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Here it is at full speed. I think Byram is lucky Bale pulled that off and that it happened so fast, otherwise he could easily have gotten a straight red for that challenge.
The best part watching it live was the collective "WHOA" from the crowd that was audible on the FSC broadcast.
All of this has been going on more or less since he arrived, though it was masked to some extent by last season's title success. What is new is Marca turning on Florentino Perez, who has used the paper as his personal mouthpiece for more than ten years. That could be an indication that Marca fears that Perez himself has fallen under Mou's Rasputin-like spell, or (if you are really conspiratorial) is merely part of a long game by Perez and his buddies at the paper designed to make sure that Madrid will be rid of Mourinho, but will not have to pay the tens of millions of compensation he and his team are due if he is canned mid-season. The fact that Perez' vehement outrage at the Marca story wasn't accompanied by the slightest hint of legal action can be seen as support for the latter hypothesis.
But he'll be in the 18 tomorrow against Norwich.
What do Juventus want with Balotelli? That seems a weird one.
Indeed. It's a bit curious to me that France Football was cynical (realistic?) enough about FIFA to go through an extensive investigation into the crookery of the Qatar bid but then apparently has any faith whatsoever that submitting their findings to the very organization they say they've exposed as crooks won't just disappear into Sepp Blatter's inbox until the end of time.
Ah, I need to work on my cynicism--I wasn't prepared to go straight to bribes of political leaders.
I'm sure they realize the hopelessness of it, but what are the alternatives? Who governs FIFA?
Villas-Boas has some outstanding hair in that photo. Outstanding.
I get the feeling he's like those NFL coaches that sleep on the couch in their offices.
Reportedly, that's pretty much exactly what he did at Chelsea; had a cot set up in his office at the training ground and everything.
I figured that was the intent, given that FF made the investigation and summary findings public.
We could film that and have the soccer version of The Mighty Boosh.
And of course, like in every season of The Real World, you have to have profiles:
Arsène, 63, France: Some say the game has passed him by, but this forceful Frenchman is out to prove he can still win a trophy. Any trophy. Seriously.
"Big Sam," 58, the Midlands: If you think Puck and Pedro fought it out, wait until you see Big Sam argue with AVB about the high line!
Rafa, 52, Spain: Forced to co-exist with a team he once hated, will he take it out on the rooommates?
Martin, 57, Netherlands: Will living in The Real World house force the dour Dutchman to ligthen up?
'Arry, 65, London: Don't ask us what we had to pay to get 'Arry in the 'ouse!
André Villas-Boas, 35, Portugal: Stay tuned to see what ladies this young, hip European can bring home!
I can't say he'll be missed.
Does this include players (like the alleged Casillas and Ramos)?
I wonder how much of the issue is about Madrid and how much is that a team full of galactically-priced transfers (their confidence buttressed, as you note, by bigger trophies from elsewhere) has trouble buying into any coach's program.
The lusophone/spaniard tension sounds bad.
He doesn't seem like the type to give ####-all about being implicated in that. Maybe he's ill or something.
Balotelli is a Milan player.
Never would have thought Tevez would last longer at City than Balotelli. The tabloids will miss him.
He was hampered by injuries for much of last year; it really was a horrible year for him. When healthy, though, even in league play he made me wonder if he has much besides his height and speed, and it's good speed, not Bale-level blazing speed.
It's a bummer they couldn't make it work, as the guy is absurdly talented. I will miss the penalties, that's for sure.
He's a really powerful runner, though, and he's so quick for a guy as tall as he is. I can see why Stoke want him but, yeah, he's got a lot of room to improve which is why I'm worried he won't play much. Maybe they'll loan him out for the rest of this year to get him some playing time.
I don't think it is so much buying into any coach's program as it is accepting the type of absolute fealty that Mourinho appears to demand and buying into the "us against the world" ideology he has brought to every club he's managed. Like their counterparts at Barcelona, Madrid's Spaniards believe that they should be more involved in the "project". And the whole Manichean world view doesn't work well when the embodiment of "evil" is full of guys with whom they've won three major trophies for Spain.
Pretty much all of this was foreseen as a possibility as soon as Mourinho began to talk to Madrid. Perez ignored it on the basis that Mourinho was the most likely person to deliver the tenth European Cup that he (and the supporters) value over all other trophies. That obviously hasn't worked out, and it's virtually impossible to see Mourinho staying after this season, even if he somehow delivers the trophy against the odds.
It looks like a Chelsea reunion is in the cards, right? Or would he go to Man City to work with Pep's buddy. Looking at Mourinho's career after he left Porto, has he really achieved any more than you'd expect a manager at those clubs to achieve? Chelsea, Inter and Real have all spent an obscene amount of money while he was their manager. Inter still haven't recovered. I don't want to dismiss him as I do think he's a great manager, but I think the myth about him gets to be a bit much. What good is hiring a genius if you still have to outspend everyone, too?
Moratti has been throwing money out the windows for years, and yet their performances in Europe before Mourinho came (virtually all of which I saw live) were profoundly meh (though a bit better than what Mancini has done with Man City in the Champions League).
I agree. That team seemed like they overachieved to win that title. Maybe even to win the consecutive league titles, too. I was also impressed with how the Cup-winning team did it; it seemed that everyone bought in to the team plan to an astonishing degree. I had not seen much of Eto'o before that year, but he sure played a lot of defense for a scorer of his ability. Though it really helped that Milito seemed to hit every crucial shot that year.
Jackie McNamara is leaving Partick for Dundee United.
I can see this argument, but it's not as if that team wasn't loaded with talent. I agree that getting through Barca was a hell of an achievement. Maybe their lukewarm CL efforts under Mancini says something about him as much as it does Mourinho? He's not exactly losing the choker label at Man City re: the Cup.
Anything can still happen in Group C in the AFCON today. All 4 teams have a chance to advance. Right now Nigeria are dead even with Zambia. Same GD, same goals forced, same goals allowed and they drew when they played each other. How does it get settled if it ends like that?
Not Jackie!
Number of cards, I think. Fewer is better.
Reverse Twatball, basically.
Ethiopia's No. 1 goalkeeper was sent off earlier in the tournament, too! Somebody phone Harry Redknapp, because they're down to the bare bones.
EDIT: Coke to the bear.
South Africa - Mali
Cote d'Ivoire - Nigeria
Ghana - Cape Verde
Burkina Faso - Winner of Togo/Tunisia
None of the three are Ethiopian.
I'm generally pro Harry, but this is one thing he did that drove me crazy. So, so dumb.
When I am playing FM, I usually don't name any.
I will get ursus a Coke next time I am in the break room.
Jozy has scored a penalty as AZ are running riot in the Dutch Cup.
Not only is he out of favor, he's out of the country! He's been loaned to a club in Turkey.
Villa down 2-0 to Chateauneuf within 35 minutes.
Reports that Altidore has been subjected to monkey chants away to Den Bosch in the Cup, but has insisted on playing on (though kicker is now saying the match has been suspended).
edit: Nope, it was Adam Maher with the 5th goal.
Shooty it was Maher.
Edit: City have gotten desperate. They've put on Scott Sinclair!
Lazio in the final.
Pretty good chance for some guys (notably Omar Gonzalez) to show they deserve to be on the team for the qualifiers this year.
Although Gonzalez shouldn't need one.
That's all I really have to say about this game right now.
Canada lost to the Danish League XI 4-0.
Good job Klinsmann.
Philipp Lahm knows what you mean.
This x100.
If you want to retire from the internet and go out on top, I'll understand.
Seattle move from being one of the potential favorites for the NWSL title to missing three of their key players to start the season, plus Rodriguez for the entire year (the last for good reason, mind!). They'll probably be allotted a fifth free agent choice (Chicago got one after LePeilbet's season-ending injury and WNY had one for the whole period due to only drafting two Americans), but it's a pretty big blow to one of the teams who looked stronger after the initial allocation. Also, I imagine, it's not good for Rodriguez's long-term plans under Sermanni; she did struggle a lot for form in her last few years under Sundhage after all.
Also, I love how they've updated their main page (it's really nice now!), but their tickets/gear page has the same geocities-esque feel as before.
I'm no doctor, but this sounds like the horse placenta BS Van der Vaart used to try. It has always seemed to me that rushing players back from injury doesn't end well. This explains some of the ITK confusion about Defoe's injury. It sounds like he SHOULD be out for 4 weeks but they are going to push him into the Norwich match anyway.
To be honest, it sounds more like the kind of thing that led to Lance Armstrong sitting down with Oprah a little while ago. Yikes.
The big news are transfers that have been announced but suddenly are sort of unannounced. Shanghai Shenua claim Drogba is still under contract to them, the Leroy Fer transfer looks shaky because of the medical and Twente don't like Everton's installment plan method of paying, and Inter are dragging their feet on the Coutinho deal until they can lock down a couple of incoming players. Seems like the Fer deal is the one of those most in jeopardy. Chelsea tried to sign Jack Butland even though they have a fine keeper already on loan at Atletico. Fulham are trying to sign Tom Huddlestone. Supposedly QPR have met Kris Samba's release clause.
They really should just let him rest despite the lack of available strikers. It may work out fine, but I am not on board with this.
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