The Ultimate Football Thread

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Lets begin.

Chelsea for the european cup?

Ah, but it gave preferential treatment to the 'better teams', at least we're going to see one of the supposed underdogs winning the title, its been a while since the last 4 have looked like this, no big names!

Even if Chelsea win will Ranieri get the sack? I hardly see how they could justify that, even though the league is almost lost. They've gone the furthest of any English team in the euro cup this season and look like they will finish 2nd in the league, already an achievement.

I'd love Chelsea to get it now (despite being a proud United fan), Ranieri is a top manager and they've go tthemselves a great cahnce. Plus I've got £30 riding on it...

Yeah i'd like to c Chelsea win. It will show Europe that England is still a great footballing league nation. How much u on course to make, cus there is a good chance now that Chlesea wud win it.

I bet £2 on Chelsea winning it as soon as Makelele signed, at odds of 14-1, so I still stand to return £30...

Looks at the moment like that was a good business decision.

Well there's only a few matches left, we've already seen some good games. The larger knock-out phase makes it more exciting, its harder for a handful of teams to dominate the competition this way.

I like Ranieri, he seems like a nice bloke, so I don't want him to get the sack. Mind you, I liked Gullit and Vialli before him too, there were nice blokes but that didn't save them from Ken Bates! Hopefully Abramovich has a little more sense. Continuity is what's needed to have continued success.

I don't rate Sven very highly, he's got England playing OK but not great by any means; their football isn't exactly scintillating. I don't see why he'd do a better job than Ranieri.

Does Makelele make much of a difference to them though? Lampard seems to be getting the midfield headlines for them. Makelele supposedly does 'the ugly things' but all I ever see him do is make short passes, surely Fat Frank is more effective overall?

Watch out for Deportivo though, classy in attack and they knocked out both of last year's finalists...

Aylesbury United Rule

WHat division they in?

rock bottom of the ryman premier

but with all the restructuring of non league there will now be:

Conference - as it is

Conf North and South

we will be in the next tier down and move to the doc martins

Does he make lost of tackles and interceptions I'm missing?

Hmm, well good luck to them.

Here I'd like to make this thread controversial:

Arsene Wenger cannot do tactics. Sure, he can better players, he has his team playing good football, but against United and Chelsea he lost through tactics. Ferguson decided to play counter-attack through Ronaldo, and Ranieri bringing on Gronkjaer to suppress Ashley Cole was inspired. Wenger however, sticks a few forwards on when times get hard, removing the sort of player that would otherwise supply them. In the Cup we saw Henry come on, and Arsenal stopped playing football. Very basic tactics that didn't come off. I think he just expects Arsenal to turn teams over without tactics playing a part. Poor for a manager of a top European side.

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Here I'd like to make this thread controversial:

Arsene Wenger cannot do tactics. Sure, he can better players, he has his team playing good football, but against United and Chelsea he lost through tactics. Ferguson decided to play counter-attack through Ronaldo, and Ranieri bringing on Gronkjaer to suppress Ashley Cole was inspired. Wenger however, sticks a few forwards on when times get hard, removing the sort of player that would otherwise supply them. In the Cup we saw Henry come on, and Arsenal stopped playing football. Very basic tactics that didn't come off. I think he just expects Arsenal to turn teams over without tactics playing a part. Poor for a manager of a top European side.

Discuss