Gareth Bale
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She just hit that as hard as she could
Kermit The Dog said:Yeah, and like I said at the time, neither goals were his fault.
The guy made one goal-conceding mistake all year in sky blue. A pretty phenomenal record.
Bungieware said:Roma just signed Erik Lamela from River Plate for around 20 million. Never heard of him.
Yeah, that was depressing. How many years does this guy have left of his contract? We've got to get him off our wage bill somehow.omgkitty said:The problem with this statement = fucking Denilson is included in the squad. Why would we bring that idiot with us? Ship him off already! Somebody. Anybody! Take him away!!!
Rad- said:He's the kid that had the balls to reject Barca at the age of 12.
Regulus Tera said:Too much coverage of Neymar. Ganso is where the shit's at.
Regulus Tera said:Too much coverage of Neymar. Ganso is where the shit's at.
Bungieware said:Roma just signed Erik Lamela from River Plate for around 20 million. Never heard of him.
LabouredSubterfuge said:So we keep hearing. And yet the lack of approach or interest by big clubs seems to speak volumes.
Splatt said:Brazil's midfield is non-existent.
Fady K said:My God Argentina and Brazil have been dreadful, they are simply not playing like a team. No one seems to have a clue. I didn't like Dunga's management much but damn is it looking good now. Heck, I even enjoyed Maradona's coaching more than Batista. These teams should be playing a lot better.
As much as I love Brazil, they got damn lucky with that equalizer in the last minute. The games have been a bore and painful at times to watch...I can't believe I'm worried about ARG and BRA making it to the second round...
To me it felt like "Brazil itself was non-existent" :/ Possibly the worst 2 games I have seen for them in my life.
dschalter said:sneijder looks so stupid with the beard. like a greasy pirate or something.
To be fair, even Gomes can look world class on his day, so that's not exactly the best proof.dc89 said:If you doubt Joe Hart for even 1 second all you need to do is watch his saves against Spurs at The Lane from last season (opening game).
World class.
Modern goalkeeping is no longer about the saves a goalkeeper can make. Distribution and being able to organise a defence are just as important and that is why keepers like Kuszczak is not in the same calibre as VDS even though he had the better reflexes.dc89 said:If you doubt Joe Hart for even 1 second all you need to do is watch his saves against Spurs at The Lane from last season (opening game).
World class.
anonnumber6 said:I like that Inter shirt, rmeinds me of the French home kit.
If anyone doubts Benjani for one second just look at his goals against liverpool this season.dc89 said:If you doubt Joe Hart for even 1 second all you need to do is watch his saves against Spurs at The Lane from last season (opening game).
World class.
Scholes retired from football in May and had not played for the national side since quitting in 2004. I got fed up, Scholes said. When you are going to a team, and you want to be part of a team and playing well, and there are individuals who are after personal glory... when there is a simple pass of 10 yards, they might try and smack it 80 yards. They will do things to try and get themselves noticed.
We, England, go to these tournaments with the greatest of hopes when really the reality of winning something is not really there because there are so many good teams.
The French of a few years ago, Spains, Brazils, Argentinas, we just seem to be not as good as them.
You never feel that when you are playing. You always think youve got a chance. We feel weve got the good players, people say the best in the world, but I dont really think we have if you go on international tournaments.
We are the favourites every time and we probably will be next time.
We will beat Macedonia 6-0 in qualifiers and well be 5/1 favourites for the World Cup. It is just the way we are. I think it is quite laughable, dont you? It is just the mentality of English people. We think we are going to win everything.
Under Hoddle and Sven, you knew the way you were playing. But I am thinking how England play now and I dont really know. I do watch the games but where does Gareth Barry play? Do you have a holding midfielder? One up front? I couldnt tell you Englands style of play. The ideal for Scholes is, unsurprisingly, the one represented by Barcelona.
Barcelona are the level we all need to get to. They play the game the way everyone in the world would like to. They have the players to do it. The big thing for them is that word again, unselfishness. They play as a team, work hard for each other. As much people say Messi is the star man but amongst them he is not, he is just another player.
Messi said:Walked away from a discussion between friends today where the notion that chris smalling is a better defender than pique was being thrown around.
I mean really? smalling is good, maybe in a few years... though hopefully pique will get even better as he has improved every year since he returned.
farhatraza said::lol. Kneejerk reactions. Smallng is a fantastic prospect and was a revelation for us this past season, which really was a pleasant surprise. He hasn't played anywhere near enough games at the top level, in the league, CL and at international level...to even be compared to Pique.
farhatraza said:Scholes just can't get enough of the media these days!
English Players Are Too Selfish To Succeed
Some choice bits if you cba to read it all;
dschalter said:the problem (that people have trouble admitting) is that the best english players simply aren't at the same level at the best players from other countries. thus the endless talk about 'underperforming', which is simply performing at the appropriate level.
dschalter said:the problem (that people have trouble admitting) is that the best english players simply aren't at the same level at the best players from other countries. thus the endless talk about 'underperforming', which is simply performing at the appropriate level.
Is that completely true, though? Don't get me wrong, I agree English players are overhyped before tournaments every time. But look at the German national team in the last few years, maybe not the 2010 WC specifically. There are/were many good players but also no players on the level of a Zidane, Messi, Ronaldo, Xavi, etc., but we still managed to get in every semifinal since 2002 and the Euro final 2008.dschalter said:the problem (that people have trouble admitting) is that the best english players simply aren't at the same level at the best players from other countries. thus the endless talk about 'underperforming', which is simply performing at the appropriate level.
dschalter said:the problem (that people have trouble admitting) is that the best english players simply aren't at the same level at the best players from other countries. thus the endless talk about 'underperforming', which is simply performing at the appropriate level.
I was sat in the Away end for that, couldn't believe what I was seeing. IIRC we played Cole on the right for that one. Horrible and fucking freezing evening.Jeff Albertson said:If anyone doubts Benjani for one second just look at his goals against liverpool this season.
World Class.
Nah he's a good keeper but as I said needs to keep the mistakes out of his game, Robbo has done that now and has been superb this season but you know with him one mistake and it can go tits up again.
Milchmonster said:Is that completely true, though? Don't get me wrong, I agree English players are overhyped before tournaments every time. But look at the German national team in the last few years, maybe not the 2010 WC specifically. There are/were many good players but also no players on the level of a Zidane, Messi, Ronaldo, Xavi, etc., but we still managed to get in every semifinal since 2002 and the Euro final 2008.
The English national team just has a habit of fucking it up everytime it gets serious. Don't know why, though.
*greasy future united player*
Uh-oh! Not feeling that collar, love the rest of the design though.
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This is how you do collars, and promote them.
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Reliable at all? I've read about Nasri agreeing multiple times,...farhatraza said:The Sunday Times claims that Nasri has agreed a £185k a week deal with Man City. Clubs yet to reach an agreement. £185k. Nice.
this is the juve kit I have, I also seen my local sports store putting out the new juve home kit. First thing I thought of was yurt's avatar. It was 70 euro though so I left it as I am going to florida on monday for 3 weeks (yay) and I need to buy ac's home and away, united away, spain away, brazil home and away, spain home (some dickhead spilt varnish on my current one) and argentina away and wanna see about getting 1 or 2 mls kits.
the problem (that people have trouble admitting) is that the best english players simply aren't at the same level at the best players from other countries.
Really?!dschalter said:the problem (that people have trouble admitting) is that the best english players simply aren't at the same level at the best players from other countries. thus the endless talk about 'underperforming', which is simply performing at the appropriate level.
snoopen said:Reliable at all? I've read about Nasri agreeing multiple times,...
doicare said:Really?!
Just off the top of my head England have got Ashley Cole the best leftback in the world, Rio Ferdinand and John Terry one of the best international centreback partnerships in the world, Steven Gerrad and Frank Lampard two of the best central attacking midfielders in the world. When Owen Hargreaves was fit he was one of the best defensive midfielders in the world and then England have got Wayne Rooney one of the best strikers in the world so saying 'the best english players aren't at the same level as the best players from other countries' is just bullsh*t.
Yurt said:This is so wrong. As much as I like Scholes, he is probably that last person you want to listen to about the national team.