Year Round The Football/Soccer Thread v2

[Bugzee]

I read that some of the heads/directors of the board had some kind of rift/disagreement with E'to in regards to his new contract offer/conditions...I don't remember him having some kind of rift/arguement with the manager or anything though. I guess it was just time for him to move on. Not a bad move at all imo. The dude won plenty of trophies at Barca and he arguably moved to Inter at the perfect moment. 09/10' season was probably the Nerazzurri's most important/historical season in over 20+ years imho.

Van Dar Vaart has become a Spurs player; I honestly didn't think it would happen but I'm happy for them. It should boost their midfield quality. He'll be most important for them during their Champions League campaign. I just hope Rednapp doesn't screw around with the formation every game.

 

[goldb]

Yeah I hope Spurs do good to represent London clubs in the Champions League and Van Der Vaart will be a boost for them because of his experience in the competition. I jsut hope they don't do better than Arsenal

This is new territory for Rednapp because correct me if I'm wrong but Spurs are the first team he's ever taken to the Champions League right?? I hope he does good, I really kike him as a manager.

 

[Weapon_X]

ENGLAND 4-0 BULGARIA!

DEFOE!!!!!!

ENGLAND FUCK YEAH!!!!!!

 

[Bugzee]

It was against Bulgaria though. I give credit to England since they played really well during the game but it doesn't make me spaz out in excitement. I haven't forgotten about WC 2010 just yet.

 

[goldb]

No-ones forgetting what happened in the WC in a hurry, I'll tell you that for free. The match wasn't that entertaining and England weren't put under any kinda pressure til 60mins+ into the game when Bulgaria had a few minutes of good chances...but Joe Hart was up to it.

 

[One Eyed Sharingan]

Deutschland 6 - 1 Azerbaijan....
SCHLAAAAANDDD!!!

 

[Saintz0r]

Argentina 3x0 Spain! O.o
Messi's goal was awesome, and Reina gave Argentina a lil' help on the third
Very good game so far

 

[goldb]

Holy S***! I can't believe Spain got thrashed like that , granted Argentina hadn't lost on that ground in 15 years but 4-1??! that's big. They(Spain) had a few key players missing in their defense so that could be why, but it still doesn't excuse the scoreline. Credit to Argentina though

 

[Weapon_X]

LOL the world cup winners loosing 3-0

 

[L0ki]

It's clear that the spanish guys came for the beer and the bitches. But still, a 1-4 is humilliating.

 

[thsv]

Holy S***! I can't believe Spain got thrashed like that , granted Argentina hadn't lost on that ground in 15 years but 4-1??! that's big. They(Spain) had a few key players missing in their defense so that could be why, but it still doesn't excuse the scoreline. Credit to Argentina though

Argentina learnt a lesson from the spanish. Don't allow your opponents to play to their strengths.

The match of the day? Scotland vs Liechtenstein. If they 'attempted to seperate Hutton from his foot there wouldn't have been enough injury time for Scotland (or to give them their full name 'And that spells disaster for Scotland') to score the winner.

England's performance. Workman-like. They made sure they were tight with the basics and it paid of. If you can't play flashy at least be solid. Something they failed to do in South Africa.

 

[kkck]

GO ARGENTINA! Even if its a friendly match I am glad argentina won.... I hope maradona felt like he ate a spoonful of crap after seeing the team win without him.... GO MESSI!

 

[Bugzee]

Balotelli is out for six weeks. Bwahahaha I'm sorry but seriously what a waste of money. I can't see him returning to full fitness and "impressing" the City fans...neither will he live up to the transfer fee imho. Blah.

Spain got owned. That was quite a game indeed. lol @ L0ki's comment. XD!

 

[goldb]

Balotelli is out for six weeks. Bwahahaha I'm sorry but seriously what a waste of money. I can't see him returning to full fitness and "impressing" the City fans...neither will he live up to the transfer fee imho. Blah.

Spain got owned. That was quite a game indeed. lol @ L0ki's comment. XD!

I lol'ed when I saw that . And Gerard Houllier is the new Villa manager; that's what you call a high-profile replacement...I reckon he's a good get for Villa, he was really good at Liverpool.

 

[Bugzee]

I don't mind Houllier as Villa manager tbh. I think he'll do well to improve the team and their position in the league. I can't believe Milan actually agreed to take Ibra! Dumb move imo.

 

[goldb]

I think Barca are just beginning to realise what a crap signing he was for them. And I hear Portugal have sacked Quieroz?? Oh my, who are they gonna get to replace him? granted..they had a terrible WC campaign.

 

[destiny4ever]

I don’t know if there are any Barcelona fans here on MH, but it surprises me a little bit that there are no comments regarding what happened this weekend, I mean Barcelona losing 2-0 against Hercules. Since I like to root for the underdog, I was rooting for Hercules but I wasn’t expecting for Hercules to actually win the game tbh. After losing that game, I’m curious about how that will affect Barcelona’s performance against Panathinaikos...

 

[thsv]

Wow. 18 minutes in and Tottenham are 2-0 ahead away from home. Something just isn't right here.

 

[Bugzee]

2-2!!! Bremen came back! Noooooooos. I want Spurs to win!

The Utd x Rangers is soooo boring. I watched like the first 25mins and said forget it. I don't think we'll win anything this season.

 

[kkck]

I don’t know if there are any Barcelona fans here on MH, but it surprises me a little bit that there are no comments regarding what happened this weekend, I mean Barcelona losing 2-0 against Hercules. Since I like to root for the underdog, I was rooting for Hercules but I wasn’t expecting for Hercules to actually win the game tbh. After losing that game, I’m curious about how that will affect Barcelona’s performance against Panathinaikos...

I am a barca fan and I do have to say I was surprised. I did not watch the match but did not ever consider barca would lose such a game. Seriously, generally that is considered a game which simply provides 3 free points. I guess this sorta thing does happen every once in a while, football would not be beautiful if it was predictable. What does surprise me a lot is not not necessarily that barca lost but rather the score. It's not like barca was just having a bad day and had a close game, 2 to nothing pretty much means hercules was outright superior to barca in this particular match. Wonder why the team would suddenly be such a mess at such a random moment. Perhaps they had their ego boosted WAY to much because 8 of their starter players won the world cup?

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On another note, I just heard something horrible, worst news of all year. I thought it was over, I thought the insanity had finally come to an end, I was under the delusion that common sense somehow had finally struck humanity at large and the world made a little more sense but it seems I was deluded. How can freaking PORTUGAL even consider having maradona as a coach? It is one thing to see insane fans in argentina want to see maradona come back as a coach but portugal? Seriously, WTF is wrong with this people? Did they not see one of the teams with the best players in the world fall like a card castle in a tornado against Germany? Where does this insanity end? Normally I think categorize weird and insanity in "good" weird and crazy and "bad" weird and crazy (which basically encompasses actual mentally sick people) but this is outright moronic.