Premiership Weekend 1st / 2nd Dec 2007

[Microdot]

chelsea should have the players to cope with losing most of their africans. I'd imagine shevchenko will come good sooner or later.
not so sure if they'll cope as well with losing Essien.
maybe they'll have to go back to jose's way of playing for a few weeks.

[Insomnia]

Ronaldo 2 Fulham 0

He seems to be on form of late....

[Numeric]

cristiano is playing well at the moment, good win for united tonight but we should have scored way more goals, tevez, rooney and saha all missed chances...

anderson was class again...

[Richierush]

you could tell rooney had just came back,ronaldo was good but didnt think he had the best game tonite,should have had that penalty was poor decision to book him for divin

[Numeric]

dunno mate it looked like he went down easy to me, thought the booking was the right decision...

[Richierush]

he took the ball past the keeper,he didnt even look like he was playin the ball,if it was anyone else accept ronaldo it probably would have been a pen

[french_og]

Definate penalty, even if there was not much contact the fact Ronaldo had to jump out the way to stop himself from being clattered as the keeper was no where near the ball means it is a penalty. Thought the ref Styles was auful. Think thet said on Sentana that that is the 13th time Ronaldo has scored two goals in a match for Utd but never scored a hatrick.

[Microdot]

deffo a penalty....

the missus had taped the game for me so, when I got home, I checked it out and I reckon it was stonewall.

not saying Ronaldo dived but, why don't refs ever book the striker for diving AND award a penalty?
in last night's case, he obviously thought Ronnie dived but, surely it was still obviously a pen from where he was stood.
so, if the player is fouled, but makes the most of it with a theatrical dive, the correct decision must be to 1) book the striker for diving, 2) send the keeper off for the proffesional foul and 3) give the pen.

[DJ RE:HAB]

i aint seen it, but the papers seem to think it was a peno.

I mean if its a foul its a foul i dunno why players have to exagerate some tackles.. Times like the one your going on about it works against them.

[Numeric]

Newcastle vs Arsenal tonight, i'll be watchin, cheerin on the toon :lol:

[Insomnia]

Aye man i bet you will! :lol:


Well hopefully we'll add to Newcastle's misery of late and take the 3 points..

Van Persie was maybe playing but looks more likely to be back at the wkend..

[Numeric]

Big Sam needs a result tonight, and Arsenal have a few players out, anything's possible...

me mate who watched the game against Villa though said Arsenal were class and played some really good football...

[Insomnia]

me mate who watched the game against Villa though said Arsenal were class and played some really good football...

First half they were on fire, weren't quite the same after the break though and Villa were unlucky not to level....

There's speculation big Sam will get the bullet tonight if Newcastle lose , i cant quite see that happening though...

[basslinejunkie]

ive a feeling for a draw tonight

[Numeric]

that would be nice...

Arsenal without Hleb, Flamini and Fabregas apparently

[Microdot]

ive a feeling for a draw tonight

that'd be nice, but I've got a feeling newcastle win get spanked.

my guess is 3-0 to the gooners.

[Will]

That'd be nice, 3-0 to us...

[Insomnia]

Aye i would take 0-3 for sure...

We done well without Fabregas at the wkend so hopefully we'll manage again..

[Numeric]

Arsenal have taken the lead early, awesome take from Adebayor, Newcastle had a chance to equalise straight away but the header went just wide...

toon have played well thus far to be fair but they look so vulnerable when Arsenal break...

[Esox Lucius]

****in hell missed peno there for us, should have zenit here though