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Post by gialloblu on Feb 24, 2006 13:40:20 GMT 10
The first tackle should have been a straight red. I looked forward to this match as the best teams in Europe, and Chelski came up well short
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Post by gialloblu on Mar 1, 2006 22:14:27 GMT 10
Tell that to Barcelona, who are the best club team in the world. What, 2-1 last week wasn't it?
Much better run club than Chelsea too.
Chelsea: Long history of underacheivement and mediocrity, dull route-one football, nouveax rich on the back of questionable Russian oil money, rip-off admission prices
Barca: Owned and funded by its members (i.e. fans), long history of attacking, exciting football, affordable admission prices
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Post by gialloblu on Feb 10, 2006 15:51:21 GMT 10
And a good proportion of them in pubs/clubs around Stamford Bridge at any one time. If anyone's ever in London, and misses Troppo, go out in Fulham Broadway
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Post by gialloblu on Feb 9, 2006 20:03:40 GMT 10
Chelsea attracts the London fashionistas and glory hunters. For them its just another form of entertainment, like going to the theatre or a club. They have no attachment to it, and when Chelsea decline, if and when Roman gets bored of his real-life Championship Manager game, takes his money and runs, the beautiful people and glory hunters will move on elsewhere. Maybe no atmosphere is the price of success. Remember what Roy Keane said a few years ago about the 'prawn sandwich eaters' at Old Trafford. Must be weird for the old-time Chelsea supporters, the ones that go in good times and bad (e.g. the 80s, which Chelsea spent in the old Second Division, nearly went out of business and nearly sold Stamford Bridge). On the one hand, it'd be great with all the recent success, but it'd suck having lots of people in the ground chasing the glory and not singing etc. Maybe in a few years, with the Mariners dominating the A-League, we'll be whinging about glory hunters not singing and pushing up ticket prices
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Post by gialloblu on Feb 22, 2006 21:35:28 GMT 10
On Forest's form he might play against Wycombe next season
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Post by gialloblu on Apr 30, 2007 21:28:37 GMT 10
I don't think Leeds will go straight back up points penalty or not. Having followed Forest in League One for the last two years its not an easy division to get out of (although hopefully results go the right way next weekend and Forest go up). Forest and Sheffield Wednesday have found that when you're the 'big club' in the division every small club lifts when they play you.
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Post by gialloblu on Apr 20, 2006 21:10:04 GMT 10
I think one leg of the semi is on the weekend before the final (midnight-ish our time) and the second leg midweek (early morning)
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Post by gialloblu on Jul 13, 2007 22:39:42 GMT 10
I can't see Arnold keeping his job beyond the Asian Cup, and on current form and pre-Cup preparation thats a good thing
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Post by gialloblu on May 9, 2007 22:55:55 GMT 10
Sydney weren't good - couldn't hit a cow's arse with a banjo. Shanghai were annoying with their play-acting though (although its certainly not why Sydney didn't win, which is what people I watched the game with thought). It would have been good if Sydney had a Keane or Gattuso type character for when Shanghai players went down with 'injuries'. They could lean over the Shanghai player, say "You think that hurt" and then grind their back studs into their swingers (sorry, a bit graphic? Seriously though, I thought one of the reasons East Asian countries were so keen to have Australia in the AFC was so they could get experience against physically tougher teams. If referees blow the whistle at the slightest hint of body contact and indulge that sort of play-acting, East Asian teams aren't going to get any tougher
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Post by gialloblu on May 3, 2007 19:53:22 GMT 10
sorry, supposed to be tongue in cheek No offence intended and apologies for any caused
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Post by gialloblu on May 3, 2007 16:25:51 GMT 10
Lynch would be a great signing. Would stick with our policy of only signing Scots or Croats
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Post by gialloblu on Sept 30, 2006 11:33:07 GMT 10
Give the guy a bit of credit. If I had to watch that three ring circus every week, I'd be calling out "I hate soccer" too
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Post by gialloblu on Sept 30, 2006 11:30:57 GMT 10
Well, they are from the most insular town in Australia, so they're not used to strangers
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Post by gialloblu on Sept 26, 2006 22:53:33 GMT 10
Maybe Willis has a better temperament than Reddy? Reddy could be a liability re. having a brainsnap at a crucial moment. I remember him getting sent off in the NSL for punching out an opposition player out of the blue, and he lost it a bit at the end of a high-pressure game against us last year in the first semi
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Post by gialloblu on Sept 26, 2006 22:48:48 GMT 10
because we could have had a big fanday type do, with a dinamo marinators vs locomotiv cove charity match followed by a real derby something like that could be in order for the sunday arvo game in early december?
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Post by gialloblu on Sept 20, 2006 23:07:50 GMT 10
With the guest player thing in general, its not a bad move in moderation, if the players are suitable [judged by their on-field exploits ], they draw crowds, clubs don't pay over the odds for them and the guest players help the development of young up and coming players [imagine being a young player at Adelaide training with Romario. You'd learn lots of new techniques]. What I'd hate to see would be something like the North American Soccer League of the late 70s. Players of the calibre of Pele and Best went there at the end of their careers, and the league was massive for a few years. But the NASL did very little to foster young American talent, creating a more sustainable domestic league. The NASL was as much a travelling carnival as a football league. Guest [and imported] players have a role, but its important that they're not in the league at the expense of developing local players
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Post by gialloblu on Sept 20, 2006 22:58:53 GMT 10
Did the FFA rule him out because of his private life, or was he deemed unsuitable on the field [not having played competitively for years etc]?
If its his private life, Constantine's kinda got a point. Not at all condoning him hitting his girlfriend, but by that criteria there'd be a lot of people ruled out of professional sport in Australia. As far as I'm aware the other stuff he's been involved in has been with consenting adults...
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Post by gialloblu on Sept 19, 2006 22:10:48 GMT 10
I'm obviously biased on the topic [see the userbar below], but Collymore was a brilliant striker at the beginning of his career. The first year I got into English football, 1994-5, he scored loads of goals that helped Forest finish third in the Premiership. He scored about 50 goals for Forest in two seasons, and quite a few for Liverpool in the next couple of years. Doesn't sound like a player who "couldn't give a shit throughout his career"
He's had a very chequered off-field life, and I'm not going to defend some of the things he's done [beating up his girlfriend was reprehensible], but he has shown a lot of talent at stages in his career. Its really a hypothetical discussion given that it looks unlikely that he'll sign for the scum anyway, but if he was fit, and wanted to make a go of it, Collymore would be worth a look in the A-League. Pity it'll be for the scum if he comes out here
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Post by gialloblu on Sept 17, 2006 18:58:59 GMT 10
If you're in the inner-city/inner-west, the Rose on Cleveland St shows football on their big screen out the back. Not sure if its all ALeague matches or just SFC though
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Post by gialloblu on Sept 16, 2006 0:21:46 GMT 10
The Cove's weekly feature...
The Tele might as well have one of their sports writers walk into the cove, pash the first person they see and print picture's in their football edition & it'd have the same effect
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