Man Utd vs Chelsea

[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?"

[sjay2k]

You can get 1.89 on Man U to win the Champions League right now on BetFair.

I think this is great value -- I think the market has been skewed by Chelsea's recent home win against United, when United benched Tevez and Ronaldo (who both change the game).

Chelsea are in solid form, but I think United are a cut above and play a better team game. It's hard for me to see the United defence giving up a goal, other than by some freak Drogba strike.

[sjay2k]

1.93 now on BetFair. Seriously ppl get on this.

[thadeas1]

melioris,

unlike alot of englishmen I dont believe that the english team is the best in the world, you are absolutely correct in saying great players like Lampard & Terry suck ass in the england shirt, a decent england manager would relise this and replace them but unfortunately they do perform for club and being at a such a high profile one only fuels their england chances.

I am not doubting that Claude Makelele is a great player and i never really seen him playing when he was at Real Madrid but to say france won the world cup because of one player is a fairly stupid comment, that whole french squad was full of quality players, you only have to look at players like Zidane or Henry and it comes clear why france dominated international football in the late 90's and early 00's.

English football is on it's way up again, it shows as we had 4 teams in the last 8 of champions league and two of those made it to the final. Dont get me wrong as im not saying the english teams are the best in the world but we are going in the right direction and alot of the biggest football names in the world want to play in our league. We do however need to concentrate on the international team and we will see if Mr Capello can help.

As with my poker skills im a low limit donk in terms of football fans, I support Aston Villa and it looks like we are going to lose our club captain Garreth Barry (he comes from my home town and I went to school with his brothers) and if that happens all the hard work done this season will be wasted.

sjay, they are good odds but i still think chelsea will win, i'll bet ya $10 on it.


thadeas.