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Post by gialloblu on Sept 16, 2006 0:12:45 GMT 10
So A-League refs aren't the worst in the world
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Post by gialloblu on Sept 16, 2006 0:11:06 GMT 10
Beckham's 55 yard lob against Wimbledon has to be another one of the best I've ever seen
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Post by gialloblu on Sept 12, 2006 23:03:29 GMT 10
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Post by gialloblu on Sept 5, 2006 23:10:35 GMT 10
I read that its Abramovich's main Russian oil rival (can't remember his name), who Abramovich tried to have jailed in Russia. If that's true, I'm way off the mark with the feeder club stuff - I can't imagine him selling players to Chelsea
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Post by gialloblu on Sept 3, 2006 23:37:59 GMT 10
I don' think it looks good for West Ham at all. The English press is haveing a field day saying that West Ham are acting as a feeder fo other English clubs (ie Chelsea). There's a lot of unanswered questions about how much West Ham payed for the players, where that money came from, who exactly it goes to etc. I hope the players do well for West Ham, but I can't see them staying there for too long. There's that saying that if something seems too good to be true it probably is...
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Post by gialloblu on Aug 31, 2006 19:18:29 GMT 10
Its not about whether a coach should earn that kind of many, but whether anybody shouId earn that kind of money for anything, especially in a country with so many problems like South Africa. With so much poverty and social problems, surely they can spend that money on providing electricity and running water for all their citizens, or subsidising anti-retroviral drugs for the 30% of their adult population with AIDS? After all, as much as we all love it, football really is just a game
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Post by gialloblu on May 18, 2006 22:20:29 GMT 10
English football does have a bad reputation that it doesn't deserve any more. UEFA has its head in the sand with racism in Spain and Italy but still pretends England is the problem. Someone should tell UEFA that English football has changed a lot in the last 20 years.
On the topic of the match itself, I'm glad that the best team in Europe won the European Cup for a change. No offense to the likes of Liverpool and Porto, but there's no way they were consistently the best European teams when they won it.
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Post by gialloblu on Apr 3, 2007 22:19:27 GMT 10
I don't understand why players would choose Croatia over Australia these days. Leaving aside matters of patriotism, are Croatia a better prospect than Australia to do well in major tournaments into the future?
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Post by gialloblu on May 3, 2006 23:46:21 GMT 10
Celtic and Hearts hate each other almost as much as Celtic and Rangers.
If it was any other club that would keep Rangers out of the Champions League (especially Hibs), I might believe Celtic went a bit easy, but not against Hearts
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Post by gialloblu on May 7, 2006 23:15:58 GMT 10
They don't. Forest went out at the play-off semis in extra-time a couple of years ago, after drawing 1-1 at home and 2-2 away.
BTW, Watford won the other semi 3-0 yesterday - they look in pretty good form
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Post by gialloblu on May 9, 2006 23:45:01 GMT 10
On the beating Brazil vs qualifying from the group question, I'd rather lose to Brazil and still go through than beat them then not go through (unlikely, but definitely not impossible)
The Socceroos have gotten results against big football countries before (including Brazil once or twice, admittedly though not at the World Cup) and it hasn't done heaps for the domestic game. If we make it past the group stages though, the unconverted will hear that not only are the Socceroos at the World Cup, but are one of the better teams there. A lot of Aussies love a winner, and it'll lead more people into the A-League.
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Post by gialloblu on May 9, 2006 23:31:04 GMT 10
I don't know if its bold or stupid. Either way, its stupid to only name five strikers, one of whom has a serious injury doubt and one of whom has never played a game of top flight football. I'd have taken Defoe instead of Bridge if I was Eriksson.
Maybe the idea is to introduce Walcott to the England set-up so he's used to it for the future. There's some logic to it, in that successful national teams have played together for years. Getting a few young players into the squad will give them a lot of time to develop their own games and their own style of team play. Don't know that a World Cup is the time to be doing it though
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Post by gialloblu on May 3, 2006 23:50:31 GMT 10
yawn
They've taken out all the excitement of the Premiership in the process.
Chelsea at the moment is like playing Championship Manager with all the cheats on
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Post by gialloblu on Apr 20, 2006 21:05:46 GMT 10
Millwall as well - I wonder how many teams they have in their program Don't know how it came up with Millwall though - I don't remember any questions of, "Are you a racist?" or "Do you wear over-the-top jewellery to matches?"
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Post by gialloblu on Apr 20, 2006 21:02:13 GMT 10
I read a thing a month or two ago about Polish hooligans. One of those things that shouldn't be funny but is.
Similar to football teams playing friendlies before the World Cup, Polish and German hooligans recently had a practice fight for the World Cup near the German-Polish border!
Seriously though, hope nobody innocent gets dragged into football violence in Gremany
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Post by gialloblu on Apr 5, 2006 23:47:56 GMT 10
Psycho (Pearce) wouldn't tolerate attitude from players, would make them play with pride, and Beckham would lose his priviledged place in the England team. I've been impressed with his job at Man City (wish Forest had snapped him up as manager a couple of years ago when we had the chance), but I don't know that he has the tactical nous (yet) to challenge for a World Cup. He'll make a great England manager, but not yet.
I'd go for another ex-Forest player, O'Neill. But I heard he'd rather the Newcastle job than England
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Post by gialloblu on Mar 3, 2006 20:11:14 GMT 10
Top site - one of the better fan sites I've seen
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Post by gialloblu on Mar 3, 2006 0:03:44 GMT 10
Support: CCMFC (obviously) OS: Forest - my dad's from Nottingham, used to watch them back in the 60s. I've been following Forest for as long as I've been following English football. Got to see them a couple of times last year, which was great, but shame it was in the third division Celtic - Dad's family from weegie Catholic stock, enough said Keep an eye on: Liverpool - of all the 'big' English clubs Sunderland Barcelona Deportivo La Coruna - have the most awesome looking ground: massive and right on the beach Napoli Dislike/hate: Scumcastle Rangers - see above Man United Chelsea - both too much money, killing English football Real Madrid Lazio - fascists
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Post by gialloblu on Mar 3, 2006 0:05:49 GMT 10
Forest still have two of what Chelsea don't
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Post by gialloblu on Mar 1, 2006 22:16:30 GMT 10
Chelsea fans are chavtastic
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