The AET Soccer/Football Thread

What a game. I can't remember a better cup final than that one. What else can be said about Stevie G? Ronaldinho may have more skill but Stevie has got the heart and determination like no player I've ever seen. It's not just the quality of his play (especially the goals today) but the timing and importance of his best performances that makes him so special.

Fair shake to the Hammers though. With about five minutes to go (the first time that doubt crept into my mind) I thought about the game and decided that they would be deserving winnners. Yes, all three of their goals were as a result of some dodgy defending but they really played their hearts out and for large portions of the game were the better side.

Hopefully Gonzalez will be the answer to the problem on the right. Although to be fair I'm not sure if he'll get in the team. I think our best midfield formation is Kewell on the left, Momo and Xabi in the center and then Stevie on the right or roaming. If Gonzalez plays on the right perhaps Stevie will play just behind Crouch and we'll have a 4-4-1-1.

Great way to end the season.

YNWA

I wonder if Sheva has spent any time at all talking to his old buddy Rebrov about just how easy a move to England is.

dkst0426 wrote:

I wonder if Sheva has spent any time at all talking to his old buddy Rebrov about just how easy a move to England is.

Good point. I wonder how he would do with less space. The counter football does seem to be made for him. I don't think this type of play is very easy in the primeur league.

Frankie? Frankie Lampard? You there, son? Or are you in your bathroom crying because your boss has decided to pick up another supposed top-notch player to man pretty much the exact same position you play in Chel-ski's midfield?

What's that you say? "Why do we keep adding these hired guns"? Good question. I figured you'd have a good answer, since you've spent the better part of the past couple of seasons feeding the likes of Drogba, Crespo, Robben, and Gudjohnsen.

Oh, wait--you were sobbing, and I missed it. Sorry. No, I apologize, I don't know how much a good German-English dictionary costs nowadays. Maybe you can pick something up during the World Cup.

And yes, I imagine it must be painful indeed to be the lynchpin behind two straight Premiership title runs and be rewarded by your team signing someone else for "depth."

dkst0426 wrote:

Not to mention the pace of the game in general as compared to Serie A or the continental style. This isn't to say one's necessarily better than the other, just to point out that there's a huge difference.

Yup. However he is really good. Than again so is Crespo and he didn't make it.

'Manchester United came in quite early for me but really I saw the possibilities of Chelsea as being much greater,' Ballack told a news conference.

'They are a stronger team and also London has its attractions, particularly as a family man. And in the final analysis it was Chelsea's aims that attracted me.

'Just look at the achievements of the club in the last two years, winning the title twice, and you can see what a super team they are.

Oh look.....even the players are glory-hunters.

Fuck off to London, then, Ballack. I knew I had my misgivings about you potentially coming to United in the first place, and you've confirmed it. I don't wish injury upon players in general based on principle, but it won't make me lose any sleep should something unfortunate befall Michael Bollocks. On the scale of players giving you a reason to hate them, he's making this oh so easy.

Hey that was fun. His reactions are funny.

Did you know that one time at Parma or his club before that;When he saved a penalty he walked round the goal and jumped in the vences. Nothing really weird you would say. Well the madness of it is that he did keep it out of the goal, but the ball still was in play. So while he was stroking his ego the other team could have still scored. They didn't.

Now I've never seen it only heard the story on a show. Does anyone have a link to that bizzare weirdness.


Oh by the way my score is 157 for me 143 for Buffon. Yes!!! I'm in the lead.

Jefferson Farfàn to Hamburg ????
i read in the newspapers today that id they sell VB they wanna buy Klasnic,Skrtel and Farfàn

ladygooddiva wrote:

Jefferson Farfàn to Hamburg ????
i read in the newspapers today that id they sell VB they wanna buy Klasnic,Skrtel and Farfàn

Why on earth would Farfan want to go to Hamburg?
He's better of where he is.

karma defect wrote:

Why on earth would Farfan want to go to Hamburg?
He's better of where he is.

we have a good stuff a cool squad and hamburg is a cool town:D