Worldwide Soccer Thread I

[Agathon]

This is far too rational for a real footy thread.

Weird how no-one in this thread supports Taggart and the scum.

Israeli footballers: you must remember Ronny Rosenthal. He played for some terrible London club IIRC and is responsible for one of the worst misses I've ever seen.

Is Israel still in a different qualifying group than the Arabs? That sucks. It would be much better if they had to play all the Arab teams - the games would be "spirited" if nothing else. As for fan violence, I doubt it would get as bad as the average Tyne-Wear derby.

And bollocks to Imran: that Shackell kid was OK in the first half against Bolton. A pity the rest of the Canaries' defence is so awful.

Another question: why do Sunderland even bother?

[Imran Siddiqui]

Is Israel still in a different qualifying group than the Arabs?

They have been for quite a while, Aggie. They joined UEFA years ago. Do keep up .

[Agathon]

They have been for quite a while, Aggie. They joined UEFA years ago. Do keep up .

Like I follow the news about minnow nations that are hopeless.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Like New Zealand?

[Az]

It really is a sad moment when Agathon is pwned by Imran in his anti-Israeli rant.

Ronnie Rosenthal

Berkovich was good ( but he's close to retiring, really).

Revivo played for Celta Vigo and Fenerbahce (sp?) for quite some time. He has retired.

We now only have a single true star, and that's Benayun, from Racing Santander. I am also counting on Ben-hayim.

Yeah, we suck, but to our defence, we don't really make much of an effort, either.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Berkovich was good ( but he's close to retiring, really).

I'm sure. He's been around for a while.

we don't really make much of an effort, either.

Ah... like the Spanish .

[Az]

Ah... like the Spanish

Don't get me started on the spanish. They're probably one of my favorite teams in europe. You do sometimes have to wonder is it because of their failure in the competitions?

[Maquiladora]

Originally posted by C0ckney
it's been there for ages. comes from old firm derbys.

international games coming up, you can tell sven is confident we can beat northen ireland, emile hesky is back in the squad!

Yeah i almost wept when i saw it. Teh heskulator is back! One minute hes Sven's (not England's) favourite player, the next hes playing for Birmingham.

He does get too much abuse, but hes been playing above his level for years, even at Birmingham, the goal he got on the weekend was lucky.

Sheringham could do a better job than Heskey still.

[Az]

Given suffers an injury, and will play with some shots given to him.

arty:

[Imran Siddiqui]

Don't you be scaring me like that, saying Given gets injured!

[Agathon]

Like New Zealand?

Exactly.

Pwned in reverse!!

[Imran Siddiqui]

You mean Aggie's self-pwnage

[C0ckney]

some sad news today. dean richards (spurs defender) has been forced to retire due to ill health, more specifically blackouts and dizzy spells following the removal of a brain tumor last year.

[Lawrence of Arabia]

Where do you live? How are any of those exclusively British (except perhaps 'fookin' which is trying get around the auto-censor)?

west coast. all of those are exclusively british. i know, ive spent a lot of time with those guys; i played soccer at a very high level and teammates were usually non american.

[Agathon]

I don't see how I'm pwned. I said I don't follow crappy minnow nations including New Zealand's piss poor embarrassment of a team. I've no idea what that bunch of mobile turds are up to.

On the other hand, we're better than Israel. We've been to the finals (1982 when we were good) and I think that team still holds a couple of World Cup records (good ones too).

And we had the absolute pleasure in 1982 of making sure that Scotland went out (IIRC our two crappy goals against them were the difference HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!).

I'm guessing that the next good footy to come from our area will be from those kangaroo molesters across the Tasman.