I don't think it is. I'm sure our guy (Alou Diarra) is at some other French club, a smaller one. I'll check.

Na, the Lyon guy is Mahmadou Diarra, he's a Malian international

Alou Diarra is on loan at Lyon, from what I've heard he's a pretty solid central defender/midfielder, but obviously that means sod all when your french and you come and play for Liverpool.

Till the end of March, btu Bryan something or another is meant to be the man at getting people back quicker, so he may be there mid march.

Riccy C looked a bit poor last night, Mantle, from the highlights.

It was only the Eto'o thing, thats the worst thing he has done all season, really don't know what he was thinking. I think he was caught out a couple of times in the second half but are defence was generally poor after the sending off, Barca pissed all over us, they brought on two attackers for two midfielders and always had people in space in our box.

You claim to be a Barca fan if anything, so I am suprised you didn't watch the game, Gatesy.

come on boro, 3-0 to us danny graham to come off the bech to score the 3rd, and keep your eye on james morison (providing mclaren doesnt drop him) as he is currently making downing look like yesterdays news!

With Ferocious banned, no one care about Boro. As it happens, as long as Jimmy scores I'm happy.

Yeah I know, but a bunch of lads came down to my house to watch it because I had Sky, and they wanted to see the United match. I didn't mind because I thought the match at Old Trafford might be a more attacking affair.

Watched about 20 mins of the first half in the Chelsea game, switched it on just before Duffer scored. The United game was better then, so we kept it on for the 2nd half.

I made my return to training tonight. Buried the only goal of the training match, great strike into the bottom corner from 20 yards. When I scored it I ran away and pulled off my Ireland top to reveal a white shirt with "Merci Darren Mantle" on it.

Playing in a work league match game tomorrow night too. 2 goals in 3 games for them.

LOL you would be the fucking man if you ever did that, in training or a real game.

Funny how you called me and Ogen gypsy's, when its you who associates yourself with them, your mates don't even have sky :rofl:.

I wouldn't say Duff scored, I suppose he was the last Chelsea player to touch the ball, but come on. Bellitto made the right choice, take no chances and try and clear it, shame carvalho didn't, and he would have had no chance of turning it into his own net.

I was trying to reassure a Chelsea fan that Chelsea are going through, and want to know if you agree or disagree on the following, I realise you didn't see it all so you might not be able to fully comment:

They were only good atatcking Vs ten men, if we keep 11 on in the replay we will be sorted. Ronaldinho and Eto'o are overrated, they mess up alot and can be hit or miss, our defence is MUCH greater then theres, we will foil them in our own gaff. We need Lampard to be on form, and after the first leg he definitley has alot to prove. Maka is always on form, Duff needs to just create stuff, and I hope Joe Cole actually plays well. We are in the best position we could hope for, an away goal and one goal in it, we should at least get them to extra time.

I think it's in the balance. Ronaldinho is probably the most talented player in the world, along with Zidane, but he does go missing for several games at a stretch, at times. Thing is, he could go out at Stamford Bridge, play to his best and he would destroy them.

Et'oo I am less impressed by. He's very tough for defenders to deal with. You might have seen him at the Nou Camp with your view, he pulls way out on to the wing and just zips inside. Defenders don't know what to do about it, he's so quick. Not a deadly finisher, though, in my opinion. Missed a golden opportunity near the end with the header.

Anyway, they get the credit, but I think Barca's strength lies in Xavi and the other midfielders. They are so good at keeping possession. You are right about Lampard having something to prove. In my opinion, any time I see him play good technical footballers who can keep possession, Lampard gets found out and the game passes him by.

Basically, it's in the balance. If Chelsea had Duff, Robben and Drogba, they'd easily be favourites, but with only Duff up there of those 3, I'm not too sure. Barca don't have to win at Stamford Bridge, Chelsea do. If Chelsea try to force it, Barca could pick them off.

Ronaldinho wasn't anything special yesterday, he didn't even produce any good tricks, and the way Robben and Duff run at defenders is much more threatening then the way Ronny did yesterday.

Lampard was inneffective yesterday, and Cole wasn't that much use either, Duff and Makelele were our only good midfielders.

I think it will be 2-1 at our gaff and we will do them in extra time or penalties, Jose knows the score. Trouble is I can see Gudjohnsen missing his penalty for sure, the useless tosser will just fuck everything up all match, I can well see Lampard getting brace.

Unless Kezman scores the winner :love:

IT would take a virus spreading round the whole team for Kezman to get a game.

*remembers Kezman's goals for PSV* :(

Ranieri's been sacked at Valencia after they lost in the UEFA Cup to Steau Bucharest or something like that, they're also only 6th in La Liga, so not too surprising.

Ronald Koeman has resigned at Ajax too, after they went out to Auxerre.

Bang goes our chance of signing Aimar

Oh yeah, Robben's apparently back in training

well i care about them, couldnt give a toss about chelsea tho ;) anyway JFH got the winner for us after Morrison smashed home the equilizer!

why is Ferocious banned this time? did he request another name change again or just keep going on about how good rajah is? anyway back to football, unfortunatly i think our boys have the title in the bag dispite your mini crisis of 2 defeats in a row!

* keeps fingers crossed that boro put together the worlds best run to win the league* :shifty:

His nazi thread in casual, read it.

And Jimmy is the man, you lot should kiss his arse.

Ranieri :'(

Next West Ham manager.

Fuck, how good would that be? Next time they played Millwall they wouldn't have to worry about crowd trouble, he'd just go bonkers and start handing out clips round the ear everytime somebody played up, Brian Clough style.

I would have to say it's one of Newcastle, Boro and Parma now, Auxerre shouldn't be ruled out though. Great chance for one of them to win it.

Only just got in, saw the last 10 minutes of the first half of Soton-Arsenal and the highlights. This game has everything. Prutton getting sent off, being a disgrace by pushing the ref and swearing at the linesman, van Persie being a disgrace and stayng on, Pires getting injured, Cygan being useless as always and Arsenal scoring in like the 5th minute of a 3 minute stoppage time

PS WTF Henry has hair now

Oh yeah, I forgot it was Freddie that scored too :D

:o 10v10 now, van Persie second yellow

My god, where was Lehmann

Patrick Vieira has become shit

Lehmann is a handicap.

How can anyone justify Pascal Cygan being a Premiership footballer on thousands of pounds per week?

He's one of the slowest and clumsiest defenders I've ever seen, in both pace and technique. It's not like he's got anything good to counterbalance that, either, he's just shit in every department.

From what I've seen every Arsenal player apart from Ljungberg has been rubbish. Only been flicking though. I can't bring myself to watch a full Southampton game that isn't at The Dell, it just doesn't feel right.

heartbreaker

Surely they're paying us back this season for all the good luck we've had last season

Cole was well offside. It was good of the linesman to delay the decision by about 8 seconds, to allow the Arsenal players to go absolutely mental, before breaking their dear little hearts.

van Persie's gonna cop it in the sheds

Arsenal fans have been telling me he has been shit ever since the United match. Like he has lost bottle. Apparently he wasn't doing too great before then.

He's not been great for a long time, Rob. You really have to question his commitment to Arsenal, how many Premiership winning captains would nearly walk out on their club in the summer?

at least Arsenal didn't fall on their swords when Southampton equalised this time.