The Thread Where ONO Cries Himself to Sleep

[Lineker]

Who was joking

Anyway, as much as I don't dismiss the Carling Cup as a joke and have never done for season past, I do feel that we will be weaker in our post-Europe games this year and all things considered I'm not too disappointed that we're out at this stage; shame it had to involve losing to the scum though.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

nabeel. Did you pay Tottenham to give away the penalties in extra time?

[Asuka's Gonna Kill You]

Know some people aren't too keen on the Carling Cup, but I love it. Just gives some of our younger players a chance. Bebe starting tonight and I cant wait to finally get a glimpse of him, even if it is only against Scunthorpe. Really hope he has a good performance, because I think he could make a few first team appearances this season, he's quite confident that he will. Macheda also starting and hopefully Anderson gets some game time

[Dynamite]

Bebe will probably come off the bench I think. He's only had the one game against Villa in the reserves where he did well and I think with his pace and lack of complete fitness at this point, a sub's appearance might not be too bad for him. Really hope he does well though. The press have been really critical of him simply because SAF said he hadn't seen him play, even though they hadn't seen him either at the time of writing.

[Lineker]

Notts County fans have said they were ambushed by "brick-throwing yobs" after the team's Carling Cup defeat by Wolverhampton on Tuesday night.

Three supporters' coaches were damaged, one severely, as they were driven out of a coach park near Wolves' Molineux ground.

One female passenger, a 78-year-old, was treated in hospital after being hit on the head with a brick.

The match was a stewards-only fixture with no police presence.

Supporter Richard Dearnley described the atmosphere after the game - which Wolverhampton Wanderers won 4-2 - as "intimidating", but stressed there had been no trouble between rival fans outside the ground.

He said: "There were dozens of youngish Wolves fans - teenagers that came round specifically just to goad the Notts supporters - but we just ignored them and carried on walking back to the coach park.

"Once back at the coach park we got on the coaches and the next thing we knew one coach had a brick through the window."

He added: "There was worse to come when we actually left the coach park because when the coach in front of us pulled out, immediately after it turned out into the road, some youths ran out and bricked it.

"So they put the windows through in that coach as well. We were following right behind and seconds later a brick smashed one of our windows, then two seconds later the next window was smashed as well."

Iris Smith, chair of Notts County Supporters' Club, was also on one of the coaches. She described the attack as "absolutely dreadful" and said youths had been hiding in trees and bushes.

She also claimed that police had failed to provide protection to the away supporters.

However, West Midlands Police said it had pre-arranged a stewards-only fixture with both clubs.

A force spokesman said: "Ahead of each season, the police and the club evaluate which fixtures need to be policed. Following last night's incident, the football planning unit will re-evaluate this season's non-policed fixtures."

An investigation into the incident has been launched, he added.

Nigel Bullimore, operations manager at coach firm Premiere Travel, praised the driver of the most severely-damaged vehicle.

He said: "He must have been petrified last night. Full credit to him..."

He added: "We're talking about damage in the region of £6,000. But it's not just the glass, we may have to cancel trips in the next couple of days because these coaches are now off the road."

In a statement, Wolverhampton Wanderers FC said they had been made aware of a serious incident at Horseley Fields near the city centre.

The club's chief executive Jez Moxey said: "Words can't adequately describe our anger and frustration at the reports of such irresponsible and stupid behaviour of someone or some people last night.

"It is totally and utterly unacceptable and if the perpetrators can be identified, and they turn out to be Wolves supporters, they will never be allowed inside Molineux again.

"I feel terrible for those Notts County fans who were exposed to this - having supported their team in such admirable style, they should have been able to return home without some moron or morons throwing objects at their coaches. It's despicable."

Notts County's chief executive James Rodwell described the attack as "cowardly" and said the club would be working with Wolves and the police to help catch those responsible.

Absolute morons.

[Baddar]

Man Utd: Kuszczak, Brown, Ferdinand, Smalling, Rafael Da Silva, Park, Anderson, Gibson, Hernandez, Owen, Macheda.

Subs: Van der Sar, O'Shea, Obertan, De Laet, Corry Evans, Bebe, Eikrem

I wanted Gabby and Bebe to start, but never mind.

[Dont Fear The Reaper]

Jesus fucking christ United

[Crybaby Bunting]

HOLY FUCKING SHIT NEWCASTLE

EDIT: HOLY FUCKING SHIT NEWCASTLE

Edited September 22, 2010 by The General

[The Future]

Great stuff from Newcastle hopefully Chelsea don't pull off a comeback.

United have wrapped things up it seems, hopefully we'll get a glimpse of Bebe,Obertan and Eikrem now.

[Cheeky Hughes]

Gah, when will Mancini learn? Man City never play their kids for a reason. And that's because Man City's kids are shit.

Though saying that, this John Guidetti looks promising...

Edited September 22, 2010 by Ryan Hughes

[Asuka's Gonna Kill You]

Newcastle

Haven't seen the United game tonight, only going to catch the highlights on BBC later. Sounds like a pretty good result, very glad to see Owen on the score sheet.

Edit: TAKE THAT BACK...NEWCASTLE 90TH MINUTE

Edited September 22, 2010 by JohnnyPerfect

[Crybaby Bunting]

HOLY FUCKING SHIT NEWCASTLE

AND WE FUCKING BEAT CHELSEA! HOW THE FUCK DID THAT HAPPEN? :D

Edited September 22, 2010 by The General

[Baddar]

Wahey.

Chelsea out, City losing, Liverpool drawing. Gooood night.

[Crybaby Bunting]

Lets hope that after this bizarre turn of events that normality will resume and Liverpool will lose

[Pesci]

Only bad thing about us going out would be that it took more than 90 minutes and we're wasting Agger

[Gazz]

Newcastle have now taken to Jekyll and Hyde performances mid match...

[therockbox]

If we lose this it'll be incredibly interesting to see if Roy gets the sort of bile aimed in his direction that Rafa got when we lost to Burnley in his first season.

Bet he won't.

[Cheeky Hughes]

And the town of Northampton goes absolute batshit crazy.

[The Future]

My cousin goes to uni there he just texted me from England about how everyone is going ballistic.

[Cheeky Hughes]

Although, knowing the luck of the draw, they'll probably be fed to Manchester United away.