Essential The Official Football (Soccer) Thread - We are SO back, the Premier League returns!

[Gilver]

We need a :lazy: smiley, i would use it a lot.


It should be a picture of Marcel Desailly's face.

 

[Scottie Drippin]

Yeah but i can chill out to anything, doesn't have to be wavy

And yeah, i was going to write a "Who the Black American man should be supporting in Euro 2012" thing, going through the teams etc but decided i couldn't really be bothered

I think i'll just write something on tuesday in reaction to England v France.

I think we'd be able to drop some piff if we did previews for games while "taking the piss" so to speak.

 

[Gilver]

Ok bro, i just thought of my first article title.

"Why a victory for Greece, is a victory for all Africa"

 

[Gilver]

Now i'm stuck.

 

[Scottie Drippin]

If such an economically crippled country can win then African nations have no excuse, imo.

 

[the artist known az]

I wish I was off tomorrow to see the kickoff of Euro 2012

 

[Ohms Law]

Ok bro, i just thought of my first article title.

"Why a victory for Greece, is a victory for all Africa"

If such an economically crippled country can win then African nations have no excuse, imo.

 

[mastermind]

why Japan will win Euros?

 

[yoyoyo1]

excited for tomorrow

national anthems always get me hyped

its more than just random rich people assembling rich teams for ego purposes


speaking of rich teams, anyone buy tickets to the two friendlies at yankee stadium yet? $100 for both games, and decent seats


Chelsea FC vs Paris St. Germain FC
Sun, Jul 22, 2012 7:00 PM || Yankee Stadium

Real Madrid vs. AC Milan
Wed, Aug 8, 2012 8:00 PM || Yankee Stadium

not sure how many 'stars' will show up to that first game tbh.

 

[SubZeroDegrees]

Will miss the first match, but will watch the later one. Can wait to hear Mike Ballack analysis.

 

[Gilver]

Ok, i wroted this, i'll pm it to the head honcho, and get it on this non existent main page, assuming they aint socca racialists lolz.

I have literally not proof read this at all, so fukk you if you spot mistakes.

And as usual, i got bored towards the end and just wanted to wrap it uppp.

Why a victory for Greece on Friday, is a victory ‘for all Africa’


When Peter Drury uttered those (sort of)infamous words during ITV’s coverage of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, little did he realise that not only had his attempt at immortalising himself in a soundbite via football commentary had been moderately successful, but he had also spawned an occasionally used meme type…thing. Because friends these beautiful words do not only signify the selfish efforts of the modern day commentator to create himself a catchphrase of sorts. They signify that a blow has been struck against evil, that prejudice is being beaten in the street like it stole a sack of potatoes in an African village, and that Racism, that ancient beast that the stories tell of, has been slain for another generation. Unless they equalise, then we must be brave and fight on.

So what does this have to do with Euro 2012 I imagine for the sake of this ‘article’ I hear you ask. Well, this summer the competition has the honour of being hosted in eastern Europe, specifically in Poland and Ukraine. Now if you’re American, and you don’t really care about any other country apart from your own, let me give you a little insight into our dear friends in the shivery lands of PolKraine(Note: PolKraine is not a country). Out there in the barren lands of eastern Europe they have but one exportable commodity, and that is racism. They love the stuff, can’t get enough of it, and if they had their way, you’d be racist too.

Now I know I said exportable, but I lied, they don’t have the means to export it, they‘re really poor you see. So they’ve waited in the shadows for decades, just waiting for someone silly enough to bestow upon them the opportunity they need. Then they’ll show the world, they’ll show everyone exactly why they fought Hitler tooth and nail in WWII, exactly why…whoa whoa wait a minute, I got that wrong, I think they were on Hitlers’ side, that’s the only way this makes sense. Anyway, as shown in the BBC’s recent panorama program(*link presumably here*), both countries have serious problems with racist abuse and even racially motivated assaults in the stands. The racist abuse is said to be so widespread that even families of black players competing in the tournament have refused to set foot in either country, in fear of being called bad names or getting a hammer to the face or something(yeah, I saw that video, oh gosh). Ukrainian and Polish officials(I guess?) have been quick to play the size of the problem down, some accusing the journalism of being sensational, some just straight up denying it in a Comical Ali like fashion.

I mean, they may be right, right? This could have been blown well out of proportion, maybe they’re really a cracking bunch of lads who’ve been grossly misunderstood. Yeah, no. On the eve of the tournament, a racism storm was a brewin’ in the camp of the Netherlands in Krakow, and this time it wasn’t between their own squad members. As the Dutch team were partaking in an open training session, the black members of their squad, players such as Manchester City’s Nigel de Jong, were subjected to monkey chants by members of a 25’000 crowd. The Dutch responded by moving their preparations away from the spectators in order to avoid the chants, something which won’t be possible inside a full stadium I would have thought. "At least now we know what we can encounter," Dutch coach Bert van Marwijk dryly remarked "Very atmospheric."

Uefa took the option of complete denial, even going as far as suggesting a couple of alternate theories(got to cover all the bases). The first theory being that a very small part of the crowd was in fact protesting the omission of Krakow as a host city. And the other that the Wisla fans(who‘s stadium the Dutch were training in) simply did not like the fact that anyone but their own team would use their stadium and were simply booing the Dutch as a whole. Upon hearing this theory however, Dutch captain Mark van Bommel reacted with understandable anger "You need to open your ears," he said. "If you did hear it, and don't want to hear it, that is even worse.".

Theorise as many incidents as you like Uefa, one thing is for sure, them there eastern euro’s are properly racist. Let’s just thank god it isn’t in Russia, imagine they had a mojor tournament…oh wait. So come on Greece, serve up these pasty chaps a bit of what you served up in 2004, bore these confused individuals into submission and make the world a better place. Ok so that won’t happen, but make ‘em mad, at least.

Bye x x

 

[Gilver]

I think it was Drury anyway





Even has a "if a better team did this, we'd wank ourselves in to oblivion m8s" type cliche.

Cracking piece of commentary all round.

 

[yoyoyo1]

I will remember that celebration for the rest of my life

 

[yoyoyo1]

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what do you think about your boys, eddie-san

play jordan at home tomorrow

 

[yoyoyo1]

love watching highlights of these lesser-known qualifiers