lanky316

Wednesday have done it. In the end I think the 10 men couldn't cope with the extra pressure in extra time, both those goals possibly could've been avoided but the finishing was superb. It was only a matter of time before Wednesday were competing for the top flight.

Well I'd start by looking for specifics, a striker with finishing 15+ for example to go up front, you're on a budget so maybe players who are available on frees. Should sort things, you'll be lucky to get a lot out of them in the first year but you may be able to get something to builkd for the future.

The guy who played Kenans dad in Kenan and Kel was a generic pedestrians voice in GTA San Andreas

Calamity James almost struck again there, nice free-kick from LD. Nice chance at the other end almost instantly. There's going to be goals in this one.

So predictions for this one, just turned it on to see England 1 up so could be a sign of 2/3 - 0 type of game. Dunno who scored it though, law of the sod suggests it was AJ...

Has anyone ever started the game unemployed? and what was the highest club you've been able to start with from this?

Hey now, Aqua rock. ←

Yup looks like your right, were pretty much outplayed in the first half but barring the greatest comeback in history now the Shrimpers should be through. Held on, overall throughout the season Southend probably deserved to go up after all but Lincoln, unlucky to get a goal in that first half, could've been a different story. On to Division 2 now, my gut instinct says Hartlepool but I think it'll be a hgoal either way.

I remember buying people like Ronaldinho and Robben on CM years ago, not really having a clue who they are and now they are superstars. I'm telling you, real life managers these days have it easy. Play FM for about 5 seasons and then you find out all the quality players for the future. ←

He's a super star, him Kaka and Robinho for years on CM/FM have been my transfer targets to start the game. Tragically all three of them are getting more real world attention making it more expensive to sign them

Yeah, fair enough, they both held their own in the Premiership and were both unfortunate to be in relegated sides. I just feel that Ashton is more of an all round striker and going back to my original point, would be better suited at Spurs because the last thing we need is another midget to partner Defoe. ←

Can't you just accept that someone who you don't support has achieved something that's extremely rare, or in Johnson's case scored a bucketful of goals (and as wannabe pointed out, they only got the penalties effectively because of AJ).

Npot travelling to Cardiff with Southend today, not confident, having led the table for ages and barely been out opf the top 3 I have a feeling they'll get done, thats the way it usually is with play offs!

Scoring 3 goals against a team that are superior to yourselves is a much better achievment than coming back against a team of roughly similar quality. And dealing in "what ifs" is ridiculous. Have Stevenage done that? Nope, so your argument is invalid. And you're still in the minority, it was called "the mother of all comebacks" because of who it was against. All you've done is tried to put a negative on it (oh, you looked for penalties, played defensively blah blah blah). And please, don't avoid the question: Can't you be happy that an English team won it? Like pigeon said, it's the usual suspects taking whatever chance they can to take shots at Liverpool. JP; to be fair Liverpool have hardly been great this season either, and we've had plenty of problems. ← The point you are deliberately avoiding is that you scored three goals, yes. You came back against a good team, yes. But you didn't come back to win, which is what so many other teams have done. ←

Scoring 3 goals against a team that are superior to yourselves is a much better achievment than coming back against a team of roughly similar quality. And dealing in "what ifs" is ridiculous. Have Stevenage done that? Nope, so your argument is invalid. And you're still in the minority, it was called "the mother of all comebacks" because of who it was against. All you've done is tried to put a negative on it (oh, you looked for penalties, played defensively blah blah blah). And please, don't avoid the question: Can't you be happy that an English team won it? Like pigeon said, it's the usual suspects taking whatever chance they can to take shots at Liverpool. JP; to be fair Liverpool have hardly been great this season either, and we've had plenty of problems. ←

For the third time, it WAS a good comeback, but not the best. It's all relative aswell. Teams coming from several goals late on against teams of roughly a similar level regardless of which level it is are surely making the equal comeback? Otherwise we could say that Stevenage comeing back from 1 - 0 to draw with newcastle was the greatest comeback after all they were one down against a team of vastly superior quality. The fact is it wasn't that spectacular, there have been some greats, and this was a good one but nowhere near one of the best of all time.

I'm with arse, I'd rather Ashton over AJ because he's a better player and as he pointed out those goals are a false statistic as a large percentage were penalties. He'd have half that tally at the Lane, we never get bloody penalties!

Depends on what you mean by comeback. If your talking Champs League only then probably this one, if Liverpool had played like that for the rest of the game rather then sitting back and defending for the next hour then I'd have a completely different view of it all. If your talking about comeback in all competitions then no. Aside from the fact this happens every two to three weeks in the English leagues somewhere, the winner would be Man City at White Hart Lane in the cup last season (well two ago now). 3 Nil down at half time with 10 men, they come back and score 4, incredible stuff, though excrutiating to watch at the time.

I suppose the obvious thing then, is as that little toffee Gerrard said, is to say you played for penalties Besides as a Spurs fan I've seen plenty of games when the team are on the ropes of the opposition clinching it, Liverppol could've won in the 90 they chose not to. As for the Garcia chance, were it not for Schevchenco and JDT missing great chances themselves they would've won 5 - 4.

Shut the fuck up. All I've heard from the likes of you since we beat Chelsea has been bitching. "Oh, it's going to a boring game", then when it turns to be one of the best finals ever, it's "well you played for the draw". FUCK OFF. Newsflash: We played to win by playing Kewell and got found out, I'll happily admit that. Rafa made a mistake playing him (and I hope to God he's gone next season), and we were just got away with it. Our formation at the start of the game was pretty attacking, with Baros, Kewell, Garcia and Riise all attack-minded, and we got fucked up. Hamann came on and made the difference, but the formation we were forced into (because, IIRC, Steve Finnan picked up a thigh injury) at half-time was naturally defensive. Gerrard was switched over to the right to control Serginho, because Smicer can't defend. That took away another attacking player (although he was still playing defensively as well), and by extra time all the players were physically and mentally exhausted. Milan's experience told at that point (and they had 2 fresher players than ourselves, as they didn't have to make a change so early or at half time), so for them to attack was natural. ←

It would've been better I think if Liverpool had played to win, you went looking for the draw and did the job so Liverpool fans should be delighted. Why anyone else should be glad for them I don't know though :\ Personally I do think they should be in it, but shouldn't have been at the start of the year. The Champions League is becoming a joke and they shouldn't let 148 teams in just because they come from a big football nation. The maximum should be 3, the league champs, FA Cup winners and previous champion, but that's all another topic!