Twas merely a wind up in honour of some of or more europhobic posters.

Eduardo let off, Arsenal making out that it actually was a penalty

I think we all know that regardless of contact, Eduardo would have ended up on the ground and the contact made wasn't enough for him to even feel, let alone for him to act like he'd been snipered.

The ban was wrong but if Arsenal fans claim he didn't dive like Wenger did, then it just shows you how deluded they really are.

I don't know what it was mate, but I never got the tickets, my mate did and he was asking me for money for something to get tickets, I'm completely broke at the mo and he said if I can't go the first game, we won't be able to get to the rest, so I told him to just write off the year.

Rather than claim it was a penalty, Wenger and Arsenal would have been better pointing out that it's ludicrous to bring in a rule after the season has started.

I know you had to £29 to be a "member" but thats for league only, he's right about if you don't go this one you can't go the rest though Fiorentina and Lyon will sell out probs on 1 game last season and Debreceni on FC

Hasn't taken long for city fans to be blinded by the cash has it? Used to get a decent debate with the blues on here who could usually see both sides of any controversial incidents but now all you get is one sided drivel.

Mind you those Blue posters you talk of have been outnumbered by a few latecomers.

It's a disaster we've gone from having three right backs to none now for Thursday. I would assume Yak is almost there now, made another appearance yesterday so he can't be too far off.

As Robbie says Gosling will probably play there. He did for Plymouth when we signed him.

What are we thinking about this Squad Capping and homegrown quotas?

Brilliant blog on the BBC about the lower leagues, suggest all should take a look

rlhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/paulfletcher/2009/09/carl_baker_and_stockport_an_ex.html#138740rl

Played there t'other week when Hibbert was sent off IIRC.


As for the homegrown thing, well, I'm not quite sure what it will mean. Hopefully it will mean getting rid of some of the deadwood at our club (Voronin, Babel, Dossena etc.), with younger, maybe even English players coming in.

If we have to have eight players under 21 for next year, I hope to see more of Pacheco, Dalla Valle, Buchtmann and maybe even a few English lads. I like Martin Kelly, but I'm unsure about Spearing/Darby to be honest.