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Official Football Thread 2007/2008 (Soccer)

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hadareud said:
yeah, and I'm sure you're gonna take the points in the direct duel, just like last year.
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:D you think your gonna win that game eh? We might need to make a little wager.... Another season of "Oh well at least we beat Man U" :lol


h0pper said:
Ryck is a dyck. LOLZ
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Hilarious, Who are you anyway?
 
Ryck said:
:D you think your gonna win that game eh? We might need to make a little wager.... Another season of "Oh well at least we beat Man U" :lol


Hilarious, Who are you anyway?
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:lol

we shall see. I'm still hoping to get tickets somehow, it's already sold out but there must be a way.
 
Ryck said:
:D you think your gonna win that game eh? We might need to make a little wager.... Another season of "Oh well at least we beat Man U" :lol


Hilarious, Who are you anyway?
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I'm h0pper. And I was joking. Sorry my e-status isn't quite up to par with yours yet.
 
Mama Smurf said:
I dunno if I've written a long post in a while. Unless I'm sleep posting again.
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You know.... now that you mention it your right... I guess you were tired of the "long post" stigma eh
 
fantasy league standings:

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Translation = WANTED: "El Cuau" :D

Tonight's Fire game against Chivas is going to be fucking awesome. Word is it's a sellout (not bad for a team avg. 10-11k attendance). I wonder what the Blanco lover/hater ratio is going to be in the crowd.

Chivas is 10-0-2 with a 26-5 goal differential @ home this year. If any team is going to spoil that perfect home record, I think it'll be us.

Both teams have everything to play for. Chivas is fighting for the Supporters Shield and my team is trying to get some space from 2 other teams for the last playoff spot.

My personal (homer) prediction is Fire 3, Chivas 0.
 
Does Messi ever not score for Barca nowadays?

You know...I think Chelsea should just start again. Not from scratch, keep a core, but go back to the way it was when Abramovich first came...some Chelsea players stayed, but there were a lot of buys. They almost need to be rebooted it seems to me.

I'd keep Cech, Terry, Carvalho, Essien, Lampard, Drogba, maybe Joe Cole, some of the youngsters like Sinclair...clear out the rest. Shiny new manager too of course.

Perhaps I'm too extreme, but Chelsea have made a lot of mistakes in the last couple of years having started well...so let's start well again and learn from those mistakes to carry on.
 
Mama Smurf said:
Does Messi ever not score for Barca nowadays?
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:lol Today he could've made another one, but the refree invalidated it for some unknown reason >_< Anyway, he's already max goal scorer in La Liga :D
 
should have been a penalty for Wigan. Very very lucky Liverpool

and a perfectly good goal not given for Wigan for alleged offside.


CONSPIRACY

edit: nicely done by Benayon for the goal, but horrible keeping by Kirkland. Why the fuck did come out of goal, there was 4 people dealing with Benayoun
 
Bolton's next two Premiership games are Chelsea at the Reebok and Arsenal at the Emirates.

If it ends up 5 points from the opening 10 games...that's beyond relegation form. Yeah, some hard games in there, but also ties like Birmingham, Derby, Fulham...gotta try and pick up points against 2 top sides. At least it's a good time to face Chelsea, especially with Drogba suspended.
 
I thought that Bolton would have a difficult season, but I really didn't expect them to start this poorly. They should have enough quality to not have anything to do with relegation, but the longer they don't get out of down there the more difficult it will get (much like West Ham last year, who should never have been down there either)
 
hadareud said:
I thought that Bolton would have a difficult season, but I really didn't expect them to start this poorly. They should have enough quality to not have anything to do with relegation, but the longer they don't get out of down there the more difficult it will get (much like West Ham last year, who should never have been down there either)
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If Faye had stayed I believe we would've had a different season.

Btw tonight's game against Salt Lake was tough to take. 2-2 with some of the worst calls I've seen in any league. At least I saw Angel score his 17th of the season which breaks the Metro season record.

It's Salt Lake though.
 
Outdoor Miner said:
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Translation = WANTED: "El Cuau" :D

Tonight's Fire game against Chivas is going to be fucking awesome. Word is it's a sellout (not bad for a team avg. 10-11k attendance). I wonder what the Blanco lover/hater ratio is going to be in the crowd.

Chivas is 10-0-2 with a 26-5 goal differential @ home this year. If any team is going to spoil that perfect home record, I think it'll be us.

Both teams have everything to play for. Chivas is fighting for the Supporters Shield and my team is trying to get some space from 2 other teams for the last playoff spot.

My personal (homer) prediction is Fire 3, Chivas 0.
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I knew it would come out a draw.
 
Womens football is starting soon.

*resusitates thread*

CLEAR.

Why do Brazil just ooze skill and technique be it men or women we need to ship some of our English youths over there.
 
remember that Wenger interview about English football losing its soul and how it was evil because he's from Arsenal?

Well, turns out he didn't even say it and that the English press didn't bother to translate the interview correctly until today. Here's what he actually said:

Do you feel that English football is in the process of losing its soul?

A little, yes. Because the scale of things has changed. We've gone from owner-supporter to owner-businessman. Where the danger wasn't there before, it might be present today. But, that said, you can't condemn people just like that. You can have businessmen who respect perfectly English football's values. But in this regard, I can understand why there is worry now when it did not exist before. You used to have a boy who went and stood watching at games, who became a Liverpool fan and who after having succeeded in life, had a dream of buying 'his' club. Things have changed a lot since then.

But if Dr Wenger had to give a diagnosis of English football, what would it be?

English football is in extraordinary health. And I believe it has preserved its spirit - up to now - while improving its quality. It is now the football that is the most-watched and best-loved in the whole world. And now it finds itself handed an even greater responsibility: how to continue improving the quality without losing its soul. It's the challenge which we face today and it requires an enormous amount of vigilance.

And who has to be vigilant? The fans?

Of course. They are the guardians of football. They either come to matches or they don't and their verdict is usually right. They understand the game. I find it so fascinating that English football has realised how to keep progressing, and kept its uncalculated way of playing and kept the enthusiasm of its supporters, but still I think we have reached a crucial moment. The first signs of the game being over-exposed are being felt. The grounds are less full, there is saturation coverage on TV. There is a limit as to how much people can eat and digest, as much in terms of what they will pay as what they will watch.
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the full interview can be found here: http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,,2180175,00.html

A really good read.
 
Osorio said:
Btw tonight's game against Salt Lake was tough to take. 2-2 with some of the worst calls I've seen in any league. At least I saw Angel score his 17th of the season which breaks the Metro season record.

It's Salt Lake though.
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If you can, watch last night's Fire match. Now there was some bad officiating.

On the bright side Blanco got his 4th golazo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oObPi_9WGzg) and made the sellout crowd (mostly his fans) happy. It was hilarious when Razov came close to scoring there was mild cheering at the start of the game, but when Blanco got his first touch the stadium erupted.
 
Outdoor Miner said:
If you can, watch last night's Fire match. Now there was some bad officiating.

On the bright side Blanco got his 4th golazo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oObPi_9WGzg) and made the sellout crowd (mostly his fans) happy. It was hilarious when Razov came close to scoring there was mild cheering at the start of the game, but when Blanco got his first touch the stadium erupted.
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Yeah I really think the whole Chivas thing is stupid. Move em to San Diego and call em club deportivo san diego. I mean they only sellout or come close when LA plays or Blanco comes.
 
There's a rumour that Man City want Riquelme in January, which I could believe. They need a couple of people challenging for each position and currently Michael Johnson is doing a good job but there's no one else to come in there.

Of course, the paper that said about it also said he was an Atletico Madrid player when that move collapsed and he's still at Villarreal, soooooo...maybe not the best informed source.

Liverpool have signed Gerardo Bruna from Madrid in a Fabregas/Merida/Pique style situation. He's supposed to be the "Messi of Madrid"...yeah, whatever, but most of these deals have worked out well. He's 16, so you pretty much know how good he is, and we could see him anytime from now I guess (though he probably needs time to adapt).

Liverpool and Arsenal are supposedly battling it out for Samir Nasri from Marseille for £10m. He's an attacking midfielder, 20, the "new Zidane"...yeah, whatever, but he did win young player of the year in France, Marseille's player of the year and he's already picked up a few caps for France. Sounds like the sort of person Wenger would want.
 
Mama Smurf said:
Liverpool and Arsenal are supposedly battling it out for Samir Nasri from Marseille for £10m. He's an attacking midfielder. Sounds like the sort of person Wenger would want.
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Yup....... =P
 
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