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Foul should have been retaken.

TBF Brazil are playing great right now.

Hulk almost dribbled himself there.

Maicon and Alves... doesn't Brazil have young RBs?

How did Koeman do at Feyenoord? He was an unmitigated disaster at Valencia and AZ.

Thanks fellas, I feel much better now.

I think the 5-0 year (2010-2011) is the most beautiful football I have ever witnessed. I will be always be grateful to tell my offspring that I saw that team live; those times are probably over now, but I will always have them with me. Yeah, it must be so awful for you mate. Watching Messi every week man. We go wild when Ben Arfa receives the ball on the half way line. The idea of having Messi play for you and enjoy it beyond just as a neutral sounds like being on drugs tbh. The 2011 CL final, when Messi scored and kicked a mic during his wild celebration, is possibly my favorite football moment ever.

I think the 5-0 year (2010-2011) is the most beautiful football I have ever witnessed. I will be always be grateful to tell my offspring that I saw that team live; those times are probably over now, but I will always have them with me. 2008-2009 was a more direct team, but in 2010-2011 - with Messi as #9 - had such a flow, and intricacy of play... I would go to the Camp Nou and it was like attending a violin concerto. Calm, beautiful... the goals fell like autumn leaves, teams were disassembled with harmonious elegance... Man, I need to go rewatch some DVDs now

Definitely. I have found that Spain quite boring at times but Barca under Pep was a different animal. VDB has always been more conservative - Spain plays with two holding players (Busquets+Alonso), while Pep only used Busquets. Thus Iniesta goes to the wing and has to track back to help Xavi cover the gap between him and the strikers, and everything becomes slower. Again, this WC notwithstanding, can't argue with the results. The nature of international football means one or two goals conceded and you're out, there's no second leg to make up for a slip. So ultimately VDB chose this approach in order to win trophies.

Do you know why they are called mes que en club? It's because at the time Camp Nou was the only place Catalans could speak their own language during the Franco regime. Has f*ck all to do with the questionable actions of today, just thought I'd mention that. Well it wasn't *that* bad, we could speak Catalan, the language was just barred from official use. The thing is that a huge-ass stadium like Camp Nou was a great place to hold impromptu covert political meetings when such were forbidden, away from the gaze of Franco's police. The "more than a club" motto has always been related to how the club has implicated itself in social, political and cultural affairs in a very tempestuous century in Spanish history (two dictatorships, one civil war...). Barça's anthem is actually an "undercover" Catalan anthem (the guy that wrote the lyrics admitted so later). When singing Catalan patriotic songs would land you in jail, 100 000 souls sung it every match at the stadium.

Man, it's going to be a long year. I do despise Suárez.

He shields the board.

I'm slowly working on getting back to the US too. Hopefully by the end of the year I will start getting good news on that regard. My objective is to watch the next WC in an American bar.

Thanks man, I'm really feeling the pain lately. :'(

The only way I can see us affording it is by putting Sánchez in the deal, which would be a waste, he brings a lot of stuff to the table that a frontline of Neymar-Messi-Suárez wouldn't. We are doing a Real Madrid circa 2002, flashing the cash for big names while letting the pillars of the team slowly rot.

Class.

http://i.imgur.com/Kd49W9W.png The Altidore love...

Get a tattoo of that, Wondolowski.

FUCK. That was it.

Howard's been the 101st Airborne at the Ardennes today.

Fellaini is such an oaf.

Please, not another ET FFS.

Player for player, Yes, by a big margin Then f***ing go down the line player for player. Flex your expert muscle. Tell me why. f*** this fake knowing s*** bullshit. Can't think of many US players that would get in the Belgian team... Johnson? The one thing Belgium lack is width. Bradley is really good, but Belgium aren't lacking in that area of the pitch. Dempsey isn't certainly a patch on Hazard... Even Howard is worse than Courtois... Doesn't mean much tbf, especially when Belgium still play like a bunch of individuals. doesn't mean they won't win mind. Belgium are definitely less than the sum of its parts, but those parts are so much better than the American ones that it doesn't matter. Rooting for the yanks, mind, but it doesn't look like it will happen for them.

Men vs boys.