Manchester Yooonited.

 

I really want to watch Chicha play tonight, trouble is kick off is at 2 am our time.

Just stay up man, it's Saturday, Sunday tomorrow, don't have to get up!

 

Thiago is a quality player for Spain. Only seen glimpses of him for Barca but looks like the natural creative replacement for Xavi, providing he is willing to wait another 5 years for Xavi's days to be over. Whispers about him going this summer if they sign Fabregas.

Gartside had supposedly been to Spain before the tournament to try and get a deal done with Barca for Thiago. I think we can safely say that one won't be happening now. Far bigger fish are circling.

It's frustrating Disley, when you identify a player and that brings everyone else sniffing around. Drives me mad but I guess it speaks about the power of agents. The minute they know someones interested in their boy they start pimping him out all over to try to get something better.

 

Some enterprising gooner has put Denilson up for sale on Ebay, some of the comments are funny too

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/180687935076

 

 

England kick off in the Ladies World cup tonight at 5, it's live online on the Beeb website if anyone is interested.

 

 Crunchy I saw the link you put up re the Hearts story - thanks. I just don't see how the club can keep him on. Given the prediliction for violence in Scottish football, that is an assault waiting to happen

Athletico keeper  David de Gea having a medical at Old Trafford.

I heard this weekend that it's suspected that New Guinea's women's team has 2 sisters that are actually men who couldn't make the men's team.

Do you know anything about that, Veggie?

Eurosport live! Mexico 1-1 England 68 mins.

I haven't heard about that Lori but nothing would surprise me. I swear that the Williams sisters are actually men.

 

Joe - The beeb were supposed to have it on their website but it wasn't anywhere. I phoned the Beeb - it took 45 minutes to get hold of a human being who, after directing me where to click, which I had obviously tried for 10 minutes before phoning them, conceded that someone had made an almighty cock up and not linked it

I understand from other sites that we were a bit rubbish - mainly down to Hope Powells usual tactical ineptitude

 

I've found this article about this story. (And it's Equatorial Guinea, not New Guinea which is a different country. There's also Guinea, so to have 3 countries with Guinea in their name does make it very confusing )

Veggie, the match was on Freeview channel 301, so they may have the other England matches there as well.

 

Edited - Both Friday's match against New Zealand and next Tuesday's match against Japan are due to be shown on Freeview channel 301 - kick off for both of these is 17:15.

I only just realised that Rafa Nadal is the nephew of Miguel Angel Nadal (The Angel of Death?), formerBarcelonahard-man who was linked with a move to Man Utd back in the ‘90’s!

 

Man City legend Mike Doyle dies

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/13939279.stm

Thanks El Loro but I don't have freeview, we only have terrestrial tele here as our old set top box doesn't work. We do most of our viewing online and the Beeb did say it was available online - they just didn't hook it up apparently. I expect they are using all the space they have for the tennis you can watch online

Oops! Wrong Guinea!

Thanks, El Loro. Didn't mean to cast aspersions on New Guinea.

You'll be glad to know that in Papua New Guinea they no longer go round head shrinking

Oh, good. I was worried.

Black Cats close to signing Connor Wickham:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/13873800.stm

That's a surprise CS, I thought he would have gone for one of the bigger clubs chasing him.

I saw him play against our kids in a youth cup game at Barnet and he tore them apart. He could be a really good player with the right guidance and Steve Bruce knows what he's about with the kids

That's a bad business decision then with all the over inflated egos in football and zelebdom. They'd be millionaires shrinking the big heads of all them!

The trend for big-money young (English) signings continues!

 

I had hoped to see what he was all about during the Euro U21's but he didn't seem to figure.

Yet the boy supports Real Madrid.

 

Rafa should support Mallorca, or if not then definitely Barcelona due to his uncle.

 

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It's ridiculous really. James Milner, Andy Carroll, Ashley Young and now Jordan Henderson, Phil Jones and Conor Wickham all going for ridiculous fees, miles more than what they are worth.

I can't believe England are above Brazil in the new world rankings...

Trust me! It's more to do with Brazil (and Argentina) becoming crap, than England improving!

Good luck to Roberto di Matteo at Chelsea!  Really, really pleased for him.  Good to see him back in football again and wish him every success next season apart from when he plays us obviously.  Hope the fans give him a good reception at the Hawthorns as well.

 

ION, I see the Birmingham soap opera continues, with their owner now being arrested in Hong Kong for money laundering and their acting chairman (who has rather a lot to say for himself) saying on their website that it is nothing for the fans to worry about.  Well, if I was a Bluenose, frankly I would be worried and not wanting this man as the owner of my club.

 

Speaking as a fan of a club that over the past 25 years or so has had it's fair share of ups and downs, it has been a strange summer for us so far.... everything seems to be on the up for us and clubs which have traditionally always been secure like Villa have had some major upsets.  I'm just hoping that the "feel good" factor that we have had for the last few months continues and that we can carry on from last season's successes and become for once and for all an established Premier League team

Stinky club, stinky owner

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-e...-birmingham-13970534

Lol at Fulham's season starting in June!

Wow at Edurne the Spanish singer and new United WAG.

 

England above Brazil is a joke, we're rubbish and so overrated. Saying that United are above Barcelona in the current UEFA CL rankings for last couple of seasons on calculations.. Barca should be top!

Could be worse, they could be Arsenal and have their season ending in February.

If we even make it that far being in with a shout of anything

Good to see Pratley sign. Obviously it'd been all but confirmed a while ago, but such are contract rules that it couldn't be official until today. He should give some good (hopefully fit) competition for Holden, Muamba and Mark Davies.

For Veggie:

 

Link to BBC live coverage of the match for you  England v New Zealand

Oh dear! Not going well.

Official whinge worked!!

Turned out nice again!

Thanks El Loro, I was watching it on there - happy days.

As to the game, still not happy with Hope Powell's team selection or tactics. She really is a liability.

Eni Aloku has been absolutely pants for both games and yet still she picks her! She takes the most experienced CB in the world and Captain with five minutes to go and puts on an untried baby when we were protecting a one goal lead in a must win match - and that goalkeeper is continuing the not so proud tradition of England goalkeeping.

Still we won and there were some bright moments. Kelly Smith looked a lot better and Jill Scott (much as I hate her) was immense

According to Ramires on FB; Chelsea have tabled a bid for the Argentine midfielder  Javier Pastore who plays for Serie A club Palermo.

£45 million I read, what will happen with Modric then because of these new financial rules coming into place?

Argentina had to come back from behind to draw their first Copa America match yesterday thanks to subsitute Sergio Aguero.