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Football Thread 2013/14 |OT20| I don't really give a shit what any title is

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brokenbeans

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Blablurn said:
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She's a cutie.
 
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TheLucifer

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I spent the last half hour watching our 2010/2011 goals, when we won our last scudetto, and remembered that Pato was an incredible player. He used to score from everywhere, in any situation, position, you name it. He was a freaking beast.

Then he discovered sex.
 
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Clegg

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The Times reckon GAHL will be announced next week and that the new boss has told Woowar who he wants to sign. Hummels, Kroos, Reus and Robben.

Good luck with that.
 
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Jack cw

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LabouredSubterfuge said:
Do explain.
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Look, van Gaals idea of football is to have possession. That is the best method of defending. Similar to Guardiola but with one significant difference. On the pitch every player is assigned to a position he has to act in. There are basically zero switches or overlapping players, everything is static and the players become specialists on their position and not allroudners. It becomes difficult to break through good defences and its gets dangerous with counters. Huge downside of this is that defending as a team isnt the focus when loosing the ball, because van Gaals system completely lacks the counter pressing. That means, if a player loses the ball in the opponents half there are no triangles of players near the ball to make pressure on the oppositions player who has obtained the ball, leading to much space in midfield to start counters. That is because every palyer has to hold his position. This might sound not so dramatic but if you play against teams with fast attackers, the game is already lost. We saw that in 2010 and 2011 with Bayern. Teams adopted to that style. They adapted tactics even to Peps Barca. van Gaal has to implement the idea of pressing, then you'll dominate most oppositions.
 
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The_Hitcher89

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Jack cw said:
Look, van Gaals idea of football is to have possession. That is the best method of defending. Similar to Guardiola but with one significant difference. On the pitch every player is assigned to a position he has to act in. There are basically zero switches or overlapping players, everything is static and the players become specialists on their position and not allroudners. It becomes difficult to break through good defences and its gets dangerous with counters. Huge downside of this is that defending as a team isnt the focus when loosing the ball, because van Gaals system completely lacks the counter pressing. That means, if a player loses the ball in the opponents half there are no triangles of players near the ball to make pressure on the oppositions player who has obtained the ball, leading to much space in midfield to start counters. That is because every palyer has to hold his position. This might sound not so dramatic but if you play against teams with fast attackers, the game is already lost. We saw that in 2010 and 2011 with Bayern. Teams adopted to that style. They adapted tactics even to Peps Barca. van Gaal has to implement the idea of pressing, then you'll dominate most oppositions.
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Sturridge and Sterling just got boners
 
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Carbonox

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Ushojax said:
I actually know the girl who's doing the UK Eurovision entry this year, she used to work with my sister #claimtofame
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Did you fuck her? Cos that's a legitimate claim to fame these days. Something you could sell to the Daily Mail and make a fiver off.
 
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The_Hitcher89

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I give you a million pounds. You have to put it on the line, with one of three bets. If you lose, it gets taken away

England win the World Cup
Liverpool win the league
UK wins the Eurovision

What do you put it on?
 
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3Sixty

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The_Hitcher89 said:
I give you a million pounds. You have to put it on the line, with one of three bets. If you lose, it gets taken away

England win the World Cup
Liverpool win the league
UK wins the Eurovision

What do you put it on?
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Eurovision.

I'd then spend about 50k traveling round Europe voting on the night.
 
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Carbonox

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The_Hitcher89 said:
I give you a million pounds. You have to put it on the line, with one of three bets. If you lose, it gets taken away

England win the World Cup
Liverpool win the league
UK wins the Eurovision

What do you put it on?
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This is totally a Hitcher question. Fuck you smoking.

Is there a 4th option? I'd give it to hiroshawn. He could make it go so much further than any of us could, what with his Triad connections and shit.
 
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Jack cw

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brokenbeans said:
Oh right ok then.

I have no idea who he's gonna go for.
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I dont know either. He did some weird transfers lately. His last big transfer was Arjen Robben, but that was more because Mark van Bommel forced him to. If Giggs stays as is co then he might do the transfers then ;)
 
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Empty

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The_Hitcher89 said:
I give you a million pounds. You have to put it on the line, with one of three bets. If you lose, it gets taken away

England win the World Cup
Liverpool win the league
UK wins the Eurovision

What do you put it on?
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liverpool

idk if we stand a chance of winning eurovision but i don't want to actually have to watch it
 
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Vivalaraza

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Obv it's Liverpool :lol

It's one result away.

England are 6 incredibly unlikely results away from winning the WC.

And we're another World War away from winning Eurovision.

Hitcher pls ask another.
 
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