Bitch, get in your hole! You have your own thread for that shit. Don't clog up ours!

I'll just leave this here.



How can you not love this team?
Meireles always puts a smile to my face.

They should have a reality show of their own.

Meireles reminds me of one of the nihilist guys in The Big Lebowski

The FA is getting desperate.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/foo...r-England.html

It'd be funny if England's future DMs(the other one is Eric Dier) came from Sporting's academy.

The majority of that post was about the USMNT game against Costa Rica, so meh, stop bogarting the thread yo!

Oh yeah. !@#$%!, was I right or was I right? Mexico in such a tailspin, have only one a single game in their WC qualifying group, coach just got fired. You were right about the firing being inevitable, I was right about the decline. I can't wait for Tuesday ;)

Agreed! Thoroughly well written article.

Speaking of the FA, this story today blew my mind.

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/f...r-8803535.html

haha. imagine the english team trying to play tika-taka?

"Say that again? Tika what?"

hahahah

http://a.espncdn.com/combiner/i?img=...witten_640.jpg


Futbol has finally merged with football. Its the flopping era of the NFL, and big surprise, the NY Giants got ridiculed for doing this in 2011 too ;)

he was just making whipped cream....

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...ppy-crack.html

US clinches World Cup slot. Mexico essentially eliminated. It was what is becoming a classic kind of Klinsmann US game. A slow first half to feel out the defense, fantastic readjustments at the half, so that the second half US team was unrecognizably faster and sharper than the first half. I don't know what Jurgen is telling these dudes at the half, but over the past several months its been working! Also, we shut out Mexico, yet again in Columbus, Ohio which is perhaps America's most raucous stadium for soccer. Mexico was rattled. Johnson gets a great goal in the second half by being patient. Then classic Klnismann, in comes Diskerud on a substitution and within 2 minutes he assisted Landon for a goal. Landon scores. Klinsmann has another miracle substitution to save the match. Great second-half readjustments. I can start liking this Jurgen USA style, much less hectic than the Bob Bradley era, where you literally never knew what to expect from match to match.

I'll say this, over the past few months our younger "B" guys who were in the Gold Cup have been playing better than our first team, maybe Jurgen should reevaluate the starting rosters for the World Cup.

All I got to say about last night's game is that Ashley Young is fucking crap.

Hodgson's really starting to get on my nerves. I've defended him in the past and appreciate the need for pragmatism but it's knowing that it's the only we he'll have us play, regardless of the situation or who's fit or not. Bring back Glenn Hoddle (seriously).

Obama: "Oh, those Brazilians, you know? Circa 1970? Broke the mould. Theory out the window. Free expression of football. Uncategorisable. Is that a word? It is now! You know? Far cry from small boys in the park, jumpers for goalposts. Rush goalie. Two at the back, three in the middle, four up front, one's gone home for his tea. Beans on toast? Possibly, don't quote me on that. Marvellous."

Hadn't seen this Zlatan goal before but heard it mentioned on a documentary last night.

Pretty decent ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz5VL3mcso4

Please, just one season in the Prem. That's all I ask.

And y'all think soccer own the flop, these dudez fell over like bowling pins

I keep watching that GIF imagining some shoplifters being chased by a pack of security guards. The NFL should replace the ball with a car stereo and introduce tasers.

gonna be a long season!

no way was that a penalty today, and I don't think the one we conceded against spurs was a pen either (the defender was too close to him when he crossed it. I've seen them given, but I've seen them not given too)

but we've looked ok at times, and shocking at others. with all the new players we've bought hopefully they'll work out in time.
Glen Murray should be back by Christmas, then just watch the goals come!

as for Holloway, no way should he be sacked!

So I see you've watch the Seattle Seahawks play before ;)

Yeah, you've not had any luck with decisions so far.

I think Holloway's ridden the storm now, at least in terms of his immediate future. Seems the media are now focussing on DiCanio. They can't go a week without targeting someone.

Meanwhile, getting sick of Allardyce setting up for a draw in every bloody game, regardless of who we're playing. If we survive this season, it'll be entirely down to our defence. I'm all for caution but, from an entertainment pov, watching West Ham under Allardyce is becoming pure torture. Watching them right now and it's embarrassing. If he's parking the bus in front of teams like Newcastle, Stoke, Southampton, what's he gonna use when we play the bigger teams?

No, but I'm suddenly intrigued.

Interesting couple of nights ahead for the CL

Bayern, Real, Juve, PSG, Man U, Man C, all play tonight, with
Barca, Atletico, Chelsea, Arsenal, Porto, Dortmund all playing tomorrow.

Hard to decide which ones I'll watch. All the games involving English sides look good but wouldn't mind seeing Bayern v Moscow and/or Barca v Ajax either.

FUUUUUUUUUCKKKKKK!!!!!!

i cry tears of blood (like the marquis de sade). i do.

gonna miss all that.

but soon... soon!

No bars likely to show anything?

i could probably but it's the middle of the workday and it's far away. for a more important date maybe. god damn fuck.

ANYWAY on a lark let me recommend you the leverkusen/man u game

1) it's an english team, so you have skin in the game

2) leverkusen is not bad at all, they have several players on the german squad-- i like kiessling and castro. unfortunately they lost schurrle to chelsea and carvajal to real madrid. but a good effective side, never boring.

The Man U game's getting reg tv coverage here so I'll probably go with that. I can see MU struggling and it'll be nice supporting a German team for a change.

debating whether to stream it on my computer at work or not... im not suppose to but thats never stopped me before. really looking forward to napol vs dortmund tommorrow

Ended up watching Real annihilate Galatasaray. Ronaldo on fire!

man u beat leverkusen 4-2! not what i would have dreamed of, fuck, but spectators got to see 6 goals.

ps- man u/ real madrid is going to be brutal i assume

Man U were apparently good tonight but I don't think they're ready to seriously contend for the trophy.

i dont think they are in same group. unless you mean in the knockout rounds.

oh! it's real SOCIEDAD ha ha ha. not madrid.

that's what i get for reading too fast.

thanks!

Ethiopia Black Lions play Nigeria in a qualifier play-off for their FIRST ever World Cup berth. It will be a significant challenge, but I like our chances!!

I haven't kept up to date with African football but Nigeria are very strong. On paper at least
Good luck

Aye it was a good game. Rooney, apart from missing an open goal (It was shocking), was great. I watched Fellaini a fair bit during the game and he had a bad game. I dunno if it's because he's out of his depth or what but urgh.

It's hilarious. I listened to the post game programme on Talksport and the presenters spent the whole show trying to interpret Moyes' "I don't know", when he was asked if Rooney was happy.


I want Nigeria to do well, or whichever of the African nations gets Marc Park to do their tournament song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIKGbsc6FSY

Either way, tonight's game between Barca and Ajax is gonna be like ATP for the chin-stroking tactics heads

http://www.theguardian.com/football/...tino-tiki-taka

Yeah, but Nigeria suffers from the New York Knicks phenomenon, they think too highly of themselves and lack discipline on the pitch to maximize their talent. They always field a world-class team talent wise, but fail to capitalize. Ethiopia can't necessarily compete roster wise, but we can most definitely bring a determined game, and at this point, hang with anyone in Africa because simply put, we're hungrier and don't feel as entitled. Nigerian players get caught up in attitude problems, expectations of high perks, and fazed by the lights of their own domestic stardom. Just the kind of hubris that can allow for Black Lions to deliver a swift gut-check ;)

can sum1 hook a brother up w/ a dortmund stream?

wiziwig is turning up zero

thanks