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wp64 wrote:but this is the second Crystal Palace home match I've watched this year and I really enjoy watching their fans erupt whenever a home goal is scored.

the great fans at Selhurst Park are really going to enjoy another 12 rounds of Pulis-ball this season

France can get back in that special pot right now.

Suarez performed miracles in that first half. All three of those goals are unreal.

That was some match. Too bad everyone above them took full points.

With United looking like a team that will struggle for a top 4 or 5 position more is going to be made of their debt situation. Already seeing David Conn being retweeted by United supporters who are suddenly very upset about this.

had to go and watch the Le Tis goal against Newcastle in 93' after Saurez's third. sick shit.

If Manchester United get knocked out in the first knockout round of the Champions League will Moyes job security actually be in question? Could there actually be a different coach in Old Trafford by the end of this year?

No. Man Utd were in a difficult group, qualifying from that and finishing forth will be enough for them this year. A good FA Cup run would do Moyes wonders.

Can't wait to check Big Soccer once the US group is announced. The experts will break down all the opposition by player and argue none of them can match the strength of the US squad and that their domestic leagues are overrated and MLS is underrated.

They will do this even if we draw Brazil.

The United States is fucked and so is England.

Belgium and Colombia will advance though. Gonna be a good summer for American soccer hipsters at least.

Dying at the Guardian article with the Manaus mayor pissed at Hodgson for saying no one wants to play there.

USA maybe gets a point in that group. CR could always get injured along with 90% of the German starters.

Damn, this is an amazing picture of me main man Mesut Özil. (Speaking of Germans...)

https://i.imgur.com/2GHdRDg.jpg

why are US and Australia different shades of blue?

I hung out with an Australian who told me that they call it football as well   

the national team's official nickname is the Socceroos. as far as i can see, those shades of blue are supposed to be the same

if you say football and Australia to me i'm thinking Aussie rules

undo wrote:

lol at him posting the Obama dirt-off-your-shoulder picture in response to quenelle-gate



Mitch, you'll have already seen this if you follow Opta Joe, but can you name the other 8 players who have scored goals in the PL for 6 different clubs?

I do but haven't seen it.

Guessing Les Ferdinand, Barmby, Collymore, Andy Cole and Craig Bellamy are five of them.

Just five for Colly but the rest are correct (his Palace goal was pre-Prem and Fulham were Championship)

Bruegel wrote:lol at him posting the Obama dirt-off-your-shoulder picture in response to quenelle-gate

i couldn't believe that when i read it. brilliant and oblivious stuff from Anelka.

i was obsessed with all the quenelle stuff the past few days, it is a brilliant intersection of cultures and contexts in the globalized world.

Dieudonne is an interesting guy who seems to have gone off the deep end in terms of race-baiting. he has become a massive twat at this point. shock-comedy and provocation taken to its ugly and politically-charged extreme. you don't have to say the kinds of things he's said or associate with the kinds of people he has just because you are "anti-Zionist", or whatever that means at this point. yes, being anti-Zionist doesn't automatically make you an anti-Semite, but he has pretty well established himself as antisemitic through his provocations. you can't be credible on issues regarding Israel when you resort to provocations such as suggesting you want a Jewish radio host to die in an oven. Sahko and Tony Parker did well to run away from the controversy as fast as possible, which is more than can be said of Anelka and Nasri (two pretty well known morons in world football).

the most interesting thing i read was from some article in the UK press that Dieudonne is positioning himself as a political representative of young black and Muslim French people. the article basically implied that he was trying to fuse his popularity with black youths through his comedy and anti-establishment views with a form of aggressive antisemitism that is already understood in some quarters of the Muslim community. if so, that is impressively cynical.

Bruegel wrote:Just five for Colly but the rest are correct (his Palace goal was pre-Prem and Fulham were Championship)

Thought about this a bit more. Ashley Ward (Norwich, Derby, Blackburn, Barnsley, Bradford and Sheff Utd.) must be another one as must Marcus Bent (too many to list)

Ward's Blades stint was outside the Prem. Marcus Bent is correct though. And probably the only one on the list to have also netted in the Indonesian top flight.

that's a fresh spin on an old classic

here's an exercise: try and create a best Starting XI using these players (ignore injuries)



it's brutal

and who in the hell is Guillermo Varela? never heard of Larnell Cole either.