Campo's staying put. :stare:Quote:
IrishArmenian Now, Campo would be a good addition to American football..
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Campo's staying put. :stare:Quote:
IrishArmenian Now, Campo would be a good addition to American football..
Bekham isn't a BAD player by any means, his biggest problem is he isn't consistantly good. On a good day, five years ago, he was unstoppable. On a bad day he was adaquete.
As to why AMERICAN Football hasn't caught on, we have RUGBY Football, so the American game looks like a namby-pamby girl's sport.
Okay, how about Diouf? He costs too much and isn't worth nearly as much as they pay him.Quote:
Originally Posted by InsaneApache
With Diouff and Anelka we have two of the better creative frontmen in the EPL.Quote:
Originally Posted by IrishArmenian
Diouffy's staying put and all. As is Anelka, Davies, Speedo, Nolan, Jussy .......
Anymore of this nonsense and BIG Sam will be paying your place a visit.......
Just put the used notes in a plain manila envelope :sweatdrop:
Try and get hold of this video. Tom Finney reckons this was the best any English team had ever played, while Arrigo Saachi thought his Milan side (the one with Gullit, Rijkaard and Van Basten) wouldn't have won so many European trophies if they had to compete against them.Quote:
Originally Posted by drone
Oh, I don't know. North Americans don't seem to mind "boring" at all when it comes to sports.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marshal Murat
*cough, cough* NASCAR *cough, cough*
I think Americans just can't get on with sports where draws are common-witness cricket. It seems to offend them somehow.
Football also doesn't lend itself to advertising breaks.
Yall just dont understand AMerican football. It is the hardest sport bar none.
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Originally Posted by Scurvy
Oh yes it is, it's much more entertaining to watch videos of the hooligans/firms beating each other down:2thumbsup:
edit, like this one http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...oligans+russia
Too bad the Scousers are useless nowadays.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pannonian
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Originally Posted by Goofball
I'd say Rowing is harder.Quote:
Originally Posted by Strike For The South
Ah...Zizou, Zizou...le maître de l'univers, notre Rédempteur et Sauveur, mon Dieu eternel...Quote:
Originally Posted by The Black Ship
http://smileys.sur-la-toile.com/repo...te/pleure2.gif
*weeps bittersweet tears*
Alas, he has now shuffled off this mortal coil, ended the heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to, for it is nobler in the mind not to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous insult, but to take arms against it, and by opposing, end them.
Zidane has no need for earthly matters anymore. He never was concerned with that. I don't think that even $250 mil could have coerced him into playing in the MLS. Beckham, okay. Not Zidane.
Beckham is football player, a good one, an icon. But Zidane is the best of our time. His purpose is larger. He's a poet, a man with a mission to fulfill, send from the heavens to reconciliate good and evil, to restore balance in the universe.
A kiss to the world, leaving us breathless, speechless, redeemed.
Oh, might as well rub it in...
The greatest Beckham video ever! Brilliant stuff, one that our English patrons in particular will enjoy.
Cheers, Becks! http://smileys.sur-la-toile.com/repo...ntent/0090.gif
Zizou said farewell to the world with a Glasgow Kiss to Materazzi, that certainly left him breathless and speechless. Don't know about redeeemed though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat
Uh.
If I was Big Sam (Hey, I'm his size, if not a little bigger) I would've kicked Diouf off the team by now due to conduct reasons.:smash:Quote:
Originally Posted by InsaneApache
Now, I said Campo, because, let's face it, he can see the light and he is walking towards it.:skull:
About Diouf moving to America, the Americans love celebrity asses. :furious3:
Now, of course, Big Sam sure isn't travelling to Armenia and if he does, hoping it will be a jolly expedition, he has another thing coming.
Diouf is eating your funds and he has serious problems off the field.
Amazing work rate, one of the best deep crosses which were bloody hard to deal with as a defender, good free kicks. The guy isn't a traditional winger in that he runs, beats defenders and hits the byline to whip it in, to look for a player who does that is to under-sell him. He didn't need to hit the byline, his crosses made up for that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ronin
I know it's popular to rip him down and that he was somewhat over-rated, but to say he's useless 90% of the time is just to be willfully ignorant. Compare the amount the guy runs to 90% of footballers and he'll beat the 90%. He had a limited game, but he was very good at what he did well and that made up for it by the bucketloads in a team that could take advantage of it.
The Real Madrid move was allways doomed to failure, he started well because he was an honest player, who gave everything in terms of work in the midfield, something Madrid was (and still is to a degree) sorely missing at the time. However it came undone as the deeper flaws in his game were not covered by the rest of the Madrid squad - is it his fault that he was brought into a squad he couldn't work in or the person who wanted him there?
I have to disagree with this. Did you watch him at the world cup?Quote:
Amazing work rate
He was practically invisible except for set pieces.
He should have been dropped for Lennon before the WC. I agree with BKS he was invisible apart from a jammy goal.
He was useless in the WC.
I think it was a famous American football coach (Coach Hayes of Ohio State, perhaps?) who said:Quote:
Originally Posted by Big King Sanctaphrax
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A tie is like kissing your sister.
One tournament defines a career of 10+ years does it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Big King Sanctaphrax
On that argument maybe you should look at that one game vs Greece, where everybody on the english team was anonymous garbage except him... He covered ~16km in 90 minutes - the guy gave everything nearly without exception throughout his career - one dip doesn't make the career. On the field coverage he usually averaged 14-15km a game - that's an amazing stat to give you an idea of how much he put in.
He's not my favourite player, but I find the hate and derision given to him because he's been clever with his marketing pretty pathetic and juvenile. If you were given the same options you'd take them everytime.
I didn't say that. I should probably have made it clear that I was talking about how he is now. Back with Manchester United, he was a cracking player, there's no denying that-SAF wouldn't have given him a place in the starting line-up for so long otherwise, he's not a stupid man. He delivered the goods internationally back then as well.Quote:
One tournament defines a career of 10+ years does it?
However, I would say that he seems to have lost much of that now-with the world cup showing how far he's fallen. All the same, I think he'd still get into most non big four Prem midfields, and, as I said earlier in the thread, I would have liked him to take this route rather than going to the US. I can understand going for the money, though.
I've never said I hated him, I'm not sure where you got that from.
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Originally Posted by Productivity
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Nobody hates him. It's just that he's such an easy target to ridicule. What with his football skills being as limited in scope as his vocabulary, him hoofing penalties 40 feet over the crossbar to no end and 200 million Chinese girls thinking he's the greatest thing since Hello Kitty. But hey, once you get paid a million dollar a week for showing off eccentric haircuts on acatwalkfootball field you're fair game as far as I'm concerned. He in turn gets to laugh all the way to the bank.
Yet, it could very well prove to have been a smart move by LA Galaxy. This deal is all about marketing, and nobody can vend it like Beckham.
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Originally Posted by Banquo's Ghost
"A tie is like kissing your sister." The earliest known use of the phrase was by Navy football coach Eddie Erdelatz after a scoreless tie against Duke in 1953 (American Dialect Society listserv message, Nov. 26, 2002), but repeated by yank football coaches endlessly since then - the sentiment eventually leading to "sudden death overtime" in the NFL to decide a match winner.
edit to add: 1967, Detroit (my hometown then) we "bought" an entire N.I. soccer team, lock, stock and 22 smoking players to be 'our' team in a start-up league. Didn't last long http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_Cougars_(soccer)
one more thing; with Mr. Beckham's net worth, why doesn't he just buy the whole Galaxy team?
NASCAR thankfully appeals to a very limited audience.
However, the whole play-stop-play lends the game to more of tactics based play. You have defined goals, while in Soccer the players just go crazy over the ball, and seem to create a swirling mass. (Dogfight)
I just think that every single European should be afraid of Beckham.
Not due to skills, but if he makes Soccer popular in America, then you'll have every Bob and Betsy going crazy over the game, and parents who only care about their children doing great and willing to fight for their children's chance with the passion of a blonde sixteen year old diva and her dress.
Then America will conquer the game with uber-skilled players in a couple years, and you'll have to find something else to exclude us from.
I hope that you get some competitive players, you have a few, (Friedel and McBride). Keep in mind, we don't "exclude" America because you are America, we "exclude" because you are poor footballers despite your political prescence, financial situation and population. I mean if we were your size, we'd at least be considered a contender.
Armenia--3.500.000 people approximately. Say that for every 3.500.000 people, we crank out 1 Edgar Manucharyan level of skill in a player. With the population of the USA, you are looking at 80-90 players that good. Think about it. Go Manucharyan!
The thing is once America finds soccer enjoyabe (If and once) they will pursue it , and soccer will no longer be as enjoyable because the Americans will dominate it. So you will have to find another game to play, that we won't be dominating at.
Well, the rest of the world does have at least 100 years on you. I doubt the average American is as open minded as you, too.
What, like you dominate at basketball on the international stage? Oh wait...Quote:
Originally Posted by Marshal Murat
Of course there's always baseball...but didn't you get tonked by Japan, Cuba and a whole bunch of others in that recent World Baseball Classic thing?
We could dominate basketball but the sissies don't want to risk injuries in the big-star players playing outside of the NBA.
Baseball, we could win if we tried, but its like the NBA, they don't want to risk major players on the world stage.
Luckily, soccer isn't important enough that we need to save the players.