Footie Threads - General Football

Supporting a "small" club...

ReadingFCIsLove — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 21:12:44 GMT

Everywhere you go, you'll get the "dedicated" Man U, Chelsea, Arsenal etc "fans", but in the Student Bar last night during CSKA Moscow V Arsenal, I began talking about my beloved Reading, cue the Arsenal fans..."Yeah, I've never even heard of any of their players, and who is this Craig Doyle guy!?!" *cue fits of laughter from dedicated Arsenal fans*

I just didn't have the heart to tell them....

:no:

Nick's College Football Diary

nick_darlo — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 18:18:56 GMT

I went to my first training session at college today and managed to score a goal (off my arse, admittedly).

My fitness is shocking at the moment so hopefully in a few weeks I'll improve and get that extra yard or two of pace back.

Happy with myng performance, made some good runs but I just wasnt getting the pass. Really frustrating but, as my Dad correctly pointed out, for every 20 runs you make, you'll only get one pass and when you get that pass you've gotta score.

I'll be checking the noticeboard to see if I get a place in the squad for the away match at Priory but I don't hold out much hope because I'm not really fit yet and there were a few strikers there today.

I'm trying out for the D team by the way. :blush: It's a big college alright!!

How did you....

Freddy_Fulham — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 13:34:12 GMT

First get interested in football?

For me, I guess listening to the 1977 European Cup Final on the radio - but, truth be known, it was through my nextdoor neighbour kicking the ball about in his garden.

A month later, I seemed to know everything there was to know about the English League.

How would you take a penalty?

Freddy_Fulham — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 13:04:40 GMT

Obviously, you would strike the ball with your boot - but, What would your next move be? - Would you try and go for power? or gently try and stroke the ball home into the bottom left hand corner?

Me personally, would try and go for power into the top left hand corner - but think, the opposition goalkeeper would easily read my idea.

Rooney In The Making Of Fifa 07

Bantam_Boss — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 12:38:06 GMT

Brillient Video of Wayne knocking down a tower block :eh-smiley

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtFtDYah_BA

37 Serbian soccer fans arrested for racism

SerbianIron — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 14:19:38 GMT

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) - Police arrested 37 Serbian soccer fans because of racist behavior during a game.

Group, wearing white hoods, chanted Nazi slogans at a black player during Saturday's first division match between Borac and Vozdovac in Cacak, police said Sunday. Vozdovac won 1-0.

The match was interrupted for 10 minutes because of the chants, Nazi salutes and a banner which read that Borac's Zimbabwean player Mike Tamvanyeri "must leave because you are not welcome."

Twenty-nine Borac fans were released Sunday after spending a night in jail, while eight were kept in detention facing charges of "spreading racial hatred at a sports venue," police said.

Borac coach Radovan Curcic said he was shocked by the fans' behavior, and added that Tamvanyeri was "feeling bad because of all this."

Racist outburst at sports competitions are common in Serbia.

Head Protection for Goalkeepers?

Eddie — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 06:35:15 GMT

Has the time come for the option of head protection to be avaliable for goalkeepers?

Rugby players wear them all the time, and as goalkeepers are the nearest equivalent to egg-chasing, should they be allowed the option?

A Mockery of the Ballon D'or

Eddie — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:27:17 GMT

What a joke.

Usually, you'd associate quality with quality.

Ronaldinho, Lampard, Henry, Ballack..... Tim Cahill?

There are far too many sub-standard player on the list this time around. What the hoo-ha is going on?

Sponsorship and that

Darren — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 23:21:35 GMT

I'm not quite sure what I aim to achieve by starting this thread, but I think it's an interesting thing to mention nonetheless. I'm pretty sure it hasn't been posted before (I did a search...)

Right, a few months ago Freddie Kanoute, now at Sevilla and a practicing Muslim (oooh! not that word again!) refused to wear his team's shirt that contained their new sponsor's name. Sevilla's new sponsor was the gambling firm and annoying purveyors of pop-ups, 888.com. Kanoute had this to say:

"According to the Koran, drinking alcohol, gambling, worshipping idols and lotteries are the Devil's tools. That is why I have told the club that I must have a pure shirt. I believe they understand my position and why I have to do this. They have agreed to what I have asked and will let me wear a shirt without this logo."

So, as you may have

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However, about a month ago, apparently the gambling firm gave some money to charity in exchange for Kanoute wearing the sponsored shirt.

Regardless, I was just interested in how many teams out there are sponsored by companies that go against these principles and if there are any other players out there who have refused to wear the sponsor's name on their shirts. I just thought it could make for interesting scenarios in the future. i.e Teams not buying players because of their sponsor, a team gets interested in a player but the player won't join and the sponsors won't give in and yet there's still a few years left on the deal, Teams may run into advantages due to their sponsors etc.

Then again, I hear sponsorship by some if not all of those things are banned in some countries anyway....

....and they tailed off into nothingness.

Eddie — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 18:49:44 GMT

Who did you think would be a great player, but suddenly disappeared into obscurity and nothingness?

Francis Jeffers spirings to mind. Who can you think of?

Tell you what ticks me off

Wrecsam am byth — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 09:46:36 GMT

You football league fans will know what i mean, in the sense that you get attendances with alot more potential you should be getting a couple thousand more but they 'support' Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester United etc....

You're walking home, pretty dissapointed after a defeat and the amount of people stuck in traffic asking me out of their window how we got on in a Chelsea shirt annoyed that they're gna be late for the 5pm kick-off on Premiership + was ridiculous.

I just said to one how about you f..ucking go and find out for yourself, really shouldn't have said it but ffs you'll come when we are playing Liverpool in pre-season and if we have a promotion party but thats about it. :rolleyes:

What have you seen your club...

Super_horns — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 21:52:23 GMT

achieve since you've been a fan (or in the case of some clubs a lack of achievement!)

Since 1992 at the Vic:

2 Premiership seasons
3 Promotions (98,99 and 2006)
2 Relegations (1996,2000)
2 Cup semis ( FA - 2003,Carling - 2005)
Club almost going into administration
Many relegation battles (early on with Perryman and Roeder)
A sack full of money wasted (Vialli and co)
2 excellent managers (Graham Taylor,Adiy Boothroyd)
Shock cup wins and beating Liverpool,Chelsea in the top flight

Anyone at a loose end tonight and want to watch some live football

Bohemian Like You — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 19:38:39 GMT

TG4 are streaming their coverage of Bray Wanderers & Cork City eircom League Premier Division match on their website at the moment.

Was a 7:45pm kick-off - the two teams also met in the League a couple of weeks ago - Cork won 6-0

Half time tonight is 0-0 - not a bad game

Link you'll need: http://www.tg4.tv/ - and it'll load up in that window.

World Player of the Year Award

Zanarkand — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 08:06:03 GMT

The full shortlist is:

Adriano (Inter Milan, Brazil)
Michael Ballack (Chelsea, Germany)
Gianluigi Buffon (Juventus, Italy)
Fabio Cannavaro (Real Madrid, Italy)
Cristiano Ronaldo (Manchester United, Portugal)
Petr Cech (Chelsea, Czech Republic)
Deco (Barcelona, Portugal)
Didier Drogba (Chelsea, Ivory Coast)
Michael Essien (Chelsea, Ghana)
Samuel Eto'o (Barcelona, Cameroon)
Luis Figo (Inter Milan, Portugal)
Gennaro Gattuso (AC Milan, Italy)
Steven Gerrard (Liverpool, England)
Thierry Henry (Arsenal, France)
Kaka (AC Milan, Brazil)
Miroslav Klose (Werder Bremen, Germany)
Philippe Lahm (Bayern Munich, Germany)
Frank Lampard (Chelsea, England)
Jens Lehmann (Arsenal, Germany)
Alessandro Nesta (AC Milan, Italy)
Andrea Pirlo (AC Milan, Italy)
Franck Ribery (Marseille, France)
Juan Roman Riquelme (Villarreal, Argentina)
Ronaldinho (Barcelona, Brazil)
Wayne Rooney (Manchester United, England)
Tomas Rosicky (Arsenal, Czech Republic)
Andriy Shevchenko (Chelsea, Ukraine)
Lilian Thuram (Barcelona, France)
Patrick Vieira (Inter Milan, France)
Zinedine Zidane (retired, France)

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Whos going to win? C'mon Henry.

Shame Toure didnt make it.

Top 50 Football Goals

Italian Duke — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 14:19:28 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeXox...mode=related&s

don't know if you already seen it

as every ranking this is arguable, but these 50 goals surely deserve to be watched, re-watched and watched again..

If Maradona would have scored the goal that n49 did, i think that goal would be in top 3.

Enjoy ;)