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Babblelot · « **Reply #300 on:** May 08, 2011, 10:01:56 PM »

Well, 2011 turned out to be quite an exciting year in the end. Three months ago you were

and taking a victory lap, Chris. Good way to finish. I really thought Chelsea was going to do it, so good on United, a well deserved 19th PL title.

Chris1987 · « **Reply #301 on:** May 09, 2011, 12:20:20 AM »

Quote from: Babblelot on May 08, 2011, 10:01:56 PM

Well, 2011 turned out to be quite an exciting year in the end. Three months ago you were and taking a victory lap, Chris. Good way to finish. I really thought Chelsea was going to do it, so good on United, a well deserved 19th PL title.

We certainly made things a little tighter than they had to be, but that's our way, we never do anything the easy way, we have to put ourselves through it

But thanks Bab, once we get that 1 point to

Chris1987 · « **Reply #302 on:** May 14, 2011, 02:55:37 AM »

Today's the day we become the most successful English team for winning Championships as 1 point will clinch our 12th Premier League title and 19th League title overall

Its just soooooooooooo exciting knowing we are on the brink of it and with 90 minutes solid football today we can clinch that special 19th title and the celebrations can really begin!

And this can be rammed right down the Liverpool throats as this was back in 1994 when they had 18 League titles, whereas we had 8 at the time:

Thiw was never going to be forgotten by us United fans andnot to mention Sir Alex and the players at the club from that time to now, this is a really special day and this is now the right banner+1 after today:

GO GO GO UNITED!!!

Chris1987 · « **Reply #303 on:** May 14, 2011, 07:41:39 AM »

As always, especially away from home this season we're making things difficult as its 0-1 Blackburn at halftime $:\$ $:\$

2nd half to come though and we need a much better performance and this clown of a reserve goalkeeper who we are playing today out of the team!!

Chris1987 · « **Reply #304 on:** May 14, 2011, 08:53:08 AM »

Championes championes, ole, ole, ole,
Championes championes ole, ole, ole...

19 TIME LEAGUE CHAMPIONS- THE RECORD- MANCHESTER UNITED!!!

Babblelot · « **Reply #305 on:** May 14, 2011, 09:10:16 AM »

Love the Liverpool-United smack!

Chris1987 · « **Reply #306 on:** May 14, 2011, 11:37:44 AM »

Quote from: Babblelot on May 14, 2011, 09:10:16 AM

Love the Liverpool-United smack!

I/We know how to wind those clowns up Bab

I've already done so with loads I know within my job, and had another going on FB too

Chris1987 · « **Reply #307 on:** May 22, 2011, 12:48:01 PM »

Final Barclays Premiership table

1 Man Utd 38 41 80

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2    Chelsea    38    36    71
3    Man City    38    27    71
4    Arsenal    38    29    68
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5    Tottenham    38    9    62
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6    Liverpool    38    15    58
7    Everton    38    6    54
8    Fulham    38    6    49
9    Aston Villa    38    -11    48
10    Sunderland    38    -11    47
11    West Brom    38    -15    47
12    Newcastle    38    -1    46
13    Stoke    38    -2    46
14    Bolton    38    -4    46
15    Blackburn    38    -13    43
16    Wigan    38    -21    42
17    Wolves    38    -20    40
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18    Birmingham    38    -21    39
19    Blackpool    38    -23    39
20    West Ham    38    -27    33

Chris1987 · « **Reply #308 on:** May 22, 2011, 02:02:27 PM »

Some picturesof the celebrations

Chris1987 · « **Reply #309 on:** May 22, 2011, 02:03:05 PM »

Chris1987 · « **Reply #310 on:** May 22, 2011, 02:04:05 PM »

Babblelot · « **Reply #311 on:** June 26, 2011, 10:59:56 PM »

Report: Manchester United set to lodge a £20m bid to sign Samir Nasri from Arsenal

I really am getting turned off by this buying titles. Cheap

Hard to believe that it's tolerated outside of Manchester.

Babblelot · « **Reply #312 on:** June 27, 2011, 12:00:48 AM »

Hmm... I just check the MLS salaries, and the story isn't what I thought, however, the differentials are as they are because the top clubs are going overseas to bring a single player to the US rather than buying talent off the rosters of other MLS teams.

2010 payrolls
1. LA Galaxy +$11.1 million
Beckem

2. NY Red Bulls +$4.7
3. Toronto +$4.2
4. Seattle +4.2

the other 12 teams are $2.3 to $2.8 million

$Million Players by Club - these are base salaries, not realized*
Chicago Fire
1. Nery Castillo (MEX) $1.8 million *only played the final 8 games for Chicago
2. Freddy Ljungberg (SWE) $1.3 million *only played the final 15 games for Chicago

LA Galaxy
1. David Beckham (ENG) $6.5 million
2. Landon Donovan (USA) $2.1 million

NY Red Bulls
1. Thierry Henry (FRA) $5.6 million *only played the final 11 games for NY
2. Rafael Marquez (MEX) $5.5 million *only played the final 10 games for NY
3. Juan Pablo Angel (COL) $1.9 million

Toronto Reds
1. Julian de Guzman (CAN) $1.7 million

Chris1987 · « **Reply #313 on:** June 27, 2011, 02:17:04 AM »

Quote from: Babblelot on June 26, 2011, 10:59:56 PM

Report: Manchester United set to lodge a £20m bid to sign Samir Nasri from Arsenal

I really am getting turned off by this buying titles. Cheap

Hard to believe that it's tolerated outside of Manchester.

Manchester and you are claiming its us

If you compare the money spent the last 4 years on players we rank 5th overall behind Chelsea, Man City, Liverpool and Tottenham. Lets not forget too that we got 80m for selling Ronaldo and have still not spent that money yet. In modern day football now to keep up and keep moving forward now you have to buy and strengthen, we need about 4 players this year but rest assured others will spend more money than us, heck Chelsea spent 50m on 1 player in Torres in Jan, whereas the last couple of years we have hardly spent any money.

Our titles were not built on money though Bab, it was built on the nuculus of amazing young players we brought through at the 90s in Giggs, Scholes, Neville, Beckham, Phil Neville, Butt- add that to the best manager of all time and those players and manager getting across to the other players how much they care for the club and their will to win and you have success. That's why those sort of players aren't possible to replace, now we only have Giggs left as a player

And don't worry Nasri won't be allowed to come to us from Arsenal, they won't sell to 1 of their big rivals, however the problem comes from him rufusing to sign a new contract and you can't risk him going for absolutely nothing next summer when he's out of contract.

Chris1987 · « **Reply #314 on:** June 27, 2011, 02:19:30 AM »

See Bab your Arsenal are doing it too:

Arsenal have made Valencia midfielder Juan Mata, another star of Spain's U21 side, their top summer transfer target. The Gunners have offered £18m for the 23-year-old.

Babblelot · « **Reply #315 on:** June 27, 2011, 09:32:12 AM »

Quote from: Chris1987 on June 27, 2011, 02:19:30 AM

See Bab your Arsenal are doing it too:

Arsenal have made Valencia midfielder Juan Mata, another star of Spain's U21 side, their top summer transfer target. The Gunners have offered £18m for the 23-year-old.

Raiding another league is different. City is bad, but I don't know if the others are cherry picking from the PL.

Chris1987 · « **Reply #316 on:** June 27, 2011, 09:42:58 AM »

Quote from: Babblelot on June 27, 2011, 09:32:12 AM

Quote from: Chris1987 on June 27, 2011, 02:19:30 AM
See Bab your Arsenal are doing it too:

Arsenal have made Valencia midfielder Juan Mata, another star of Spain's U21 side, their top summer transfer target. The Gunners have offered £18m for the 23-year-old.

Raiding another league is different. City is bad, but I don't know if the others are cherry picking from the PL.

Yeah its a pretty common thing Bab players going between 1 EPL team to another but a rare thing is going from 1 rival to another. That's why I can't for 1 second see you guys letting Nasri go to us, you can't sell to your rivals for sure.

Babblelot · « **Reply #317 on:** June 27, 2011, 10:00:09 AM »

Good

Babblelot · « **Reply #318 on:** July 03, 2011, 08:09:12 PM »

Chris, do you remember this dute, Faustino "Tino" Asprilla? He played for Newcastle from 1996-1998.

I was watching a documentary about the 1994 Colombian WC team and this guy was a beast throughout the WC prelims. Even scored twice against Argentina in a 5-0 route in Buenos Aries, could have been 3x but he wanted to get his teammate a goal. He was unstoppable and incredibly skilled. I was just wondering if he made an impact at all in the PL, or if he was considered a buster?

I read some Wiki on him and he sounds like a big prima donna arse clown. Got kicked off the national team during both the 1994 and 1998 WCs when Colombia were considered among the favorites to win but crashed out in 1R each time.

Chris1987 · « **Reply #319 on:** July 04, 2011, 12:31:05 AM »

Yeah I remember him very well Bab as he was at Newcastle when they were 1 of the main ocntenders for the Premier League title. He came across with a pretty big reputation but you got it in using the word 'bust' and 'clown' that's just what he was really and was a real flop over here for the most part and that's why after a couple of seasons he was moved onto somewhere else. As you say though he had a real talent about him but his attitude and some of the things he did really let him down.

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