EPL Talk - Latest Comments in Upset Alert

Re: Upset Alert

Django — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:11:41 -0000

Give it a rest...this blog used to be a great place to come to read articles and opinions, now it's just a pissing contest between fanboy bloggers. Neither of you are that clever.

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Alex Hleb — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 19:35:30 -0000

sorry.

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Alex Hleb — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 19:35:07 -0000

even yakuba-cahill match up to your "best striking tandem in the world"

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Alex Hleb — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 19:31:55 -0000

michael, rio ferdinand is one of the dirtiest players in the premiership as well if you use eboue's standards. and gary neville. and should i go on? michael, youre biased. ive read some of your articles from your site.
here are some things i gathered from them:
-so you dont care if kaka wins all the awards, cristiano is still better. OK.
-no one can do what ronaldo can do (yeah except ronaldinho, a healthy henry, messi, robinho, kaka, eto, van nistelrooy, should i go on?)
-you dont care if arsenal are first, theyll fall by the time winter hits. OK. (you predicted them to finish in 5th!HA!)
-and apparently tevez and rooney are the best striking tandem in the world. (except Anelka-Drogba? Henry-messi-ronaldinho-eto? kanoute-fabiano(sevilla)? van nistelrooy-raul? tony-klose(bayern)??) oh. yeah.

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jm — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 16:21:46 -0000

Much like your article about Wenger, I simply do not understand the reasons for all of the 'baiting' language in these posts. Was picking Villa to win this match a fair bet? Sure. Was writing a post on that topic fair? Sure. Was your post in that regard fair? Sure.

But then you include lines like this:

"Emmanuel Eboue will be suspended for this match (frankly, Eboue is one of the dirtiest players in the league)"

Regardless of whether or not it is true, it is a bizarre sentence. The clause in the parentheses has absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the post. It is not argued for which does nothing to support of the rest of the piece. What point could it possibly serve? Why is that not edited out before it is published?

I know I have been a rather selective critic of your recent posts Michael, but choices in style and rhetoric have been consistently taking your posts off their fair targets and on to you and the team, rather than the game.

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Michael — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 13:20:46 -0000

Last time I checked, Arsenal didn't beat Milan either and now Milan have the upper hand in this tie as they're at home for the second leg. I predicted AC Milan to advance, and a 1-1 game in the first leg.

No, the only time Man U has dropped points at home was in their loss to City and when they drew with Reading. Arsenal has dropped points now to Villa and Birmingham. The point I made in my last comment about dropping points to non-"Big Four" teams applied to when the "Big Four" teams were at home.

Alex, you have a problem with selective reading. You see what you want to see in my reading, jump on that, and then disregard anything else I say. It doesn't work like that, sorry.

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Alex Hleb — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:24:19 -0000

and you were wrong about us losing to milan.

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Alex Hleb — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:24:01 -0000

and michael, the point is that you were wrong, and there was no upset. we scored against ourselves and that was their best chance the whole game.

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Alex Hleb — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:18:59 -0000

michael youre not biased, you just prefer manu re.

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Alex Hleb — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:17:30 -0000

so michael, thats just like when manu re lost to bolton, man city, west ham, and man city? and when they drew with tottenham? and others? or did they gain a point in your opinion.

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Michael — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:12:46 -0000

Alex, no, you dropped two points and were fortunate to get one out of the game.

I know that Villa has been playing well recently; that's part of the reason I picked them to win this game. Still, Arsenal are on top of the table and are unbeaten at home this season. This was a game that Arsenal had to have fancied their chances in to take the full points, even though they had to have known it was going to be tough.

Any time you're at home against someone not in the "Big Four" and you don't win, it has to be considered dropped points.

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Alex Hleb — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 11:52:44 -0000

we've had a bad spell of late, true, but we got a point against a team that is very much in top form. and we didnt allow them to score.(we scored for them witha defender with slow feet). people are making it seem that we lost to a team from the championship, but aston villa have been on a roll until this game. we held our ground and got the point. instead of saying that its like we lost two points, its evident that we got a crucial point to hold our place in the table. this shows, like all champions, that we wont fall without a firm fight.

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Alex Hleb — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 11:45:26 -0000

just getting a result yesterday shows that we can get a result with any team, even a team like aston villa playing behind the ball most of the game. we showed our resiliance and its this resiliance and heart that is carrying us on. we're overcoming adversity as a team, over coming our darkest moments to hold the summit of the league for most of the season.

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Alex Hleb — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 11:41:07 -0000

and its interesting that michael doesnt comment on his post. his comment a minute before the game was over about him being almost right was really bold.

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Alex Hleb — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 11:40:12 -0000

no. we're not worried. and we're happy with being first, no matter by how many points. remember, we were predicted to be out of the top 4 this year and miss the champions league for next year and arsene wenger was supposed to leave, fabregas was supposed to sign with real madrid, adebayor with manu, theo walcott was supposed to be loaned out to a championship side, and we were supposed to be taken over by an uzbeki oligarch. so far, i think the season has been good for us. we're thankful.

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Todd — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 04:32:22 -0000

predictions mean very little...the only thing that matters is today united closed the gap as they did last week. arsenal fans cant be happy right now, even for rescuing one point. though i have to admit, after our final whistle, it was painful to see you guys equalize. sometimes results like that matter, but right now arsenal have to be a bit worried. i think arsenal may benefit from being knocked out of europe

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dragonki2012 — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 00:52:16 -0000

Eh a draw isn't the end of the world.

Just gonna say one thing,
Not a bad place to be for a team that was suppose to finish outside the top 4, right?

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Django — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 22:15:30 -0000

Give it a rest Alex...Numbers don't always tell the tale, I can say for certain Villa outplayed Arsenal for the first 45, wasn't able to watch the second half. Regardless, your sycophantic postings get old quickly. You're an Arsenal fan, I get it. You're ahead of everyone else in the league. Other teams lose matches. You're petty.

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Alex Hleb — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 18:16:01 -0000

and spurs lost to birmingham 4-1. man u lost 4 this year and arsenal only lost 1. man u lost to west ham, city twice, and bolton.

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Alex Hleb — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 16:40:40 -0000

ok.

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Dimi Berbatov — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 16:14:46 -0000

Still a bad result for Arsenal. Manchester United seem inevitable champions this year (hence the Gallas' sob fest during draw with Birmingham).

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Alex Hleb — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 15:30:23 -0000

plus, the only goal for them was ours scoring for them.

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Alex Hleb — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 15:28:31 -0000

can*

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Alex Hleb — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 15:28:08 -0000

you cant look those up if you dont believe me.

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Alex Hleb — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 15:27:37 -0000

Match Stats
............................Arsenal ............Aston Villa
Shots (on Goal) ......16(7)............ 5(4)
Fouls ...................... 8................. 13
Corner Kicks .......... 8 ..................7
Offsides .................. 0.................. 7
Time of Possession .58%...........42%
Yellow Cards ........... 1............... 2
Red Cards............... 0............... 0
Saves ...................... 6................ 6

but again, it doesnt matter, all that counts is the final score. and the league table.