Year Round The Football/Soccer Thread v2

[kakashi919]

Italian football was shaken by Calciopoli scandal before World Cup 2006. Now, before Euro 2012 it seems Italian football get into trouble once more and Antonio Conte too.

Hopefully Conte isn't guilty, even though he's being questioned for just having knowledge of match fixing from last season. He can still be banned for a while.

 

[FrostyMouse]

I've been shaking my head in disbelief at the corruption in Italy. I mean, couldn't they have learned after the debacle in 2006? It's just appalling.

 

[kakashi919]

So Rodgers as new Liverpool manager after sacking king Kenny. I for one think it's a good choice but only if he gets to do what he wants and actually modify the playing style. Hope he wins us some trophies

 

[goldb]

That's always the problem when a manager who is relatively unknown outside his own country comes to take over a big club; how much control of the team do they actually get? I hope he gets his freedom too but he'll most likely have to earn it.

 

[blai]

Didn't he say he would only accept if he got freedom to do as he pleased?

 

[kakashi919]

Didn't he say he would only accept if he got freedom to do as he pleased?

Nah that was Martinez. Rodgers said he would accept if he was No.1 choice as manager.

 

[blai]

Ah, i see. Well I liked KK but this choice of manager is interesting too

 

[FrostyMouse]

Ah, i see. Well I liked KK but this choice of manager is interesting too

Yeah, but if there's no useful spending, and Brendan Rogers ends up settling for 7th or 8th place, he'll probably be out the door without realizing any potential or future at Liverpool. I mean, the way it is right now, I can't see Liverpool finishing better than 6th. Newcastle probably won't fully repeat their success from this year, and who knows with Everton. United, City, Arsenal, and Chelsea will still take the top 4, so Brendan Rogers isn't helping in that regard. We'll see what happens, but...

Abramovich spent to ensure that Chelsea continues and Spurs will fall off.

 

[goldb]

Frank Lampard is out of the Euros, England's woes continue and the tournament hasn't even begun. At least we already have our excuses ready

Also how the HELL is Gary Neville an England Coach???! I first I thought the newspaper made a blunder but turns out it is accurate

 

[FrostyMouse]

Frank Lampard is out of the Euros, England's woes continue and the tournament hasn't even begun. At least we already have our excuses ready

Also how the HELL is Gary Neville an England Coach???! I first I thought the newspaper made a blunder but turns out it is accurate

That genius Roy thought that it would be a good idea to bring him in. Then, the other day, with injuries and the Chelsea defenders still partying, Gary Neville had to fill in in defense and got utterly schooled by Andy freaking Carroll of all people.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18067515

When I read this article two weeks ago, I was like, "I know Roy's not a great manager, but has he been smoking something?"

"But he's been someone I have been very impressed with since he has joined Sky in terms of his tactical and analytical ability and his knowledge of players."

 

[goldb]

Poor Roy, I'd blame it on old age but Fergie and to a lesser extent Wenger are around his age too. Gary Neville shouldn't have been hired by Sky or England, should've stayed at home playing playstation or doing whatever old has been players do with the rest of their lives.

 

[FrostyMouse]

Poor Roy, I'd blame it on old age but Fergie and to a lesser extent Wenger are around his age too. Gary Neville shouldn't have been hired by Sky or England, should've stayed at home playing playstation or doing whatever old has been players do with the rest of their lives.

Everyone makes mistakes, but this was one pretty bad. Who knows what old has beens do. Gary Neville was hands down the worst football commentator Sky's had in a while. Some of his comments were so atrociously biased. He was commenting on one of Chelsea's CL matches, and he took every possible opportunity to trash Chelsea. It was like come on, you're not playing anymore, so cut the United crap.

 

[goldb]

Everyone makes mistakes, but this was one pretty bad. Who knows what old has beens do. Gary Neville was hands down the worst football commentator Sky's had in a while. Some of his comments were so atrociously biased. He was commenting on one of Chelsea's CL matches, and he took every possible opportunity to trash Chelsea. It was like come on, you're not playing anymore, so cut the United crap.

Exactly, that's the thing. He's so biased and everytime he has to say something bad about United, you can see that it hurts him. I don't think he's cut out to be a top pundit on Sky, which has some of the best commentators in the country. It's appalling to watch him commentate, if you ever get the chance, jump on twitter during any games he's commentating and see the fans reaction to him, it is unanimously negative and calling for him to shut up and be removed as he sounds silly.

 

[FrostyMouse]

As bad as he was this year, I still don't think he was as bad as some of the German commentators during the CL Final. I was in Germany for it, and the commentators were so biased it wasn't funny. Not only that, but some of the commercials featuring Bayern players were longer than the entire pregame coverage Chelsea received. You'd think that only one team was playing in the Final the way the way it was being represented before the match.

There were lines such as, translated into English, "Chelsea's playstyle isn't pretty at all," as well as various other negative comments. Ballack and one of the other idiotic commentators predicted 3-0 and 4-0 wins for Bayern, respectively. The other two pundits gave fair 1-1 and 2-2 draws. It was just terrible.

 

[kakashi919]

Does Chelsea even have a playing style? lol
They're the most boring 'top team' to watch. So I would give the commentators that one... cuz it's true
Anyway, England vs Belgium, missed the first half and England is up by one. Hope this game is as good as the hype it had.

 

[FrostyMouse]

Kakashi, the point was that it was the most unequal presentation of a sporting event that I've ever seen. I know that I was watching a German broadcast, but sheesh...I switched over to English Sky after the end, and then we got something fairer, but at that point, the German commentators and fans were gutted, so there was nothing to say. The English commentators made some positive remarks.

Even now that we've improved our side, I still don't know if we have a playing style. I mean, it's a 4-2-3-1 no matter how you look at it, but...

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In terms of the match, apart from more English players getting small injuries, it was a more or less solid performance. I predict that France wins 2-0 or 3-1.

 

[kakashi919]

So Liverpool sold Kuyt for 1 million....1 MILLION!? REALLY? KUYT?! WTF are they thinking? That's honestly disrespectful imo.

 

[FrostyMouse]

So Liverpool sold Kuyt for 1 million....1 MILLION!? REALLY? KUYT?! WTF are they thinking? That's honestly disrespectful imo.

That is awesome. :P

I thought they'd get like 5 million or something, but 1 million? Wtf?

 

[goldb]

Kuyt's been a solid player for Liverpool since they signed him 6 years ago, it's a shame to see him leave but hope him all the best in Turkey. So another England player pulled out yesterday and that wasn't the biggest problem, Gary Cahill who pulled out was replaced by a relatively unknown Liverpool defender and Rio Ferdinand was once again shunned.

 

[Doraku]

I don't know why England is so confident even if several of their key players will miss Euro.. I know it's too early to ask, but in your opinion which country has the biggest chance to win the cup?