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^Hendo showed his importance yesterday. Never stops running. Having a keeper like Mignolet and the defence that we've now built can also prove to be essential.
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^^Great faith in this guy, now let's get Moses and maybe even another winger for the icing.. Anxiously looking forward to a closed transfer window.
Is that Flavor Flav?
Well Bale finally at Madrid for 100million Euros. I think its fucking ridiculous, Madrid are just insane.
Ozil to Arsenal huge signing Madrid are nuts to let him go.
Real Madrid are just plain fucking stupid. How the people in Spain let them get away with such spending when its well known the government give them handouts.
I have to admit ozil to arsenal was a shock!
if anything i thought man Utd would get Ozil.
Madrid need the cash so they are just giving players away to pay off Bale.
Fellaini to utd
and im happy to see kaka back at milan !
i hope he shines there !
surprised Kagawa didnt go back to BvB.
i know he hasnt seen first team action and is frustrated.
Özil easily the signing of the summer, but Arsenal is still weak defensively.
Surprised by Chelsea, Eto inn and Lukaku out is not a good deal.
Manchester City is favorites for the title to me, then it's up to United, Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea & Spurs to battle it out for the next three spots. A lot of business will probably be done in january as well.
Haha, that's Mamadou Sakho.Quote:
Originally Posted by check two
^ I feel Arsenal could've done more in the transfer market, getting ozil is really something
after a couple of players gave arsenal the could shoulder. Next window hopefully wenger
steps his game up.
We will have to see what Eto can bring to Chelsea.
Liverpool is one to watch, they are coming back like a hungry wounded dog.
They are shaping up to be top contenders.
Anybody up on the footy games?!
what are your predictions for the european world cup playoff draws?
we will either see Ronaldo or Ibra at the next world cup!
PORTUGAL VS SWEDEN
UKRAINE VS FRANCE
GREECE VS ROMANIA
ICELAND VS CROATIA
Î hope Iceland makes it. Don't care about the rest.
Barca beat Madrid in the Classico 2-1
Neymar shines and Bale flops (read the headlines)
S.A.S. are striking fear into every defence.Quote:
Originally Posted by ghettognom
It kills me that Turkey can't even make the playoffs, fucking awful. Our footballs in the biggest mess in the whole of Europe.Quote:
Originally Posted by chiba
Anyway I'm rooting for Ibra to beat Portugal, id much rather see Zlatan in Brazil than Ronaldo. Would be great to see Iceland make it to.
Madrid won't do much this season, I don't know which decision was worse selling Ozil or buying Bale but it has hurt them badly this season. There already talk of Madrid wanting to sell Bale. Then you have people at Madrid constantly badmouthing Ozil, from the chairman to Zidane and Ancelotti.Quote:
Originally Posted by chiba
Becks to start MLS franchise
http://msn.foxsports.com/foxsoccer/m...-source-102913
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Originally Posted by HANZO
Turkey has a team that plays with heart. When they show up to play they play like super turks!
portugal vs sweeden- I think ronaldo will be pressured to perform since messi
will be at the tourney next year
We all saw that Bale crap hitting the fan for Madrid! Hilarious that they want to sell him now ! they wont get the same amount back thats for sure!
Madrid off loaded sooo many players to compensate for Bale
Ozil being the shock ! and Ozil is playing great with Arsenal !
Arsenal look good this year along with Liverpool
Chelsea, Man Utd, Man City are late bloomers so we will see what they will do.
Becks investing in Miami is interesting. Hopefully it all works out for him!
Wonder if he will even coach the team
I think Chelsea have really started to show what they can do now.. If they really get Torres firing as well (was excellent vs. City, just needs to show consistency now), they might just take the title.
Arsenal IS looking very, very good and Özil has transitioned to the premier league with ease... But I don't think their defence will be sufficient in the long run, unless they bolster it heavily during january. Even now when they're playing excellent and winning almost everything, they're showing plenty of weaknesses.
Looking forward to Arsenal vs. Liverpool this weekend.
Will be going to the Arsenal - Liverpool game.
Liverpool can win it this year, our performances against the big teams is key. Reason why the weekends game is really important. Also gotta be able to grind out wins even when playing incredibly shit.
I am loving the way Arsenal playing at the moment though, glimpses of the Bergkamp era. When Oxlaide-Chamberlain and Walcott return its going to be tough for them to get back into the starting line up.
- Former Brazilian footballer's head left on his own doorstep
João Rodrigo Silva Santos didn't come home Monday night.
When the former professional footballer's wife opened the door on her way to work the next morning, she found his severed head on their front step.
The head was inside a backpack, police said. Santos' eyes and tongue had been gouged out, according to Brazilian media reports.
Now police in Rio de Janeiro are investigating the grisly killing, though they haven't said who they believe is behind it.
Santos, 35, was a forward for a number of mostly second-tier Rio de Janeiro football teams before retiring and opening a health foods store.
His death comes at a time when football fans worldwide are shifting their focus toward Brazil, which will host the World Cup in 2014.
One police official told Brazil's O Globo newspaper that authorities are investigating whether a recent post on the store's Facebook page could be connected to the crime. The post showed surveillance footage and asked for help catching shoplifters.
Police plan to compare the images to surveillance footage taken at the shop Monday night, chief homicide investigator Rafael Rangel told the newspaper.
The former football player was last seen Monday night, when two suspects entered his vehicle, CNN affiliate TV Record reported.
On Wednesday morning, police said they found parts of a man's body in a river outside the city and were testing the DNA to see whether the remains belong to Santos, TV Record said.
Authorities have interviewed 10 witnesses so far in the case, police said.
According to local media, Santos' wife, Geisa Silva, worked for the police in one of Rio's shantytowns, but as a social worker giving swimming lessons to children, not as a policewoman.
She told investigators she did not know of any threats made against her husband, according to TV Record.
Some of Santos' relatives and neighbors told O Globo that he didn't have any enemies and said they didn't know what could have motivated the attack.
Santos started his football career when he was 16 years old, and played for several Brazilian club teams. He played for the Bangu club team from 1996 to 2005, according to a biography on the club's unofficial website.
In 1998, he played for Honduras' Olimpia club. And in 2003 he played for Sweden's Oster club, the website says.
The website calls Santos a "humble hero," describing how goals he scored brought victory to another club team he joined.
According to the FutRio.net football news site, Santos left the field earlier this year to focus on his business.
The site reported that club players in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday honored Santos with a minute of silence.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/30/world/...ost+Popular%29
^ Wow socccer/football is a religion in Brazil.
He probably owed people money or something
Liverpool vs Arsenal will be a great match, these 2 teams are coming out the gate hungry
Chelsea have mourinho so we cant count them off just yet
whats up with the weirdos in hoods ? They've been spotted at Germany (bayern game), England (Chelsea game), Italy (Juventus game)
winner takes all? seems like some sorta promo for something?
wonder what it could be? What a way to take up seats eh?
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Arsenal beats Liverpool 2-0, Liverpool couldve made more with their chances but just couldnt
Arsenal with some breathing room
Chelsea losing 2-0 to Newcastle
and Madrid again being complacent after a 3-0 lead
and end up winning 3-2, but things couldve been worse
if they kept that up.
MLS dominating the ratings in soccer this weekend.
Really missed GJ & Enrique, Flanno & Cissokho isn't good enough going forward to beat a side like Arsenal in 3-5-2, even if the rest of the squad are fit.. Arsenal were a lot better, but it was good to see Rodgers changing the tactics up for the better in second half.
Only 1 point separating #2 and #7 now..
Arsenal still looking good, but late bloomers (United, City, Chelsea) are going to give them hell.
France on the verge of not making it to the world cup
Portugal edge a 1-0 win vs sweden
Greece seem to have secured their place with a 3-1 win vs Romania
croatia and iceland 0-0
Iceland trying to make history !
lets see who makes it into the world cup today
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...civil-war.html
what a retard.
No Iceland unfortunately.
Also no Ibrahimovic. Don't really care about Sweden anyway.
CR7 carries Portugal to the WC 3-2
La France put on a show 3-0
Croatia shatter Icelands WC dreams 2-0
the greeks move on with a 1-1 tie
Sad not seeing Ibra but Sweden were terrible and did not deserve to make the world cup.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rame
Real shame about Iceland, they have a good side and have built up some sort of golden generation with their youngsters. I think they stand a good chance of making the next Euros.
netherland dudes about to cry again! ahhahahahahaa
--Sporting Kansas City defeats Real Salt Lake to win MLS Cup.
Sporting KC outscored RSL 7-6 in the longest shootout in MLS playoff history after the teams played to a 1-1 draw through the first 120 minutes.
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Kansas City became the fifth franchise to win multiple league titles after a previous crown in 2000, when they were the Kansas City Wizards. The win also denied Real Salt Lake a chance at their second league title after they won their first via a similarly dramatic shootout in 2009 over the LA Galaxy in Seattle.
Real Salt Lake had a chance to end the shootout with their eighth shot of the night, but the 36-year-old Nielsen snuffed out the shot by RSL midfielder Sebastian Velasquez. SKC defender Aurelien Collin followed with a thunderous goal on SKC’s ninth shot, and RSL backup defender Lovel Palmer blasted his ensuing shot off the crossbar to hand SKC the title.
Sporting Kansas City – who also won the 2012 US Open Cup title in a shootout at Sporting Park – improved to 14-1-2 in home playoff games since 2000, while veteran goalkeeper Nick Rimando and RSL lost a playoff shootout for the first time in three attempts, going back to the 2009 Eastern Conference Championship and ensuing MLS Cup.
SKC had a chance to seal the shootout on their fifth shot after an early miss from RSL striker Alvaro Saborio and a Nielsen save on midfielder Ned Grabavoy, but midfielder Graham Zusi rocketed his shot over the bar.
Claudio Bieler, Paulo Nagamura, Benny Feilhaber, Seth Sinovic, C.J. Sapong and Chance Myers all scored in the shootout for SKC, while Kyle Beckerman, Joao Plata, Javier Morales, Chris Schuler, Tony Beltran and Nat Borchers converted for Real Salt Lake.
SKC’s win marked the third time the MLS Cup was decided in penalty kicks, following RSL’s win in 2009 and the Houston Dynamo’s win over the New England Revolution in 2006. Saturday’s game – which was played in frigid temperatures hovering around 20 degrees at kickoff, the coldest match in league history – was the eighth occasion in which a title was settled after regulation.
Saborio scored in the 52nd minute of regulation before Collin – who was later named the game’s Most Valuable Player – answered with his third goal of the postseason for Sporting Kansas City.
After neither team seriously threatened again during regulation, SKC forced the first chance of extra time. Rimando made perhaps the biggest save of the game just three minutes into the extra session, tipping a point-blank shot from Zusi over the bar following a long throw-in from Matt Besler.
RSL then celebrated what they thought was a potential winner in the 105th minute, but Saborio’s header off a cross from Robbie Findley was waved off for offside. Neither team seriously threatened during the second period of extra time, forcing the shootout in front of a frenzied Cauldron supporters’ section at the east end of Sporting Park.
After a frigid first half with genuine scoring chances few and far between, Saborio finally cracked the ice shortly after the break with his fourth career playoff goal. The Costa Rican international corralled a pitch-perfect ball over the top from Beckerman and blasted a right-footed shot into the back of the net from just outside the box to stake RSL to a 1-0 lead.
Sporting Kansas City responded in the 76th minute, when Collin scored his fourth goal in 10 career playoff games off a Zusi corner kick. The imposing French defender rose above Schuler to thump a header into the back of the net, handing Sporting Park a lifeline when RSL appeared set to see out the final 25 minutes.
Collin’s goal came after RSL missed two agonizing chances in the second half to pad the lead. Beckerman knuckled a right-footed shot off the post in the 62nd minute, and Morales drifted a right-footed shot off the far post from outside the box in the 73rd minute after a breakout from Findley opened up the SKC defense.
Findley missed the best scoring chance of a rugged and physical first half that saw 17 fouls and yellow cards to Saborio, Collin and RSL defender Chris Wingert. After Wingert lofted a ball into the SKC box in the 29th minute, Nielsen collided with Myers and punched the ball back toward the end line, where Findley found himself with an open look at net.
But his shot from a tight angle on the right side of the goal caromed harmlessly off the post before Nielsen corralled it, leaving Findley with his head in his hands while he lamented the chance.
Sporting Kansas City took the most serious hit of the early going when midfielder Oriol Rosell went down with a sprained left ankle after he was stepped on by Findley.
Rosell – who started 31 games during the regular season, tops among SKC midfielders – was replaced by Lawrence Olum in the eighth minute, the earliest sub in MLS Cup history.
The world Cup 2014 Draw
here are The Groups !!
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people are saying the group of death is G
But i think its a toss up between B & D
D & B definitely looks like the toughest ones, D being the most unpredictable.. USA is poor and won't stand a chance, but I'm looking forward to seeing Ghana & Portugal battling for second place. The same goes for Chile & Netherlands in group B.
France should consider themselves EXTREMELY lucky getting a group like that after barely going through the play-off.
france aint shit
spain will win once again...
MLS >> than any other
^ Why?
Rofl :nonono:Quote:
Originally Posted by check two
10 games, 14 goals, 7 assists....
for group B it would depend which Nederlands team shows up to playQuote:
Originally Posted by GhettoGnom
Chile has seen its fair share of Spain, so they can pose problems
D is interesting. Its a toss up
either England and Uruguay can advance or England & Italy or Italy & Uruguay
Costa Rica can probably pose a threat if they pick up confidence.
France has it easy but maybe they wont make it out of that group?
Group F -Bosnia & Iran are the dark horses
Argentina has to be careful with Iran Nigeria and Bosnia
H- looks like a toss up as well...i thinks Belgium is one to watch
Group B & D are the toughest.
England will go out of group D, Italy are the strongest and then Uruguay.
^You think?
I'm not too sure.
Uruguay take it for me.
England - Italy are more or less even : both pretty hit or miss.
Yeah I agree....Group D is the pick of the bunch.Quote:
Originally Posted by GhettoGnom
Suarez is making me believe, I have that odd sense that finally maybe finally we can win the premier league.
Check this out. I aint gonna say it because I am a Besiktas fan but I have watched a lot of football and I have never seen a team get screwed by the referees and the footballing federation more than Besiktas.