The Official Football Thread

 

I hope my FLAMENGO may keep the 2 goal advantage and be the Champs!!!  It shall be a gift for 40 million supporters... yeh, 40,000,000 - more than the entire population of Spain!!!

 

 

Football and progrock are amongst the greatest British inventions, and rock bands love football, especially Yes - take a look at Chris Welch's "Close To The Edge" and you will find a photo of Yes United.

 

In an unlikely game Yes United vs Iron Maiden, who would you support??

The "Nation" is happy!!!

 

Famous recent players that made history with Flamengo:

Zagallo (yes, the old man), Germano (the one who married an Italian countess), Gerson (midfield, WC 70 team), Brito (defender, WC 70 team), Paulo César (forward, WC 70 & 74 team), ZICO (our no. 1 player of all times), Junior (WC 82 team, ex-Torino), Mozer, Bebeto, Renato Gaúcho, Leonardo (ex-Milan), Aldair, Romário, Djalminha, Amoroso, Júlio César (goal-keeper WC 2006), Gilberto (WC 2006, left defender), Adriano (The Emperor), Juan (WC 2006, defender).

 

Also played with Flamengo: Socrátes, Casagrande, Zé Roberto, Edmundo, etc.

 

The club was founded 1895.

 

 

I'm not sure whether Flossie was upset at my call on a banning football altogether (most likely after seeing his Arsenal avatar) , but I thought his post at finding SB's influence simply horrendous >>> SB is actually institutionalizing widespread corruption.

 

At least when Marseille got caught fixing matches , they went down to second-league and got fined so heavily, it took them at leazst seven years to become a contender again >> and they never retirned to their old days level, yet.  >>> corrective action >>>

 

In Belgium, Standard Liege (the third best team historically) took such heavy fines for fixing a useless game that some twenty years after, they are still not back to their level (but this is their fault, >> they keep choking in impoortant games). La Louvière got caught fixing games under Chinese Mafia pressures and they arte going down three leagues. If they ever get back up in first lmeague, it will take them at leasrt six or seven years. >> corrective actions >>

 

Now only Juve is getting punished, SB's AC Milan gets NOTHING and the other two clubs are not demotted >>> Corrective actions >>>> out of 5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The final On saturday is between (favourites) Spain, and God's country Ecosse (Scotland to the non-Frenchies).

 

However, according to all the UK news and sports programmes, it doesn't exist??? When the Scots won throiugh to the final, i waded through endless UK sports proggies and news ones too, thinking they would mention such an acheivement from a very small populated country.

 

(blink) no........not a bloody word, not even a wee result.

 

Now if the (blinking) English had qualified, it would have been in every sports bulletin, top sports news and on Sky sports, and we would be having interviews and inane drivell about their lives. Why??

Because the B(E)BC, ITV, channel 4, channel 5, and Sky, are all English driven, all the other countries in the UK are dismissed when the English sporting teams are on. If one of the other countries manages to do well, they get 2 seconds on national tv, if they are lucky. But, whne the bloody awful English are good, dire or indifferent, we Scots, the Northern Irish and Welsh too, get it stuffed down our throats.

 

All i ask is WHY????????

 

Thanks, GR!!!

 

"Its Just bloody Scotland, they'd never win anything anyways"

 

The Scot says:

 

"Damn bloke, you haven't made it to a major international final since 66"

 

The Englishman says:

 

"Whatever, you smelly Scot, we'll just post that on the back of our controlled newspapers"