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Official Football•Soccer•Fútbol Thread 2008/2009

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Squirrel Killer

Squirrel Killer

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Daigoro said:
believe me i didnt lose any sleep over it last night. you're just some internet douche bag who happens to be a Cows fan. you've got problems of your own to deal with. dont act like im somehow hurt by your inane ravings.

you're the one who was supposedly soooo concerned about attendace and how it poorly reflects on MLS, and yet you admitted to not attending that many games. its like communicating with a tree stump here. still dont see the connection i presume?

s'ok im done, and your team still sucks. go tip a cow or something.
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Hey, hey, hey GUYZ! Get this.... "Crew" and "cow" both have both a "c" and a "w" in them! So, so what I'll do is this... I-I-I-I'll say "Crew"... I mean I-I'll say "cow" instead of "Crew" and it'll be FUNNAY!

I so rule.
 
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Steroyd

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Batongen said:
So, for the insider-liverpool fans here, when is the Barry transfer saga going to end? Do you think Rafa will find money behind an ol' couch and buy the player before PL starts, because at the moment I just want it to end.
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Well there's lots of talk that our owners are pulling money out of their ass, and should have something by the end of the week, hey that's tomorrow!

And apparently O'Neil spent money on Shorey(?) for 9m in anticipation of said Barry money.
 
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TDG

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Is he still trying to argue with me? :lol Pathetic.
woodchuck said:
yeah and that's pretty much due to the age group of the fans. corporations and rich people have killed most sports stadiums. at least sports bars are still fun to go to.
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Yeah, you'll notice that most of the places with crazy atmosphere are the ones with large student sections. People get older and they don't want to stand up, or do chants, or whatever. It's just a shame... it's like people get older and then they get all self-conscious about being pumped up.
 
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Daigoro

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Squirrel Killer said:
Hey, hey, hey GUYZ! Get this.... "Crew" and "cow" both have both a "c" and a "w" in them! So, so what I'll do is this... I-I-I-I'll say "Crew"... I mean I-I'll say "cow" instead of "Crew" and it'll be FUNNAY!

I so rule.
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fail.

try again.
 
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TDG

Banned
Daigoro said:
its impossible to argue with you.

like squirrel, you missed the point completely.
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Then why don't you tell me, without any childish idiocy (you suck cows fan flaming) what exactly your point is? If it's that all Revs fans are nice, reasonable people, then I think you're having some trouble getting your point across.

I'm sorry, but I'm really not seeing a point. Just paragraph after paragraph of anger. The only point I can see from you is this one:
you're the one who was supposedly soooo concerned about attendace and how it poorly reflects on MLS, and yet you admitted to not attending that many games. its like communicating with a tree stump here. still dont see the connection i presume?
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I keep track of and monitor MLS attendance because I care about the MLS and the future of soccer in america. That's why I regularly try to spread my love of soccer to my friends and family. Judging from your behavior in this thread, I can only venture to guess that whenever you find someone who doesn't like soccer, you start screaming insults at the person. Now, just because I keep track of attendance as a hobby doesn't mean that I'm going to go to every home game of the Crew's. I go to more Crew games a year than I do of any of my other favorite sports teams. Money doesn't grow on trees, and I have a family, and I can't just rush accross town to Crew Stadium whenever I please. And, it should be noted that as far as I can tell, most of the people in this thread only attend a few home games a year. I guess in your mind we're all horrible fans/people?

So in conclusion, the only point you're making doesn't actually make sense. I am concerned about attendance, but not to the point where I'm going to fly to a city and buy season tickets whenever a team's attendance is lacking. Do you see the difference here between "keeping a close eye on attendance" and "trying to make every single MLS team profitable?"
 
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hadareud

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constantly drama in here, slowly but surely this thread is turning into the gaming side.


Anyway, here's some real football related content - and it's quite an interesting topic. So maybe we can talk about that.

Wenger is weighing in on the Olympic mess:

Wenger has called for Fifa to appeal against the decision to ensure that the London Games in 2012 are not hit by more club-versus-country rows.

“What Barcelona has done, what Werder Bremen has done, is go against the initial agreement. That is something Fifa could challenge,” said the Arsenal manager. “They should if they want to get out of the mess themselves. They have to challenge it because Barcelona and Werder Bremen agreed at the start not to challenge the Fifa rules.”

CAS found that Fifa’s position was based on custom rather than law, meaning clubs could not be forced to release their players.

But Barcelona and the two German clubs appeared to back down after getting assurances that the players would be adequately insured against injury.

Wenger, who will have to do without Alexandre Song during the Games as he is part of the Cameroon squad, argues that all clubs should be treated the same.

“Everybody comes back or nobody. It is quite simple,” said Wenger. “I couldn’t understand why the rule is for three [players] and not for 23, for example. Am I angry? No. Frustrated? Yes.

“I respect the rules but the rules were that players under 23 have to go.”
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h0pper

only Fernando's ripe melons are good enough for me
I can hear him saying "frus-trated" in my head lol.

Apparently we're also looking at Lorik Cana, the DCM from OM. He looks like a fucking brute. I'd like him.
 
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hadareud

The Translator
yeah, this would be a real Wenger purchase that nobody expected - I could see it happening.

His stats look very good, of course I haven't seen much of him (or anything to be quite honest), but going by the past this would be an ideal purchase. The right age, experienced, cheap, could go straight into the first team but could also not complain if Diaby was to be preferred. Ticks all boxes for me. Screw big names, we need good players not names.
 
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On The Edge of Insanity

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Messi, Rafinha and Diego all played today. I think the court of arbitration result just gave Barca, Schalke and Bremen greater bargaining power in negotiating over potential compensation from the respective football associations should their players pick up injuries during the tournament.
 
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hadareud

The Translator
they played because they already there imo.

If this ruling had come 2 weeks earlier they wouldn't have travelled to China in the first place.
 
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On The Edge of Insanity

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Most probably, yeah, but you have to consider that the Olympic tournament means a lot more to Brazil and Argentina than it generally does to the European nations, so I wouldn't have been surprised to see all three players kicking up a fuss to try and convince their clubs to let them play.
 
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SupahBlah

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hadareud said:
constantly drama in here, slowly but surely this thread is turning into the gaming side.
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I blame The Agenda.

hadareud said:
yeah, this would be a real Wenger purchase that nobody expected - I could see it happening.

His stats look very good, of course I haven't seen much of him (or anything to be quite honest), but going by the past this would be an ideal purchase. The right age, experienced, cheap, could go straight into the first team but could also not complain if Diaby was to be preferred. Ticks all boxes for me. Screw big names, we need good players not names.
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Arsenal don't sign names.

I think Gallas is their only one really.
 
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TDG

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hadareud said:
constantly drama in here, slowly but surely this thread is turning into the gaming side.
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I apologize. I don't often go to gaming because I don't like flame wars, but (in real life as well) have a habit of getting sucked into arguments. I should have ended things when it was clear he only wanted to flame. I've ignore listed him, I'm sorry for interrupting the reasonable talk by fighting with him, it won't happen again.
 
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hadareud

The Translator
:lol

the discussion here is everything but reasonable most of the times at the moment, no need to apologize.

SupahBlah said:
Arsenal don't sign names.

I think Gallas is their only one really.
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well there's been a few that Wenger brought in. Overmars, Petit, Pires, Lehmann, Campbell etc.
 
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On The Edge of Insanity

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May be a repost - I didn't check last season's thread - but still funny nevertheless.

Joey Barton Quote:

"The first day's the toughest, no doubt about it. They march you in, hand you your uniform and force you to pose for the photographer while loads of fat, tattooed, skinheads shout abuse at you. That's when you know it's for real. A whole life blown away in the blink of an eye. Nothing left but all the time in the world to think about it. That's when it hits home. That's when you realise you've signed for Newcastle."
 
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Cedeo

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Why do Arsenal fans whistle on the toilet ?

So they know which end to wipe.



Why do housewives love Arsenal?

As they stay on top for ages and come second




What do Aston Villa fans use as birth control?

Their personalities.
 
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TDG

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Wes said:
Q) How do you confuse a Man Utd fan?
A) Show him a map of Manchester!
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:lol

EDIT: HOLY shit I clicked on O-T, couldn't find this thread, looked up and noticed that there were more stickied threads than before, and got scared that this was stickied. That was close.
 
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Frenck

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Concerning the whole Olympics drama:

Werder Bremen aren't the bad guys in this. All they care about are proper measures taken by the Brazilian FA and FIFA to ensure that nothing happens to Diego. They also want to ensure that they aren't completely screwed if something happens to Diego.

The Olympics are not part of the official FIFA international match calendar. That means there is no insurance for Diego, Werder Bremen still pays his wages for the entire tournament and Werder Bremen doesn't see a single penny for letting him participate. It's a loophole that favours the IOC and FIFA. Blatter doesn't give a flying fuck about the Olympic spirit he just hates paperwork and he hates to be reminded about his incompetence over and over.

This doesn't affect Wenger so he shouldn't even comment on it. If Fabregas would go to the Olympics and would break his foot in the opening game, well, then he has the right to comment on the matter and I'd be really interested if he still would have such a black & white view about the whole affair.

I'm glad Werder Bremen, Schalke and Barcelona didn't let FIFA assrape them. I know that they had given up on this whole matter after the laughable FIFA ruling, but they still pushed on and they got rewarded by the CAS.

Klaus Allofs, manager of Werder Bremen, wished Diego good luck in the meantime. There is no bad will involved. They wouldn't force him to come back if FIFA and the Brazilian FA didn't agree to their conditions. Rafinha on the other hand deserves to get his ass kicked, hard, as he once again proved today in the match against Belgium. It was one of the most atrocious dives I've ever seen. Absolutely disgusting.

The face of the Belgian player who was sent off for nothing was really haunting, it gave me shivers to see a young man being fucked over at what was probably the biggest moment in his life and that smiling son of a bitch Rafinha even had the balls to let the medical staff carry him off the field when the replay showed that there was zero contact between both players.
 
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h0pper

only Fernando's ripe melons are good enough for me
hadareud said:
yeah, this would be a real Wenger purchase that nobody expected - I could see it happening.

His stats look very good, of course I haven't seen much of him (or anything to be quite honest), but going by the past this would be an ideal purchase. The right age, experienced, cheap, could go straight into the first team but could also not complain if Diaby was to be preferred. Ticks all boxes for me. Screw big names, we need good players not names.
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had, take a look at this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL_bZAdOKhk

the boy likes to tackle. fuckin right. I'd love to see him in an Arsenal shirt taking motherfuckers down!
 
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h0pper

only Fernando's ripe melons are good enough for me
On The Edge of Insanity said:
May be a repost - I didn't check last season's thread - but still funny nevertheless.

Joey Barton Quote:

"The first day's the toughest, no doubt about it. They march you in, hand you your uniform and force you to pose for the photographer while loads of fat, tattooed, skinheads shout abuse at you. That's when you know it's for real. A whole life blown away in the blink of an eye. Nothing left but all the time in the world to think about it. That's when it hits home. That's when you realise you've signed for Newcastle."
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:lol

in all honesty, I'd prefer going to prison in England with skinheads than prison over here.
 
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Karakand

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the disgruntled gamer said:
Robbie Rogers is the man. The Crew are really missing him, he just gives the offense a huge spark.
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It sucks that he's probably going to get marked to hell for the rest of the tournament now after the performance against Japan but that should free up Adu some more hopefully. But man, he was seriously wrecking some shit last night. Fun to see since US attacking has been very uninspired lately.

And while I need to be cautious evaluating him since he came on as a sub, Altidore looked really good too. Onward, Yankids! No one can test our poor defending if you attack for 90 minutes!

Daigoro said:
thats cool.

is that commentary/chat box part of the feed or is it a seperate program?
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It was part of the internet stream. I'm not sure if that's what was actually said because I watched the US play on TV (got the pictures off /sp/). Even if they're fake, I still lol'd (especially at the drinking game one).
 
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Karakand

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CITY’S fear of fixture chaos has been eased after they won their battle with the Football League to have their Carling Cup entry put back.

Earlier this week boss a resigned Mark Hughes commented on the unfairness of the Blues being the only one of the nine English sides in European competition being asked to play in the second round of the Carling backed domestic knockout.

If the authorities had stuck to their guns then Hughes and his men would have faced a punishing four matches in eight days including trips to Denmark and Sunderland.

But, after intense lobbying from City, the powers that be have seen sense and the Premier League side will now play their CC 2nd round match in the week beginning Monday, September 22 and if they progress then catch up at a later date.

The draw for the next round of the competition takes place next Wednesday night.

Meanwhile, it has been announced that the second leg of the Uefa Cup tie against FC Midtjylland in Denmark on August 28 will kick-off at 4.25pm.
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Eeikod

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the disgruntled gamer said:
I just saw that on soccernet. Any chance it will go through?
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Rumors around here are that he wants to leave. I dont think he will though, not this season.

Cedeo said:
And Sneijder is crocked for 9 months.
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Nah, he'll be fine in 3-4 months, first reports about his injury were exaggerated.
 
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Frenck

Banned
Robinho in the EPL?

I don't think that will work out at all. He should come to Werder Bremen an move in with his buddy Diego :D

Or Chelsea buys both of them next summer :-(
 
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Eeikod

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I actually think that he would benefit a lot from the EPL play-style. But Madrid wont even think about letting him go for less than 35m£ :lol
 
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mozfan12

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Frenck said:
Robinho in the EPL?

I don't think that will work out at all. He should come to Werder Bremen an move in with his buddy Diego :D

Or Chelsea buys both of them next summer :-(
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thats the thing, he doesnt have the physique to play in the EPL, and the Bundesliga would surely fit him better. And Diego is already incredibly good at Werder Bremen without the help of Robinho but I would not mind taking Diego..jk I wish he stays as long as possible at Werder Bremen because they are an extremely fun team to watch..

I think if he builds up and becomes more consistent then he can surely become a great. Man seeing him carry the Brazilian team in Copa America was pretty entertaining so I would like to see that at Chelsea.
 
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Frenck

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mozfan12 said:
thats the thing, he doesnt have the physique to play in the EPL, and the Bundesliga would surely fit him better. And Diego is already incredibly good at Werder Bremen without the help of Robinho but I would not mind taking Diego..jk I wish he stays as long as possible at Werder Bremen because they are an extremely fun team to watch..

I think if he builds up and becomes more consistent then he can surely become a great. Man seeing him carry the Brazilian team in Copa America was pretty entertaining so I would like to see that at Chelsea.
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I still remember what he did to us in the CL last season. Jeeebus. Unstoppable.

Chelsea doesn't really need Robinho but that won't keep Scolari from signing him.
 
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velvet_nitemare

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Frenck said:
I still remember what he did to us in the CL last season. Jeeebus. Unstoppable.

Chelsea doesn't really need Robinho but that won't keep Scolari from signing him.
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I dunno about that. Unless Malouda or SWP comes up big.

Doubtful i know.
 
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