The Soccer Thread

[1ke]

Bighouse, who is your Avatar???

And is that the same Xerez where Jozy was loaned out to?

[BigHouseUSA]

Bighouse, who is your Avatar???

And is that the same Xerez where Jozy was loaned out to?

I don't know, she sent a picture of her tattoo into the Los Campesinos! website, and I love it.

And, yes.

[calgaryballer]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/sep/22/manchester-united-goals-stoppage-time

United get more time when they are behind, blah blah blah

This is a silly debate, and a terrible study. What reasons are there beyond preferential treatment that could lead to this? Off the top of my head:

When United are losing, the other team is time wasting, thus requiring more stoppage time
When United are losing, the celebrations take even longer, i.e Bellamy's minute long prance around after tying the match

I'm sure there are even more. Frankly, sometimes I do think the stoppage time is a bit long, but the board is a minimum and that is entered before the game enters the 90th minute. Bellamy scoring and the Carrick sub are things that cannot be accounted for when the ref tells the fourth official. Thus, they had to be added on in injury time. Fair play IMO

[guchi45]

Barca is playing and there not even showing it...........canada goltv sucks

[BigHouseUSA]

It's on ESPN2 here.

[guchi45]

Your lucky they used to show it last year but now its all about Toronto FC, it sucks I could care less about them

[BigHouseUSA]

3-0 Barca already. Of course, Ibra scores again.

[guchi45]

Barca and Ibra have been on fired, I'm worried.

[Archer]

Messi is out of this world

[calgaryballer]

Your lucky they used to show it last year but now its all about Toronto FC, it sucks I could care less about them

I don't recall Gol ever really playing midweek matches

Spanish TV rights are a mess right now anyway. It took until an hour before kickoff on the opening weekend to even figure out if some of the games were going to be broadcast in Spain

[Bigpapa42]

So it looks like Sol Campbell walked out on Notts County after one match. Nice to see Sol's still not the most adjusted player.

[1ke]

I lol'd....at the whole thing to begin with....

[Bigpapa42]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...ty/8270272.stm

Executive chairman Peter Trembling told the club website Campbell "could not adjust to the long-term nature of the project under way at Notts County".

Sounds like Campbell to me...

In fact, that whole article just goes to show how bizarre the inner workings of Sol Campbell's brains (if such a thing exists) are.

I loved Sol when he was with Arsenal. Dude is just strange, though. One of the most physically imposing players, yet he just doesn't have the mental strength.

[1ke]

Welbeck had a decent goal today in the CC...

But the best part about it was this photo they got of him doing the FIFA celebration...Perfect pic!

And hey Archer....Marlon Harewood on a 3 month loan???? Whuddya say

[BigHouseUSA]

Harewood's nice to have because he'll be another body. He should be okay in the CCC, Ameobi looked like a God, so he could too. He'll be gone by January, and hopefully Ameobi will be healthy and we'll have a new owner who will buy us a few more players.

U-20 World Cup starts tomorrow, pretty excited. I had a lot of fun watching the last one, although this one could be a little less impressive. The US team is pretty solid, and could make a good push, but there's not players like Adu or Altidore to watch. England definitely don't have their best squad out either.