General football chat

pedrocnn Pedro Pinto
by JamesHorncastle
Just heard from Michel Platini himself. Official. Trabzonspor takes Fenerbahce's position in Champions League.

Why they out and why replaced

Dallas wrote:Why they out and why replaced

Match fixing

Athletic Bilbao are automatically through to the Europa League group stages.

Sarah lifts his BBC boycott

how did that come about?

NorwichCityFC Norwich City FC
Injury blow - Daniel Ayala out for a couple of months with knee injury, Wes Hoolahan being monitored

misslfc wrote:NorwichCityFC Norwich City FC
Injury blow - Daniel Ayala out for a couple of months with knee injury, Wes Hoolahan being monitored

Terrible news for the lad.

Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp has revealed that Luka Modric asked not to play before the 5-1 defeat to Manchester City on Sunday.


Redknapp is convinced that Modric is still trying to engineer a move to Chelsea - who are being linked with a renewed £40 million move for his services - and the playmaker came to his manager before the game to say he didn't feel in the right frame of mind to play against City.

The Spurs was having none of it, however, and told the 25-year-old he would have to take to the field.

Modric played 65 minutes of the match.

"Luka came to me at 11.30 this morning and said to me, 'I don't feel my head is right today'. I said, 'I feel you need to play today, Luka. I need you to play. You need to come and play,' Redknapp revealed.

"I told him we had injuries and I said, 'I need you to come and play. We need you on the pitch, get out and play'.

"I told him he was our main man."

Redknapp feels that Modric is receiving bad advice from sources outside the club.

"I'm sure he is getting advised to maybe not play today. We have seen it with other clubs," Redknapp added.

"He was okay yesterday morning to play and obviously something happened last night. Who knows what went on.

"Some of the papers today were saying that they are ready to make a £40 million offer.

"While he still sees a chink of light to go to Chelsea, he is probably doing what maybe people are telling him the best way of getting out of here is."

They should fuck him off if thats the case, basically all he is doing now is stealing money from their club.

Frimpong is bonkers, this his profile pic on twitter

bit of a nutter i'd say

Man City midfielder Samir Nasri on Twitter: "This tweet is for the English newspapers - stop trying to made something between me and Arsenal, I love the club and everything around it."

anyone got a link to dates/times of internationals?


ya Im too lazy

misslfc wrote:anyone got a link to dates/times of internationals?


ya Im too lazy

Not a clue Maj

Celtic back in Europe

Just read that, jammy fecks

VDV out for 6 weeks,

When do we play them


EDIT, out for our game

Just reading about Steed Marlbranque this morning retiring from the game to look after his son who has Cancer, this a month after signing for St Ettienne.

Fair play Steed, I wish your son all the best.

wilshere out for another 2 months

Roy Keane to be icelands next manager

Being cold all the time should suit him

Manchester City chief executive Garry Cook could come under scrutiny from the Premier League and the Football Association amid claims an offensive email was sent from his account to Nedum Onuoha's mother.

The distasteful message appeared to mock Dr Anthonia Onuoha's battle with cancer after she had written to City football administrator Brian Marwood last October to settle a dispute over her out-of-favour son's contract.

Dr Anthonia had explained to Marwood that although her body was 'ravaged by cancer' she was still able to represent her son.

She was left stunned, however, at the indecent reply she allegedly received from Cook, addressed to Marwood, which read: 'Ravaged with it!!!... I don't know how you sleep at night. You used to be such a nice man when I worked with you at nike (sic)'

Hurt and humiliated by the alleged sent message, Dr Anthonia replied the next day, saying: 'Thanks very much for your insightful email.'

Cook, who infamously caused a storm with his comments describing Kaka as a 'bottler' after failing to sign the Brazilian from AC Milan in 2009, insisted he was on holiday in South Africa when the vile email was sent and apparently apologised for the 'embarrassment' it had caused.

However, he is said to have claimed that after launching an internal investigation, he discovered that a member of his staff had sent the message to Marwood as a joke.
City have so far declined to comment on the story.

Former England Under 21 international Onuoha spent last season out on loan at Sunderland and although he hasn't featured for the club this season the 24-year-old was named in Roberto Mancini's official Barclays Premier League squad.

Almost a year later, Dr Anthonia has urged the FA and the Premier League to investigate the matter.

Storm: The email was sent from Cook's account to football administrator Brian Marwood (L)
'When I opened my emails and saw the message, it was the worst day of my life, even worse than being diagnosed with cancer,'.

'It's incredible that any human being would write this. It's unforgivable.

'When Cook replied to me, he said that he was confused, that he'd been away on holiday in South Africa and that somebody had hacked into his email account and that whoever had sent the email to Brian Marwood meant as a practical joke.

'The feeling of humiliation still persists. Now I want the FA and the Premier League to see what's happened and to take the appropriate action.'



Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/footba ... z1X54brIBl

Hmmm, hacked email account.
Dangerous teritory

DanKennett Dan Kennett
by Andrew_Heaton
5Live just now: john murray: "we havent heard from rafa benitez for a while" Lawro: "thank goodness"

Lawro is seriously getting on my wick