Football 2012-2013

[TheGayTent]

It does. Can I suggest starting back at year 1?

[eFestivals]

Might I suggest you learn to read and write

may i suggest you learn that you don't own football?

[TheGayTent]

I've not suggested that I do.

Still doesn't make sense...

[Benj]

Would Colin Jackson give back all his world championship, European championship, and commonwealth gold medals for one Olympic gold?

Would Fabregas swap his world cup winners medal for an olympics winners medal?

[eFestivals]

I quite fancy a look at Uruguay.

my god they were dire.

I know it wasn't the full/normal international squad, but I still expected much more from what is currently the 2nd best international footie team.

[The Nal]

RVP gone to Juve already?

[eFestivals]

RVP gone to Juve already?

if he has, it's meaningless if/until Juve have reached agreement with Arsenal.

[thetime]

RVP gone to Juve already?

[The Nal]

Good read for LFC fans. Well, not great but theres light on the horizon. Decent article.

[eFestivals]

Good read for LFC fans. Well, not great but theres light on the horizon. Decent article.

did someone need to write a long article to state what everyone knew, that LFC's main current problem is the lack of goals scored?

But I don't really even see that lack of goals as a major problem that they need to address to "turn this goal-scoring decline around". They of course need the ball to be going into the net, but I really can't see them having such as poor goals per shot ratio next season as they did this season.

I don't know how their 'shots made' stats stack up or how they compare with other teams, but I'd guess that they were probably in the top 5 for the league last season.

And while stats like that don't tell the whole story - cos a shot made doesn't necessarily mean a real chance of a goal - my casual take on things tells me that they were in the main good chances, and that 'poor luck' played at least as big a part as any poor play by the players. I can't see that being repeated over a second season.

Having said all of that, there's certainly room for improvement cos they've been in need of a decent striker for a few seasons now, and maybe Borini will be it. But if everything was equal next season I still reckon they'd have seen an improvement next season. Bad luck turns around sooner or later.

[The Nal]

did someone need to write a long article to state what everyone knew, that LFC's main current problem is the lack of goals scored?

[eFestivals]

They were. Hit the post a silly amount of times.

yup, as well as had goalies save shots that nine times out of ten they wouldn't have saved.

Mind you, against that, they had Downing taking shots.

The point is, while many of those shots-but-not-goals were down to poor play, many of them weren't and in a different season they'd have gone in. So while they need the shots to go in this season and improve their scoring, I think that would happen if nothing about the team changed; so with improvements to the team (if they happen of course, and things don't go the other way) there should be a greater improvement with scoring than there is an improvement with the team.

[TheGayTent]

The ginge back. £2.5m is nothing in modern times. Not a great player - certainly prone to lapses in concentration, and giving away goals, though easily good enough for a top flight side looking to finished between 10th and 17th.

Hardly excited by the signing, but happy enough.

[kaosmark2]

I wouldn't say £2.5m is nothing, considering that's the average fee paid out by clubs like Wigan and WBA since they got promoted. Not a bad signing though. Lower Prem quality defender, and that's the aim really.

[pink_triangle]

why he would want to go to italy is beyond me, weak league and massive corruption. I think he actully thought the spanish giants might bid for him, im hoping united stay clear of him.

[thetime]

The only way of producing a really high quality league would be a European super league.

[eFestivals]

I think its pretty obvious van persie wants the united gig, cant see united upping there bid due to his age and injury record though. Funny as fuck if he is left to rot on the bench for the next year.

supposedly RVP is going on their trip to (I think it is?) Germany .... and it would be more funny as fuck if he plays and gets injured.

[The Nal]

BREAKING: UEFA are to investigate spot fixing allegations against FC Gomel after Stewart Downing scored against them yesterday.

[eFestivals]

BREAKING: UEFA are to investigate spot fixing allegations against FC Gomel after Stewart Downing scored against them yesterday.

He had a good pre-season last year too.

Edited August 3, 2012 by eFestivals

[The Nal]

He had a good pre-season last year too.

[pink_triangle]

Well that would be the end to football. I hate the champiions league in the present format, if your one of the major sides in england it used to be ultra exciting when you played the likes of barcelona, real madrid etc etc but now its more or less every year. It should be like it used to be in european football with the european cup, uefa cup and cup winners cup.

[The Nal]

Moura talking to PSG now. Fuck. Utd won't be able to get near that money

[eFestivals]

Moura talking to PSG now. Fuck. Utd won't be able to get near that money

and even if they did it wouldn't do you any good. He doesn't want to join such a 'boring' team (his words).

[The Nal]

and even if they did it wouldn't do you any good. He doesn't want to join such a 'boring' team (his words).

[eFestivals]

Was it not a "boring" city?

ahh, it might have been, yeah.

What I read tho was written in a way that implied that he was meaning that Manchester would bore him - which I took to mean more than just the city & area.