OT: Premiership Forum

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Whitecaps down 1-nil at the half to Portland (great strike from distance for the Portland tally)

 

[puckhead]

i think Camillo must have stolen the ref's girlfriend or something.
he can't buy a call (granted, sometimes he tries a bit hard to get the call)

and then gets a yellow, for basically being a dick in general.

 

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Portland wins the Cascadia Cup (small consolation for missing out on the playoffs) and now Vancouver needs some help from Seattle to lock up a playoff spot.

 

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Seattle up 1-nil over FC Dallas and almost make it 2-nil.

 

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1-1 - Terrible marking on that FC Dallas goal by the Sounders.

 

[puckhead]

Portland wins the Cascadia Cup (small consolation for missing out on the playoffs) and now Vancouver needs some help from Seattle to lock up a playoff spot.

Vancouver 0-6-4 against Portland and Seattle.
not impressed with Barry Robson standing still after a jersey tug in the waning moments.
whining for a call while the odd-men rush goes the other way.

 

[puckhead]

sweet. 3-1 Seattle with 10m left.
looks like the Caps just backed into a playoff spot.

assholes better get their shit together in the next couple of weeks.
I mean "congrats for being the first Canadian team to ever make the MLS playoffs."

 

[puckhead]

oh yeah, almost forgot....


Fuck Dallas!

 

[blindbaby]

Not impressed with Robson, either. A few flashes of brilliance, then boatloads of nothing.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

Not impressed with Robson, either. A few flashes of brilliance, then boatloads of nothing.

His high water mark was the home game against the Galaxy when he went at it with golden balls

so maybe theres hope he shows up for the playoff game

 

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Soccer hooligan jailed for 16 weeks for attacking goalkeeper during English league game

 

[mattola]

ohhh um.. congrats for making the playoffs Whitecaps. I hope you enjoy your one game vs LA.....

 

[puckhead]

ohhh um.. congrats for making the playoffs Whitecaps. I hope you enjoy your one game vs LA.....

shat the bed in the Nutrogena / Nutella / whatever the Canadian Championship thing is
didn't even show up for Cascadia action
yet will go down in history for backing into the MLS dance.

I have tried to support them, but they really haven't shown much life in the back half of the season.
its like they went on a roadtrip, hired a couple of scotsmen, and came back broken.


oh well, still better than TFC, I s'pose

 

[puckhead]

How amazing is this....

Chris Wondolowski = 26 goals
the entire Chivas team = 22 goals

 

[jstewismybastardson]

Regionalism reared its head again on Saturday evening when Napoli visited Juventus for a top-of-the-table clash in Turin. A Tgr Piemonte reporter was suspended by RAI and an investigation launched when, interviewing fans around the ground, he responded to one who suggested that Neapolitans are everywhere "a little like the Chinese" by saying that "you can distinguish them by the smell". That he and his camera crew gave a platform to a couple of Juventus fans to sing a song expressing their desire to see Neapolitans washed by lava from Vesuvius wasn't too clever either.

The chants continued during the match and a section of Napoli supporters, perhaps in retaliation, ended up trashing the toilets at the Juventus arena. Both clubs were fined 7,000 euros, a punishment that La Repubblica considered "ridiculous" particularly in the case of Juventus because if the FIGC is to be thought of as tough on racism and discrimination then they should have been much more severe.

 

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Whitecaps - Galaxy square off November 1st...

Opportunity knocks | Vancouver Whitecaps FC

 

[jstewismybastardson]

Canadian captain Christine Sinclair and coach John Herdman have been nominated for a pair of FIFA honours. Sinclair is amongst the 10 finalists for the FIFA Women's Player of the Year while Herdman is amongst the 10 finalists for FIFA World Coach of the Year for Women's Football.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

a week old but i like this quote from Nesta on the MLS ... not the first euro to remark on the fitness levels of mls players ... its why alot of the oldies cant cut it (*cough* Barry Robson *cough*)

Montreal Impact defender Alessandro Nesta, speaking to an Italian media company, has described players in Major League Soccer as “animals” on the pitch. The former Lazio and Milan defender, who is now 36, joined the MLS club this summer.

“There is a very Italian mentality here, the level is very high physically and they are real ‘animals’ on the field,” Nesta told Sportmediaset. “There is less pressure here than in Serie A, which I don’t miss one little bit. I’ve settled in very well, my family is happy and the club is solid. I got a lot of help from my teammates Marco Di Vaio, Matteo Ferrari and [Nelson] Rivas.”

When asked whether he would consider returning to a European club on loan during the MLS offseason like David Beckham and Thierry Henry have done in the past, Nesta said, “No, I have already booked my vacation in Miami! I will return one day, but as a Coach.”

 

[SLY]

Italy schmitaly. Cheating bastards.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

may the tears of 80 million germans continue to flow for eternity