12-01-2016, 09:59 AM | #401 |
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12-03-2016, 08:25 AM | #402 |
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Well that escalated quickly.
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12-03-2016, 08:26 AM | #403 |
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And amazingly Diego was not one of the people sent off.
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12-03-2016, 08:36 AM | #404 |
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12-03-2016, 08:39 AM | #405 |
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And there's Dortmund and Monchengladbach going nuts less than 7 minutes in. 1-1 already.
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12-03-2016, 08:40 AM | #406 |
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Anthony Taylor has to be man of the match for Chelsea. Standout performance for sure.
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12-03-2016, 08:50 AM | #407 | |
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No, man of the match would be City's collective shooting skills. If you show up with a plan which boils down to "dominate play and carve open their defence at the expense of Nicolas Otomendi spending a lot of time one-on-one with Hazard or Costa on the break" and then finish that poorly, getting torn to shreds is kind of the inevitable consequence. Taylor declining to call David Luiz's block on Aguero certainly didn't help, but my sympathy for Aguero is at a rather low ebb given that joke of a tackle in stoppage time. |
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12-03-2016, 09:00 AM | #408 | |
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Luiz deserved a straight red. I have no idea why the ref didn't give that. I'm hard as hell on refs. Harder than just about anyone. No problems being pissed at Taylor for that, I think he butchered the call. But what the hell? I mean, seriously, what in the hell? That challenge was disgusting. It isn't the first time Aguero has pulled this on Luiz either. The FA needs to go over the standard 3 game violent conduct suspension for this. It's at least 5 at a minimum. This is the second time in two months Aguero felt frustrated at a non call and decided to try to inflict pain on the player in question. That's pure garbage. I hate Diego Costa for his garbage, Aguero has just cemented himself in that class as far as I'm concerned. There is simply no justification for his actions. |
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12-07-2016, 06:31 AM | #409 | |
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12-07-2016, 11:27 AM | #410 |
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Haven't seen anybody post this yet, so I present to you, from the ex-Swansea legend that is Lee Trundle, possibly the greatest penalty of all time!
Swansea City legend Lee Trundle scores outrageous penalty - YouTube
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12-07-2016, 05:18 PM | #411 |
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12-10-2016, 10:31 AM | #412 |
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Of course bottom of the table FC Ingolstadt is the first team to beat RB Leipzig this season.
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12-10-2016, 02:52 PM | #413 |
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CL finally going to two time slots in 2018.
Also, any thoughts on the likely world cup expansion that'll probably come in 2026? I get that it'll water down the overall field, but I like it if they stick to 8 round robin groups with 5 teams each & 16 teams advancing to the knockout stages. An extra group stage game each & presumably slightly harder for fluke teams to advance thru. |
12-10-2016, 08:33 PM | #414 |
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Is this ref the best MLS can come up with? He's been the worst kind, inconsistent and picky
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12-10-2016, 08:35 PM | #415 | |
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Infantino was talking about 3 team groups and an extra round, which would be a farce, especially with the additional nations, some of whom won't be very good. Last edited by bhlloy : 12-10-2016 at 08:35 PM. |
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12-10-2016, 08:43 PM | #416 | |
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Yea. That is what I had heard as well. 3 team groups would be a joke.
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12-10-2016, 09:09 PM | #417 |
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Would be nice if Fox mixed up their crowd shots a bit more instead of showing the same 4 guys each time.
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12-10-2016, 09:55 PM | #418 |
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Michael Bradley in a nutshell
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12-10-2016, 09:57 PM | #419 |
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Was never in doubt that he'd miss it... and just like it got interesting again.
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12-10-2016, 10:01 PM | #420 |
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Fire that producer for not getting the final shot on camera.
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12-10-2016, 10:08 PM | #421 |
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Absolutely insane that Seattle had 0 shots on goal for 120 mins and wins the Cup...
Though Torres and Frei were the Men of the Match. Bradley and Altidore played really well for TFC, but Giovinco was quite bad, and Ricketts came in waaaaay too late.
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12-18-2016, 11:29 AM | #422 |
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Arsenal getting absolutely dominated in this second half.
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12-18-2016, 12:45 PM | #423 |
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Going to have to research how to watch Championship games next year when Swansea gets relegated.
Depor is above the line right now, but can't afford to fall. Sassuolo has cooled off. Hoffenheim, at least, have still not lost and sit third in the Bundesliga. So there's that. Looking forward to the Spring season of LigaMX. Always an upside down league and not the slog that MLS is. |
12-18-2016, 01:45 PM | #424 |
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Some news starting to trickle out about January camp (which is always over-populated by MLS guys.) DMB coming back into camp, Keegan Rosenberry & Kekuta Manneh (who is now a US citizen but doesn't have FIFA paperwork done yet) 2 interesting new additions. First game January 29 vs Serbia.
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12-18-2016, 05:49 PM | #425 | |
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It's on Bein Sports. Actual tv coverage is a bit sparse, they have more on their Bein Sports Connect streaming service. The streaming is unreliable though. No idea how you'll see them in League One in two years time. |
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12-22-2016, 03:12 PM | #426 |
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Looks like Crystal Palace have fired Alan Pardew and are currently talking to Sam Allardyce (yes, him) about the job.
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12-22-2016, 03:18 PM | #427 | |
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12-22-2016, 04:15 PM | #428 | |
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BeIn is pretty good - while you wont get 'every' match I manage to get 4-5 Brighton matches a year through it and supplement that with going to live matches when I'm back in England for work .. |
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12-23-2016, 01:49 PM | #429 | |
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He's right. It's been a struggle being a Newcastle supporter and no longer having every game on TV. Luckily most were available on radio streaming and there's been a decent handful available on Bein.
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12-23-2016, 04:02 PM | #430 |
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Props to Chelsea for turning a thirty five million pound profit on Oscar.
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12-26-2016, 07:59 PM | #431 |
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Anyone know if there are any documentaries similar to the Premier League Download and Behind the Badge series for clubs outside the Premier League?
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12-26-2016, 08:47 PM | #432 |
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This one is 20 years old, but it's good:
Leyton Orient Documentary - Sold for a Fiver More recently there's a 4 episode thing called "Class of '92 - Out of their League" about the ex-Man Utd players (Butt, Nevilles, Beckham, Scholes) buying non-League Salford City. There are links on Youtube, although the BBC stamps down on them for copyright pretty quickly. Not really the same subject, but it's the best soccer documentary I've watched recently: Storyville - Forever Pure. Follows the fallout when the owner of Beitar Jerusalem signs a couple of Chechen Muslim players. Beitar and their fans are hardline, they are the only Israeli team who refuse to use Arab players so the new players arent welcomed. Not sure where that can be found. |
12-26-2016, 08:49 PM | #433 |
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Bob Bradley had to take that Swansea job, but man...I wonder if they'll let him hang out when we're in the Championship. Not that it's such an attractive gig right now anyway.
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12-26-2016, 08:54 PM | #434 |
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Hell be lucky if he sees February, never mind the championship
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12-26-2016, 08:56 PM | #435 |
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Swansea are home to Bournemouth on the 31st. Lose that one and he might not see 2017. Swansea have been pretty quick on the trigger (probably too quick) with their last few manager firings.
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12-26-2016, 09:48 PM | #436 | |
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Yeah, but Huw keeps doing that and I was thinking maybe the new American investors would have sway. I mean, axing managers worked last year to keep us up...though I think that was more about the talent of our personnel. I was just assuming if they brought him here at this point, they figured they'd just go down with the ship with him at the helm. Not like Ryan Giggs wants the job now (anymore) so no idea whose supposed to replace him and motivate this roster into something other than a lethargic mess. But they're not just bad because they're bad, they look even worse and overmatched since he took over. |
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12-27-2016, 06:56 AM | #437 | |
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12-27-2016, 07:56 AM | #438 | |
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New streaming service BritBox brings British TV to the U.S. Looks like it's mainly old things, all the UK stuff currently on Netflix, but at least it'll have Eastenders within 24 hours. There's always Bittorrent and/or IPTV if you are desperate for UK tv, that's what I use. |
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12-27-2016, 07:59 AM | #439 | |
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They were outside the relegation zone when Swansea brought him in, so I dont think the plan was to go down with him, it was that he would repeat last season's kickstart and save them. Looks like the Swansea fans are revolting, so not much chance that they can let Bradley take them down and carry on. When the fans start chanting "we want our club back" and "you dont know what you're doing", the board have to find a scapegoat quick. Alan Pardew is available... |
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12-27-2016, 09:11 AM | #440 |
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So the rumored deal of Darlington Nagbe to Celtic (from Portland Timbers), for $4mil at last rumor, has fallen through and both sides are say that they are the ones that killed it. An interesting situation that also raised some questions about Scottish league vs. MLS (though Celtic has Champions League, so that's some great potential experience).
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12-27-2016, 09:37 AM | #441 |
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It should have been called offside, but Mkhitaryan's goal yesterday was incredible.
http://www.manutd.com/en/News-And-Fe...oxing-Day.aspx
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12-27-2016, 09:48 AM | #442 | |
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MLS transfer fees back to line the pockets of SUM. After watching the English League Two playoffs last year (long story), I felt like MLS is probably somewhere between the Championship and League One if one needed a crude comparison. I have no doubt a MLS team without wage restrictions could compete in a different model league, but...top to bottom, there's a reason our best teams get waxed by LigaMX on the regular. We aren't even the best domestic league in our hemisphere. |
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12-27-2016, 10:04 AM | #443 |
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The main reason, actually, is because we are in our preseason/early season form while LigaMX are in midseason form.
I would easily put MLS as Championship quality and a few of the teams are probably lower Prem quality. Equal to the Scottish Prem easily - I mean Perry Kitchen jumps to Hearts of Midlothian and becomes the Captain within a season (and they finished 3rd last season).
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12-27-2016, 01:20 PM | #444 |
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Bradley is out.
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12-27-2016, 01:35 PM | #445 |
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12-27-2016, 01:41 PM | #446 |
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haha...welp.
In his defense, he wasn't given much of a real chance. On the flip side, he wasn't the right guy for the job.
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12-27-2016, 01:44 PM | #447 |
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Eh... the only right guy for the job is likely someone like Sam Allerdyce and he was a bit tainted at the time (still is IMO, but oh well).
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12-28-2016, 02:19 PM | #448 |
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Interestingly, the CONCACAF President today pushed for a joint US/Mexico/Canada World Cup bid. In the past when joint bids were being suggested it was US & Mexico or US & Canada. All 3 is somewhat interesting. And, of course, I'm not too naive to realize that this is being proposed in light of who the US President is going to be next year.
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12-28-2016, 02:29 PM | #449 |
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A. They gave a Cup to Russia under Putin B. That dude won't be President when this WC is held, and that's even if he wins the next election (which I don't think he will).
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