The Soccer Thread

[Bigpapa42]

Wow, that was absolutely bullshit by Barton. How the fuck is that deserving of a redcard? Clear dive by Gervinho and then Barton reacts to do something far worse?

[Lanteri]

lol, that's awful officiating right there.

[Bigpapa42]

Barton instigates the entire thing by going after Gervinho, then pretends he got punched. Classy.

Shit like that makes me not want to even bother with the EPL anymore, to be honest. I'd rather watch Bundesliga...

[Sharkweather]

I have DirecTv. What's the best option to add on to my Choice Xtra package to get the best soccer set up for me?

Fox Soccer Channel? No idea since I've never had DirecTV, but that is a solid channel to have.

[wr50l]

The irony of Barton complaining of a dive then doing it five seconds later is surely too complicated for his pea-brain to comprehend.

And to get sent off for defending yourself while being ragdolled by a violent criminal as well ...

Woe is me.

[Obst]

That was a real bitch move by Barton. I understand Gervinho getting possibly a yellow for taking the dive and laying there, but Barton should of been thrown off for grabbing Gervinho up by his neck and then starting that whole scrum.

[Bigpapa42]

Great work by Joey Barton and Peter Walton for managing to completely sour my enthusiasm for the new season there.

I'm sure Wenger will say he didn't see the incident and the FA will sit on their hands.

[wr50l]

Great work by Joey Barton and Peter Walton for managing to completely sour my enthusiasm for the new season there.

I'm sure Wenger will say he didn't see the incident and the FA will sit on their hands.

Well, yeah they'll have to. All part of their respect the referee's decision philosophy. By making sure players shake hands before a game and not correcting a blatant mistake which allows a player to get away with violent conduct they will surely eradicate all the problems with respecting referees which could only be solved by whacky ideas such as, you know, backing referees and allowing them to punish even minor dissent or even adding technology like every other forward-thinking sports organization to make the world's fastest league a little bit slower.

[Rudi]

I have DirecTv. What's the best option to add on to my Choice Xtra package to get the best soccer set up for me?

I was looking thru my channels earlier, theres the Fox Soccer channel and Fox soccer channel plus. Im not sure what package those are in but those are the channels you want

[BigHouseUSA]

Not much I can say about Barton, Song and Gervinho were pretty inexcusable as well, but Barton's was obviously worse. Having said that, he's an important player for us and I'll take it, it worked in our advantage. Good result despite everything, we were desperately lacking Ben Arfa and Marveaux, but Obertan looked good.

[Rudi]

My predictions have been booty meat so far. Only got 10 points.

On the bright side Given had a shutout...Suarez scored a goal. Both on my fantasy squad. Too bad the points aren't updated right now

[Bigpapa42]

Not much I can say about Barton, Song and Gervinho were pretty inexcusable as well, but Barton's was obviously worse. Having said that, he's an important player for us and I'll take it, it worked in our advantage. Good result despite everything, we were desperately lacking Ben Arfa and Marveaux, but Obertan looked good.

So taking the "its a blight on the game and one of the worst things about the sport but since its in our favor, that's fucking awesome!" tact, then?

[Fappin Raptor]

Wow...you can get negative points in the prediction.

[1ke]

That game was shit all around to watch. It hurt my eyes, and I fell asleep midway through the 1st half. Woke up to see Obertan come on, and look the most threatening, while Barton was actin a damn fool.

PS. That game sucked.

[BigHouseUSA]

So taking the "its a blight on the game and one of the worst things about the sport but since its in our favor, that's fucking awesome!" tact, then?

"important player for us and I'll take it" = "fucking awesome"