SOCCER SPORT !

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nice !-all four other top five teams dropped two points

[scottjc]

I never thought I'd say it but I'm happy with a point at West Ham. I can't believe the crap football that Pulis is making us play, it's all so negative. Going back a few years Tony Mowbray had us playing exciting football, losing Roy Hodgson to the England job was the worst thing...

[Raza]

I never thought I'd say it but I'm happy with a point at West Ham. I can't believe the crap football that Pulis is making us play, it's all so negative. Going back a few years Tony Mowbray had us playing exciting football, losing Roy Hodgson to the England job was the worst thing...

I'm a little perplexed as to why Lambert's goal was ruled an own goal. It was a shot that looked on target, which means any deflection off a defender that changes its path shouldn't change its standing as a shooter's goal. Yes it was a handball, but since it went in and they didn't give the penalty (which Lambert 99% would have converted), it really should be his goal.

[shameless]

come to the conclusion that Arsene Wenger is consistently not a good manager in that he always , always about this time suffers from huge problems with injury hit players -he invariably plays his best players despite carrying small injuries and the end product is they run out of steam -he has done it again with Sanchez !!!

[93EXCivic]

Championship here we come...

There is zero fight or passion in any of the players. Right now there isn't a single player on the squad that deserves to wear the great badge on the front.

We need the fat ****ing bastard that owns the club to **** off back to London the ****ing cock.

[shameless]

Championship here we come...

There is zero fight or passion in any of the players. Right now there isn't a single player on the squad that deserves to wear the great badge on the front.

We need the fat ****ing bastard that owns the club to **** off back to London the ****ing cock.

i'm guessing thats Newcastle

[93EXCivic]

i'm guessing thats Newcastle

Yup. I am done with this. The players don't seem to care. The owner doesn't buy players with Premier League experience or any players at all. Our captain is clearly past it and he shouldn't be captain. He is no leader of men. We have a no left backs worth a crap. We have no decent wingers.

There is talent in the team. Mitrovic has potential but needs an experience class striker to learn from. Perez and Wijnaldum clearly have talent. Mbemba is a talented defender. Yes he is on the worst defense in the league but look at what is around him. Colo is crap now. Janmaat doesn't know how to defend. Then the left back is either a center-back being played out of position (Dummet) or a frankly terrible left back in Haidara. Tiote and Anita aren't ever going to be Champion's League quality players but they aren't bad.

Hell at this point, they may as well put out the reserve squad at least they'd probably show some effort.

Our owner spent a lot in summer but that was a drop in the bucket compared to how much was needed. He has to pony up for at least a quality left back (which would hopefully mean Colo could be shifted to the bench, Dummet and Mbemba to the center), a couple good wingers and proven goal scorer (Austin) or we are going down at the end of this season.

The only future I can see for Newcastle is being another Leeds United or Sheffield Wednesday...

[OTGabe]

come to the conclusion that Arsene Wenger is consistently not a good manager in that he always , always about this time suffers from huge problems with injury hit players -he invariably plays his best players despite carrying small injuries and the end product is they run out of steam -he has done it again with Sanchez !!!

There seems to be more to it than just not resting injured players. Apart from managing Costa's hamstring issues, Chelsea ran a very small squad last year and never encountered these sorts of widespread injury problems. I just read that prior to Sunday, Tomas Rosicky, Theo Walcott, Kieran Gibbs, Jack Wilshere, Danny Welbeck, Francis Coquelin and Mikel Arteta were all injured. At one point or another, every one of Wenger's 23 first-teamers has been hurt in 2015, apart from Joel Campbell. Now Sanchez and Koscielny are on that list, along with Cazorla who limped through the last stages of the match. And it seems to happen year after year. Is it a tendency to buy soft players, something wrong with the training regimen, or bad matchday decisions? Maybe a combination of all three. It just simply can't be bad luck after all these seasons with the same story for Arsenal.

Barney offers up the 'Gulliver Theory': http://www.theguardian.com/football/...alexis-sanchez

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There seems to be more to it than just not resting injured players. Apart from managing Costa's hamstring issues, Chelsea ran a very small squad last year and never encountered these sorts of widespread injury problems. I just read that prior to Sunday, Tomas Rosicky, Theo Walcott, Kieran Gibbs, Jack Wilshere, Danny Welbeck, Francis Coquelin and Mikel Arteta were all injured. At one point or another, every one of Wenger's 23 first-teamers has been hurt in 2015, apart from Joel Campbell. Now Sanchez and Koscielny are on that list, along with Cazorla who limped through the last stages of the match. And it seems to happen year after year. Is it a tendency to buy soft players, something wrong with the training regimen, or bad matchday decisions? Maybe a combination of all three. It just simply can't be bad luck after all these seasons with the same story for Arsenal.

Barney offers up the 'Gulliver Theory': http://www.theguardian.com/football/...alexis-sanchez

my comment contained just one criticism of many i meant to imply - there is indeed something absolutely wrong in the training programme - many of the players injured are far from 'soft' i'm sure - Sanchez must be one of the most willing players in the league -but i think he has played maybe 30 or so games up to now inc a dozen for his country which involves many thousands of air miles also -

[tribe125]

The owner doesn't buy players with Premier League experience.

Although look at this little lot that came to Watford this summer:

Sebastian Prodl - no PL experience
Matej Vydra - 1 year in PL but now on loan to Reading
José Holebas - no PL experience
Etienne Capoue - PL experience but rejected by Spurs
Valon Behrami - PL experience but rejected by West Ham four years ago
Allan Nyom - no PL experience
Miguel Britos - no PL experience
José Manual Jurado - no PL experience
Steven Berghuis - no PL experience
Nathan Aké - 5 PL appearances for Chelsea
Alessandro Diamanti - PL experience but rejected by West Ham five years ago
Obbi Oulare - no PL experience
Adlene Guedioura - PL experience but rejected by Crystal Palace after 16 appearances
Victor Ibarbo - no PL experience


Also, playing in Watford's win at Villa on Saturday:

Odion Ighalo - no PL experience
Almen Abdi - no PL experience
Troy Deeney - no PL experience
Juan Carlos Paredes - no PL experience
Craig Cathcart - no PL experience
Ikechi Anya - no PL experience
Giedrius Arlauskis - no PL experience