cosmicway

I believed this team was like PAOK or Brighton but we were nearly kicked out.

Barcelona x Ajax x Arsenal Ajax x Arsenal CFC x Arsenal

Rocambolesque !

You too wote to the D.F. ? Those rascals had a forum and they closed it down - they pretended that the Turks hijacked it and made it into a Kemal Ataturk site. The comments section that is left is abysmal.

3-0, would be 6-1 against Ajax.

The Dutch are despicable clowns.

Jesus. Thus f*cking thing has happened before. It's like our Juan Ramon Rocha in 1981. The courts decided after long deliberations that his parents were n't really Greek and he was banned for a season. So imagine his team -Panathinaikos- after this doing it again and again and again and not declare the proper nationalities of the players ! They did n't do it again of course. At Chelsea some people are mad.

We are in Europe now and Sarri claims he had a wonderful season.

This German team were not good enough to last out 90 minutes against us. Some good efforts, they are on a par with Everton perhaps. We should have won, but it looks like we have their measure in the replay. In all probability the gooners are going to be our opponents in the final.

Slow motion ball - Kepa was wrong footed.

Stupid giveaway by Kepa. Looked like an easy catch or at most a corner. We should win this one.

MAY 1st, MAY 2nd, MAY3d AND OTHER WORKING CLASS HOLIDAYS 1st of May today, the day of the working class and the socialist revolution. I will tell you the old story, as some of the younger ones may not know it with all the details. You know that somewhere up north, where today is the sea of Luxemburgh, there used to be a beautiful and sunny country called Holland. The Dutch had constructed many dams to hold the water and cultivate the tulips in the fields. What happened then in the year 1878 ? There was a little Dutch boy, called Juup Neeskens, walking in a forest near a dam with his dad. Suddenly the little Dutch boy sees a hole in the dam through which water was coming out. Little Juup said to his dad "dad-dad, if I put my finger in the hole I can stop the water and save the dam". But it's now history what happened next. Little Juup receives a slap from his dad who says "listen son, are we going to put our finger into the dam now without overtime pay ?". Little Juup hesitated and the dad after thinking for a while said "besides in ten minutes it's the two hour work to rule for the revolution in Nicaragua". So the dam of the Dutch bourgeoisie was allowed to collapse. All the Dutch drawned as a result and we lived happily ever after.

We have to play Watford (home), Leicester (away). Arsenal against Brighton at home, Burnley away. It's not over.

We play rubbish. UTD scored against themselves.

It's a crime equivalent to Jack the Ripper if they let Eden go. The thing to do with this man is abduct him and throw away the key. Look at Barca. Messi is their top player, 12 years now. It's a remarkable feat for any football player, especially for an attacker. Heve you seen Barca lately ? Ernesto Valverde is into rotation and when Messi is not playing the team is shite. With Messi gone, Barcelona will win their next primera title after 85 years. This man (Eden Hazard) must n't go. We were lucky because when Didier and Lamps were on their way out we found Eden Hazard. Obviously we have to find a new Hazard sooner or later, or we become a mid-table side. But as things stand we cannot finish higher than 8th-9th next season if he goes.

Don't agree on that. Kepa was rocketed from point blank range yesterday. He 's not a Petr Czech but he is better than Courtois who only had his newsagency size body going for him.

This is happening most of the time, with exceptions like the 0-0 against City. We made some useful moves after the 2-2 (the 24th minute) then gradually fizzled out. It's both physical and mental problem.

This team has no stamina. They 're no good for the full 90 minutes against EPL opposition. During the first half we created chances, scored two which is just about good enough. The defense made the two howlers so the first half ended in a draw, but there was lots of running, changing positions and shooting attempts. But in the second half, no speed, static players bumping onto the first defender and the occasional cross. It's not the absence of a quality centre forward to blame for that, nor is it the poor application of Sarri ball. It's running out of steam that causes it. We did not lose 5-2 because Burnley could n't do more -only park the bass. Against superior opposition it was going to be 5-2.

No you cannot accept the first goal because if such shooting positions were offered then all the football matches were going to end 20-19.

Useless in the 2nd half again. As Burnley came out to absorb the pressure it looked as if we were playing football but we were n't. Sarri out.

The defense are comedians.

United are out of it. I expect unstable Arsenal to finish fifth.

Tends to become a repetitive pattern, the 2nd half perfomances. Against 'pool too and on other occasions, Wolves etc.

No it's not, but thereabouts. Those are the best measurements to date, but the statisticians could make them even more accurate if they tried to. So for the match at Frankfurt on May 1, the 1787 versus 1864 corresponds to 40% chance for the home win, 32% for the draw and 28% for the away win. Intuitively I 'd say the opposite is true, but that's what comes out.

Frankfurt are the theoretically weakest among the four and Arsenal are the strongest. Elo ratings from clubelo.com are: Arsenal 1901 CFC 1864 Valencia 1823 Frankfurt 1787 The 77 points between us and Frankfurt is not big, but it's a fair difference in our favour.