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[Druss99]

I think it would have been the same story with or without Berbatov. We simply didn't have enough of the ball and did nothing with it when we had it. Who knows though. Maybe giving it to Berba to hold up might have worked out for us.

I think it was Millwall this Norwich target is playing for. But don't quote me on that.

Women eh? It reminds me of a few years ago around christmas time, turning up to play 4-a-side football when alot of players were snowed in a guy said he would bring his daughter to make up the numbers. We all thought he was joking but behold he turns up with this skinny stick of a girl who is about 18. We were all "You insane? She is going to get murderised!" but he insisted she would be fine.

So he picks the teams and has her on his team but there are objections and its decided she has to be on my team because no one wants to deal with one of my shots hitting her, not since the penalty incident. We start the match and she is in goal for us and bollocking me for letting fly from a ridiculous angle. When we start to realise something is up, after a while I jump in goal and let her outfield. All I can say is thank god she was on my team. She was taking the absolute ****** out of people, her dribbling and passing was ridiculously good. She spent a good hour bollocking me for my poor finishing and she did everything with this hilariously girly run. It turned out she was a Republic of Ireland under 19's international who had played at a world cup or something and was getting called up to the senior squad. Women, eh?

[Kaiser Arian XVII]

http://social.biowar...07/polls/20698/
England Premier League poll.

[Beerfish]

FIFA is ridiculous. Though not as knowledgeable of a fan as most in this thread since I'm from Canada, that organization has reeked for years and I've never liked Blatter. He is in charge when the last two world cup decisions have gone from strange to down right bought. More corruption in the organization and he gets a pat on the head and another four years. What a sham.

[Druss99]

I don't think they were ever going to vote Blatter out. It would risk a shake up where they wouldn't get the freebies and backhanders that most of them are already getting.

Dunno if she is, Modjo. I've been injured since last May so I haven't seen the guy or heard anything. But what I heard was she was being called up back when she played, not sure if it ever happened. Oddly enough the christmas before we had one of Evertons coaches and some guy who plays for Tranmere playing to make up the numbers. Our subs are far better than the actual players lol. I played with a few players years ago who are professional now but weren't all that good back in the day.

Women run and move different from men. Even when that girl was taking the ****** she was moving very differently from the rest of us. Its difficult to describe, alot slower but with more control.

Michael Owen has been given a new contract at United. I'm forced to ask......why?

[Kaiser Arian XVII]

Crisis! What crisis?!

[OBakaSama]

Infinite crisis? *Cough*

Well, I read that Blatter was voted back in. Having had a recent discussion with some friends about other stuff but sort of relates here is...wouldn't it have been funny if Blatter had run for the FIFA presidency as the sole candidate...and lost. (Never going to happen but would have been funny.)

Owen has a new contract? A bit surprised, but maybe there's stuff he gives in training that helps the squad.

[Beerfish]

Garbage Master wrote...

Crisis! What crisis?!

Great albumn.  I think I'll put the headphones on and fire it up!

[barenas]

modjospinster wrote...

yeah mate, personally i don't see any major differences between the women's and men's game. maybe its cause women don't generally like sports as much as guys do. also, it seems a lot more open then the men's game.

At the professional level there is quite a bit of difference. The mens game is just faster and more powerful. Last year the US womens national team played a u16 boys club team from Germany. The boys team won 3-0. The single biggest difference is the speed of play.

[Druss99]

OBakaSama wrote...

Infinite crisis? *Cough*

Well, I read that Blatter was voted back in. Having had a recent discussion with some friends about other stuff but sort of relates here is...wouldn't it have been funny if Blatter had run for the FIFA presidency as the sole candidate...and lost. (Never going to happen but would have been funny.)

Owen has a new contract? A bit surprised, but maybe there's stuff he gives in training that helps the squad.

They showed the vote on SSN and thats exactly what I was waiting on happening. They actually went to the trouble of counting the votes when there was absolutely no other option but to vote for Blatter. You could either abstain or vote for him. So obviously all the votes would be for him, why count it? I was hoping it was a set up and they voted for a chair or something in his place.

I think it gives further credence to my belief that Sir Alex sends Wee Micky Owen to collect his Racing Post and talks to him about horses. If he released him then who would he send?

Modifié par Druss99, 01 juin 2011 - 06:34 .

[OBakaSama]

Ah...I forgot about the horsies. Shame on me. Mind you, couldn't he have just subscribed to the Racing Post? Maybe Owen can get it quicker than anyone else. Someone should try and get some photographic evidence.

Hm...Gerard Houllier is now gone from Aston Villa. More speculation as to who will be the manager of a club. Sometimes these managerial merry-go-rounds are fun to follow too.

[Druss99]

Well he keeps talking about value in the transfer market so maybe he thinks the subscription price isn't good value. He is also Scottish so theres the chance he is just borrowing Owens copy and refusing to buy his own.

Villa will be interesting to follow this year. Freidel, Young and Downing all seem set for the exit. If they aren't careful they could find themselves in the Championship in a years time.

[OBakaSama]

They had been punching above their weight when Martin O'Neill was manager, and things slowly went a bit...awry since then. The 'lack of investment' thing as it were.

Football is a very hazardous venture if seen as a business opportunity. Birmingham's Carson Yeung isn't exactly having a peachy time regarding the finances there. That's pretty much true of most clubs I guess. Goodness knows.

Owen and Ferguson: so...who would be more into horses then? If Ferguson can't be bothered to buy his own and reads Owen's copy of the Racing Post while having him train....hm.....seriously needs pondering.

[Druss99]

He probably used to buy his own copy but then realised he could just get Owen on a free transfer and read his copy. Economics.

On the finances thing, on SSN this afternoon they talked of some guy making a bid for West Ham and said he is worth £274m and I just thought wheres that going to get them? Lower half of the PL when you consider how much he would spend to buy the club and that he wouldn't spend all his money on the team. Bit of a simplistic view but it still seems like a low number.

[OBakaSama]

Indeed it is. It is also the sort of the thinking that riles me somewhat. You know, the sort saying that Man City are the richest club in the world. For me they have the richest owner; their financial status is not to do with their own self generated income. But somehow this all gets ignored for the spectacular. So when the owner gets fed up and leaves, where does that leave the club? Even worse than before is my guess unless it gets sold to someone richer.

I guess Owen's wages are a sort of...'personal expense' for Ferguson being masquaraded as player salary. (Not sure if that made any sense.)

[Druss99]

It made sense. He is basically Sir Alex's henchman.

Yeah I don't get that either. Chelsea are the same, if Abramovich or that Sheik guy pull the plug on their investment then how can either club pay the massive wages they are shelling out for? Its not like either of them is actually a big club.

[OBakaSama]

I am glad someone understood.

To be fair to Chelsea I think Abramovich wanted the club to be self sufficient within a period of ten years. So despite an immense outlay to begin with at least there is some semblance of a foundation to achieve the sort of status some fans believe they already have. It would seem he at least knows that you cannot keep opening up your wallet to fund the club. That is at least a business plan. Whether it comes to fruition is another matter entirely of course.

A short while back there was this accountant type person thingamebob warning Man City about their expenditure and the impending UEFA financial fair play regulations. If the regulations are strict, then Man City can buy the players and even qualify for the Champions League; but get barred from it because they spent too much in trying to do so. Be funny if they did get barred; then maybe this whole wealthy owner thing can be put into perspective.

[OBakaSama]

It always seemed to be the case for me with Real that that particular mindset was not substainable in the long run. They at least generate a substantial amount of income though.

As for Man City...sure. As a fan it would be a downer without a doubt, though I suppose my initial leanings was towards the owners. Should they fall foul of the financial fair play regulations then there is no-one to blame but themselves for that travesty, and hopefully fans can see it is the club's owner(s) which have been...less than intelligent in their dealings which may have caused the problem rather than any regulation which they (or their advisers) should have been aware of. (That was an awkward sentence....)

Anyway...managerial guffaws with Mark Hughes quitting Fulham.

[Druss99]

In truth if your going to pay Yaya Toure £280k a week then you deserve to be punished. Its sh*t like that thats leaving football in the mess its in.

What did people expect of Madrid? They bought alot of attacking players and then brought in a manager with a suspect record known for his defensive play. They are also trying to build a tream around the greediest, most selfish player in all of football. Their star man does nothing for the team.

Apparently Hughes hasn't even got the Villa job yet. I don't see why he would want it anyway. Freidel has left already.

[OBakaSama]

Well...maybe there's a ploy of some sort that Hughes has planned to get the Chelsea job.

As for Real...perhaps Mourinho's CV was enough to convince them, but no-one actually sought to follow up on references or something. Otherwise they'd have realised (assuming someone there has the capacity to understand these things) that he wasn't exactly a good fit for them.

[Druss99]

Be an interesting scenario if he did get the Chelsea job and Ancelotti took over Fulham. Terry has backed Hughes for the Villa job. Like anyone gives a damn what Terry thinks about anything.

This amused me... http://www.football3...6964103,00.html Newcastle seem to be slightly confused. Theres no way Owen could be talking about them. He didn't even come close to playing every game for them. Sounds more like he is talking about Liverpool...

[OBakaSama]

Tis possible. Come to think of it, we haven't derided Liverpool much of late. Something is amiss....

Tevez shenanigans again. Oh joy....

[Merci357]

Just out of curiosity, any of you interested in the women world cup this summer?

It's a quite major event here in Germany (obviously, we are the host) - but I've no idea how popular women football is in your countries, if at all. We always get live coverage when the national team plays (since many years), even for friendly competitions, and quite a lot people watch it. Even cup matches or the women champions league get's broadcasted.

So how is it in the UK, for example?

Modifié par Merci357, 03 juin 2011 - 09:45 .

[OBakaSama]

It's not on terrestial (free to air) TV as far as I know; coverage is somewhat slim on that front. Occasionally gets mentioned I think. I'm pretty sure it's on something like Sky though.

My lack of access informs my ignorance on this.