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Football Thread 2012/13 |OT4| Welcome Sweet and Tender Hooligan

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Jeff Albertson

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Chriswok said:
Yeah, WC94 is the first Major Event I can remember staying up to watch on TV. Remember getting excited for Ireland haha. Also that opening ceremony with the penalty... pfft.

Maradona's drugged up celebration down the camera!
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I'm 28 so remember 94 but not that well but I do remember watching the final

I also remember italia 90 very vaguely, for some reason as a kid I really liked a Maradonna figure I had, I took it on holiday with us to Sardinia and they hated him out there at the time

As an aside do you remember those figures? About 5 inches tall normally on a green base (not the big head ones)

Found it
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Diego-Maradona-Sportstars-Soccer-figure-Kenner-/290680108731
 
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Salazar

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Ushojax said:
There is normally a refereeing gaffe in this fixture it has to be said
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Let's hope not.

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Mr. Luchador

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Jeff Albertson said:
I'm 28 so remember 94 but not that well but I do remember watching the final

I also remember italia 90 very vaguely, for some reason as a kid I really liked a Maradonna figure I had, I took it on holiday with us to Sardinia and they hated him out there at the time

As an aside do you remember those figures? About 5 inches tall normally on a green base (not the big head ones)
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I thought I did until you said not the big head ones, as I had a Les Ferdinand and Alan Shearer one.

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Nyx

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Tomorrownight, 20:45 CET, Dutch Cup 2nd round:

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Can't wait, will it be 5 wins in a row for Utrecht, or will Ajax finally manage to win again?
 
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Ushojax

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Gareth Bale said:
No. It might be right decision. I just think you'll get a penalty.
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It will be interesting to see who we go with in defense. It all depends on whether Naughton is fit, I suppose. If he is, Caulker might start, though I wouldn't mind Wild Bill Gallas playing.
 
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Vivalaraza

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Fully expect us to beat Spurs. As Clegg says, we do well against them so it juss seems like we should have no problems.

Going to be a tough game though. Dembele and Sandro will eat our midfield.
 
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Clegg

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I was at Old Trafford for United/Spurs last season.

I remember being really impressed by Anderson. Welbeck scored a good header too.

Spurs took an awful lot of shots from outside the box. This was at the start of the season when every pundit was of the mistaken impression that de Gea was dodgy with long shots.
 
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Mr. Luchador

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Oxx said:
Were you guys 'Shoot' readers or 'Match' readers?
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I had a Paper Round back then, and the Newsagent used to pay me with a copy of the Beano, Shoot and Match magazine, as well as 2 pack of Premier League Football Stickers. I think I've got a bin bag full of old Match and Shoot magazines and Annuals in the loft.

Might dig them out one day and have a look over them.
 
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Salazar

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Clegg said:
Welbeck scored a good header too.
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Expecting Welberg to get a run.

Ideally (though this will never happen, all season long), we set up

--------DDG
Raf--Rio--Vidic--Büttner
---Carrick---Clev
------Kagawa
Valencia----Nani/Welberg
-------RVP

I don't like Welberg wide, but Nani is a waste of a spot at the moment. And we need to start looking at midfield threes.

WAG watch.

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Mr. Luchador

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Shatner's Bassoon said:
Match!

Fuck Shoot.
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Shoot was like the lesser 'comedy' version of Match. Match still had it's funny captions, but seemed to offer more football.

I remember the '95 FA Cup Wall Chart it gave away. Man, that thing was insane. Had slots and shirts for all the teams. It was far too heavy for the wall and normal blu-tac though.
 
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Kyoufu

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fadetoblack said:
What site do you guys use to place bets? I've been pretty decent at predicting Serie A games recently wouldn't mind having a crack.
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I use Paddy Power.

Vivalaraza said:
Fully expect us to beat Spurs. As Clegg says, we do well against them so it juss seems like we should have no problems.

Going to be a tough game though. Dembele and Sandro will eat our midfield.
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Imagine Man United's midfield is food and Dembele is Pacman.
 
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Ushojax

Should probably not trust the 7-11 security cameras quite so much
The defending from Kaboul and Dawson in the game last season was embarrassingly bad. United played well but we let you have 30 shots at goal or something, and a couple of the goals we gave away were Squillaci-level. Hopefully we see an improvement, the entire back 4 from that second half (where the goals came) is going to be different. As is CM. Only 5 of the XI that played last season will be involved (Friedel, Walker, JD, Lennon, Bale).
 
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Clegg

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Modric didn't play at Old Trafford, last season.

Redknapp had given him some time off to get his head sorted out.

This was after he'd failed to force a move to Chelsea.
 
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Vivalaraza

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Clegg said:
Modric didn't play at Old Trafford, last season.

Redknapp had given him some time off to get his head sorted out.

This was after he'd failed to force a move to Chelsea.
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VDV didn't play either. Or Sandro. Don't think they had Adebayor at the time either.

It was a really crap Spurs team.
 
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Kyoufu

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Mancini out.

He's failing hard with the amount of quality he has.

Also #basedMarwood out too. Why would you buy Sinclair/Rodwell. C'mon son.
 
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Ushojax

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Vivalaraza said:
VDV didn't play either. Or Sandro. Don't think they had Adebayor at the time either.

It was a really crap Spurs team.
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Actually VDV did play, but he was rubbish. We fielded:

Friedel
Walker (Corluka 46') Dawson Kaboul BAE
Livermore (Huddlestone 74') Kranjcar (Pavlyuchenko 74')
Lennon VDV Bale
Defoe

We didn't have King, Parker, Adebayor, Sandro, Crouch, Pienaar, Gallas, or Modric available. Harry thought it would be a good idea to take both our CMs (nominally) off and put all his strikers on at 1-0 with 15 minutes to go. Naturally we conceded about 30 seconds after Pav came on.
 
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Ushojax

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Salazar said:
A man of relative probity but no competence. Could easily fuck us.
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Nothing will ever be as bad as Stoke-Spurs last season. No matter how shit we were the back-end of the season, that was 3 points that was stolen from us. One of their goals should have been ruled out, we had 3 cast-iron penalties (plus a red for Shawcross) waved away, a goal ruled out that was 5 yards onside, and Kaboul got sent off for some kid shit. As you say, Foy isn't biased, he's just useless. By far the worst now that Stuart Atwell has been banished.
 
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Kyoufu

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Ushojax said:
Nothing will ever be as bad as Stoke-Spurs last season. No matter how shit we were the back-end of the season, that was 3 points that was stolen from us. One of their goals should have been ruled out, we had 3 cast-iron penalties (plus a red for Shawcross) waved away, a goal ruled out that was 5 yards onside, and Kaboul got sent off for some kid shit. As you say, Foy isn't biased, he's just useless. By far the worst now that Stuart Atwell has been banished.
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Can't believe we drew to Wolves.
 
LabouredSubterfuge

LabouredSubterfuge

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Kyoufu said:
Terry-Wolves :lol :lol :lol




The thought of Man United winning another title. I know it's early but City are underwhelming atm.
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The thought of you squealing in misery as Lord fugson lifts yet another Premier League trophy - wild eyed, beaming grin and violently masticating on his gum - pleases me greatly.
 
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Slizz

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Damn, I might go and get FIFA 13 from GameStop today.... I haven't bought a game at a GS in years cause its so shitty, but they are offering 30% extra store credit towards any game traded in for FIFA 13.
 
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Zabojnik

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Ushojax said:
WTF happened to make Pato so fragile? He's not even made of glass these days, more like wet cardboard.
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Yurt said:
3) Barbara Berlusconi.
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The right answer. She's a real succubus. Apparently they broke up, now watch Pato become Mr. Steel.

I'm not feeling tonight's Giovinco - Quaglia attack. I would have started Vucinic, we'll need that link between the midfield and the front line more than we'll need it against Roma, where an old-school punta like Matri could do wonders against Roma's inexperienced, prone to blunders and quite frankly shitty back line.
 
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