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2009-2010 football (soccer) thread - Page 91
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Shuray
Brazil642 Posts
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fabiano
Brazil4644 Posts
Brazil play was so so. Adriano must get the fuck off the team, get back Ronaldinho and then we are ready to go. | ||
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MooCow
1434 Posts
Could have been like 4-0 for Brazil easily. | ||
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Rho_
United States971 Posts
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SuperArc
Austria7781 Posts
On March 02 2010 10:15 uberMatt wrote: yes and the day that premiership refs start to call like spanish refs is the day i stop watching english football So you watch English football because it's prone to injuries? Gotta love real football fans. | ||
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Klive5ive
United Kingdom6056 Posts
On March 04 2010 03:31 SuperArc wrote: So you watch English football because it's prone to injuries? Gotta love real football fans. He's not saying that at all. Spanish refs are just known for being the worst in the world, whether that's true or not I can't say. Italian refs are known for being the best. Players suffer injuries in all leagues, the EPL isn't much worse. If it is worse it's probably because it's played at a higher pace and closing down is a larger part of the mentality. | ||
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zulu_nation8
China26351 Posts
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IntoTheWow
is awesome32278 Posts
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zerglingsfolife
United States1694 Posts
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Garnet
Vietnam9047 Posts
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Telemako
Spain1636 Posts
On March 04 2010 04:54 Klive5ive wrote: He's not saying that at all. Spanish refs are just known for being the worst in the world, whether that's true or not I can't say. Italian refs are known for being the best. I like English refs the most (Howard Webb for example), at least their calm style and how they allow to play when two players use the same brute force level to fight the ball. In Spain that kind of play is usually called as an offensive fault if near the box, or deffensive fault if it's in the center. Also, the high level of diving hurts spanish refeering, and the way players behave with the refs, as if they were enemies instead of judges. | ||
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Klive5ive
United Kingdom6056 Posts
On March 04 2010 05:42 zulu_nation8 wrote: England lol Hey we won in the end; mainly because we have this 7foot tall freak who no-one can deal with :p International football is a different game, all you really need is 11 committed players. Capello seems to understand what it's about and his "no-nonsense" style is working well. Oh and lol at Jon Terry getting booed, what a twat. It was even more funny because the commentators were getting their nickers in a twist about it. The dreadfully pompous ITV commentators and Gareth "big nose" Southgate saying how it "hurts the team" when the crowd boos "only a portion of the supporters are behaving like that" ... yeah whatever. It's a stupid pointless friendly anyway and the fans are there to enjoy themselves. | ||
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SuperArc
Austria7781 Posts
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zerglingsfolife
United States1694 Posts
On March 04 2010 08:30 zerglingsfolife wrote: Netherlands 2, USA 1. Damn, US almost came back against the Netherlands. Netherlands got a really fluke deflection goal. Was underwhelmed with the dutch. Really dislike that number 8 De Jong? Something like that. Flopped a ton and injured one of our starters (US) pretty bad with a stupid stud up tackle. Oh wells, GGs Holden is out for 6 weeks now  He just got started settling in with Bolton, now it's going to be tricky for him just to make the World Cup. noooooooooooooo | ||
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Rho_
United States971 Posts
Crouch is good, but I'm pretty sure the US central defense will be sufficient to deal with him. He only has 2 inches on Onyewu, and is less athletic. | ||
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TonyL2
England1953 Posts
On March 04 2010 19:50 Klive5ive wrote: Hey we won in the end; mainly because we have this 7foot tall freak who no-one can deal with :p International football is a different game, all you really need is 11 committed players. Capello seems to understand what it's about and his "no-nonsense" style is working well. Oh and lol at Jon Terry getting booed, what a twat. It was even more funny because the commentators were getting their nickers in a twist about it. The dreadfully pompous ITV commentators and Gareth "big nose" Southgate saying how it "hurts the team" when the crowd boos "only a portion of the supporters are behaving like that" ... yeah whatever. It's a stupid pointless friendly anyway and the fans are there to enjoy themselves. Hehe, I was in the crowd at Wembley and took part in booing the dick, although in the end he played well so it started to die down. But Lampard, Upson and Walcott were all so shockingly bad | ||
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zerglingsfolife
United States1694 Posts
![[image loading]](http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f38/RL3AO/usa.jpg) = Broken Fibula Right after this Nigel De Jong then takes a bad touch when dribbling towards his own goal, so he falls down and the ref bails him out with a terrible call (Beasley got the ball and had a 1on1 with the keeper). After looking into it more, he has been doing this consistently in the EPL for Man City, also had a terrible tackle against Japan. How the hell can you get away with this in a friendly? | ||
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Klive5ive
United Kingdom6056 Posts
On March 05 2010 03:33 TonyL2 wrote: Hehe, I was in the crowd at Wembley and took part in booing the dick, although in the end he played well so it started to die down. But Lampard, Upson and Walcott were all so shockingly bad Aye you're right about the players, Terry was great as usual. Don't know why Lampard even starts. Since Gerrard/Lampard haven't got enough brains to play together just play Carrick, Barry, Milner/Lennon/Wright-Phillips + Gerrard. We've got plenty of choice, if there's one thing that HAS been proven it's that Gerrard + Lamps doesn't work. On March 04 2010 21:54 SuperArc wrote: Peter Crouch is the best English striker for the national team. Well he's not better than Rooney by any means. If you watched the game Rooney played great as usual, creating space and playing passes. They just didn't provide much service to him. | ||
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uberMatt
Canada659 Posts
On March 04 2010 03:31 SuperArc wrote: So you watch English football because it's prone to injuries? Gotta love real football fans. constantly calling niggly fouls and being pressured by embellished flops does not protect players from serious injuries. | ||
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white_box921
United Kingdom967 Posts
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