The 2015-16 World Fitba Thread!

That said his defensive work impresses me.

I'm also not sure what role he's playing currently.


Real's setup is confusing they throw their players everywhere on the pitch it is not a very rigid formation.

 

I've seen a few games. I saw the QPR game. On the strength of what I've watched, your assessment is pretty much spot on.

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Many an hour as a kid practicing that. And the altogether more tricky 'del piero turn'.

 

Ronaldo..::

 

He deserved that for trying to be too cool while scoring. Just knock the goal in no need for that.

 

Man I feel for Sterling, he is so frequently bullied out there. He will be a phenom with age but as of now he is too frail and physically immature.

HE hustles but in vain as he is just knocked off the ball or discarded easily but stronger players.

 

Same. I also perfected the 'Blanco bounce'. My finest moment in football came in an FA Cup third qualifying round match in 2002 when I 'Blanco bounced' two defenders and lashed the bobbling ball into the roof of the net to equalize at 1-1 for North Shields. It was a fleeting moment of glory - we lost 3-1 - but that's not the thing we talk about in the pub all these years later. No fucking chance.

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Had to finish that. But its all too hustle and bustle from Liverpool. Just not quite good enough.

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Growing up when I did here in America at a time when nobody knew anything about Fitbaw apart from Pele and Franz Beckenbauer (and even then almost entirely because of the New York Cosmos) everything was just straight ahead, run hard, hustle, nothing artistic, nothing pretty... When I played as a kid, I was a Left Back and occasionally a Center Back (picture Lillian Thuram if he was white, talentless, slow, hesitant, clumsy and 9 years old) and you weren't taught anything like that... it was all just positioning and ultra-conservative stuff (if you get the ball, just kick it away) ... it made fitbaw so boring to me

 

Used to love doing this - every fucker got the Cruyff turn nailed but hardly anyone got this down pat:

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Right. Dortmund have win this, I'm off. Laters peeps ;)

 

'Bout time. Get it piped, ya puff.

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make sure you shout "MONCHENGLADBACH!!" at climax

 

Fixed^

 

:mj:

 

Arsenal, heavy jammy btw. Poor Anderlecht.

 

Scored twice in the last two minutes? Fuck's sake.

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Outplayed for all the game that i saw. Then their bampot fans sing 'who the fucking hell are you?' in their boorish cockney at the home end after the second.

 

Anderlecht... another big feeder club

 

Aye.

MTF

 

RSC Anderlecht have won more European trophies, and are a bigger club, than Arsenal. Fact.

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Never doubted the win, even at 85 minutes.

 

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I was speaking with a chap with a science phd today and as a tangent from complaining about this new poly bag law he mentioned that he doesn't think co2 is the cause of global warming - humans heating lots of shit up is. Which we've happened to mainly do by burning hydrocarbons thus far, hence the correlation. Obviously i wouldnt dare pull an opinion out my arse on that either way but if he's right we're proper fucking fuckity fucked, aren't we? No renewable energy solution : its civilization or the planet (or eventually neither).

 

Death squads in Latin America, the inevitable of collapse of civilization & the biosphere. Stay tuned for my next contribution to the fitbaw thread.

 

THANKS OBAMA!

 

Worst Celtic team off are times.

 

without a doubt

if football were played at half-speed, Charlie Mulgrew would be really good, I think... As it is, he is overrun by anyone with decent speed

Too bad we can't use that Guidetti kid in Europe at the moment (not eligible), he's played really well for Celtic

 

Celtic with 69% possession against this bunch of stiffs and fuck-all to show for it

 

you can't go and get points against the best club in the group on the road and then come home and not get three against this WEE side