Consolidated 2015-16 Soccer / Futbol Thread

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bayonetbrant

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
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Well done, make him work for the money, should have added a pole :)

On another note, the Montreal Impact have signed Drogba!



http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/didier-drogba-gets-superstar-treatment-at-first-montreal-impact-event-1.3175033
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bayonetbrant

we'll see if he, uh... makes an impact  ;)
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bayonetbrant

EPL kicked off yesterday!

Anyone got any thoughts?

Thrilled to see Cabaye back in the EPL, but wish he'd gone back to Newcastle.
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bayonetbrant

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"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."

undercovergeek

#6
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

bayonetbrant

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.
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undercovergeek

Is there long, deep seated hatred of those teams that have dominated for so long?

bayonetbrant

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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
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bayonetbrant

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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bayonetbrant

I'm not sure Newcastle could be any more craptacular if they tried.



Lewandoski is the only better performance this year...
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bayonetbrant

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.
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undercovergeek

of all the games newcastle didnt want to lose