Football (Soccer) Thread

[clandestino]

Well a 2-0 loss, right in injury time, is almost an upset.

Now I feel somewhat better about last friday's Portuguese 2-1 win against Luxembourg.

[Josephus]

And Canada sux, and no referee to blame it on.

[Grey Fox]

And Canada sux, and no referee to blame it on.

It's the man team right?

[Gups]

Justice for the 92. At last.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/sep/12/hillsborough-disaster-david-cameron-apologises

[Josephus]

And Canada sux, and no referee to blame it on.

It's the man team right?

Yup.

[Grey Fox]

And Canada sux, and no referee to blame it on.

It's the man team right?

Yup.

So, we blame the goalkeeper.

[Liep]

Krohn-Dehli gets his first goal in Spain. And is that Comic Sans on Celta's jerseys?

[Syt]

Krohn-Dehli gets his first goal in Spain. And is that Comic Sans on Celta's jerseys?

Not sure, but it seems they put the names of 10,000 fans on their jerseys:

http://footballfashion.org/wordpress/2012/06/04/celta-de-vigo-li-ning-201213-home-jersey/

[Jacob]

Krohn-Dehli gets his first goal in Spain. And is that Comic Sans on Celta's jerseys?

Not sure, but it seems they put the names of 10,000 fans on their jerseys:

That's kind of cool.

... and they're sponsored by a Chinese brand!

[FunkMonk]

So Liverpool puff piece 'Being: Liverpool' premiers today on FOX in the USA. FOX must be fucking pissed at Liverpool being such crap at the start of the season. I'm sure they were hoping that they start the season on fire instead of having the worst start in over 100 years. Fuck you FOX.

[Pedrito]

Quagliarella

L.

[Josephus]

Quagliarella

L.

As a neutral, I'm glad I picked the right games to watch this week. Watched the Madrid Man City game yesterday and the Chelea Juve game today. Both good games to watch.

[FunkMonk]

Chelsea look good this year.

[FunkMonk]

I know that not everyone got the same commentary I did for the Man City - Arsenal game this past weekend but when Arsenal conceded a goal on a corner the English color commentator when apoplectic about zonal marking and how terrible it is. Dude went on for the whole game complaining about zonal marking. I wanted to throw my remote through the TV.

Anyway, a good piece by Michael Cox on why it's not that easy to dismiss zonal marking on corners.    http://soccernet.espn.go.com/blog/_/name/tacticsandanalysis/id/225?cc=5901

[Josephus]

Must have had the same feed as you. Funny thing is the play by play guy asked him "what is it exactly about zonal marking you don't like" and his response was very vague and wishy washy.