SOCCER - AUTUMN 2017

[Death From Above]

Tottenham?

 

Tottenham!

[odessasteps]

I like how on Twitter, when it was 3-1 at 80 minutes when CR7 scored,  people were wondering if they could Spurs it up.

[sabremike]

12 hours ago, Roman said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXFWmpB-cPQ

That's cute when it works, but they don't award you 2 goals for style. Blast it in the back of the fucking net and take the goal. 

[Roman]

Barbarian.

[Death From Above]

20 hours ago, odessasteps said:

I like how on Twitter, when it was 3-1 at 80 minutes when CR7 scored,  people were wondering if they could Spurs it up.

Looking forward to your annual post in the next couple hours about how lucky Everton is to be done with European competition for another year.

[Dewar]

"We did not want to win the Europa League, because making the Champions League that way is not our focus. We are focused on not finishing below West Bromwich Albion".

[odessasteps]

If only there was something to derail this conversation...

 

[Dolfan in NYC]

No seriously, we do not deserve Rusev... Here he is singing Hala Madrid IN BARCELONA!

 

[Roman]

And then he gets shanked on the way to the back and people will say, 'He was just being a heel!'

[sabremike]

1 hour ago, Roman said:

And then he gets shanked on the way to the back and people will say, 'He was just being a heel!'

Knifes don't shank Rusev, he shanks them.

[Jiji]

I maybe oversimplifying things but isn't it weird that a Bulgarian his age would support Madrid over Barca when Stoichkov was such a key figure for Barcelona during Ru Ru's formative years?

[Cristobal]

Some people are just natural heels

[Jiji]

I was thinking that exact same thing as I was typing that. 

[Roman]

Pirlo retires. A real pity, that. He was a veritable artist.

[Pete]

May sound like sour grapes, but I'm thinking MLS might be better off if they ditch the away goals format and tried the old NASL playoff structure with a 30-minute "mini game" if each team wins/draws the first two games.

[odessasteps]

It seems like every year, writers come up with a revamped playoff format, because people aren't happy with the current version

[Death From Above]

In fairness the away goals rule is absolute, complete nonsense and a terrible idea.

[sabremike]

Fun fact: 3 of the US starting IX tonight are Red Bulls academy products  (Aguedelo, Miazga, Adams). Also the sad thing is that after watching this if this was the squad that showed up in Trinidad we would be going to Russia. What an indictment of the first team that is.

[MarcosLoura]

Good lord this game was trash.

[Pete]

Sunday, November 12: San Francisco Deltas defeat the New York Cosmos to win the NASL title in their inaugural season.

Wednesday, November 15: San Francisco Deltas fold.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[DangerMark]

On 14/11/2017 at 10:32 PM, sabremike said:

Fun fact: 3 of the US starting IX tonight are Red Bulls academy products  (Aguedelo, Miazga, Adams). Also the sad thing is that after watching this if this was the squad that showed up in Trinidad we would be going to Russia. What an indictment of the first team that is.

Well, if the firsts are only sending out 9 players, that might be your problem right there.

[odessasteps]

 

Coleman in at Sunderland.

[odessasteps]

Pulis out.

[odessasteps]

New episode of the pod - Rock Me Salieri - @kenearlys from @SecondCaptains talks Ireland WC fallout, O'Neill/Keane vs Everton, Pep vs Jose & mixing sports and politics.

 

http://tinyurl.com/winter71 

[The Natural]

Sky Sports presenter Simon Thomas' wife, Gemma has died just three days after acute myloid leukaemia diagnosis. Gemma was 40 and they have a son, Ethan, 8.

Fucking tragic. Thoughts with them at this trying time.