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Fuck. Has to score.

Hahahaha holy shit, what a goal

I don't think attendances would suffer because there are plenty of other sports on which have good attendances in the summer, like Fergie said. I think the quality of football will be better because the pitches will be better. I think the atmosphere itself will be better, because from my experience, sunshine = lots of beer drinking in England, and that usually translates into a good atmosphere. I also think that you could actually increase the attendances of mid-week games because kids are all on holiday, so it's a good chance to get kids into football from an early age. I know we as a club haven't had the problem of low attendances, but we're the exception rather than the rule, and thus many clubs would benefit if they could attract more people. With regards to the temperature, you could play matches later on in the afternoon, say start at 5-ish, when the temperature drops to a nice and breezy 25 degrees. If you only consider the Premiership, I think it'd be very good. With the other European countries, they already have a mid-season break, so you could just schedule that break for the hottest few weeks of the summer, thus avoiding the 35 degree days. With some clever scheduling, I don't see how things wouldn't improve by football being played in the summer. From fans' perspective, it also allows you to take holidays during the end of the year/early new year and not miss any football, and I reckon that's probably the best time for you to take a holiday because of how cold it normally is at that time.

I agree with Fergie. Football in the summer would be brilliant. The pitches are much better than the cold, hard and uneven ones that you get in the harshest winter months, which is not conducive to football. Imagine football being played on smooth, almost carpet-like pitches in the sunny months of June and July. I think that'd be pretty nice.

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/alex-ferguson-favours-switch-to-summer-season-2190887.html

There is no way Capdevilla is better than Enrique. Assou-Ekotto has improved massively, but I rate him just slightly below Jose in the pecking order. Jose's clearly a top 10 LB now, and if he improves his short passing, he'll easily be the best because I don't think there's a better LB when it comes to actually defending.

I don't see the problem with asking for players to be booked. It's the same asking for fouls, penalties, free-kicks etc. You're asking for what you think is right and deserved. There's nothing wrong with that.

Colo - eleventy billion

It's probably the best performance by a CB in a b&w shirt that I've seen since Woodgate was strutting his stuff here. He's easily top 6 quality now, imo. Same with Jose. Both of them would start at Spurs, Liverpool and probably Arsenal.

How did Crouch miss that?

FT. Fuck. Disappointed as fuck. Fuck. We had that.

Fuck off.

Oh my god, Coloccini. Oh my god

This commentator speaketh the truth.

The commentator totally has Jose's balls in his mouth

What a fucking ball by Jose. Honestly, we're on the way up. We're on the fucking way up.

Colo has been class. He's been fucking amazing. He's bossed the entire match, sweeping up all their attacks. Considering the pressure that we've been put under by not having a center midfielder that can shield our defense, this has been a majestic performance by Colo; one of his best so far in an increasingly impressive time with us.

N~OLAN!!!!!!!!!

That was shite. This has been an awesome game, however.

Fuck, so close. That was a great strike by Coloccini.

I can't believe he missed that.

Yeah, my bad. They probably should have pointed out that they won the Copa America for the first time ever a few years later, though. Like I said, the directors over-dramatised the story, which was unneccessary.

Just saw it. It's amazing but I didn't like how they took quite a few liberties with the facts, like saying 'and Colombia hasn't been to a WC since'.. they made it back four years later. And also how some of the players, like Asprilla and Valderrama, saying they left the game because they valued security over football. When I was watching it, I thought 'damn, they really retired from the national team after Escobar died? Shit.', then I go on wikipedia and find out that Asprilla played on for another 4-5 years and Valderrama played so long that when he retired he became the most capped player in Colombian history But the bit that really made me cringe was them intimating that Higuita was in jail for the WC so some unknown 'keeper took his place... then they showed Oscar Cordoba, who I have faint memories of being an excellent 'keeper. So off to wiki I go and then encounter this stunning sentence: 'In the qualifiers for the FIFA 1994 World Cup he started in every game and conceded only two goals making him the best goalkeeper in the playoffs and received the fewest goals.' So what the filmmakers intimated was actually and completely wrong, and that Cordoba was the #1 keeper for the team, had been for a while and would be for a long, long time after. It was an excellent documentary otherwise, but the filmmakers have left out a few details that make the sequence of events seem more dramatic than they were, which they really shouldn't have because who Escobar was and how he died was already tragic.

The "problem" with Spain (and I quote it because we won the thing afterall) was that Del Bosque was rather conservative. We played with two DMs - Alonso and Busquets - which forced Xavi to go to the hole where he isn't nearly as effective since he needs to have more players in front of him to play balls to, or switch flanks, etc... Contrary to common belief and assist statistics, Xavi isn't about the last pass to a forward but governing the team play. I think you agreed with me but I'm not sure. Personally, I thought Villa was Spain's best player. And if Fabregas had started every match in place of Alonso (and thus allowing Xavi to drop back), he would have been Spain's best player. But that's just a silly hypothetical, I know.

And was it just me or did Xavi not excel for Spain - playing in the hole - as much as he usually does when playing deeper for Barca? I don't know, that was just the impression that I got. I thought that Spain looked at their most dangerous offensively whenever Fabregas came on and Xavi dropped deeper.