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c0burn posted:# Jeff 2011-04-14 00:10: It's a pretty nice shirt to be fair
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Unlimited subs would result in bringing on a specialist team for corners etc.
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Gr31lly posted:Ahahah holy poo poo
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The Anime Knower posted:Jonathan Woodgate is a national treasure Lol what the gently caress
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appledan posted:For most of my life, and all of my time on SomethingAwful, the only two sports I have shown an interest in are football and baseball. The only time my life and soccer have crossed paths was a buddy's rec team I agreed to join the summer before I left for university. Having played lacrosse the last 9 years, the season became a yellow-card-ridden trial and error process of figuring out how much contact was allowed, and getting rid of the ball before something bad could happen that would end up resting on my shoulders. The World Cup 2 years ago got me thinking that it wouldn't be hard to be a fan, so after it ended I stayed on the eastern side of the pond to begin a journey. All I can think of when I see posts like this is Russ's youtube video
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Haha that's amazing. I can't help but think of Anfield singing the village people before the game now.
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Is there a joke I am not getting here?
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This needs Wenger photoshopped onto the ship with his long jacket.
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Scott Bakula posted:Not directly about football but press regulation and why its a bad idea No loving words.
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I think that's pretty good tbh
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T Fowl posted:What the gently caress is this Holy poo poo. This is amazing ahahaha
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United are a much bigger club than Liverpool and United's concern at present is making a much needed transistion, after sustained under-investment, to resume their rightful pre-eminent status in British football. To be honest Liverpool have never recovered from the building of the ship canal (proudly illustrated on our crest) from which event Liverpool went into decline (though one should not forget the abolition of the slave trade which was also unfortunate for Liverpool). Win or lose this weekend, Liverpool will continue to decline. On a wider note it would benefit the North generally if Manchester's economic pre-eminence were reinforced by government investment with Liverpool incorporated as a suburb of Greater Manchester
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Yoink! Thanks Ninpo 
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not not luvd posted:That sort of thing is why I hate Liverpool FC. Just lol if you don't think you fans do this
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not not luvd posted:I don't think you understand what I'm getting at which is fair enough because I've not gone into depth. Lol you should only ever post in this thread
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Destroy My Sweater posted:Arsenal: The Gathering Ahaha
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irlZaphod posted:Why do football fans want to keep making weird mutant hybrids of players This could make for a pretty great thread imo
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I wouldn’t be so sure at this point in time. Everything outside of the big four and the best 3 teams in France are comparable or lower than MLS. The lesser EPL teams are much worse than MLS, at least for young player development. Every MLS team looks to have runs off of midfield through balls whereas Sunderland didn’t really do that this season. The Bundesliga is a more technical league with more advanced in-game psychology. Serie A is actually less athletic than MLS but it requires very quick and sophisticated in-game decisions. Spain is a funny one because the top and middle are better than MLS but not so much on the bottom. Regardless, it’s closer to what works at the international level than the frantic out-of-control pace of most EPL teams.
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Dunban posted:They're Americans. They think they're the best at everything. Beyond just tactics, the USMNT also has this wild crazy thing now called legitimate world-class players. A stacked midfield is anchored by the #BasedHolyTrinity of Michael Bradley, Clint Dempsey and Landon Donovan, while both the front and back lines are athletic, composed and straight up brolic.
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Baldo di Gregorio posted:It would be cool to stab this 19 year old, imo You're going to love this Finn http://www.sportsonearth.com/articl...y-clint-dempsey
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belgend posted:honorary degree in Haters Gonna Hate from U MAD It might possibly be the worst thing I've ever read.
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vyelkin posted:Also the comments on that article are a goldmine. Yeah I was going to quote that poo poo too. What the hell is wrong with these people?
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Shrapnig posted:I'm actually considering stopping reading this thread because it makes me irrationally angry. Sounds like someone just got his honorary degree in Haters Gonna Hate from U MAD
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Will USA win the world cup in the next fifty years?quote:Yes. Most likely... quote:Yes the U.S. men's team win the World Cup in the next 50 years. The poll came in 80% yes to 20% no.
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Just going to leave this here http://www.ruffneckscarves.com/6-reasons-why-usa-will-win-world-cup-2014
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Its no wonder that we all hate soccer and ridicule it when eurotrash and third world immigrants try to push it down our throats. I beleive it is entirely correct for us to hate soccer, no matter what the foreigners say because the game is inherently trying to push very unAmerican ideas into our culture which celebrates superiority of one team over another (which is why we hate ties), winning and masculinity (not kicking a ball and falling over to cry) and fast paced excitement (lots of scoring and statistics). Here are some good reasons why soccer sucks and will never be respected in America: 1. Soccer is the essence of unmanly sport, the objective is to use your legs (like a girl) to prance around the field jogging and kicking a ball. You can't even use your upper body, which is the essence of masculinity. The only other sports where the lower body takes prominence over the upper body are figure skating and gymnastics, another two girly sport. Manly sports like football and boxing and baseball are all played with the hands. Men complement women on their legs, while women compliment men on their big strong arms. Hence any sport that uses the legs is more suited to women. 2. Soccer is so easy, it takes no skill since you just have to kick a ball. The best a soccer player can ever accomplish in any other sport is to be a football kicker. No soccer player could ever play any position in any other sport because other sport like basketball and baseball and football and hockey require physical strenght and skill. 3. Soccer is boring, nothing ever happens in soccer just kicking for 4 hours and 0-0 scorelines. High scoring sports are exciting while low scoring sports are boring. But at least in hockey there are fights, which is manly, soccer has nothing manly. 4. Soccer just seeps uncoolness or weakness: the smallest, weakest and least intimidating "athletes" play soccer. The average size of a soccer player is what 5'8 120lb? America is all about being the dominant alpha male (that's why we're the most dominant country in the world) while soccer is a sport for the beta males. The best soccer player in the world is David Beckham and he would get crushed by the weakest NFL players. 5. Soccer is the third world lowest common denominator sport. Its only "popular" in other countries because it takes less skill than any other sport and can be played by the most unskilled and is cheaper than any other sport. If someone invents a sport that is cheaper and less skilled (and that would be a hard achievement since soccer is so easy and dirt cheap), that sport would immediately overtake soccer as the "most popular sport in the world". These foreign countries don't like soccer because there is something good about it, they simply have no other sport except soccer because they can't afford bats and plastic pads and basketballs, they just kick a bunch of plastic bags rolled up into a ball and the game takes no skill so you don't need coaches, trainers and equipment. Soccer is "the most popular sport in the world" only because the world has no choices and freedom to choose sports. Other countries have to resort to soccer but would gladly take any other sport. look at how baseball's WBC has taken over or how basketball is now going to be bigger than soccer everywhere in the world. So, those are my reasons and I think the majority would agree with me. Now I realize that someone will come up and whine how "other countries don't think that!" but this is how I and the average American male view soccer. Ewar Woowar fucked around with this message at 03:58 on Apr 13, 2014 |
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Byolante posted:KRONUM! Hahaha seriously Kronum is the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen
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Why Messi doesn´t play for USA soccer team? He is from USA and he is white, why he doesn´t play for America? We can win the World Cup with him!
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Why Soccer Sucks The ever-growing list of reasons why soccer sucks. Why not use your hands? Or your brain? Pompous pseudo-intellectual Europeans who become soccer fans in order to convince the populace of their link to the common man. The correct term for 0 is zero, not nil. Take a math class. Soccer participants on the same team have different jerseys. The obviously higher intelligence of hockey (goaltender) or football (offensive linemen) fans and referees is evident, since we don't need a different uniform to indicate a different privilege in the rule book Soccer apologists say the reason it is not popular in the US is because it wasn't invented in the US. First, soccer originated from the North American game called pasuckuakohowog several hundred years before the British played something resembling it. Second, basketball was the creation of a Canadian, yet is very popular in the US. Third, football was the creation of a Canadian, yet is very popular in the US. Soccer apologists say the reason it is not popular in the US is because the US is not any good at that activity. The US soccer team won the World Cup in 1991 and 1999. Better find another reason. Soccer apologists steal terms from real sports. Hint: a pitch is something an option QB does. A draw is a running play designed to counter a strong pass rush. Football is a real sport that involves athletes in pads and helmets, not sissies playing kickball. Soccer markets to Nazis - even today. Umbro markets Zyklon, a type of shoe, to soccer participants. Zyklon was the name of the gas used to kill Jews in WWII. Soccer cheering has no point. Football fans successfully cause opposing teams' offenses to call timeouts, use up the play clock, screw up audibles or cause procedure penalties. Ask Burt Hooton whether baseball fans affect an opponent's performance. Soccer? They sing songs - which all sound the same - regardless of outcome. It doesn't celebrate performance. It doesn't serve to intimidate. It has no purpose.
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...we don't give a breathtakingly huge poo poo what the rest of the world does or likes. And when we do look what it gets us...soccer. It blows because there are no commercials showing the might of our CAPITALISTIC society. As far as the person who replied that in soccer you don't see someone texting, sleeping, or whatever...that's because we multipask you moron. I guess we could be like those great Eurpoeans and start calling Rod Woodson, Kobe Bryant, or Tiger Woods a monkey and throwing bananas at him like they do. The reason no one falls asleep is if you do you might end up in one of the many riots that happen at almost all soccer games. The only reason the viewer ship went up was AMERICANS wanted to see their team kick the hell out of the teams made up of NON-AMERICANS. I tried to sit through the MLS Cup game and fell asleep three times and no one scored in that time. America was not founded by a bunch of pud pounding she-males and that is why we have always been number ONE! If you don't like this country buy a Rosetta Stone and learn to speak French.
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quote:Dempsey did fine at Tottenham. But he wasn't a sexy enough signing for the supporters. They wanted the latest whiz kid from South America. So Spurs bought Erik Lamela for 30 million pounds. How did that work out? quote:Right on the money. Dempsey had it all but wasn't a big name for their deluded fans despite having scored in 2 World Cups and been a consistent scorer in the league prior to the move. And he had a large following in the USA.
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If the African American athlete ever catches on to this sport it will be lights out for the rest. Speed,Quickness,Strength and flat out scary aggressive style of play. I think the African American athlete would revolutionize the sport. Anyone that says a guy like Kobe Bryant couldnt play well is delusional. His quickness and speed,strength and leaping ability would be unmatched. It would change the sport. Imagine a guy like Lebron James picking up a soccer ball at age 5?
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mynameisjohn posted:I never got my "straight up brolic" name change greg... This really would be a great name
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I'm an extremely new soccer fan as I just started watching last week. I kind of picked Liverpool as 'my team' because they were in the first game I watched. I think I want to go with a different team though. I don't want to be a bandwagoner of Chelsea, Man U, Man City, and Arsenal, but I want a decent team. I wouldn't mind a team with a player that has an 'edge' as I'm a hockey fan. Any teams I should start watching? Thanks!
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Thirteenth Step posted:Steven Gerald is not only a Liverpool hero because he's been good for Liverpool, but his British nationality makes him more likeable for the Liverpool British supporters....Their plan is clearly to develop more British national team heroes in the mold of Gerald. Steve Gerald, Gerald, He'll pass the ball 40 yards He's big and he's fuckin' hard, Steve Gerald, Gerald
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So now that promotion and relegation has been defeated in the United States and Canada, it is our manifest destiny to stamp it out abroad. It’s time for fans everywhere to overthrow this outdated, malicious, poisonous relic of Victorian aristocratic arrogance. There have been better models working for decades, and it’s time we liberated the world in the name of freedom and democracy. Mostly because there are actually no good arguments for promotion and relegation in any professional sport. Anything promotion and relegation would be accomplished better by a system currently in place in the United States.
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