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Football Thread 2011/2012 | OT11 | Roll on the Euros and transfer muppetry
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I usually don't spend a lot of time looking up pictures of women bar you know who but today has been a crapshoot.
Awesome Animals
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The physicality is different. More like rugby than football.
I was surprised when I saw the hits going in. It was really physical.
As you said, it was like rugby. There was a head on head collision which looked pretty nasty from where I was watching.
Awesome Animals
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Yea. That wouldn't feel good. I like hearing the lacrosse is over there too though.
Word of warning to others please spoiler tag all s4 stuff. I just bought it.
You're still too tall.
6'6 BABY
Missed some shockers yesterday, Haven't payed much attention to the Netherlands but I've heard he is poor while playing. Don't agree with the people in here saying he isn't great though.
Great player with Arsenal but misses way too many chances playing for The Netherlands. Some TV analysts said that he seems to play way more confident with Arsenal. Mainly because the team is build around RVP. In the Dutch squad he's thinking too much and is handling speed is lower.
At the WC in South Africa it was just like the match against Denmark. Too bad his real talent won't come out when he's playing for the national team.
About 5 ft 6. Bit shorter, perhaps.
Middling pace, even before I had both knees reconstructed.
Last time I went in for a serious header I broke most of my important teeth on the way down. Fuck that for a lark.
This is how I think. Huntelaar is much better for the Dutch team because with Robben, Sneijder and the other midfielders attacking relentlessly, you need your striker to have lightning fast reactions and be really good at following up deflections and making tap-ins.
RvP is wonderful for Arsenal because they play to his strengths while Holland does not. Holland is basically made for Sneijder.
lol. He was never going to get his chest up to that. Craziness.
Something about the recess for the patella being too shallow. They used to just dislocate whenever they wanted. In for a tackle: bang. Walking out onto the pitch: bang.
Oh man that sounds awful
That sounds horrific.
I strained my knee ligaments during a match a couple of years ago.
I have never been in so much agony.
Yeah. Braces did nowt. The first specialist got me doing crazy amounts of physio to build up the muscle around there, but it had pretty much no effect.
The surgeon who did both knees told me I had almost no chance of getting back to proper adult football - that was pretty much the whole extent of our discussion, because he was one of those godlike figures who hardly even talks to nurses. He was a cunt, but he clearly did a better job than he thought, because the knees are pretty legit. They sound like someone scrunching up cellophane when I bend them, and the scars itch, but they work. Years of repetitive dislocation murdered a lot of the cartilage, and I expect to suffer when I try and kick around in my late thirties/forties, but hey.
Benzema says United have tried to sign him the last 4 summers but he's going nowhere.
http://www.metro.co.uk/sport/footba...united-have-been-trying-to-sign-me-since-2008
Such a fantastic player.
http://www.metro.co.uk/sport/footba...united-have-been-trying-to-sign-me-since-2008
Such a fantastic player.
Yeah, he did miss some shockers and while the team doesn't completely play to his strengths he is far too good a player to be on the bench. The Denmark game was weird though because some of the shots he missed were sitters and he scored way more difficult goals than that for us all season. It was depressing seeing that happen to the player because he didn't deserve that but he really should have scored at least 1 of his opportunities.
I dunno, RVP changes when playing for the national side but the Denmark game was an exceptional poor performance from him and it cost us but I still don't want to see him benched. in saying that Huntelaar missed a couple of chances as well when he came on so it wasn't only RVP but still...
I can't help but feel that if RVP was wearing an Arsenal shirt on the weekend he would have scored. He's just diffierent for the national side and that upsets me. I love Arsenal a lot but i love my national team too and don't like it when we lose, especially when we dominate the way we did. We were all over Denmark and have nothing to show for it...
Regulus Tera
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Apparently there are already groups in El Salvador ready to receive the Mexican team with serenatas tomorrow night. :/
"Far too good to be on the bench" famous last words. If he doesn't belong in the system, then he shouldn't be used in the system.
pulga
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Holy sh-
Well those are an exciting 15 seconds!
Love my Facebook header tough.
HOLY SHIT HYPE HYPE HYPE! I didn't know we were so close to the new season! fuck yes!
Alevels in what?
I seriously can't wait for Barca - Juve next season (if it ever happens). Last night was like watching a teaser of things to come.
Weakened version of the two obviously.
Never thought I'd say this one day: Fry, you're dead to me.
I can see it.
Why's that? I've always been a keeper in 5-a-side, I can play outfield as well but I prefer being a goalie.
Sounds very simar to the problems Ledley King has had with his knees.
So Schalke are talking to VDVs agent. If that move happens I'm going to slit my wrists.
HarryHengst
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Pretty good, i feel he was really important in winning the championship this year as an anchorman. A good defensive midfielder who knows how to put pressure on enemy players and always seems to work hard. Would rather have him than Mark van Bommel in the Dutch national squad as a DM to be honest.
Not sure if he would succeed in the premier league though. He is like 1.65m tall.
Don't buy him thanks. Such a good player, so much talent and he wants to win no matter what other players do/think. I loooove him.
TheLucifer
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Italy-Spain was our first match in a lot of years that I was able to watch until the end without falling asleep. The entire team played pretty well, De Rossi was incredible, so were Buffon, Marchisio, Pirlo (dat assist) and Cassano, I guess. Maggio didn't fully conviced me, like Giaccherini (but it was his first match against one of the best team out there, so no worries) and Balotelli (way too nervous). If we keep playing like this I can easily see us getting to the semifinals.
Weren't Barca and Juve supposed to play against each other this summer in the Gumper Trophy? Last year was hilarious, seeing Napoli losing 5-0 was just perfect for both Mazzarri and De Laurentiis.
the tournament has been pretty boring so far, but group stages are not that exciting unless is a group of death. knockout stage is when it gets awesome.
mocolostrocolos
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Benz in his best moment+Higuaín staying are the greatest news of this transfer window.
fadetoblack
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I honestly have no idea why Balotelli didn't just take a crack on net when he was all alone. Prandelli said he should have passed to Cassano, but a low drive around Casillas and he's the hero.
Mou commented that he likes Italy, thought they played well, and could potentially win the tournament--but he still dislikes Balotelli
Also, for what it's worth, the Daily Mail and the Mirror have headlines about racist chants against Balotelli. Grain of salt and all that.
Mou commented that he likes Italy, thought they played well, and could potentially win the tournament--but he still dislikes Balotelli
Also, for what it's worth, the Daily Mail and the Mirror have headlines about racist chants against Balotelli. Grain of salt and all that.
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