well i just read this and

LEVERKUSEN BEAT ATLETICO DE MADRID!

1-0

i have to watch the recording

YO YO YO

zonalmarking has a writeup of juve-dortmund!!

Not only does a simple long pass from defence to attack negate Dortmund’s midfield pressure, it generally means the defence is exposed and unprotected, too, unless they’re playing a very high line and keeping extremely compact. Dortmund didn’t do that here, and were caught out twice by these quick attacks.

Does anyone actually find those Stats Zone graphics interesting?

hell yes

nobody got past them (except for that slip) and that shows how they were the pirlos with pirlo gone

they also moved teh ball between them a lot

didnt i say yesterday chiellini + bonucci great? (or something along those lines?)

proof.

I've no idea when your birthday is but here's an early/late present

I thought I was walking into an NFL thread. Bummer.

ha ha ha! is that in bolivia?

around the world cup there were videos of the germans dancing with amazonian indians. that was cool AND THEY WON THE WORLD CUP.

now dante... dante obviously wasn't there ha ha

I dunno where it is. The original clip is I think from the Borat film. There's a Real Madrid version that went viral for a while.

oh! that looks like the andes (if you can spot the children on the left edge).

anyway this is what i mentioned-- the photo w/ mueller was the funniest as i recall but i couldn't find it

Haha. But for its sheer what-was-Pep-thinking? factor, still hard to beat this ...

I only said, "It's not football"

oh ha ha pep is into that too?

i remember after they brought the trophy home they did this horrible dance i think it was in berlin or something

it was hilarious-- i'd look for photos but it eats my internet. just put "german world cup homecoming". i'm sure there's videos for your eyesore of choice.

ew yeah, not seen that before. Not good.

i though it was fun and very ugly and funny on account of that, but some of the germans i know were horrified at the expressions of national pride, which had not been seen publicly in nearly 7 decades.

good for a laugh though.

Yeah, you win a world cup you're entitled to make at least a bit of a twat of yourself.

This. Just like there's nothing wrong with waving a flag of the country you've just represented.

i know, but for germans, considering their history, this was a huuuuuuuge deal

they didn't even do this after reunification

this is new for a lot of people

one of the guys i know who was alarmed (he wasn't the only one obviously) lives in a converted bunker btw

eta: here's a good writeup on that: http://wapo.st/1jG4d9a

They should just be thankful John Terry didn't try to gatecrash their party