World Football Thread XX: Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.

[Krill]

I was having an arguement with a work colleague that Stoke have a better defense than Arse last Wednesday. I felt quite justified, tbh, but 8-2 was just nasty.

And woot, Crouch playing for Stoke. Things are going to be interesting this year.

[OneFootInTheGrave]

Stoke gunning for CL place

[Krill]

God no. ManU/ManC/Chelsea get the first three, and I expect Liverpool to get the other. Stoke can't really expect to finish higher than 7th in the best of circumstances, and would be perfectly happy with a 10th place finish and 3 good cup runs. A bad season would be getting knocked out in the group stage of EL, not making any quarter finals in FA Cup or LC and finishing below 12th.

That said, if Stoke were to somehow find themselves in the CL, EVERYONE has to hope they play Barca, just to see what would happen.

[Dauphin]

http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/ranking/lastranking/gender=m/fullranking.html

WTF? How are England ranked 4th? I know rankings can skew, but this is ridiculous.

[Maquiladora]

When the England v Netherlands game was called off Brazil lost points by losing to Germany, and we went above them by default. Same reason why Netherlands went top when Spain lost to Italy, IIRC.

How are we anywhere inside the top 10 though? I don't know.

[duke o' york]

I'm gutted for Scotland. It was shaping up to be a great weekend for the home nations (well, except Northern Ireland but they're even worse than the rest), but the ref handed the Czech Republic qualification.

[Krill]

Liverpool suck at Football.

[Maquiladora]

That said, if Stoke were to somehow find themselves in the CL, EVERYONE has to hope they play Barca, just to see what would happen.

Stoke win Europa League, Barca win CL = MASSIVE UEFA Super Cup tie!!

[H Tower]

I realize USA soccer isn't all that popular, but damn if Beckham isn't still able to serve the ball to exactly where he wants it to go.

[OneFootInTheGrave]

Arsenal.

[Maquiladora]

I realize USA soccer isn't all that popular, but damn if Beckham isn't still able to serve the ball to exactly where he wants it to go.

I really don't understand where the dislike for Beckham (besides jealousy) comes from. The guy is a model professional, and he's actually not smart enough to play the media like people seem to think he does. Beckham

[Dauphin]

[Dauphin]

Disappointed to see no group of debt in the draw on Friday. Italy, Spain, Ireland.....Croatia?!?

[julieplayer]

I realize USA soccer isn't all that popular, but damn if Beckham isn't still able to serve the ball to exactly where he wants it to go.

What is your basis in saying that.. Let’s face it that it’s sometimes hard to get a perspective on how unpopular or popular the sport is in the United States. Soccer becomes a mainstream topic in America every four years..
No matter how soccer build itself their are still so many questions and complaints about soccer is raised.. USA is now rank 34 in the FIFA world ranking and let's see how will they perform in the world cup brazil 2014 and see how popular soccer is in USA .. Fans will tell us..

[Dauphin]

Twofertheday:

Just been to the barbers and asked for a 'Liverpool FC' (A mess at the back, nothing on the sides and **** all up top) He charged me £130 million.

The Judge in the Harry Rednapp trial has repeatedly warned him to stop winking & nodding at the jury