Thats cleared that up, unfortunately for Liverpool there was only a small piece of that game where there was a danger of them them winning, they were just played off the park by Basel, but there's no disgrace in that :)
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Thats cleared that up, unfortunately for Liverpool there was only a small piece of that game where there was a danger of them them winning, they were just played off the park by Basel, but there's no disgrace in that :)
View from Basel: Very disappointing game, no real atmosphere. Bad tactics from Sousa, Basel didnt really go for it at all, Porto not much better. A draw a fair result from two very poor teams. González's goal was a real peach, nicely put away, but after that Basel rarely threatened. Referee was awful, Mark Clattenburg gave 9 yellow cards in a game that wasnt bad tempered, and he looked like he hadnt a clue what he was doing, comical.http://www.footballfans.eu/img?f=5042013&w=600&h=301
Dortmund are conspiring to lose a game they've been on top for much of.
Hummels went walkabout for Juve's second.
Dortmund are conspiring to lose a game they've been on top for much of.
Hummels went walkabout for Juve's second.
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Originally Posted by BonnieShels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyrb-qFkjKs
That was the first time I had heard the Barca away fans (the 50 or 60 of them) make noise in a game.
Suarez world class as ever!
I was flicking between the two games last night.
I turned on Barca-City at one stage and the first thing that I heard uttered was "The last thing City want to do now is to concede another goal".
Lawrenson, insightful as always. And as for having Mendieta on the panel? Christ wept.
I had to keep going into the 'other channels' option to get ITV. For flicking purposes, TV3 would have been more practical but the inconvenience was better than listing to Trevor and Lawro for any length of time.
Second leg of Dortmund Juve should be a cracker. Manchester City = Groundhog Day.... with all their billions, have they made one signing in the last three years that has actually enhanced their team?
Nevermind Hummels, Kompany is officially the most overrated defender in world football for me.
You need more choices in life Delorean, having to flick all the way through to other channels is just so retro.
I have 2 sky digiboxes and can flick in between with ease, or record one game while watching another and catch up with the recorded game at half time and of course at the end of the live game. With good use of the ff button you get 2 games in full + abit of panel discussion as opposed to one game + all the panel discussion + adverts. Or do like hyper Bonnie and have 2 or 3 going on the computer along with one live on the box.
The Barca v Man city was first division quality compared to the 2nd division Juve v DVB. Even Messi's penalty and follow up miss was an astounding first class mishap.
I could have used my Sky Go app. My battery was running thin though and the charger was all the way upstairs.
The wednesday night CL football was decent enough and the rte 2 pundit talk is much improved with Darragh Maloney but it was Lenny Henry who stole the show later on.
This thread includes the EL?? It's not as the thread is being clogged up so far.
That was superb penalty shoot out in Istanbul, a 9/10.
Even Charlie would have been tickled by some of the postage stamp dispatches.
An 8pm start. Bilbao v Torino is excellent fare so far and a firm 2 fingered gesture to those who condescend towards the EL
Once again the "greatest league in the world" falls short. Interesting article here:
http://www.football365.com/john-nich...Premier-League
They all make such a fuss about getting in to the Champions League and in the end it usually ends up in misery. True Chelsea are still in there but overall most English teams fall well short of the required standard both in the CL and Europa League.
Good article but I had no issue with Arsenal being clear favourites to progress. They have been pretty solid CL performers for well over a decade. Obviously Monaco shouldn't have been dismissed completely but it was a major upset. I'm not sure anybody expected Tottenham to beat Fiorentina with any real conviction, especially after the first leg. I'd assume most would have viewed it as a fairly even tie.
Since Bielsa moved to Marseilles I've been watching quite a bit of French football and there is no doubt in my mind that it is quite a bit better than than the epl. Monaco's league position is more due to their horrible start to their league campaign, and that was probably down to new coach and new methods, imo they are as good as the top 3 there.
They had sold on their best 2 players (Rodriguez and Falcoa). Against arsenal they had a reserve back 4 playing, which in all is a testament to their youth policy and famed academy tradition.
Strange enough, the emergence of the billionaire back super team, PSG, increasing an economic income gap with PSG well ahead of all the the rest, hasn't translated to a dominance in the league, both Lyon and Marseilles have as good as chance as PSG of winning the league.
I wouldn't say Ligue 1 is better than the EPL at all. It's a poor league to watch with often very little invention - like the Premier League in the 1990s at a much slower pace - but there are undoubtedly a lot of very good players. France is producing more quality players than any other country in Europe at the moment.
I'm watching Stoke v Everton this evening and I am struggling to see the invention, never mind the quality.Quote:
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3-3 at the Bernabeu. Schalke still need 2 but what a crazy game.
Basel 2-0 down at Porto. It must be humbling for geysir to realise that English teams are the only ones his boys are capable of routinely thrashing.
That was insane and Schalke had plenty of opportunities to wrap it up too.
Sergio Ramos a monumental loss. Think he's back in full training. Himself and Modric should make a big difference.
A classic and almost one of the all time great games if Schalke could have taken one of those couple of chances they had at the end.Quote:
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#zlatan
#thelesserof2evils
Bloody Bayern go and ruin my buzz though.
Costa is a fupping thug!
Eamonn has used "cancer on the game".
Full-house.
Mourinho is "evil" according to John. The lads on the eckers tonight I think.
I can do humble and gladly so, on the most odd occasion that it would be required :) but I don't see your point, you should know by now the epl is currently cráp and Basle can thump most every EPL team, that's no big deal, but playing the best teams from other Euro leagues is another question altogether. ATM, even French League 1 is superior to the EPL in every way.Quote:
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Most soccer folk would not in any way shape or form be deemed supporters of PSG, but tonight I'd hazard a guess that most were behind PSG all the way.
Well done PSG for kicking racism out of football.
Kicking racism, cynicism and Costa out of football.
Poor Jose having to put up with PSG time wasting. Karma!
Football is full of hypocrisy with players feeling aggrieved by (a) an opponent diving, (b) an opponent feigning injury, (c) an opponent wasting time - the list is endless - when they do it themselves.Quote:
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The thing that disappointed me the most about the WC2014 was when Didier Drogba appeared at some game and the crowd applauded him: the greatest injury feigner in the history of the game! He also gets a gig advertising an airline.
I despair for football sometimes and where it's going.
I read things from when I was growing up and I despair at where we are. I am falling out of love with the game. I'm lucky I still have the LOI.
I'm actually not that fussed. Football always had dark arts and creeps and spivs. Chelsea has always been a classless institution from top to bottom. They all just have a hundred times more exposure now and too many whingers are too quick to highlight all the negatives. The big story for me was a brilliant PSG performance and two great headed goals from much mocked players. Thiago Silva's determination to make both his late headers was an inspiration. Absolute top quality game.
Obviously there is a lot of room to improve behaviour but as long as the game remains a financial goldmine there is no incentive to fix it. But football is a perfect metaphor for the real world and I wish naive do-gooders would stop whining.
I don't agree with Souness's explanation that imported foreigners are at the root of the problem in English clubs. Not fully anyway. For me the issue is football's zero tolerance to retaliation and violent behaviour. If Jonny Evans could have just grabbed yer man last week he wouldn't have gobbed on him instead! If slight retaliation wasn't automatically followed by a red, opponents wouldn't overeact to retaliation. On one hand zero tolerance to aggression has made the game technically miles better but an unintended consequence is that it makes it easier to cheat and it makes the players look soft.
Some degree of trial by TV should be allowed though and blatantly wrong decisions can be corrected in near-real time if the recent Dutch TMO experiment was followed. This is where a fourth official with a TV monitor in a studio had 15 seconds to notify a ref if something was clearly wrong. It seemed to improve things.
Is Thiago Silva a much mocked player?