The European football thread

[ukhotstove]

Originally Posted by bababui

UKHS..Why must Hall serve a 3 game suspension instead of a single match?

Automatic red, dangerous play, Jewell attacking Dowd, Wigan Athletic take your pick lol, 99% of people and football people on TV have even said it wasn't a red card and should have only been a yellow. Another bit to add on to Jewell v Dowd is that Jewell received £25 from a referee to go towards his fine be interesting if it ever comes out which ref it was from.

[ukhotstove]

Originally Posted by Astros33Resurrected

is there any where to catch live games on the web?

Here are a couple of links that may help you, by all accounts the live online footy is the best but you have to pay for it, may even try it today myself as it's only £4 for four games today and would like to see the Charlton v West Ham game.

Links.

www.football4less.com

http://www.liveonlinefooty.com/

[Astros33Resurrected]

Originally Posted by ukhotstove

Here are a couple of links that may help you, by all accounts the live online footy is the best but you have to pay for it, may even try it today myself as it's only £4 for four games today and would like to see the Charlton v West Ham game.

Links.

www.football4less.com

http://www.liveonlinefooty.com/

thanks.

[Raderick v2.0]

I use www.tvnettet.com and haven't been disappointed.

[Astros33Resurrected]

I just bought an Henry Arsenal jersey on eBay

[Raderick v2.0]

Originally Posted by Astros33Resurrected

I just bought an Henry Arsenal jersey on eBay

I feel sorry for you. You could have bought a jersey of a better club, like Manchester United, most specifically Paul Scholes or Ryan Giggs, but noooooooooooooooooooo, you had to buy an Arsenal jersey. Enjoy your piece of crap.

[Astros33Resurrected]

Originally Posted by Raderick v2.0

I feel sorry for you. You could have bought a jersey of a better club, like Manchester United, most specifically Paul Scholes or Ryan Giggs, but noooooooooooooooooooo, you had to buy an Arsenal jersey. Enjoy your piece of crap.

I don't like Arsenal much, but I do like Henry and already had one of his french jerseys.

[Raderick v2.0]

Originally Posted by Astros33Resurrected

I don't like Arsenal much, but I do like Henry and already had one of his french jerseys.

I guess you hate both good football and 'merika!

[Astros33Resurrected]

Originally Posted by Raderick v2.0

I guess you hate both good football and 'merika!

yea i hate merka!!! The only MLS team I can stand to watch is the Dynamo and thats only sometimes. The only player I like is Clint Dempsey, and thats just because he went to HS with me. I just cant stand many American players. Teh Suk.

[Big Hugg]

Originally Posted by Astros33Resurrected

yea i hate merka!!! The only MLS team I can stand to watch is the Dynamo and thats only sometimes. The only player I like is Clint Dempsey, and thats just because he went to HS with me. I just cant stand many American players. Teh Suk.

I wish Coleman would use his damn head and put Dempsey in the starting lineup.

I can't wait to get home from work and watch my boys get smoked by Man U.

[LFC1892]

Originally Posted by Astros33Resurrected

I just bought an Henry Arsenal jersey on eBay

How much did you pay for it?

[ukhotstove]

Originally Posted by Big Hugg

I wish Coleman would use his damn head and put Dempsey in the starting lineup.

I can't wait to get home from work and watch my boys get smoked by Man U.

You may have seen this about Bullard and his meet the fans night, lifted it off the Latics board but think they had lifted it off the Fulham board.

When he came into the room, he was wearing a knee-brace but that was because he had just been working it and the club want the brace on whilst he does. A few weeks ago he had some numbness in the knee but that has passed and he is feeling stronger all the time. He is currently cycling and doing some treadmill work (slight inclines and the like) and can feel progression. Ball-work, however, is some way off.

He told us about when it happened, saying that he had never known pain like it before and when they called for the gas and air for him, they couldn’t get the thing working… which caused him some consternation (to say the least). He’s been in contact with Scott Parker and there is absolutely no animosity there, so that is good.

I asked him if he’d met Michael Owen in the waiting room of the doctor’s in the States and he said that he kept just missing him. He knows Owen slightly, however, and they have compared notes.

As for the future, I asked him about the widely tipped June return and he stated categorically that he was just aiming for pre-season 07/08 as a comeback and that he feels that that is realistically achievable. If anything, it hurts more to see the team lose when he knows that he could do something about it if he were fit but he knows that he has broken the back of the layoff now (five months gone, four to go) and is dead-set on coming back and showing the fans what they’ve been missing for the season.

He talked a bit about Wigan and the move to Fulham (most of which is covered in Fultime) but added that there only seems to be about three of the players who played with him last season still turning out for the Latics these days, so he doesn’t feel particularly bad about leaving the JJB. He did, however, say that it always feels weird when playing against teams that he used to play for, none more so than when he plays against West Ham, who he always supported as a boy.

There was talk about his England prospects and he laughed at the suggestion that he could play against Estonia, Israel or Russia, pointing out that there are many very good players in the national set up (even Jermaine Jenas, who seemed to be singled out by some fans). He would be dead chuffed to be invited though and the general consensus amongst the fans was that, should he regain his form of last season/early this season then he would be a shoe-in (but then we would say that, wouldn’t we?)

The subject of fishing came up and he said that he was coming on quite nicely there, having joined Dorking Angling Club (which, I am led to believe is the Man Utd of the fishing world). Football is his true love, though, so I don’t think we’re going to lose him to the rivers and lakes of the world. He is also an enthusiastic golfer.

Other than that, he has started doing some unofficial scouting for the club. Not much was said about the level that he was looking at but he was enjoying the experience of seeing different clubs in action and getting a feel for tactics etc.

Finally, congratulations to Jimmy and his wife on the birth of their new son recently (I didn’t catch the lad’s name, sorry).

Jim then posed for loads of photos, made the sponsor’s draw and made the year of wee Kodi, the youngest there, by sitting her on his knee and signing the label of her Fulham bear.

[ukhotstove]

Don't know if you'll have seen this, makes you wonder what else bored footballers get up to

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKJn1...related&search=

[Raderick v2.0]

Why is the playing field on many pitches on a plateau/berm of sorts? Don't you think it's a little dangerous?

[Big Hugg]

Originally Posted by ukhotstove

You may have seen this about Bullard and his meet the fans night, lifted it off the Latics board but think they had lifted it off the Fulham board.

I can't wait to get him back. He looked so awesome before he got hurt.

Meanwhile, we just dominated that game with Man U and lost anyway. Van Der Sar took it away from us.

[bababui]

Must I remind you fubes that Leigh RMI rule the Footie world and you are all vassels to her.

On your knees!!

[Muppetus Galacticus]

Ilford 0 - 2 Canvey Island FC also...

The Club have managed to acquire the services of one of the country's finest football after-dinner speakers. On Wednesday, 16th May, we will be presenting 'An Evening with Jimmy Greaves', the soccer legend who played for Chelsea, Spurs and West Ham and scored 44 goals in 57 appearances for England.

[Astros33Resurrected]

Originally Posted by LFC1892

How much did you pay for it?

$25 after shipping

[darkhorse]

Originally Posted by ukhotstove

A few of the top posted threads are like that, couple example's being

2006 Oakland A's thread 2,396 posts 1,616 of them by 3 posters
The Official Minnesota Twins season thread 1,534 posts 1,009 of them by 3 posters.

Those are team threads, by definition they aren't going to have "pull" beyond their supporters.

Anywho, even these examples aren't close to 90% or in shouting distance of this thread's spew.

[Astros33Resurrected]

Originally Posted by darkhorse

Those are team threads, by definition they aren't going to have "pull" beyond their supporters.

Anywho, even these examples aren't close to 90% or in shouting distance of this thread's spew.

don't listen to darkhorse, he doesn't know what hes talking about