Magic Mikey

Chuffed for him. Apart from the football memories, I would like to thank Neil for wearing the Terry Butcher head bandage with distinction, as well as giving us a great laugh for the ludicrous reason it was necessary.

Glad they built trams out to Stockport!

 

 

Shhhh, we don't want everyone to know. They are lovely and quiet at the moment, apart from :censored:wit United fans with Oldham accents in jester hats.

Just finished work and on the tram back to Oldham. Jester hats, Oldham accents and halfwits. Grim

Glory hunting scum. I work in Stockport and it's a similar story.

Fantastic results today. Wigan have to win their last two games to have any chance of staying up.

Glad Wigan won.Anybody who wanted those scumbags City to win need their heads testing.

There is a big difference between wanting Wigan to lose, and wanting Citeh to win. As Stevie J said, the ideal result would have been both teams losing. But This was Budweiser not Carling.

With regards to them being refereded to The Latics its only a nickname

 

How many teams have the nickname the blues or the reds Do Chelsea, City, Birmingham or Everton fans have the same discussion as to who is the real bues? Or do West Ham, Burnley and Aston Villa fans have the same debtae as to who is the real clarets?

 

 

Firstly, I don't think Hammers and Villans fans are bothered that Burnley are nicknamed the Clarets, nor any club that another also, unimaginatively, use the colour of their home shirt.

The word Latics was a shortened form of Athletic used by Oldham fans, they copied / stole it; that is the difference. If they had the slightest bit of wit or imagination, they would call themselves the Pie Eaters, but they haven't so plagiarism ruled.

 

This! Everyone seems to have forgotten that, in identical fashion to Citeh, they've been absolutely bankrolled into the PL... Wigan's players are millionaires, the club get tonnes and tonnes of cash from TV and so on! Unlike Us v Liverpool/Everton, this wasn't David vs Goliath - this was very rich team vs very very very rich team...

Exactly this ^. The vast majority of PL armchair football fans in this country are unaware that Whelan bought them a way into the top flight, much as Jack Walker brought a title to Blackburn with cash. They buy the likkul Wigan image, when in fact they were the Man City of their status and time. Whelan has gone right down in my estimation in recent times with his defence of Macmanaman's horrendous tackle and his comments about Thatcher.

Relegation this week, Martinez to Everton and a slide to oblivion will do me nicely.

Come on you Gunners.

They won the right to the name Latics today.

Oh, my mistake, I thought they were playing for the FA cup.

Nothing less than 7-0 defeat for Wigan will do for me. No hat tricks though, Stan should keep that, no modern day footballer should take it.

Ideally Wigwam come close and have it torn away from them in the last minute. Ripping the stuffing out of them and further demoralising them, ensuring their slide into the Championship.

I will be happy when we are above them in the league again, as per most of their history.

The commentary from Southampton of Stitch's late goal was pretty special….

 

Andy Buckley on GMR before he covered CIty

Never heard it. It was pretty special in the ground though.

One Roger Milford, there's only one Roger Milford, one Roger Milford, there's only one Roger Milford........

On the highlights I remember the cameras going onto a young girl celebrating their "winner" . I laughed every time knowing what was about to happen.

Loaded the Marshall v Notts County up a while back - enjoy!

 

The others I'll add to the list….

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP-dLBS4ZeU

That was the one I was going to request, what a hit! Cheers Prozac.

Not enough people biting? Go on, keep throwing out your appalling posts with equally appalling grammar.

The stadium is being used for the U.K. shadow puppet championships. They can't kick off until it goes dark, things ran late when the Barnsley team, who only needed a point to qualify from their group, refused to make any effort to move from a basic dog shadow to a more elaborate one.

Why are we bothered about Fergie? I've never liked the inbred ginger :censored:wit. Her ex husband is just as bad.

Griffin Park - 4 visits

Huish Park - 1 Visit

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Bramall Lane - 3 Visits

County Ground - 3 Visits

Brisbane Road - 3 Visits

Stadium MK - 2 Visits (1 Visit to NHS)

Bescot Stadium - 5 Visits

Broadfield - 1 Visit

Prenton Park - 9 Visits

Meadow Lane - 7 Visits

Gresty Road - 6 Visits

Deepdale - 5 Visits

Ricoh Arena - 1 Visit

Greenhous Meadow - 1 Visit (1 Visit to Gay Meadow)

Brunton Park - 3 Visits

Broadhall Way - 1 Visit

WHCS - 1 Visit (2 Visits to Layer Road)

Priestfield - 1 Visit

Vale Park - 9 Visits

New York Stadium - 0 Visits (1 Visit each to Millmoor & Don Valley)

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Sixfields - 6 Visits

Valley Parade - 3 Visits

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Molineux - 2 Visits

Ashton Gate - 3 Visits

London Road - 2 Visits

 

So only 'new' ground is Rotherham's new stadium, you can see why i'm more than pissed off with this league…..

Where will Coventry be playing? I thought they'd left the Ricoh.

How Brentford must hate the 95th minute.

envy is for weak people, besides Yeovil deserve it we spent half the season passing the ball sideways and backwards, Yeovil spent their season putting the ball in the back of the net

I'm envious. Now can anyone help me get the lid off this jar?

I think the most enjoyable thing about it is watching it on Sky and listening to those :censored:wit commentators patronise Yeovil for 80+ minutes before Yeovil score and one of Sky's big clubs is sent packing.

 

"What a dream it would be for Yeovil to beat a team that was in the Premier League just 5 years ago!!"

 

Suck it.

I liked the banner:

In what way was the goal keeper not keeping possesion?

Some likened it to teams like Barca keeping the ball , the difference is that nobody was trying to take the ball from him, or challenge him to make him pick it up.

Negativity within the context of a normal game is completely different to two teams deciding how long a match should be.

It's all about percentages. If Peterborough had fallen behind in the very first minute I doubt Hudds/Barnsley would have stopped "competing" for 89 minutes (or until Peterborough equalised). They "competed" until news fed through that the scoreline as it stood would suffice for both teams - knowing that the likelihood of Peterborough equalising was either slim or non-existent.

 

The line, as it were, is simply a judgment based on common sense.

So if Posh were 6-0 down with 2 men sent off at half time it would be okay to do it for the entire second half.

Yes it would although that's not what happened though is it? The game was a 2-2 draw with all the competitiveness that the scoreline suggests.

 

Also, where do you think the line should be drawn? Should teams ensure that the ball spends so much time in the opposition half? Should the referee have instructed the Huddersfield forwards to press and risk letting a goal in? Should there be a maximum number of defenders on the pitch? The FL have already addressed the issue by making the final games kick off at the same time. This final minute didn't have anything to do with sending Peterborough down - their own 46 matches did.

You agree ninety minutes of refusing to compete is unacceptable, but find a couple of minutes okay. So where would you draw the line?

So where's the line drawn? Let's say both teams had known at kick-off that a draw would keep them both up, which is sometimes the case, and they'd tapped the ball a yard from the centre circle from kick off and then all stood still for 45 mins, then repeated for the second half. Would that still just be tough titties?

 

Any comparison to running it to the corner flag are a nonsense; that's done to keep the ball from the other team on the pitch, who are trying to win it back and therefore both teams are competing in one way or another.

This ^

I don't understand comparisons to keeping possession or even running the ball to the corner. If they had carried on playing with neither team making a serious attempt to attack, then I would agree with the tough titty attitude. The fact is they simply stopped playing, as Stevie points out, where do you draw the line before taking action: two minutes, ten, twenty, ninety?

Whilst I don't think that there is any need for anything like a points deduction, I think it needs to be made clear that this is unacceptable and future occurrences will be dealt with. Otherwise a dangerous precedent will have been set.

Unspectacular consistency (Grounds) can lose out to occasional match winning brilliance (Smith). But I'd say the winner is a fair reflection on the season.

Apart from the football ramifications, what about entertainment? Punters have paid to see a football match, I could understand if a neutral at that match felt short changed. Even if they haven't broken any laws of the game, the authorities must have an angle to punish them from that perspective.

Clubs could lose points for players not competing? A lot of the performances from our lot this season would have caused us to be relegated weeks ago.

The worst example of this was the West Germany v Austria world cup group game. A draw saw Austria safely through so the whole 90 minutes was played in the Huddersfield Barnsley end of game style.