[Núcleo] Premier League + Football League

[cadete]

O leicester voltou a desiludir e o QPR esta em grande.

 

quanto à premier league, o Wigan esta muito pobre mesmo esta época. Chelsea seguro na liderança mas o jogo da jornada disputa-se na segunda feira.

City v Liverpool

[cadete]

 

 

 

[cadete]

tangerines!! ol

 

tens razao, nem sei no que estava a pensar... :facepalm:

 

:calduco:

[pedrituh_9]

Newcastle a humilhar o Aston Villa....

[Eden Hazard]

Alguém pode mostrar o calendário da terceira jornada?

[Lleyton]

Aston Villa - Everton

Blackburn - Arsenal

Blackpool - Fulham

Bolton - Birmingham

Chelsea - Stoke City

Liverpool - WBA

Man United - West Ham

Sunderland - Man City

Tottenham - Wigan

Wolves - Newcastle

[Eden Hazard]

:fixe:

[Oblivion]

Prevejo vitórias dos Big Four. Vamos ver como estará o Villa frente ao Everton.

[Eden Hazard]

Btw,

 

CARLO ANCELOTTI has launched a passionate defence of Chelsea captain John Terry.

Despite Chelsea's historic Double last season, Terry came under fire from all sides.

Revelations about his private life led to Ancelotti's fellow Italian, Fabio Capello, stripping Terry of the England captaincy, and he carried his indifferent club form into the World Cup.

But in his new autobiography, Chelsea boss Ancelotti singles out the 29-year-old defender as the heartbeat of his debut season success at Stamford Bridge.

He also reveals the debt he owes to Ray Wilkins - and how Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson snubbed him after the game which tilted the title race decisively in Chelsea's favour.

 

Ancelotti said: "John Terry is the captain of all team captains, he was born with the captain's armband on his arm.

"Even without the band, it's as if he wears it anyway, and that's how it ought to be. He's different from all the others, Chelsea is his home, it always has been, ever since the youth squad.

"One word from him, and the locker room holds its breath. He's the first one to sit down at meals, the first one to stand up.

"Being part of this club is his mission, that's how he was made. He pays close attention to the performances of the youth team, he keeps up, he knows all the scores, he misses nothing (although he often loses at ping-pong in the dining room - and when that happens, watch out).

 

"He works twice as hard as everyone else, he has the sense of responsibility of someone who runs a company, a people, a philosophy that above all has to win.

"There is no room for second place; there can only be room for us."

The Italian also has high praise for the man who helped him translate the winning formula he devised in his homeland into English - assistant boss Wilkins (with Ancelotti, below).

 

Ancelotti added: "One of the reasons I fit into the locker room was thanks to the fundamental role played by Ray Wilkins, my number two and my friend. It's one thing to translate words - plenty of people can do that - but translating feelings is the gift of only a select few.

"Ray is one of those select few, always present, noble in spirit, a real blue-blood, Chelsea flows in his veins.

"His heart beats in two languages, and that helped me.

"Without him, we couldn't have won a thing, and in particular we would not have started the year at supersonic speed." Chelsea did start well, but by the middle of March, their juggernaut had started to stall. A 4-2 home defeat by Manchester City - Wayne Bridge and all - was followed by defeat in the Champions League against Inter Milan and former Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho.

But a training ground meeting, where Chelsea's senior players took the lead, set Ancelotti and his team up for a glorious end to the season.

 

"We did our calculations right after we were catapulted out of the Champions League by Inter, at a moment in the season that was so precarious it could easily have slid into disaster," said Ancelotti.

"In the past, Chelsea had always had a hard time recovering from roundhouse punches like that, so the day after our defeat we all gathered in the locker room of our training grounds in Cobham.

"The venerable old men all spoke - Terry, (Didier) Drogba, (Petr) Cech, and (Frank) Lampard (another magnificent example of English leadership - when I see him on the field, it makes me happy). I was proud of us in that twenty minutes, we understood that we had lost a great deal but that we could win much, much more.

"I was very clear in what I had to say: 'The Premiership and the FA Cup are still ours for the taking. Only six teams have managed to pull off a double in 140 years, but it's our turn now.'"

 

At that point, we pulled out our timetable. Numbers and statistics, written so clearly that no one could possibly misunderstand.

"The number of training sessions remaining: 50. The number of days we could still devote to achieving our objectives: 60, more or less. The number of games left to play: 11."

After the false start of a 1-1 draw against Blackburn, Chelsea won seven of their final eight league games.

The key game in dethroning Manchester United as champions was the 2-1 win at Old Trafford - and United boss Ferguson knew it.

"Our success at Old Trafford was the one that got us the League title, even though in the end Ray Wilkins and I were forced to drink to our victory alone," said Ancelotti.

"As is the tradition, a few minutes after the final whistle we went to Sir Alex's room to drink the usual glass of wine. We walked in, and silence reigned.

 

"He sat there staring at a television screen; the set was tuned to a horse race, his greatest love.

"We were strictly relegated to the background, to some place beyond and behind the background.

"We stood awkwardly for a while without saying a word, uncertain what to do, and finally did what we had come to do. We drank a glass of wine, to our own health. Bye-bye.

"Even though I won the three games I played against him that season, I still consider Ferguson to be a master of soccer, an example I have always looked up to, in some ways, unattainable. (Unattainable in the sense that I don't have a passion for racehorses.)"

 

One thing Ancelotti does have a passion for is food, and he repeatedly makes jokes at his own expense about it. But what is next on his football menu, after the Premier League and FA Cup?

"Now I want the Champions League," he said.

Carlo Ancelotti will donate all royalties from the sale of the book to Fondazione Stefano Borgonova, a charitable foundation set up for his former team-mate at Milan, and dedicated to finding a cure for ALS, a neurogenerative disease, from which Borgonova suffers.

[Boo Riquelme]

WTF VILLA !?

[TheReds]

L'Pool :////////// Inda por cima o calhau do Tevez a facturar

[cadete]

o Ancellotti quer a Champions?ou será o Abramovich?

 

O Squillaci ja fez os exames medicos e esta prestes a assinar pelos Gunners.

Editado 24 Agosto 2010 por cadete

[Kimi Raikkonen]

Estou curioso como o Liverpool e o Aston Villa vao reagir aos desaires desta 2ª jornada

[cadete]

Estou curioso como o Liverpool e o Aston Villa vao reagir aos desaires desta 2ª jornada

 

é só esperares para a 3ª jornada... :biggrin: Por acaso também quero ver como reagirá o Newcastle.

[wolfking]

é só esperares para a 3ª jornada... :biggrin: Por acaso também quero ver como reagirá o Newcastle.

 

Vão ao barbeiro cortar o bigode. :mrgreen:

[cadete]

Vão ao barbeiro cortar o bigode. :mrgreen:

 

O Barton já cortou.

 

 

A imprensa inglesa de 3ª feira

[Mister Master]

Arsenal está para fazer uma proposta a rondar os 25M pelo Hazard e o Landreau.

[Petar Musa]

Arsenal está para fazer uma proposta a rondar os 25M pelo Hazard e o Landreau.

 

Esse Hazard nunca me rende no FM :confuso:

[cadete]

Arsenal está para fazer uma proposta a rondar os 25M pelo Hazard e o Landreau.

 

Landreau? nao...please

[Oblivion]

ei fds, o Landreau não :medinho:

[Mais um manager]

Esse Hazard nunca me rende no FM :confuso:

 

Claro que é off-topic mas adaptei-o a MAE e jogava muito.

 

Quanto à contratação, o Hazard parece-me uma jogada à Wenger.

[Kenny Omega]

Arsenal está para fazer uma proposta a rondar os 25M pelo Hazard e o Landreau.

hazard parece-me bem, mas Landreau nao fdx :facepalm:

 

contrate antes o Lloris

Editado 25 Agosto 2010 por viciofm

[Victarion]

...contrate antes o Lloris... :lol:

[Kimi Raikkonen]

...contrate antes o Lloris... :lol:

 

Tas a gozar certo??

 

Hazard no Arsenal era o melhor que lhe podia aparecer. Com a mao do Wenger acredito que se firmava de caras no onze

[Victarion]

tou a gozar com o quê?

 

estou a rir do que o outro acima disse.