Man Utd vs Chelsea

[lightfungus]

After I saw the OP, I knew RD was in here somewhere with these comments. Thanks for coming through buddy.

It's fun to make fun of it, but I played soccer for like 7 years...however, I stopped when I was older. When I watched the World Cup 2 summers ago(?) I had been removed from the game for a while but all that fucking flopping drove me nuts. It was compelling to watch, but I was just as turned off by the flopping as I enjoyed it.

Unfortunately, it is into my favorite sport and it really pisses me off.

Man up, you turf-hugging bitches. Do you honestly feel good about yourself trying to draw fouls by fake-falling? It would make me cry myself to sleep if I did that shit...

[jhill3535]

I am glad the spurs are going down IMO

[thadeas1]

lol you do relise this is a poker forum.

seriously thou, Kurn you are right, rugby is not played on rugs (imagine all those carpet burns lol) but rugby is more like American football (without the pansy pads) so therefore would be in the passball or dare i say it handball (they should invent a game called that lol) name group.

Jhill, good spot with the wordorigins, i did not know that and therefore stand corrected (actually im sitting but you knew that as at my computer lol).

let the debate continue.

thadeas

[Talking Poker]

OK, I'll chime in:

You seriously have never heard of ?

[thadeas1]

lol @ TP, ofcourse i heard of handball, its played with hands and a ball.

so why aint American Football called running along with a egg shaped object in your hands ball?

thanks for chimming in thou lol

thadeas.

[melioris]

this game has good elements, bad elements, and better elements.


The good elements. It should be a good game. ManU probably will will, although I hate that little bitch C. Ronaldo. Both teams represent all that is bad about globalization in sports, although as soon as Chelsea got all that Russian Mob money they bought the best player in the world at the time to build a team around, Claude Makelele.

The bad is that now every time I deal with the any Brits this game will be cited as 'proof' that the Premier league is the best in the world.

The better news is that when pain in the ass Brits pull that shit it will be fun to bring up Euro 08.

[Talking Poker]

Because "running along with a egg shaped object in your hands ball" is a stupid name.

You know, you're really starting to remind me of a former forum member. I'll leave it at that for now.

But why does the name of the game have to describe it anyway? I've never understood people who can't get beyond the name of a game.

"Tennis? My God, WHAT IS THAT?"
"Wait. Checkers? What in the hell is checkers??? Oh, you mean THAT game. Yes, we call that 'jumping the little round pieces diaganolly' where I come from."

You must really hate poker games like Stud, Razz, and especially Pineapple. I assume you only play Triple Draw and other aptly named games.

[thadeas1]

Chillout TP, this whole thread and especially the ps part was purpose to produce some contravesy and some responses.

You are right the name doesn't actually need to mean anything but it helps if it does i.e. Skateboarding, the original idea was attaching a skate to a board, snowboarding, using a board of some sort across snow.

I know these aint great arguments for names ect but its helps and in the UK we play football with our feet.

melioris, Claude Makelele as the best player? have you been inhaling some tobacco products that maybe you shouldn't have?

thadeas.

p.s. TP if i remind you of someone in the past on this forum, what happened to that person? and am i gonna get banned lol.

[melioris]

I appreciate that you started this thread, I really do. But I got a lot of shit going on right now so I have been a grumpy bitch lately and I can't help myself here.

this is exactly the type of shit I can't stand about brits when they talk about football/soccer/whatever the fuck you want to call it. There is a reason that France won the world cup, that Real Madrid was the best team in the world for the early 00s, that Chelski had immediate success, that Lampard and Terry can dominate for club but suck ass for country, and that reason is Claude Makelele. Although the English "invented" the game, as a nation they display a shocking, yet predictable, ignorance of how it is best played. I think it is without question that in the early 00s if you were going to build a team from scratch, the player that would be picked first (ie the most important player on the team, ie the best player) would be Claude Makelele.

Zidane said it best when Madrid sold Makelele for Beckham: "Why put another layer of gold paint on the Bentley when you are losing the entire engine?"