Del Fenner
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And it is a fact that they will not ship 4 goals in a game this season. I see. Are you willing to be quoted on that?
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And it is a fact that they will not ship 4 goals in a game this season. I see. Are you willing to be quoted on that?
I didn't say that was a fact. But EVIDENCE points to it being unlikely on Saturday. May happen, probably won't. My point is I don't think it'll be a 4-3 sort of game. More a 2-1.
Grombleton
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- Dec 31, 2011
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Excellent post. 100% agree. We're a better team than Palace and we play better football. Just go there and play out normal game and all things being fair - we should run out winners.
f*** Zaha and his incessant cheating.[/QUOTE]
Change the record.
As soon as he changes his behaviour
Cheating scum like Zaha is ruining the game. Time to bring in video refs and start suspending him.
essexeagle
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- Jul 22, 2004
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Absolute b/s. If a player is running at a defender with pace and skill (same with AJ and Wilf) the defender will always be in trouble. When they are caught the momentum takes them over in the majority of cases. That is not the same as a dive. Holloway has been well known for his stance on diving. He commented about this after Saturday's game when Damien Delaney went over in the box (which may have been a dive). He said there is no place for this in one of his teams and if he did dive he would be fining him.
Please stop all this crap you all keep coming out with about Wilf being a diver..He isn't! Just a hell of a skillful player who will cause you untold problems on Saturday.
He has dived enough times to justify the reputation he has gained for it.
Blah blah blah blah lah. Mealy-mouthed bullshit, (from Holloway and yourself). Why is he talking of fining Delaney, and in the same breath pretending Zaha's blatent simulation, which got waved away, was any different? He's just hoping to influence the refs, who are getting wise to Zaha's cheating - and thinks that if he looks 'fair' (by criticising Delaney) that it might carry more weight.
essexeagle
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- Jul 22, 2004
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Unsurprisingly, I disagree. Let's talk after he has ripped Bridge a new a***hole on Saturday.
essexeagle
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Perhaps because one was (probably) a dive and the other wasn't? You can believe this diving/cheating all you want. From someone that has the absolute pleasure of watching Zaha every week let me tell you he is not a diver. He is though, the best player I have seen in Red & Blue since I seriously started following Palace in 1983.
If Bridge is fit, it will be very interesting to see how that goes - how Wilf actually gets on against a premiership quality full-back. I hope Wilf doesn't completely blow his big audition, in front of all the watching scouts - could wipe a few million of his transfer fee.
Looks a good player - I'm man enough to admit that. Shame you are too one-eyed to see the obvious. Good footballer, but a cheat. Pure and simple.
essexeagle
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See how he gets on against a has-been (and barely ever was) who is such Premiership quality that he has had to drop down to a run of the mill Championship team to get a game?
Seems I know a little bit more about Wilf's current form, than you do about Bridge's petal. You are in for a bit of a shock.
essexeagle
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I'm looking forward to it luv. I hope he plays.
Glenn-Murray
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- Jun 24, 2011
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You have conceded the fewest goals in the league, and we have scored the most. Should be a good game.
We average 3 goals a game at home this season
He didn't have Zaha in his pocket at all. Zaha was completely dominant in the first half and was absolutely all over Leeds. He was picking the ball up and making fantastic runs, he was unlucky not to get a couple of assists in the first 45 minutes. Unfortunately, Colin knew that the way to beat Zaha is to kick the shit out of him. He was absolutely clattered a couple of minutes before half time, and at the start of the second half. Leeds then put three men on him at all times, and got two lucky deflected goals to win the game despite Palace being the better team.
Referees in the Championship need to give more protection to the most talented players in the division. If Buckley keeps improving to the point where people are as worried about him as they are about Zaha, you will know exactly what we mean. Teams will gladly risk losing a player if they can take your star man out of the game. It's cheap, it's dirty, but it's effective when referees don't punish the hoofball cloggers like Leeds.
Oh. Well that changes everything, thank you.
Glenn-Murray
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If Zaha is a diver, Buckley is too
Doesn't take away from the fact that every club in the country would love to sign him, and that Man City and Man United are being linked with £15m bids for him in the papers every day...
WTF? If you say our player is a diver, we'll say yours is? I've seen Zaha cheat a few times, I haven't seen the same from Buckley. Zaha may get fouled a lot, but he does cheat too (I'd say 'dives', but that glosses over other cheating).If Zaha is a diver, Buckley is too
No it doesn't.
Are they? Got any links to national papers (that's not a smug 'yeah right, show me the links', I don't doubt that you have some links, just want to see them)?