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2-0 at ht is very good for Qatar. Bruno Metsu has them playing well, but they could still throw it away 2nd half. 2 excellent goals btw http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yusef_Ahmed Two brilliant goals from their 22-year-old captain. I've never heard of him before now but he looks like a real player.

Wow That Ali lad from Qatar isn't bad at all. Very disappointing from China, they came into this tournament with a lot of promise but they haven't been showing it. No fight whatsoever.

He has a great work rate and an exceptional left peg but his decision making is frustrating as fuck sometimes. Just doesn't know when to keep it simple and lay it off or take the shot. He's a top, top class player at the Asian level but I don't know how well he'd do in Europe.

Jesus man, at least take a moment to look at their skin colors

and the little Uzbek scores again what a shot

Uzbeks back on again. Go go Dzeparov!

Am I mistaken or will Avram Grant have reached a cup final for every season he's managed in England if West Ham pull off the second leg?

Saudi Arabia have sacked their manager after their unexpected 2-1 loss to Syria. New man Nassar Al Johar is their 58th manager in the past 57 years, and also their 12th in the last decade. Compared to this lot NUFC is a paragon of stable employment.

Weird. Those are people I hang out with, although I'm not in that particular picture. But I don't know who the person who gave the interview is though. He isn't the guy who runs our forum. Alan Smith actually had a pretty big teenage girl following here, but given our usual reaction whenever he plays it's pretty easy to understand why we chased them all away.

It's just another poster with another stupid vendetta against another player. We've all seen it before, lets move on.

Pyeongyang, obviously

Yeah they have a new guy. He claimed that he'd get the team "playing football," but apparently that translates to "we'll do the same thing but with a shitter defense." Their keeper has always been dodgy as fuck though

That's ridiculous like Turns out I was wrong, there was a yellow for time wasting directly followed by a red and a pen for a push in the box. Still a ridiculous decision though.

Commie bastards v. Rich bastards on right now. People's Rooney is playing, just won a pen.

could just be that we're going to reassess the situation in a month's time and extend if necessary. With Sol seemingly out of the picture now we might need him back if one of our defenders gets injured

http://pds5.egloos.com/pds/200703/05/55/d0029655_1003248.jpg Leaked shot of our new kit

I've been waiting for the first signs that everything is going to fall apart since Pardew came in. This and the match itself probably qualify. Joy.

Messi contributes more to general play. Ronaldo didn't need to.

The text feed I'm looking at has just told me that the ref sent off one of our players and awarded a penalty for... time wasting? Surely this is a joke

I get to watch shit team v. shit team over and over again for the past few days on Al Jazeera, but I just happen to be at the airport at exactly the time that we're playing. And I'm in the one airport on Earth without a single television. Fucking hell.

Dear lord. There is not a single god damn telly in this entire god-forsaken airport. ARGH

ALLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH ALLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH ALLLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH ? Fun fact about the Japanese: they deliberately chose the stadium where they lost to minnows Iraq (who had to play their home games in Qatar due to insufficient facilities) to crash out of the World Cup preliminaries in '94 as their training ground. Would make it all the more sweet if they managed to crash out of their group here. It was the last day of Asian Qualifying and the Japanese needed to draw lose to Iraq and we needed to beat North Korea by two clear goals to get through. North Korea blatantly threw the match just to f*** the old enemy over and we won 3:0. Probably the last real instance of North/South cooperation. The Japanese were leading 2:1 up till extra time when they conceded from a corner, missing out on World Cup qualification yet again ('98 was their first time at the finals.) We call that day the "The Miracle of Doha." The Japanese call it "The Tragedy of Doha."

Scum of the Earth down 0-1. Go corrupt Middle Eastern dictatorship(aka Jordan)! Commentator on Al Jazeera is so excited I think he's in the process of cumming in his pants.

Late to the party, but that was the worst performance I've ever seen and we deserve to be relegated down to the Northern Premier League just for how ridiculously bad that was. Just totally, unbelievably bad, I cannot express in words how abject that was. I'm sure most people on the forum know me as a pretty sensible guy. Well, I think every single player on the pitch yesterday should be sacked and preferably have their legs broken into three pieces. It was that bad. 24 hours after the fact I'm still so pissed off that I'm almost numb.

"I was always attracted most to joining City." That contradiction should go down well with City fans. It's almost embarrassing how avaricious all of their players are. How are the fans supposed to identify with the current squad? Hey, if the fans don't like it, the club can always buy new ones.