Soccer thread 09/10 (contains spoilers)

JRod · Post by **JRod** » Sat Apr 17, 2010 4:32 pm

T'he Damn United was a great flick.

Doug, were did you find the real TV interviews?

dougb · Post by **dougb** » Sat Apr 17, 2010 5:15 pm

JRod wrote:T'he Damn United was a great flick.

Doug, were did you find the real TV interviews?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxsRt2yG ... 1&index=14

Best wishes,

Doug

fsquid · Post by **fsquid** » Mon Apr 19, 2010 10:00 am

Looks like I'll need a League One Map for next season.

GB_Simo · Post by **GB_Simo** » Mon Apr 19, 2010 4:13 pm

fsquid wrote:Looks like I'll need a League One Map for next season.

Palace on the final day could be an interesting 90 minutes, mate, though conceding late on against the Pigs might turn out to be a bit of a kick in the crotch. Still, looks like you'll still have a DSP Derby to look forward to next season, unless the FA come down a ton on us for fielding a suspended player over Easter.

fsquid · Post by **fsquid** » Mon Apr 19, 2010 4:56 pm

play Cardiff (playoff team) on the road and then palace at home (team that is only down here because of the point deduction). I don't think watford will get another point, but i can't see us getting the 3 we need to vault in front of them. Palace already kicked our butts at home in the FA Cup.

fsquid · Post by **fsquid** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 9:28 am

Dave,

Why does City want Buffon? I rate Given highly, but I am a Yank.

Macca00 · Post by **Macca00** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 8:52 pm

Barca finally play a team with some balls (though to be fair that was a highly gimped Arsenal team they thrashed) and lose 3-1. The second leg is going to be a cracker.

10spro · Post by **10spro** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 9:37 pm

Macca00 wrote:Barca finally play a team with some balls (though to be fair that was a highly gimped Arsenal team they thrashed) and lose 3-1. The second leg is going to be a cracker.

Must have been that long bus ride. But hey, Cambiasso did an excellent shadowing job on Messi and that was one of Jose's key. Strong show by Inter' D.

Macca00 · Post by **Macca00** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 9:47 pm

10spro wrote:Must have been that long bus ride.

Listen, I got that excuse all tuned up and ready to go if things go south for Liverpool on Thursday. lol

10spro · Post by **10spro** » Tue Apr 20, 2010 10:28 pm

Macca00 wrote:
10spro wrote:Must have been that long bus ride.
Listen, I got that excuse all tuned up and ready to go if things go south for Liverpool on Thursday. lol

Well, I thought you guys ride on limos at least.

fsquid · Post by **fsquid** » Wed Apr 21, 2010 10:33 am

Lyon get that excuse too.

Feanor · Post by **Feanor** » Sun Apr 25, 2010 5:37 pm

England Football Stars When They Were Young

http://www.whoateallthepies.tv/lists/16 ... l?pid=3560

miget33 · Post by **miget33** » Sun Apr 25, 2010 6:40 pm

Nice of Stoke to show up today.

I think Chelsea just scored another

fsquid · Post by **fsquid** » Mon Apr 26, 2010 11:33 am

In an UEFA note. It is said that if Bayern can get to the final and Hamburg beats Fulham, then Germany will go 3rd in the Coefficient table and take Italy's 4th Champions League slot.

davet010 · Post by **davet010** » Mon Apr 26, 2010 5:15 pm

Palace 1 WBA 1

It's all on for Sunday, squid !

In other news, City have got PL dispensation to bring another goalie in, as the first 3 keepers in the squad are all out. I say get Joe Hart back for the last 3 games - Birmingham can't make Europe now, and all the 3 relegation places are decided.

Macca00 · Post by **Macca00** » Mon Apr 26, 2010 6:17 pm

Joe Hart has been fantastic for Birmingham this season. Good young player.

davet010 · Post by **davet010** » Mon Apr 26, 2010 6:20 pm

And all ours.

Unleash McCleish has £20m to drop.

fsquid · Post by **fsquid** » Tue Apr 27, 2010 6:56 am

davet010 wrote:Palace 1 WBA 1

It's all on for Sunday, squid !

In other news, City have got PL dispensation to bring another goalie in, as the first 3 keepers in the squad are all out. I say get Joe Hart back for the last 3 games - Birmingham can't make Europe now, and all the 3 relegation places are decided.

massive game. It is on BBC 1 so hopefully a nice stream will pop up for me to watch with my coffee.

Joe Hart played very well for the Owls a few seasons ago.

miget33 · Post by **miget33** » Tue Apr 27, 2010 5:31 pm

At least Bayern are through to the Finals Squiddy.

fsquid · Post by **fsquid** » Tue Apr 27, 2010 10:44 pm

Olic was free this summer, not a bad pickup

davet010 · Post by **davet010** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 5:42 pm

Bayern will play Inter, after Guardiola's lack of a Plan B bites him on the arse. Inter played with 10 men for 60-odd minutes after Busquets threw himself to the floor, and Julio Cesar had one shot to save.

Take Messi, Xavi and Pique out of that side, and they wouldn't make it out of the last 16.

Crowd in the Camp Nou did their usual impression of a church audience. Most other clubs would be screaming their team on after Pique pulled it back to 3-2 on aggregate, but some of this lot were leaving with 5 minutes to go. There's more atmosphere on the surface of the Moon.

Some of the more clueless commentators over here were bemoaning the fact that Barca were out. I wonder whether anyone has ever told them that defence is a part of the game as well ?

Feanor · Post by **Feanor** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 11:03 pm

The Barca-slurping in some media quarters is sickening. It's justice that their play-acting and theatrics weren't enough to get them in to the final, even though it was enough to con the ref into sending Motta off today.

davet010 · Post by **davet010** » Thu Apr 29, 2010 3:32 am

Feanor wrote:The Barca-slurping in some media quarters is sickening. It's justice that their play-acting and theatrics weren't enough to get them in to the final, even though it was enough to con the ref into sending Motta off today.

Well, in fairness the play-acting wasn't limited to Barca - various Inter defenders took turns rolling about after every ball into their area. And a note to players....there are now so many cameras that your sly little looks while rolling about towards the ref are now picked up and replayed endlessly.

Big test for Barca now - Guardiola has spent €100m this last offseason on two players who just don't seem to fit (Ibrahimovic and that Russian defender who is utter garbage). New President this year as well when Laporta steps down.

Hopefully we'll now hear the end of that '6 trophies in a miraculous season' nonsense. Three of them only had 2 entrants, and one was the Copa del Rey, which few of the bigger teams put much effort into anyway - RM were knocked out this season by a non-league team.

fsquid · Post by **fsquid** » Thu Apr 29, 2010 8:57 am

Maybe they pumped in, but Camp Nou sounded pretty electric through the tele.

davet010 · Post by **davet010** » Thu Apr 29, 2010 12:45 pm

Not for a crowd of 90,000 it didn't.