The Soccer Thread

hoodyallen · Jun 17, 2011

How did Robbie Keane do this year?

hoodyallen · Jun 17, 2011

Did Clint Dempsey play well in England?

Rudi · Jun 17, 2011

Getting into soccer was the best decision I've made in awhile. Made my allegiance to Man City before last season, its workin out well.

spiker · Jun 17, 2011

hoodyallen said:
Did Clint Dempsey play well in England?

Yeah

calgaryballer · Jun 17, 2011

Rudi said:
Getting into soccer was the best decision I've made in awhile. Made my allegiance to Man City before last season, its workin out well.

While I appreciate the sentiment, this past season was the second that City were owned by billionaire Sheiks. I don't know if jumping on the bandwagon for the richest team in football either before or after their fourth place finish adds any 'cred' to a team pick, which is how I interpret this statement.

That'd be like saying you picked Chelsea before they won their first title. Everyone knew Roman was going to buy everything every where

wr50l · Jun 17, 2011

I thought he was just adding detail for the sake of a longer sentence with no real hidden motive. Quit being fannies.

Fappin Raptor · Jun 17, 2011

heelswxman said:
I didn't want to be the one to say it...

I didn't either. Last week he posted something about if they get Sniejder and Ronaldo that it's over. All I could do was jonesy. I do understand supporting your team but it's your first season on the bandwagon.

BTW watch out for Everton, sixth place here we come.

spiker · Jun 17, 2011

I'm a soccer noob too and I'll defend him in saying that it's actually kind of hard to pick an English (or European) team to follow. Americans don't have the luxury of just choosing the home team which is what we mostly do for American sports. The easiest teams to keep up with are going to be the biggest teams and you'll get that stigma of being a "front runner". On the other hand, you can follow a smaller or 2nd tier team, but it will be difficult to stay up with the team and you'd also be entering into a futile fandom.

calgaryballer · Jun 17, 2011

spiker said:
I'm a soccer noob too and I'll defend him in saying that it's actually kind of hard to pick an English (or European) team to follow. Americans don't have the luxury of just choosing the home team which is what we mostly do for American sports. The easiest teams to keep up with are going to be the biggest teams and you'll get that stigma of being a "front runner". On the other hand, you can follow a smaller or 2nd tier team, but it will be difficult to stay up with the team and you'd also be entering into a futile fandom.

I'd agree if it was any other league than the Prem. Between Sky, BBC, Guardian, team sites, fan forums, etc, anyone with half a brain can find more than their fill for any team in the Premier League. You'll also get a decent number of matches on ESPN. As an NUFC fan, I think I saw maybe 5 matches on Sportsnet/SN1 in the past season. Not great, but it's about a 7th of the season. If I had the money for Setanta or for the Premier League pass, I could see even more. Not to mention the illegal streaming options.

Sure, I'm not seeing the 10-15 matches I get for free in HD if I was a Man U fan, but fuck it, I watch those anyway because I want to see any soccer.

If someone wanted to become a Zaragoza fan, then fine, I'd agree it's going to be tough going. Google Translating newspapers loses it's lustre after the 15th mistranslated word.

Look, I'm not begruding anyone becoming a soccer fan. It was more the tone of the note 'hey, look how smart I am, I picked City before they got in to the Champions League'. If he picked Blackburn and then came back next year after they made the CL and said 'I picked them before Venky's bought them, :smugface:' then I'd bow down

Survivor · Jun 17, 2011

calgaryballer said:
I'd agree if it was any other league than the Prem. Between Sky, BBC, Guardian, team sites, fan forums, etc, anyone with half a brain can find more than their fill for any team in the Premier League. You'll also get a decent number of matches on ESPN. As an NUFC fan, I think I saw maybe 5 matches on Sportsnet/SN1 in the past season. Not great, but it's about a 7th of the season. If I had the money for Setanta or for the Premier League pass, I could see even more. Not to mention the illegal streaming options.

Sure, I'm not seeing the 10-15 matches I get for free in HD if I was a Man U fan, but fuck it, I watch those anyway because I want to see any soccer.

If someone wanted to become a Zaragoza fan, then fine, I'd agree it's going to be tough going. Google Translating newspapers loses it's lustre after the 15th mistranslated word.

Look, I'm not begruding anyone becoming a soccer fan. It was more the tone of the note 'hey, look how smart I am, I picked City before they got in to the Champions League'. If he picked Blackburn and then came back next year after they made the CL and said 'I picked them before Venky's bought them, :smugface:' then I'd bow down

I vouch for this, being a Sunderland fan since I visited the city last summer, I watched a little less than half of their games live last season and that was because I was busy, not a lack of streams. At least as a fan of a second tier EPL team, I still catch a lot of news and games.

The problem does arrive when you look elsewhere, however. Because I have a friend at college from Brasil I've adopted his team as mine, and support Fluminense as best I can, but who the hell follows Brazilian soccer and where do I catch all the news/games??? Same goes for trying to follow the Russian PL and all the rest of the European leagues to some extent. All is well tho and I'll figure out how to get my fix worldwide.

Fappin Raptor · Jun 17, 2011

Everton opens up next season on the road at Tottenham.

BigHouseUSA · Jun 17, 2011

Zapata would be FMtastic.

spiker · Jun 17, 2011

Fappin Raptor -

Do you think Leighton Baines and Jack Rodwell are still with Everton by the time the summer transfer window ends? There's some big money rumored to be paid for each of these guys. I would think it'd be hard to turn down.

Who is Everton targeting to add during the transfer window? Talksport says they're competing with Bayern for some hot young J-League player.

calgaryballer · Jun 17, 2011

Season Review Links (DVD)

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Swarley · Jun 17, 2011

Not much of an MLS fan, but I need to get up to the new LIVESTRONG Park for Sporting KC. I only live about 45 minutes away from the stadium, so I figure why not. I'm hearing it's pretty nice.

killgod · Jun 17, 2011

Swarley said:
Not much of an MLS fan, but I need to get up to the new LIVESTRONG Park for Sporting KC. I only live about 45 minutes away from the stadium, so I figure why not. I'm hearing it's pretty nice.

Looks pretty damn sexy on TV.

Swarley · Jun 17, 2011

killgod said:
Looks pretty damn sexy on TV.

Yeah a few friends of mine went to it's opening match and they all loved the place.

Fappin Raptor · Jun 17, 2011

spiker said:
Fappin Raptor -

Do you think Leighton Baines and Jack Rodwell are still with Everton by the time the summer transfer window ends? There's some big money rumored to be paid for each of these guys. I would think it'd be hard to turn down.

I hope so. There was a rumor that Baines was leaving for Man City a week or two ago but it seems to have been false. I believe Jack has been quoted as saying he wants to stay. If we can sell Yakubu and Yobo there should be enough money to secure some needs. They really need a forward.

Who is Everton targeting to add during the transfer window? Talksport says they're competing with Bayern for some hot young J-League player.

Who are they not targeting? They've been linked with so many players but they don't have the money to get anyone but frees. They didn't even have the money to pay Demba Ba for a free (I see that he joined Newcastle). Today I read that Wes Brown turned down a move to Sunderland after Everton put in a bid for him.

List of players who have been rumored for Everton. Some have already turned them down or have been moved to another team.

Survivor · Jun 17, 2011

Swarley said:
Yeah a few friends of mine went to it's opening match and they all loved the place.

I live in Columbia so I was thinking about going to their game against San Jose tonight but decided I'll wait a few. I might end up going to the friendly versus Newcastle next month.

Fappin Raptor · Jun 17, 2011

Just saw that Everton is playing DC United on July 23rd. I must go.

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