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Like I said, other than the injuries, the majority of your players are regular starters or should've been if not their own injury. Then there is guys like Dunn, Samba and Berner who are new signings brought into to cover/replace those injured players. Great goal from Carrick just now, shame he's still rubbish ¬_¬ EDIT: RW, did you not see where I said "minus injuries"? It was the strongest 11 you had a available. Nelson is better than Ooijer, and you had a couple of new signings in there as well. It was by no way your "reserves".

Really not. That was pretty much your strongest 11 (minus injuries), so where did you get 'reserves' from?

Problem is, Blackburn defended...and just defended. They didn't even try to score really, which is annoying. I can understand teams playing like that, doesn't mean we have to like it. When you're use to seeing your team play (arguably) the best football in the world, is disappointing to see a team come and have zero intention of winning. It was a good result for Blackburn, no doubt about it. Congrats to them, but they'll lose at Ewood Park. They'll be without Savage and Tugay is it? Savage is a wanker, but take away his diving/fouling/cheating, he is a player you want in the team, and you've missed him I think. Who else is going to be out? Pederson and McCarthy will be back won't they?

Apparently after the Blackburn game, Cesc approached Mark Hughes and asked him if he used to play for Barcelona, which he said he did, so Cesc then said something like, "bet they never played like that." Cesc is now officially a legend.

Agreed. I think RATM are one of the most over-rated bands in the past 20 years or so. Everything I've heard from them has been really rather crap to be honest.

Expected, but that doesn't mean I gotsa like it! I loved "Out Of Exile" and it's one of my favourite albums ever, but "Revelations" didn't really get me as much. Oh well, more solo Cornell will be awesome; I'd love to hear some stuff in the vein of "You Know My Name" on it.

Well this game shows that Bolton can actually play football, which makes the game at the Reebok even more annoying. Anyway, great match yesterday. No time-wasting, not much fouling, good refereeing decisions...and dodgy shooting from Arsenal! I've gotta say it was a great game last night and can honestly say I was not expecting anything like that at all. I can't believe it took us until extra-time to win that game though.

Actually, I wouldn't give a shit if Wigan time-wasted against us. I understand that it happens in football, so the fact that a team decided to utilise it against us wouldn't bother me, as I know there would be times when we would use it against other teams. Yeah it's a part of the game, but you saying "it wouldn't bother you" sounds like bullshit. So Fulham are trailing 1-0, but look far more dominant, but the opposition is taking forever over every dead ball, and you'll be sitting there going "oh that's alright, it happens". Sorry, I don't buy it.

But the ball is still in play when Henry does that. The opposition still has every chance to get the ball in that situation. Whereas a goalkick, the opposition has NO chance to get the ball. So how exactly is there no difference?

Let's clear something up; Wigan were never "comfortable" in the game. They had some chances and went 1-0, but were never comfortable. And Wigan were time wasting well before they went 1-0 up. Everyone I spoke to who went to the game said the same thing.

Match at WrestleMania for the baby? All prospective parents, one-pinfall to a finish!

If someone hadn't just died, this would be hilarious. This seems like a really bad Hollywood comedy right now. Are they taking bets on who the father is yet?

There's a difference between "stalling" when the ball is in play and when it's not in play, which is what happened yesterday. I haven't seen any of the games you mentioned, but in any of those games were the teams wasting time on dead/balls/goal-kicks from minute one? Because that's what Wigan were doing. And Phil Dowd is a shite referee, and he should be brought up for that, not for the swearing thing. Dowd didn't seem to know what he was doing throughout the whole game, and booked players when they shouldn't have been, and let players off when they should've been booked or sent-off (any of Flamini, Hall or Baines could've been red carded in that game).

So you're saying if you're a striker, and the opposition's goalkeeper is taking his time over every kick and every throw essentially from kick-off, and they've gone ahead against the run of play, and they seem the think that by time-wasting they'll manage to win. You're saying that if you just equalised against said goalkeeper, you wouldn't want to rub it in a little? Sorry, I can't see that happening to be honest.

If time-wasting is passing the ball around the pitch for five minutes, then yeah, we're time-wasters. However, that isn't time wasting. Sorry, it isn't. Time wasting is goalkeepers moving the ball to the other corner of the 6-yard box, wiping the ball with their shirts and then giving it to someone else to take the throw, taking about a minute over every corner and free-kick, all of which Wigan did in yesterday's game and Bolton did in the FA Cup, and both teams were doing it from early in the game. Yeah occasionally we time waste, but god are we NOWHERE near the worse. Lehmann time wastes a bit yeah, but not to the Kirkland/Jaaskelainen extent. And the "poor little Wigan" thing is bollocks. Who gives a shit? Everybody gets shit decisions, don't say "oh because we're Wigan it goes against us". No, because the referee was beyond shite, that's why the decisions went against you, and decisions went against us almost as much. And if Henry should've been booked for his dive, Kirkland and half their players should've been booked for their constant time-wasting. Oh, and had to post this:

This is like, the greates thing ever. Are they stealing Captain Slow's radio!?! EDIT: Air conditioning perhaps?

The Lehmann thing was time wasting, but that was to prove a point. Wenger mentioned that after the game. Other than that, we had the ball on the pitch passing around, which just made Wigan look stupid, which is what we always to AT THE END of the game, not after 60 minutes, which is what can be bloody annoying. And not to mention that when we do that passing, we're still actually moving into an attacking positing and looking to score. Time wasting for the last few minutes is annoying, but far more acceptable than time-wasting for 40+ minutes.

They should've had a penalty, and Flamini should've been sent off. Our first goal was offside, but Adebayor was onside and was given offside before that, so that evens itself out. The Henry thing was stupid, but understandable. I don't care about how often the 'experts' say "well there's nothing that says Wigan have to come and hurry everything up" because it is fucking annoying. Bolton for example in the FA Cup. Went 1-0, and from that second on they took ages over every throw, every goal kick, every corner, every set-piece and it is so fucking annoying. Granted Wigan didn't go to that extent, but they were time-wasting, especially Kirkland. What Henry did was in the heat of the moment, and I'm sure he regrets doing that now. And a twat? Henry one of the classiest guys in the modern game is a twat? Ok then.

Cashley Cole, Michael Owen, John Terry, Joe Cole, Aaron Lennon...yeah, five players missing. Gareth Barry to replace Cashley, Rooney for Owen, Woodgate/Campbell for Terry, we don't actually have a decent left winger anyway, so anyone could've played instead of Cole, and Wright-Phillips for Aaron Lennon, so are they seriously saying those five players being unavailable caused us to play shite?

I love Ian Wright when England lose. He's a sore loser and he represents the opinion of every pissed of England fan. Although the BBC have been trying to make him into 'just another' analysist.

hahaha Ireland are shit, win or no win, they are fucking shit. How have England been playing? =/ Well, someone forgot to tell them where the goal was. Oh, and how to pass as well.

Wahey, another player who should've started comes on! For Fat Frank no less! What formation are we playing now? I've totally lost track of everyone's position.

Oh yeah, forgot about that and how have San Marino equalisied!?!

Bwahahaha, that's brilliant. I love you CSAMH! And FINALLY we have the best passer in the world coming on. Took Aragones long enough didn't it? EDIT: Considering Crouch is about 10ft tall, he can't head for shit can he?

He couldn't have could he, with him playing in the U21s last night? Or is the U21 squad picked from the players that aren't in the senior team? I'm not sure how it works. I was about to say the same about Robbo >_> Basically the U21's are picked from whoever the senior team doesn't pick, so if McWanker wanted him, he could've picked him.