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Fuuuck!!!! Dunno what to say. Thems the breaks I s'ppose.
anyway, yeah, pure bollocks from Mourinho in the post match. |
dortmund beats hannover 4-2 with great help from hannover's new brazilian defender fernando (?) (1 penalty, 1 own-goal).
bayern beats augsburg 2-1 with help from the ref who gifted them an unlikely elfmeter on minute 88. strange weekend. |
Good piece about Everton and Roberto Martinez
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Martinez's ridiculous levels of optimism can grate. However, it does make a change from Moyes' negativity (some of the things he said still sting). Swansea is a tipping point game I think. Win and the mood will continue to rise. Lose and a lot of people will write the rest of the season off with an average finishing place. |
Completely agree about teams like Everton never getting the credit when they beat the bigger teams. The same thing's happened to West Ham beating Arsenal and Liverpool. It's happening right now with us leading Man C. Listening to the commentators it's all about what's wrong with them, instead of saying how good we've been.
Anyway, half time, 2-1 up. Even if we lose we've been brilliant. If Payet carries on in his current form we're gonna have a helluva job keeping him in the summer. Back to the match, fingernails gone. EDIT: We held on (and it really was holding on). 2-1 it is. Rode our luck big time in the end but we beat Man City, at the Etihad. Fucking hell!!! Edit #2: Finally had enough of Costa. The guy's just a nasty piece of work, end of, and Mourinho's defence of him (while expected) is a disgrace. Mourinho's doing to Chelsea what he did to Real, making them hated, and I can seriously see Abramovich having enough of it, maybe not before the end of this season but I can seriously see Jose either walking or being sacked before the start of the next one. |
The French commentators stressed that Costa should have been expelled. Slap a defender, knock him down, and you usually get sent away. The referee's decision was very poor, to say the least.
I found Mourinho's talk so childish that it failed to make me more irate. He praised his team for being serene. This meant that Arsenal had not been. He surely can't think Costa was serene, can he? Has the World Wrestling Entertainment considered approaching Mourinho? West Ham and Everton have been really fluent. I'm surprised Norwich is currently so high in the table. I'm yet to see one of their games though. |
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West Ham are very unpredictable. We're playing really well against teams we shouldn't have a chance against but seem to struggle against those we might more reasonably expect to beat, especially at home. We seem to function better as underdogs. Most importantly, though, win or lose, we're fun to watch again, which we never were with Allardyce, even when we won. So far I'm more than happy with what Bilic is doing. |
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-Well done to West Ham! -What a prick Costa is, and the ref fucked up big time -Bayern win again, big whoop -I'm gonna bet my house that Newcastle go down. |
lol bayern played darmstadt which was just promoted-- try instead dortmund vs leverkusen which starts in an hour. that should be a mighty contest.
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:D Hook, line and sinker. |
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haaa haaa haaa! i must spread more butter.... |
the dortmund bayer game was sweet
it started pretty tight but dortmund managed to squeek a 1-0 by halftime. then 2-0 by 60'. then i could have been 2-1 but instead went 3-0 on a penalty. dortmund keeps the lead on the table! mhuahahahahahaha. demonyo sez he misses the classic defender over the goal-scoring semi-midfileder modern defenders-- he should have seen sokratis vs. chicharito today . hilarious duel. |
Arsenal were apparently looking at Sokratis last year, not that Arsenal actually buys players. They just look at them.
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Newcastle, Sunderland and one other for me. Hopefully Villa. |
chicharito scored in the champions mid-week (his first @ leverkusen) but not today.
sokratis would NOT let him get even close. |
Shame the game's changed to the extent that defenders like that are now so overlooked. It happens here all the time. Not knocking John Stones, who I think is excellent, but it's telling how he's been elevated so much higher than guys like Ryan Shawcross, who may not be as good with the ball but is a better out and out defender IMO.
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Lewandowski scored 5 in 9 minutes tonight. Quick whoop |
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I'd never have guessed re. the wrestling game... Last season, WH were already more interesting than before (from a neutral point of view which almost lost its neutrality the moment Adrian, Cresswell, Kouyaté played...). |
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Yeah never seen anything like that before, and against Wolfsburg. Hardly pushovers. |
Bloody hell. I honestly thought it'd be a while before I'd see a glut of goals so quick after Lewandowski.
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Chelsea's sinking again.
Mourinho's being a great help for his players: he introduced Matic at the break, and now, we're 20 minutes from the end... he replaces him... Southampton leading 3-1 in London... |
Mourinho's lost it. His rant in the post match interview was outrageous even by his standards. This on top of eva gate really makes me wonder if he isn't ultimately trying to get sacked.
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Speaking of cross culture exchange, you watching the Dolphins in London tomorrow? |
No. Gf's birthday today. No chance.
Anyway. Rodgers finally sacked. Hearing strong rumours he's gonna be replaced by Ancelotti. Probably bad news for h8kurdt. Can only see liverpool improving now bullshit-meister Brendan's gone, especially if they do get Ancelotti. |
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Sneaked a watch of the highlights last night. Not sure if the Jets are really good but the Dolphins looked bloody awful! But the tickets apparently sold out in record time so it's all good for the NFL and UK fans. |
Dolphins are surprisingly bad this year
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yesterday (morning, my time), bayern beat dortmund 5-1 on a regular bundesliga game
i was out all weekend on some business bullshit I'M GLAD I DIDN'T SEE IT |
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good luck with that highly charismatic but stubbornly inflexible guy.
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Rest assured the press will love him (if it is him) and I'm sure the fans will give him time, but that team needs serious rebuilding. Lots of decent players but Coutinho's the only one who really stands out.
What was the set up at Dortmund? Was Klopp hands on in choosing new signings, cos if he was he might find life at Liverpool a bit of a shock. Seems pretty clear now that Rodgers didn't have much say in which players were signed or sold. That's why i think Ancelotti's a better fit. Besides IMO simply being a better manager than Klopp, he's shown that he's very comfortable with that kind of set up. Personally, I think if it is Klopp, it'll only be because Ancelotti has turned them down. |
i believe he was the one who built the winning dortmund
(but it was bayern that tore it apart) (with the help of man u and others) my problem with klopp is that when it didn't work he had no response it's everything or nothing with him |
It seems that at Liverpool the board have more influence over signings, but Klopp won't be going into that set up blind so he'll at least know what to expect.
Re his tactics, maybe he's one of those managers, a bit like Mourinho, or even Bielsa, who goes in, injects some real intensity, then, when that burns out, moves on to do it somewhere else. I wouldn't be at all surprised if he ends up making a big impact at Liverpool but doesn't stay that long. EDIT: Just heard something on the radio saying that part of Klopp's contractual demands will probably says he wants a greater say in transfer dealings. |
Brazil just went down 0-2 vs Chile. Pentachampions of the world my ass.
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lolololol. those were ancient times. this is now. this past summer chile won the copa américa and brazil didn't even make the semifinals. hello 2015! |
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Yes yes, I watched almost every Copa América game. The Lone Star is being universally praised, and deservedly so. |
USA better handle biz tomorrow, don't want to get humiliated again like the last time they played against Mexico at the Rose Bowl
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You know, that was one moronic thing for Jara to do, but the conflict with Cavani already had a history. On the last Chile vs Uruguay game of the qualifiers for Brazil 2014 (Santiago, Chile 2-0), Cavani punched Jara in the face — I mean he clocked him, full fist on the guy's mug, and the defender simply stood there and nobody said jack. So, the finger shit, that was crass as hell, but payback was a-coming... |
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not moronic in the least but a stroke of genius-- especially the bullshit face-grabbing and fake rolling on the floor he did afterwards. he got cavani thrown out of the game! in spite of the later sanctions, he couldn't have done better for his team. although that was probably bribe money... fucile was thrown out on a non-existent foul as well. truly scandalous. yes, yes, we still love this sport... anyway... Quote:
strikers and defenders usually develop a history of some kind; i didn't know of this feud in particular but i'm not surprised. uruguay sucked in those qualifiers, and barely made it via a playoff with an oceania team (new zealand i think it was). so their fate did not change there. but anyway, in a different setting--- google cavani-chiellini for some hilarious photography. why wait, i'll post it here, ha ha ha ha ![]() |
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It was actually Jordan, 5-0 global. Those poor bastards in Asia and Oceania, man... |
So the K(l)op(p) finally got what t(he)y wanted
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