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[pulga]

Their manager is called Pulga.

The Antwerp-born Cagliari starlet has done well to gain the trust of manager Ivo Pulga,

Oh.

Fuck me I cant stop reading about Bioshock. Dat ending man, dat ending.

 

[Lightning]

Fuck this game. I'm off to work.

 

[TeegsD]

Almost looks like peewee soccer here in the States; kids just running into each other

 

[arkon]

Fellaini with like 5 fouls already.

Why do I not find that surprising?

 

[Garjon]

I know it's early but this is looking like a truly awful game.

 

[3Sixty]

Wilshere fouls Barkley.

Goes down injured.

 

[The_Hitcher89]

Dortmund were a historically good club (third most successful in German history) AND they received outside investment to prevent from going bankrupt quite recently. BZZZZTTT, try again.

There's a difference between investment to save a club, and investment to turn a bunch of no-marks into Premier League champions. I never said clubs should not be allowed outside investment.

And their past success helped obviously, but not much I shouldn't think. Doubt players were clamouring to join them because they won the league 9 years ago

 

[arkon]

Wilshere injured already?

 

[Meier]

Can't believe that Monreal is on the bench again. :\ What an utterly shit week of fantasy for me.. Fellaini and Cazorla need to both get me some damn points today.

 

[Plasma]

Looks like Wilshere is going to play on.

 

[Tc91]

What a crap game.

 

[arkon]

Looks like Wilshere is going to play on.

Well, that's good news. Hope he can stay injury free

 

[Suen]

Just started watching the game. Have I missed anything Arse-GAF?

 

[3Sixty]

Great pass from Fellaini.

 

[arkon]

LMAO Fellaini

Providing better crosses into the box than Arsenal players

 

[Plasma]

Nice cross in there from Fellaini, Gibbs should have done better with it.

 

[Meier]

There's a difference between investment to save a club, and investment to turn a bunch of no-marks into Premier League champions. I never said clubs should not be allowed outside investment.

And their past success helped obviously, but not much I shouldn't think. Doubt players were clamouring to join them because they won the league 9 years ago

Their past success is what allowed for an 80,000+ seat stadium that allows for significant revenues. No team with 8 domestic championships in the past 50 years should ever be called an upstart.

 

[Nyx]

Dortmund were a historically good club (third most successful in German history) AND they received outside investment to prevent from going bankrupt quite recently. BZZZZTTT, try again.

Your view is interesting, do you think there is a way to even out the playing field?

Next to some kind of FFP, there definitely should be something done about <18 players moving internationally imo. Maybe even implement some kind of maximum foreigners rule, though iirc that isn't legally possible.

 

[Meus Renaissance]

I look forward to the day Arsenal are a footballing side once more

 

[3Sixty]

Dat Reaction.

 

[Gambit]

Robben!

Right leg?!

 

[spidye]

Shaqiri is godlike

 

[Fry]

ARJEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[arkon]

Anchovy blowing his lid. Only Rooney can get away with that sort of abuse of officials usually

 

[Hackbert]

Shaqiri is godlike

yup, hoping for a great season under Pep for him

 

[Kenka]

Robben'd

 

[3Sixty]

Theo crunched

 

[LabouredSubterfuge]

Fellaini's shit. Barkley's the future.

 

[Plasma]

Both of them should get a yellow for that.

 

[arkon]

Phew. GAF is back.

Gibson lucky to still be on the pitch.

 

[3Sixty]

Fucking GAF.

I wanted to laugh at Giroud in real time.

 

[Plasma]

Wish somebody would tell Giroud to stop trying to do back passes in the box.

 

[spidye]

Fucking GAF.

I wanted to laugh at Giroud in real time.

lololol

 

[dc89]

Wilshere is the perfect GB18 replacement. Earn your money Txiki.

 

[phaze]

Gaf died ;lol

Good ending of first half from us. Hope we can nick it.

 

[Linius]

We're back.

 

[spidye]

SHAQIRI IS FUCKING GODLIKE

 

[arkon]

Giroud produced one of the best defensive clearances I've seen this season

 

[Meus Renaissance]

ZOD!!

 

[3Sixty]

Giroud produced one of the best defensive clearances I've seen this season

Seriously. JT would have been proud of that

 

[The_Hitcher89]

Their past success is what allowed for an 80,000+ seat stadium that allows for significant revenues. No team with 8 domestic championships in the past 50 years should ever be called an upstart.

With a net spend of zero, their stadium is more of a security blanket than anything driving their present success

And while it helped, I doubt many of their players/Klopp moved there because they won the league 9 years previously to 2010



Gaf's servers are shite.

Papa John's is gud

 

[arkon]

LMAO Mirallas.

Squirting lionheart Jack on the sly

 

[Ushojax]

lol Mirallas squirting Wilshire

I think BAE did that to him once

 

[Meier]

Your view is interesting, do you think there is a way to even out the playing field?

Next to some kind of FFP, there definitely should be something done about <18 players moving internationally imo. Maybe even implement some kind of maximum foreigners rule, though iirc that isn't legally possible.

Sheesh, GAF has been struggling the past few days.

I don't think there's a fair way to bring competitive balance to any sport really. It's a problem across every league and always will be. What I do know though is that the top teams wanting to prevent outside investment is done solely with their best interest in mind.

Once you have the infrastructure in place to earn money, it's self-perpetuating. It would be like Google or Microsoft trying to prevent VCs from putting money into start-ups and instead making them rely on "earned money" to grow their business which is obviously something they would never be able to do.

 

[3Sixty]

LMAO Mirallas.

Squirting lionheart Jack on the sly

Shamed like Bukkake

 

[Novid]

this sounds too good to be true. NBC is in 4th place and going broke, how can they afford this?

their HD is the best among ABC, CBS and that joke called fox so hope it works out for them

That Comcast money. They already set up the TV everywhere stream for NBC Sports Net so on the cable side there good to go. Do expect that there will be one or two EPL prime time games around this time next year.

 

[arkon]

This half is already more entertaining

 

[Baconsaurus Rex]

Great strike by Cathorla

 

[The_Hitcher89]

That Comcast money. They already set up the TV everywhere stream for NBC Sports Net so on the cable side there good to go. Do expect that there will be one or two EPL prime time games around this time next year.

Was it NBC with the embarassing Olympics coverage?

 

[Meier]

That Comcast money. They already set up the TV everywhere stream for NBC Sports Net so on the cable side there good to go. Do expect that there will be one or two EPL prime time games around this time next year.

I know the US has had a few league games in London in recent years (NFL and NBA). I wonder if we might see an official league game or two here in the States at some point. If the game at Yankee Stadium goes well, I wouldn't be shocked to see a game kick-off there during the season at some point. Maybe after an international break or something.

Was it NBC with the embarassing Olympics coverage?

Yeah, but fortunately they've already announced they won't be fucking with things and adding commercials or doing tape-delayed crap. I'm sure that was a requirement.