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brapbrapbrap posted:Pele saying that makes me think I was right about "Chicharito" after all. But you don't rate Messi and if Pele is always wrong then that must mean that ~~~the chich~~~ is actually going to be the next footballing god, right?
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wayth posted:What exactly does this nutbag want to change? So far as I can tell that entire rant didn't suggest a single concrete difference. It was all 'gently caress fifa' and 'american rules will be better!' He mentioned college soccer which has no injury time, unlimited substitutions, and you're only allowed to have a draw after you've played a golden goal overtime of two 10 minute halves. Also they might have quarters instead of halves but I'm not sure.
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Got a scoop here lads. I've just got back from a week's holiday in Brazil. I bumped into Brian Marwood in my hotel (he's over there negotiating a Tevez deal with Corinthians) and we got chatting. Despite the fact that he is a professional employed on sensitive business by a multimillion pound organisation, he understandably was keen to talk to me and tell me all the secrets about transfer deals that are going to be happening. He said that Nasri will sign next Tuesday afternoon, probably at around 4 or 5pm, and we are also looking likely to sign Messi as well. Finally, the other reason Brian was in Brazil is that we're hoping to coax Pele out of retirement to play centre forward (and captain) for our new franchise club 'Manchester City Cosmos', who will be based in New York. Don't say I didn't warn you.
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Ross From Friends posted:Congrats on not getting obvious jokes I guess Other troll posts have been put in this thread, I knew what it was
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Tsaedje posted:I honestly can't fathom which group "porkchop" is supposed to be a common slur for The Racial Slur Database says the Portuguese because it "sounds similar".
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The year was 2011. The sky was split with fire. The earth shook; red blood ran, darkening, into the gutter. The moon smiled malignantly; blue, cold and hungry. As we raised our swords for the final charge, memories shuddered in and out of focus. My family live in an ordinary English street. We’ve lived there as long as anyone can remember; several houses, but always the same street. Next-door is another family who had been there as long as us. When my grandfather was young both families were good friends. They came around to our family home and we went to theirs. In the war bombs damaged their house and we let them live in with us for a while. We regularly held out the hand of friendship to them, even lending them clothes when they were poor. Most of the time our families had decent, neighbourly relationships. For a long time our house and family was bigger. Their fortunes improved after the war, despite a family disaster. But this was a time of plenty and my family prospered too. A healthy rivalry ensued, where the adults drunk wine together, and the children socialised in the street, but competed in a sporting manner. It spurred both families on, but things started to turn a little ugly. Some of the younger, wilder family members started to brawl with each other occasionally, and the rivalry deepened. Each family began to guard their own turf. Then my family fell upon bad times. The family elders became transfixed with the family next door and this caused us to have mounting financial problems. Family feuds were commonplace and the only constants were gambling, fighting and wasting money. Despite great hardship, what carried us through was our underlying love for each other. Next door, things became different. They came into money. Lots of it. They renovated their house, inside and out. It made ours look shabby. As they rose up the social ladder, their attitude to others changed. Like many who become gorged with success, they became insufferably arrogant and boastful. When my family passed them in the street, they laughed and mocked. They waved their new jewellery and trinkets and laughed at our scruffy house. It became ingrained in their family, to tease and to boast. My family began to resent this and became jealous of their success. But around the fire at nights, our parents and grandparents taught us the hollowness of their boasting. Their house had become so big, so ostentatious it now attracted people from all around the neighbourhood and beyond to their parties. They opened their doors to anyone from anywhere; shallow people who knew nothing of family tradition, loyalty and unconditional love. Our children were brought up to value these things, whilst their adopted children cared only for the parties, the jewellery and the glamour. And they enjoyed being the neighbourhood bullies, in the full knowledge that their family were the richest in the street and could do anything. We became used to it, became browbeaten. Our younger family members had only ever known the house next door towering over ours, had only ever heard the gloating songs about their power and our impotence. The older family members talked around the fire, but it began to sound hollow. It didn’t used to be like this, they said, and our day will come again. Few of the young believed this. But they never deserted the family. They walked the streets, desperately, bullied and humiliated. Next door’s family grew and its malevolence grew. They began to believe they owned the street, and could crush anyone who stood in their way. This they frequently did. They did what they wanted. Our family kept true to traditional values and walked past, heads held high. But these were indeed tough times. Then, one summer’s day, a man turned up at the door. He was looking for a family with integrity. He wished to invest in a local property, one with great potential, and make it the best house in the whole neighbourhood. This would give him great satisfaction and also great returns. He desired profile for his huge construction business. An agreement was reached, and he and his friends from afar were welcomed with open arms by my family, who were stunned that someone could see the potential of the house that they had owned for so many years. For a while, the man performed renovations, inside and out. The changes were significant and everyone in the neighbourhood began to notice. Next door they just laughed. They would always own the biggest house on the street; it was all they had known. They sneaked across the fence late at night and chipped away at our new structure. They waited gleefully for the day when a hurricane blew the house down. But that day never came. Our house began to slowly take shape and suddenly it became noticeable that their house was starting to show signs of wear. Their landlord was increasing the rent and suddenly a few cracks appeared in the woodwork. They never noticed but we did, and redoubled our efforts. Still they laughed, and mocked with the arrogance born of lifelong security. They slapped each other’s bloated backs and laughed out of the windows. We held our counsel and turned the other cheek. And then suddenly, last night, while they sat around their fire, gloating and singing their songs about our family’s failures, and burning our effigies, the elders said to us quietly: The time is now. And my family, made strong by the years of hunger and torment, marched into the street, eyes cold, biceps bulging. We surrounded their house and lit torches. And they looked up, bellies fat from years of gorging, senses dulled from their fire and wine and trinkets, and suddenly fear glowed in their eyes. In line, arms linked, torches aloft, we marched forward. A red sun dipped below the horizon. The year was 2011.
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vyelkin posted:D̶̲̥̅̊ε̲̣̣̣̥γ̲̣̣̥
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Joopjan posted:at first i thought it was about arsenal... For the first three lines (including the opener) I thought it was City. Yes, Liverpool are "unlikely" to win the PL. Maybe that was made a while ago though. Liverpool have been mathematically unable to win the title for a while.
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quote:Was Rooney's headed goal even legal? Surely if you use transplanted pubes to glance the ball in, it can't be? It would be like scoring with the aid of a wooly hat Chungo posted:Andy Carroll is my favourite ever player
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MrL_JaKiri posted:It's spelt "Chuggo"
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http://oro.open.ac.uk/9003/ posted:Are penalty shoot-outs racist?
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bonesquid posted:Both teams should kick at the same time at different ends, imo What happens when it's the keepers turn to kick?
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Abu Dave posted:I like how they treated being coached by "a sir" as some big deal that is exclusive to United. Also that "Sir" being part of the English dynasty.
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He wants to play as an attacking mid. If he joins the rags he's only doing it because there's no competition for that spot. If he joins chelsea it's because he's been blinded by their champions league win. If he joins us, he wants to fight for a place and win trophies. His decision will show what kind of person he actually is.
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Meat Wagon posted:Tony Pulis - A real warrior. I tried reading this as a poem, didn't seem to work 
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I'm pretty sure there's supposed to be more organs than that in your rib cage
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Modus Trollens posted:
That's not even a monkey
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NinjaSteve posted:RIP Sam Hutchinson and Michael Johnson
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Good, pile on the pressure for him to save your season that he buckles and flops
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Jon in Eastleigh: Soldado has not only scored important goals, his passing and creativity is what has allowed Adebayor to flourish. Anyone who suggests he's been a "flop" just hasn't been watching .
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Hegay posted:I have zero idea what the gently caress he's writing about Modern day concentration camps is the only thing I can come up with
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belgend posted:i think the "we're not the best YET" posts make me the most angry. like there's some sort of divine fate that means americans always inevitably will be on top Well yeah, once we beat a Brazil or a Jamaica to win the World Cup we will be.
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Strawman posted:England have won as many world cups in baseball as they have in football. I'd say that was about right. Two World Wars, Two World Cups
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TheGoatFeeder posted:loving love Martin Demichelis, but this is awful: Thank god they didn't make that video slow-mo, it would have lasted the entire song
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Babby Thatcher posted:lol that all these hundreds of demands for every world cup to be held in america, with its monopoly on 'big stadiums', stem from all USMNT fans' dads still taking them to Disneyworld in 1994 Babby Thatcher posted:cool lets have another WC in lovely soulless enormodomes that have never held a football match before and are over 9000 miles away from each other, I'm sure the USA won't be the worst world cup hosts in history a second time Blue Screen Error posted:Reminder, for about the 5th time, that there are more 30k+ capacity football stadiums sitting unused in Coventry than there are in the entire USA. Babby Thatcher posted:imagine if England held a World Cup and put half the games in loving Twickenham. Right thread
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vyelkin posted:yeah really if you think about it we'd do much better if all our players were poo poo and played in a poo poo league. You're in luck, they do just that this summer.
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Ideal situation - Barca smash Bayern today. Players and fans turn on Pep... He calmly replies with a "F*ck this I'm off to Manchester lads". All hell breaks loose. It'd be nice if he'd pick up Messi and throw him over his shoulder on the way out too. "You're coming with me mate". Done.
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Here are my thoughts. The scoreline is largely irrelevant to me. It's never nice losing to them, but nothing was on the line and if you had offered me a 1-0 win where we were outplayed and came away with a flukey win, I wouldn't have taken it. I'd be interested in possession stats because I thought we dominated. Maybe they are taught to defend a 1-0 lead with 10 behind the ball and look to score on the counter, but if that's their filosophee God help them. Arsenal won the league like that 25 years ago but the rest of football has moved on. We didn't create that many really clear cut chances, but we moved the ball around nicely and the way we played was very easy on the eye. When we did create chances I thought it was because we had moved it round and opened them up - their chances were largely long punts that Wilson or someone else ran on to. Oh, and when their Belgian international went on a run and beat a couple of our 17 year olds. I'm not sure I agree with the comments that none of our lads will ever make the first team. It is impossible to say 'this kid will be in the first team in 5 years' because the ones who look like they might get there may flatline and the ones that look some way off the pace maybe develop over the next 2-3 years. But they are playing the right way. Vieira has built a team that plays really good football. They have not. That is the real victory.
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The time is not right for him to move, but if he wants to move the club should sell him. If he goes to Manchester City, to give himself a chance of winning the league, he will not become a regular for them. We have seen it with players in the past like Scott Sinclair. John Barnes on Radio 5 talking about Sterling.
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tbp posted:i feel dumb but what am i missing here Sterling is a lot better than Sinclair.
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Weaponized Cum posted:How many trophies has Raheem Sterling won He was Golden Boy last season.
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Weaponized Cum posted:http://screamer.deadspin.com/liverpool-dont-deserve-raheem-sterling-1713104181 Wrongest of wrong threads
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