The European football thread - Page 19

Sdpm100 · 08-10-2006, 05:58 AM

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Boavista

And?

bababui · 08-10-2006, 05:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Sdpm100

And?

Who the hell do you think i am?? RMY?? I was lucky to get one!!

theasfl · 08-10-2006, 06:03 AM

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This thread needs some standings/tables...

Here's a trivia question - there have only been five teams that have ever won the Portuguese championship - Sporting Clube de Portugal (Sporting Lisbon), Benfica, and Porto are three, who are the other two?

CF Os Belenenses

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bababui · 08-10-2006, 06:03 AM

I'd have to cheat and look it up to get the others, and i dont want to do that....sorry.

Sdpm100 · 08-10-2006, 06:07 AM

Well I thought it would be tough, because Belenenses only title was in '46, but it wasn't. No more questions from me then.

The odd thing is that all five teams come from either Lisbon or Porto.

bababui · 08-10-2006, 06:08 AM

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Well I thought it would be tough, because Belenenses only title was in '46, but it wasn't. No more questions from me then.

The odd thing is that all five teams come from either Lisbon or Porto.

Why not?? It was a great question. And for those of us glued to our TV's your questions are a welcome relief.

theasfl · 08-10-2006, 06:11 AM

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Well I thought it would be tough, because Belenenses only title was in '46, but it wasn't. No more questions from me then.

it was tough it took me a while to "remember" the answer...I highly doubt anyone outside of Portugal would know that; certainly no purebred American.

Sdpm100 · 08-10-2006, 06:12 AM

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Why not?? It was a great question. And for those of us glued to our TV's your questions are a welcome relief.

Because my question, which I thought was difficult, proved not to be. Instead of being a challenge it's just clogging up the thread as it was answered so easily.

bababui · 08-10-2006, 06:15 AM

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Because my question, which I thought was difficult, proved not to be. Instead of being a challenge it's just clogging up the thread as it was answered so easily.

Well then. best to try again.

Gastric ReFlux · 08-10-2006, 12:05 PM

FA Community Shield this Sunday.

ukhotstove · 08-10-2006, 01:53 PM

Update on the ever increasing saga which is Mr Chimbonda at Wigan, last night he played for Wigan against Rosenborg and played on the right wing (he's usually a right back) he set up the first in a 2-1 away win and by all accounts had a great game.

Maybe we should hold out for £7 million now instead of £6 million seeing he's not only a top right back but now we can cal him a top right winger

bababui · 08-10-2006, 02:04 PM

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Update on the ever increasing saga which is Mr Chimbonda at Wigan, last night he played for Wigan against Rosenborg and played on the right wing (he's usually a right back) he set up the first in a 2-1 away win and by all accounts had a great game.

Maybe we should hold out for £7 million now instead of £6 million seeing he's not only a top right back but now we can cal him a top right winger

Maybe its also a sign that he is staying. It sucks that usually smaller teams cant keep their best players. It would be nice if Wigan bucks that trend.

bababui · 08-10-2006, 02:09 PM

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ukhotstove · 08-12-2006, 06:59 AM

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Maybe its also a sign that he is staying. It sucks that usually smaller teams cant keep their best players. It would be nice if Wigan bucks that trend.

imo it's all about greed, most of these players who leave smaller clubs leave because they will get higher wages, all this they want to leave because they want to play for better clubs is just rubbish because they don't play as many games examples being Duff, Wright Phillips etc.

ukhotstove · 08-12-2006, 07:17 AM

bababui sorry not put anything up the last couple week's but been nothing in the paper, they must only put stuff in every couple of week's when it's the off season.

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After a season to forget last year Leigh RMI are building a team fit for the Sports Village Stadium.

On balance, pre-season went well with wins at St Helens Town and Altrincham and draws with Clitheroe and Rossendale but the unbeaten run dramatically ended last Saturday with a crushing 4-0 defeat by FC United of Manchester (the break away supporters of Man Utd when the Glasiers took over)

They bounced back on Tuesday beating Skelmersdale 2-1 and a number of young reserves put in encouraging performances.

Manager Andy Nelson said "The worst thing about the FC United defeat is they fielded five players I've released in the past and there may have been an element of them raising their game to stick it to their old manager.

The squad as been strengthened by the addition of new players and some long term injuries should return.

Gavin Lee is fully fit again and we've brought in Mark Maddox from Altrincham so there's plenty of experience in the squad now." he added.

Promising new forward Dan Owen lifted the team when he came on in the second half against FC United and could start the first game of the season away against Vauxhall Motors this Saturday.

Chairman Bill Taylor said "The manager has to work miracles with the income we get here but the players are very loyal."

ukhotstove · 08-12-2006, 07:32 AM

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Originally Posted by bababui

Maybe its also a sign that he is staying. It sucks that usually smaller teams cant keep their best players. It would be nice if Wigan bucks that trend.

Looking from the outside and just guessing with what I've heard and seen my take on it is that Chimbonda's been given bad advice by his agent Willie McKay, McKay is regarded as one of the worst agents to deal with.

At Wigan he had Chimbonda, Roberts and Camara on his books and all at the end of last season were reported to have said they wanted to move and were unsettled, wierd though at the start of last season only Wigan Athletic would take a chance on these 3 players.

Camara has since stated though that he want's to stay at Wigan as he is tired of keep switching clubs, Roberts as been sold to Blackburn and who knows what will happen with Chimbonda but my thinking is he will stay as he belived all the hype that Man Utd, Juventus, Milan, Spurs and so on were interested in him but apart from Spurs there's been no real interest in him after the way he and his agent have handled the situation.

Rumour as it that Latics will not deal with any players in the future who have McKay as their agent, personally think it's about time a team stands up against agents like Mckay.

ukhotstove · 08-12-2006, 08:14 AM

Todays game is.

Stoke City 0 v 0 Birmingham City.

Stoke City are one of the giants of yesteryear with the great Stanley Mathews being a one time player but those years have long gone, Stoke at the moment are in 13th place with 3 points from 2 games.

Birmingham City are a sleeping giant who got relegated last season from the premiership, one of their claims to fame is selling Trevor Francis to Notts Forest for £1 million in 1979 for him to become the first £1 million player in England they lie in 4th place with 6 points from 2 games.

Britannia Stadium, Stoke.
Capacity 28,400

Attachment 52945

Stoke City 4-4-2

1 GK S Simonsen
2 RB C Hoefkens
5 CB M Duberry
6 CB C Hill (booked 75 min)
31 LB C Dickinson
7 RM L Chadwick (booked 81 min)
8 CM D Brammer
17 CM D Russell
12 LM P Sweeney
9 ST M Sidibe
15 ST V Pericard

Subs: 10 ST H Sigurdsson, 26 B A Pulis, 30 ST M Paterson (Chadwick 92 min), 11 M K Harper, 33 GK R Duggan

Birmingham City 4-4-2

1 GK M Taylor
2 RB S Kelly
16 CB O Tebily (booked 88 min)
21 CB N'Gotty
3 LB M Sadler
S RM Larsson
26 CM F Muamba
22 CM D Johnson
12 LM Nafti
27 ST N Bendtner
9 ST M Forssell (missed penalty 58 min)

Subs: 13 GK C Doyle, 8 CM D Dunn (Larsson 54), 4 CB M Taylor, 17 CM S Clemence (Forssel 84 min), 6 ST N Danns (Muamba 68 min)

Ref: R Beeby

ukhotstove · 08-12-2006, 10:34 AM

Poor game really, probably the right result Birmingham were better when Dunn came on. Very poor first half but thank God it got better in the second half well least a little bit.

Ok of to see Wigan play Vitesse Arnhem, Wigan team is.

1 GK Kirkland
2 RB Boyce
3 LB Baines
4 CM Scarner
5 CB Hall
6 CB De Zeeuw
7 ST Camara
8 CM Landzaat
9 ST Heskey
10 LM McCulloch
11 RM Chimbonda

Looks of it Chimbonda will be playing right wing again, Arnhem team is.

1 Wapenaar
2 Verhaegh
3 Sansoni
4 Knol
5 Hersi
6 Due
7 Lazovic
8 Junker
9 Janssen
10 Schaff
11 Blondelle

No idea what possisions they play apart from Wapenaar GK.

ukhotstove · 08-12-2006, 10:39 AM

p.s. Anybody wants to listen to Latics game's here's a link, you'll have to see if it works where you are, just click on the "listen live" at the top.

http://www.wishfm.net/

bababui · 08-12-2006, 01:26 PM

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bababui sorry not put anything up the last couple week's but been nothing in the paper, they must only put stuff in every couple of week's when it's the off season.

Thanks for the update UKHS. After being saved from relegation by a miracle things indeed do seem to be looking up. Altrincham was an ECNational team last season, werent they?

It was a bad loss to FC Manchester. I just checked out their website and they won the non-league club of the year award. Foolish, those breakaway fans. Maybe I am getting it wrong, but didnt their struggle to keep Glazer out force him to keep raising his offers which only made the teams debts worse? It seems to me that Man U no longer has the financial resources to bring in the players they used to get. And it will take years for FC Man to reach the Premiership, if at all. It was a lose/lose.

This is the second strangest football player I've ever seen. Is he man? Is he animal? Is he something else??

08-10-2006, 01:53 PM	#371
ukhotstove Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: North of England Gods Country Posts: 7,175	Update on the ever increasing saga which is Mr Chimbonda at Wigan, last night he played for Wigan against Rosenborg and played on the right wing (he's usually a right back) he set up the first in a 2-1 away win and by all accounts had a great game. Maybe we should hold out for £7 million now instead of £6 million seeing he's not only a top right back but now we can cal him a top right winger __________________ Detroit Diesel Dynasty San Antonio Calzones of Laredo Dynasty

08-12-2006, 08:14 AM	#377
ukhotstove Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: North of England Gods Country Posts: 7,175	Todays game is. Stoke City 0 v 0 Birmingham City. Stoke City are one of the giants of yesteryear with the great Stanley Mathews being a one time player but those years have long gone, Stoke at the moment are in 13th place with 3 points from 2 games. Birmingham City are a sleeping giant who got relegated last season from the premiership, one of their claims to fame is selling Trevor Francis to Notts Forest for £1 million in 1979 for him to become the first £1 million player in England they lie in 4th place with 6 points from 2 games. Britannia Stadium, Stoke. Capacity 28,400 Attachment 52945 Stoke City 4-4-2 1 GK S Simonsen 2 RB C Hoefkens 5 CB M Duberry 6 CB C Hill (booked 75 min) 31 LB C Dickinson 7 RM L Chadwick (booked 81 min) 8 CM D Brammer 17 CM D Russell 12 LM P Sweeney 9 ST M Sidibe 15 ST V Pericard Subs: 10 ST H Sigurdsson, 26 B A Pulis, 30 ST M Paterson (Chadwick 92 min), 11 M K Harper, 33 GK R Duggan Birmingham City 4-4-2 1 GK M Taylor 2 RB S Kelly 16 CB O Tebily (booked 88 min) 21 CB N'Gotty 3 LB M Sadler S RM Larsson 26 CM F Muamba 22 CM D Johnson 12 LM Nafti 27 ST N Bendtner 9 ST M Forssell (missed penalty 58 min) Subs: 13 GK C Doyle, 8 CM D Dunn (Larsson 54), 4 CB M Taylor, 17 CM S Clemence (Forssel 84 min), 6 ST N Danns (Muamba 68 min) Ref: R Beeby __________________ Detroit Diesel Dynasty San Antonio Calzones of Laredo Dynasty Last edited by ukhotstove; 03-29-2007 at 12:45 PM.

08-12-2006, 10:34 AM	#378
ukhotstove Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: North of England Gods Country Posts: 7,175	Poor game really, probably the right result Birmingham were better when Dunn came on. Very poor first half but thank God it got better in the second half well least a little bit. Ok of to see Wigan play Vitesse Arnhem, Wigan team is. 1 GK Kirkland 2 RB Boyce 3 LB Baines 4 CM Scarner 5 CB Hall 6 CB De Zeeuw 7 ST Camara 8 CM Landzaat 9 ST Heskey 10 LM McCulloch 11 RM Chimbonda Looks of it Chimbonda will be playing right wing again, Arnhem team is. 1 Wapenaar 2 Verhaegh 3 Sansoni 4 Knol 5 Hersi 6 Due 7 Lazovic 8 Junker 9 Janssen 10 Schaff 11 Blondelle No idea what possisions they play apart from Wapenaar GK. __________________ Detroit Diesel Dynasty San Antonio Calzones of Laredo Dynasty

08-12-2006, 10:39 AM	#379
ukhotstove Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: North of England Gods Country Posts: 7,175	p.s. Anybody wants to listen to Latics game's here's a link, you'll have to see if it works where you are, just click on the "listen live" at the top. http://www.wishfm.net/ __________________ Detroit Diesel Dynasty San Antonio Calzones of Laredo Dynasty

08-10-2006, 06:03 AM	#364
bababui Hall Of Famer Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 14,147 Infractions: 0/1 (1)	I'd have to cheat and look it up to get the others, and i dont want to do that....sorry.

08-10-2006, 06:07 AM	#365
Sdpm100 Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2005 Location: Cheltenham, England Posts: 7,644	Well I thought it would be tough, because Belenenses only title was in '46, but it wasn't. No more questions from me then. The odd thing is that all five teams come from either Lisbon or Porto.

08-10-2006, 12:05 PM	#370
Gastric ReFlux Hall Of Famer Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Member #3409 Posts: 8,350	FA Community Shield this Sunday.