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Football Thre... Errm... Soccer Thread
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AfterDawn Addict
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14. February 2006 @ 04:56 |
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Liverpool v Arsenal tonight. I reckon it will be a draw.
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dr_no
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14. February 2006 @ 06:02 |
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Weazel,
That game can end up anything. I hope we win so the big "catch up" can begin. Otherwise our chances for a champions league spot for next season..., I don't even want to think about it.
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14. February 2006 @ 06:13 |
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We need to win this game. But there's a difference between wanting and needing.
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14. February 2006 @ 12:00 |
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Well that's 4th place gone and our 9th defeat of the season.
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banagher
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14. February 2006 @ 23:41 |
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well that'll make it harder for us to get into europe next year. who'd of thought this year we would be soooo bad. not gonna blame it on viera going but if arsenal dont get into champions league we'll be in a new stadia next season without henry... thats if he doesnt go anyway
A phones not just for christmas, if your lucky the credit will last to new year...
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dr_no
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15. February 2006 @ 03:23 |
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Well, we are done for the season :(
Contrary to what everybody else thinks about Viera beiing the factor for the bad season, I blame it on the long list of injured players we had to deal with. IMO Ashley Cole was missed maybe even more than any other player in the squad.
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AfterDawn Addict
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15. February 2006 @ 10:03 |
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Yeah missing Cole has contributed and Clichy being injured doesn't help either. I'm looking forward to the Madrid game.
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15. February 2006 @ 10:51 |
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Just thought I'd take the opportunity to show you guys my fave football website I have come accross. If you know any other good ones, plese, feel free to link me to them :-)
http://www.football365.com/
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dr_no
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15. February 2006 @ 11:55 |
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Weazel,
At this moment I'm not really fond of that game :( Maybe because I don't like Real, Atletico fan here, and they just played and awsome game against Zaragoza, and we just not doiing good lately.
Lethal,
I know of that site, but I'm not realy into football websites, I watch the games :) The only site I visit is
http://home.skysports.com/football/
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AfterDawn Addict
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16. February 2006 @ 09:52 |
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same here dr_no. soccernet.com is also another good footie site.
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18. February 2006 @ 05:28 |
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LOL, i dont know if this is the right time for this but anyway..
Liverpool team pic after peter crouch joined..
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AfterDawn Addict
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18. February 2006 @ 06:00 |
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LOL. Is that their new signing on the far left. It's always good seeing Man Utd get beaten. Looks like Chelsea will cruise past Colchester 2moro.
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18. February 2006 @ 06:02 |
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Whatever Smith did to his leg can't be good...he was in a bad way..
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18. February 2006 @ 07:23 |
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On behalf of all the Americans (maybe Canadians, too):
this is a football this is a soccer ball
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AfterDawn Addict
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18. February 2006 @ 07:30 |
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Yeah Smith is gonna be out for a while. He'll certainly miss the world cup. Also doesn't help when John Arne Riise smacks a thumping shot at ya.
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18. February 2006 @ 14:56 |
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LOL, I hear ya Ashroy, Philadelphia, Pa.
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18. February 2006 @ 15:20 |
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ashroy..
We don't call it soccer though..
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18. February 2006 @ 15:25 |
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What percentage of the world calls it football?
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18. February 2006 @ 16:58 |
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What matters is what it's called wherever you live, what it's called outside of it and it's percentages, who cares.
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18. February 2006 @ 17:18 |
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What percentage of the world calls it football?
I couldn't care less...This is where we discuss English football.. If you want to discuss your 'Football', then create yourself a thread & discuss it there...
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18. February 2006 @ 17:54 |
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Touchy Touchy, like I said before, who cares.
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19. February 2006 @ 01:06 |
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@Ashroy
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What percentage of the world calls it football?
Football, in its modern form, was exported by Britons to much of the rest of the world and many of these nations adopted this common English term for the sport into their own language. This was usually done in one of two ways: either by directly importing the word itself, or by translating its constituent parts, foot and ball. Most Romance languages use the word football, albeit with a different pronunciation and occasionally a different spelling: the (Spanish fútbol, Portuguese: futebol, Romanian fotbal) and the French, le football is often shortened to le foot. Similarly, the Russian word is futbol (Футбол) and the Turkish word is futbol.
In Germanic languages (other than English), the term is usually translated (for example, German: Fußball, Norwegian: fotball, Swedish: fotboll, Danish: fodbold and the Dutch: voetbal. This also applies to Finnish (jalkapallo), Greek podosfero (ποδόσφαιρο), Spanish: (balompié, but this form is quite unusual), Arabic (kurat al qadam) and Hebrew (kaduregel). In Polish both ways (futbol and piłka nożna) are used. The official names in Hungarian are futball and labdarúgás (meaning ball-kicking) but foci is used in the common langaugage.
In Italy, football is called calcio, from calciare meaning to kick. This is due to the game's resemblance to Calcio Fiorentino, a 17th century ceremonial Florentine court ritual, that has now been revived under the name il calcio storico (historical kick or kickball in costume).
In Japan, use of the term sakkā (サッカー) is more common than that of the term futtobōru (フットボール), although the latter term would seem to be gaining popularity.
In Chinese, the term 足球 (Hanyu Pinyin: zúqiú, Cantonese: juk kau) is used. The term, a calque, literally means football (足=foot, 球=ball), and is always associated with association football. No other sport known as football (in English) shares this name. Rugby is known as 橄榄球 (olive ball).
In Thai, the word football (ฟุตปอล) is used.
We invented the word, we invented the language, we invented the game! So stop calling rugby football! Rugby is rugby, football is football... Ok? Now if you want to talk about rugby, you're in the wrong thread. We talk about football here. The REAL football. So stop trying to hijack this thread with your argument attempts...
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8. Don't reply with an off-topic comment/question -- instead start a new thread.
Anyway,
Alan Smith broke his leg... That season/World Cup/maybe half of next season gone... It's a shame tough, i thought he was doing a fairly good game... Well, that just shows how bad Man U are at the moment... LOL
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19. February 2006 @ 02:03 |
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Touchy Touchy
Not at all - I just think it was unnecessary for ashroy to even involve himself in here for no other reason than to cause conflict..
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19. February 2006 @ 02:19 |
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Chelsea 8 - 0 Colchester United
THat's what todays scoreline will be. Mourinho will put out a full strength team to humilate them.
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19. February 2006 @ 02:41 |
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Define full strenght at Chelsea... LOL
I reckon 4-0.
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