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2009-10 Football Thread
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Ken Bates is clearly Satan's earthly form.
Can't wait for the horrible cockney git to get out of my club.
Can't wait for the horrible cockney git to get out of my club.
If you think about it though, if you were the Devil and had almost limitless powers you could surely come up with an earthly form better than Ken Bates. Maybe Bates is just one of Satan's little wizards rather than the boss man himself? Yes, that's probably it.
Hmmm yeah. And Dennis Wise is one of his slaves.
I can feel another points deduction coming on. *sigh*
I can feel another points deduction coming on. *sigh*
Hmm. With his Plymouth-based posturing, wfoster has reminded me of something football related that's really irritating me at the moment. Because you see, it's to do with the mighty Argyle, although I absolve young wfoster and his pasty-chomping chums of any particular blame for this.
Here's Exhibit A an advert that's currently running on Englandshire telly for insurance company Aviva. For the benefit of our international friends, the campaign features funnyman Paul Whitehouse playing a variety of characters to promote the different insurance policies the company offers. For the car insurance ad, Whitehouse plays an Argyle fan driving his chums to the away match at Newcastle United the longest distance to travel to an away match in the English League, unless I'm mistaken, hence the need for good car insurance. The ad ends with him shouting 'Green Army!' at his weary travelling companions, this being a nickname of the club and a chant favoured amongst its supporters.
Okay, I've no problems with the ad. I don't think it's particularly good one, but it's inoffensive enough although I do wonder how Argyle fans feel about the slightly backwards way they're depicted. What is really irritating me at the moment is the fact that a section of our support have started shouting 'Green Army!' in an oh-so ironic way at our matches.
Honestly, bloody shut up with it. It's not a City chant, and we don't play in green (except for a brief flirtation with a minty hued away shirt some years ago). There's a group just behind us who do this, they never join in with any of the City chants (preferring to moan about the manager, chairman, players or quality of the catering) but all of a sudden they feel the need to scream another teams chant, simply because it's on an ad on the telly. For crying out loud...
At a time when we're more than likely going to be embroiled in a relegation scrap, I'd venture that it might be more beneficial to actually join in with the songs that are in support of our team rather coming out with this rubbish because that funny man on the telly does. What's next? A lusty rendition of Chelsea's Blue Is The Colour? Or maybe we could roll out the proverbial barrel with a classic Chas 'n' Dave/Tottenham collaboration? The possibilities are endless.
If you really want to spend 90 minutes shouting 'Green Army!' to impress those around you, bugger off and go and watch North Ferriby United. They play in green, and I'm sure they'll appreciate your support. Although they'll probably think you're a stupid twunt. Which you are. You stupid twunt.
Ah. It feels good to have got that off me chest.
Jaffa_Cake your post made me laugh in my mind as half of our supporters are complete and utter retards. Retards being the operative word. Around a quarter of our supports are in favour of this advert of how Im still struggling to see how it is in someway funny but the other three-quarters think it makes us, Plymothians, look like stupid ****s.
Everything this bloody Aviva advert comes on to the television, I just want to punch the actor over and over.
This doesnt really do anything for our reputation and now every time we go in to somewhere like Cornwall, we have the cornish coming up to us saying Go on! Speak! so we do and then they giggle amongst themselves then shout GET ON YOU JANNER! INSERT SWEAR WORD HERE!
Damn you, Paul Whitehouse.
I demand to see the back of wfoster's shirt.
I havent got their new shirt yet as I dont think it look right. The badge looks so poorly made and when have Argyle ever had a round badge? Jesus christ.
My other shirt has FOSTER on the back. With the number 7.
Heh. The Humber Bridge Board were a little in the dark about the incident as well. Reading a transcript of the press conference though, I did find myself wondering if he was winding the Hull Daily Mail reporter up a bit. Brown asks the excitable hack, "You've got a story there, haven't you?".
Still, he wouldn't be the first manager to say something silly. For example, I've heard a couple of Leeds United managers say they'll get the club back into the Championship...
Mocked by the Cornish. Bloody hell, wfoster. It doesn't get much worse than that.
It's a bog standard Adidas template (the 'tiro'), in use by quite a number of clubs including Middlesbrough and Wolfsberg, and by Spain in a slightly tarted up form. Word is we're moving to Adidas next year once our current deal with Umbro ends, hopefully we'll get something nice but I fear we'll just end up with a dodgy template foisted upon us.
Meanwhile, Deano has just been on Sky Sports News, doing a spot of hoovering. He's looking for a new job after leaving Darlington following Colin Todd's dismissal as manager. Anyone looking for a striker/bricklayer?
He should come to MLS. Plenty of fast food here to feed a man with such a healthy figure, and they would find his Vinnie Jones-esque persona very appealing here in the states.
Apparently, when Deano's move to Aberdeen was sorted out he thought he was going to have to get himself a passport, what with Scotland being a different country and all that. God knows what he'd make of a trip to the States.
Yesterday:
JOHNSTONE'S PAINT TROPHY
*Leyton Orient 1 - 0 Brighton
89' Adrian Patulea
Last Saturday:
Chesterfield 1 - 0 Accrington Stanley
89' Jamie Lowry (pen miss)
90' Wade Small
Ac.Stan., League Two, is in 14th with 4 wins and 13 points thus far.
*=My vote as our band wagoned/adopted team to follow this season.... They also won last Saturday.
League One, 16th with 3 wins and 12 points thus far.
Our/My other fave from last season Dumbarton struggling a bit after promotion.
They are next to last(9th) in Scot Div 2 with a record of 1-2-5 and 5pts... last weekends results:
Dumbarton 2 - 3 Stirling Albion
All aboard the managerial merry-go-round...
John Barnes has been sacked by Tranmere for being frankly awful, while Wycombe Wanderers and Peter Taylor have parted company 'by mutual consent'. No doubt Stuart Green will be transferred in January...
John Barnes has been sacked by Tranmere for being frankly awful, while Wycombe Wanderers and Peter Taylor have parted company 'by mutual consent'. No doubt Stuart Green will be transferred in January...
Whoa, England!
Hilarious that Sheva missed a PK. But poor defense has dogged England in this campaign despite their good qualifying record. Ferdinand is not covering himself with glory these days...
I really hope, for Liverpool's sake, that Gerrard is not injured.
USA has a tough match away to Honduras tonight. Hope we have more success than England did.
Hilarious that Sheva missed a PK. But poor defense has dogged England in this campaign despite their good qualifying record. Ferdinand is not covering himself with glory these days...
I really hope, for Liverpool's sake, that Gerrard is not injured.
USA has a tough match away to Honduras tonight. Hope we have more success than England did.
We didn't see the match because it wasn't shown on Englandshireish telly – Setanta had the rights but after they went bust they ended up in the hands of a company who only offered the opportunity to view it online. £4.99 to watch it on my laptop? No thanks, Mr Broadcaster. That's nearly two months wages up here in t'North.
I listened to the commentary on the radio instead, it didn't sound particularly pretty. I think it might be useful to 'rest' Ferdinand in the next matches and at least take a look at some of the other options.
Green meanwhile is apparently the first ever England 'keeper to be sent off.
As for the USA, just stick Jozy on your Lordship. He'll sort it out.
I listened to the commentary on the radio instead, it didn't sound particularly pretty. I think it might be useful to 'rest' Ferdinand in the next matches and at least take a look at some of the other options.
Green meanwhile is apparently the first ever England 'keeper to be sent off.
As for the USA, just stick Jozy on your Lordship. He'll sort it out.
We have a similarly bad TV situation going on with the Honduras match.
The game is shown only on closed-circuit TV, which means either not watching the game at all or driving 2.5 hours down to Columbus to watch at a football pub with a $15 cover.
There might be a (poor quality) free stream floating on the 'net somewhere, I might try finding one if I'm bored.
Altidore should start, but he will need good service and the Honduran midfield will really challenge USA. I don't expect to score early since Honduras will come out with all guns blazing. I'm hoping for a win but Honduras is 8-0-0 in qualifying at home...so I'd be happy with a draw.
I agree about Ferdinand. With the injuries he's maybe not totally match fit. Capello has highlighted the defense as the weak point, and he seems to have a point (though England failed to score today as well).
The game is shown only on closed-circuit TV, which means either not watching the game at all or driving 2.5 hours down to Columbus to watch at a football pub with a $15 cover.
There might be a (poor quality) free stream floating on the 'net somewhere, I might try finding one if I'm bored.
Altidore should start, but he will need good service and the Honduran midfield will really challenge USA. I don't expect to score early since Honduras will come out with all guns blazing. I'm hoping for a win but Honduras is 8-0-0 in qualifying at home...so I'd be happy with a draw.
I agree about Ferdinand. With the injuries he's maybe not totally match fit. Capello has highlighted the defense as the weak point, and he seems to have a point (though England failed to score today as well).
Call me old fashioned, but I think England matches – at the very least competitive ones – should be free to view. The same goes for Scotland and Wales with their respective broadcasters.
Football's the national sport, and it seems wrong that folk can't watch the national side without forking out to watch it online. We're all internet savvy, but there'll be plenty of people who might want to watch but don't have a computer/a broadband connection/a clue about any of that internet business, and they're stuffed if they want to watch it.
Meanwhile, we're able to watch Ireland taking on the Italians and they're giving them a good game. Trapattoni though has committed a schoolboy error with his line up by only selecting one of the three Hull City players available to him this evening. The shame!
Football's the national sport, and it seems wrong that folk can't watch the national side without forking out to watch it online. We're all internet savvy, but there'll be plenty of people who might want to watch but don't have a computer/a broadband connection/a clue about any of that internet business, and they're stuffed if they want to watch it.
Meanwhile, we're able to watch Ireland taking on the Italians and they're giving them a good game. Trapattoni though has committed a schoolboy error with his line up by only selecting one of the three Hull City players available to him this evening. The shame!
I think every other USA match has been on ESPN, which, while not free, is one of the most common cable/satellite channels, so you can get the game in just about any pub.
But if I lived in the UK I would want it on one of the "free" channels. (I only know about the TV license thing over there because of The Young Ones).
But if I lived in the UK I would want it on one of the "free" channels. (I only know about the TV license thing over there because of The Young Ones
).
I think every other USA match has been on ESPN, which, while not free, is one of the most common cable/satellite channels, so you can get the game in just about any pub.
But if I lived in the UK I would want it on one of the "free" channels. (I only know about the TV license thing over there because of The Young Ones
Alas, there are no free channels in the UK (I'm assuming that's why you said "free") but I agree that all internationals should be on an over the air channel, not cable/satellite.
The British government does have a list of sporting events that by law have to be on 'regular' tv, but there are things missing from it.
Yes, I was referring to the "free" channels covered under the license...and I do agree that in the UK England games should be on the "regular" channels. It just makes sense.
What happened with Scotland? Beaten by Japan 2-0... Only a friendly I guess.
EDIT: USA win a thriller 3-2 away in Honduras! That seals qualification to World Cup 2010!!!!
What a game! Altidore started from the bench in favor of Conor Casey, an MLS-based striker who is currently on a hot run of form. Many eyebrows raised at that move, but it now appears a brilliant one...Honduras poured forward during the first half but the defense held and we went in 0-0 at the break.
We went down early in the second half (Onyewu gave up a free kick in a very dangerous position...he's riding the bench too much at AC Milan, maybe not quite match fit?) but Conor Casey scored a brace and Landon Donovan bent in a perfect free kick to make it 3-1...late on the Hondurans pulled a goal back and then a handball in the box by Jonathan Spector granted them a penalty....which they missed! Oh, God, I think I aged 10 years on that one....but we are through! YES!
In less exciting but still ace news, Columbus Crew notched a 1-0 victory at New England Revoluton tonight, sealing first place in the East and home field advantage in the playoffs. A great night all round!
As a final note, I managed to find the USA match online, an Al Jazeera feed of all things....the commentary was in English and was surprisingly good if rather spartan.
What happened with Scotland? Beaten by Japan 2-0... Only a friendly I guess.
EDIT: USA win a thriller 3-2 away in Honduras! That seals qualification to World Cup 2010!!!!
What a game! Altidore started from the bench in favor of Conor Casey, an MLS-based striker who is currently on a hot run of form. Many eyebrows raised at that move, but it now appears a brilliant one...Honduras poured forward during the first half but the defense held and we went in 0-0 at the break.
We went down early in the second half (Onyewu gave up a free kick in a very dangerous position...he's riding the bench too much at AC Milan, maybe not quite match fit?) but Conor Casey scored a brace and Landon Donovan bent in a perfect free kick to make it 3-1...late on the Hondurans pulled a goal back and then a handball in the box by Jonathan Spector granted them a penalty....which they missed! Oh, God, I think I aged 10 years on that one....but we are through! YES!
In less exciting but still ace news, Columbus Crew notched a 1-0 victory at New England Revoluton tonight, sealing first place in the East and home field advantage in the playoffs. A great night all round!
As a final note, I managed to find the USA match online, an Al Jazeera feed of all things....the commentary was in English and was surprisingly good if rather spartan.
Speaking of "footie," here's a question: does the type of ball used affect the game itself? I know the Nike Geo Merlin Vapor (the official ball of the English Premier League and the Spanish La Liga for a number of years) and the Adidas Teamgeist are soccer balls that have a lot of flight velocity when kicked by the best professional players (I've kicked a Teamgeist and gawd, that thing really flies).
It's soccer balls like this that puts even more pressure on goalkeepers, in my humble opinion....
It's soccer balls like this that puts even more pressure on goalkeepers, in my humble opinion....
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Thanks! No first round exit for us this time, I swear...
If I recall correctly, the ball used in the Euro 2008 championship was criticized for being very lively, leading to more goals off set pieces and long distance goals.
I've never got to kick around a ball of that quality, I'm used to cheap balls that fly like lumps of lead. I'm thinking about getting my brother an Adidas Teamgeist II MLS game ball for Christmas (partially so I can kick it around too!).
Like his Lordship I've never played with the footballs you go on to mention – and even if I had, I don't possess anything like the skills to do things of high aceness with them. I struggle to kick a ball in a straight line. I'm proper rubbish, me.
But every time a new ball is introduced there are complaints from 'keepers about how the flight is harder to judge, that they move faster, and all that. Obviously, 'keepers will have a good moan about anything given the chance but anything that makes a football faster and its path more unpredictable isn't going to make their job any easier I suppose.
I like the subtle suggestion that you can kick the ball with the power of a professional. If we ever put a MacRumors XI together we'll stick you up front.
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