Soccer thread 08/09 (will have spoilers!)

pk500 · Post by **pk500** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 9:37 am

Gerrard's deft one-touch through pass between the legs of the City defender on Torres' first goal was really nice.

Take care,
PK

RobVarak · Post by **RobVarak** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 10:15 am

pk500 wrote:Gerrard's deft one-touch through pass between the legs of the City defender on Torres' first goal was really nice.

Take care,
PK

I'm glad you mentioned that. I meant to single it out and forgot. It was a beauty. Imagine a play like that and Dirk Kuyt accidentally hitting the target in the same game!! It's like Halley's Comet hitting Skylab!

davet010 · Post by **davet010** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 11:08 am

This is the true gap that City have to make up - the 'you're not really in the 'Big Clubs' yet'...

- Big clubs don't get players sent off, unless they are playing other big clubs.

- Big clubs don't have penalties awarded against them (viz City's game vs Wigan), but awarded to them (viz MU v Bolton)

- Big clubs don't have jammy deflections work against them.

A trick missed by our Arabian masters....time to start suggesting that a version of sharia law be adopted by the referee reviewers to help ensure that 'correct' decisions are reached for the big clubs.

Info can be acquired from the relevant Italian authorities, who have considerable expertise in these matters....so much so that a simple suggestion that referees names be drawn out of a hat to decide which match they take was actually objected to by the bigger clubs in Serie A, to be replaced by a more directable system.

RobVarak · Post by **RobVarak** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 11:19 am

Dave,

Did you not think that the tackle was worth a sending off, or are you saying that if the roles were reversed Xabi wouldn't have been sent off?

davet010 · Post by **davet010** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 1:51 pm

RobVarak wrote:Dave,

Did you not think that the tackle was worth a sending off, or are you saying that if the roles were reversed Xabi wouldn't have been sent off?

Rob, it was more of a jocular comment about refs not having adjusted their eyesight or radar to reflect our new 'bags of dosh' position.

The sending off of Zabaleta was fair enuff, though so was Skrtel's kick into the back of Jo - however, only one of them ended up as a sending off.

It was more of a general comment rather than strictly limited to yesterday...don't forget that Man U went 10 YEARS between penalties awarded against them at home (93-2003, I think), and given some of the thugs who played for them, it's difficult to envisage there having been no challenges worthy of it.

fsquid · Post by **fsquid** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 11:29 pm

Hull is in a champions league spot and Hoffenheim is leading the Bundesliga 2 years after being in the Regionliga. What is in the fecking water?

fsquid · Post by **fsquid** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 7:55 am

by the way, why is the crowd at Pompey always smiling? Everytime I see a throw in at that place the crowd behind the player is smiling ear to ear. Just weird since I believe the proper way to watch a game in the UK is with the arms folded and a permanent sad face.

davet010 · Post by **davet010** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 1:51 pm

fsquid wrote:by the way, why is the crowd at Pompey always smiling? Everytime I see a throw in at that place the crowd behind the player is smiling ear to ear. Just weird since I believe the proper way to watch a game in the UK is with the arms folded and a permanent sad face.

Because they're stupid southern yokels.

Your point about other fans is spot on tho - usually as they realise that they've paid £35 and upwards to watch shyte.

Draw for the Waffa Cup was today - some quality teams for City, unfortunately.

Schalke 04
Paris St Germain
MANCHESTER CITY
Racing Santander
FC Twente

Both Twente and Racing are beatable, PSG are iffy (luckily that one is at home), and City will take loads to Gelsenkirchen for the Schalke game - just a pity that the terraces are off limits for Euro games.

macsomjrr · Post by **macsomjrr** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 3:02 pm

davet010 wrote:
fsquid wrote:by the way, why is the crowd at Pompey always smiling? Everytime I see a throw in at that place the crowd behind the player is smiling ear to ear. Just weird since I believe the proper way to watch a game in the UK is with the arms folded and a permanent sad face.
Because they're stupid southern yokels.

Your point about other fans is spot on tho - usually as they realise that they've paid £35 and upwards to watch shyte.

Draw for the Waffa Cup was today - some quality teams for City, unfortunately.

Schalke 04
Paris St Germain
MANCHESTER CITY
Racing Santander
FC Twente

Both Twente and Racing are beatable, PSG are iffy (luckily that one is at home), and City will take loads to Gelsenkirchen for the Schalke game - just a pity that the terraces are off limits for Euro games.

Looks like the Spurs got very lucky with their draw in Group D. They may actually make it out of the group stage. Amazing.

wco81 · Post by **wco81** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 11:48 pm

3 billion pounds.

What is the combined debt of English football clubs?

Is this sustainable?

fsquid · Post by **fsquid** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 11:51 pm

wco81 wrote:3 billion pounds.

What is the combined debt of English football clubs?

Is this sustainable?

Parliament will bail them out

davet010 · Post by **davet010** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 3:23 am

wco81 wrote:3 billion pounds.

What is the combined debt of English football clubs?

Is this sustainable?

Who cares ?

Maybe City will be champions quicker than projected, what with having ZERO debt an' all.

Interestingly enuff, the 'Big 4' account for at least 50% of that. Heck, Man U account for about 25% of that total.

Wonder if that's why they haven't completed Tevez's formal transfer yet ?

Now that's a lovely thought on which to start the day

OOO - apparently, as an English taxpayer, I now have a miniscule part of a preferential share in 8 banks. Off I go to purchase one of those suits with strong white stripes and a bowler hat....which may be a surprise to those of you who thought that we all wore those already....

JRod · Post by **JRod** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 11:20 am

davet010 wrote: OOO - apparently, as an English taxpayer, I now have a miniscule part of a preferential share in 8 banks. Off I go to purchase one of those suits with strong white stripes and a bowler hat....which may be a surprise to those of you who thought that we all wore those already....

You're not?

davet010 · Post by **davet010** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 11:41 am

Well, not all the time - but here's my journey to work...

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=IqhlQfXUk7w

Macca00 · Post by **Macca00** » Wed Oct 08, 2008 3:07 pm

Feanor wrote:You can Oh dear all you want, but you won't change the fact that it's Sol Campbell who gets to decide if chants about him hanging from a tree are racist and offensive, not the white fans doing the chanting or their apologizers.

Hey Feanor - two things;

1) The Oh Dear was a response to your saying you'd trust Harry Redknapp's word which is like saying you think Don King is a honest human being. Redknapp's a crook.

2) England doesn't exactly have a long notable history of lynching and hanging blacks from trees so that sentence has a different meaning when it's said in the UK versus the USA.

EDIT:

Dave - you're weary of PSG? You'll batter them.

rhymes450 · Post by **rhymes450** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 5:54 am

No doubt the authors of this lyrical tour de force really only meant that they wouldn't mind kicking the living sh*t out of Sol if they ever got their hands on him. The fact that it's hard to get sh*t to rhyme with HIV presumably forced them to go down the "hanging from a tree" road. Aside from their cultural lack of familiarity with the whole process, the chore of actually lynching someone (finding suitable rope, tree near bar etc.) would make excessive inroads on the time of people who are clearly far too busy putting words to music.

The English journalist John Carlin, commenting on this in last Sunday's El Pais (Spanish newspaper) and took the view that the "tree thing" was a reference to the Ku Klux Klan lynchings. He may be wrong, but it's clearly not impossible to reach such a conclusion. One way or another, IMO, sport and soccer in particular would be better off without songs of this kind and the people who make them up. CHEERS

Naples39 · Post by **Naples39** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 12:54 pm

Cassano not going to City

Pity. His tantrums would've led to great 'typical city' material.

davet010 · Post by **davet010** » Thu Oct 09, 2008 2:04 pm

Other than Anelka, City haven't had too many 'dummy out of the pram' merchants - Cassano is a similar type. Reminds me of that quote about a Jets player of the 90's

"Body by Mercedes, head by Mattel".

Macca00 · Post by **Macca00** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 7:04 am

EDIT: For those wondering, that's a quarter circle forwards + high kick.

davet010 · Post by **davet010** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 7:49 am

Cheating bastud - just a shame his injury wasn't more serious. Not the first time he's been up to those sort of tricks as well.

RobVarak · Post by **RobVarak** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 11:54 am

davet010 wrote:Cheating bastud - just a shame his injury wasn't more serious. Not the first time he's been up to those sort of tricks as well.

Funny, I've always operated as if that's the only proper way to deal with the pestilence of a Brazilian striker near your 18-yard box.

MACTEPsporta · Post by **MACTEPsporta** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 3:39 pm

Macca00 wrote: England doesn't exactly have a long notable history of lynching and hanging blacks from trees so that sentence has a different meaning when it's said in the UK versus the USA.

And how did those slaves get there you think? The English brought them.
Not to mention they'd also enslaved half the world, around the same time.

Great stuff on Skrtel's kick, everyone, I am LMAO here.

fsquid · Post by **fsquid** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 4:46 pm

f*** the PC crap guys.

RobVarak · Post by **RobVarak** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 7:59 pm

Germany-Russia qualifier today was a doozy. Germany were very fortunate to take the points.

MACTEPsporta · Post by **MACTEPsporta** » Sat Oct 11, 2008 8:04 pm

I was following Ukraine-Croatia. 0-0 and the type of football that will make you want to kill yourself. It was in my hometown, and my friends dished out pretty good money to see it. They are not happy, to say the least.