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Pandemona *
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
May 18 2017 14:37 GMT
#5221
Yeah i think i tend to be on the side of a 2 horse race isn't bad when it two different teams all the time. Chelsea vs City in 2014-15 > Leicester vs Spurs 2015-16 > Chelsea vs Spurs 2016-17.

However for the last 2-3 seasons it always been, ok this is the time City and Yanited bounce back and become contenders. When and IF that happens, it could be quite good fun in the premiership, but until then it always going to be to be a two horse race.
ModeratorTeam Liquid Football Thread Guru! - Chelsea FC ♥
sneirac
Profile Joined July 2012
Germany3464 Posts
May 18 2017 15:23 GMT
#5222
The problem with the last few season hasn't been that it is only a two horse race/only the same two teams. It was that it hasn't been a race at all. This year was the closest of the last 3 and after it looked like Chelsea would run away with it in January it only got a little bit tense to the end.
Even then it was always a three point gap or a game in hand and the challenger was a team that has been known to choke every single year and shockingly they did again this year.


Good news there tho:
The FA has extended its powers to punish simulation retrospectively.
A new offence of ‘Successful Deception of a Match Official’ will be in force from the start of the 2017-18 season, after the regulation change was approved by The FA Council today [18 May] and following a period of consultation with stakeholders over the past few months.

http://www.thefa.com/home/news/2017/may/18/fa-to-punish-simulation-retrospectively-180517
possession wins games, kante is washed up and shit - pande
BeaTeR
Profile Joined March 2003
Kazakhstan4130 Posts
May 18 2017 16:11 GMT
#5223
good job FA
now please add ingame video ref assistant and i'll be happy
Kleinmuuhg
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Vanuatu4091 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-05-18 16:28:07
May 18 2017 16:26 GMT
#5224
On May 18 2017 02:41 nayumi wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 18 2017 01:54 Kleinmuuhg wrote:
On May 17 2017 20:16 Dingodile wrote:
we had like 70+ pages full of cr7 vs messi discussions every year. This season about 3 pages.

because we all know by now that messi has won that discussion. just look at last classico again

but ronaldo pays his taxes ...

never said messi was an honest or good citizen.

On May 18 2017 12:29 evilfatsh1t wrote:
start a new one

i tried but as you can see there is no opposition
This is our town, scrub
Dingodile
Profile Joined December 2011
4139 Posts
May 18 2017 20:37 GMT
#5225
Yea because nobody want that discussion. I can't see it anymore. I don't care who is better but If I were a footballer I prefer the playstyle of ronaldo than messi. I am far more interested in playstyle than anything else on the pitch.
Grubby | ToD | Moon | Lyn | Sky
sneirac
Profile Joined July 2012
Germany3464 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-05-18 20:47:51
May 18 2017 20:40 GMT
#5226
Congratz Gregj!
After a quality attempt to throw and a last second game winning goal you are rewarded with the opportunity to have your hopes quashed in even more dramatic fashion in Wembley in 10 days!

e: LOL opponent will be Blackpool with another last second winner. Goalline clearance deflects into own net from back of the goalie. Both ties end 6-5
possession wins games, kante is washed up and shit - pande
GumBa
Profile Blog Joined July 2012
United Kingdom31935 Posts
May 18 2017 21:11 GMT
#5227
Fuck Blackpool
To all the haters: you deserve to witness many, many more Serral victories, worthy of the godlike player he is.
{CC}StealthBlue
Profile Blog Joined January 2003
United States41117 Posts
May 18 2017 21:56 GMT
#5228
Yeah...

"Smokey, this is not 'Nam, this is bowling. There are rules."
Greg_J
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
China4409 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-05-19 11:18:09
May 19 2017 09:32 GMT
#5229
I didn't even realise that game was last night. Great!
(West Country accents at the ready) Ew R We R X E Ter!

I like Carlise managers Keith Curle's comments about walking into the City changing room congratulating Tisdale and just wanting to hear what success sounded like to motivate himself and hopefully his players. Exeter have been great on the road this year. So Wembley should be no problem. Might be a bit embarrassing how empty are half of the stadium is. We aren't a big club. I'd definately go if I was in England right now. To be honest we have been promoted before and only lasted two seasons in League 1 Though we did smash Sheffield Wednesday 5-1 at home and sub are manager on the pitch to waste time at Hillsborough in the 2:1 reverse fixture. The bottom of League 1 top of League 2 is about where are club can expect to be in terms of finance and attendance figures and realsitically since we got back into the football league the club has been a good example of stability and how to run a small football club. Blackpool have not.

Only a small club but a lot to be proud of we are fan owned which is pretty rare in England and have back are manager for longer than any other club in English football except Arsenal. He gets almost as much shit as Wegner and I have no idea why. After 10 games we were in the relegation zone this season social media was full of hate and idiots yelling he had to go and we end up in the play off final. How silent those voices have fallen now. He's done a great job. Exeter's academy is a beacon in South West after Torquay shut thiers and I've never even heard of a player that's come through the Plymouth academy, do they have one? (they have automatic promotion, so it would be great to go up with them and continue the West Country derby one step Higher up the Football League.

Thank you Stealth for pointing out that the USA is bigger than England. I consider myself educated. DO people make away trips for US soccer and even other sports in genral?

If you want a proper away trip you have to go to the Russian second tier where Kallingrad have to travel not only to Vladivostock but Khabarovsk too. Although it's probablly worse to be Khabarovsk or Vladivostock as every away game is fucking halfway around the planet.

edit: Did I mention that the Brazilian National team played it's first ever match against Exeter City.

Exeter

Exeter

Exeter
Acrofales
Profile Joined August 2010
Spain18204 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-05-19 10:43:45
May 19 2017 10:33 GMT
#5230
Heh, the only reason the Brazilian serie a isn't such a huge disaster is because half the clubs are from São Paulo or Rio. That said, there's still a 500km drive between the two cities, which is roughly the same distance as Exeter-Carlisle :D Then there's 2 teams from BH (about 400km from Rio, and 600 from SP), and a few from the south (Curitiba is about 300km from SP, Florianopolis about 800, and Porto Alegre 1300), and the northeast (Salvador is about 1500km from Rio, Recife over 2000). But it could be a lot worse, if Manaus, Cuiabá, Belem, or god forbid, Porto Velho, Boa Vista or Rio Branco had remotely decent football teams.

Europeans never have a right to complain about distance traveled for (national) away games. But yeah, I attended Avaí - Ponte Preto, and there were not alot of Avaí fans in the crowd (basically only people who had moved from Florianopolis to the SP region. Nobody traveled the 800km on a weekday evening to watch that). It also plays up local rivalries far more. The rivalry between Palmeiras and Corinthians is FAR greater than that between any non-local teams (same for Fla-Flu, and Inter - Gremio, although Inter failed hopelessly and is currently in the second division they still meet in the regional league).
sneirac
Profile Joined July 2012
Germany3464 Posts
May 19 2017 19:56 GMT
#5231
Spain equalize against England in the 96th minute of the U17 Euro final and then win in the new penalty shootout format =)
possession wins games, kante is washed up and shit - pande
Pandemona *
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
May 19 2017 19:57 GMT
#5232
sad panda
ModeratorTeam Liquid Football Thread Guru! - Chelsea FC ♥
sneirac
Profile Joined July 2012
Germany3464 Posts
May 19 2017 20:03 GMT
#5233
Brewster penalty: https://streamable.com/7a6do
Latibeaudiere pen: https://streamable.com/ciyz7
Garcia winner: https://streamable.com/gi52g

especially that 2nd one shows you a kid with future in the senior three lions
possession wins games, kante is washed up and shit - pande
nojok
Profile Joined May 2011
France15845 Posts
May 19 2017 20:16 GMT
#5234
The last bad U17 Brazil squad was the one with Neymar and Coutinho no need to worry about this result. It's just a way to give players more experience, nothing else. I would even go as far as to say having good results in U19/20/21 is a bad sign because your best players are not tied to professional football obligations and can go to those meaningless cups.
"Back then teams that won were credited, now it's called throw. I think it's sad." - Kuroky - Flap Flap Wings!
Redox
Profile Joined October 2010
Germany24794 Posts
May 19 2017 22:00 GMT
#5235
On May 20 2017 05:03 sneirac wrote:
Brewster penalty: https://streamable.com/7a6do
Latibeaudiere pen: https://streamable.com/ciyz7
Garcia winner: https://streamable.com/gi52g

especially that 2nd one shows you a kid with future in the senior three lions

Well Germany lost as well in penalties to Spain. :D
Off-season = best season
Pandemona *
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
May 19 2017 22:09 GMT
#5236
Yeah but our penalties just embarrassing T_T
ModeratorTeam Liquid Football Thread Guru! - Chelsea FC ♥
GTR
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
51523 Posts
May 20 2017 09:07 GMT
#5237
interesting, in the u-20 world cup just now they gave a red card to an argetinian player after video review for elbowing an english player
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Bacillus
Profile Joined August 2010
Finland2014 Posts
May 20 2017 09:56 GMT
#5238
On May 20 2017 18:07 GTR wrote:
interesting, in the u-20 world cup just now they gave a red card to an argetinian player after video review for elbowing an english player

How smooth of a procedure was it? Is it like a half a minute pause or so?
sneirac
Profile Joined July 2012
Germany3464 Posts
May 20 2017 12:27 GMT
#5239
On May 20 2017 18:56 Bacillus wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 20 2017 18:07 GTR wrote:
interesting, in the u-20 world cup just now they gave a red card to an argetinian player after video review for elbowing an english player

How smooth of a procedure was it? Is it like a half a minute pause or so?

Full incident on youtube
+ Show Spoiler +


That wasn't smooth at all, theres a two minute injury break before the referee walks off to look at the video and then another minute until hes looked at video and made his decision.
That took way too long and I'm not sure i like the decision itself either.
possession wins games, kante is washed up and shit - pande
Pandemona *
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
May 20 2017 12:42 GMT
#5240
Yeah all that needs to change here is that the ref should have started looking at the replay whilst the player was getting treatment. Other than that, i have no issues with how it went down.
ModeratorTeam Liquid Football Thread Guru! - Chelsea FC ♥
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