World Football Thread XX: Auf Wiedersehen, Pet.

[duke o' york]

As sung by the Fulham fans last week:

No income tax, no VAT
Got no points at Man City
In the dock and looking pale
Harry Redknapp's off to jail.......

(Sorry if you've seen this before - everyone has)

[Dauphin]

Bye Fabio. Amazing it happens on the day that Harry gets cleared.

[Krill]

27 posts in a year? This place is dead

[H Tower]

27 posts in a year? This place is dead

how about contributing then?

[H Tower]

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..

What is the basis of me saying that soccer isn't popular in the US?
The MLS cup drew a rating of .8 Last fall an early day NFL game between Tampa and Green Bay drew a 12.7

I love watching soccer, and frequently watch Serie A and La Liga via ESPN's website, but I don't have any friends who care about soccer except when the World Cup rolls around.

[Dauphin]

Are we having a Euros prediction competition this year. Looks like interest in football has faded to a low ebb.

[ColdWizard]

2 goals in stoppage time to win the Premier league seems highly questionable.

[Victor Galis]

Are we having a Euros prediction competition this year. Looks like interest in football has faded to a low ebb.

Yes, I'm disappointed. How else can I come out of lurk mode to show my utter lack of knowledge about the sport?

[Imran Siddiqui]

Did anyone tell the Netherlands that the tournament has started? They sure didn't seem like they understood while losing to Denmark.

[H Tower]

The new version of going Dutch on a date is to not show up at all.

[Asmodean]

Saw this one today. Guess it's not much fun being a dutch football fan these days :-)

[Imran Siddiqui]

From another forum on today's England vs. France matchup:

I was going to ask if England knows they're allowed to attack, but are England actually allowed to attack? Is it against the rules?

[Dauphin]

Anyone else notice that if you put "chicken" in front of the names of the Italian players, the results are meals that sound quite nice.

Chicken Chiellini
Chicken Balzaretti
Chicken Barzagli
Chicken Bonucci
Chicken Marchisio
Chicken De Rossi
Chicken Montolivo
Chicken Pirlo
Chicken Balotelli
Chicken Cassano

[Imran Siddiqui]

Yummy!!

Spain just can't compete

(though I hear Chicken Torres is only really good at warm temperatures )

[Imran Siddiqui]

Spain looked incredible today (even before Italy went to 10 men due to injury)! Wow, what a performance!