It is hard to find highlights of the weekend just gone, following an embarrassing defeat to our hated rivals, Liverpool. Even seeing City lose wasn’t a completely joyous occasion, considering it was Chelsea, our biggest title rivals, on the receiving end of the points. Whilst I enjoy thinking of the bluenoses getting terribly giddy following Robinho’s goal, only to be totally outplayed on their home turf, it’s hard to get too excited about any Chelsea victory.
So, a clear highlight is definitely John Terry’s red card in the closing moments of the game. Whilst most initial reports slammed the decision, claiming Ricardo Carlvaho’s presence meant the England skipper should not have been sent off for a professional foul, the referee’s report paints a different picture.
Jo did John Terry, after Deco sold his captain short with a poor pass. Terry attempted to rugby tackle the Brazilian, hauling his opponent down on the half way line.
Mark Halsey showed no hesitation in showing Terry a straight red card, and as par for the course, the rentboys surrounded the referee.
Frank Lampard is one of many not happy with the decision, not enjoying the idea of facing United’s Carlos Tevez, Wayne Rooney, Dimitar Berbatov and Cristiano Ronaldo without Terry.
“John Terry wants to play football. He wants to play against United and we need him as captain,” said Lampard. “You shouldn’t take that away for a challenge that’s a standard yellow card. I’ve never seen a red card given for that sort of challenge. Hopefully they’ll look at it again and make it a yellow. It’s not a professional foul when there’s two men behind the ball. If not, we could miss him for three games. It’s just a block-off challenge. It happened at the other end with Didier Drogba when there was a free-kick given against Richard Dunne. If that’s the case, he should have punished him the same as JT, but he wasn’t.”
Whilst Chelsea are set to appeal the red card, reports today suggest that they’ve got little to no chance of being successful. Halsey has reported the incident as ‘serious foul play’ rather than a ‘professional foul’. As red cards cannot be rescinded to yellow cards, Chelsea will have to prove Terry was not even guilty of a yellow card offence, to get off the hook, which is very unlikely.
Chelsea, who were charged an incredible three times for failing to control their players over the course of last season, and a total of eight times ranging back to the two years before, crowded the referee after the red card was shown.
“They didn’t understand the decision of the referee and it is normal for some players to say, ‘What is this, what is that?’ – but with respect for the referee, not confronting the referee, not using bad words,” Scolari said in their defence. “They respect the decision of the referee.”
Rubbish weekend, but at least there’s something to console us to a certain extent. I’d have rathered Carvalho to be missing next weekend, but Terry’s absence will do.
Like our new signing of last season, Carlos Tevez, got his first goal against Chelsea, it would go down pretty well to see Berbatov do the same this year. Without Terry playing, that job should be easier for him.
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“John Terry wants to play football. He wants to play against United and we need him as captain,”: these are some serious arguments from Lampard. People should be penalised only if they don’t want want to play against United…
he always gets ripped, hes flat footed and slow, he just about got his rugby tackle in! jo isnt exactly rapid eitha, terry is a poor defender, however i feel that losing vida is a bigger blow for us than losing terry for them is! vida usualy has drogba in his pocket, wes may find it harder to deal with the drog, and who will play at right bak? rather hav rafael than g neville! doesnt matta if we lose IMO, onli 4 games gone, big deal! cmon the reds!
Why are we even playing Chelsea? Three away games on the bounce? Something not quite right about this. Yes I know we played the Euro Super Cup, but would this be happening if it wasn’t United? Can you see the FA making Aresnal or Liverpool play three consecutive away games? Conspiracy?
John Terry is a disgrace to football.
We’ve got the worst sequence of games I can remember in the league by faaar this year..
conversely the second half of the season will be very very easy..
But by then, there are no easy games. Even a 6-8 point gap by the christmas games will do for a late push I think.
I would rather Carvalho missed the game; he is ten times better than Terry and its hard too see the difference between Alex and Terry except Alex can play the ball on the ground.
Terry is the most overrated shite…
The FA have seriously screwed you over with fixtures, definitely a conspiracy. To be honest it’s incredible that you’re the most succesful team in the history of the Premier League what with everyone in authority clearly against you and doing all they can to stop you.
If John Terry’s as crap as you all reckon he is then surely you should be disappointed he’ll likely miss out right?
Well, Carvalho is playing and everyone know that he is the best centre back at Chelsea. John Terry is their leader though and I am certainly not complaining, as long as we have some decent corners put in, Berba, Rio, Brown and maybe even Ronaldo could provide a strong threat!
Could we be the team to break Chelsea’s amazing record??
To be honest, I don’t think it should’ve been a red card. Vidic did the same thing against the dippers and only got a yellow. However, it’s over and done with and I’m glad Terry will be out. He was made a fool of a few times in this game too. Carvalho is certainly the better defender. I have full confidence that we can go to the bridge and get a result.
deffo red card…but in a way it would be good to see that cry baby play. C’mon guys its our first chance to rub their noses in it…and esp sing up for viva john terry….the ripping he’d get from our fans would be tooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much for him to take. The chants..our t shirts of our win in moscow…the gaff of a miss pen by cry baby
He probs would start crying and have to be subbed….viva john terry
And true the fixture list does stink…
And james totally agree….vida a big big big miss esp considering the big Dogs backs
Jemima…. go to Tesco’s and get us lads some beers… ya knob !!
Terry is shite…. thats why he had to pull back an unproven brazillian.
I want him to play on Saturday … as i wanna take the home record off a full strength rent boy team.
Plus when united score the winner they could all rub onions in each others eyes… and run up to Terry n take the piss !! lol……
FailsworthDevil:
“go to Tesco’s and get us lads some beers” haha.
Jemima is the number one irritating person!
Tom….
What you drinkin mate……. Becks, Stella??
Im just making a list now to give to Jemima… before i sent it to Tesco…
Tesco in Bolivia that is lol……
I might have some stella, it’ll give me a valid reason to hit Jemima, haha.
Though, for the record I don’t drink stella!
I agree that it wasn’t really deserving of a red. Looked like Billy Crystal (carvalho) was behind him. Oh well, sucks that Vidic isnt there to wrestle with Drogba
Drew Vader – haha, @ Billy Crystal, though he reminds me more of Basil Fawlty!
I think that come Sunday, Terry will be playing! A United player would never get a red over turned, but as it’s Chelsea they a likely to.
hahahaha, jemima getn roasted like its a united christmas party!
don’t like to be a pessimist, but if we play against the rent boys, like we did against the vermin, we’ll get fucking trounced. been a while since we’ve lacked so much against the murdering bastards. we better sort it out very soon. and i’d hate to think we completely depend on ronny. with the team we had on saturday we should’ve murdered the murderers!
i’d rather terry was playing so we can direct some quality chanting at the fat fucker. viva john terry!!
theboy,
That’s not pessimism it’s honesty.
We needed that kick up the arse after our start to the season, the same as it took a 1-0 loss to City last year. Still it’s early days and that is the one thing that is on our side!
tom, very true mate, and i suppose we had a slow start last year, but we really do look like we’re devoid of ideas at the moment. i was hoping the wizard would give them both barrels at half time, and he probably did, which worries me even more. we should’ve come out and had the bastards, but we were even worse. lets hope you’re right and we turn it up several notches against the rent boys. no better time to do it.
having to admit to vermin at work that they were better than us is not summat i like doing.
@The boy: you can be sure of something, theres no way a United performance can be worse than what we played on Saturday, except if we don’t show up at all. I expect us to at least eke out a draw on Saturday, however I’ll be praying for a win.
Losing against Liverpool is the thing I dread most in a season. I hate the thought of it and it makes me sick worrying about it before the game. After the game at Anfield on Saturday, I didn’t feel nowhere near as bad as I anticipated because of the rate we went from superb to bad to worse at. We have had luck on our side in the past, last year at the dippers ground we played just as badly, but got a goal and left, this year it wasn’t to be.
I can only hope that this does inspire the players in the dressing room who think they are invincible and I also hope that come Sunday we will be full of confidence and passion that will hopefully see us get a point minimum.
First stop though is Villareal and that is where that confidence will come from, if we get a win at OT and a good performance I’d be pleased and that sorry display at Anfield can be forgotten.
My team for that important game would be:
EVDS
BROWN
^^ VAN DER SAR
—-NEVILLE RIO VIDA EVRA
FLETCH HARGO ANDERSON GIGGS
——–ROONEY JEMIMA
VDS
BROWN RIO VIDA OSHEA
RONALDO HARGREAVES ANDERSON NANI
ROONEY TEVEZ
Apparently Evra is injured which is bad news for us if he is.
I would like Neville to get a game at Old Trafford while he can and save Wes for his CB role at ‘the bridge’, would like to see Hargreaves playing rb against the rent boys!
Tom… that is a really really good suggestion with OHG at right back…would defo give us some metal back there, especially with Vida out.
What do you reckon about my front two?
jemima will moan too much tom F..bench her/him lol
Oh and as I predicted in this very thread… John Terry WILL be playing against us on Sunday :s
CONSPIRACY
Tom, we can play Jemima up front mate… but im sure she much prefers it up the back… oops i mean at the back lol
FA = Chelsea rent boys.
How can Chelsea get sooo many decisions turned in their favour? While everyone else has decisions upheld, and bans increased?
This game is going down the shitter with bent decisions like this.
He’s nowt but a racist cokney thug. Cunt of a man.
I knew Kevin Spacey (john terry) would be forgiven. I’m glad he’s playing because he is slower than grass growing. However, the fact that he was forgiven stinks of bias. It’s just a matter of time before kevin spacey does something stupid in a league game and capello will be forced to question his choice of captain.
Jemima = Kevin Spacey’s Mam
I think vidic and terry should both miss d big match on sunday