FA Cup Sunday
Wakey, wakey. I'm watching the Arsenal reserves play Cardiff.
posted by gooner71 @ 8:39 AM
Lakenheath Old Boys
We are all former students at Lakenheath High School and other public schools in East Anglia. We were in school in the 70s and 80s and drank deeply from the well of British culture of those decades - the pints, the telly, and of course the footie!
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Lakenheath Old Boys
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the best link I've found is on Davey's ATDHE.
So far, Cardiff are on top of us. 3 opportunities spurned so far. They're catching us on the break pretty easily.
Toure and Djourou are being exposed from the flanks because Gibbs and Sagna are trying to get forward and Ramsey's been coughing up the ball, Song's been passing the ball to the Bluebird midfield, and well, Eboue...
Bendtner and RVP up front.
Another chance for Cardiff. Every time they launch it from the back, Toure and Djourou look second to it.
Unless we settle quickly, we're in for it here.
Boothroyd for Cardiff is one of our old-boys we let go some seasons back. He's had a chance against us today.
Ramsey's taking a lot of stick from the Welsh fans.
That's something you don't see often. The ball went into the stands and was not returned. WTF?
Ooh, two quick chances for Cardiff.
The first was a difficult bit of skill and a full volley wellied behind, and the second was a shot over the bar after their player went unchallenged outside of the box.
We're getting beaten all over the pitch here. Nasri just gets hustled off the ball by two players at a minimum.
Dammmit, Nasri found himself open,running onto a pass but hit it too close to their keeper who parries it away to safety. Good pass from RVP to give him the oppo.
I am here Gooner, Good morning
Cardiff have been on top?
That chance was just what the doctor ordered because it's pushed Cardiff back to defending for a moment.
Hiya Davey,
Oh yeah. For 20 minutes now, Arsenal have employed all 11 to defending and they've had eight or night chances.
They've just been tearing away at our midfield. Ramsey and Nasri are being bullied, and Song and Eboue have been passing the ball either to Cardiff players or playing the ball short to let the Cardiff players snap in for the tackle.
At 22 minutes or so, Nasri should have scored but we could easily be 2 down now.
When you say bullied, are you saying they have been Boltonish? Wenger will not like it?
It's a bit more even, but I do not like the way we've set up today. It's more or less a first team, no Clichy, Adebayor, or Almunia. Song is very poor.
Are any of the same players that played in the 1927 FA Cup Final on either team?!?!?
should I say, are any still alive!
No fouls like Bolton. More like they swarm our little-ish string pullers like Ramsey and Nasri.
Ramsey looked all at sea because they were keying two guys on him that set upon him everytime the ball came to him.
Gibbs has the beating of his man on the left, but his cross has missed Bendtner and then Cardiff launch from the back and Toure and Djourou are in trouble.
You what???
Why doesn't Cardiff play in the Millenium stadium?
Are Arsenal going to bring anyone in? They only have just over a week!!
On the BBC rumors from different papers, it says that Zenit are going to close the window tonight at midnight if they don't offer the asking price
Another is that Arsene will make a bid of 7 mil for Micah Richards
Your thoughts
Nice from Gibbs there. He's young, but he looks very comfortable in Clichy's position and has done so whenever called upon.
Clichy needs the competition too. He's been poor by his standards this year.
Just trying to be funny with the 1927 Cup Final. They always say about it being a repeat of that final.... as it has ANYTHING to do with today
I don't think they should play at the Millennium? They would play in front of an empty stadium
I don't want to tempt fate, but ever since that Nasri chance, it's been quite even. It must have scared them and they've put 10 men behind the ball since.
Chance for RVP. I thought he should have done better there
You're probably right. The Millennium is such a magnificent stadium with a perfect pitch. The surface here has lots of dips and the ball has bobbled more than it should.
Yeah, weak. Didn't get all of it for sure.
Keep your 'weak' comments to yourself fish face!!
Yellow card for Eboue for a dive.
Song surprises with a completed pass to Sagna and a scramble.
Eboue gets a card for his theatrics. Rather woeful is right.
A weak effort from RVP. Calm down la, eh?
Oh, you were talking about RVP's effort and not my '27 joke!! I take back my fish face comment
I figured it out before you sent it
Eboue should have done better there
See what happened to Nasri there? He collects the ball, and there are three guys harrying around him. That's what Cardiff have done to him and Ramsey who are clearly the perceived threats.
Almost half time, are you pleased to be level at half time
Struth, Arsenal almost fall behind and break quickly and Bendtner screws it up and then again from the corner!!
The boards this week were full of some 8million pound offer from Real Sociedad for Eboue. If it were true, we would have taken it but it did get people excited that we were rid of him.
Chances for Nick here and nothing from it.
Half time and on the face of it, Cardiff a little on top, but we've fought our way through to have a few chances ourselves.
We can regroup and maybe find our way through in the second half.
I'm off for a brew-up and will be back soon.
Relieved to be on level terms, not happy.
Hilarious! An all-Scouse crew with Robbie Fowler and Stevie Macmanaman in the studio.
Have you noticed that the links from my2p2 are mostly closed down recently? I've been more successful with Iraqgoals and ATDHE than myP2P these days.
Morning, lads. I had a bit of a lie-in but I'm here at half time with you.
Morning Bob
I agree with Steve. The p2p links are non mac ones
Bugger, Arteta is out of the Merseyside derby
We are off again in Cardiff
Right. If TVAnts or Sopcast was compatible with a Mac, I'd be all over it.
I have noticed the same thing about myp2p that you have. The Sopcast links are still there but the ones that are Mac compatible are nearly gone. I have more luck with just going to Justin.TV itself if adthe doesn't work.
Arteta is faking and putting his stereo into foam peanuts in anticipation of his dream move to the Emirates.
Or is that my dream of his move to the Emirates?
I have a simple question, why are Arsenal wearing yellow? Blue and red don't clash!
Iraqgoals.com and then clicking the English link has worked for me a lot of the time
Can't complain too much about thie ATDHE link today, though.
The Cardiff natives look a wee bit restless. What is it with that club that makes them so thuggish?
Do Arsenal ever wear the red shirts and any other color shorts other than white? That is, maybe it's the shorts that would clash, right?
I agree. It's possible we'd have had to wear contrasting shorts though and just decided to do the away.
I'm wearing this shirt right now. Nothing else though.
What's happening with the Arshavin move?
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Put some pants on, mate. Honestly!
The only issue I have with adthe is that it does make typing on LOB a bit more challenging as if it's sucking more memory out of my laptop than the others. Anyone else have that issue?
Who knows? I'm bored of it already. He moves, he doesn't, who cares? It's not like he's as good an answer to our problems as a world class center back or central defending midfielder would be.
I really want teams to wear their main colors as often as possible.
Looks like Diaby's being prepared to come on.
No pants until we score.
I'd like to see United wear the grey kit as often as possible.
I don't have that issue on my desktop.
Jesus, we're a bit luck there. Fabianski nearly fumbled too.
I don't have problem with that. The one issue is that the screen small. It I make it full screen it is great but then I can't blog
I will let you wear my grey shirt the next time you come here
Ramsey off. He seemed a bit overawed today. Or perhaps some Cardiff thugs to stick a leek up his arse.
I never can see them when they wear the grey.
Aaron not at his best today. Diaby on. Percentage of completed passes will suffer now.
Nice hit my McCormick
Well, my laptop is five years old and has been through the wars for sure. So I mustn't grumble.
Ref, it wasn't a penalty, why wasn't he booked? Eboue was.
Jay should be ticketed for that fall like Eboue did in the first half.
Didn't take Diaby long to get a knack. The most brittle footballer in the game.
RVP with a very tough angle there.
Nick with the spectacular there.
I've just noticed that it's Peter Enkelmann in goal for Cardiff. Love to see a repeat of that throw in that he let under his foot in the Brum derby a few years back. That was quality goalkeeping.
Ade coming on
I can't think of why Davey doesn't like it when we play in yellow and blue? What ever happened I wonder when Arsenal played Man United in those colors?
OMG, how did they escape that scrappy episode without a goal!!!!
I will have to leave you Dahlgren brothers to finish up the game. I have to take the boys to flag football
Parenting!!!
I will be around for the second half of the derby
Good luck Steve
Scrappy will do right about now.
Cheers, Dave. Talk to you later.
Do they wear the flags so you can see them in the snowdrifts? Maybe a blinking light too in that case.
Cheerio Davey, thanks.
I don't like it, all these Yanks take over this indoor soccer facility and change it into A. Football
Cheerio
So how did you rate the U.S. performance, mate?
Surely Nick is going to come good soon enough.
Someone pop a stick of dynamite under Ridsdale's seat for me then. Ta!
3 out of 5.
I thought Sasha did really well, I thought that Ching's take for Sasha's third was nothing short of breathtaking, but other than them, I don't think there's much point having any of the rest in the squad.
The new Nigerian was particularly poor when the Swedes scored their second, but really Perkins should have kept that out. He was always doing that at DCU too.
Oh, crap Manu. Finish that up, yeah? What a chance.
Fifteen minutes left now. I asked this of Davey yesterday. If you had the option of extra time before a replay would you go for it?
Sniper's bullet would have less collateral damage.
Nasri needed something less ordinary there.
Agreed. Perkins was poor and I was unhappy about Wynne's positioning when he had to defend. He's quite good at providing overlapping attacks but he's vulnerable when tracking back. That cross should never have come over for their second.
Today I would. We can grind down a team like this who have been dependent on their energy to keep up with us.
If it was a footballing premiership team, no.
I put a status update about wanting a return of the guillotine on Facebook last weekend and got howls of protest. I meant it to be tongue in cheek but honestly that bloke at Merrill who used the TARP money to redecorate his office - off with his head, right? Same goes for Rids for me.
Brian Carroll was rubbish too. I thought that the Swedes immediately looked brighter the second he was on and not keeping up with the game.
Sasha and Ching. Even Kenny Cunningham was awful. I despair of that guy. He's not even a 20 minute man that guy. What did he do at Old Trafford? Make the pies?
Aha, wondered what that Robspierrian reference was about.
Rids in the tumbrel suits me.
The steam's gone out of the game. It's as if they've settled for the draw.
Actually, I'm going to take that back. We've got Everton on Wednesday. I'll take a draw and a replay to conserve our energy for that.
I think I mentioned that I saw a bumper sticker in my unit down in Gville that read "Don't Blame Me - I Voted for Robespierre" with a wee guillotine on it. I've been looking for it ever since with no luck. Must have been homemade. Genius!
Nick's really trying still. He is collecting the ball too deep and running with it. That's not his strong point. He's best as a 6-yard merchant.
Jesus, that looked pretty dangerous. Wilshere? We look like a bunch of Hobbits in the midfield today.
Just about into stoppage time now...
C'mon, get the head on that!
RVP picks up a yellow - why? Running his mouth? Derisive handclapping?
Eddie Johnson plays for Cardiff???
Blimey, it's Eddie Johnson! I had no idea he'd gone out to Cardiff.
Atkinson is a petty referee. He's one of the worst for cracking down on the petty and ignoring the physically reckless.
And he's a quick-draw on the weak pen too.
Who do you fancy in the draw coming up?
That's it. It'll be settled back at the Emirates.
0-0 is a weak result for us.
More than a bit disappointing.
Ah, well. Have a good Sunday. Cheerio.
Anyone non-league still in it?
Cheerio, mate!
Half time at Anfield and Everton lead through a goal from Jolian Lescott. 0-1 to the Toffees.
The Scouse brigade in the studio is not happy about Liverpool's defending.
In Italy Milan have gone potty on Bologna, beating them 1-4 away with goals from Seedorf, two from Kaka and one from...Goldenballs!
I am back.
So, the Arse get held to a draw
I left the link on for the Arsenal game on and it is the Costa game when I get back
So, Costa are losing at half
1701: Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher was booked after the half-time whistle by referee Steven Bennett, for complaining about Tim Howard's alleged time-wasting tactics. It's about to get lively.
Second half underway
I wonder if we will be able to see the draw at 1:15
I just looked it up and it is on at 1 on the ADTHE site
Second half starting up again.
Welcome back, Dave. Yeah, they've been advertising the draw on this Setanta link all morning. I've had it on the same one. I'm wondering if we can get the "Football Matters" show on Monday nights with James Richardson that they've been featuring.
I know it stays with the Monday night games for that show.
As I said, if this link dies there is a link for Cup draw itself
How was the flag football?
Right you are. I'm assuming you're hoping for a draw here as well, right?
Stevie G. with the goal. How do you let him run free
Nice pass by Torres
GOAL! There's the Stevie G. goal right on cue. Nice touch by Torres and Gerrard finishes well. Timmy Howard will want that one back though.
Liverpool pouring it on now.
Nice save by Timmy there. Again, Gerrard not marked at the top of the box
Much better from Howard there.
The Everton defense seems to have gone to sleep.
Good result for you lot? Or do you want an Everton win outright?
Either would do
Also get Cahill hurt or carded so he is banned for the United game on Monday
That's Monday week, right?
yup, we have West Brom on Tuesday and Everton on the following Monday
FSC is showing some peculiar match in which Cookie Coleman is one of the coaches. Any idea what that's all about?
Busy, busy, busy. You'd take four points out of that, wouldn't you?
It is yesterday's Torquay Coventry match
NO, I want SIX POINTS!!!
Did you see that women's league is going to be shown on FSC in March. On Sunday nights!! Leave my prem highlights alone!!
20 to go in Liverpool
Twenty minutes left now.
1731: Steve Bennett decides to keep it 11 v 11 after Javier Mascherano falls theatrically to the floor after a half-hearted challenge from Tim Cahill. The Argentine even pathetically waves an imaginary yellow card while he is on the ground. Good refereeing. And no, I'm not an Everton fan, for crying out loud.
Yeah, where did that league come from? They couldn't sustain one after the 1999 World Cup win here, with the league loaded with the likes of Mia Hamm and Brandi Chastain. How are they going to do that now? The only one I know is the blonde bint who flogs the Kickmatics with Double T.
Fair comment!
Stevie G. testing out Timmy on the near post again. No luck this time.
It was from the Beeb
What's with Moyes playing the teenagers today?
I just notice that Keane wasn't even in the squad.
This is what Rafa "facts" Benitez said
1548: "It's always important for us to progress in this competition, it's massively vital to try and win the FA Cup, another trophy. I think Robbie Keane has a future here. I wanted to pick 19 players, but could only have 18."
Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez
Free kick chance here for Pool...
Rafa's full of shite.
Everton have a break but Pienaar has no support. Costa break and Kuyt doesn't make the most of it
Less than ten left now...it's going for a draw no doubt.
That means there will definitely be a winner!
NIce dive by Rieirra
What was the Everton left back doing. He phaffed about with it.... KONDUMF IT
Into the last minute of the ninety
What is the deal with Lescott's head?
Draw coming up soon.
I'll take Watford at home
Let's have Chelsea get Arse or Costa away
That is a question that has been asked many times
Just shave it all off
3 minutes of added time
Under a minute, I guess you were right
What is the Kop singing?
For once, eh?
dunno
That's it!!
I am going to stick around for the Draw
It's not just the hair situation with Lescott - his head just is oddly shaped.
United are #7 for the draw
Sorry they are #2
FA Cup 5th Round - how romantic!
Uh oh - it's the Gooner vs. Sir Trev next weekend.
I just clicked on the FA Cup Draw on atdhe site and it opened up my Quick Time player and it is on ITV 1
The following week, we go to Upton Park
The draw has begun on ITV
They are showing the highlights of the Costa game before the draw
Stevie G. sounds like one of those puppets.
I am watching the other link right now
Everton just scored!
Shut up Rafa!! You're at home!!!
Oi, Dave, while you're waiting for the draw, go on your Facebook profile and friend all of us, eh?
ITV are now showing the Arsenal game. Cardiff were all over them at the beginning.
Nice coverage here.
Blimey, a Bobby Zamora goal. Miracle!
Are you friending us, on Facebook mate? Don't make me come down there!
Here we go - Jim Rosenthal with the plastic balls in a bowl.
I hate that stuff!!
Here we go. The ITV link is 1 second ahead of Setanta
Gary McAllistar and Gary Mabbutt to make the draw
HERE WE GO
Only Premiershipi and Championship sides left? Shame about that.
Garys Pallister and Mabbutt in the studio pulling the balls (that's what she said).
That's what she said, Jim!
Shef Utd vs Hull
Sheffield Utd vs. Hull City
Watford vs Chelsea
Watford vs. Chelski
West Ham vs Boro
Hammers vs. Boro
Sunderland Blackburn vs Coventry
Derby or Forest vs United
Derby/Forest vs. Utd - happy Dave?
Swansea vs Fulham
Costa or Everton vs Doncaster Villa
Arsenal Cardiff vs West Brom Burnely
Good draw for the Arsenal there. WBA or Burnley if they get past Cardiff.
Well, Derby give us a problem don't they.
COME ON FOREST!!
Right, that's the draw taken care of. Now get to the Facebook "friending" mate! Do it now!
Don't be a hater, mate. Be a friender.
I'll leave you to it. Cheerio, mate!
i'll think about it
Take care, hopefully I will be around for the midweek games. I do teach on Tuesday but I don't have a meeting after school so I will come home
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