 17:59 PM

No. SCORE DRAW.

So you've bet on a score draw have you Jamie?

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By K3V0 | Permalink | On 20 September 2012 - 18:01 PM

So you've bet on a score draw have you Jamie?

Nope and I won't. Because if I do, we won't score.

It'll be a score draw though.

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20 Sep 2012 17:17:25

I'll be surprised if we win.

It's Liverpools cup final and they raise their game 20 times above their normal level, we should match that but we really don't seem to treat it like a game thats much different to any other.

We're good enough to win comfortably, but we won't.

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20 Sep 2012 17:23:46

I'm expecting Stevie G to do his usual thing and put in his only top performance of the season. A good thrashing would be unlikely, but hilarious.

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20 Sep 2012 19:05:17

By Ninja | Permalink | On 20 September 2012 - 18:17 PM

I'll be surprised if we win.

It's Liverpools cup final and they raise their game 20 times above their normal level, we should match that but we really don't seem to treat it like a game thats much different to any other.

We're good enough to win comfortably, but we won't.

I'm not sure if this is a serious post or you're just trying to be cute.

Either way it made me laugh.

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20 Sep 2012 19:16:13

Not entirely sure where to post this but 8 years ago today Brian Clough died...

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20 Sep 2012 19:43:17

By Abbott | Permalink | On 20 September 2012 - 20:05 PM

I'm not sure if this is a serious post or you're just trying to be cute.

Either way it made me laugh.

I'm serious.

We're a better team than you, we should beat you.

The fact I don't think we will is because you raise your game for the derby, we don't.

I'm not saying it's good we don't, I would love nothing more than to give you a drubbing, just that I don't think our lot have the same hunger or desire for the derby as your players.

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20 Sep 2012 22:46:27

To me it sounds like your tone is 'the only reason we don't beat you is because we don't try hard enough'. For the past few years you've either shown up with a negative team to try and take a point or you've been outplayed, regardless of effort.

May as well get your excuses in early though eh?
(Please don't quote me on that - I think its probably end of the line for our good form against you)

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20 Sep 2012 23:06:34

It's true we usually do save our best performances against sides like Man U, City, Chelsea but given what we showed against Arsenal I just don't know anymore. I'm putting it down to much of the old guard not used to Rodgers style yet and once everyone is comfortable with it we will make a late surge. I just hope it's not left too late.

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21 Sep 2012 03:26:45

“I have played at big clubs in Germany and Spain and now I play for the best team in England.

Sahin, joining the best team in England in the aim of qualifying for the Europa League.

Franck

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21 Sep 2012 05:06:49

Maybe he thinks we're still in the 80's?

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21 Sep 2012 08:37:02

By Abbott | Permalink | On 20 September 2012 - 23:46 PM

To me it sounds like your tone is 'the only reason we don't beat you is because we don't try hard enough'. For the past few years you've either shown up with a negative team to try and take a point or you've been outplayed, regardless of effort.

May as well get your excuses in early though eh?
(Please don't quote me on that - I think its probably end of the line for our good form against you)

Which is exactly my point, you turn up and consistently and regularly put in your performance of the season against us, we barely perform at a level above much more than rank average.

Unless you think that Liverpool at their best are better than us at our best then I'm not sure you even really disagree with me.

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21 Sep 2012 10:40:09

Swansea City manager Michael Laudrup says he sees no problem with teams paying rival sides to win games.

The Dane stressed he was completely against "match fixing", but believes the term needs to be "better defined".

Laudrup was asked about the issue by a journalist working for European media organisations at a news conference.
He said: "If Swansea play the last game against a team and a third team pays Swansea to win the game, I really don't see anything bad about that."
The scenario Laudrup describes could involve a club in the relegation zone paying a team a bonus if they beat one of their closest rivals, enabling the threatened club to stay up.

Laudrup, who has 104 caps and 37 goals for Denmark, was asked the question because he played for Lazio and Juventus in the 1980s, and Italian football continues to be dogged by match-fixing claims.

As many as 13 Italian clubs - mainly from the second division - are under investigation. Juventus coach Antonio Conte was given a 10-month suspension in August for not reporting alleged match-fixing in two games involving ex-club Siena in the 2010-11 season. He denies the claims and is appealing.

Laudrup, 48, said players guilty of being paid to lose should be banned from the game for life instead of being given fixed-term bans.

He said: "To say I'm against that [match-fixing] is like saying today it's Thursday - it's obvious.

"The worst match fixing I've heard was what happened in Italy before I came there in the beginning of the 80s, where somebody bought three or four of the players in a team to lose a game.

"That means that seven or eight players in a team were playing to win, like normal, and three or four of them just to lose."

However Laudrup has no issue with what is known in Spanish football as the "suitcases" culture.

"It's just a bonus. For me, match-fixing is somebody pays someone to lose a game," he said.

"In Spain where there's one or two matches left in a season we always talked about the suitcases.

"But the suitcases is to win - I don't see anything bad about that.

"I think we have to define very well what is match-fixing because there's different levels, I think."

Phoenix Arrow

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21 Sep 2012 15:26:45

Surely the team should be trying their hardest to win no matter what? Why should a bonus change that?

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21 Sep 2012 15:29:28

By Phoenix Arrow | Permalink | On 21 September 2012 - 16:26 PM

Surely the team should be trying their hardest to win no matter what? Why should a bonus change that?

I think he means more like at the end of the season with 'mid-table' teams not having much to play for.

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By Slashman X | Permalink | On 21 September 2012 - 16:29 PM

I think he means more like at the end of the season with 'mid-table' teams not having much to play for.

I know, but they should be professional and try their best to win regardless. It's not like they're not getting paid enough anyway, surely they should be motivated by impressing their fans/manager and by not losing to some team who are barely staying up.