Soccer thread 09/10 (contains spoilers)

Feanor · Post by **Feanor** » Wed Jun 02, 2010 11:00 pm

Baines must be crazy if he really said that. It's the World Cup FFS.

Jimmydeicide · Post by **Jimmydeicide** » Thu Jun 03, 2010 1:37 am

davet010 wrote:Walcott is another example of where English youth development has gone wrong over the last 10 years.

Fantastic athlete - check
Run all day - check

Err....completes 1 cross in every 7, and he's a winger ?
Other than that flukey hattrick, scored 1 goal in his last 29 internationals

According to Sky Sports News, final straw was that Capello sat him down after the Mexico game with a video and gave him some pointers, which he then completely ignored.

Leighton Baines cooked his own goose - firstly by having a pathetic outing against Mexico, and secondly by telling Capello that he wasn't too happy about spending 6 weeks away from home.

Not the smartest thing to say when you've already planted a big question mark in the manager's mind, though I can understand it if he lives in Merseyside as he'd probably come back to bare foundations...and the scallies would be digging them out as he drove back from the airport

Adam Johnson I can see - he's only had half a season at City, his stamina is a bit suspect and he can look overawed at times, but I am struggling to think who's going to play on the left side of midfield now.[/b]

Still think there was a spot for Walcott if you compare with what was chosen. Not much difference between him and Lennon except Walcott can score and is faster.
Any way been watching rivalry's lately and im getting pumped for the start of this thing .

wco81 · Post by **wco81** » Thu Jun 03, 2010 2:23 am

Anyone doing any of the Soccernet Fantasy games?

davet010 · Post by **davet010** » Thu Jun 03, 2010 3:25 am

Jimmydeicide wrote:
Still think there was a spot for Walcott if you compare with what was chosen. Not much difference between him and Lennon except Walcott can score and is faster.
Any way been watching rivalry's lately and im getting pumped for the start of this thing .

Walcott is like Lennon without the end product - he's got all the tools, but no idea.

Anyway, news breaking that Liverpool are going to get shut of the Spanish Waiter sometime today or tomorrow. There is one slight problem - according to his contract, Rafa will be due to receive £16m in cash. Liverpool's offer ?

£3m

(DT settles back in deckchair to watch the action).

But who do they have in mind ?

O'Neill ? Hodgson ? Nah, they couldn't afford to buy them out of their existing deals.

No, gents, I know what you want. The scouse 'Dream Team' - Kenny Dalglish and Kevin Keegan.

Oh, please, please let this happen

RobVarak · Post by **RobVarak** » Thu Jun 03, 2010 11:04 am

I couldn't be more terrified about what the current brain trust at LFC will come up with as a solution.

davet010 · Post by **davet010** » Thu Jun 03, 2010 11:14 am

RobVarak wrote:I couldn't be more terrified about what the current brain trust at LFC will come up with as a solution.

Be terrified - apparently Rafa has gone and 'King Kenny' will be helping them select a replacement. Like he's had much involvement in football over the last few years.

I can just imagine Keegan bouncing up and down like the short kid in the playground during team selection.

"Pick me ! Pick me !! Pick me !!!!"

I'd love to see what size war-chest they are promising potential candidates, and whether it involves selling Gerrard or Torres.

RobVarak · Post by **RobVarak** » Thu Jun 03, 2010 12:39 pm

wco81 wrote:Anyone doing any of the Soccernet Fantasy games?

Not fantasy, but I set up a brackets pool.

http://www.digitalsportspage.com./modul ... 209#309209

Feanor · Post by **Feanor** » Thu Jun 03, 2010 12:45 pm

Long, interesting article about Clint Dempsey.

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/world-cup/ ... 901&ver=us

Macca00 · Post by **Macca00** » Thu Jun 03, 2010 2:45 pm

Thanks Tom & George. Thank you you f***in cretins.

Liverpool are utterly f***ed. No manager. No money (actually worse than no money, negative money). And no doubt Gerrard and Torres will be on the first plane/train/automobile out of the city. Can't imagine any sane manager would come within 50 miles of the club.

That said, at least relegation battles will be more exciting than finishing 7th.....and we don't have to hear the Sly Sports going on about Rafa. They'll save their two-faced vitriol for some other foreign managers - they were applying some of their genius analysis to Mancini at the end of last season so perhaps he'll be next.

So depressed.

davet010 · Post by **davet010** » Thu Jun 03, 2010 3:58 pm

Macca00 wrote:Thanks Tom & George. Thank you you f***in cretins.

Liverpool are utterly f***ed. No manager. No money (actually worse than no money, negative money). And no doubt Gerrard and Torres will be on the first plane/train/automobile out of the city. Can't imagine any sane manager would come within 50 miles of the club.

That said, at least relegation battles will be more exciting than finishing 7th.....and we don't have to hear the Sly Sports going on about Rafa. They'll save their two-faced vitriol for some other foreign managers - they were applying some of their genius analysis to Mancini at the end of last season so perhaps he'll be next.

So depressed.

Oh Mancini was under attack from day one, due to him having replaced a 'top young British manager'. That cretin Paul Merson even came out with the legendary 'who is Mancini and what has he won ?' not long after he started, only to be put in his place by Stelling, I think, who pointed out that he'd won 3 Serie A titles in a row...cue Smackhead keeping quiet for at least 5 minutes.

miget33 · Post by **miget33** » Fri Jun 04, 2010 10:50 am

Drogba and Ferdinand have both been ruled of the World Cup due to injury

miget33 · Post by **miget33** » Fri Jun 04, 2010 10:58 am

davet010 · Post by **davet010** » Fri Jun 04, 2010 11:18 am

miget33 wrote:Drogba and Ferdinand have both been ruled of the World Cup due to injury

Odds on England shorten - news at eleven

10spro · Post by **10spro** » Fri Jun 04, 2010 11:30 am

davet010 wrote:
miget33 wrote:Drogba and Ferdinand have both been ruled of the World Cup due to injury
Odds on England shorten - news at eleven

Maybe they'll rely on Dawson or Upson now, but the absence of Ivory Coast's captain is huge.

davet010 · Post by **davet010** » Fri Jun 04, 2010 11:49 am

I bet Michael Dawson is glad that he bought that voodoo doll. Hopefully we won't be treated to the Cockney Crook telling us what a 'triffic, really triffic player' he is.

Oh that's right - there's no point illegally tapping up a player already on your books.

10spro · Post by **10spro** » Fri Jun 04, 2010 12:06 pm

davet010 wrote:I bet Michael Dawson is glad that he bought that voodoo doll. Hopefully we won't be treated to the Cockney Crook telling us what a 'triffic, really triffic player' he is.

RobVarak · Post by **RobVarak** » Fri Jun 04, 2010 12:46 pm

This is great:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/nation ... ble,17553/

EZSnappin · Post by **EZSnappin** » Fri Jun 04, 2010 6:32 pm

Shamelessly nicked from another forum:

Duran Duran are now doing England's World Cup Song. It goes "his name is Rio and he watches from the stands".

Feanor · Post by **Feanor** » Sat Jun 05, 2010 6:26 am

Rio being out is terrible for England if it means Upson starts alongside Terry instead of King.

fsquid · Post by **fsquid** » Mon Jun 07, 2010 11:00 pm

Playing catchup from being on vacation, but nice touch seeing the scoucers burning the American flag last week. At least they didn't kill anyone though.

Macca00 · Post by **Macca00** » Tue Jun 08, 2010 12:55 am

Idiotic for sure. It's a shame Scousers don't have the same long history of peace and benevolence that the Germans do.

10spro · Post by **10spro** » Tue Jun 08, 2010 1:24 am

Looks like Drogba will rejoin IC after his injury last week.

Benitez set to sign with Inter on a 3 year term.

RobVarak · Post by **RobVarak** » Tue Jun 08, 2010 2:05 am

Macca00 wrote:Idiotic for sure. It's a shame Scousers don't have the same long history of peace and benevolence that the Germans do.

Hitler? Who said anything about Hitler?

fsquid · Post by **fsquid** » Tue Jun 08, 2010 7:46 am

Macca00 wrote:Idiotic for sure. It's a shame Scousers don't have the same long history of peace and benevolence that the Germans do.

getting slammed in 2 World Wars makes a place peaceful and benevolent!

davet010 · Post by **davet010** » Thu Jun 10, 2010 8:49 am

Can I make an observation after watching a couple of the WC warmup games in SA ?

Whoever decided not to ban those stupid plastic trumpets needs to be shot. Now.