Miercoles

You don't win a world cup with Julio Cesar

Counterculture, bro

Sad to hear. I remember being blown away by the Japanese women's team at the last women's WC. They played an incredibly technical style.

Wouldn't it be nice to be in that fucking group

including 5-0 against Seattle. whoa

I still remember that goal against Everton all the time. Really a special player.

Like somebody said earlier, if your instinct is to cheat then you're a cheat. The guy spends most of his time trying to con the referee, he's never off the floor, never stops bitching and moaning. He's a cheat, don't see why the instinct argument makes it any better - in fact it makes it worse. I'm only talking about the Ghana game not any other incidents. The reality is if Gyan hadn't bottled the penalty there would be nothing said about it What difference does that make? He did miss the penalty and Suarez celebrated like he'd scored a 40-yarder. The incident and what happened afterwards really weren't in the spirit of the game whatsoever. He celebrated like that because his country had just qualified for a world cup semi final. Qualifying for a world cup semi final is a lot better than scoring a 40 yarder in some meaningless game What I mean is that he celebrated as if he was directly responsible, which he was, but not in a positive way. It was pretty disgusting to watch as a neutral, God knows what Ghana fans must have thought. Fuck Ghana.

It's so sad to see all these good young players either pushed out or wanting out. We really had a chance for something special over the next few years if these guys had gotten a chance to play together (in their actual positions) and gel.

I would love to smack him in the face with a heavy duty garden spade. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_ikb_Rx-08 Bit like this then ey?

What's happened to Townsend, he was billed as the second coming of Christ not long back by the media. Been hampered by injuries? Although 25 games, 0 goals and 1 assist doesn't help his cause. He's still a kid. If the media leave him the f*** alone instead of heaping pressure on him and he continues to concentrate on his football then he'll still be a very good player. So if the media leaves him the f*** alone he'll be able to concentrate on his football? Shouldn't he be able to do that anyways if he has any sort of talent? Those were two separate conditions joined by an "and." I'll let you off, English being your 8th language or something. Fair enough, still, if he can't handle ''pressure'' from media he shouldn't be a footballer. That's a very broad statement to make. There's a significant difference between the pressure coaches and fans will put on him to perform at his best and the crap the media pull. He's still only 22 and may or may not have the maturity to deal with it. Some do, some don't but at his age it's never helpful. Setting unrealistic expectations and tearing him apart when he inevitably fails to meet them is never going to work out well. If some 22 year olds can deal with that then good on them. But it certainly won't have helped them. Realistic goals, targets, areas for improvement with some constructive criticism, fine. But that's not what the media supplies. Again fair enough if that's your opinion, I just don't think a 22 year old footballer should be feeling pressure from media. But then again, there are some fragile minds out there. The English media can be especially brutal though... I think I lot of their absolutely dire international tournament experiences can be traced, at least in part, to the complete media nightmare that follows them everywhere. Especially all those penalty issues... It kind of reminds me of the new york yankees, where a lot of players who are very decent players just can't handle the fishbowl scenario of playing for the yankees and they collapse.

Nothing but love for Cabaye, I really miss having an honest-to-god legitimate hope of scoring when we got a free kick. Now it's just a question of which player will hoof it into the stands. So he protested against the regime and fucked off to a different club, I can't blame him. We have a whole forum dedicated to the first, and any footballer with some self respect would attempt the second.

Had on. These c***s get bonus' because they were too s*** for is to sell? Yip - loyalty and that I wish I could be rewarded for being so s*** it my job no other company was willing to part with cash for me to work for them... You do, it's called severance pay. At the end of my current contract I'd be lucky to get a pat on the back if I was s*** at my job . Lucky I'm the sales equivalent of Lionel Messi really. The point being, it's not uncommon for people to be rewarded for not moving jobs. Loyalty bonuses for footballers have mostly replaced signing on fees anyway. It's not meant as a reward for playing well. Nah I get the point. It just stinks. I mean, yeah, I'm not a fan either Ashley will probably take it out of our transfer budget too Our what?

Always rated Park, quality player who could play well in a ton of positions

exactly

I hope for the sake of some of the guys on here that Altidore gets a hattrick in the World Cup. Think that group could be more interesting than many are expecting it to be. Oh absolutely, I agree. But none of the USA players will have come up against a player like Ronaldo. Reckon, otherwise, USA will give it a good bash. Could get something against Ghana, for example. Argh I can't wait. If we beat Ghana I'll be happy whatever else happens* - those dicks have knocked us out of the last to world cups running. *as long as Ghana doesn't advance

Fuck that would be great

Technically that was Allah

We need a thread for our minileague... we're only like 8 points of the lead now

Alright. Germany better hope Özil is back and in form because Khedira, Gundogan and Özil would be a huge blow. Loving the sound of this... If germany and portugal tie while the USA beats ghana (lol) we can be right in the mix for getting eliminated in the first knockout round

I busted so many nuts to Shakira back in the day...

Not to mention the cunting Newcastle dressing room.

Just hoping Altidore's shittiness at sunderland keeps him out of the world cup squad. He has always been a f***ing lazy worthless player.

:lol: :lol: Stunning

Brutal loss. 3-0 at least.