World Soccer thread III

[MikeH]

Exactly.

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by MikeH
Oh and congratulations notyoueither on winning the fantasy football this time round.

Final table is here:

http://fantasy.premierleague.com/M/table.mc?id=3733

Hopefully we can get more players next season?

Cheers to all sentiments.

[Lawrence of Arabia]

with two weeks to go until the next world cup qualifying matches, im gonna put in my group 4 predictions

Switzerland v Feroe Islands 4 - 0
Ireland v Israel 1 - 1

Switzerland 6 3 3 0 14 3 12 11
Ireland 6 2 4 0 8 3 10 5
Israel 7 2 5 0 9 7 10 2
France 6 2 4 0 5 1 9 4

[Imran Siddiqui]

Well, as expected, NUFC let Kluivert go. But Souness told Robert that they aren't letting him go free, and if there are no offers, he'll have to report .

[Lawrence of Arabia]

actually, now i think israel might beat Ireland, because Keane is out.

Switzerland 6 3 3 0 14 3 12 11
Israel 7 2 5 0 9 6 10 3
France 6 2 4 0 5 1 9 4
Ireland 6 2 3 1 7 3 9 4

then all israel needs to do is lose to switzerland (most likely will happen) and then switzerland has the inside track to qualifying

[Atahualpa]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Which ain't what Atahualpa was asserting (though I know you weren't defending his wrongness)

Oh come on... You can watch as much NFL as you like! It's a great sport (maybe).



Of course we could settle with a compromise by calling it NFL Football and FIFA Football and UEFA Football if you are talking about Europe only or CAF, AFC, CONMEBOL,.... whatever games exist with the name Football.

Or I shall continue spreading the word that whatever historic reason you might come up with.. it's still a game where an egg-shaped something is carried to the other side

[Lawrence of Arabia]

american football should be renamed for what it is - and its not football.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Atahualpa
Oh come on... You can watch as much NFL as you like! It's a great sport (maybe).



Of course we could settle with a compromise by calling it NFL Football and FIFA Football and UEFA Football if you are talking about Europe only or CAF, AFC, CONMEBOL,.... whatever games exist with the name Football.

Or I shall continue spreading the word that whatever historic reason you might come up with.. it's still a game where an egg-shaped something is carried to the other side

Or you can just admit how wrong you were . Football is just as valid a name for the NFL as FIFA's according to the historical basis of the names. And the oval ball is something common to all forms of rugby football, whether played in England, Australia, or whereever.

"NFL Football" and "FIFA Football" are redundant. Federation International Football Association Football and National Football League Football is silly.

You could have 'football' in your thread title, but don't say I didn't warn you when Americans come in and dispute the term or Sava comes back and posts desktop sized pictures of Chicago Bears.

[Atahualpa]

Or you can just admit how wrong you were . Football is just as valid a name for the NFL as FIFA's according to the historical basis of the names. And the oval ball is something common to all forms of rugby football, whether played in England, Australia, or whereever.

Pardonezmoi, but where did I said I care about the historical background.. my careful analysis showed that based on the appearence of both games one has more rights to deserve the name football than the other and if historically BOTH have the same rights, than that's still 2:1 for teh real football

"NFL Football" and "FIFA Football" are redundant. Federation International Football Association Football and National Football League Football is silly.

Come on... Did you never send an SMS Message? A Short Message Service Message? Or did you play FIFA Soccer? Maybe not, at least you have heard them and they don't sound strange.. so...

You could have 'football' in your thread title, but don't say I didn't warn you when Americans come in and dispute the term or Sava comes back and posts desktop sized pictures of Chicago Bears.

I guess that makes it perfectly okay for me to storm any (american) football thread as well and post zillion desktop sized pictures of Real Madrid, Arsenal and Bayern München.

Shall we give in to the terrorists? Either you are with me or with the terrorists!

[Imran Siddiqui]

my careful analysis showed that based on the appearence of both games one has more rights to deserve the name football than the other

Both are played on the foot. Both have a ball.

Did you never send an SMS Message? A Short Message Service Message?

Haven't you considered that odd? Why don't you call it just an SMS. It's redundant and shouldn't be used.

I guess that makes it perfectly okay for me to storm any (american) football thread as well and post zillion desktop sized pictures of Real Madrid, Arsenal and Bayern M�nchen.

If you want... but no one has done so... while the opposite is surely true. And soccer is a valid name from history.

[Atahualpa]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui

my careful analysis showed that based on the appearence of both games one has more rights to deserve the name football than the other

Both are played on the foot. Both have a ball.

This would go for Tennis, Handball, Basketball, Golf,... the only thing excluded would probably be Polo as this is played on a horse (and every sport without a ball)

Still I think my analysis was not understood... I am thinking about repeating it!

Haven't you considered that odd? Why don't you call it just an SMS. It's redundant and shouldn't be used.

Because just an SMS is still wrong. You don't _send_ a Short Message Service, you just send a short message and therefor it would have to be called sending a SM. You can say I use SMS to send you a SM.
As you can see, this is getting us nowhere... forget about the oddity.

If you want... but no one has done so... while the opposite is surely true. And soccer is a valid name from history.

That's because football fans are much more civilized

[Lawrence of Arabia]

owneage.

[Imran Siddiqui]

This would go for Tennis, Handball, Basketball, Golf

Exactly... thereby indicating your 'analysis' is flawed. It depends on what people consider by 'foot' (whether kicking or on foot) or ball (sphere or any ball).

It depends on an already made up mind.

Because just an SMS is still wrong. You don't _send_ a Short Message Service, you just send a short message and therefor it would have to be called sending a SM. You can say I use SMS to send you a SM.

Then go ahead and say you sent an SM by using an SMS... it's better not to be redundant.

That's because football fans are much more civilized

Perhaps, but it depends on the fan.

[Maquiladora]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
It depends on what people consider by 'foot' (whether kicking or on foot)

Whoever thought that "foot" in football meant "because theyre on foot", is an idiot.

[Lawrence of Arabia]