Soccer Discussion

Postby **Gaucho** » Sun Feb 12, 2023 6:02 am

^been there

Postby **Dickie Dunn** » Wed Feb 15, 2023 4:48 pm

Who wants to see a $120MM transfer get smoked?

Postby **MalkinIsMyHomeboy** » Wed Feb 15, 2023 5:56 pm

there was an interesting sequence in the Scottish league

Rangers vs Partick Thistle. Rangers forward gets injured and the Rangers intentionally kick it out to get him looked at. The defense is planning on returning the ball back on the throw in but then that same player who got injured steals the ball from the defender and ends up scoring. It wasn’t clear if the injured player knew they were gonna return the ball since he was writhing on the ground and not watching the ball go out of bounds

The Rangers then confer and let Partick Thistle all the way to the goal without playing defense and letting them score (albeit the keeper played James Harden type defense)

Cool bit of sportsmanship

Postby **Gaucho** » Wed Feb 15, 2023 6:00 pm

Something similar happened in the CL a few years ago. Donezk was involved, iirc ... forgot who their opponent was.

Postby **Gaucho** » Wed Feb 15, 2023 6:03 pm

Nordsjaelland. Adriano scored. Donetsk let Nordsjaelland score afterwards.

Postby **Dickie Dunn** » Thu Feb 16, 2023 7:23 am

Wet Spam are so ****

Postby **Gaucho** » Thu Feb 16, 2023 7:44 am

Winning streak coming?

Postby **count2infinity** » Sat Feb 18, 2023 12:04 pm

What a win for saints. Needed that desperately.

18 points on the season… 6 of them against Chelsea.

Postby **Dickie Dunn** » Sat Feb 18, 2023 1:50 pm

Postby **Dickie Dunn** » Sat Feb 18, 2023 3:27 pm

Tuchel has three times as many premier league victories this season with Chelsea than Potter.

Postby **Gaucho** » Fri Feb 24, 2023 1:25 pm

Postby **NTP66** » Fri Feb 24, 2023 1:34 pm

Outstanding, though I don't get the Giroud one.

Postby **willeyeam** » Sat Feb 25, 2023 10:39 am

COYI @RonnieFranchise we look good today but need to convert one of these chances

Postby **willeyeam** » Sat Feb 25, 2023 11:37 am

The floodgates have opened

Postby **count2infinity** » Sat Feb 25, 2023 11:45 am

RIP saints season.

Oh well. There’s always next year against easier competition. At least Portsmouth won’t be there. But the team I loved as a kid, Sheffield Wednesday might.

Postby **RonnieFranchise** » Sat Feb 25, 2023 12:11 pm

Suck it JLingz #COYI

Postby **willeyeam** » Sat Feb 25, 2023 12:12 pm

I still love jlingz though

Postby **willeyeam** » Sat Mar 04, 2023 11:29 am

We suck again

Postby **Gaucho** » Mon Mar 06, 2023 4:41 am

Postby **shafnutz05** » Mon Mar 06, 2023 5:59 am

So good

Postby **count2infinity** » Mon Mar 06, 2023 2:00 pm

I've never really given MLS a chance. I have largely ignored it for the past 29 years. I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that Pittsburgh doesn't have a team. Without that, I don't feel an attachment to a team and without an attachment, I don't watch. I stopped watching English soccer when Sheffield Wednesday went down in 2000. Then I started watching EPL when it came to NBC and I picked Southampton as "my team".

Anyways... I was home Saturday night. Wife was out grocery shopping and getting some takeout for us. Daughter was watching Spirit and eating popcorn... I wanted to watch something while I was folding clothes so I flipped on LAFC vs Portland. I'll tell ya what... it was a fun watch. LAFC was up 3-0 and my interest was starting to fade, but then Portland scored one. And then another. And it was an exciting finish. I might have to pick a team to follow and start watching. Can you get every team's game somewhere like you can EPL and Peacock/NBC/USA?

Postby **Dickie Dunn** » Mon Mar 06, 2023 2:19 pm

MLS has a massive new broadcasting deal with Apple TV+. 30ish games a year plus some playoffs will be broadcast on Fox Sports, but everything is through MLS Season Pass, which is an additional subscription to just Apple TV+.

Postby **shoeshine boy** » Mon Mar 06, 2023 2:19 pm

Can you get every team's game somewhere like you can EPL and Peacock/NBC/USA?

Apple TV has those rights which is new this season. one of my friends that's a huge ATL UTD fan was complaining about it. according to her, almost all the games are streaming now and if your local team doesn't happen to be one of the free games that night and you don't pay the subscription fee which is $79 if you already subscribe to Apple TV+ and $99 if you don't, then you are SOL on watching your local team.
bullshit, IMO and doesn't seem like the best way to grow your league.

Postby **count2infinity** » Mon Mar 06, 2023 2:22 pm

Hmmm... in that case, maybe I'll hold off until the games become more widely available. It's bizarre to me that I can watch any EPL game I want to week in and week out with just my cable subscription, but for MLS I have to do all sorts of extra effort.

Postby **Dickie Dunn** » Wed Mar 08, 2023 5:07 pm

Antonio Conte is a **** clown.