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Ha! Awesome video! The French really seem to be very satirical against their domestic football

Our refs let a lot go that other European referees would penalize for. Obviously, it makes for much better viewing but when it comes to any international competitions we end up getting screwed for being too physical. It's a tricky balance to maintain and I'd say the British refs need to get more harsh on the players.

Liverpool have pretty much pulled out of the race for Bordeaux striker Chamakh today which I'm a bit disappointed about... His record is pretty good but I don't know whether he'd hold up in the English leagues (because I think he'll end up at Arsenal eventually). Any thoughts on your arch-rival's striker Dubmood? 5-1 yesterday too!

Yeah, Americans will never get the game unfortunately (or not depending on which way one is inclined haha)...

I think the main reason why most other countries prefer football is because it doesn't stop and start as much, the ball spends more time in play during a game as well. You can argue that Basketball and Hockey spend a lot of time with the ball in play but it is just end to end and lacks any real beauty to it (imo).

I'm a watcher of American football sometimes, I saw most of the playoffs and I'm surprised the Jets didn't go further but I guess their defense wasn't strong enough. Surprised that the Saints won the game last night, obviously had a great offense going into the game via Brees but I didn;t think the defense could hold up. For Manning to throw an interception on that play to Wayne (I think?) summed it up for me.

Dubmood, I can't find a video link but I remember it happening at the time, very very funny stuff. Lol at the accuracy of the puppet of Barthez. I'll try hunt out at least an audio clip but I suspect nobody captured the moment unfortunately

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.

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?

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.

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.

You can tell I don't get much chance to watch French football

We had the brother of OM's Cheyrou I think at Liverpool a few years back, he was a real flop of a signing, probably signed the wrong one hehe. Heinze and Taiwo were both good players in the premier league, especially Heinze, I was really surprised when Man U sold him... I know Mandanda got dropped from the French team recently for the Lyon keeper (name escapes me) but I think he'll make the squad overall, most of France's best goalkeepers are aging a bit now...

I'd say Dutch football is probably on a par with French football, maybe a little worse in recent years. The Russians have got really good on a club level over the past 10 years or so though, I mean Rubin Kazan came out of nowhere to get some really good results in the Champions League, not to mention CSKA and and Zenit winning the UEFA cup. Money talks I guess