Opening the new thread. And what better way to carry over than someone (literally) throwing money at Sepp Blatter
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-3168276/Sepp-Blatter-money-thrown-FIFA-press-conference-comedian-gatecrashed-event-embarrass-president.html
Well done, make him work for the money, should have added a pole :)
On another note, the Montreal Impact have signed Drogba!
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/didier-drogba-gets-superstar-treatment-at-first-montreal-impact-event-1.3175033 (http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/didier-drogba-gets-superstar-treatment-at-first-montreal-impact-event-1.3175033)
we'll see if he, uh... makes an impact ;)
EPL kicked off yesterday!
Anyone got any thoughts?
Thrilled to see Cabaye back in the EPL, but wish he'd gone back to Newcastle.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/11/sports/soccer/nbc-retains-rights-to-premier-league-in-six-year-deal.html
I'm sure you must have an equivalent over there - I'm a Leeds fan, at one time (not the time during the 70s when they were kings of everything) but during the 90s they were awesome, they won 2 championships back to back and after various bad transfers and loans the club went to shit - dropped to the third teir of English football - they're now in the second tier. But throughout all that time 60s, 70s, and through to this morning their biggest rivals have always been Manchester United.
What makes it worse is that at the exact same time Leeds started to fall, they started to rise, they also won back to back titles immediately after us, bought our best player - cantona and just outshone us from there on - so began my hate of Manchester United, unfortunately this was the dawn of their 25 year domination of the EPL and my hate grew ever stronger - after 2002 Leeds were relegated and the 2 teams beyond various cup clashes don't play each other regularly, this initially led to 'anyone but Manchester United ' fandom, I wished anyone but them to win the league and when they played in Europe I would support bayern munichs recently put together team of escaped child molesters if I had to - just not Manchester United - I cried when they did the treble in the nineties- I hate them
So then to the mid noughties when abramovich bought Chelsea and they started to rise - I love mourinho, I think he's totally awesome as a coach and as a person and so began the mutation of anyone but Manchester United- affectionately known as scum in Leeds - to a new Chelsea fan - it isn't the same as loving Leeds, it's like a mistress you don't really know well, I don't know their history much, and I know it's fickle because when mourinho left I started following arsenal, another potential scum beater, but now he's back and I need someone to beat Manchester so I'm a Chelsea fan again
Fwiw I like Liverpool too, their tradition, history and passion, pretty much the same for Newcastle but not so much now but my heart belongs to Leeds and my head belongs to Chelsea
Things are different here because the US leagues don't have a promotion/relegation system. So teams that are pretty bad don't get sent down to a lower-tier league. Instead, we reward them by giving them the first crack at new players coming into the professional leagues.
One of the other HUGE differences in US leagues from European leagues is the split between professional ranks and the amateur sports affiliated with schools (high schools / universities). It's a totally foreign concept to Europeans and would, quite frankly, take waaaaaaay too long to explain.
Is there long, deep seated hatred of those teams that have dominated for so long?
oh hell yes
Quote from: undercovergeek on September 27, 2015, 08:12:44 AM
Is there long, deep seated hatred of those teams that have dominated for so long?
another way of looking at it is to think baseball and the yankees
Fun day in the Champions League yesterday
Got home from school with Bayonette and turned on to see
Leverkusen winning AT Barcelona
Olympiacos winning AT Arsenal
and Porto beating Chelsea
Unfortunately, Barça came back to win, but the others held up, plus BATE beat Roma, so good upsets everywhere yesterday :)
and then this howler from Ospina.
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I'm not sure Newcastle could be any more craptacular if they tried.
Lewandoski is the only better performance this year...
As bad as Newcastle have been lately is as good as Columbus has been. They're up 4-0 on DC in the 68th minutes, and it's honestly not even that close. DC's just rolled over and gone full cockroach at this point.
of all the games newcastle didnt want to lose
Columbus just added a 5th from a sub who hadn't scored all year. And this with the league's leading goal-scorer suspended from the game for yellow cards, and the team's MVP given the day off for his birthday (and he's accumulated yellows, too)
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Kansas City Sporting's first preseason game is on the 17th against Columbus. I'll admit I'm not a huge soccerball fan, but I do like to watch the occasional match. I'm planning on hitting a Sporting match this summer in conjunction with a Royals game.
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Come to Origins, and we can his the Columbus - DC game on that Saturday :)
I'm still working out the logistics.
Quote from: bayonetbrant on February 02, 2016, 01:15:13 PM
Come to Origins, and we can his the Columbus - DC game on that Saturday :)
Wait! What? You'd give up board wargaming to watch a soccer match?!? :idiot2:
well... last day of BPL season, so this thread'll close soon
Newcastle United have already been relegated, but are going out while kicking Tottenham's ass.
They scored 2 goals at full strength. They scored 3 goals after going down a man b/c of a red card.
Where the FUCK has this effort been all year!?!?
They had a shit manager, hopefully they get to keep Benitez, they would get back up for sure with him in charge. Spurs really went off the boil in their last few games. Allowing Arsenal to finish ahead of them will piss them off no end.
Looks like Mourinho is getting Man U after all: http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/36351371 (http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/36351371)
Next season should be awesome.
just in case anyone was watching yesterday, RBNY demolished NYCFC 7-0. And I'm not sure it was that close...