The Soccer Thread (IV)

This is it: transfer window will close at 17:00 BST.

 

The great Henry Winter with some nice things to say about 'Murica.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/davidbeckham/6117807/David-Beckham-effect-takes-hold-in-America.html

 

EPL Talk tweeted Donovan is being eyed by Tottenham.

 

Latest rumor I'm hearing has Beasley to Olympiakos in Greece. I feel bad for Beasley. I like him as a player but he never quite returned from that injury.

 

Let the 'bare bones' jokes fly if that comes to pass (in January, of course).

 

Rothen to Rangers on loan.

 

This is the reason for Beasley's departure.

 

They just signed Kranjcar.

 

I still don't think it was a dive by Rooney.

And by go off, do you mean be upset at the offsides call on Gallas (which was an easy one for the AR) or upset at being tossed out (which was just silly given that injury time was already over)?

 

Not Birdscribe, but the offside call was absoutely right. Throwing Wenger out was playing to the crowd.

 

Getting tossed. It was a chickenshit thing to do and as Big Circus pointed out above, it was a unnecessary, grandstanding ploy that played to the crowd.

The offside call on Gallas was a no-brainer. Wenger later said he kicked the water bottle out of frustration that the goal was disallowed.

 

One might argue that kicking a water bottle down the pitch was an unnecessary, grandstanding ploy that played to the TV audience.