Consolidated Soccer Thread 14-15

Started by TheCommandTent, August 08, 2014, 08:33:42 PM

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endfire79

USA 2 - Germany 0 !  Wow.

I was downtown with my wife last night, we got surrounded by USA fans at a mexican resto we were at - 'twas fun!
"I will return before you can say 'antidisestablishmentarianism'."

"A man may fight for many things. His country, his principles, his friends. The glistening tear on the cheek of a golden child. But personally, I'd mud-wrestle my own mother for a ton of cash, an amusing clock and a sack of French porn."

bayonetbrant

HOLY SHIT!


Carly Lloyd, at 18 minute mark - 4 shots on goal, 3 goals.  Oh, and a bullet header just wide that would've easily beat the keeper for 4.
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JudgeDredd

So the the World Cup will now be called the Soccer World Series?

Well done 'Murica  O0
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bayonetbrant

The key to surviving this site is to not say something which ends up as someone's tag line - Steelgrave

"their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of 'rights'...and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constituted, can endure." Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers

OJsDad

Heck, half of Japans goals were scored by an American. 

The goal from mid field was the best one all day. 
'Here at NASA we all pee the same color.'  Al Harrison from the movie Hidden Figures.

undercovergeek

'Girl Harbour' was the headline overhere

JudgeDredd

What I was most impressed with was the fact that the female teams seemed to enjoy the same antics as the bloke teams...cheating in other words. Diving, pulling, playing dead, innocent shouting to the ref...that kind of thing.

In fact the exact things that turned me off from football when I was old enough to understand it was actually just cheating.
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undercovergeek

how come the own goal scorer gets sympathy, facebook pages devoted to how horrible it must be and Stuart Pierce still gets the piss taken 30 years after his penalty miss?

bayonetbrant

The key to surviving this site is to not say something which ends up as someone's tag line - Steelgrave

"their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of 'rights'...and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constituted, can endure." Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers

bayonetbrant

going to open the new 2015-2016 thread now in preparation for the upcoming European seasons...
The key to surviving this site is to not say something which ends up as someone's tag line - Steelgrave

"their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of 'rights'...and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constituted, can endure." Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers

JudgeDredd

#40
And so Scotland bow out of yet another major tournament. Scotland haven't qualified for a major tournament since 1998!!

Their next chance is the 2018 World Cup. Fail to do that, and it'll have been 20 years since they qualified.

I had to go off and check who was through...so congratulations to England and Northern Ireland for qualifying (and Wales and Ireland are guaranteed a play off place)  O0
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undercovergeek

you still have the rugby, and the World Caber Tossing contest  >:D

JudgeDredd

Quote from: undercovergeek on October 09, 2015, 01:37:45 AM
you still have the rugby, and the World Caber Tossing contest  >:D
And curling...we're good at curling (well...were!)
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undercovergeek

to be fair i think scotland played awesome, every game was a good effort from the guys, except maybe against georgia - as the guy on the radio said this morning, scottish football seems to come up with great new ways to torture itself and this has been exceptional

the last goal from Poland was heartbreaking

JudgeDredd

Indeed. Agreed on all points. As a Scotland supporter I've grown to understand we can't take anything for granted. Often, we fight like beasts against top teams and then drop the ball against a team "generally perceived" as worse than us.

This is the best spell of Scottish football I've seen in quite a few years. Unfortunately, I am currently seeing the same thing with the rugby team - and they (both) are still coming up sub-par. It's not good enough to be "nearly" there.

The only real positive I can take away with me (from a football and rugby point of view) is we're heading in the right direction. Hopefully, it can continue and not slip back.
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