Sports The Football Discussion Thread! Page 35

Started by Nihilego March 27th, 2013 6:28 AM
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Beyond Infinity

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Wow Arsenal have a 7 point lead over everyone else.
Then there's a 3 point gap between 2nd and 8th positions.
Liverpool, Chelsea etc. have a game in hand though.

Just started watching Spurs vs United. Hoping for an away win.

Dreg

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Really pleased with Blackpool as of late. And, considering Burnley and QPR lost, at least it's giving Blackpool a chance to catch up. 80/1 Blackpool to finish in the top 3, I hope they do it. :)

As for the Tottenham v Man United game, I'm hoping for a home win. Man United was the team that relegated Blackpool in the first place.

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As long as there's 3 points I wont mind it's just 1-0

No Liverpool match on TV - Star Sports are getting worse by the day.
They have 4 SD sports channels, but they'll only show one live match at a time (they've done this all season) and instead show some stupid cricket repeat telecast.
They want to force people to buy the HD channel or online subscription.

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He was only fulfilling your prophecy it seems -Lapras-. :P

Bad day for Boro too unfortunately, promising striker sent off on what will be one of few chances he gets and we lose to a 90th minute goal.

How much longer does Moyes have? Not sure whether it really is his fault or the squad is just atrocious.

Beyond Infinity

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As much as I hate Suarez, he is an amazing player. Kills me to say that.
Great player, awful human.

It's a shame when that mix happens as you can only truly enjoy their football if you support their team.
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Think that Manchester United should give him until this time next year to be honest with you. Fully back him in the next two transfer windows, let him get his squad together and see what happens.

'We need to lose better at bigger and better clubs'. I think it is safe to say I am finally off the proverbial fence with Hughton, he has to go. Tactically inept, devoid of any sort of charisma, questionable at best man management, man crush on Johan '0 goals in 28 games' Elmander and it took an injury 'crisis' to get Wessi on the pitch.
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Norwich always capitulate away from home against the big teams. Liverpool had just lost pretty badly to Hull so I was expecting a backlash. Their other main striker was out injured so the goals would most probably be coming from him. Coutinho was back in the side. Considering that I doubt the odds would have been spectacular, I don't bet against Norwich anyway so it doesn't matter.

In other news this is.....stunning.

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So England are dead next year before it has even began. There was a sense of inevitability about it when the commentator built up how bad the group would be for us before we were drawn.

The first game being at 2am might be annoying too since I usually make an effort to watch all world cup games that I can, missing one of England's will be odd.

Beyond Infinity

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You know, it is a bad group for England, but we might as well use it.

Put in fearless youth. Build for the future and move away from the failed past. It won't happen, I expect to see Gerrard and Milner to start every game with Lampard always coming on from the bench, but it would be nice.

Also, the first game against Italy may be moved which would suit both teams.

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I'm afraid for my life :( We got one of the two groups of death, with the bonus that whoever finishes second will face Brazil in the next round.

I just hope the Netherlands don't behave like last time and send half our team to the hospital right the first day.

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I imagine Spain will be fine barring the Netherlands being overly aggressive like you said in the final. No group should worry you really. :P

The Telegraph has created a nice little page dedicated to the squad you would select for England at the World Cup so feel free to have a nice play with that. (Link)

Here are my picks in the spoiler -

Spoiler:


It makes our pool of players look so weak.

EDIT: They also have a fun predictor up, not sure whether it's just me that loves doing these but I'll leave the link. (Link)

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I'm afraid for my life :( We got one of the two groups of death, with the bonus that whoever finishes second will face Brazil in the next round.

I just hope the Netherlands don't behave like last time and send half our team to the hospital right the first day.
Funnily enough that your home country of Spain is in the same group as my home country Australia, who are actually the lowest-ranked of this WC's participants as far as world rankings are concerned (World No. 59 for my Aussies) and because of Australia being the underdogs of Group B means they'll have to pull off major upsets if they want any hope of passing the group stage, in fact at the 2010 World Cup they actually did get eliminated in the group stage, well they did end up in the same group as Germany back then and got thrashed heavily.

You know, I've even seen some people betting that Australia will fail heavily in the group stage due to its opponents alone. Spain and the Netherlands were both 2010 WC finalists so this is probably why they think so.

Even if my down under folks were to finish second in qualifying (face it, I know Spain will top my group) they will still make an early exit because of how big a powerhouse Brazil is.
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Sadly I can't see anything but Australia going out in the group stage. I think Holland will finish above Spain though.
Definitely agreed. Even though I'm Australian I have the feeling we'll probably finish in the bottom two of our group and hence miss the cut for the Round of 16. I even made a Tumblr post summing it all up. Australia basically suffered the same fate in the draw as the US, ending up with two European powerhouses.

Also, not to mention Australia is actually the lowest of the 32 participants going by world rankings alone. I've seen several Americans posting on Tumblr today saying "that's it we're screwed", so I'm assuming a few Australians have been as well in reaction to drawing Group B.
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as a brazillian i think brazil is gonna lose to germany or maybe netherlands again... our team is not that great like everyone thinks ONE THING THAT HAPPEN and neymar stars playin cocky


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Brazil team lacks a superstar in his prime but it looks far more balanced than it has in the recent past. I'd also be a little worried if Hulk got injured as you do seem to be lacking for cover in the number 9 role. Given home advantage and your history in the tournament it isn't surprising Brazil would be favourites for a lot of people.

As for Neymar I haven't seen him play much but he doesn't seem to be a player that would crack under the pressure. It could quite well be his World Cup.
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England is definitely gone at the first hurdle. Although I'm not a major fan of football, even I know when we going to get our butts whipped. My partner was pretty much a heap on the floor when we were put with Uruguay and pronounced our demise straight away... Our only hope is if Suarez 'accidently' breaks his legs... *Hunts him down with a baseball bat*
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