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I'm fine. this whole thing is just giving me the giggles.
Boy, how much must Gomez/Bayern regret those missed chances?
Gary Neville is awesome.
Yeah, they'll miss him if they let him go. He's an immense player.
They couldn't have done it without John Terry's lion heart.
I wish Fox would stop assuming we're all anglophiles. Why can't they hire American crews for these games?
I was rooting for Bayern just to protest American soccer coverage's decision that the EPL is the only league on the planet that matters, but I don't actually care.
As Jesus said, the last shall be first!
There's Greece when they won the Euros.
Yeah, everything had to break exactly right and it did. Still, it's good to have stories like this every once in a while.
Having Neuer take a kick seems like a good way to try and break Cech's spirit.
Also is Lahm always that good? The entirety of AET should have been giving him the ball rather than Robben to do his 150,913th cut to the middle for the left foot.
As it happens, he didn't concede again after that.
Palermo has missed out on participating a couple of times, but I would say Juventus is the best Sicilian team in the CL, they have better support down there than in Turin.
And that's even with Chelsea playing exactly the type of game I hate over their last 3 matches. Give me Chile's 3-3-1-3!
Serie A has match fixing scandals and dirty ####### Italians while La Liga is more or less Real Madrid v. Barca. The Bundesliga is pretty similar to the EPL, but has fewer American players and doesn't share a language. The EPL has plenty of problems, but there's a reason why it gets coverage in the US. I mean, I want more Eredivise, but I can't get everything.
It's really crazy that this Chelsea team is the one to finally with the Champions League. They are almost unquestionably the worst Chelsea side since they first came to the top, right? If you were making a list of the best teams in Europe, would Chelsea make the top 10? Top 15? And yet here they are.
*sings* Bayern Mänchen, forever number 2! */sings*
Gus Johnson has started doing games for the Earthquakes on radio. It can't be long before the USMNT (or NBC, or Fox) come calling.
I actually think the demise of Chelsea has been somewhat overstated. They quit on the coach in the league, because they are a bunch of tremendous jerks. They can't play straight up against Barca, but who else can? There is still a ton of talent on the team. Back end of the top 10 sounds about right.
I giggle every time I hear the announcer go "surely now..." when a team scores late. I mean, 90th minute? Yes, the "surely" is reasonable, but 83rd minute?
Because they are the Yankees (29 league titles), the first big Italian team, and they have always been heavily represented in the national team. Areas with no historically powerful clubs, like Sicily, have them as the default favorite team, but they have fans all over. They are rather weakly supported in their hometown though.
They still own the team.
(*)This is not an entirely fair example, as Cagliari were not playing at their normal home ground that game, but the main point regarding Juventus' country-wide support still stands.
I'm doing fine, thank you very much.
John Harkes!
I don't think anyone predicted City and United going out in the group stage and Chelsea going through Barca and then Bayern in Munich, did they?
Tough days for Angela. And getting tougher. btw, Cameron is a putz.
Please, he's only the #6 putz in that room.
Hey! Dick got through the Nanny...dick, dick, dick...
edit: And a Pescara draw in a tough game for them at Sampdoria clinches the title for Torino.
(Yes, I'm watching the game just now, humor me).
Napoli put an end to Juve's undefeated season and win the Coppa Italia.
I think Friedel's strengths are in not making many mistakes and in organizing his defense well. He's very vocal, and knows what's up on dead ball situations. He also distributes the ball wisely and securely most of the time.
On the other side of the ledger, he's not especially commanding in the air and (maybe related to that) he rarely comes off his line to claim crosses and corners. In my opinion, his conservatism cost Spurs a number of goals this season that could have been prevented had he been more aggressive. It's hard to fault the guy, though, since I assume a lot of that is just him knowing his limitations. That's fine.
My totally unsubstantiated feeling is that Friedel and Gomes probably get you to about the same place in terms of goals saved/allowed over the course of 38 games. They just do it very differently. Friedel is very steady; he rarely has a howler but nor will he pull off the spectacular. Gomes is pure Tottenham, brilliance and calamity in the same package.
FWIW, I preferred Gomes.
I wonder whose car it was.
That looks pretty right to me. My gut reaction is that I'd prefer Friedel over Gomes. The "brilliance and calamity" approach feels like a good team with a bad bullpen, for every dramatic victory there is a catastrophic loss. Friedel's more conservative approach is something you can manage around with positioning and tactics, there is no adjustment to make for the Robert Green Memorial Howler.
I feel like I have been sent to a 'Where's Waldo' picture...
Wrong link, and now I can't find the original.
Photo 20 in this Gallery.
For a Waldoesque game, identify the non-native Neapolitan in photo 15.
Salisbury is a lovely cathedral, though.
I remember there was ginger fella who competed for Italy in gymnastics back in the day. Don't know if he was from Napoli, though. I wish I could remember his name.
The only Italian gymnast I can name is Jury Cechi, aka "The Lord of the Rings", who was grey by the time he retired.
He was obviously inspired by the gatecrashing antics of England's Brave John Terry.
The only Italian gymnast I can name is Jury Cechi, aka "The Lord of the Rings", who was grey by the time he retired.
That's the guy! Says here he is from Tuscany.
Was Robben the only one named?
I had to google that because its so unbelievable. Wow, BM is regretting that 2-year deal that Robben signed in May. However, it does put Neuer's bad ass pk in new light. Neuer is one guy who doesn't need to keep his head down about his performance.
Also, reports say that Modric is set to hand in his transfer request. Bad, bad week for Spurs Think Factory.
He couldn't really "refuse" to take a penalty; if it had gone to 11 rounds, he would have had to take one. Teams are only required to name their first five, and I can understand why he didn't want to be part of that group given what had happened in OT and his other travails with penalties.
Bayern may have reason to be sorry about that contract, but I wouldn't give this one inordinate prominence.
I wonder if Modric's transfer value has taken a hit. He wasn't as good as he was last season.
The further the run-up the more likely he'll kick it into the side of the goal of his kicking foot, as opposed to across the goal. (Or straight down the middle) Also if I were a keep, I would hold my ground on the third kick. It seems a lot of players kick right down the middle on the third kick.
You could try diving in the direction of the plant foot, but there's almost no time for that.
When I played keeper as a youth, there was a guy on our rival team that I knew would take PKs by always looking one way and shooting the other...I never bothered to inform him I was onto his 'tell'.
I did try and stand a few inchs left or right of center to create the appearance of one side looking easier to shoot at. The results wern't conclusive.
1) I thought that 'stutter step/try and get the goalie to commit' was illegal
2) Player does that, and again I'm holding my ground and going off reaction as he's losing all kinds of power doing that.
edit: I see it's fine during the run-up but during the kick.
Lahm may be the best penalty taker on the team.
They have a lot of good ones. I had a bad feeling about Robben in that spot, though. Pretty amazing that Spurs were undone, in part, by missed penalties from Arjen Robben, Bastian Schweinsteiger, and Leo F. Messi!
Juan: Ribery was injured in the winning of that penalty and had to come off. Under different circumstances, perhaps he would have stepped up to take it. Anyway, the Fox commentators were actually speculating before the spot kick that Ribery's injury and the two minutes or so it took to get him off the pitch certainly wouldn't be helping Robben's nerves.
I did try and stand a few inchs left or right of center to create the appearance of one side looking easier to shoot at. The results wern't conclusive.
I always wonder why more EPL keepers don't stand still on penalties, as so many players seem to hammer them straight down the middle.
By contrast, in my experience, very few people shoot down the middle in amateur football, so basically a keeper has to choose which way to go. I play in goal and always dive the same way on penalties, which has lead to saving one out of 3.
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