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Post by Francine on Jun 4, 2007 14:40:39 GMT -5
No worries, it's better for my personal growth to express my feelings through words instead of funny little pictures anyway - smiles.
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Post by cert. murse aphex on Jun 7, 2007 14:22:42 GMT -5
Francine, did you see the super weirdo goal Marcus Allbäck scored against Iceland?
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Post by TennisHack on Jun 11, 2007 1:01:51 GMT -5
8 June 2007 (Friday)
o UEFA holds a hearing on the fan attack incident that occurred during the Euro 2008 qualifying match between Denmark and Sweden on June 2. They officially disqualify Denmark and award the match to Sweden, 3-0. In addition, Denmark was fined CHF100,000 (€61,000), and will be forced to play its next four home Euro 2008 qualifier matches at least 250 km away from Copenhagen. Its next home qualifier, against Liechtenstein, will be held behind closed doors. Christian Poulsen, who threw the punch against a Swedish player that led to his expulsion and the fan attack, will be suspended for three games.
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Post by Francine on Jun 11, 2007 3:11:09 GMT -5
Francine, did you see the super weirdo goal Marcus Allbäck scored against Iceland? I looked it up on youtube, lol. Well they deserved a penalty anyways. |
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Post by Emma on Jun 13, 2007 2:58:48 GMT -5
And they said they should keep Northern Ireland's top scorer, Healy, in tight reins. After all Mellberg, one of our central defenders, plays for Aston Villa in the Premiership and Healy is only a sub for Leeds, who's at the bottom end of the English second division. Guess who scored both of Northern Ireland's goals?  Olof Mellberg ;D He's funny when he doesnt cut his hair or have a shave ;D I like Agger though |
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Post by TennisHack on Jun 19, 2007 21:18:13 GMT -5
I thought you guys might get a kick out of this:
Mighty words
Galaxy president Lalas says English soccer is inferior
Posted: Tuesday June 19, 2007 10:30AM; Updated: Tuesday June 19, 2007 12:08PM
LONDON (AP) -- Alexi Lalas helped humiliate English soccer 14 years ago. It looks like he's trying to do it again.
The Los Angeles Galaxy president, who scored when the United States beat England 2-0 in a friendly match in 1993, told British newspapers that Major League Soccer is on a par with the Premier League.
Irked by suggestions that David Beckham is going into semiretirement by joining the Galaxy, Lalas said the only reason the English league is popular is because of American-style marketing.
"The fact that a segment of the world worships an inferior product in the Premiership is their business," Lalas said in an interview with The Guardian published Tuesday.
"In England, our league is considered second class, but I honestly believe if you took a helicopter and grabbed a bunch of MLS players and took them to the perceived best league in the world they wouldn't miss a beat and the fans wouldn't notice any drop in quality."
Brian McBride and Clint Dempsey are among the American players in the Premier League, although they play for modest Fulham. None of the American players in England are stars of the caliber of those at teams such as Manchester United and Chelsea.
McBride -- the third highest scorer in U.S. national team history with 30 goals -- scored nine times last season for Fulham, which finished 16th in the Premier League. His tally was 12 short of Didier Drogba's league-high 21 for Chelsea, and the same as Wigan's Emile Heskey and Aston Villa's Gabriel Agbonlahor.
Despite criticizing the Premier League for sloganeering and over-marketing, Lalas claimed that, when he arrives, Beckham will have a higher profile in the United States than Tiger Woods or Michael Jordan.
"The U.S. will never have dealt with an athlete who has had this kind of international impact," Lalas told The Mirror. "Tiger Woods has that international appeal but, with due respect to Woods and Michael Jordan, David Beckham is at an entirely different level."
Lalas, a 37-year-old former United States defender, said his country's record at the past four World Cups compared favorably with that of England -- England has two underwhelming quarterfinal appearances to one for the U.S. -- and suggested almost all those who criticize the MLS have yet to see the league.
However, several British papers were unimpressed by the Galaxy's 3-2 win over Real Salt Lake on Sunday.
"The game was not without moments of quality ... (but) some of the defending from both sides was the type of stuff you watch through your fingers," according to The Mirror. "It was the football equivalent of a demolition derby.
"The use of possession was alarmingly careless and the concept of marking appeared not to have found its way across the Atlantic."
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Post by cert. murse aphex on Jun 20, 2007 1:24:49 GMT -5
David Beckham- from being a galactico to LA Galaxy.  And  at those quotes. The three best leagues in the world are the English, Italian and Spanish ones. I don't think there is any debate over that. Only over the order. |
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Post by Francine on Jun 20, 2007 4:30:26 GMT -5
Americans can't play soccer. And it should stay that way because they already win enough other stuff  |
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Post by TennisHack on Jun 21, 2007 1:17:29 GMT -5
I was looking up Werthless's latest column and that caught my eye at the bottom. I definitely had a good laugh at it! I looked at the other sports websites I visit and they seemed to misinterpret it (they were discussing whether or not EPL is inferior to other leagues, not whether it was inferior to MLS), but I knew you guys shared my sense of humor  |
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Post by Emma on Jun 25, 2007 15:41:05 GMT -5
Alexi Lalas how dare he ;D
errr.......Brian McBride....boooo....ex Everton ;D
He's ok I guess.
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