| mooghead 08.05.2016 14:06 |
I was born in Glasgow but have always lived in the North East of England. Rangers get promoted, Middlesbrough get promoted and it looks like Newcastle (feel dirty just for typing it) are going down. It doesn't really get any better. Good times!!!!! |
| Barry Durex 08.05.2016 15:28 |
Your forehead must be very sweaty. |
| Sebastian 08.05.2016 15:49 |
I'd lie if I said The Foxes were my favourite team but I'm obviously glad a 'small' club managed to win the Premier. My favourite football year so far is 2006 because of the World Cup. I really wanted Brazil, Argentina, Ukraine and England to be knocked out ... and that's exactly what happened, in less than 30 hours :D I also loved 2014 because of both Spain and Brazil losing *that* way. On a club level, I loved '96 because of Juventus (it had Zidane + Del Piero). |
| Thistle 08.05.2016 15:54 |
Shite as per, but I'd still rather be a Thistle supporter than a Sevco supporter ;) |
| Costa86 09.05.2016 04:12 |
1966 |
| brENsKi 09.05.2016 13:25 |
1990 &1994 Ireland @ Italia 90 and then again - @ USA 94 - marvelous days |
| Sebastian 11.05.2016 14:27 |
brENsKi wrote: Ireland @ Italia 90I remember those penalty kicks. Quite exciting. |
| brENsKi 13.05.2016 03:33 |
"The Nation Holds Its Breath.....YES! .....Ireland go through to the quarter-finals, of the World Cup" |
| ITSM 13.05.2016 03:45 |
Liverpool with Suarez, they almost made it! Manchester United was really fun to watch ... about 5-6 years ago - they started that season so good. |
| YourValentine 16.05.2016 04:56 |
Every year is my football year :-) Right now I am looking forward to the German cup final hoping for Dortmund to win it, the Champions League final, and even more the Europa league final hoping for Klopp to win it with Liverpool. Of course the highlight will be the UEFA cup in France this summer. |
| Holly2003 16.05.2016 05:00 |
YourValentine wrote: Every year is my football year :-) Right now I am looking forward to the German cup final hoping for Dortmund to win it, the Champions League final, and even more the Europa league final hoping for Klopp to win it with Liverpool. Of course the highlight will be the UEFA cup in France this summer.Being beaten by Norn Iron on 21 June won't be a highlight :p |
| YourValentine 16.05.2016 05:34 |
I would not be surprised, Holly. Our national team is going through a rebuilding phase but I hope they find each other in the group matches and get a good result. |
| Thistle 16.05.2016 11:15 |
Och, we all know that England are going to win it....because they say they will....LMFAO. |
| Sebastian 16.05.2016 13:21 |
brENsKi wrote: "The Nation Holds Its Breath.....YES! .....Ireland go through to the quarter-finals, of the World Cup"Couldn't help it: link |
| Doga 16.05.2016 14:56 |
1972 & 2009 Ajax and Barcelona won all the available tournaments and ended as World Champions. The only two invincible teams in history. |
| Holly2003 17.05.2016 04:19 |
YourValentine wrote: I would not be surprised, Holly. Our national team is going through a rebuilding phase but I hope they find each other in the group matches and get a good result.Sadly I think we peaked in the qualifiers and this is the only way we will score against Germany. link |
| greaserkat 17.05.2016 10:56 |
Well, I will be going to 3 Copa America games here in the States, so that should be fun. I have to say that I am looking forward to 2018. A lot of national team super powers from this past world cup and recent ones are not strong as they used to be, imo. So, that should make an interesting world cup... |
| YourValentine 18.05.2016 07:01 |
You are lucky, greasercat. It's next to impossible to get tickets for the UEFA cup unless you pay hundreds on the black market. I hope Christian Pulisic will play for the USA, he is amazing and only 17 years old! @Holly - I hope you are right, lol |
| greaserkat 18.05.2016 11:38 |
I had a fried who put himself down for the lottery to buy tickets for the Euro Cup, as he will be there for the summer, but of course he did not get in. Yeah, Pulisic looks promising. Given that my parents are from Mexico, I also root for the Mexican team, so I have been following Chicharito closely at Bayern Leverkusen. I hope to possibly make it to Germany next year to catch a Bundesliga game... |
| Mr.Jingles 24.05.2016 09:00 |
greaserkat wrote: Well, I will be going to 3 Copa America games here in the States, so that should be fun. I have to say that I am looking forward to 2018. A lot of national team super powers from this past world cup and recent ones are not strong as they used to be, imo. So, that should make an interesting world cup...I really wanted to go see the USA Vs Colombia game at the SF Bay Area. My sister lives there. Which games are you going to? |
| greaserkat 24.05.2016 11:30 |
Mr.Jingles wrote:I wanted to go to that one too, but won't be able to make 5 hour drive from LA to Santa Clara.greaserkat wrote: Well, I will be going to 3 Copa America games here in the States, so that should be fun. I have to say that I am looking forward to 2018. A lot of national team super powers from this past world cup and recent ones are not strong as they used to be, imo. So, that should make an interesting world cup...I really wanted to go see the USA Vs Colombia game at the SF Bay Area. My sister lives there. Which games are you going to? I'll be going to Brasil vs Ecuador, Colombia vs Paraguay, and Mexico vs Jamaica |
| Holly2003 27.05.2016 16:28 |
YourValentine wrote: @Holly - I hope you are right, lolBeginning to wonder now. In the last 17 games we have won 10, drawn 5 and lost 2. We are unbeaten in the last 11 games and we finished top of our qualifying group. Quite remarkable really for such a small country. Of course, Germany are still favourites but we might cause a surprise or two in the group. Best of luck YV. Hope your team plays well and let's hope the tournament is a peaceful one. |
| YourValentine 01.06.2016 03:50 |
Holly, Germany lost 1:3 vs Slovakia last Sunday. so we are worried. Yes, let us hope the games are peaceful aand nobody gets hurt... |
| brENsKi 02.06.2016 16:04 |
Holly, count yer blessings fella...you could be in a group with Italy, Belgium and Sweden!!! - oh fuck!!! - we're fecked and while we're at it...just exactly how often do England keep getting "easy groups" yet still fail spectacularly? |
| Sebastian 04.06.2016 07:51 |
I think that's more of a recent trend, really. Back in the 20th century, England were more often than not in difficult groups. |
| brENsKi 04.06.2016 16:16 |
France 1960.............Did not enter Spain 1964..............Did not qualify Italy 1968...............Semi-finals Belgium 1972........Did not qualify Yugoslavia 1976.....Did not Qualify Italy 1980 .............Group Stage France 1984........Did not Qualify Germany 1988....Group Stage Sweden 1992.....Group Stage England 1996......Semi-finals Belgium/Netherlands 2000....Group Stage Portugal 2004.....Quarter-finals Austria/Switzerland 2008..Did not qualify Poland/Ukraine 2012....Quarter-finals failed to qualify at all - 5x didn't get out of groups - 4x qtr finals - 2x semis - 2x (one of which as host) that's an abysmal record for ANY supposed football giant |
| Sebastian 04.06.2016 22:51 |
I'm not denying that - I'm questioning your 'easy groups' point. 1950: Considering only the first could go on to the semis, being in the same group as Spain is *not* an easy group. 1954: Belgium and the host ... not the trickiest of groups but not the easiest either. 1958: Austria (third placed in the previous tournament), Soviet Union (with Yashin et al) and ... well, you know, that little team known as bloody Brazil! Not an easy group at all. 1962: Hungary (they were still good despite Puskas playing in Spain at the time) and Argentina ... not an easy group. Not an ultra-difficult one either (that'd be the one containing Spain with the aforementioned Puskas plus Di Stefano, plus Mexico and the two eventual finalists). 1964: No groups phase as qualifiers were playoffs. 1966: Uruguay, France and Mexico. Not the most difficult opponents but not the easiest one either. 1968: Home nations. Again, not the trickiest but not the easiest either. 1970: A relatively good Romania (granted, it wasn't West Germany, but it wasn't Bulgaria either), a relatively powerful Czechoslovakia (they'd win the Euro six years later and part of the line-up was already there) and that little team known as fucking Brazil from bloody 1970! 1972 [Qualifiers]: Easy group indeed. But they didn't fail spectacularly ... they fell in the second round to eventual European and World champions West Germany. Nothing to be ashamed about. 1974 [Qualifiers]: Wales was easy but Poland was not. Considering only the first of the group would qualify, it wasn't an 'easy group.' 1976 [Qualifiers]: Two relatively easy ones plus eventual champions. So no, not an 'easy group,' though I agree it wasn't quite the 'group of death' either. 1978 [Qualifiers]: Two easy teams plus a very strong Italy (the era of Zoff, Rossi, Bettega, etc). Considering only one would go on to the World Cup finals, it was not an 'easy group' by any means. 1980: A powerful (though not by any means super-power) Spain, a strong (though not by any means super-power) Belgium plus the team that would win the World Cup two years later (in what I consider to have been the most difficult campaign ever). Not an easy group by any means. 1982: A super easy one, an average one and bloody France (with Platini), and they still managed to be first in the group. Their disappointing performance came later, but being eliminated by West Germany and leaving the tournament undefeated is still not precisely a massive failure. 1984: Easy group indeed, despite Denmark being quite good at the time, but I'll concede this one. 1986: I'll concede this one as well, since the group was fairly easy and they did struggle a bit. 1988: A relatively good Ireland (though not by any means a superpower) plus the eventual winners and runners-up. Not an easy group at all. 1990: Relatively easy and they did seem to struggle a bit, so I'll concede that one. 1992: France (with Papin et al), hosts Sweden (with one of their best teams ever) and eventual champions... not an easy group at all. 1994 [Qualifiers]: I'll concede that one as well, despite Netherlands being there ... but you'd have expected England to easily beat Norway and ... well, surprise! 1996: I'd agree it was relatively easy despite the Netherlands again. But England were the hosts and two from each group went on to the next round, plus neither Scotland nor Switzerland were too hard at the time. However, losing in the semis to eventual champions Germany (on penalties, mind) is not a catastrophic performance. 1998: Easy group indeed. 2000: Easy group indeed, at least on paper. It was a huge embarrassment for both England and Germany to lose that way. 2002: Group of death, with two powerful teams (though not superpowers) and one of the best Argentinas of the post-Maradona era. 2004: Easy group indeed. France were there, but half of the group qualified to the next round so... yeah, fairly easy. 2006: Fairly easy group again. 2008 [Qualifiers]: Ridiculously easy group yet they indeed failed spectacularly. No way to excuse this blunder. 2010: Yep, fairly easy group again. 2012: Not an ultra-difficult group but not the easiest one either. 2014: Easy group on paper, but yeah, it was quite embarrassing. The day they lost to Uruguay (and were mathematically out of the competition even before playing their third game) was my birthday, and I was in Shrewsbury wearing a Welsh flag on my shirt - loads of locals commented on how my friends and I were 'honorary Uruguayans', which we absolutely were! 2016: Easy group indeed, so if they fail to qualify it's gonna be so humiliating. Perhaps Wales can uncharacteristically give them a good ol' crushing (with Bale scoring a hat-trick)... that'd be interesting, though not very probable :p Anyway, to sum up: England have indeed been very disappointing on major tournaments, but I completely disagree they had 'easy groups' in the 20th century; 21st... yeah, indeed. |
| YourValentine 07.06.2016 07:17 |
England will not win a tournament for 50 more years because of the alleged 3rd "goal" in the 1966 final. Call it the German curse ;-) |
| brENsKi 07.06.2016 16:48 |
YourValentine wrote: England will not win a tournament for 50 more years because of the alleged 3rd "goal" in the 1966 final. Call it the German curse ;-)i would concur. but on the same basis, how long before France win anything again after Thierry Henry's disgraceful bit of basketball against Ireland? |
| YourValentine 09.06.2016 02:24 |
Absolutely! They shalt not win anything for 100 years! |
| Mr.Jingles 09.06.2016 07:49 |
I would like to think that karma comes back to cheating teams and players, but Uruguay reached a World Cup semi final and won in penalty kicks after Suarez stopped the ball with his hands in that quarterfinal game against Ghana... and they've been considerably successful since then. |
| Sebastian 09.06.2016 09:02 |
There's no such thing as karma ... or at least it doesn't work the way people believe. |
| Costa86 10.06.2016 08:33 |
Sebastian wrote: There's no such thing as karma ... or at least it doesn't work the way people believe.Please elaborate. |
| Sebastian 10.06.2016 14:15 |
I'm no expert on this so please be patient with me if I'm way off the mark, but there are way too many interpretations of 'karma' according to different religions and philosophies. The base one, though (and I could be completely wrong about this), is the one stating that good actions and good intents beget good habits, which beget good effects. There's, of course, the more popular one (tightly linked to rebirth, which is not accepted by all related religions), which works as some sort of boomerang: you're an arsehole in this life, and next time you're born a lower cast, or a rat, or a dung beetle. That's been largely adapted by Westerners into a Hollywoodesque concept, which for some people is just some harmless fun, but for others is unexplainably believable and 'serious' enough. An example could be the aforementioned handball by Henry: a more genuine 'karmic' interpretation would be simply that the bad action is gonna generate some sorrow on the guilty parties (such as Henry and the ref), especially considering France's performance on the subsequent World Cup was utterly abysmal; a more spectacular and media-friendly (but not by any means philosophically or 'spiritually' sound) would be to have an imaginary deity issuing some sort of original-sin-ersatz curse on future generations of French players (who are completely innocent from whatever Henry did) and/or to give Henry and the ref haemorrhoids. Supernatural nonsense, IMO. |
| YourValentine 11.06.2016 04:07 |
Come on, Seb - we are only joking, don't make it such a serious issue :-) Apart from that Uruguay lost vs Venezuela yesterday and was unexpectedly kicked out of the Copa America. Hmmm... |
| Sebastian 11.06.2016 19:41 |
I really don't know what was going on in the manager's head during that match. Your team's losing an important game, desperately needs at least a goal (preferably more) and one of the best goalscorers of the moment (who recently made Pichichi ahead of both Messi and CR7) is sitting on the bench... and you leave him there! |
| Mr.Jingles 14.06.2016 07:25 |
Sebastian wrote: I really don't know what was going on in the manager's head during that match. Your team's losing an important game, desperately needs at least a goal (preferably more) and one of the best goalscorers of the moment (who recently made Pichichi ahead of both Messi and CR7) is sitting on the bench... and you leave him there!Suarez is still recovering from an injury. Sure, he's on the bench, but he's still not physically at 100%, and according to Suarez himself, not even 90%. I have no sports medicine knowledge, but who knows if by still being in recovery he's risking developing his injury even further. |
| Sebastian 14.06.2016 07:38 |
Even 10% Suarez would've possibly been a threat to the Venezuelan defence. Maybe not ... we'll never know. |
| YourValentine 15.06.2016 02:37 |
In German media they reported that Suarez was marked as "injured" on the official team sheet, so the Manager could not let him play, it would have been against the rules. The mistake was to let him sit on the bench. |
| Holly2003 17.06.2016 04:37 |
YourValentine wrote: In German media they reported that Suarez was marked as "injured" on the official team sheet, so the Manager could not let him play, it would have been against the rules. The mistake was to let him sit on the bench.Facial cuts I think. Looked in the mirror and tried to bite himself. |
| Sebastian 17.06.2016 08:53 |
America won last night and are through to the semis. Ukraine are out, which is a shame because they're a really good team IMO. |
| greaserkat 17.06.2016 10:24 |
Sebastian wrote: America won last night and are through to the semis. Ukraine are out, which is a shame because they're a really good team IMO.O am rooting for Mexico to take it all the way. We will see... |
| Sebastian 17.06.2016 10:48 |
It'd be nice if they won. They've always had great teams but have never won a major tournament (other than the CONCACAF Gold Cup ... but that's not really a major tournament, is it?). |
| greaserkat 17.06.2016 13:59 |
Well, they did win the Confederations Cup in 1999, but Copa America would be nice... |
| Sebastian 21.06.2016 16:35 |
Quoting Frederick, 'oh, how wrong can you be?' |
| brENsKi 22.06.2016 16:19 |
Italy (and the referee) - 0 Ireland - 1 wahay!!!! |
| Sebastian 22.06.2016 21:41 |
I'm sad about Sweden... |
| Sebastian 27.06.2016 13:19 |
All's well that ends well anyway: Chile won and Spain are out. Happy days! |
| Oscar J 27.06.2016 15:59 |
Bye bye England. Iceland - wow! |
| brENsKi 27.06.2016 17:31 |
Bjorks - 2 Berks - 1 MeykjaSICK, ReykjaDICKS !!!! twatSSON, arSSON, fuckSSON...HodgSSON clearly an Icelandic double-agent CODSwalloped!!! |
| . 28.06.2016 06:26 |
link |
| greaserkat 28.06.2016 10:09 |
Must suck to be English right now, lol.... |
| Barry Durex 28.06.2016 13:48 |
Not really, we have been taking a lot of shit for many years and we have hardened. Our time has come to rise up once again and fight the glorious battle. We will prevail. |
| Sebastian 06.07.2016 16:35 |
It's a shame about Wales but well... that's football. You win some, lose most. I'll be rooting for Portugal on Sunday. |
