Soccer thread 07/08

pk500 · Post by **pk500** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 10:15 am

Very nice one-touch passing in that first goal around the one-minute mark of the Faroe Islands video, Jared!

Take care,
PK

fsquid · Post by **fsquid** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 10:51 am

I always love when FourFourTwo covers those types of things.

davet010 · Post by **davet010** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 11:13 am

[quote="fsquid"]Where is your seat Dave?

[quote]

A slightly wider picture of the ground was posted on the City fansite when the capacity was mentioned, to which one Blue responded by pointing out that the two hillsides would hold at least 30,000, to much general hilarity.

As a brief explanation, there was a famous part of the City supporters known as the Grassy Knoll Army (me included) after a legendary last game of the season promotion at Blackburn in 2000, where the allocation of 2,000 or so tickets to City fans was augmented by a crowd of about 3,000 stood on a hillside which allowed a view of about 1/3 of the ground. Well worth it though, as a 4-1 win sent City into the Premiership

10spro · Post by **10spro** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 1:11 am

With Deco on board and Robinho a possibility, Lampard's days are numbered in the EPL.

JRod · Post by **JRod** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 2:48 am

davet010 wrote:
fsquid wrote:Where is your seat Dave?

A slightly wider picture of the ground was posted on the City fansite when the capacity was mentioned, to which one Blue responded by pointing out that the two hillsides would hold at least 30,000, to much general hilarity.

As a brief explanation, there was a famous part of the City supporters known as the Grassy Knoll Army (me included) after a legendary last game of the season promotion at Blackburn in 2000, where the allocation of 2,000 or so tickets to City fans was augmented by a crowd of about 3,000 stood on a hillside which allowed a view of about 1/3 of the ground. Well worth it though, as a 4-1 win sent City into the Premiership

Grassy Knoll?!? You f***ers shot Kennedy.

davet010 · Post by **davet010** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 3:29 am

Always preferred LBJ anyway

<phone rings....."it's a Mr Jim Garrison, for you"....>

Pity it wasn't the revolting pro-Nazi racist Kennedy Snr, I'd have shot that waste of carbon 20 times over.

With a howitzer.

Macca00 · Post by **Macca00** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 10:30 am

10spro wrote:With Deco on board and Robinho a possibility, Lampard's days are numbered in the EPL.

He's going to Inter...the pastries and desserts are better in Milan anyway - he'll be really happy.

fsquid · Post by **fsquid** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 10:56 am

Hmmmm, Milan or London? Not a tough choice.

RobVarak · Post by **RobVarak** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 11:07 am

Italy is really where Frankie belongs. All those well-organized defenses means that he'll have regular stationary targets off of which he can bang in double his usual share of deflected goals

wco81 · Post by **wco81** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 11:42 am

fsquid wrote:Hmmmm, Milan or London? Not a tough choice.

London.

UK vs. Italy though might be another matter.

davet010 · Post by **davet010** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 11:56 am

wco81 wrote:
fsquid wrote:Hmmmm, Milan or London? Not a tough choice.
London.

UK vs. Italy though might be another matter.

Football-wise ?

Outside the top half of Serie A, the clubs are comparatively small ( a number even of the top division clubs have average attendances of less than 15,000).

The level of press/public scrutiny in Italy makes even the British press look like models of restraint. Club training grounds are regularly by 'concerned' tifosi, who have attacked players whom they deem not to be trying hard enough.

There is little doubt that the Italian domestic game is still heavily tainted by corruption, particularly in the lower leagues but even this season's relegation fight from Serie A threw up its usual quota of 'surprise' results towards the end of the season.

Plus in the UK at least you have some chance of things getting done without palms having to be crossed with silver.

On the plus side for Italy, it would give the Fat One a chance to show whether he is good enough outside of England. And from his point of view at least he isn't black, which might prevent him being spat on or assaulted by the opposition and then getting sent off for complaining about it, as happened to Paul Ince during his time at Inter.

wco81 · Post by **wco81** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 12:25 pm

No I thought the comparison was just in general, places to live, places to visit, etc.

Post by **Jared** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 12:03 am

Anyone watching the Copa Libertadores Final? Fluminese got a hat-trick from Thiago Neves to tie it on aggregate, but they seemed to really scale it back and not go for the win. Penalties...

Macca00 · Post by **Macca00** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 9:07 am

City sign Jo for an undisclosed fee - never seen him play but he's Brazilian, 6"-3' and has a ridiculously good scoring record in the Russian league - something like 44 goals in 77 games. Sounds good to me!

Meanwhile, Rafa is still intent on wasting our entire allowance on Gareth Barry and somehow hoping that Spurs would be stupid enough to 'trade' Robbie Keane for Peter Crouch. *sigh*

I love you Rafa but you're doing my head in this summer.....

pk500 · Post by **pk500** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 9:22 am

Arshavin apparently is interested in the Premier League. I guess his fellow countryman's mafia rubles are making CSKA London -- sorry, Macca, but that's brilliant! -- an appealing option:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2008 ... d=football

Take care,
PK

RobVarak · Post by **RobVarak** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 9:50 am

Macca00 wrote: I love you Rafa but you're doing my head in this summer.....

Try telling yourself that every rumor is just a feint to throw us off the trail of his real targets. Works for me

davet010 · Post by **davet010** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 1:57 pm

Macca00 wrote:City sign Jo for an undisclosed fee - never seen him play but he's Brazilian, 6"-3' and has a ridiculously good scoring record in the Russian league - something like 44 goals in 77 games. Sounds good to me!

Meanwhile, Rafa is still intent on wasting our entire allowance on Gareth Barry and somehow hoping that Spurs would be stupid enough to 'trade' Robbie Keane for Peter Crouch. *sigh*

I love you Rafa but you're doing my head in this summer.....

If Gareth Barry, a 'good' player at best, is worth £18m then I'm astonished. Also Crouch plus £5m for Keane ? Might be good business, but I often think he flatters to deceive.

City websites are very divided between the 'Let's tell Ronaldinho to f*** off, he's over the hill anyway' and the 'he's only 28' camps. I'm undecided, I can still remember us with Kinkladze in the team in the late 90's as we were in the Championship, playing sublime passes that were so far beyond what the journeymen playing with him could comprehend that he might as well have been playing a different sport.

Macca00 · Post by **Macca00** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 2:41 pm

davet010 wrote:If Gareth Barry, a 'good' player at best, is worth £18m then I'm astonished. Also Crouch plus £5m for Keane ? Might be good business, but I often think he flatters to deceive.

City websites are very divided between the 'Let's tell Ronaldinho to f*** off, he's over the hill anyway' and the 'he's only 28' camps. I'm undecided, I can still remember us with Kinkladze in the team in the late 90's as we were in the Championship, playing sublime passes that were so far beyond what the journeymen playing with him could comprehend that he might as well have been playing a different sport.

I really don't think you could lose by getting Ronaldinho, he may have gained some weight but he's still an immense talent and I'd love Liverpool to sign a player like him.

Alas, rather than World Cup, La Liga and Champions League winners we're after Aston Villa's captain......unless, as Rob stated, it's all a ruse!

We'll probably fund the Barry deal by selling Xabi Alonso to Juventus - so we're basically exchanging Alonso for Barry which is, based on Xabi's poor form in the EPL the last year and a bit, like exchanging 25 cents for a quarter.

We're not really ahead...that said we are pissing Martin O'Neill off so I guess we're all winners there.

I think Robbie Keane would fit better into our system than Crouch - either right behind Torres or better yet to the right of our 4-1-3-1 that Rafa played for most of last season (and also used at Valencia).

macsomjrr · Post by **macsomjrr** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 4:05 pm

So that's how the tiger got its stripes! It moved from the Championship to the Premier League!

Why is it that they decide to go back to the stripes after finally getting into the Premier league:)? Stick with what works Hull!

davet010 · Post by **davet010** » Sat Jul 05, 2008 5:40 am

Even more bizarrely, the Tigers now have a Brazilian - Geovanni, who was released by Man City this week, seems to have ended up in Hull.

RobVarak · Post by **RobVarak** » Sat Jul 05, 2008 11:16 am

Here's a real shocker. Cue Cpt. Renault:

Italian players charged after match-fixing probe

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story ... pe&cc=5901

davet010 · Post by **davet010** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 9:47 am

Don't look now, PK, but the firm who are in the front seat to buy out Mike Ashley at Newcastle are owned by some of Bin Laden's relatives.

Nice to see that someone is going to be challenging our Thai Overlord for the 'Amnesty International Premier League Chairman of the Year' trophy.

It'll be interesting to see how they pass the supposed 'fit and proper person' test that is meant to apply to all people buying PL teams.

davet010 · Post by **davet010** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 1:39 pm

See Captain Corrupt is at it again - reckons Utd should let the Show Pony go because it's 'like slavery'.

Mmm, that's an interesting description of 'making someone abide by the contract that they signed of their own free will, which pays them obscene amounts of money'.

Even UEFA think he's barking, and lord help him if he ever crosses paths with the Drunken Scot.

http://www.football365.com/story/0,1703 ... 14,00.html

I'm sure you lot are now wondering what the American Civil War was about, given that 'slaves' were obviously all on £150k...per week.

macsomjrr · Post by **macsomjrr** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 2:12 pm

davet010 wrote:See Captain Corrupt is at it again - reckons Utd should let the Show Pony go because it's 'like slavery'.

Mmm, that's an interesting description of 'making someone abide by the contract that they signed of their own free will, which pays them obscene amounts of money'.

Even UEFA think he's barking, and lord help him if he ever crosses paths with the Drunken Scot.

http://www.football365.com/story/0,1703 ... 14,00.html

I'm sure you lot are now wondering what the American Civil War was about, given that 'slaves' were obviously all on £150k...per week.

He looked like he'd dabbled in one too many just before that interview. Maybe someone told him it'd take the edge off a bit for all the Ronaldo questions:)

fsquid · Post by **fsquid** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 2:19 pm

I've been on vacation, has Wednesday been taken over yet?