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    Kuszczak hits out at Van Der Sar

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    Lehmann used to do the same to Almunia at Arsenal, wouldn't work with him and used to tell him he hated him.

    I'm an easy-going person," Manuel Almunia says. "I like to treat everyone with respect and I see everyone as equals. I treat people the way I would like to be treated myself. To have someone here who hates me is just amazing. I know he hates me."

    There can be only one goalkeeper in every team so it is to be expected that the men fighting for that place occasionally clash. In Holland, as a substitute goalkeeper at PSV Eindhoven, Ronald Waterreus used to switch on the television in the middle of the night to make sure his room-mate and rival, Georg Koch, slept badly before games. David James will admit cold-shouldering Brad Friedel when the American signed for Liverpool.

    It is easy to understand, however, why Almunia, Arsenal's goalkeeper, has run out of patience with Jens Lehmann. All season, ever since Lehmann lost his place, the German has been belittling Almunia at every opportunity. He has described it as a "humiliation" to lose his place to a goalkeeper whose previous clubs include Osasuna B, Cartagena, Sabadell, Eibar and Recreativo Huelva.

    He has described himself sitting on the sidelines feeling "very angry" and having to "clench my fist in my pocket". His words have been laced with contempt and, with a carefully planned sense of timing, he claimed this week that Arsenal would still be in the Champions League if he had been in goal. "To be sitting on the bench behind somebody who only started to play when he was 30 is not funny."

    Until now, Almunia has chosen to rise above the jibes. This has been a difficult week for everyone at the Emirates and, as the team prepared for tomorrow's game at Manchester United, it became clear that their relationship has broken down irretrievably.

    "Every morning I wake up," says Almunia, "I know it is going to be the same. I've had to put up with it every day since he was out of the team and even before then. I wake up and I know what it is going to be like. But I don't care about him any more. He can say what he likes. I come into training and I work with Lukasz Fabianski and Vito Mannone. They are better goalkeepers than him anyway."

    Almunia is not a vindictive man. Far from it. Ask anyone at Arsenal about the 30-year-old from Pamplona and they will talk about him being one of the more popular members of Arsène Wenger's dressing room. That is why he is so appalled by Lehmann's behaviour. "It's his problem, not mine, and I don't see why I should try to talk to him about it. The truth is I don't want to talk to him. I came into training this morning and one of the press officers told me he had been saying bad things about me in the newspapers again. It didn't surprise me. The truth is I have got used to reading these things from him. If he was someone important to me, I would try to talk to him and see what the problem is. But he's not. So we don't talk."

    Lehmann, it should be pointed out, has history when it comes to falling out with rival goalkeepers and, famously, had a long-standing grudge with Oliver Kahn as they competed for the same place in the German national team. Yet Almunia, by all accounts, is a difficult man to dislike.

    "I've never been in a situation like this before in my career," he says. "Normally we goalkeepers have so much respect for each other. Why he doesn't respect me, I don't know. But I don't want any relationship with him. I try not to let what he says enter my mind because it's not important to me what he says or what he thinks."

    The people who matter to Almunia are his family and the rest of the Arsenal players. Plus, of course, Arsène Wenger. "I have had a lot of nice words from them," he says. "I've been in the first XI nearly all the season and I'm happy with my form. I've kept my level up and I think I can be satisfied with my performances. Apart from one person, the people here have shown a lot of confidence in me."

    Almunia has had to show the strength of his character because he has been under scrutiny ever since he displaced Lehmann. One newspaper likened him to Manuel from Fawlty Towers after Manchester United's 2-2 draw at the Emirates in November, but the volume has gradually been turned down on his critics. One certainty is that he has made fewer errors than the man who seems so intent on demeaning him. Lehmann, lest it be forgotten, was dropped because, in Wenger's opinion, the 38-year-old had become a danger to his own team.

    Since then, Lehmann has been increasingly getting under Wenger's skin and there was a telling scene at the manager's press conference yesterday when he was asked whether the German would get a new contract when his present deal expires at the end of this season. "Pardon?" said Wenger incredulously. The question was repeated and Wenger snorted with laughter. "The boss is trying to build a team of kind people," says Almunia. "He wants easy-going people who have character. He doesn't like arguments in the dressing room."

    The Spaniard signed his own contract extension last week and is confident of retaining his place even if, as seems highly likely, Wenger signs a replacement for Lehmann. "If another goalkeeper comes in he will be made welcome," he says. "I hope we can have a good atmosphere with all the goalkeepers working together. I signed my contract because my heart is with Arsenal."

    He is, however, still feeling depressed after what has been a chastening period for the club, culminating in them going out of the Champions League against Liverpool on Tuesday. "It's been a very difficult period," he says of a run that has also seen Wenger's side fall out of contention in the Premier League. "Nobody expected us to have such a bad time as this. Manchester United and Chelsea had a few bad games at the start of the season and we've had our bad period at the crucial point of the league. That has killed us.

    "If you have one player off form, it is fine because you can replace him. But when it's many players, all at the same time, the team will suffer. We are a young team and our squad is quite small. Maybe we've lost confidence, too. Everything seems to have affected us and it looks as though Eduardo's injury has in particular. The truth is that ever since that game, Birmingham away, we have not played well. The team have not given 100% and we have bad results."

    The scene in the away dressing room at Anfield was particularly emotional. "Everyone had their heads down, close to tears. It was very quiet, not a time for anyone to be blaming anybody else. I was devastated. I'm so upset and disappointed. But we have to come back stronger next year. We need a bigger squad, maybe some new players with greater experience, and then we'll be OK." And Almunia, one suspects, will not be heartbroken to know that the bad-tempered German who has been scoffing about his performances all season will not be around to see it.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2008/ap...ewsstory.sport8

    Also Frank Lampard and Jamie Redknapp went into a restaurant where Lehmann was eating and Lehmann refused to talk to them then got up and left.

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    Mad Jens :crywank:

    Sheep fan set on fire.

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    How the fuck did he manage to get set on fire anyway? Bet it was a practical joke gone wrong.

    Depending on who you believe it was either his mate in a drunken prank that got out of hand or Hibs fans. Very likely it was his mate but, some people are speculating about Hibs casuals cause they kicked the crap out of some other Aberdeen fan dressed as Elvis outside Easter Road. :craphead:

    Rangers Interested in Clyde Pair

    in Jimmy Bell's Kitroom

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    BBC says both are training at Murray Park for the week

    Why where they not picked up and at Murray Park in the first place !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    good point

    If Murray Park is the best facility in Scotland and these players are indeed that good, why aren't they already at Murray Park? How many hot prospects are we missing out on?

    Maybe cause Rangers can't go through and check out every single youth player in Scotland ffs. doh

    Also these 2 players have only been noticed because they're getting regular first team football cause Clyde got relegated and had to release pretty much their entire squad last season and start from scratch.

    Yes logistically Rangers cant go out to every young player and scout them

    But, good young players should be encouraged to come to Rangers to murray park for trials....every club in Britain is the same, its not what you know its who you know and it shouldn't be like that!

    Maybe we should be holding mass trials like Clyde they obviously worked if these two are indeed as good as the press have made out

    Why? What press? This is the first most people will have ever heard of them and quite possibly the last time. These players are doing ok for a team 3rd bottom in the Scottish 2nd division and probably being looked at cause of Bomber Brown's recommendation. Even if they get signed they will go into Rangers U19's and there's no guarantee they will ever get near the first team.

    And alot of parents are wary of letting their kids anywhere near the old firm at youth level now due to the fact most of the time they never get anywhere near the first team and not only do they rarely get anywhere but they don't get released till quite late on. Example being Alan Lowing, nowhere near good enough for Rangers yet he's sill here wasting in the reserves at 21/22 when he could've started at a smaller club and got first team football from age 17/18 and worked his way up to a reasonable level. Another example being Celtic releasing practically their entire U19 team at the start of the season. Complete waste of some of the most important years of their careers.

    Rangers Interested in Clyde Pair

    in Jimmy Bell's Kitroom

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    BBC says both are training at Murray Park for the week

    Why where they not picked up and at Murray Park in the first place !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    good point

    If Murray Park is the best facility in Scotland and these players are indeed that good, why aren't they already at Murray Park? How many hot prospects are we missing out on?

    Maybe cause Rangers can't go through and check out every single youth player in Scotland ffs. doh

    Also these 2 players have only been noticed because they're getting regular first team football cause Clyde got relegated and had to release pretty much their entire squad last season and start from scratch.

    Chances of a link for the game tonight?

    in Jimmy Bell's Kitroom

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    Don't think the game will be live anywhere, but they'll show the highlights on the news and at halftime or fulltime after the tims game tomorrow. Always the same for the league cup, there's one live game and all the highlights are crammed into that coverage. We got the last round so tims get this one for the live game.

    The Glaswegian Bar

    in Jimmy Bell's Kitroom

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    Never good to hear about a Rangers pub closing. All the best to the owners for the future.

    This will also be bad news for future Subcrawls in Glasgow.

    Wasn't a Rangers pub, but subcrawl related the Honours Three on Shields Road shut down and is now an Italian restaurant meaning you need to go Paisley Road Toll instead.

    Hamburg fans against them...

    in Jimmy Bell's Kitroom

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    I can't see us ever playing St Pauli.

    IIRC, it has been 10 years since Hamburg played St. Pauli?

    I might have misinterpreted one of the German's last night in the Glassy though.

    It's probably about right, St Pauli have been floating about the 2nd and 3rd division for a bit. Currently midtable in Bundesliga 2 while HSV have never been relegated.

    Channel 5 Irish plonker

    in General Football & Sport

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    He's a plastic Liverpool fan that doesn't bother about either Rangers or Celtic, though he does make a relatively big deal about his support for the Northern Irish national team.

    He's a shit presenter on the football coverage, but his late night show on Radio 1 was pretty good and he was excellent on Ch 5's NFL coverage a few years ago, plus i quite like him on Fighting Talk on 5live.

    Eck eyes Aiden

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    McGeady is really their only constant threat. Celtic are pathetic when he isn’t on form. I would happily hope he leaves for £8million, it’s not ridiculous a price as some papers have said (£12m+), as the blow to their attacking options is more than enough than what they can buy with their biscuit tin mentality.,

    Well he's "on form" just now and has skinned fullbacks about 600 times in the last 4 weeks then created the sum of fuck all with his crossing or finishing. On that form i hope he stays, especially as he is barely worth £4million tops and Celtic could do a lot better than McGeady with £8million to blow.

    When was the last time someone outside The Old Firm...

    in General Football & Sport

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    Aberdeen in 85 is correct. Hearts should have won it in 86

    Should Hearts not have won it the year Celtic lost to Vienna?

    No Hearts nearly won it in 1986 but lost on the final day up at Dens Park 2-0 with Albert Kidd grab goals and Celtic won the title through Aberdeen won the previous 3 years in a row

    How does that work?

    Going into the last day of the season Hearts were ahead by 2 points and on goal difference, they only needed a point away to Dundee to clinch the title. They lost 2-0 while Celtic fucked St Mirren 5-0 at Love Street to win the league on goal difference. A number of people (mainly Jambos) claim St Mirren lay down to Celtic cause at the time St Mirren had a load of ex-Tims in their team.

    Stephen Ireland

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    Did he not walk out the first time because his wife had a miscarriage?

    Yeah his wife had a miscarriage and not being the brightest guy about, Ireland just said the first thing that came into his head so he could fly back to Manchester to be with her. Then a few days later when it emerged his gran wasn't dead he start getting loads of abuse from fans, took a while for it to come out about the miscarriage cause he wanted to keep it a private matter.

    Stephen Ireland

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    This has always made me wonder what's going on with him.

    He must regret not being able to play in the World Cup - the pinnacle of a footballer's career surely?

    He has said before that while it's an honour to play for your country and he made a mistake lying about the dead granny, he feels he owes more to do well for Man City in the meantime and see what happens in the future. Man City took him on as a teenager suffering from Osgood-Schlatter disease and he had trouble even jogging, they've saw him through that and gave him regular first team football etc, where as Ireland have messed him about and there were accusations of bullying and other stuff when he had that daft thing with the wig, some other Irish players held him down and ripped his wig off him. On top of this he got heaps of abuse and letters from Irish fans when he walked out on the squad and it turned out his gran wasn't dead and it's only since they realised he's a decent player that there has been any kind of change in attitude towards him.

    Basically, he's a fanny for lying about why he walked out of the squad in the first place, but completely right to fuck them off for now. He says he feels he owes City alot for what they've done for him and he wants to be like Keane was for United, and play most of his career there and win things with City if they can, which to me is a great attitude in a player.

    English rivalries.

    in General Football & Sport

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    The title's ENGLISH rivalries, these teams play in the English leagues, but NOT fucking English!!! To count Cardiff-Swansea an English rivalry is offensive :sherlock:

    No offence intended, just read the thread as in meaning English leagues. Plus Cardiff seem to have a "rivalry" with pretty much everyone, mad cunts.

    English rivalries.

    in General Football & Sport

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    West Ham - Millwall

    Bristol City - Bristol Rovers (actually one of the more heated ones, City fans twice burnt down Rovers ground and a near riot last time they played)

    Crystal Palace - Charlton

    Crystal Palace - Brighton

    Manchester Utd - Manchester City

    Sheffield United - Sheffield Wednesday

    Nottingham Forest - Derby County

    Manchester United - Leeds United

    Cardiff City - Swanswea City

    Cardiff City - Bristol City

    Blackpool - Preston North End

    Alot of the more heated rivalries are lower league ones because they haven't played each other as much in recent years.

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