by Owzat » Mon May 05, 2008 7:15 am
I can understand him wanting to play for his country, but I think this over-age rule thing should be revised if they are going to run the Olympics into the start of a football season. And why do they need to? I can only guess they want to make sure the Euros don't clash with the Olympics, but since most of the Olympic football teams should not be automatic choices for their countries, and I know Argentina aren't playing in the Euros but some European teams are, then clashing shouldn't be an issue.
And as I understand it Mascherano has already won Gold with Argentina (?) and plays for the full international team, so does he need to play every single game possible? Has he not, 'been there, done that, bought the t-shirt' ? Of course we won't know the full impact until we see the early season schedule, shouldn't be a problem for the CL qualifiers, but knowing our luck we'll get a big gun early doors.
First of the big four faced in the season (Community Shield excepted)
2004/5 Man Utd 20/09/04 (game 5)
2005/6 Man Utd 18/09/05 (game 4)
2006/7 Chelsea 17/09/06 (game 4)
2007/8 Chelsea 19/08/07 (game 2)
So we've faced on of the big four well before the end of September EVERY SEASON, in fact by the fifth Premiership game of every campaign so far under Rafa. No great shock that our starts weren't so great. In fact last season we'd played the mancs, bitters, goners and Chelsea all AWAY by mid-November. The fixture generating computer is housed in old trafford I'm convinced. And I reckon they get the s*y to move and televise games to favour fergie. Chelsea have had to wait over 48 hours to try and catch up their game in hand to suit s*y. And all that shenanigans with playing the bitters on a THURSDAY, maybe it didn't cost them that game but they would have been thinking about it when drawing with Wigan.
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