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I dont think anyone deserves to give him stick. I have no doubt that Jose saw it as the perfect opportunity to give the kid a chance of settling his nerves in a penalty shoot out in Europe. I hope he takes a positive out of the miss and doesnt let it screw up the whole season for him. Also the irony of Torres scoring a screamer just as we sign Eto. No one said we do things the easy way though.

Yeh my pitch invasions came from my cat mostly although nearly EVERY sunday my grandad would come home from the pub at lunchtime " who remembers the days in England when EVERYTHING either closed at lunchtimes or didnt open at all on sundays? " and proceed to drunkenly invade what i liked to call Stamford Bridge or for important games Wembley and shatter the legs and sometimes careers of my tiny footballers. I lost count at the amount that ended up having pitch side surgery " by my own private surgeon A.K.A My Nan, and ended up playing their career out from the waist upwards. I managed to keep hold of most of my Subbuteo stuff until the late 90's then made the mistake of handing it all down to a young family member, it didnt enter my mind that kids from that generation were never going to grasp the enjoyment those little pieces of plastic could bring next stop the dustbin. Haha my Dad just reminded me of when i tried to reproduce the tragedy that happened in 1985 at Valley Parade and ended up with lighter fuel all over the living room, he caught me just intime thank f**k. Not very funny i know but i was only 11 and wasnt a normal child LOL.

Excuses? We rarely make excuses for our team unlike certain supporters of a certain red team. But when all said and done we lost, so what? we will still finish above LiverpooR this season and win more trophys. So off you go to wikipedia and relive days gone by.

I had a few close shaves in the 80s with bombs going off in London. Also had a few friends of the family get caught up in it, so yeh my feelings against them are not very good and thats not easy for me because ive always fought the underdogs corner but in this case i just cant for obvious reasons. I could go one step further and go into a 20+ page rant about how the rest of the world including the other parts of the british isles all have an issue with the English BUT were a football forum right?

Aaahhhh subbuteo. That game caused so many arguments up and down the country i think it deserves a thread of its own.

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A quick edit of one of the above pictures with the watermark removed.

Yet as a Nation they f**king hate us, almost as much as scousers hate us cockneys

They didnt exactly change us did they?

Does that make him the official Tea Ba?

I think ive answered this before in the forum somewhere. But seeing i like to be vocal on my dislike for certain teams my choices are : palace, middlesboro and man city. The reasons for these are that Palace was a ground that was always getting thrown out of when i was younger. Mboro because of me and my mate being out numbered at wembley by their fans by atleast 2000 to 2 and surving on instinct. As for City its got nothing to do with their sudden rise but more to do with our battle for promotion with them when Bobby Campell was manager for us.

I was a late starter with this series and in the last two weeks have managed to get to series 4 episode 7. I love this show but does anyone know if series 5 is going to be the last?

I cant remember who it was but someone posted lastweek telling us all not to be surprised to see Mata in an Arsenal shirt by this weekend. Could it be that this insanity is about to come true

Is that plural eto?

Wonder how many of the above have terracing? Im dying to take my son to a ground with terracing this season if not in this comp then maybe the fa cup.

Matthew harding and mickey greenaway as above, although after what the media done to Mr Greenaway i doubt he would get the accolade he so rightly deserves. This has got me thinking now T.B.C

People in the know Tell me more about the suarez rumour please

Welcome Bradley good to hear of a Chels from up that way, i got loads of family in Newcastle and used to get alot of stick from them for supporting Chelsea then we got good and they got quite.

I thought he gave us a couple of squeezes tonight to be honest, he squared it twice on the edge of the area which is unlike him. Another out of character thing he done was when Shirley was on the ground and he went over and offered him a hand to get up, when does Wazza ever do that? maybe im reading into it a bit too much after what Jose just said but Joses the king of bluff anyways. I know one thing though if we'd have had Wazza up top for us tonight i think we all know where the 3 points would have gone.

Where did it all go wrong?

We looked very solid at the back mostly. We went to O.T and gained a point, it was them that dropped 2 seeing it was their home game. All in all nothing to get excited about but it could have been alot worse. Roll on Friday.

Im guessing its the response.

Scary collars

I was working over Aldgate way early 90s and we was playing them at home, evening kick off. In my ignorance i hopped on the tube at aldgate east to head towards earls court to change and as i jumped on and sat down i looked up and realised that the whole train was full of claret and blue, to say i sh*t myself would be an under statement. Some how i managed to quickly zip my jacket up to hide my colours and then proceeded to count my shoelaces all the way until i got off the train. I know by the time the 90s came round things had mellowed a hundred fold but you still ran the risk of getting a clump or atleast royally mugged off if you walked around the wrong corner.

If thats what you are saying i meant then who am i to argue.