The Football Thread (Page 7 of 9)

I don't know, the Henry incident got a lot of bad press back here and nobody seemed to mention the Georgia incident. I'd say the Irish penalty in Georgia was an even worse decision than the Henry handball. Granted, it was a much bigger occasion in Paris but still...

I think France just about deserved to go through tbh, even if they are a really poor side and will probably get knocked out early in the world cup they played a bit better than Ireland and part of me hopes that France will start to show their potential in the world cup and give us some nice football to watch. Everyone wants to see the worlds best in the tournament and France have a lot of great players, Ireland don't have many at all, maybe Shay Given perhaps but that is about it.

Well, I expected him to get sacked after the 2006 world cup tbh, but France did so well and he kept his job. This time though I think it'll be different, France just don't have any form at the moment and I don't think it's down to the players for the best part. All the other bullshit like proposing to his gf after losing to Italy and that song the hooker wrote for him has made him a bit of a laughing stock with the press too which doesn't help a lot...

You know what the British press is like, nearly every paper had the story covered on the back page and some of the less papers covering the story at the front page too.

I personally feel he should have his captaincy stripped from him, unacceptable behaviour tbh, gotta feel for Wayne Bridge too who will probably make the team as well. Gerrard for captaincy, Rooney is too young imo.

Terry is gone as captain, Ferdinand tipped to replace him as captain. Interesting decision if so, I know the Italians prefer to have a centre-back as captain but I wouldn't say that Ferdinand is best suited to the job, he's prone to defensive errors and doesn't lead by example (friendly against Holland for example? had a shocking game and if that was a world cup game we'd be out of the cup)

Gerrard should get the captaincy but it's looking unlikely, as a Liverpool fan I can say that he definitely carries the team and did so before Torres arrived so. The same can't be said for Ferdinand.

Oh well, I guess Brazil has saw more absurd things recently, return of Robinho in a helicopter with Pele to Santos anyone?

Robinho showed in his time at Man City that he is only a player that chases the money, that's why he moved there in the first place and at the first press conference announced he was very happy to play for Chelsea, to then be corrected and be told it was Man City he had signed for...

I'm almost 100% sure that if the money wasn't great there would be no way he'd be going back to Santos, 80,000 pounds a week is still a hell of a lot of money, even if it is a cut from his modest 120,000 a week.

Ronaldinho probably won't come back to Gremio anytime soon haha, in his years at Barca he showed he was easily the best player in the world, so he'll always have a club in Europe to fall back on. Robinho has been proven to be somewhat of a flop, too inconsistent to really make a big mark on the league. He did look an amazing player when Man City first signed him, all the rumours of a move to Barca and fallouts fucked with his head a little though.

Finally! After all this time a chiptune forum post worthy signing up for and reply too.
I have been working on starting a chiptune soccer team; its quite surprising how many of the musicans and visualists have played (and still play) soccer.
Right now we have (people living or being to often in NL because of issues)

1. Julian (C-men) *"no f(cking way "* but he will be the team cook for the BBQ
2. Gijs Gieskes *still active soccer player*
3. Anders (Goto80) *stopped when he destroyed his feet but eager to play again, either this or tabletennis in tight shorts*
4. Jeroen (Alles Los) + *Maybe also Jeroen Tel but I did not get the opportunity to ask to him yet.* (together they might make half a soccer player)
5. Pieter - DJ Monza!
6. Me (Rosa Menkman - 10 years of soccer experience but now a bit glitchy maybe)
7. Karl Klomp (I think he is a soccer player too, but maybe this is all in my imagination)
8. Thomas (Firestarter)
9. Jan (Pornologic) + Jelle (the brother and amazing at the bbq)
11. DJ PUCK - he looks like a soccer player
12. COmputer truck - cause he would look funny in soccer shoes
13. TOm Verbruggen - Tok Tek *but he has to be restrained from kickboxing his soccer opponents* 
14. Edwin - UNYX (also more into Kickboxing but would be good for some halftime breakcore )
15> Sander van den Borne _Sander focus_ would be good on the bench for tactics. 

I know there is more of us but I forgot, for now. THis team has it all though, violence, slacker, mega techniques, and super cooking skills. and we want to win.
This is going to be a major nice lineup with sound and visuals - So who challenges us?!

The Dutch are always good with their visuals but I'm that the Brits could outdo you

We bring simplicity on the pitch via our ability to have a bass kick every 2 rows in 63% of our songs.

On the subject of Brazilian football, I don't see any of it nowadays but apparently Adriano has had a good return by all accounts, like you said he was out of confidence at Inter and I think that was a major factor to his game and still is, so it makes sense for him to make a return. When he was high on confidence at the start of his European career in Italy he looked a really promising player and was definitely one of the worlds best by the time he reached Inter.

Liverpool flop Lucas was touted as saying he'd welcome a move back to Corinthians recently, he is another one of the highly-rated youngsters that just hasn't been able to adapt at all. I've seen him play a lot of games this season, I have to say that I'd be happy to see the back of him after this season too haha.