Worldwide Soccer Thread I

[reds4ever]

Originally posted by Maquiladora


Dont forget theyre in trouble with the Premier League too

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/4355827.stm

Mourinho

The whole thing is falling apart, Chelsea are blaming Cole, Cole is blaming Chelsea......

The only way out is for Mourinho and Cole to say they were racially abused at the FA hearing

[MikeH]

Every club taps players up, just bad luck to get caught.

Dock us 10 points, we'll still win the Premiership.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Oh lordy... this Cole thing is silly. It's Wenger trying his best to match Mourinho in the mind games catagory. Like Arsenal hasn't done it in the past? Ah well, it won't faze Chelsea, I'm sure.

[MikeH]

I love that Ashley Cole has been charged too.

Talk about backfiring on Arsenal!

[Imran Siddiqui]

Yep... it seems to look like Cole's agent was the one who contacted Chelsea to begin with. Cole apparently is not happy with his contract.

Oh, and World Cup Qualifying Tomorrow!!

[Lawrence of Arabia]

USA - Mexico will be on ESPN 2, and probably ESPN Deportes, and probably also Univision and Telemundo. we are playing at Azteca, where America has never beater mexico (0 - 21 - 1 all time) I picked USA to win tho. hahahaha.

then theres another barnburner (haha) at the Stade de France. France vs. Switzerland. Two up and coming teams, both who have done poorly in international play these last couple of years (france had the easiest seeding at world cup 2002, didnt score a single goal, switzerland got more red cards in the Euro Cup then goals, and did not win a game.) I predict a tight one, a 1 - 1 draw.

and then theres Finland -Czech Republic, the match of the weekend.Two evenly matched teams going head to head. Hyypia will have his hands full, but Finland just might pull off the upset.

[MikeH]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/internationals/4382353.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/internationals/4373131.stm

Joey Cole to start? Let's get more Chelsea players in the England side. Woo!

[MikeH]

And he starts!

Woo!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/internationals/4373131.stm

[Az]

U21:

Israel 3 - 1 Ireland.

[Footie Mad]

Originally posted by Lawrence of Arabia

and then theres Finland -Czech Republic, the match of the weekend.Two evenly matched teams going head to head. Hyypia will have his hands full, but Finland just might pull off the upset.

Can't agree with you there, even without Nedved the Czechs have a far better team.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Originally posted by MikeH
And he starts!

Woo!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/foot...ls/4373131.stm

Yes- he can play on the left. Yes- he's good. But if you want a left-sided midfielder then I'd say it's got to be Downing.

[Maquiladora]

Yeah its strange, Downing has played a lot more games this season, and theres no better crosser in the PL at the moment, seems a bit unfair. The only thing that got Cole picked in front of Downing was experience and perhaps being at a better club.

[Maquiladora]

We have a decent team, a real shame we dont have a tournament this summer.

[Maquiladora]

England 4 - 0 N. Ireland

Couldve been 7 or 8, Owen missed 2 sitters, Lampard missed one too and a load of shots saved. Joe Cole was good, seemed like he was too keen to get a shot in though, perhaps he was instructed to. Glad Defoe came on instead of Heskey, bet he comes on in the Azerbaijan game though

[Az]

Ireland-Israel,
It's about to start!

*anxious*