DJ_NUFC

I like McLoven, but his name in the same sentence as 'Premiership' conjures up images of his miss at Goodison Park. Just can't shake it off. I said at the time "that miss might send us down."

Great article about Balotelli: http://soccernet.espn.go.com/columns/story?id=809478&cc=5901

I believe McLaren finished runners-up first, and then won it in the season after, which makes it all the more impressive. I've gained, and most people who follow footie should, new-found respect for that man. It takes bollocks the size of watermelons to get over his massive failure as England boss, especially after the rollicking one gets from the press. He dusted himself back up, and went abroad to a random team with potential in the Dutch league and got his career back on track.

Is the Zog really moving to the mackems? Bloody hell.

Or even if he'd won us the FA Cup.

4th is 4th. I hate him as much as anyone, but if he'd come here and got us a 4th place, we'd be brushing his crimes and misdemeanours under ze carpet as well. Hate him, nonetheless.

Okay. Good info, nonetheless.

Regardless of how slow he ran.

No question about it, De Jong would've been walking back to the tunnel if it hadn't been the WC Final.

Jeeniyus.

ProZone says no.

What a game. Spain bossed it from the start. That midfield is so delicious, the passing so sumptuous, it's difficult not to fall in love with their movement.

That's a hell of a pic for your avatar. It's the precise moment?

Style is subjective. I prefer Spain's 32 passes any day of the week than a cross, header and goal. Just like how I like boxers and not briefs. Diff'rent Strokes, Willis.

It's all aesthetics, man.

Yeah they're super aggressive this time around, and don't care about what approach they take as long as it guarantees them a win. And they've been doing that quite well. Shocked the hell outta Brazil for sure.

To see if it'd have crossed the line. When Harbhajan Singh bowls a flipper and Kevin Pietersen front foots it hoping it's sliding down the leg, he's surprised to find it hit him plumb in the middle of the pad, and then what happens? The umpire clearly see the ball's been stopped illegally, right, from hitting the stumps behind KP, and turns around and makes a little invisible rectangle. The fourth umpire sees this as a cue to check the TV replays, and using Hawk Eye confirms KP had seriously miscalculated the trajectory of the ball, and that it is, indeed, plumb, hits the switch which says OUT and a red light goes off in front of his window, sending the crowd at Eden Gardens into a frenzy. Innit.

Nah, I'm not. What's up?

mrmojorisin, it's a terrible style of play. Dirty and far too reliant on the individual talents of Rob Schneider. I miss the old Dutch teams from the 90s in comparison who at least played attractive, flowing football. Right now Germany's playing the most attractive and incisive footie, and look odds-on to win it. Come on, Espana!

Bollocks. Why don't we go back to no offsides and a host of other laws that I'm sure were called upon by a vocal advocacy group seeking change at the time and who were in turn called 'imbeciles' for having an opinion based on the fact that other sports quite comfortably deal with such situations. And why do people in this thread keep asking the same bloody questions? Mentioning it the third time now: H A W K E Y E. It's the only way to ensure this rule change would work. Otherwise it's useless and leave it as it is, as Wullie's example of Villa's goal is spot-onto highlight the holes in this rule-change. You'll need technology to confirm and assist refs. Until we have the free pass to use that technology, we're all just shooting the sh1t in the pub.

He did it to Alan Smith too.

"these foreigners..." lol.

If this thread is in any resemblance of how FIFA meetings go when they're discussing rule changes then we're all damned.

A diving header or a decent scorpion kick would've sufficed, but it was probably too fast.

And, having just reviewed that very post, I'm just as angered! If one more person Rick Rolls me, I swear on Mensah's f*king right foot...