The College Dropout

They've won a cup and a league title more recently than us.. plus they've finished above us for 2 seasons in a row. And they have a better squad than us. I wouldn't write Rovers off so quickly. So have Leicester and Boro.... they'll never win the Premiership again.. Once again.. what is a good job at Blackburn? They've peaked. They can't compete with the teams around them in the transfer market. Hughes knew that he couldn't take them any further than they are now. Why take a job when you really can't improve much on what the other manage achieved?

Wise choice. He couldn't possibly do much more than what Hughes has acheived already.

When Zidane was at Real he was at the centre of it all... they looked to give him the ball whenever possible. Whilst Ronaldo is a very different type of player I can see him being the main man over there.

Is the Stevie G slide the thing he does when someone breathes on him in a penalty area? lmao.. PoTD

As others have said that is wrong, but the situation almost never arises. How is it wrong? Say there is 2 strikers and the opposition goalkeeper no defenders are involved. The goalie comes out and the player slides it to the other team mate. If player B is behind player A and the pass is "backwards" then he is onside right? Yes but if B is in front of A (would have to be a s*** pass) and the ball goes backwards, B goes back and gets it, then it's offside. Hence it being a hypothetical situation that's very unlikely to happen. Okay fair enough.

As others have said that is wrong, but the situation almost never arises. How is it wrong? Say there is 2 strikers and the opposition goalkeeper no defenders are involved. The goalie comes out and the player slides it to the other team mate. If player B is behind player A and the pass is "backwards" then he is onside right?

Buts In: If the pass is not straight across or forward then it is not offside.. Atleast that's what i always thought...

Martines is from there.

He's so poor.

Fabregas has been ill. He'll probably go in for Iniesta in the latter games. He shouldn't though imo, I rate Iniesta higher. I just can't agree with that statement they are different types of player.... but Fabregas is better. And I think Adam is being overly harsh on the media... nobody would say he should start instead of Senna or Xavi really but Iniesta, yes.

The Champions League if we where in it regularly.. like 3 seasons back to back.. would put us in a position where we can consistently challenge for trophies anyway..

Fabregas has been ill. He'll probably go in for Iniesta in the latter games.

We know all that man, but equally, an attacker could shoulder charge a defender off the pitch and (assuming he's not penalised) ensure that there is no chance of being offside. If there is no foul given what would be wrong with that? Well, the goal last night, for one. The defender didn't leave the pitch under his own volition, he was pushed off the pitch and his team was penalised for it. Gianluigi was the one who pushed him.. had it been a Dutch player it would be a freekick.

We know all that man, but equally, an attacker could shoulder charge a defender off the pitch and (assuming he's not penalised) ensure that there is no chance of being offside. If he could shoulder charge him he wouldn't be offside anyway lol.

If someone is injured the ref can stop play at any time. It would be farcical for the referee not to stop play. In the Premiership didn't we introduce a rule that means players must keep playing until if someone is injured until the ref blows his whistle nh?

Truth.

Does the rule say anything about intentions? Seems like its a blanket rule. He was onside.

can't see how you can say that like. I think any of spain, holand, portugal and germany will win it. spain or germany at a push. if russia wern't almost certain to play holland in the quatre's then spain in the semi's i'd have given them a chance of making the final as well. Football is gay like that... Honestly that's the only reason I say it..

Seriously? I thought the France/Romania and Switzerland/Czech games, in-particular, had referees that were petty as f***. Only really referring to this match and the Italy/Holland to be honest.. I didn't watch the whole of those 2 other games, some major paint drying action in the other room.

Neither Holland/Spain or Portugal will win it.

I've liked the refereeing so far in this tournament.. not too picky at all

Finally a consolation goal.

In Spain he was better. Villa has only come to my attention in the last 3/4 years so he started to really develop around the age Torres is currently. Torres has been supreme this season I though.. took me by surprise.

He speaks a lot of sense but his English is poor and his phrases are hilarious. For sure.

Holland have probably had better players than both teams and have never won the world cup. Not necessarily as a team however, I think the dutch have had some outstading individuals but they've also had some fillers in there too. while as England and Spain have had much more depth too their squads, which is unstandable considering the population of each nation. The Dutch have also won the Euros before and twice been in World cup finals. Spain, have won nowt, while England have won one world cup on home soil, with just 2 semi final appereances in major tournements. For two nations with such a footbal culture, those records are quite frankly pathetic. I'd say the last world cup is the only time in recent years we've had a team that could really compete. Euro 96 apart I don't think we have had the overall team/squad to compete.. I mean Heskey ffs. Defensively we've been solid for some years but have lacked creatively in midfield. Can't deny the class of Spain though. All 3 teams have had considerably better first teams than than the back-to-back Final/Semi finals of those jammy German bastards. lol @ Adam not placing a bet.