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Football Thread 2011/12 |OT8| Made it to the Championship play-offs

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GorillaJu

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Elsk knows what's up regarding tortillas. The sad state of affairs is that Mexican or Honduran food and especially tortillas anywhere further north than the Mexican-American border is largely an abomination. A delicious abomination in places like San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco, where you can get Mexican food embellished with excessive vegetables and ingredients, but very very different from what you find in Mexico none the less. I'm personally a big fan of the food you find in The Mission in San Francisco. Their tacos are mind blowing - not authentic, but orgasmically delicious.

For someone who grew up in San Diego and as been down south of the border countless times, you'll never be satisfied with what you get anywhere else. It's just not anywhere near as good.
 

panty

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Today is the day! I'm nervouussssss.

So a 17 year old who had done really well for the reserve team at Helsinki (33 goals in 23 matches) got to play for the first team this weekend, in the first match in the Finish league. The result? A hattrick in 2 min and 42 seconds.
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http://youtu.be/9pIfmj9TNdU

He also turned down a contract from Liverpool. Wise kid.

Eh, we'll see. Lauri Dalla Valle was hyped to be the next Litmanen when he was 17. And he's nothing now.

Dalla Valle went straight to the big leagues and it was too much for him. Pohjanpalo seems to have more brains and he's collecting more experience before going abroad.
 

Wilbur

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Ander Herrera has a lot of potential dc, talented ball player. Still young, I don't think City would be the best move for him, he should stay at Bilbao.

Will go for Bayern tonight but Madrid to win over two legs.
 
On the obne hand I don;t want Madrid to win the Champions League, and prefer Bayern. On the other hand, I'd jizz myself silly if Barcelona were to beat Madrid in the greatest stage in club football
 

Blablurn

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Its funny, during yesterdays press conference mou complained that many bayern executives said that we will win this round no matter what. Bullshit, no one ever mentioned this. It was the opposite: everyone agreed that madrid is the favourite. And i agree. But madrid is always the favourite. Doesnt mean we cannot go into the final.
 

dc89

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Its funny, during yesterdays press conference mou complained that many bayern executives said that we will win this round no matter what. Bullshit, no one ever mentioned this. It was the opposite: everyone agreed that madrid is the favourite. And i agree. But madrid is always the favourite. Doesnt mean we cannot go into the final.

Bayerns executives are quite outspoken though and that Rummage fellow bloody hates City with a passion.
 
Eh, we'll see. Lauri Dalla Valle was hyped to be the next Litmanen when he was 17. And he's nothing now.

Well I wasn't saying he was going to be the next big thing or anything. But that was a really impressive 3 minutes for him. But yeah, Valle was so awesome in FM haha


Video skipped a bit for me but it looked like it said 2-1 at one point. Did the teams really score 4 times in 3 minutes? Do they keep time differently there? :O

No "just" 3
http://www.flashscore.com/match/rgGv375A/#match-summary
 

Wilbur

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It's like that thing where women deliberately mistake the names of pretty actresses they hate.

Yeah I was talking about it to Kremmy the Do.

Anyway, Premier League 20th Anniversary short list: http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2012/apr/17/20-years-premier-league-awards

The Premier League's 20-year awards shortlist
Best player Dennis Bergkamp, Eric Cantona, Ryan Giggs, Thierry Henry, Roy Keane, Cristiano Ronaldo, Paul Scholes, Alan Shearer, Patrick Vieira, Gianfranco Zola

Best manager Sir Alex Ferguson, Jose Mourinho, David Moyes, Harry Redknapp, Arsène Wenger

Best team Blackburn Rovers 1994-95, Manchester United 1998-99, Arsenal 2003-04, Chelsea 2004-05, Manchester United 2007-08

Best goalkeeper Petr Cech, Brad Friedel, Shay Given, Joe Hart, David James, Pepe Reina, Peter Schmeichel, Mark Schwarzer, David Seaman, Edwin van der Sar

Best right-back Warren Barton, Stephen Carr, Lee Dixon, Glen Johnson, Rob Jones, Gary Kelly, Gary Neville, Dan Petrescu, Micah Richards, Bacary Sagna

Best left-back John Arne Riise, Leighton Baines, Gaël Clichy, Ashley Cole, Patrice Evra, Ian Harte, Denis Irwin, Graeme Le Saux, Stuart Pearce, Nigel Winterburn

Best central defender Tony Adams, Steve Bruce, Sol Campbell, Jamie Carragher, Marcel Desailly, Rio Ferdinand, Paul McGrath, Jaap Stam, John Terry, Nemanja Vidic

Best right midfielder Darren Anderton, David Beckham, Joe Cole, Andrei Kanchelskis, Aaron Lennon, Freddie Ljungberg, Steve McManaman, Cristiano Ronaldo, Steve Stone, Ashley Young

Best left midfielder Gareth Bale, John Barnes, Damien Duff, Ryan Giggs, David Ginola, Harry Kewell, Marc Overmars, Robert Pires, Arjen Robben, David Silva

Best central midfielder Cesc Fábregas, Steven Gerrard, Paul Ince, Roy Keane, Frank Lampard, Matt Le Tissier, Claude Makelélé, Emmanuel Petit, Paul Scholes, Patrick Vieira

Best forward Dennis Bergkamp, Eric Cantona, Andrew Cole, Robbie Fowler, Thierry Henry, Wayne Rooney, Alan Shearer, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Ian Wright, Gianfranco Zola

And writer Kevin McCarra's team of the Premier League era

Schmeichel; G Neville, Adams, Desailly, A Cole; Ronaldo, Keane, Scholes, Giggs; Shearer, Henry.

Apart from arguably Desailly, I find it hard to disagree.

Player probably Giggs or Henry
Manager? No Dalglish for Blackburn but Redknapp? Hmm.
Gareth Bale, Ashley Young, Micah Richards and Joe Hart nominated? Oh god
 

Salazar

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lol, Fergie high as shit, wants to buy Gaitán and stuff.

Considering the report alleged that we had offered Fabio as a makeweight and paid as much as 20 million, we're tending towards skepticism.

I dunno why the fuck Benfica would want Macheda anyway. QPR don't even want him.
 

Wilbur

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It's why Wenger and Fergie are best buds now, they go on thrifty but ultimately fruitless shopping sprees round charity shops
 

Wilbur

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Game has to be the 4-3 for me; the shift from utter and complete despair when Rio inexplicably tried to chip Bellamy to hands free ejaculation was the best fucking thing

And yes, Mourinho should be there. After Fergie and Wenger he's definitely there.
 

Arnie

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I dunno why the fuck Benfica would want Macheda anyway. QPR don't even want him.
You have to weight the team against the league they play in; and because QPR play in the premier league, the best league in all of time and space, QPR is probably still a rung above Benfica.

Despite his troubles with Sparky's army, he could also play for Valencia, Roma, Porto, Celtic, Lille(alongside Jốe Cṓle.) and Atheltic Bilbao(were he of Basque origin).

In other news I've tracked my package from Amazon and it was in a Bamber Bridge Van at 7:47. It should be here by now. I can run from Bamber Bridge to my house in an hour. Hurry up.
 

Wilbur

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Ref should add on minutes for the way time fucking slows down when Young gets the ball.

That's it! Ashley Young obviously exists in a different dimension of time. When he goes down it isn't a dive, he's just hitting the defender's leg in an entirely different dimension
 
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