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Official Football Thread 2007/2008 (Soccer)

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psycho_snake said:

Just a feeling. I reckon they'll outmuscle you in central midfield and win it from there.

I'm sure Park will play btw, going back to your lineup. Van der Sar, Brown, Ferdinand, Vidic, Evra, Carrick, Scholes, Park, Ronaldo, Rooney...and I dunno about the last. Could be Tevez, could be Giggs, could be Hargreaves, could even be Fletcher or Nani though I doubt it.
 
Osorio said:
I don't get it.

you always say you "hate frat boys"

btw had, your avatar isn't loading for me and it's causing my browser to stay in "loading" state. Can you fix that? Is it just me?
 
Trinidad players to get disputed payment

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP)—A London arbitrator ruled that a group of soccer players from Trinidad and Tobago is entitled to profits from the team’s 2006 World Cup appearance.

Soccer player Kelvin Jack said he and 15 other players had filed a complaint against the Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation seeking at least 50 percent of net profits earned.

The government has declined to release that figure. Government officials said the federation received $28 million in gross profits. Federation spokesman Shaun Fuentes declined to comment.

The complaint originally was registered in Trinidad and Tobago, but moved to England—where many of the players play their club soccer—after both sides agreed to arbitration and was decided by Ian Mill.

Jack was one of four players who testified during last month’s hearings. He told The Associated Press on Thursday that he considered the ruling a victory.

He said a judge will decide in June how much each player will receive.

Jack Warner, FIFA vice president, told a local TV station that the federation will pursue justice if it disagrees with the final ruling.

“At the end of the day there are no winners, there will be only losers,” he told Trinidad news station CNC 3.

Warner also said he thought the quarrel would not affect the country’s drive to qualify for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
Good news that the T&T players will finally get paid. Warner is such a twat.
 
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Jean-Pierre Bernès, Samir Nasri officer, said that "no agreement" had been "finalised" on the transfer of Marseille to Arsenal.

"There is no agreement finalized, we are studying is true, a proposition from Arsenal who are interested sportingly Samir Nasri is also true, but other offerings are parking on my desk" said Jean-Pierre Bernès, without specifying where these came from other proposals.

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Lakitu said:
Mama Smurf 6,670
hadareud 5,398
Cornballer 4,680
Karakand 3,497
h0pper 2,833
QVT 2,734
psycho_snake 2,713
Wes 2,542
Steroyd 2,433
Osorio 2,259
SupahBlah 1,986
Yazan 1,552
Manager 1,074
Lakitu 1,022
Falch 1,019
Shinobi 965
Scum 744
Ghost 699
MrPing1000 689
Blablurn 686
velvet_nitemare 680
gigapower 680
Ryck 665
celestial body 596
Frenck 564
Cedeo 530
Ronok 458
MrSardonic 439
DSWii60 397
Outdoor Miner 347
Batongen 292
ElyrionX 265
kaizoku 258
bean breath 243
Fowler 222
WrikaWrek 218
FF_VIII 217
avaya 201
Opus Angelorum 200

you people have no life

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kobashi100 said:
Jean-Pierre Bernès, Samir Nasri officer, said that "no agreement" had been "finalised" on the transfer of Marseille to Arsenal.

"There is no agreement finalized, we are studying is true, a proposition from Arsenal who are interested sportingly Samir Nasri is also true, but other offerings are parking on my desk" said Jean-Pierre Bernès, without specifying where these came from other proposals.

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oh fucking hell.

And I was looking forward to the announcement tonight :(

Fucking newspapers making fucking stuff up. I hate them.
 
Cornballer said:
Warner is such a twat.
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I've been holding onto that image forever, thanks for giving me an excuse to finally post it!
 
hadareud said:
oh fucking hell.

And I was looking forward to the announcement tonight :(

Fucking newspapers making fucking stuff up. I hate them.

7:30pm, this stuff always happens before announcements.

Believe.
 
This is probably my last year up there. I can only post this much because I work from home, most of which is answering emails when they come in. It leaves me a hell of a lot of free time, but I still have to be here when emails come in, during the day at least, so sitting at the PC all day...what else to do? There's only so much time you can spend jacking off.

Come September/October time I'll be at uni and the workload first year is actually quite intense. Without this job and with lectures and essays and socialising and things, I expect my post count to at least halve. I probably won't be able to comment on matches that much either, except during holidays of course, pretty sure they'll be blocking things like sopcast as they do torrents. My friend's uni (that girl I was telling you about) won't even show swearing...I mean, these people are over 18, it's draconian. And I'm not gonna get myself thrown out for watching illegal streams even if they don't block them, they might find out anyway and it's just not worth it.
 
I like this Chelsea team, and I'm confident they'll get a result tonight.

I simply cant see Ballack, Essien, Makalele and Lampard not putting in everything. They'll out muscle Carrick and co. and not allow any space for Rooney, Ronaldo and Park to get free.

It would be interesting to see if Chelsea actually take a risk, and push the defence forward, pressing United at every opportunity.

It seems that's the only way to beat them. Push and push and push for 90 minutes.
 
Mama Smurf said:
I probably won't be able to comment on matches that much either, except during holidays of course, pretty sure they'll be blocking things like sopcast as they do torrents. My friend's uni (that girl I was telling you about) won't even show swearing...I mean, these people are over 18, it's draconian. And I'm not gonna get myself thrown out for watching illegal streams even if they don't block them, they might find out anyway and it's just not worth it.
Great Caesar's Ghost... WTF.

Torrents are pretty much the only thing campuses here uniformly block. I lucked out though, my university is one of the original internet backbones so they're very liberal with spending money on their internet infrastructure. The one year I lived on campus they basically said we could do anything we wanted, but we were fucked if we torrented copyrighted material. (I of course did not heed their warnings because I have problems with authority. Fuck the man!)

P.S. We will miss you. :(
 
Cornballer said:
How's the team looking? I hear Hill and Shea are playing well. I forgot to set my TiVo before I left for work this morning.
They played with heart, the first half wasn't so good but they almost came back in the second.
 
Mama Smurf said:
This is probably my last year up there. I can only post this much because I work from home, most of which is answering emails when they come in. It leaves me a hell of a lot of free time, but I still have to be here when emails come in, during the day at least, so sitting at the PC all day...what else to do? There's only so much time you can spend jacking off.
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I salute you, good sir, while stealing bandwidth from Clint Dempsey's website.

Arg, ESPN360 not active here at work. Not sure if I'll follow the game online or what. I don't know if I should go through the trouble of setting up streaming software here at work.
Osorio said:
They played with heart, the first half wasn't so good but they almost came back in the second.
I'll take it. It's our C-team in any case, but that's also Turkey's U21 team. :( As long as Nowak finds a couple useful players for the Olympic Roster, it's fine by me.
 
Mama, don't believe the propaganda, 1st year of uni is a cake walk. And there are ways around even the most anal university filter.
 
Cornballer said:
Arg, ESPN360 not active here at work.
I really have come to believe that no person in the history of space and time actually has access to ESPN360. It's a myth they perpetuate to make people think they're a really cool company when in fact they employ the biggest collection of hacks I have ever seen in sports journalism.
 
Karakand said:
Great Caesar's Ghost... WTF.

Torrents are pretty much the only thing campuses here uniformly block. I lucked out though, my university is one of the original internet backbones so they're very liberal with spending money on their internet infrastructure. The one year I lived on campus they basically said we could do anything we wanted, but we were fucked if we torrented copyrighted material. (I of course did not heed their warnings because I have problems with authority. Fuck the man!)

P.S. We will miss you. :(

Well uni breaks are pretty damn long, especially at Durham who like to think it should be Oxbridgham and go on their scheduling, so it won't be a problem to get what I want to, I just won't necessarily get to watch things the second they come out. And they probably can't do anything about a rapidshare account anyway.

Ghost said:
Mama, don't believe the propaganda, 1st year of uni is a cake walk. And there are ways around even the most anal university filter.

Normal first year probably is, mine's foundation first year, as I don't have the right background to go straight into the degree. It's like compressing your A levels down into one year apparently.

As for ways round the filter, again I'm not sure it's worth it in case it's discovered, but I wouldn't know how anyway.
 
Karakand said:
I really have come to believe that no person in the history of space and time actually has access to ESPN360. It's a myth they perpetuate to make people think they're a really cool company when in fact they employ the biggest collection of hacks I have ever seen in sports journalism.
I think my roommate got it working at home once, but that's about the only appearance of ESPN360 I've ever seen.
 
Karakand said:
I really have come to believe that no person in the history of space and time actually has access to ESPN360. It's a myth they perpetuate to make people think they're a really cool company when in fact they employ the biggest collection of hacks I have ever seen in sports journalism.
I've watched every CL game this year at work using it....it works damn good... today I am staying home however.
 
Ryck said:
I've watched every CL game this year at work using it....it works damn good... today I am staying home however.
You support a racist football club and my other love's geographic (and thus principal since they suck) rival though so I find this very hard to believe, especially in the context that believing it would completely erode the elaborately constructed conspiracy I have concocted in my warped mind.
 
Cornballer said:
clinteddie%20salute.jpg

I salute you, good sir, while stealing bandwidth from Clint Dempsey's website.

Arg, ESPN360 not active here at work. Not sure if I'll follow the game online or what. I don't know if I should go through the trouble of setting up streaming software here at work.
I'll take it. It's our C-team in any case, but that's also Turkey's U21 team. :( As long as Nowak finds a couple useful players for the Olympic Roster, it's fine by me.

why don't you use something like the justin.tv

here Ill give you a link..

http://www.justin.tv/psn_1
 
Karakand said:
You support a racist football club and my other love's geographic (and thus principal since they suck) rival though so I find this very hard to believe, especially in the context that believing it would completely erode the elaborately constructed conspiracy I have concocted in my warped mind.
:O

Chivas of Guadalajara may be racist but Chivas USA is not !!!
 
Mama Smurf said:
This is probably my last year up there. I can only post this much because I work from home, most of which is answering emails when they come in. It leaves me a hell of a lot of free time, but I still have to be here when emails come in, during the day at least, so sitting at the PC all day...what else to do? There's only so much time you can spend jacking off.

Come September/October time I'll be at uni and the workload first year is actually quite intense. Without this job and with lectures and essays and socialising and things, I expect my post count to at least halve. I probably won't be able to comment on matches that much either, except during holidays of course, pretty sure they'll be blocking things like sopcast as they do torrents. My friend's uni (that girl I was telling you about) won't even show swearing...I mean, these people are over 18, it's draconian. And I'm not gonna get myself thrown out for watching illegal streams even if they don't block them, they might find out anyway and it's just not worth it.
My post count is going to do down too. I'm off to uni so I'll be busy doing uni stuff, well all the uni stuff minus most lectures, most essays and more of getting drunk and making most of living by myself with no one watching me! I'll try to do the minimum I can without getting kicked out.

Plus I'll be watching games at a pub rather than sitting at home watching with a laptop in front of me posting in here. My parents said they'll get me a United season ticket, but actually getting one is pretty difficult since there's probably a massive waiting list.
 
Ryck said:
:O

Chivas of Guadalajara may be racist but Chivas USA is not !!!

Chivas de Gualajara are not racist, its actually in the constitution of the team for them to only accept Mexican or Mexican American players because they believe in Mexican bred talent unlike that majority of teams in Mexico at the present. To call them racist would be far fetched as it is a tradition that had intentions to develop Mexican players instead of buying expensive foreigners like America, and Im not a fan of the team. This is the same thing that happens in other parts of the world such as Atletico Bilboa in the Basque region of Spain.
 
Mama Smurf said:
Just a feeling. I reckon they'll outmuscle you in central midfield and win it from there.

I'm sure Park will play btw, going back to your lineup. Van der Sar, Brown, Ferdinand, Vidic, Evra, Carrick, Scholes, Park, Ronaldo, Rooney...and I dunno about the last. Could be Tevez, could be Giggs, could be Hargreaves, could even be Fletcher or Nani though I doubt it.
It would be a mistake not putting rooney and tevez upfront imo.

I reckon giggs will play over park because of the experience giggs has, but I reckon that would be a mistake. Giggs' performances have been pretty bad lately, whilst Park has been playing pretty well. I'd like to see park start, or maybe even nani. The problem with nani is that although he's pretty skillful and can put in a good cross, he's also very wasteful. Against Chelsea he was the one getting into the best positions, but he always lost the ball.
 
kobashi100 said:
Jean-Pierre Bernès, Samir Nasri officer, said that "no agreement" had been "finalised" on the transfer of Marseille to Arsenal.

"There is no agreement finalized, we are studying is true, a proposition from Arsenal who are interested sportingly Samir Nasri is also true, but other offerings are parking on my desk" said Jean-Pierre Bernès, without specifying where these came from other proposals.

eurospôrt.fr

Oh shutup and just give him the paper to sign already.
 
h0pper said:
do you guys appreciate it when an American legitimately supports a club? It is a rarity. I know when foreigners come over here and they're into an American team we eat that shit up. I'm just wondering if I'd get the same hospitality :lol

I would view it with a little er... scepticism...cos there's little chance that growing up in America you can have the same appreciation of the sport that we do. the geographical rivalries, the banter with friends who support rival clubs, the comeraderie of fans and loads of other things.

doesnt mean your support isnt legitimate, or that you're any less dedicated or passionate, if anything foreign fans have more challenges than local fans. Its harder to watch the game, you feel disconnected etc. its just that appreciation of the club and sport would be different or underdeveloped.

if I was foreigner I would probably still gravitate towards Utd cos of their history and what the club represents etc etc - but my support would be underdeveloped without loads of time and research and playing the game.
 
mozfan12 said:
Chivas de Gualajara are not racist, its actually in the constitution of the team for them to only accept Mexican or Mexican American players because they believe in Mexican bred talent unlike that majority of teams in Mexico at the present. To call them racist would be far fetched as it is a tradition that had intentions to develop Mexican players instead of buying expensive foreigners like America, and Im not a fan of the team. This is the same thing that happens in other parts of the world such as Atletico Bilboa in the Basque region of Spain.
Sarcasm...


Im watching Azteca ( local OTA channel) and they are showing Liverpool v Milan with Arsenal v Barcelona to follow... in HD no less.....
 
Ryck said:
Sarcasm...


Im watching Azteca ( local OTA channel) and they are showing Liverpool v Milan with Arsenal v Barcelona to follow... in HD no less.....

It just too bad you follow Morrissey's football teams. He is my favorite singer but I hate the fact that he is a man u supporter.
 
Karakand said:
Because he's mother fucking Mama Smurf, that's why!
:lol

Mama Smurf said:
Which uni are you going to again?
Manchester, if I can get the grades. I got offers from better uni's, but its more conveniant if I go to Manchester.

Are you going to durham?

btw I read that post about that girl that you think of as a cousin. If you want to make a move, go for it, but if that happens then your tag needs to be changed to "my penis is still intact and is ready for some incest"
 
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