Not to mention Rooney getting off with common assault

I didn't rate him much as a player and I didn't like him at all, but he did turn United from also rans into League Winners year in and year out. I was baffled when Fergie bought him from Leeds, but this is why Fergie is one of the best at what his does,  Fergie's  behaviour at times is a joke, but his record as a manager will never be beaten,

I didnt rate him either...






But you know what im like

i'd agree with that rzb........his record speaks for itself.......but it's the constant whining when utd lose,the constant blaming everyone else...usually the officials, that grates my cheese...........everyone else should be sent off if they commit a bad challenge.....but rooney elbows someone and not a peep...he didn't even say something like 'he was lucky not to be red carded for that'.

time and time again he slates ref's and gets off scot free....it's a joke

what's all this about toure meaty??.only heard a snippet as i was driving into work this morning.....he failed a drugs test or something??........still..at least he had the balls to take one.....unlike rio who 'forgot'.....

Yep, an A-Sample provided by him was tested positive and has been suspended so far.

This morning Wenger has come out and said Kolo was on diet pills because he was having problems with his mate. the question is, how long will he be banned for? He will probably get banned for 3-6 months. I think the only way he will get off with a warning is if he can prove it entered his body without him knowing. he cant prove that because hes admitted (according to wenger) to taking them to control his weight.

You can probably imagine what fickle United fans are like. "Ban him for life... wio got 8 months for missing a test". What they don't realise is that missing a test is probably worse... why put it off? What has the player got to hide?

well exactly regarding ferdinand......how can you just 'forget' to take the test.??........i guess if toure was taking these diet pills at arsenal he must've been tested before....well you'd think so anyway!......i guess if he can prove he didn't know what he was doing was wrong there must be a chance of a shorter sentence........he's obviously been taking them a while as he's been at city a couple of years

i wonder if wenger has shot himself in the foot by saying he knew toure took them at arsenal?...cos if they are a banned substance and wenger knew he was taking them then surely wenger has to be questioned too?

it's is a joke, but it seems to me , the further up the Premeirship you climb, the more bull shit the manager comes out with. Do any manager really see it like the fans see it, If they see anything at all...."coughs" Wenger....Some times it's like one big wind up,

The club will have had their lawyers all over this and based on all the evidence to hand, and the best legal advice, decided the best thing to do was to say nothing at all.

Im sure Wengers intentions were good... the fact is it could compromise whatever angle City choose to pursue.

Paddy Kenny took pills for a chest infection, Ended up being out for 9 month with a ban. I'm not sure how the appeal for these things work.

no me either rzb..............i know we sacked mutu......but his was for cocaine and if i remember correctly the club didn't even think of defending him...

Stephen Ireland apparently said that Birmingham is a crap city.


Well Fergie is actually the most charged manager due to his constant scrappings with the FA, yeah he's got away with things before and he is not the only manager to have done so but they have been accused of bias etc, truth is they actually don't have any backbone. They soon backed down regarding trying to force him in talking to the BBC too.

Something's not right when a manager and his family need police protection  

Just read about Jose Mourinho escaping a knife attack VD, gosh his wife and kids must be frightened.

Hadn't heard that darlo    but I wouldn't want to be Neil Lennon.

Hope you're doing well mate

Hi all. Just got our phone and internet back after a week.
There was a leak from a water main outside and the twonks who spent two weeks digging it up, supposedly sorting it out only to dig it up again managed to destroy the phone cables into our block of flats. Result was no working phone line until they finished repairing it today.
Added to which out toilet is not flushing so we are having to flush it with buckets of water as the council don't deem it an emergency repair and won't be out until Tuesday pm. Oh and the washing machines broken down. It never rains but it pours eh?


Wasn't surprised with what happened in the CC final except to say that I owe Mike Dean an apology as I though he would favour them. Turns out it was the other way around. Sczesny had a mare from start to finish. He has the potential to be a really great gk but must talk to the defence. He has clattered 3 of our players this season by going for the same ball as them as he didn't give them a shout.
Nice to see how much Arsenal losing made all of you so happy. Anyone would have thought we were a violent Stokelike team who'd bought our success - or lack of it recently - judging by how much everyone wanted to legbreakers of Birmingham to win

Arsenal for the CL 

Not totally heartless Veggie 

If I was Toure I'd be hoping for a long ban. Otherwise he's going to get the Lampard treatment from all oppo fans and this time it will be justified  'you fat bastard you fat bastard' 

http://www.examiner.ie/sport/s...5.html#ixzz1FcYKvbtw

Forget Ashley Cole, Toure, Gerrard or Rooney or whoever people are hating on this week...this man is without a doubt the biggest bellend in the Premiership.

Stephen Ireland does seem to be an arrogant tosspot of the highest order RR.

As for Kolo Toure - where has this rumour come from that he was taking drugs at Arsenal and AW knew about it? Talk about being misquoted.
   AW said that after the story broke he spoke on the phone to Kolo as he was so surprised being that Kolo is a strict Muslim family man. Kolo told him that he was worried about his weight and so had taken one of his wives slimming pills. Now I don't know if Kolo is being truthful or not, at the very least he should have realised that taking any kind of meds without clearing it with the team doctors first could lead to serious problems. But it is quite in keeping with the way AW is as a man that he would call an ex player to talk to him. Most Arsenal players - and Monaco too like Glenn Hoddle - will tell you that he keeps in touch with them and has an excellent relationship with most of his ex players. Martin Keown has spoken on several occasions about this.

Accies v Celtic

Well, he has a point, doesn't he?

Again, maybe he has a point. We all say things like 'i'd rather shoot myself than sleep with so and so' but we don't really mean it literally.

Oh dear! We are getting a battering.
On the other hand the 69ers are beating the cheating Bavarians 3-1.

Pork pie, sausage roll. Come on Wigan score a goal!

No because theres plenty to do there, i'm bias anyway but if some do think that then fair enough... I would have thought he would have fitted in considering there's the Irish contigent in Brum but obviously not!

West Brom and Everton won, bloody Villa losing LOL..


Sunderland's defence did well keeping the Gunners out, glad to see Welbeck back from that knee cartiledge injury.

That victory today was pretty damn sweet.... Up to sixth, FA Cup quarter final coming up. Life is good again.

Scunthorpe, if I may say so, won today  We are now in great danger of going into Division 3.

Terrible mistake by the Wigan keeper for the City goal. I can never understand why so many allegedly professional goalkeepers keep making such ridiculous mistakes.

I wouldn't worry just yet Joe you still have a lot of games to play and you're not in the dropzone.

That was a first from Al Habsi as far as I'm aware. This is the keeper who pulled off the best save I've ever seen in our game against Bayern Munich a couple of years ago...

He's been very dodgy all through the game disley. I'm surprised he's only gifted them one goal so far.

So... 'Operation: Get Wigan relegated' is working then?

They're definitely prime candidates. They seem to have woken up in the last few minutes one of them must have got a text telling them they're in a game of football 

I'd like Wigan to stay up, along with West Ham and West Brom - they may have defensive frailties but at least they try to play football as do Blackpool.
I'd love Birmingham and Stoke to go down.
We were pants today but it wasn't helped by Arshavin being blatantly onside and given as off. This is the time when our multiple injuries cause the wheels to come off our season yet again. What I wouldn't give for the majority of our made of glass players to stay fit for the vast part of the season

Wigan looking like they might get something out of this.

Veggie: any news on RVP or Fabregas being fit for the Barca game?

RVP out for a minimum of 3-4 weeks, small chance for Cesc for Tuesday

You're going to be up against it then. I'd love to see you knock Barca out.

Man City just don't get the irony of the Poznan.

Muppets.