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[I believe that the fourth spot in the epl will be between liverpool and man utd]

No actually my belief.I believe that the fourth spot in the epl will be between liverpool and man utd and ferguson knows this so he asks for one of his opponents best players to be punished harshly without proper evidence,

How do you jump to that conclusion? MU look like the only side able to challenge City & if they don't win it they should finish 2nd.

Hopefully on appeal this can be at least halved, for liverpools sake at least

Probably better not to appeal as the ban will get increased. Doesn't FA,League cup games count in this ban?

Eight game ban and 40k fine for Suarez

Rumours on twatter were true so. Time for Carroll to step up.

I would love to move west. I think it would be great to start picking up provincial championships once again

Lovely Leitrim would be licking their lips as they long for Longford.

It was pretty tragic as it was (I know you didn't mean it that way).

The whole episode is so pointless. Two young men dead, for what?

True it's pointless i wonder what the girl in question makes of the whole episode?

Semi finals dates,venues set. http://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/championship/2011/1220/club.html

Christmas Week.

Few questions for all of you:

All the shopping done? No
How many will be at your table for Christmas dinner? 4
Favourite Christmas movie? Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Scholer or wine? Wine
Favoruite between Fairytale of New York or All I want for Christmas? Fairytale
Christmas Eve Mass or Christmas morning? Eve
Favourite between Oh Holy Night or Silent Night? Silent night
Michael Buble or Justin Beiber? Buble
Snow on Christmas day or a mild one? Snow

The mild weather is returning in the middle of the week.

thank fcuk

So no white christmas?

Nasty injury http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/blackburn-rovers/8965511/Scott-Dann-sidelined-for-six-weeks-with-ruptured-testicle-as-Blackburn-prepare-for-battle-of-basement-with-Bolton.html

The competitive nature & great rivalry of our province has helped ourselves & Tyrone to All Ireland success moving to leinster or elsewhere would lose that IMO.

[Arse]

which is why L'pool have the second meanest defence in the EPL (after the Arse).

Don't think the Arse have anywhere near the meanest defence in the EPL

Oops! 

Scanned the table too quickly (and somehow overlooked 8 goals at MU and 4 at B'burn Rvrs!  ).

Anyhow, this still kinda proves my point, which is that L'pool, with the fewest goals conceded in the EPL, rely primarily on tight defensive discipline and a competitive midfield to win games.

Which is why they don't create many easy chances close-in against their opponents.

Which in turn is why they are reduced to shooting from distance, or hoping Suarez will do something special.

Which possibly explains why they are hitting the woodwork more than other leading, attack-minded teams.

Take away the Manchester derby result MU only let in 8 goals in 15 games, would you call them mean in defence? Swansea with less resources have done well in defence Vorm for me has been the best keeper in the Premier league this season i think eight clean sheets already.

There would be less talk about changing the provincial set up if Munster football was as competitive as Munster hurling.

[get 3 points at Villa]

Enjoyed that. City are a decent, physically strong team but not as good as I'd imagined them to be. They could easily have lost that game but that'll stand them in good stead. Arsenal need to lift themselves straight away and get 3 points at Villa on Wednesday to stay with the top 4.

Big pity Walcott hid for most of it.

That won't be hard villa are truly awful

Won't be as awful if Agbonlahor,Bent return on Wednesday.

so if you are unlucky when you hot the woodwork you must be lucky when it goes in the net? doesnt make sense

a ball that goes in the net is a good finish - if it goes anywhere else is a bad finish including woodwork

So if someone hits a shot from 30 yards and it hits the post that's poor finishing? That certainly doesn't make any sense.

Unfortunately it can't be boiled down to the overly simplistic ball goes in the net = good finishing, anything else = bad finishing.

Ask yourself would Fowler or Rush have missed those chances this season? Liverpool not having a top marks man is going to cost them a champions league place.

2-0 game already done after 15 minutes that Villa strikeforce has to one of the worst ever in the premier league?