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Football/Soccer/Fútbol/Fussball Thread 2011/2012 |OT|

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PaulLFC

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So here we are, the new football season is nearly upon us. After a hugely unpredictable season just gone, will we see as much excitement this time around?

Thanks to CaramaC and elseanio for the awesome banner and league graphics respectively :)

What will happen?
- Will Villas Boas be a success at Chelsea?
- Will Sneijder/Modric/Nasri/Fabregas actually move clubs?
- Will Liverpool's strategy of spending big on British players pay off?
- How ambitious will Venky's be approaching the new season with Blackburn?
- Will John Henry still administer verbal beatdowns to anyone who's deserving of them?
- How will Torres fare at Chelsea this season?
- Is the recent instability over for Aston Villa?
- Who will emerge victorious from the Real v Barca battle?
- Will Juventus manage to sign Aguero?
- Will a French village team attempt to sign Messi again?
- Can Dortmund continue their fantastic form from last season?
- How will Porto cope this season without AVB in charge?
- Will FIFA stick to their guns over the Qatar world cup situation?
- Will Man City still have the best website in the known universe?

The Leagues (click a team to visit their website)


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Eredivisie - Table | Last season's top 4: Ajax, FC Twente, PSV Eindhoven, AZ Alkmaar
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Ligue 1 - Table | Last season's top 4: Lille, Marseille, Lyon, PSG
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Liga ZON Sagres - Table | Last season's top 4: FC Porto, Benfica, Sporting Lisbon, Sporting Braga
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MLS - Table | Last season's top 4: LA Galaxy, Real Salt Lake, Red Bull New York, FC Dallas
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Clydesdale Bank Premier League - Table | Last season's top 4: Rangers, Celtic, Hearts, Dundee United

GAFfers' Clubs - which team is the best supported on GAF?
AC Milan - dschalter
Ajax - Arjen, Wessiej
Arsenal - Boozeroony, colonisation, DOBERMAN INC, Judderman, Kweh, Lightning, Meus, omgkitty, pix, Plasma
Aston Villa - Awesome Animals, rodvik, Wes
Barcelona - Messi, Verano
Bayern - Blablurn, elsk, Hasphat'sAnts, Nemic77, spidye
Benfica - rvy
Besiktas - besiktas1
Blackburn - Jeff Albertson
Borussia Dortmund - Phantast2k
Celtic - Sage00
Chelsea - flintstryker, Gaaraz, GQman2121, Help Me!, JWong, Kylehimself, steverulez, xintin
Club Deportivo Guadalajara - Regulus Tera
Copenhagen - BatmanBatmanBatman
Corinthians - seabee
Everton - faridmon, sazabirules
Fenerbahce - UV-6
Fulham - xbhaskarx
Juventus - Charles, Shake Appeal, Smeghead, Yurt, Zabojnik
Leeds United - amitaiwinehouse
Liverpool - Arnie, ATF487, bjaelke, bonesmccoy, CaramaC, Cerebral Assassin, danwarb, Dark Machine, DJmizuhara, elseanio, Feorax, Fry8, jamieson87, K444WSR, labadal, Mastadon, MarshMellow96, odd_morsel, operon, PaulLFC, Seep, severin, Shogun PaiN, Skoptsie, sohois, Vard, Yenrot
Malaga - tolkir
Man City - BattleMedic, confuziz, dc89, Kermit the Dog, Manager
Man Utd - blurrygil, Brinbe, Cyport, Desmond, DominoKid, Dynoro, elfinke, fahatzara, Fëanor, Grover Cleveland, K1LLER7, kharma45, KidA Seven, LabouredSubterfuge, magnificent83, Requiem, Salazar, Slizz, Stubo, Tim the Wiz, Wilbury, WJD, yella
Newcastle - JesusTom, Keio
New York Red Bulls - Judderman
Olympiakos - gate777
Palermo - Joe
Porto - Letters, RaGe_pt, tonitoni
Real Madrid - Anastacio, MPW, Noirulus, Spanish Wrath
Sheffield Wednesday - Mat C
Sunderland - HixxSAFC, madmackem
Tottenham - Bungieware, Clydefrog, near, Scum, Ushojax

Let me know your team and I'll add you to the list.

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Videos
This Is Football
Goals of 2010/2011
A Life for a Goal - The Ultimate Ronaldo movie - Fantastic 41-part, 6 hour film about Il Fenomeno

General Information / FAQs
Football - Wikipedia
Statto - League tables as they were at a chosen time of the season, plus form tables, goals etc
Who Scored? - Live match statistics plus stats archive

Q. I'm looking to get more into watching football. Which team should I support?
A. The simple answer is, support whoever you want. But crucially, pick a team and stick with them, through the good times and the bad. If you change allegiances as soon as your chosen team has a bit of a hard time, you won't experience what it's truly like to be a fan. Besides, it just makes the good times all the better.

Q. Are there any matches being played today? / When is [X] game and is it on TV?
Check Live Football on TV for a list of upcoming matches. Note that the channels shown are mostly UK channels, but once you know the time of the game, you can check to see if it's being shown on local TV.

Blogs you may be interested in
The Swiss Ramble
The andersred Blog
The Football Ramble Blog
Said & Done (returning in time for the new season)

GAF's Fantasy Premier League - How to join
- Go to the Fantasy Premier League website
- Register, or log in if you already have an account
- Pick your team - you have £100 million total to spend. You can change your team up until a day or two before the season kicks off.
- Click on "Leagues" at the top of the page, then "Join League"
- Choose "Private league" and click Next
- Quote this post for the join code, which you will find inside the email tag right here:

Bring on the new season!
 
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Dark Machine

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Let me open with applause.

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Not bad Paul, not bad at all. Will we get to 20k before the new season begins? Not even Kuyt knows...

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painey

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West Ham relegated again.. this time I'm in the States and Championship football is rare as rockinghorse shit. Gunna be a hard task following the Hammers this year.
 
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PaulLFC

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Yurt said:
Haha paul do you want me to kill you :p ?

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Sorry :p I need more coffee, edited it now!

As for Calcio in the title, I didn't know about that, not sure if I can edit the thread title now but I'm sure a mod can if they want to :)
 
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rodvik

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Rodvik & Wes for Aston Villa.

Big question for us is - is the turbulence over? Just how many players can we sell and still field a full 11? :)
 
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Noirulus

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So many Liverpool fans!


Mourinho wants a new striker apparently. I'm thinking they're going to sign Adebayor. Aguero seems too expensive at the moment.
 
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K1LLER7

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Noirulus said:
So many Liverpool fans!


Mourinho wants a new striker apparently. I'm thinking they're going to sign Adebayor. Aguero seems too expensive at the moment.
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Havent they been linked with fernando llorente before?
 
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Yurt

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Noirulus said:
So many Liverpool fans!


Mourinho wants a new striker apparently. I'm thinking they're going to sign Adebayor. Aguero seems too expensive at the moment.
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It'd be funny if no one ends up with Aguero. :lol
 
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Noirulus

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K1LLER7 said:
Havent they been linked with fernando llorente before?
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Perhaps. I'm not too sure but I think i'd rather have Ade. He's already had 6 months or so to settle in Madrid and has a good goal to minutes played ratio. He's also okay with taking reduced wages apparently.
 
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Jeff Albertson

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Feels empty in here, ah well I'm sure by the time I wake up we will have 12 pages of City talk. (In my head I will now say City like the 'Chinese' guy off South Park)

And just because you all asked for it here is another picture of Rovers players eating Venkys chicken

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Dark Machine

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Requiem wanted to be under United and MPW is Real through and through by the way Paul, they just posted it in the last thread.

Anyway, MORE GIFS!

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And one for Jeff:

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Sorry if there's too many, just wanted to get them out there before my Photobucket bandwidth dies. :D
 
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Dark Machine

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Mat C said:
Sheffield Wednesday represent.
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How do you feel about your sponsor share deal with Sheffield United? Can't have gone down brilliantly. At least the Steel City derby's back on, shame it's on League 1 though.
 
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Broder Salsa

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Danish league starting this sunday, most important season for us ever as winning the league results in direct champions league group stage qualification. Can't wait but have a feeling it's going to disappoint with half a new team and a new manager after last seasons amazing season. Hoping to get to play Barca again in CL and get back at all the assholes on that team.

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Bumhead

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I'm fine with it. Having VW on our home shirt and Westfield on the away is the better deal for us from an asthetic point of view. I'm not sure how having a massive blue W on the front of a United kit has gone down on their side.

Means very little in terms of the derby matches. It's a shirt sponsor and it pays the bills I guess!
 
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yella

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I've been a long-time lurker of these threads, and made a few comments once in a while. I intend to make a bigger contribution to the discussion this year though. My allegiance is wih Manchester United. That being said, I was wondering- have we shown any interest in Keisuke Honda from CSKA Moscow? I know that he was linked with Arsenal for a little while, but with our current midfield situation, and through all the speculation about Sneijder (I personally would be surprised if he left Inter, even though I know he would be a fantastic signing), he could do big things for us. He was great against Madrid at Lyon in the Champions League, played very well in Japan's run at the World Cup (I was actually rooting for them against Paraguay), and recently he was instrumental in Japan winning the Asian Cup.

What do you guys, especially fellow Untied fans, think?
 
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Wilbur

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I've only seen Honda at the World Cup and I thought he was great; but I don't think we need a goal scoring midfielder. I wouldn't even be that enamoured with Sneijder after the initial omg stage, he doesn't fit into our current team. If Modric hadn't got his heart set on Chelsea - unless Villas-Boas decides otherwise - I would have loved him at United.
 
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Stubo

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yella said:
I've been a long-time lurker of these threads, and made a few comments once in a while. I intend to make a bigger contribution to the discussion this year though. My allegiance is wih Manchester United. That being said, I was wondering- have we shown any interest in Keisuke Honda from CSKA Moscow? I know that he was linked with Arsenal for a little while, but with our current midfield situation, and through all the speculation about Sneijder (I personally would be surprised if he left Inter, even though I know he would be a fantastic signing), he could do big things for us. He was great against Madrid at Lyon in the Champions League, played very well in Japan's run at the World Cup (I was actually rooting for them against Paraguay), and recently he was instrumental in Japan winning the Asian Cup.

What do you guys, especially fellow Untied fans, think?
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As the prospect of getting no-one to strengthen the midfield increases (besides Phil Jones, arguably), I'd be more interested in signing a player of his type.

I'm pleased to see the Hamsik rumour appear this evening, since he's a player I mentioned to friends months back as a potential transfer. I'm used to SAF picking up these sorts of players who aren't the most expensive available, and many of them turn out to be valuable members of the first team, or at least great bench options. Either would be fine by me.
 
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