Originally posted by Roadbike Mankie:manchester united
Originally posted by god's shoeshine:Who's the 4th?
outside of the big 4, is there a better club to own in england?
actually, i dont even care, as long as the fat freddy reign of terror is over
On the Eve of the new Season...
Originally posted by god's shoeshine:You british members of the board. One day you will have to explain where the hell are some traditional teams such as Nottingham Forest (two European Cups), Leeds United, Queens Park Rangers, Sheffield Wednesday, Norwich, Ipswich Town, Cristal Palace.. I think I haven't seen them in the premierleague for a while.
Originally posted by Roadbike Mankie:manchester united
Originally posted by god's shoeshine:Who's the 4th?
outside of the big 4, is there a better club to own in england?
actually, i dont even care, as long as the fat freddy reign of terror is over
Originally posted by god's shoeshine:Right…. Spurs, Newcastle, Aston Villa and Manchester United.
Originally posted by Roadbike Mankie:manchester united
Originally posted by god's shoeshine:Who's the 4th?
outside of the big 4, is there a better club to own in england?
actually, i dont even care, as long as the fat freddy reign of terror is over
haha, i just couldnt figure out who you were zonging (chelski?)
Originally posted by god's shoeshine:I was…not a big club, just a rich owner.
haha, i just couldnt figure out who you were zonging (chelski?)
Look, liverscum won something this season after all, well deserved too!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/l/liverpool/6717793.stm
Stealing tickets from kids pretty much sums those dirtbags up really!!!!
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Forty Signs That It`s Summer
1) Thierry Henry is off to Barcelona.
2) You keep checking the internet to see if you've signed someone. You just did it now.
3) And again.
4) The Mailbox is half as long as normal.
5) Thierry Henry is off to Real Madrid now.
6) ManYoo release a new kit.
7) Football pundits find themselves shoehorned into covering other sports.
8) As do football journalists. Quick, look busy.
9) Someone English is cheered all the way to the fourth round of Wimbledon from Henman Hill or Murray Mount or somewhere.
10) Actually, Andrew Murray's f**king Scottish, isn't he? Let's not cheer for him.
11) Sue Barker sits there and tells you it's a "Great British summer of sport".
12) You end up knowing the names of half the footballers' agents in the Premier League.
13) Old pros are forced to play football as satellite TV desperately scrabbles around for material.
14) Spurs target a top-four finish.
15) Your skin has gone a funny lobster colour and hurts.
16) Golf seems interesting.
17) Everyone gets excited waiting for the fixture list. Ooh, we play every team twice! Once home and once away! I can't wait!
18) You actually start to miss Alan Hansen.
19) Cricket is the new football. So we're told.
20) You try to convince yourself that the awful player linked with your club has just been misunderstood in the past.
21) And as for those players you've never heard of, well, best check their stats on Football Manager. That'll work.
22) You start to fancy Clare Balding.
23) Sky Sports News is even duller than normal.
24) Fernando Torres is linked with a move to the Premiership. (Note: In previous years, this role was regularly filled by Benni McCarthy).
25) You tell yourself staying up all night to watch the Copa America and MLS is normal.
26) It's Liverpool's year.
27) You suddenly realise you've got a wife and kids and that you haven't spoken to them for nine months. And they hate you.
28) You contemplate seeing if you can find your old Subbuteo set in the loft.
29) You persuade your family this year's holiday should be in Norway just so you can watch live football. Brann are top, you know, and Odd
Grenland have only won once. Fascinating.
30) You persuade yourself the Intertoto Cup is really great.
31) You start craving cold lager at 10am every day.
32) You get so desperate that you start watching Eurosport 2 in the hope some football comes on.
33) You find yourself travelling 100 miles on a bus to watch the youth team's reserves playing a pre-season friendly.
34) You realise it's 3pm on a Saturday afternoon and you're holding your missus' bags in Top Shop. And even though she's trying to talk to you, all you're thinking is 'Ooh, I remember when Top Man used to sponsor Leeds'.
35) You love being top four or hate being in the relegation zone. Even though the league is entirely alphabetical.
36) You breathe a sigh of relief when you realise pre-season friendlies start in the first week of July. Because watching your out-of-shape side play Stevenage is just great, isn't it?
37) Newcastle sign 15 players. Only one of them is a defender.
38) You start to work out how many players it would take for your side to break into the Big Four. Then you think how great it would be if you
somehow won your first ten games and managed to stay ahead of the rest and be in with a shout of the league.
39) You convince yourself it's worth sticking a quid on it at 2500/1 odds. 50p, at least.
40) You put the other 50p on ManYoo getting relegated at 7500/1. Anything's possible, right?
1) Thierry Henry is off to Barcelona.
2) You keep checking the internet to see if you've signed someone. You just did it now.
3) And again.
4) The Mailbox is half as long as normal.
5) Thierry Henry is off to Real Madrid now.
6) ManYoo release a new kit.
7) Football pundits find themselves shoehorned into covering other sports.
8) As do football journalists. Quick, look busy.
9) Someone English is cheered all the way to the fourth round of Wimbledon from Henman Hill or Murray Mount or somewhere.
10) Actually, Andrew Murray's f**king Scottish, isn't he? Let's not cheer for him.
11) Sue Barker sits there and tells you it's a "Great British summer of sport".
12) You end up knowing the names of half the footballers' agents in the Premier League.
13) Old pros are forced to play football as satellite TV desperately scrabbles around for material.
14) Spurs target a top-four finish.
15) Your skin has gone a funny lobster colour and hurts.
16) Golf seems interesting.
17) Everyone gets excited waiting for the fixture list. Ooh, we play every team twice! Once home and once away! I can't wait!
18) You actually start to miss Alan Hansen.
19) Cricket is the new football. So we're told.
20) You try to convince yourself that the awful player linked with your club has just been misunderstood in the past.
21) And as for those players you've never heard of, well, best check their stats on Football Manager. That'll work.
22) You start to fancy Clare Balding.
23) Sky Sports News is even duller than normal.
24) Fernando Torres is linked with a move to the Premiership. (Note: In previous years, this role was regularly filled by Benni McCarthy).
25) You tell yourself staying up all night to watch the Copa America and MLS is normal.
26) It's Liverpool's year.
27) You suddenly realise you've got a wife and kids and that you haven't spoken to them for nine months. And they hate you.
28) You contemplate seeing if you can find your old Subbuteo set in the loft.
29) You persuade your family this year's holiday should be in Norway just so you can watch live football. Brann are top, you know, and Odd
Grenland have only won once. Fascinating.
30) You persuade yourself the Intertoto Cup is really great.
31) You start craving cold lager at 10am every day.
32) You get so desperate that you start watching Eurosport 2 in the hope some football comes on.
33) You find yourself travelling 100 miles on a bus to watch the youth team's reserves playing a pre-season friendly.
34) You realise it's 3pm on a Saturday afternoon and you're holding your missus' bags in Top Shop. And even though she's trying to talk to you, all you're thinking is 'Ooh, I remember when Top Man used to sponsor Leeds'.
35) You love being top four or hate being in the relegation zone. Even though the league is entirely alphabetical.
36) You breathe a sigh of relief when you realise pre-season friendlies start in the first week of July. Because watching your out-of-shape side play Stevenage is just great, isn't it?
37) Newcastle sign 15 players. Only one of them is a defender.
38) You start to work out how many players it would take for your side to break into the Big Four. Then you think how great it would be if you
somehow won your first ten games and managed to stay ahead of the rest and be in with a shout of the league.
39) You convince yourself it's worth sticking a quid on it at 2500/1 odds. 50p, at least.
40) You put the other 50p on ManYoo getting relegated at 7500/1. Anything's possible, right?
LIES
newcastle has yet to sign any defenders
newcastle has yet to sign any defenders
I would have added:
41) You pick up a book to read this summer depsite the fact that you read it 15 times already and hate Arsenal.
41) You pick up a book to read this summer depsite the fact that you read it 15 times already and hate Arsenal.
nick takes some real shots at the toon in it too
42)Arsenal sign a non-english speaking player.
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There's a few more…..lets try arseholes now shall we? Or any of the other alleged English premier league top contenders for that matter.
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There's a few more…..lets try arseholes now shall we? Or any of the other alleged English premier league top contenders for that matter.
little sensitive, eh?
Congratulations to Becks and Real Madrid…sorry Barcelona, can't win em all!!
Originally posted by Roadbike Mankie:I disconnected from the Spanish League a few weeks ago after the draw at home with Betis. It is embarrassing how we have handed the league to Real Madrid in the last games. Lack of motivation, overconfidence? not sure. Still, Beckham's resume in Real Madrid has been really sad, one big championship and given as a gift. There is no merit in what Madrid did this year. We just threw it away at home with an incredible lack of motivation.
Congratulations to Becks and Real Madrid…sorry Barcelona, can't win em all!!
wow. just. wow
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/soccer/06/19/bc.soc.galaxy.beckham.ap/index.html
Galaxy president Lalas says English soccer is inferior
Posted: Tuesday June 19, 2007 10:30AM; Updated: Tuesday June 19, 2007 12:08PM
Galaxy GM and former U.S. defender Alexi Lalas is known for his eyebrow-raising statements.
Christian Petersen/AFP/Getty Images
LONDON (AP) – Alexi Lalas helped humiliate English soccer 14 years ago. It looks like he's trying to do it again.
The Los Angeles Galaxy president, who scored when the United States beat England 2-0 in a friendly match in 1993, told British newspapers that Major League Soccer is on a par with the Premier League.
Irked by suggestions that David Beckham is going into semiretirement by joining the Galaxy, Lalas said the only reason the English league is popular is because of American-style marketing.
"The fact that a segment of the world worships an inferior product in the Premiership is their business," Lalas said in an interview with The Guardian published Tuesday.
"In England, our league is considered second class, but I honestly believe if you took a helicopter and grabbed a bunch of MLS players and took them to the perceived best league in the world they wouldn't miss a beat and the fans wouldn't notice any drop in quality."
Brian McBride and Clint Dempsey are among the American players in the Premier League, although they play for modest Fulham. None of the American players in England are stars of the caliber of those at teams such as Manchester United and Chelsea.
McBride – the third highest scorer in U.S. national team history with 30 goals – scored nine times last season for Fulham, which finished 16th in the Premier League. His tally was 12 short of Didier Drogba's league-high 21 for Chelsea, and the same as Wigan's Emile Heskey and Aston Villa's Gabriel Agbonlahor.
Despite criticizing the Premier League for sloganeering and over-marketing, Lalas claimed that, when he arrives, Beckham will have a higher profile in the United States than Tiger Woods or Michael Jordan.
"The U.S. will never have dealt with an athlete who has had this kind of international impact," Lalas told The Mirror. "Tiger Woods has that international appeal but, with due respect to Woods and Michael Jordan, David Beckham is at an entirely different level."
Lalas, a 37-year-old former United States defender, said his country's record at the past four World Cups compared favorably with that of England – England has two underwhelming quarterfinal appearances to one for the U.S. – and suggested almost all those who criticize the MLS have yet to see the league.
However, several British papers were unimpressed by the Galaxy's 3-2 win over Real Salt Lake on Sunday.
"The game was not without moments of quality … (but) some of the defending from both sides was the type of stuff you watch through your fingers," according to The Mirror. "It was the football equivalent of a demolition derby.
"The use of possession was alarmingly careless and the concept of marking appeared not to have found its way across the Atlantic."
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/soccer/06/19/bc.soc.galaxy.beckham.ap/index.html
Galaxy president Lalas says English soccer is inferior
Posted: Tuesday June 19, 2007 10:30AM; Updated: Tuesday June 19, 2007 12:08PM
Galaxy GM and former U.S. defender Alexi Lalas is known for his eyebrow-raising statements.
Christian Petersen/AFP/Getty Images
LONDON (AP) – Alexi Lalas helped humiliate English soccer 14 years ago. It looks like he's trying to do it again.
The Los Angeles Galaxy president, who scored when the United States beat England 2-0 in a friendly match in 1993, told British newspapers that Major League Soccer is on a par with the Premier League.
Irked by suggestions that David Beckham is going into semiretirement by joining the Galaxy, Lalas said the only reason the English league is popular is because of American-style marketing.
"The fact that a segment of the world worships an inferior product in the Premiership is their business," Lalas said in an interview with The Guardian published Tuesday.
"In England, our league is considered second class, but I honestly believe if you took a helicopter and grabbed a bunch of MLS players and took them to the perceived best league in the world they wouldn't miss a beat and the fans wouldn't notice any drop in quality."
Brian McBride and Clint Dempsey are among the American players in the Premier League, although they play for modest Fulham. None of the American players in England are stars of the caliber of those at teams such as Manchester United and Chelsea.
McBride – the third highest scorer in U.S. national team history with 30 goals – scored nine times last season for Fulham, which finished 16th in the Premier League. His tally was 12 short of Didier Drogba's league-high 21 for Chelsea, and the same as Wigan's Emile Heskey and Aston Villa's Gabriel Agbonlahor.
Despite criticizing the Premier League for sloganeering and over-marketing, Lalas claimed that, when he arrives, Beckham will have a higher profile in the United States than Tiger Woods or Michael Jordan.
"The U.S. will never have dealt with an athlete who has had this kind of international impact," Lalas told The Mirror. "Tiger Woods has that international appeal but, with due respect to Woods and Michael Jordan, David Beckham is at an entirely different level."
Lalas, a 37-year-old former United States defender, said his country's record at the past four World Cups compared favorably with that of England – England has two underwhelming quarterfinal appearances to one for the U.S. – and suggested almost all those who criticize the MLS have yet to see the league.
However, several British papers were unimpressed by the Galaxy's 3-2 win over Real Salt Lake on Sunday.
"The game was not without moments of quality … (but) some of the defending from both sides was the type of stuff you watch through your fingers," according to The Mirror. "It was the football equivalent of a demolition derby.
"The use of possession was alarmingly careless and the concept of marking appeared not to have found its way across the Atlantic."
Lalas is a tool, and was barely average as a player, or a European team would've signed him like they do with all the better US players, of which there are many….and the only reason he's relatively well known is because of his retarded name and even more retarded hairstyle when he was playing.
Beating any team in a friendly is meaningless, not talking the thrill of victory away from the US, but come onnnnnnn the England players were probably hung over and the US players playing in what was probably the biggest game of their lives at the time.
He's trying to cause headlines because of the arrival of the great messiah to his small backwards village.
Beating any team in a friendly is meaningless, not talking the thrill of victory away from the US, but come onnnnnnn the England players were probably hung over and the US players playing in what was probably the biggest game of their lives at the time.
He's trying to cause headlines because of the arrival of the great messiah to his small backwards village.
he did play in serie a, but whatever
i swear i saw him endorse us players going to europe to better their games. guy is good at getting people talking, i'll give him that
i swear i saw him endorse us players going to europe to better their games. guy is good at getting people talking, i'll give him that