The Official Football/Soccer Thread: 2017-2018 Season
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Arsenal 1 - Man Utd 3 I didn't see the start of the match, so I didn't see the first 2 goals. When Man. Utd scored the 3rd goal I though it was gonna be like Madrid-Barça, with Arsenal desperate and Manchester scoring with long balls, but Arsenal didn't risk so much. So well, Manchester United is the 1st finalist.
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as you may guess, the day after losing against Barça, rumours about Real Madrid signings hit the press
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CR7 (the captain today of Daniel and me), Kaka, Villa, Cesc, Silva, Xabi Alonso... Yeah, the funniest thing is that all of the players above were rejected for Real Madrid in the past, claiming the price was too high.
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21st Century Paul:
Yeah, the funniest thing is that all of the players above were rejected for Real Madrid in the past, claiming the price was too high.
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Just 20,000 tickets for each team in Rome .... what a joke
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20,000, that should be enough......if you exclude the glory hunters worldwide, the fairweather types and the prawn sandwich munchers that's one for every real fan Manchester United have......
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Oh dear. Poor old Chavs got beat in the last minute....
.....what a shame....
The behaviour of some of their players particularly Drogba the diving cheat was a disgrace and should hopefully lead to a massive ban....but probably won't as Roman will pay someone off. As for Barca.....
: ......if they play like that against Manchester they'll get annihilated. They need to wake up and smell the coffee.....the team they'll face in Rome in three weeks will not be a La Liga side.....they'll be a tough, fast, aggressive and skillful unit with depth on the bench and if Barca play like they did against Chelsea they'll be beaten 4-0 or worse. They have to turn up, they have to watch what Liverpool (and Fulham at Craven Cottage) did to United at the Old Toilet a few weeks ago and they have to roll their sleeves up and play hard ball if necessary and not try and walk the ball into the back of the net.....try maybe taking a shot from outside the area when the opportunity presents itself. If you get in their faces and then play the incisive stuff they're vulnerable. On behalf of all football fans everywhere they have to stop United from winning the Champions League. Like I've said before they are not as good as they like to think they are and most football fans have had enough. So for the sake of football......GO BARCA GO!!!
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Chelsea lost. I am so sad...
The Norwegian ref did a good job helping Barca in this game by not awarding Chelsea two penalties. Ballack was not very happy: http://www.vg.no/uploaded/image/bilderigg/2009/05/06/1241644541350_269.jpg I agree, David. For the sake of football --- Go Barca!
I have had enough of Man U winning trophies.
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Svenn:
The Norwegian ref did a good job helping Barca in this game by not awarding Chelsea two penalties.
He did his best for Chelsea by sending off Abidal. Barcelona may not have played at its best (far from it) but Chelsea supporters should blame Hiddink more than anyone else. 11 against 10, he subs out Drogba for Belletti instead of going for the jugular. Anti-football at its worst. Both goals were goalsos, btw.
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unclesox:
21st Century Paul:
Yeah, the funniest thing is that all of the players above were rejected for Real Madrid in the past, claiming the price was too high.
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Not me, I would have signed them straight away. And I wasn't wrong cause now they ask more money for them than then.
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david mitchelson:
Oh dear. Poor old Chavs got beat in the last minute....
.....what a shame....
The behaviour of some of their players particularly Drogba the diving cheat was a disgrace and should hopefully lead to a massive ban....but probably won't as Roman will pay someone off. As for Barca.....
: ......if they play like that against Manchester they'll get annihilated. They need to wake up and smell the coffee.....the team they'll face in Rome in three weeks will not be a La Liga side.....they'll be a tough, fast, aggressive and skillful unit with depth on the bench and if Barca play like they did against Chelsea they'll be beaten 4-0 or worse. They have to turn up, they have to watch what Liverpool (and Fulham at Craven Cottage) did to United at the Old Toilet a few weeks ago and they have to roll their sleeves up and play hard ball if necessary and not try and walk the ball into the back of the net.....try maybe taking a shot from outside the area when the opportunity presents itself. If you get in their faces and then play the incisive stuff they're vulnerable. On behalf of all football fans everywhere they have to stop United from winning the Champions League. Like I've said before they are not as good as they like to think they are and most football fans have had enough. So for the sake of football......GO BARCA GO!!!
Drogba was surreal, that last thing of doing things to the camera was... I've never seen it before. Yes, he acts a lot... and that's not liked particularly in England... http://www.as.com/prom/200905/pro_photo1241647095.jpg The last Chelsea shoot was not stopped by the arm but by the back, that's was not penalty. But maybe you don't mean that. But certainly Ballack and the rest meant that...
One of my fav moments were Hiddink and Guardiola embraced and joking in minute 80 or so. Hard to see that in 2 rival coaches. We've seen some of the best and worst thing of football. I didn't think they could score... but Iniesta scored. A goal from my city (the 50.000 city where Iniesta and me live, close to Barcelona) to the world. People got mad in Barcelona city, they were mad before scoring and they were mad afterwards, and they have went to the streets again. I couldn't believe INIESTA took his shirt off.
David, I don't think Barça can play that way against Manchester, they don't have the players. They're all about passing the ball around, not that kind of football. I'm seeing now that Chelsea claims FIVE penalties.
I guess at least one is a real penalty, but well this is football, sometimes the referees favour teams, you know... Hiddink says it's "the worst performance of a referee I've ever seen"
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http://www.elmundodeportivo.es/web/gen/20090504/53696244616.html?IDMC=53697095603 That's the video of Iniesta's goal. Messi is much more a better player now. In the past he would have tried to drible and drible, but now, in the Laudrup way, he threated dribbling and passed the ball to someone who was all alone.
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Standings of the Macca Board Fantasy Football League 1 Oliver Sanz's Team me (50 today) 547 12000th out of 276000 teams 2 Louisville United Daniel (61 today) 536 17000th out of 276000 teams 3 FC Blaugrana unclesox (42 today) 48750000th out of 276000 teams obviously one match to go, the final in Rome, May 27th. Only 11 points between me and Daniel.
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21st Century Paul Well now the dust has settled the dust still hasn't settled and the Cheatski types in that there London are still bleating and weeping about their exit. But that's football.....we don't have the replays and extra official in the stands watching who can look at a moment over and over again on his TV screen and make a decision like in American Football. In soccer sometimes you get the breaks and sometimes you don't. You just have to accept it, every team has been there. The sight of John Terry crying is always particularly funny......he goes to Starbucks and finds there's no skinny blueberry muffins and he breaks down, he goes home and finds whichever woman he's flitting about with has put him in the spare bedroom and he is unconsolable......
The Old Diver Didier Dogbreath is just beyond the pale and FIFA should throw the book at him. I think he'll depart for Inter during the summer to join Jose. As for the penalties......well, one definitely, perhaps two, but FIVE!!....
......they're 'avin a larf ain't they? And the final......Barca need to play better.....a lot better, that's for sure. They can try and mark The Winker out of the game but then they'll still have Rooney, Tevez, Berbatov, Giggs, Scholes etc coming at them from all angles. They need to attempt to disrupt them......if the just try and play pure football (which is what they are good at and what everyone likes) then unless United don't turn up they'll be eaten alive. Standing toe to toe with United and trying to outplay them is no good.....many try. Rolling over and dying isn't the Barca way and will see them dispatched like many Premiership sides have been over the years.....only stopping their flow will allow Barca to attack at speed and incisively. Liverpool tried the strong solid defence and hitting them on the counter attack whilst not allowing them to have time on the ball. They stuffed Torres into Vidic's face and got him to turn the manc defender inside out. If Barca do this (and Eto turns up), bullying the United defenders, they might just win it. Mancehster are vulnerable....let's hope that the Premier teams give a fright and few injuries to deal with over the next few weeks and that an unconfident Manchester turn up in Rome having somehow lost the English Title......now that'd be funny.....
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Anyway It's the best final we can see. The leader of the Premier vs the leader of la Liga. Some say Barça is playing the best football ever, so I don't know what they will think when you say they must play better...
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Drogba is even funny.
About Terry women... all I know is this http://www.whosdatedwho.com/celebrities/people/dating/john-terry.htm #1 Linsey McKenzie http://www.freejose.com/images/L/LinseyDawnMckenzie.jpg http://www.funonit.com/foto/gnocche/linsey_dawn_mckenzie/linsey_dawn_mckenzie_16.jpg #4 Emma Kearnie
#5 Lauren Pope
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21st Century Paul .....ah, it's not a case of playing better.....it's a case of playing differently. The attractive and at times spell-binding football that Barca have produced this season has been a joy to behold especially against Real but then have they much competition? Real's side is the worst I've ever season in my near half century of planet earth and most Spanish clubs are in financial meltdown. The problem Barca has if they try and play pretty football only and tie Untied up in knots they'll be swept away by a tidal wave.....no, a steamroller and could easily be squashed flat. They need to have a cunning plan. Their defence is going to be shorn of two top defenders for the final just when they need to face scumchester's attacking force. They need to be professors of cunning to outfox the sly old fox Slurgie and his bottle of whiskey. Barca are more than capable but their coaches need to realise that United are a better than Cheatski and therefore will need extra attention. Attack by all means, counter attack if you care to but if you leave a hole behind when you do they'll be through it and depositing the ball in the back of your net before you can blink. I loathe United....not coz of their history.....the old United sides and players I have respect for, but because of their arrogance in the last two decades. It hasn't been a case of this is good for UK or world football it's been a case of it's good for us so **** you! They are loathed by many football fans around the world who haven't fallen for the Merchandise United PR con trick over the past 20 years. The team is a sad example of all that is wrong with Britain, they are all hype and no real substance. They are only good because quite frankly my club Liverpool and most of the others across Europe have been poor....no opposition for them only the odd team challenges them. If teams stand up to them and allow them no time and space, get under their skin they capitulate and go crying home to mamma. Their financial plight hopefully will bring them down soon (£950m in debt and teetering on the brink) but probably not before Liverpool go into administration (if LFC's owners don't come up with some money by June/July) and be docked 10 points at the start of next season so handing United another gift Premier trophy. At the end of the final I want it to be Barca crying with joy not Manchester.....for all our sakes Barca have to make it happen as the thought of United equalling Liverpool's records at home and in Europe is not own soul-destroying for Liverpool fans but for most other British football fans too.....and it certainly isn't good for the world game (or Platini) to have one side dominating so completely, especially when they wear a sneer whilst doing it.
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Terry's taste in women is.....errr.....blonde, big breaths and plastic......he ain't ever going to go out with a brain or a woman with any semblance of talent. The other English players are the same......the girls target them in nightclubs so as to make names for themselves and bag one, get pregnant and then up the aisle and swan around the fashionable areas of Chester or the home counties wearing the contents of the top designers shops before launching their own range of lingerie and perfumes and hosting some dreadful show on Sky. I believe it is the same for all footballers all over Europe. Wasn't there a magazine article a few months ago which showed how Vieri and Totti (or some other pair of Italian footballers) had been out with the same 12 women?....
Am I jealous? Darn tootin' I am!....
The chance to play top class football, have huge amounts of money, a big house and be pawed at by lots of women.....
.....everyman's dream...
.......well, I've managed to achieve 3 out of 4.....
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Well, I know the beautiful football it's not always good. Football is a sport not an art. So doing it beautiful is not doing it right. But Barça simply can not play in a different way, all the team is built for playing that way, in the Cruyff-style, and even more now with Guardiola.
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gone to see Toronto FC twice this season! looking forward to other games!
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Congratulations to Barça for winning the League and the Cup with one of best kind of playing ever.
Let's see what happens in Rome. It's the best final we could see, with the 2 best teams in Europe. That rarely happens, even thought it's the final of the Champions League. It seems both teams will play 4-3-3 and the XI could be something like this. I don't know how Man is going to play. I guess waiting behind, cause Rio and Vidic are not fast. Van der Sar O'Shea Ferdinand Vidic Evra Scholes Carrick Anderson Park Cristiano Rooney Valdes Puyol Pique Toure Alves Xavi Busquets Iniesta Messi Etoo Henry Now... Barça supporters must watch this... (unclesox...) There is a TV comedy show here about Barça. And they recorded this video clip before winning any cup this year. "Copa, Lliga i Champions" "The Cup, the league and the champions" singing a song you will recognize... People sings it everywhere... song starts at 1.44, Puyol, Iniesta, Etoo, Messi and Guardiola.. and Laporta