themanupstairs

Nevermind the fact that he should have been sent off twice over for awful, shithouse challenges on Mirallas & Distin. He's a horrible t***. Yup. Should've had his first yellow for the tackle on Mirallas that effectively ended his match. Red should have followed for his "tackle" on Distin, which imo is a red card challenge in itself. On side or not, the red shite deserved nothing more from what they got.

Still a lot of neutrals who seem to think it was not only completely acceptable but in fact laudable - and not cheating because he was 'punished' for it. US footy fans in particular seem almost unanimous. Well yes I can see where that comes from. It wasn't so much the handball as much as it was his refusal to go down the tunnel having been sent off, then celebrating the way he did in front of the world cameras. Just told me something about him that day, and it's pretty obvious now the kind of low life human being he is.

You can change the setting so you can see them. For realz? had no idea

His handball and subsequent celebration of the missed penalty in the world cup is still one of the most blatant incidents of unsporting behavior I have ever seen. That and Rivaldo's "head injury".

Genuine question, but why is it perfectly alright to swear at the ground (and I'm not at all opposed to it), but swear words have to get starred out on here? Surely the forum is an extension of the football ground/post-match pub?

I think the point is that we need more goals from players other than Ba and Cisse. The goal Cabaye scored against the spackems is a type of goal we rarely ever score where a midfielder arrives in the box just in time to mop up. Our strikers are marked men now, for obvious reasons, as is Ben Arfa. If we could get an additional goal scoring threat - a midfielder with 8 or 9 goals a season in him - it would make a massive difference to us.

Jonas on the wing again

So Reina is on the bench? wtf? Brad Jones starts.

This

Yup. Can see Spurs getting in on the act to bolster their frontline.

Pretty confident we'll do these today. Now that Tchoyi has fucked off.

I see him as an attacking midfielder, with licence to roam playing in behind the main forward. The lad can bloody travel with the ball but he's too big physically for the wings.

Stokerland surely?

Debuchy is an absolute beast! Lille's captain tonight.

Fuck's sake! Went from 5 points to 16 to 11 in the space of half an hour.

Mine too :'(

Just realized the Arsenal goal is the clearest offside you'll see all year.

Why 8 mins tho?

Mackie taking the piss out of the Arsenal defence. Should've buried that ffs.

Granero should've punished Arsenal there.

What the fuck brought Cesar to QPR? Top GK

Save of the season there from Cesar AGAIN before he concedes.

Did Duff get the assist? Yerp. Fuck me he did!