Arena "The Beautiful Game" - The Official JCC Football (Soccer) Thread.

Only if Balo scores a hatrick

 

If Germany hadn't defended him so poorly in Warsaw, Mario would be on the same trash heap as Kieran Richardson.

 

Richardson doesn't have the comedy value though. If he wants to get noticed he should try ridiculous haircuts & set his house on fire

 

No one pronounces Benzema as 'ben-zee-ma' besides jamie redknapp right?

 

Perhaps Drog-baaaaaaaaaaa?

 

Advance notice. If Balotelli happens to score tonight, it does not prove his critics wrong.

 

Liverlol

Meanwhile, Dortmund all over Gala, 3-0 at the half in Istanbul.

 

Welp that ain't happening

 

Damn you Arsenal

 

Were you sticking out your bottom lip when you typed that? Please let it be so!

 

If it pleases.

 

Yes! I'm trying to get my three year old to recreate it, but she insists she can't be that pouty. Never work with kids or animals.

 

Also, and I don't think this can ever be stressed enough... Balotelli is a terrible signing.

 

He's like a Lukaku for near half the price. Neither will ever live up to the absolute bargain Sturridge is, which is a shame for football.

 

If Sturridge is your only claim to fame then Liverpool will continue to excel at making between 5th to 7th place in the league in the next few years... and continue to be out of their depths in the CL this year

(Yeah yeah, we're not there this year. But we will be next. With actual world class talent)

 

The only claim to fame? You've been touched in the head by the Moyes era more than I feared. Well, not feared so much as enjoyed.

 

All four Bundesliga clubs won this week, only the second time they've ever accomplished that in Champiosn Legaue (last year being the first). 3 of 4 in first place. Leverkusen a bit fortunate with the draw (a very weak Benfica and Zenit). Dortmund and Bayern utterly dominant. Dortmund yet to even concede a goal.

 

From Tuesday's Schalke-Sorting match: just when you thought the goal line judge couldn't be more useless.

The thing is, in theory the extra referee should have been perfect for the situation, he's in the ideal spot to make the call. It's absolutely mind-boggling that he blew it.

 

I wouldn't have given that. He headed it onto his arm.

 

Actually, it never touched his arm AT ALL. That's the point. And the reason Sporting have filed a protest asking for a replay.

Where do UEFA dig these people up?

 

Ah, I didn't see what your point was without context

 

The thing is, the way he spreads his arms out, he's almost begging for the ball to hit his hand. But it doesn't, it hits him in the head. The goal line guy is standing right there, perfect angle, no more than 5 yards away, view completely unobstructed. And he misses it completely. Play actually continues for several seconds, as neither the referee nor the linesman thought it hit is hand. but the goal line judge is convinced it did and gets the ref's attention. it's really quite mind-boggling.