The Football thread

Cú Chulainn · **Posted:** Mon Jul 12, 2010 3:17 pm

rio wrote:

FrigidSymphony wrote:

Hm, I'm going to have to develop an interest in club football, I don't want to give this hobby up. Let's see, Scottish Premier League... Lads, help me out. Aberdeen seems to be shite, who should I pledge allegiance to?

Well, supporting a team just because they are good is seen as a bit of a no-no amongst British football fans. (Manchester United fans who didn't grow up in Manchester are frequently figures of ridicule). That said, I support Arsenal (very half-assedly it must be said) despite not being from London.

Figures. Alright, Aberdeen it is then. Now, off to wikipedia to memorize their stats!

ganeshaRules · **Posted:** Mon Jul 12, 2010 3:20 pm

FrigidSymphony wrote:

Hm, I'm going to have to develop an interest in club football, I don't want to give this hobby up. Let's see, Scottish Premier League... Lads, help me out. Aberdeen seems to be shite, who should I pledge allegiance to?

If you want proximity, Aberdeen. If you want a winner team, Celtic or Rangers. But if I were in scotland, sure my team would be Hearts, because their real name is awesome (Heart of Midlothian).

warfleloup · **Posted:** Mon Jul 12, 2010 3:26 pm

Motherwell! :dio:

heatseeker · **Posted:** Mon Jul 12, 2010 8:04 pm

ESPAÑA

Great game...the World Cup has been a great experience for me--it's amazing how universal football is. I've never seen so many people so dedicated and emotionally invested in one thing. I'm officially a football fan.

What are the best websites/news sources for football news?

Thomas · **Posted:** Mon Jul 12, 2010 9:13 pm

http://www.skysports.com

http://www.goal.com

http://www.tribalfootball.com

Should get you started

Goat · **Posted:** Tue Jul 13, 2010 12:07 am

www.guardian.co.uk has a great sports section. Their commentary on the blogs is infinitely more entertaining than the BBC's, and I'm told the podcasts are great too.

Holy_Terror · **Posted:** Tue Jul 13, 2010 12:54 am

If you can handle the occasional article written by some moron like Jemele Hill, then ESPN Soccernet is good. Also FIFA.com is pretty good as well, though their media is complete garbage.

North From Here · **Posted:** Tue Jul 13, 2010 12:59 am

Holy_Terror wrote:

If you can handle the occasional article written by some moron like Jemele Hill, then ESPN Soccernet is good.

Hey, we agree on something: Jemele Hill is a moron!

Holy_Terror · **Posted:** Tue Jul 13, 2010 1:30 am

Yeah she is totally retarded. I don't know why they sent her to South Africa....because she's African American??? There's got to be a better connection than that. At the risk of sounding racist....which I hope I am not but realize it's pointless to say, but she needs to stick to football and basketball as she doesnt know anything about non-American sports.

It was very clear that she didnt really spend any time watching the games because she referred to the spanish style of play as "clunky." While I agree they didnt play their best, they were far from clunky. In fact, in general, they were quite silky :wub:

heatseeker · **Posted:** Mon Jul 19, 2010 10:09 pm

When does club football season actually start? Are all the leagues on different schedules?

Thomas · **Posted:** Mon Jul 19, 2010 10:10 pm

Yeah mostly, but the English, Italian and Spanish one start pretty much at the same time. Premier League starts a couple of weeks prior to the Spanish and Italian though.

Azrael · **Posted:** Sat Jul 24, 2010 12:32 am

in Scotland, the obvious choice of club (it is kind of weird to talk about choice of club, btw) is Inverness Caledonian Thistle, for their awesome name.

well done Spain.

Psychotron · **Posted:** Wed Jul 28, 2010 3:09 pm

Celtic fan hear. We start our season tonight away to Braga in a Champions League qualifier. Got to say I'm not to confident, right now I'd probally take a 1 goal defeat and hopefully then we could get the win at Parkhead.

Azrael · **Posted:** Wed Jul 28, 2010 3:39 pm

Braga played a very good season last year (they came 2nd, ahead of 4-time champions Porto), but apparently have been poor on the pre-season. i dislike them, but obviously root for them to make the CL.

Cú Chulainn · **Posted:** Thu Jul 29, 2010 12:28 pm

I missed the match. Who won?

Azrael · **Posted:** Thu Jul 29, 2010 2:41 pm

Braga, 3-0

Psychotron · **Posted:** Thu Jul 29, 2010 2:47 pm

Can't say I'm suprised we lost the way we did. We've got so many new players it's going to take a while for them to gel and as long as we win the league it'll be a successful season.

Karmakosmonaut · **Posted:** Thu Jul 29, 2010 7:34 pm

My beloved Anderlecht won their first Champions League qualification match against The New Saints. Not a big opponent, but for a Belgian team to get anywhere near the CL is already quite an accomplishment.

Azrael · **Posted:** Sat Aug 07, 2010 1:06 pm

saw this and thought it'd be an interesting post - last year's pre-season top transfers compared to this year's:

lol @ Mario Gomez and Chygrynskiy

also, notice two Benfica players in the most recent top 10 :cool:

Psychotron · **Posted:** Sat Aug 14, 2010 9:52 pm

Was the first game of the season today and Celtic managed a 1-0 win away to Caley Thistle. It was a fairly slow start but we came into the game at the end of the first half and dominated the whole second half. And it was some goal by Paddy McCourt, the guy is probally the most talented player in Scotland.

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