Football (Soccer)

ShrinkingViolet wrote: I enjoy football, love watching my fave team the mighty HOOPS playing ..Goooooo Celtic ...woooo..we were drawn in the hardest champions league group of them all. My fave English team is Arsenal..and i also like watching the spanish (Barca *with Larsson*) and italian (juventus *ned ved*) footy the spanish are pro's.

Shrieking Violent???????????????????????????????????

Ned Ved?

Does he play up front with Lars' Son?

Girlies & Football =

hmm reverse deja vu..... seem to remember alan hansen saying something about "you'll never win anything with kids" about United too

yeah but they're all rubbish (with the excpetion  of scholes)

our lot of kids (admittedly bought in but still put through the academy process) includes the wonderful van persie - good swing at fletcher that - flamini, hoyte, fabregas, pennant, owusu abeyie, etc are filtering in with increasing regularity and one of the most promising David Bently is off at NOrwich getting more experience of first team football.

Not denying Man U's academy was good - it was, although the Nevilles would seem to give lie to that - but these days? C'mon you can't tell me that the calibre being turned out these days are any good. None of them would EVER have got within a country mile of the first teams of the mid and late 90s.

And as for the ones bought in? with the exception of the (hated) Van Nistelrooy and Cristiano Ronaldo, they're all hopeless.

at least Wenger still know how to buy a decent talent - Reyes, Fabregas, Van Persie,  and of course Lehmann and Almunia (doh!!!!!!!)

arcer wrote: sigod, you have a fellow gooner - just the love the way we can be rubbish in europe and still top the group - and man u - oh dear oh dear, what happened to the great youth academy of yesteryear, that fabulous conveyor belt of talent we used to hear so much about with giggs, becks and anybody else ending in `s'. Oh yeah, I know, Liam Brady set up a better one and all the best kids end up at highbury now.

Oy Arsey,

Do you want to tell me which of Arsenal's great academy are playing regularly in the first team?

Scholes,Giggs,The Nevs,Brown, O'Shea, Fletcher................

Guys!

Thank you for all's welcomes! :-)

Reed Lover wrote: Emperor wrote: Welcome Emperor! How's the weather in Russia? -Hi, Peter! Pleased to meet you and all! :-) It's hard to say about the weather in hole Russia: from -50 at the Eastern Siberia to +20 at the Black Sea Bay :) :) :) :) Till the last 3-4 days the weather in Moscow was cold (-15 - -10), but now it's near zero.   I'm sure you'll find that there are many fans of "footie" here, especially among the Brits, Europeans, & South Americans. -Yes, Southern Americans, Australians and Asians are not so familiar with football :-)   Have fun here, & nice to "talk" to you, so far away -- isn't technology grand? -What does it mean about "technology grand"? :-) Hi Emperor, welcome to our nightmare! "Grand" = very good, impressive. Dynamo Kiev for the Champions League? Need good luck against Leverkusen tonight. I support Man Utd, we have already qualified and are playing our young players tonight, so we will lose to Fenerbahce! Tell us about Russian Prog. I bet it's reet gradely!

Hello, Reed Lover!

Both - Dimamo and MU has lost, but MU continue to play in League, though Dinamo will continue in UEFA Cup... They had to win Real in Kiev! :-(

Speaking about English Premier League, I always supported Liverpool and Everton (since 80s) :-) MU was also one of my favorite club in Europe till last several years - I really don't like Beckham, and now you have another unpleasant player for me - Ronaldo... But Van Nistelroy is is really Great!

I hardly can inform you about Russian Progressive, because it's practically nothing to inform about :-( Though I believe I really can give some good information about Progressive of Italy, Sweden, Netherlands, Germany, France and some other countries - last years I've collected a good amount of Music from there :-)

Batts wrote: THERE'S ONLY ONE TEAM.............THE MIGHTY WHITES FROM YORKSHIRE............ LEEDS UNITED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Do you need to borrow a quid?

Batts wrote: THERE'S ONLY ONE TEAM.............THE MIGHTY WHITES FROM YORKSHIRE............ LEEDS UNITED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Are they a Vauxhall Conference team, yet?

THERE'S ONLY ONE TEAM.............THE MIGHTY WHITES FROM YORKSHIRE............

LEEDS UNITED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And to my Scottish friends, go Celtic! Good luck on the UEFA Champions League