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Did Arsenal cheat their way to fourth place?; MAY 2006
Topic Started: Aug 11 2009, 01:01 PM (340 Views)
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AntMcfc
Aug 11 2009, 01:21 PM
That Chelsea team would have beaten any team the PL has ever seen, maybe bar the invincibles. What a unit they were.
I have a feeling they'd have beaten the invincibles too, Chelsea were just ridiculously good, despite lucking it against Barca :mad:
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Winner.

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Aug 11 2009, 01:02 PM
We were talking about this on the xbox a week or so ago. Cheating cvnts.
It was a non-food related bug as anyone who bothered to read the post-match inquiry and articles discovered.

Secondly, Spurs played West Ham, had a penalty, and Ex Spurs Sheeringham indicated with an expression where he was going to place it to Paul Robinson.

All in all, justice was done, and you continue to live in our shadows.

Look up everything I have just said...thanks for playing...tata
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They felt ill, NOT specifically food poisoning as the FA enquiry proved:

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Sky-News-Archive/Article/200806413523163?f=rss

So fvck off you bitter yid cvnts, you just weren't good or lucky enough (and let's face it, it takes both skill AND luck to win the Prem).

Tata...again x
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It amazes me the bitterness and clutching at straws that Spurs fans and Spurs sympathy voters have about losing out. The only thing they have to cling onto since 1961 is the Carling cup and a 5-1 beating...for which neither I begrudge, but it pails into insignificance when it comparing to the achievements of Arsenal.

Bitterness to the xtreme lol :D
Edited by GoonerPaul, Aug 11 2009, 09:59 PM.
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:hysterics:

If you say so.
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Man no offence to you fella, you are so chilled and realistic.

Had gooners and Yids at work square off though over this kind of thing...mad!
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Aug 11 2009, 01:01 PM
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Dejected footballers often complain about being as sick as a parrot. But for those connected with Tottenham Hotspur, yesterday left them feeling nauseated in more ways than one.

On the final day of the Premiership season, Spurs had to get as good a result as Arsenal to claim a lucrative place in the European Champions' League, and bragging rights in north London. But their preparations for the game against West Ham were thrown into chaos when the pre-match dinner on Saturday night left 10 players with food poisoning and police picking over the remains of their buffet supper to check for foul play.

It left Spurs to reflect on how a bug in their buffet had derailed a European dream and deprived the club of a potential windfall of £5m to £10m.

Conspiracy theorists wondered whether anyone from West Ham or Arsenal - bitter rivals of Spurs - had poisoned the team buffet, but Spurs officials seemed satisfied that it was more coq-up than conspiracy.

Within hours of the meal, top players such as Robbie Keane and Michael Carrick were using their renowned pace to get to the lavatory.

Police, environmental health officers and Premier League officials were called to the five-star Marriott Hotel in West India Quay where the team often spends the night before a game.

Tottenham will hold an emergency board meeting today to discuss possible legal action against either the hotel or the Premier League. Blood and urine samples taken from the players before the game may be used in evidence.

"I have never experienced anything like this in football before," said the Spurs manager, Martin Jol, who, together with his assistant, Chris Hughton, was also affected by the bug. But he added: "I don't want to blame our defeat on the circumstances and I do not think that there was any foul play involved."

Spurs management pleaded with league bosses for the fixture to be postponed but they were reluctant because the final day of the season, with all games kicking off at 3pm, is designed to give no side an advantage. West Ham were happy to replay, as long as it was after their FA Cup final this Saturday.

Spurs asked for the game to be delayed until 7pm but police rejected that, citing public order concerns around West Ham's Upton Park ground. By lunchtime, the visitors agreed to kick-off at the original time as two hours extra would have made no difference to players' recovery.

Spurs held an emergency training session to determine which players were fit for action. With so much at stake, Jol fielded his first-choice eleven but the side, normally impressive this season, appeared lacking in energy. Carrick in particular looked pale and weak and he was substituted with half an hour to go.

Jol said: "We would like to have postponed the match for one day but that was not really possible. West Ham are playing in the cup final next week, they didn't want to postpone the match and I completely understand that
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10 first team players food poisoned all seems very fishy to me and it did at the time too...it was a ploy!
why are we bringing up something that happened 3 years ago?
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'Cos it was on Premiership Years today Sphinx lol...
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:lol:

I was saying to GB on the xbox that I don't really think anything was done to it. Just bad luck. Although It is strange that it happened when it did. I'm probably more pissed off that they wouldn't postpone it a few hours.

I'm not one who gets wrapped up in the past and keeps bringing the shit up. Such as the 5-1. I'll more likely bring up the 4-4 because of what a brilliant match it was.

Same with Campbell. I'm not bothered about what he did. It's football.

Bitch about it during that week - Accept it - Move on. :D

(Although when/if we do get in the top 4, and hopefully in your place, maybe i'll bring that up slightly more. But who can blame me!)
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Aug 11 2009, 09:49 PM
It amazes me the bitterness and clutching at straws that Spurs fans and Spurs sympathy voters have about losing out. The only thing they have to cling onto since 1961 is the Carling cup and a 5-1 beating...for which neither I begrudge, but it pails into insignificance when it comparing to the achievements of Arsenal.

Bitterness to the xtreme lol :D
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hardly just the carling cup and a 5-1 win, is it mate, and theyve secured more european honours than arsenal :whistle:
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Aug 11 2009, 10:40 PM
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Aug 11 2009, 09:49 PM
It amazes me the bitterness and clutching at straws that Spurs fans and Spurs sympathy voters have about losing out. The only thing they have to cling onto since 1961 is the Carling cup and a 5-1 beating...for which neither I begrudge, but it pails into insignificance when it comparing to the achievements of Arsenal.

Bitterness to the xtreme lol :D
f.a. cup winners 1962, 1967, 1981, 1982, 1991
league cup winners 1971, 1973, 1999, 2008
uefa cup winners 1972 , 1984
cup winners cup winners 1963

hardly just the carling cup and a 5-1 win, is it mate, and theyve secured more european honours than arsenal :whistle:
but the last time they won something significant and worth shouting about was nearly 20 years ago, we will do the double next year, they will forever be in our shadow
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Aug 11 2009, 10:40 PM
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Aug 11 2009, 09:49 PM
It amazes me the bitterness and clutching at straws that Spurs fans and Spurs sympathy voters have about losing out. The only thing they have to cling onto since 1961 is the Carling cup and a 5-1 beating...for which neither I begrudge, but it pails into insignificance when it comparing to the achievements of Arsenal.

Bitterness to the xtreme lol :D
f.a. cup winners 1962, 1967, 1981, 1982, 1991
league cup winners 1971, 1973, 1999, 2008
uefa cup winners 1972 , 1984
cup winners cup winners 1963

hardly just the carling cup and a 5-1 win, is it mate, and theyve secured more european honours than arsenal :whistle:
Oh dear...compare to Arsenal's please.

And hmmm in terms of the big European progression stats also.

Fact is Spurs are a club with a massive and loyal fan base, and I take nothing away from them. Fact also is they have nothing to compare to Arsenal since we moved to North London in 1912 OR or recent decades since 1961.

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Fact also is many mancs, to their peril have an affinity with Spurs, a kind of underdog loyalty. My workmate Matt lost £450 in bets that Spurs would finish EVEN in the top 6 last season, much to the horro of his wallet....and so be it.

Man Utd and Spurs will continue to have this affinity, much to gooner fans amusement.
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After Spurs fans promised so much hailing Modic and Pav...and long may it continue. Man City, Everton, and Villa remain a cut above them imo.

Matt refuses to take any bets this season...bless him.
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