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Buzzing, who wouldn't I be? 1, it's a Wembley final and 2, to get there is an achievement with a side that is still the one bought by Brendan Rodgers. Yeah, they are poor at the minute but, for now, and as a lifelong supporter, I'll take the cup final no matter how it comes about.
Suárez should have been sent out for a stupid act of indiscipline and touch the ball with his lower arm to cut a counterattack in the middle of the field, but the ref didn't see the action. Lucky us, because he's a much needed player.
It keeps the FBI busy, even if you'd wish they clean up the slavery called college football.
Belting result.
Best game of the season from United all things considered. LVG appears to be showing his metal.
Also.....
Now though, my concentration is on the team I support, Liverpool, in the League Cup Final. Gonna be tough but hoping we get the result. Come on Reds!!!
My two least favourite sides (Vast understatement) watching the final, tough game to call both teams are hit and miss. Think the reds may nick it.
4.25 a.m in melbourne and watching the commentary on skysports.com as i don't have setanta.
Right on cue.
The guy takes goalkeeping clangers to a new level. Love with this one how the ball is heading straight for him but he somehow manages to twist his body out of the way of it like f**king Neo in The Matrix.
I'm not that fussed as its not that big a trophy but was gutted at being denied the pleasure of overrated Sterling adding the crucial missed penalty to his earlier pitiful finishes. 50m? You're having a laugh.
Genuine question - why do you have such a chip on your shoulder about English football? (Note 'British' football isn't a thing) I don't think you'll find any of us who believe our international side is anything but under performing dross, year in year out. As for our league system, though, its arguably the best in the world, with a significant batch of clubs being the heavily supported worldwide.
As for the future, I can see a massive overhaul at Liverpool FC, with Klopp bringing in a lot of the players he wants. We already have a couple on their way in the summer so things are in motion.
I never mentioned anything about "British football" did I? I was referring to the general British mentality of overemphasizing physique in the game of football. As for the "chip om my shoulder" it obviously has to do with English arroganse. You can claim its not there but it obviously is to any European following English media coverage and fan reactions in the world of football.
As for Premiere Leagues popularity it all boils down to better marketing campaign. Other leagues didn´t see the need for marketing abroad the way the English have done for the last couple of decades. That´s the major difference. Its a shame they haven´t got more to show for it though... The only English thing left are the fans. The league itself is a soulless mess of foreign ownerships and marketing campaigns. It doesn´t even nearly deserve all the gloryfication. And I will not even start on the discussion about quality...
I'm confused. Tottenham are not supposed to be challenging for anything. Anything other than mediocrity is very unnerving for us Spurs fans...
Well I'm a Leicester supporter, man and boy. If you feel that way how do you think I feel?
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I think you confuse arrogance with passion. There's arrogance from some quarters, sure, but on the whole it boils down to the fact we just love our game, through the good and the thoroughly abhorrent. I would argue that passion rubs off, hence the worldwide appeal. There's only so much marketing can do and it certainly isn't responsible for the Sheffield United shirts I've seen out in Thailand, or the Hull shirts in the US, or the Crystal Palace shirts in Vietnam...
Well, I am not sure... Is it merely passion that makes the English believe they have the best league and the best club sides in the world although all statistics and results suggest otherwise? Is the English tendency to look down on other footballing cultures and lecture other nations on how to properly play the game all to do with "passion"? Has the assumption that players like Neymar would want to switch Barcelona for a mediocre team like Man Utd solely to do with "passion"? Is it passion that made the English claim for many years that Rooney was better than Messi, and Gerrard and Lampard better than Xavi and Iniesta? Is it passion that makes a nobody like Jamie Carragher think he is in a position to lecture Gerard Piqué, winner of three Champions Leagues, five domestic league titles, the Euro Cup and the World Cup, on how to defend properly? (Just to give you one of many examples of arrogant, English punditry).
As for English football shirts in Asia, it obviously has to do with marketing and TV rights. In fact you couldn't have given a better example! Don't you think the reason why English football is so popular in Asia is due to the fact that it is whats usually televised in those areas? The reason why English football is popular in Scandinavia is because English football was the only thing we got to see through out the eighties and nineties as a result of an extensive marketing campaign by the English league abroad. Only recently we were introduced to other leagues on television. Such tradition is hard to overcome and, its exactly the same thing that has happened in Asia, only later in time. I myself have been travelling all over the world, and its obvious that that which league you lean towards globally has all to do with geography. In Asia and Africa people are obsessed with the Premier League. In Arabic countries through out the middle east however, the Spanish league is utterly supreme, with Barcelona and Real Madrid flags visible in every shop, on every street corner. That's also the case in the "new" football countries like the United States. And if get to South America of course, all young footballer's dream is to play for Barcelona or Real Madrid, not Liverpool or United. It obviously has very much to do with marketing and TV rights world wide, much less with what league actually has the most charm and appeal. Not realizing that is actually another example of English footballing arroganze...
You're obviously very bitter about something. I didn't say we had the best club sides in the world (although there have been occasions where we have), but in terms of appeal, for me, the top two divisions in England offer a lot more in terms of entertainment, not necessarily 'quality', than the equivalent in Spain, Italy, Germany, France, Netherlands etc. And of course punditry and sports journalism will pitch players at a higher level than is worthy, but thats par for the course. Everybody knows Rooney is no Messi. We're a nation obsessed with football, where contributors will find anything to talk about, most of it shit, but I don't see why this is something to get so uptight about? If the Premier League want to market their product as the 'best league in the world' its their prerogative. You don't have to buy into it. Obviously a lot of people find something appealing. If you market Nike trainers and then they fall apart on purchase, the customer doesn't go back time and time again to buy the same product. Suggesting the English game's success is perpetuated solely by marketing is completely misguided.
Frankly I find the runaway train of Barcelona relatively boring. Stories and intrigue come from imperfections and vulnerability, that's how drama is born. Watching Barcelona doesn't carry anything beyond superficial spectacle, which is decent, even amazing at times, but I want variety. It's more interesting for me to see a team play in majestic fashion one week and come unstuck against a system the next. Their penalty against Celta Vigo just about summed it up for me. If you did that on a massive stage, lets say the CL and you're at 0-0 against a Bayern, or a Juve then that is a ballsy move. Doing it when you're 3-1 up and cruising is not 'genius'.
The Spanish league is just a posh Scottish league, the German league is barely a two horse race and the French league is dross with one half decent team of mercenaries who don't even need to break into a sweat (23 points clear? What a thrilling spectacle!).
Yes technically the premier league is poor and, Aguero apart, no truly world class players ply their trade here. But the reason people watch it is it's a more exciting product than the other leagues. Watching Real or Barca demolish a shit team is entertaining enough for a while it it gets boring pretty quickly. In the premier league no team has the luxury of just turning up and knowing they are going to win (except when they go to Villa Park) and that's why people watch it.
@jobo the premier league is indeed well marketed but it delivers what people want. Don't blame the English because your own league is a dull procession to crown one or two teams and it is not marketed as well. I don't know anyone in this country who ever thought carthorse Rooney was anywhere near Messi's level and there's no arrogance about English talent. I find it risible when you hear people say 'Sterling is over priced but you have to pay a premium for English talent.' What English talent? Sterling is just another product off the Lennon, Theo, SWP conveyor belt of fast but shit players who people mistake as being world class.
I have no arrogance over England's impending Euros humiliation. We're shit and have been for so long now I'm sure we're the laughing stock of Europe.
Agree with all of that, naturally.