Soccer Discussion

Postby **count2infinity** » Wed Aug 28, 2019 9:24 pm

Southampton and Portsmouth will meet in the third round of the league cup. First meeting since 2012.

@Freddy Rumsen

Postby **Freddy Rumsen** » Wed Aug 28, 2019 9:25 pm

Portsmouth will lose by 6.

Postby **Dickie Dunn** » Thu Aug 29, 2019 12:27 pm

They make the CL draw seem like it's rocket science. Just pick the **** pong balls already.

Postby **Gaucho** » Thu Aug 29, 2019 12:34 pm

They make the CL draw seem like it's rocket science. Just pick the **** pong balls already.

Postby **Dickie Dunn** » Thu Aug 29, 2019 12:47 pm

How the hell does a group end up with Zenit and Benfica as it's first two teams?

Postby **Gaucho** » Thu Aug 29, 2019 12:48 pm

Barca, Dortmund, Inter. Sweet baby Jesus.

Postby **Dickie Dunn** » Thu Aug 29, 2019 12:52 pm

Group F is for ****.

Postby **Dickie Dunn** » Thu Aug 29, 2019 12:56 pm

RIP Slavia Praha.

Postby **Dickie Dunn** » Thu Aug 29, 2019 1:08 pm

Prediction time:

A: PSG, Real Madrid
B: Spurs, Bayern
C: Man City, Atalanta
D: Juventus, Leverkusen
E: Liverpool, Napoli
F: Barcelona, Inter
G: Lyon, Leipzig
H: Ajax, Valencia

Postby **Tomas** » Thu Aug 29, 2019 4:25 pm

RIP Slavia Praha.

And the fans in Prague are totally ecstatic today. The reason is that "well, the chances for advancing are slim anyway, so at least we will see three awesome teams."

Plus, the life of a small-market team is to function as a minor team for the big dogs. Just today, Slavia sold one of its young stars for Euro 12 mil to Spartak Moscow (after acquiring him for Euro 0.5 mil just last year). So I bet that the team management likes the idea of additional exposure of its players to people in truly top markets...

Postby **Dickie Dunn** » Thu Aug 29, 2019 4:55 pm

RIP Slavia Praha.
And the fans in Prague are totally ecstatic today. The reason is that "well, the chances for advancing are slim anyway, so at least we will see three awesome teams."

Plus, the life of a small-market team is to function as a minor team for the big dogs. Just today, Slavia sold one of its young stars for Euro 12 mil to Spartak Moscow (after acquiring him for Euro 0.5 mil just last year). So I bet that the team management likes the idea of additional exposure of its players to people in truly top markets...

The reaction from their reps cracked me up, but as a fan I imagine it’s a unique feeling of “we have no chance but it’s gonna be awesome”.

Postby **count2infinity** » Thu Aug 29, 2019 4:57 pm

That's awesome.

Postby **Freddy Rumsen** » Thu Aug 29, 2019 5:06 pm

Postby **Gaucho** » Sat Aug 31, 2019 12:14 pm

Barça just subbed in a 16-year old.

...who just now scored his first goal in La Liga.

Postby **tifosi77** » Sat Aug 31, 2019 12:22 pm

Barça just subbed in a 16-year old.
...who just now scored his first goal in La Liga.

That is awesome. He came like a foot away from scoring on his first shot last week.

Postby **Dickie Dunn** » Tue Sep 03, 2019 9:49 am

Maybe one day he'll be good enough to keep Altidore off the roster...

Postby **RonnieFranchise** » Tue Sep 03, 2019 12:17 pm

Maybe one day he'll be good enough to keep Altidore off the roster...

Never. 70 years from now they will be carrying Jozy’s corpse around the pitch “Weekend at Bernie’s” style.

Postby **Dickie Dunn** » Tue Sep 03, 2019 12:55 pm

Maybe one day he'll be good enough to keep Altidore off the roster...
Never. 70 years from now they will be carrying Jozy’s corpse around the pitch “Weekend at Bernie’s” style.

That's pretty much the current state of Jozy.

Postby **Gaucho** » Wed Sep 04, 2019 7:50 am

Inter fans tell Romelu Lukaku monkey chants in Italy are not racist

https://www.theguardian.com/football/20 ... not-racist

Postby **count2infinity** » Wed Sep 04, 2019 7:54 am

So their argument is that it wasn't really racist, just appearing to be racist to get in his head?

You have to understand that Italy is not like many other north European countries where racism is a REAL problem.

Wat?

Postby **Gaucho** » Wed Sep 04, 2019 7:56 am

Postby **Gaucho** » Wed Sep 04, 2019 8:02 am

To be fair, this is the curva nord, the Inter ultras, they do not represent all Inter fans, of course.

Postby **Gaucho** » Mon Sep 09, 2019 6:10 am

Postby **Gaucho** » Mon Sep 09, 2019 6:13 am

Postby **tifosi77** » Mon Sep 09, 2019 12:20 pm