euroboy posted:

arsenals done it for years mate

it doesnt work

Chuggo posted:

BleacherReport posted:

The 25 Dirtiest Players in Sports:

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21. Christian Poulsen


Danish soccer player Christian Poulsen has a reputation for being an exceptionally physical player who crosses the line on occasion.

One such occasion came in 2008, in a World Cup qualifying game against Sweden. Poulsen punched Swedish striker Markus Roseberg in the stomach, earning a red card and inciting a melee that forced the referee to end the game.

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Nikolai Fuckharin posted:

I think we should switch back to the classic 2-3-5 system but then I am a traditionalist

Popehoist posted:

last season former notts county manager Paul Ince literally switched us to a 2-4-4 system whenever we were losing at 70 minutes (we lost 11 games in a row, a streak that only ended when we sacked the stinkyhole)

Tsaedje posted:

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What if world soccer stars had grown up playing American football?

It's an interesting thought.

Say David Beckham grew up in Southern California instead of England. With that face, don't you think he would have been the quarterback of his local high school football team?

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Bonus thought:
Let's get this out of the way early. Leo Messi, and every other player on this list, could also be a kicker. If you play soccer, you can kick a field goal.

It's kind of like how all guitarists can also play bass. It's the same thing, only with fewer intricacies.

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Name: Tim Howard
Height: 6'3"
Weight: 210
Suggested NFL Position: Defensive back/emergency quarterback
Role Model: Charles Woodson
Why: He's American. He's 6'3", 210 and he's a goalkeeper.
The first part means he already knows the game.
The second part means he's got the size to play.
The third part means he knows how to read an offense.

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Name: Ronaldo
Height: 6'0"
Weight: At least 250
Suggested NFL Position: Lineman
Role Model: Leon Lett
Why: A quarterback can't do his thing without the hosses manning the offensive line.

Ronaldo, the original one, qualifies.

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Why: For whatever reason, there aren't many white running backs in the NFL. Bale would have to gain weight, but he definitely has the speed and power.

sticksy posted:

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[What has Ken Bates turned around?] Oh, you know, the usual obvious stuff. Turning a bankrupt club into a solvent one. Turning a club hurtling downwards towards extinction into a club that’s climbing steadily back towards where it belongs, and doing it the right way, the football way, the Yorkshire way, not by just splashing some rich playboy’s undeserved millions around.

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Yet the current team is not everyone’s cup of tea.

Its squad draws on players from more than a dozen countries, in keeping with the polyglot makeup of virtually all the clubs in the Premiership, but at odds with the dream of Newcastle’s rearing its team of locally produced “Geordie lads.”

Jose posted:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/09/s...ed&st=cse&scp=1

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The latest coach, another Southerner, Alan Pardew, speaks with the wrong accent for Durham people.

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The crowd is cheering because the team’s position is higher than many expected, and higher than most have experienced in their lives. More than that, they are witnessing players from Argentina, from Africa, from European lands they scarcely knew existed, playing in their famed black and white stripes.

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Newcastle is a special club. It is the only team in the northernmost city of England, fiercely proud of its regional isolation, its separateness from the rest of the nation.

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In his native England, he was chief sports writer for The Times of London for a decade and a writer for The Sunday Times and Sunday Times Magazine for more than 25 years. In television, Mr. Hughes reported and produced live sports, documentaries and light entertainment.

Jose posted:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/09/s...ed&st=cse&scp=1

"The Abu Dhabi owners of City are throwing such financial might at winning the league — and the Champions League — that it seems as if ogres are shaking a mighty tree, sure that in time all its fruit will fall into the owners’ hands."

ephex posted:

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I have somehow managed to get on the Barca training ground and standing in the shadow i closely follow my prey. All of the players are laughing and having a great tiki-taka-time, especially Iniesta with his likable baby face. He seems so innocent, being completely unaware that in a couple of minutes time, he'll suffer the pounding of his life.
I wait for the other players to leave. Being the nice guy that he is, Iniesta has promised to gather all the footballs used during training before hitting the showers. He stands there in the middle of the pitch with his back turned to me as i approach him.
"Sup, bra?!" I hiss. Poor Andrés is taken completely by surprise and as he turns around i pop him one right in the kisser. Smack! Andrés quickly moves his hand to his mouth reaching for the bruise while tears gather in he's eyes. "por qué?" he stutters on the verge of breaking into tears, now completely looking like a 12-year old boy in his scared and confused state. "This is for Chelsea" i scream, as i charge. And while i don't even like the London team after Abramovich took over, i just want him to feel like he in some way has helped all of this along. I want to make him feel like this is somehow actually his own fault.
I easily manage to get Andrés on the ground and start to pound him like a chimpanzee medically induced with rage, no technique at all just pure violent enthusiasm. He doesn't even try to resist the onslaught though after a short while, he seems to come to his senses. "Pique, pique" he whimpers desperately. "Pique can't hear you now, bra!" I cry out manically. "Its just you and me". He cries as i put my last energy into the pounding.
I stop just as suddenly as I started it all. Within few seconds I'm of the pitch running into the dark. I hear Andrés sobbing behind me, and while a part of me starts to feel guilty for what i just did, i start to think back on two games; november 2010 and may 2009. As these memories return, I suddenly stop in my tracks, turn around and run as fast as i can back towards Andrés and onto the pitch howling and screaming like the wild beast of the night, that I've turned into. "WHAT IS UP BRA?!"
The pounding has just begun.

appledan posted:

appledan posted:

Katana Gomai posted:

Seriously thouht this was going to turn into a surprise sex fantasy at some point.

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"This is for Chelsea" i scream, as i charge. And while i don't even like the London team after Abramovich took over, i just want him to feel like he in some way has helped all of this along. I want to make him feel like this is somehow actually his own fault.

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"Its just you and me". He cries as i put my last energy into the pounding.

appledan posted:

As these memories return, I suddenly stop in my tracks, turn around and run as fast as i can back towards Andrés and onto the pitch howling and screaming like the wild beast of the night, that I've turned into. "WHAT IS UP BRA?!"
The pounding has just begun.

Katana Gomai posted:

Seriously thouht this was going to turn into a surprise sex fantasy at some point. And I think I would have deemed that more sane than the actual post.

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Oh what a massive coincidence that 2 weeks ago no Man United player will back up Nani's claims of racism towards Suarez, but now someone comes forward, therefore the FA are taking it formal. Nani your a bell end, or is that a racist comment as well. Is it Rio backing him up by any chance, just like he is leading the argument for his brothers claim against Terry!!!!! Muppet