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quote:Wenger needs to bring in a vertical jump coach from the NBA to teach these fools how it's done.Then we'll have players heading the balls when the opponent least expects it.Nate Robinson is 1.75m and has a vertical jump of 110 cm so I don't see why Nasri,Fabregas,Wilshere and Walcott can't win headers.My guess is they don't even practice jumping which should be a priority imo.
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quote:As a Chelsea supporter I’d rather have Van De Vaart who had 13 goals and 8 assists last year while even Crouch had better stats than Modric. Someone brought up Xavi only having 7 assists as well as Iniesta having 8 assists but Barca got 15 assists from both Messi and Alves. I just don’t think if Modric left Spurs that Spurs would be any worse or better. In 91 games with Spurs he’s got 9 goals and 10 assists. I think at best he is a 10-12 million dollar player.
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quote:Ironically... From another member of that same Chelsea board... 
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BunnyX posted:that completely owns and I want a giant one on my wall Here's the full hi-res version if you want to try to have it screenprinted. http://i.imgur.com/n4VfI.jpg
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O.K. guys, Pato will never leave AC Milan as long as the "queen bee" Barbara is not totally satasfy. Ms. Berlusconi wants the duck always in her bed-room. Adriano Galliani naturally has to rule out Pato going to PSG or in any other clubs at least for now. The one time " meek young duck " Pato now roars like a lion and does not quack any-longer like a duck, because the Brasilian now has sultry Barbara Berlusconi on his side.
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Because of Tim Tebow I’m still standing with AVB. I stood with Tebow when everyone said he couldn’t play and I will do the same with AVB when people say he needs to go. Just gotta have faith that he can turn it around.
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   @GorgonzolaChee posted:@GiuseppeRossi22 if I saw you in person I would knock your loving teeth out. You are a disgrace to Americans everywhere. @GiuseppeRossi22 posted:@GorgonzolaChee wouldn't even come close to me bro. Stop talkin out of ur rear end @GorgonzolaChee posted:@GiuseppeRossi22 it'll be hard to talk with a baseball bat in your mouth. You're a punk rear end human being who betrayed your country. #COCKSUCKER @GorgonzolaChee posted:@GiuseppeRossi22 quit trying to be an American you pussy. We disown you. And swallow the jizz that team USA just put down your teams throat
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shame on lampard, drogba, a.cole, and all those who made an issue with him especially lampard…lost all respect for you lampard, just burnt ur shirt i bought ….shame on you lampard…!!! and for chelsea, plz bring rafa benitez, i dont believe in de matteo…!!!
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These are all from the same guy, posted within a span of about 15 minutes or so.quote:FARCA stands for F ag gots And Racist C untalons Aloof quote:Once again farca cheat and dive there way to victory. Teh fact is: Farca will go down as the dirtiest team in football, bribing refs like Ovrebo, Stark, Frisk, Buttsacks, etc. They also inject their players with HGH. It is obvioius from tonight taht classless pep injected his players with an extra dose of HGH before the match. Farca are protected by the corrupt buttholes Uefa and Fifa. Uefalona is over 400 million euros in debt, 300 million of which come from the bribes they paid to the refs over the years. The 400 pound obese plastic american fans may not agree with these facts but they cannot think clearly due to years of inbreeding and stuffing their fat faces with cheetos quote:its disappointing to see farca fans cannot accept the facts presented here but msot of them are inbred trailer trash with an IQ of 40. They spend all day siotting around waiting for their benefits so they can eat more cheetos and gain another 100 pounds. PLastic American bandwagoners who can't see farca is a dirty team that disgraces football. quote:LADIES AND GENTLEMAN I PRESENT YOU FARCA, THE MOST CLASSLESS DISGRACEFUL CLUB IN WORLD FOOTBALL FILLED WITH DIVING CHEATING LOW LIVES AS PLAYERS AND BANDWAGON PLASTIC GLORYHUNTERS WITH NO FOOTBALL KNOWLEDGE AS FANS quote:Messi is not even the best right now, let alone put him in all time lists. CR is the most complete and best footballer currently and would make the all time top 15 list. messi would struggle to make the all time top 25 list quote:messy = sissy quote:In a class, the teacher is asking everyone what jobs their parents have.
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quote:They should make monkey noises at white players too so it doesn't seem so obvious or maybe use another animal so in theory they can argue it isn't racist but the players on the pitch will know the meaning asnd be insulting all the same. Our fans can be so stupid sometimes.
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Economically it seems like a smart decision. It's easy to say take the 35m-50m and make two 20m signings to replace him. I’m going to state an opinion that serves as an assumption for this whole piece, I think that David Luiz will be a top 4-5 center back in the world within 2 years and that he is currently top 20 in the world and top 5-6 in the prem. If you don’t rate him at least close to that level, this argument is inherently flawed. If you think of it in terms of pts. over replacement player (not sure this exists but it should). In this article we’ll take it to mean the number of points a player is expected to earn you over a season greater than the average premier league footballer. (assuming both play 100% of the time). We’ll say that Luiz is worth a completely arbitrary number of 7 pts. over replacement player (porp or porpoise for fun). Let’s say two 20m signings could be worth 4 pts. over replacement player each (even go to 5 if you'd like). Then say the average full time position is worth about 4 pts (based on a 40 pt mid-table finish, excluding goal keepers for simplicities sake right now) and since most full time players play 75-90% of the time, we’ll say they are worth 3.2 pts. (arbitrary but reasonable assumptions do not take into account talent rarity at specific positions etc.) We are also assigning minutes to be of equal value for simplicity (obviously some minutes are more important than others) If Chelsea had 10 david luiz’s in this hairy hypothetical they’d have 110 pts (a new prem record out of a max 114. The right center back david luiz got caught driving into the opposing 6 yard box while the holding midfielder david luiz was off for a cramp giving up a goal to lose to newly promoted west ham of all teams, and Chelsea dropped a point when di matteo insisted on starting torres and sturridge together in the second game of the season against united) This is also assuming that the 10 david luiz’s play every minute of every game etc. (obviously inaccurate, so let’s say that the starter played 85% of match minutes and the substitute was 2 points above an average premier league player (another assumption I know). This means you’d expect to receive something like 7-8 pts less in the course of a full season. We’re already down to 102 pts. Keep in mind this was a team purchased at ~250 million pounds and in its prime. Quick math with the replacement players – 4*10 = 40 + 40 and we’re starting out with 80 pts. Drop that down for 15% of subs and we’re at about 77 pts. This point total barring major injuries to huge stars never wins a premier league title and finishes 4th in 2008/2009, 2007/2008. And this is an oversimplified model which is predicting generous point totals. So while it is likely impossible to get 10 players in the 7-8 porp range (even in 2004-2005 it’s more likely players were in the 5-6 range, but due to squad depth subs were in the same range), I would say that it is relatively easy for a club like Chelsea to get a number of players in the 3-4 porp range. I’d argue the vast majority of the team is in this range right now and in some cases even worse, a few noticeable guesses - left wing (assuming mata in midfield) 1-2, right back 2-3, st 2. Essentially my argument is that you can’t make a premier league championship side without several outstanding (6-7+ porp players). It’s unfair to say that we can replace one of our best players (top 3-4 porps in the side) with 2 good players (average porps in the side (3-5, as that is all a good player will be at Chelsea’s level). The only way you can make the argument that is a good deal is if you believe we can receive in return players that exceed this magical 5 porp barrier. The goal in the transfer market should be to receive higher lifetime expected porps (in chelsea’s special case higher expected porps in the next season or two).
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Very sad. I bet he was a smoker. Cigarettes are still popular in Europe. If you know anything of the tobacco lobby in the U.S., you know they are liars for the dollar. Smoking KILLS your heart. This kid MOST likely was a cigarette smoker. Not too cool now huh?
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Smart American #1 posted:Can you imagine how nasty we could be at soccer if our elite athletes played that sport instead of basketball/football. Smart American #2 posted:With a limited knowledge on soccer to pull from... Some obviously anti-American God-hating socialist queer posted:Pretty much any futbal team from anywhere over the age of 14. It has MUCH MORE to do with skill than you want to admit. It’s like saying that Bolt would be an awesome WR b/c he runs fast. Smart American #2 posted:Like it was said Soccer takes practice and practice and more practice just like every sport. But imagine if our best athletes (like other countries’ best) grew up playing soccer. Imagine if LeBron was playing soccer, how difficult it’d be to head it over a guy who’d head can get 10+ feet in the air. We’d be legit, but we diversify our sports.
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quote:A new lesson for all the stupid Juve fans that were claiming that we should be sacrifised for the good of serie A. quote:You know what this whole $#@! reminds me of? You guys remember that cave scene in Shutter Island movie, the dialogue between that nurse and DiCaprio's character? She said "they declare you insane so that whatever you might state in your defense will just sound like a symptom of your insanity".
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  England Scores!  "Then Nasri scored low to Hart's right from 20 yards." Lily explains the French goal to Lee.  Never Forgotten [Some years later] "Do you remember? At Uncle Ray's? After the football match?" "I'll never, ever forget!"  "Do you girls fancy a bit of post match analysis?"
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quote:I support the USA and the MLS because im sick of the same $@%! in Europe with the same $@%!$@% teams always winning the same $@%! over there..today was a prime example of the same ole same ole...England hasn't done jack $@%! since 66 and every time they lose in the semi finals they say "good showing" or act classy about it where is the balls at? everybody wants to lose over there and the same $@%!$@%! teams win...
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quote:I’ve been thinking this for years about Spain and Barcelona. Anyone who plays Fifa on the xbox knows that if someone played this wayed you’d turn off the box rather than let an opponent waste your time in this manner.
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Redknapp is classic working class or blue collar man. Redknapp, without a doubt, is a man’s man. The type of guy you could joke around with or have a beer and talk about anything. Redknapp is the type of guy who wouldn’t take crap from anyone and would prefer to handle things old school. If you read his op-ed piece during the riots in London last year you would know what I mean. The man was very comfortable in his own body. Levy strikes me as a man who was insecure around Redknapp and felt threatened by his personality. Levy doesn’t seem like a person who is comfortable with who he is, and thus Redknapp had to go.
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CR7, or PADQU, (Passive-Aggressive-Drama-Queen-of-the-Universe), blessed by the gods with the greatest physical tools imaginable and the emotional fragility of a 13-year-old girl. It's amazing and quite wonderful for an American like myself, who grew up as a jock (football, baseball at UGA) in our hyper-jock culture, now, in my dotage, in retirement, falling in love with fútbol for its intricate beauty and seamless flow. Having no TV, I see every ESPN3 offering on my computer. And the better games I watch more than once. And what fascinates (after the beauty of the game) is how sensitive these guys are, and how different the sporting cultural climate seems to be between the US and Europe. Maybe this has to do with being European or Latin American and/or the cross-cultural machinations in the locker room, with players on every club team from all over the world. Imagine, say, Eli Manning pouting, being sad and not celebrating TD passes because, 'I'm not happy in the locker room but I can't talk about it...' It'd take a heartbeat for one of his linebacker pals to grab him in a headlock and give him a noogie to the amusement of all, Eli laughing among them. Somehow, I don't see anyone doing that with PADGU.
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Regarding Vertonghen's decision to join Tottenham:quote:Good work Levy and co... very good player and future captain.....moronic comments from arsenal fans are obviously disapointed with carthorse mertasnail? carthorse mertasnail
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It's like when you're playing fifa and you score that amazing goal by clicking random buttons. You’ve just dribbled past 4 defenders, flicked the ball over the keeper, then scorpion kicked it into the next, all without noticing what you’re doing. You then sit down for the next week, sitting in the same position that you were in before, same clothes, you put everything in the room in the exact same spot it was when you did the trick… and then you start clicking random buttons again, hoping something will work. But it’s different, the magic’s gone. You were working on instinct before, so when you clicked the random buttons, you naturally clicked them in an order that the xbox would understand – now you’re focusing on it, so that natural instinct isn’t there anymore. You’re no longer clicking random buttons – you’re now knowingly trying different combinations, hoping that something will pull off. Get where I’m coming from? So Nando was this unbelievable player for so many year with Atletico and the Kop, because he was doing everything instinctively. He was just this natural football player – then he had a form slump and began overthinking things, just like you did while playing Fifa. Now he’s no longer doing things naturally, he’s focusing too hard and trying to repeat what he did back before he joined us, but the difference is that that touch isn’t there anymore, nature isn’t working its force. It’s now Fernando Torres working on his own, without the force of nature.
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It will be very interesting to see what the Pro-Ferguson, Anti-Benitez English media and FA conglomerate have in store already to address Rafa's return setting out short- and long-term goals together with a number of key targets. For the duration of Benitez's tenure will they have weekly strategy meetings bringing together football editors from the principal media outlets, politicians, bishops, entrepreneurs, daytime television presenters, bloggers and FA impresarios? We saw how the system ran him out of town when he publicly called Ferguson a cheat and then went on to utterly destroy him at Old Trafford 1-4. Will Abramovich support his new man?
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No CDM should have hair like Arteta. How is that intimidating?
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So, I'm at a personal crossroads. I cannot, in my right mind, cheer for Rafael Benitez or anyone who ever supported bringing on Rafael Benitez. This, I cannot do. The man is everything that’s lovely about international football; he’s a blowhard, his ego is the size of whatever room he enters, he’s not good at his job, and he’s ridiculed not just our team, but the FANS of this team, our team, in the past. We all know these four points. We know them, essentially, to be self-evident. Alas – for me, they have created a collective breaking point. I do not think Di Matteo deserved to go when he did, but that is moot at this point; I know, for drat sure, Benitez did not deserve to come in his stead. Remember when we all just assumed the players would play better, as they almost always do during a managerial switch? Did anyone in this woefully misguided decision-making process consider that, maybe, just maybe, getting rid of a man-manager as good as Di Matteo to replace him with one as piss-poor as Benitez would cause the team to lose more confidence than the urgency could offset? Howsoever – I cannot, in my right mind, cheer against the dear Juan Mata, or the wonderful, exceptional, extraordinary, humble Oscar (oh look, the opposite of that manager I described earlier!), or the superlative Eden Hazard, or any of our players who recently came on or helped us win last year’s European Cup. These are all Chelsea players, and they will deserve my support, until they, individually, have taken my patience to the very edge of eternity, and for doing so, can no longer be afforded my support (OF WHOM AM I THINKING?). So, what do I do? I suppose I hope for a Benitez sacking tomorrow, every day until tomorrow is today. And I tell anyone who says I should cheer for Benitez’s success for ‘the good of the team’ to kindly shove it up their rear end. I’m cheering for what I truly believe to be the good of the team, thanks. I’m also cheering for the good of my soul.
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is totti really all that really I dont think he's all that totti comfort zone never did anything for italy or roma Batistuta did more for roma
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Was this posted yet? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARM2CsH1p6k
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 Chose yur target Suarez... fukn fagit
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Top Player I just met you. And this i crazy. When your contract is over. You can call me maybe. #MarottaSong #CostoCero
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you know what people are really afraid of in Europe is the MLS becoming the melting pot league one day where players from all over can come and play...can you imagine that...The old Nasl was like that when they had the cosmos, 15 different countries were represented on that squad...and allot of the good players said it was the best experience they ever had playing together...Europe is scared of a MLS becoming full of Americans, south Americans, and Europeans kicking rear end on a regular basis...
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Oh good, haven't come across one of these threads in a while, with some bonus Serb-shaming to boot. quote:As an American soccer fan it's hard not to wonder how guys with the physical/athletic profile of NBA guards would do in soccer - think Dwyane Wade, Derrick Rose who are 6'3"-6'4". Assuming that the ball skills and tactical acumen are there - would they be dominant athletic freaks, or a step slower than their smaller colleagues? quote:I've always wondered about that too....I'd like to think these players would be fast enough to latch themselves into through balls and beat their marker in a 1v1 foot race. quote:European countries don't produce premium quality athletes at the volume that we do here in the USA. Someone mentioned Serbia a couple posts up. Their record in the 100m is 10.33. That's a very fast time, but there are high school kids peppered throughout the USA who can run that time. We probably have hundreds of athletes in our country right now who are faster than the fastest Serb in history.
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