Football 12/3-14/3

[Lewis]

What are the rivalries like? Is it just geography, or does it get spillover from other sports?

[Raoul Duke]

It seems like everything is too far apart to have a proper rivalry. They should have state level competitions and then a US Champion's League.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Rivalries come about through history (usually nothing to do with the sport in question either) and America has none, as far as football is concerned. You can't create brands from scratch to rival one another, although they try very hard.

[Lewis]

You would expect the two California/Texas teams to devise some sort of dislike (or even New York and New England), but my limited basketball knowledge extends to knowing that Los Angeles and Philadelphia have a bit of a rivalry, so I was wondering whether that sort of thing carries over. Presumably sporting rivalries will emerge over time, or fans will remember that time the Richmond Separators ran out of Mountain Dew on the concourse and it all kicked off.

[elth]

You just meet each other a few times over the seasons and the niggle develops.

Indianapolis and Boston aren't exactly neighbours, but Colts and Patriots fans tend to be pretty antagonistic because of Manning/Brady and them meeting each other in the playoffs every year for the best part of a decade.

MLS is such a young league, it has to let these things develop naturally.

[The Merse]

Lol at Hibs. From the sounds of things they really ought to have been out of sight by the time Ross scored their last minute winner.

Losing the cup final is one thing, if they fail to go up with the squad they have then it'll be ridiculous.

Apparently the recent winless streak is due to Anthony Stokes being at the centre of a scism within the squad - his 8k wage compared to the other players being on around 2k being the main issue, but with the former Celtic boys like Henderson siding with him.

[Spoonsky]

Portland and Seattle genuinely hate each other; that's a real rivalry. The other one is San Jose vs LA, being that they actually have a history - both were successful early on and Landon Donovan stoked it all when he transferred from San Jose to LA - and they've had some epic games over the years.

Beyond that it comes and goes; the "Rocky Mountain Cup" between us and Colorado was good for a while, but after 2010 we were consistently better than them so it lost its intensity.

[phonics]

I saw a Facebook status after the defeat yesterday from someone saying ‘Can’t fathom what it must feel like being an Arsenal fan’. It’s actually really easy to explain. It’s pretty much what life is like in Britain under a Tory government. You don’t want to moan too much as in the grand-scheme of things and in so many ways you’re extremely lucky. You’re a Citizen of one of the wealthiest countries in the world and have a standard of living that people in Third-World countries can only dream of. People may quite rightly call you ungrateful and entitled if you moan too much. However there’s so many problems with the way the Country’s run and what with it’s resources and World-Standing it’s obvious it should be doing a lot better. It’s also ridiculously expensive to live here and is run by incompetent tw**s.

#satire

[Josh]

For people that want reliable streaming that dont mind paying a few quid try: https://streamtvbox.club/site/

There's other ones out there too but I use this one and it's really reliable.

If you pay for more months it's cheaper per month but obviously there's always the risk it could be all taken down. I've been on it for about a year though and so far so good. With an amazon fire stick, you stream HD football on your tv. Well worth a tenner a month compared with sky and bt's prices.

[Davgooner]

The .com PR machine now goes into 'we have a chance to show our fight/character/strength' mode, as if there haven't been any opportunities prior to this.

[John Arne]

Just found this on Phonics' youtube account...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVwH4OP90i8

[Jimmy Floyd]

Living under a Tory government is actually like being a Leeds fan.

[SincereTheRebel]

At this point, arsenal better hold on to wenger for as long as possible. We all know what happens to teams when one of their most successful longest serving managers steps down. The rebuilding process is mega, just ask man utd how bad it can become.

[Shindig]

Newcastle's has taken 20 years. :(

[SincereTheRebel]

Saying that, it would be brilliant if arsene steps down and then they still finish fourth and get knocked out of the champions league.

[Lee]

Just about to drive into Leicester and it's still light. :cool:

Benitez is a good appointment for Newcastle but I don't see that he'll have transformed them from shambles to competent in the space of a couple of days. Like anyone we play now they'll try to starve us of space in behind. If we do what we are good at we'll win.

[Magic]

I've got Mahrez, Huth and Vardy in my FF team. That can only mean a 2-0 win for Newcastle.

[Giggles]

Remove them this instant.

[Lee]

Magic, you cunt.

[Magic]

It was on the premise that Schteve would still be in charge. :(

Watch Benny save them.

[Magic]

BTW I'll be streaming the game tonight. If I find a good one Giggles I'll let you know. Spoons one last time was the absolute tits.

[Boydy]

Fuck off Magic, you jinx.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Oh how I have missed Sir Rafa and his stupid face and voice. And fucking beard. Is it to hide his double chin?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That fan shit the BBC were doing with the draw :face:

[Waffdon]

I'm all over getting a ticket if it's West Ham/Everton, what with their petty rivalry brewing.

[Magic]

Anyone got a decent link?

[Shindig]

Jesus. I am terrified.

[Jeet]

Rafa is gonna get a result and help Spurs win the league :( and that is a FACT!

[Vim]

I'm watching a BEIN sport link in Spanish, but the co-commentator is very, very clearly English with the strongest accent. :D Anyone know if it's anyone famous?

[Magic]

Newcastle are going to win this, aren't they?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Gary Lineker habla bien español. Meester Cressps.

[Vim]

He's just taken about fifteen minutes to finish a sentence, he had to be interrupted because Newcastle had time to create a chance before he could get to the end of his point. The poor bloke that's meant to be doing play-by-play can't get a word in. :D

[Raoul Duke]

Shame he didn't send you a link to a stream in the right orientation

[Magic]

:D

Victim of the smartphone pic upload.

[Giggles]

Tinypic is a cunt for that, but imgur would have meant an 8MB behemoth.

[Davgooner]

:cool:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

What a don Okazaki is.

[Magic]

Boreitez has set them up to park the bus. Boring Spanish cunt.

[Baz]

Just fist pumped a Leicester goal.

It's on. :cool:

[Magic]

:D

My stream is behind. That was tremendous.

[Shindig]

It is written.

[Mike]

Proper mixed having our Rafa in charge;). I utterly hate Newcastle but love Rafa.... Good goal that though, got a big grin from me.

[Shindig]

Also, Steven Taylor is a coward.

[Giggles]

Fucking thought that was in.

[Disco]

Is Sissoko playing for Leicester, did they turn up with only 10 and borrow him?

[Giggles]

Do Leicester always fuck around at the back this much?

[Magic]

This really is a shit game.

[Magic]

What the fuck is my stream guy doing?

[Disco]

Mine seems to be looking for something else to watch.

[Magic]

Sorted now. Phew. How dare he.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Name me some central midfielders in the world who have played better than N'Golo Kanté this year.

[Mike]

The site I use the skysports stream switched over to the music channels. Thankfully they have loads of others so now I've got the sky commentary with Andy Townsend and Lee Dixon in the studio. :D

[Shindig]

I just want something to cheer. :(

[Magic]

I just want something to cheer. :(

It's only 1-0. Surely that is worth a cheer?

[Giggles]

I just want something to cheer. :(

You can cheer all you want from next week. Tonight we all want you to be upset.

[Magic]

Name me some central midfielders in the world who have played better than N'Golo Kanté this year.

He is immense. Poor man's Diarougara.

[Giggles]

Big time need a second here. That Andros shite better not mess this up by scoring.

[Magic]

My stream is fucked.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Has Rafa already instituted a total ban on anyone using their outside foot?

[Giggles]

My stream is fucked.

Freezing a bit, but seems to be OK again for now after a refresh.

[Shindig]

If Siem scores, we riot.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Marc Albrighton's respect for the by-line brings a tear to the eye.

[Davgooner]

Newcastle deserve something here. :uhoh:

[Magic]

Holding on at home against Newcastle. :harold:

[Magic]

Lee's arsehole will be in pieces just now.

[Shindig]

I was Papiss Cisse was alive to see this.

[Disco]

Ranieri giving it the dingly dong. :cool:

[Magic]

Everything that happens in a Leicester game is SEASON DEFINING.

[Yevrah]

No David Ginola style fuck ups from Leicester here. :drool:

[Davgooner]

Everyone fucking loves Leicester, and fucking hates the yids. :nodd:

[Yevrah]

5 clear with 8 to go. 5 (MASSIVE) wins will probably be enough.

Fucking hell.

[Shindig]

I'll say this now: We don't beat Sunderland.

[Yevrah]

Sunderland, Newcastle and Villa going down would be the stuff dreams are made of.

[Spoonsky]

That PASSION from Ranieri. :drool:

[Magic]

Palace and Sunderland coming up for Leicester lol.

[Lee]

Newcastle never looked like scoring in truth. Probably our worse performance of the season. Poor passing, no movement, clumsy in possession at the back. I suppose Benitez does enjoy a shit off though. If we shit our way to the title from here :drool:

Four more wins does it, I reckon.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Big Sam downing the Raflcopter before it's even taken off would be up there as well.

[Yevrah]

Is there an easy way to see the remaining fixtures for the top 4 since the BPLSBB got all pissy about people using them?

[Spoonsky]

By the way, who would have guessed five years ago that we'd see a Leicester-Newcastle game managed by Claudio Ranieri and Rafa Benitez? Utterly bizarre.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Someone on the BBC live text was mooting a Watford v Leicester Community Shield.

[Lee]

Someone on the BBC live text was mooting a Watford v Leicester Community Shield.

I forgot about that. Wembley. :drool:

[Ian]

For the record I still don't understand how this is happening.

[Samadini]

Anyone got a striker we can borrow?

[Andy]

Danny Drinkwater Sky MOTM was ridiculous. Kante was head and shoulders above everyone. I'd have all of the back four, Okazaki and the keeper ahead of Drinkwater as well.

Drinkwater was awful whenever he got into the last third.

[Giggles]

On the BBC text thing:

"71% of the earth is covered by water, the other 29% is covered by Kante"

:D

[Yevrah]

For the record I still don't understand how this is happening.

Guaranteed to be top going into April now. :drool:

I might have to have my first football dedicated wank if they pull this off.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Is there any free plinth space in Leicester? Because if not, Richard III might have to be fucked off for the Ranieri one.

[Yevrah]

Is there any free plinth space in Leicester? Because if not, Richard III might have to be fucked off for the Ranieri one.

Anything short of a 100m monument to the man would be a disgrace.

[Magic]

On the BBC text thing:

"71% of the earth is covered by water, the other 29% is covered by Kante"

:D

Not Drinkwater, amirite lads?

[Jimmy Floyd]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3295634/Leicester-City-boss-Claudio-Ranieri-makes-good-promise-provide-players-pizza-keeping-clean-sheet-against-Crystal-Palace-pay-deserve-this.html

I think this was the best thing all season, and it's unlikely to be beaten. Look at him having his photo taken with the kids, look at Okazaki being exactly the same as every Oriental person ever in the face of a meal.

[P_3]

Bit late to the party but, Leicester. :cool:

[Yevrah]

It's taken a while I but I can now see exactly what Jimmy's seen in Ranieri for all these years.

[Jeet]

What a cunt of a owner using the stadium as a helicopter landing pad

[Jimmy Floyd]

I swear his English is, if anything, getting worse.

[Yevrah]

He's absolutely doing it on purpose.

[Toby]

I swear his English is, if anything, getting worse.

I feel like he just uses it as a way to avoid ever saying more than he wants to in interviews. Not that he ever gets any difficult questions, given every journalist loves him.

[SvN]

I honestly thought Jimmy was on about diljeet.

[GS]

Come on, Leicester, you fucks. Six more wins.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Spurs still have ample opportunity to blow it themselves. Liverpool, Chelsea and Stoke away, United at home. I think 78 wins it.

[Jimmy Floyd]

They're talking about free kicks on 'MNF', and they asked Ronald Koeman who is the best taker he's ever seen. He thought for a moment and said Juninho, as in the ex-Lyon geezer. This wasn't a satisfactory answer for Ed Miliband, who followed up with WHAT ABOUT MESSI AND BECKHAM.

Such knobheads.

[Samadini]

The sad thing about tonight is that's the most competitive we've been away from home for fucking ages, even if we didn't look like scoring.

We've just had about 3 weeks off after being destroyed by Chelsea and we used that time to keep McClaren hopelessly going on for another game and give Benitez 3 days to prepare instead :face:

[Jeet]

They're talking about free kicks on 'MNF', and they asked Ronald Koeman who is the best taker he's ever seen. He thought for a moment and said Juninho, as in the ex-Lyon geezer. This wasn't a satisfactory answer for Ed Miliband, who followed up with WHAT ABOUT MESSI AND BECKHAM.

Such knobheads.

And Carra says what about some Everton player eh,eh! Koeman had no idea who he was on about or what he said :D

[Lee]

Danny Drinkwater Sky MOTM was ridiculous. Kante was head and shoulders above everyone. I'd have all of the back four, Okazaki and the keeper ahead of Drinkwater as well.

Drinkwater was awful whenever he got into the last third.

Yeah, I find that odd. I thought Drinkwater was really poor and probably the main reason we played badly tonight.

[Shindig]

Sorry, I'm just trying to reconcile my brain with Mark Schwarzer being part of a league winning side.

[Toby]

Hey, that's a two time UEFA Cup finalist you're talking about.

[Shindig]

Crikey, you're right. Those were a fun couple of years.

[niko_cee]

On the BBC text thing:

"71% of the earth is covered by water, the other 29% is covered by Kante"

:D

That Besic guy Everton have was the first person I saw this in reference to.

[Max Power]

Grinding out these shitey 1-0 wins like true Champions.

Kante was our only above average performer tonight. We've never put two bad performances back-to-back this season so I fully expect us to smash Palace on Saturday.

[Max Power]

I swear his English is, if anything, getting worse.

He plays it up. It's defintely got better. He is properly mad though.

[ItalAussie]

How's Tottenham's run home? Any traps?

EDIT: Looked it up. I'm going to have to support Liverpool for at least one match. This is going to make me feel dirty.

[Shindig]

I sincerely hope that if we go down, Rafa exercises his right to stay put. He made Lascalles look proper last night.