Essential The Official Football (Soccer) Thread - It's Amad World

[Ari Gold Bawse]

Saw WM today, fantastic stuff. Its the stuff modern sports wishes it could be. All the stories fit to print without the actual bullshyt of a certain team winning ruining the NARRATIVE.

If the Premier League could manipulate all outcomes, it would. Seeing as all commentators don't even care about the games but only the GREAT ADVERT FOR THE PREMIER LEAGUE!

and ESPN and stupid fans in general.

That's why I have no problem with wrestling. It's purer. That's why Iwatch Wrestlemania each year, certain other PPVs if there's nothing going on, and why I will watch Raw tonight.

I stopped watching wrestling years ago after the attitude era but i still watch WM yearly and most times royal rumble

This WM was great, Randy Orton legit nearly breaking his back , I dont even know who that Daniel Bryan is but he had the whole superdome rocking with him

Tottenham telling Sherwood early that hes getting bushes in the summer

 

[Microfracture]

I stopped watching wrestling years ago after the attitude era but i still watch WM yearly and most times royal rumble

That WM was great, Randy Orton legit nearly breaking his back , I dont even know who that Daniel Bryan is but he had the whole superdome rocking with him

Tottenham telling Sherwood early that hes getting bushes in the summer

Yea I was 11 or 12 after the attitude era ended and stopped watching because I figured there was nowhere for it to go but down.

The Rock and Stone Cole carried that sh1t. Chris Jericho was a dope heel. Plus they had way better tag teams...Hardys, Dudleys, Edge & Christian....pure fukkin entertainment

 

[yoyoyo1]

Jozy starts..... for the U21s

I hope Jozmer is start enough to not take this personally, the fact that he didn't refuse to play probably reflects this. I think its even better if he doesn't stay in the senior squad.. gets minutes, goals, etc

 

[Clapsteel O'Neal]

https://s.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/r...com/en-GB/blogs/early-doors/0704es_gooner.jpg

Oh here he pops up


Where you been breh?

 

[Roaden Polynice]

Thing about wrestling is that no one ever explains why it's compelling. I suspect most people just keep watching because they started as kids.

Is it because it's very entertaining? It's something you don't have to think to hard about? Is for the fukkery? Is it for entertainment fukkery sorta how like a Michael Bay movie is? You don't watch Michael Bay movies because they're good but more so because you know you're getting the overblown spectacle? Does wrestling actually reach out to people on a personal level and reveal unknown tidbits about the human condition?

I actually sorta want to know

 

[yoyoyo1]

Thing about wrestling is that no one ever explains why it's compelling. I suspect most people just keep watching because they started as kids.

Is it because it's very entertaining? It's something you don't have to think to hard about? Is for the fukkery? Is it for entertainment fukkery sorta how like a Michael Bay movie is? You don't watch Michael Bay movies because they're good but more so because you know you're getting the overblown spectacle? Does wrestling actually reach out to people on a personal level and reveal unknown tidbits about the human condition?

I actually sorta want to know

Easily! I'll admit I got very excited and caught up in the hype while watching. I consciously let myself be taken to wherever they want me to go. Because its fake, I'm not being manipulated, I'm just investing in this for my own fun. And why not.

 

[SCORCH]

I don't think I'll ever understand the appeal of wrestling.

Even when I was a kid I started watching, then some kid on my bus to school was like, "you know it's all fake right? :"

Little me was

But then thy just made me feel so duped and like a sucker, even a little angry. So I never watched again :ffs:

That's F1 for me.

Breh I went to college with loved that shyte and he'd always try to bring it up, instant

reaction.

I've been mulling over whether to watch that Senna documentary for a good 2 years.

 

[Montez]

Wrestling's loses its appeal after your balls drop

If you watching religiously in your 30s and you have no kids, your hard drives prolly should be confiscated.

 

[Liu Kang]

[...]

Exerpts from Diego Torres' [...]

Is one of the biggest liar "sport journalism" has ever seen. Dude is anti-Real and stays making up stories, nothing to see here.

 

[Arrogance.]

I'm not a fan of racing, don't care for it. But the Senna documentary is good viewing regardless.
By the end it hits you in the feels.

Spurs. £100 million. Won't finish above Arsenal. Happy to see Arsenal fail but can't do shyt about it.

 

[gho3st]

Is one of the biggest liar "sport journalism" has ever seen. Dude is anti-Real and stays making up stories, nothing to see here.

I remember Sid Lowe saying some of the same stuff written on there. Not the "Sons of bytches" and "sobbing" parts but everything else.



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EDIT: I'm not even surprised by Cattermole's reckless tackles anymore you think all those red and yellow cards would make him change ....

 

[Liu Kang]

I remember Sid Lowe saying some of the same stuff written on there. Not the "Sons of bytches" and "sobbing" parts but everything else.

Yeah I was talking more about the over-dramatization of the story.

 

[dennis roadman]

WOW @ that Mou excerpt. Sounds brilliant. We off rooting for teams, we root for coaches now

been on that. my parents are IU alum and i've been bred to hate kentucky, even as a terps fan, but i can't help but gravitate towards calipari

it's the educator in me

this is the most interesting part of the excerpt:

For everyone present it was difficult to work out if what they had seen was a real loss of emotional control or a piece of spontaneous theatre. By improvisation or calculation, Mourinho had ensured that everyone had been on edge. The team had been emotionally stirred up and he had adjusted the final details of his grand tactical plan. All his work, all his energy, the planning of more than nine months, were now focused on one goal: to reach a state of ecstasy in the final of the Copa del Rey in Valencia on 20 April.

The days were filled with impassioned talk until finally 20 April arrived. He talked about politics, about nationalism, about the inexorable division between the Castilian and Catalan peoples. He told the players that they had nothing in common with Barça. He knew, he said, because he had lived in Barcelona for many years, and was well aware of the local culture and the education that Catalan children receive. He explained that people like Puyol, Busquets, Xavi and Piqué had been taught from childhood to distance themselves from Spaniards such as Casillas, Ramos and Arbeloa.

He insisted that his players were wrong if they thought they had made friendships with the Barça players over their years together in the Spanish national team. The Barça players were not their friends because they took advantage of this supposed friendship by betraying the Madrid players, trying to snatch their prestige from them through their manipulation of the press.

They, the Madrid players, were not to participate in this charade any more. They must accept their role as bad guys and should refuse to acknowledge their rivals. Mourinho warned his players that if he saw any of them shaking hands outside of the formalities of the game they would be turning their backs on him — and on their team-mates. Anyone making any such friendly gesture towards the opposition ran the risk of becoming something very much like a traitor.

a) i'm almost sure it was theater. a man that obsessed with control doesn't lose it so blatantly. i'm sure he's had many breakdowns in his own office or in front of his wife, but in a locker room can't see it. b) his "us-against-them" mentality went a little overboard there, but if spain weren't in the midst of their golden generation it probably would've have worked perfectly. if they were still bowing out in early stages with tears in their eyes, those castilians would be ready to dig up franco and make anyone speaking catalan blow his corpse public

Thing about wrestling is that no one ever explains why it's compelling. I suspect most people just keep watching because they started as kids.

Is it because it's very entertaining? It's something you don't have to think to hard about? Is for the fukkery? Is it for entertainment fukkery sorta how like a Michael Bay movie is? You don't watch Michael Bay movies because they're good but more so because you know you're getting the overblown spectacle? Does wrestling actually reach out to people on a personal level and reveal unknown tidbits about the human condition?

I actually sorta want to know

the matches are boring as fukk until the end. the "sport" is just boring. but the fukkery in between is cartoonishly hilarious i dont follow it at all but when nothing's on tv, i'll turn to it only for the confrontations they do on the mic. shyt is hilarious.

 

[EQ.]

Mole was definitely Casillas or Ramos

Casillas going to shower while Mourinho is still ranting

Casillas was like

 

[Roaden Polynice]

I don't watch F1, I tried to get into it. But that said Senna is actually pretty decent. I've read that it has it's flaws, flaws that I couldn't have known as someone who knows nothing about F1, but how they portrayed Senna's last days and his death...I admit I got a little misty eyed