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Re: European Club Soccer Thread! (EPL, Champions League, Europa, etc... :D )
« Reply #16325 on: December 18, 2018, 01:55:12 PM »


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« Reply #16327 on: December 22, 2018, 01:39:45 PM »
Well that was absolutely delightful   :D

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Re: European Club Soccer Thread! (EPL, Champions League, Europa, etc... :D )
« Reply #16328 on: December 29, 2018, 02:41:09 PM »
lol @ Arsenal


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Re: European Club Soccer Thread! (EPL, Champions League, Europa, etc... :D )
« Reply #16329 on: December 29, 2018, 04:05:22 PM »
Because of how good they are probably


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« Reply #16331 on: January 04, 2019, 09:52:10 AM »

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« Reply #16332 on: January 04, 2019, 10:12:54 AM »
Congratulations on winning your Super Bowl.


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« Reply #16333 on: January 04, 2019, 11:12:27 AM »
I'm actually just celebrating coming out of that horrible run of form. Only a run of form like that would allow any other team to sniff the trophy

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Re: European Club Soccer Thread! (EPL, Champions League, Europa, etc... :D )
« Reply #16334 on: January 05, 2019, 09:31:57 AM »
We're not going to lose again for eternity. The baby faced assassin is the greatest football manager OAT

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« Reply #16335 on: January 05, 2019, 12:10:51 PM »
We're not going to lose again for eternity. The baby faced assassin is the greatest football manager OAT
Beat Spurs next weekend and the treble is still on.

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« Reply #16336 on: January 06, 2019, 09:47:38 PM »
We're not going to lose again for eternity. The baby faced assassin is the greatest football manager OAT
Beat Spurs next weekend and the treble is still on.
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Re: European Club Soccer Thread! (EPL, Champions League, Europa, etc... :D )
« Reply #16337 on: January 13, 2019, 12:29:04 PM »
rough ridin' de gea, that was a fun one

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« Reply #16338 on: January 13, 2019, 08:21:16 PM »
rough ridin' de gea, that was a fun one

Was thinking about you during that match.


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« Reply #16339 on: January 25, 2019, 11:07:25 PM »
MIR, should we sign Ole up for a 5 year deal or a lifetime deal?

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« Reply #16340 on: January 28, 2019, 12:59:36 PM »
Lifetime deal.


Story time. So I was in London last week. I had a decision to make about whether or not to attend the Man U Arsenal match or go to another function I had previous plans for. I decided to keep my commitment and just watch the Man U match on my phone. I was filled with regret.

Fast forward to Saturday night. I made the decision to go to the Millwall vs. Everton fa cup match. I was completely unprepared for the spectacle that this was. First of all this was the single most expensive sports or theatre ticket I've ever purchased. The lunacy started when I got to the London Bridge train station to get on the train to Millwall. I hear an ungodly den of noise, look behind me and see (really hear) hundreds of Everton fans singing and chanting while surrounded by a two deep wall of London cops. I moved the hell out of the way and just filed in behind the cops and Everton fans. They got several of their own cars on the train.

When we got off of the train station there were dozens of more cops at the station. Everything seemed fine walking to the stadium, the Everton fans had their own way to the stadium, I didn't follow them because I didn't sit in their part of the stadium. Well right before I got in the stadium it seemed like some Everton fans came looking for a fight and they found one. I hear a couple of Millwall fans yell "Millwall" and then something unintelligible. At that point a bunch of Millwall fans started sprinting away from the stadium quickly followed by 6 cops on horses and lots of sirens. Needless to say, I quickly walked my happy ass the opposite direction, to the stadium.

This stadium, The Den, is small, dingy, and old; this perfectly matches the neighborhood it's in. The stadium holds just over 18,000 but the FA lowered the capacity to just under 17,000 for security reasons. Great idea. The game was very fun, pretty similar to my account of my trip to West Ham three years ago. Both groups of fans never stopped making noise although I must say Millwall had the worst chants I've ever heard, they literally did the same two the entire match. One was literally a yell. The yell had the same pitch and timber every time, but the number of times they did it would make the OU marching band blush. When they didn't do that they had a chant about how no one likes them. My though was, how in the hell does anytime even care about Millwall? This is their thing though, nearly all of their souvenirs are tagged with "no one likes us." It's just odd, it would be like the Tampa Bay Rowdies having the same slogan. No one dislikes you, no one really cares.

The game was everything you'd want to see in a fa cup match. 5 goals scored capped by the small club beating the big club with 10 seconds left in stoppage time. The place went absolutely rough ridin' nuts. There was a small pitch invasion, maybe a dozen or so fans who came on when the goal went in. Then, despite the fact that there were literally hundreds of security officers and cops on the pitch, including a couple of dozen riot cops with dogs, there was a larger pitch invasion at the final whistle. None of these people got arrested, they were ask just led back to the stands which led to some going out more than once.

As I left the stadium I noticed probably a hundred more cops on the street to the train station and in addition to this there were 18 twelve passenger vans on the street all completely full with cops in riot gear just sitting there ready to come out then things popped off. The walk and train ride back to downtown London was uneventful but loud with Millwall fans doing that dumb yell the whole time.

Long story short, I'm glad I picked the Millwall game instead of man u because it was the better game and more importantly I wouldn't have had an apparently needed police escort, nor no way of getting a ticket from man u, so I very well may have been literally killed by Arsenal fans. English soccer is literally insane, for better or worse, there is no comparison with American sports.

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Re: European Club Soccer Thread! (EPL, Champions League, Europa, etc... :D )
« Reply #16341 on: February 01, 2019, 05:52:25 PM »
I think I'm letting myself get hopeful...

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Re: European Club Soccer Thread! (EPL, Champions League, Europa, etc... :D )
« Reply #16342 on: February 02, 2019, 01:33:26 AM »
I think I'm letting myself get hopeful...

I watched the city match flying back from Europe and I was going nuts, good for the magpies. I think Almiron will be dece as well. Maybe a top half finish next season :dunno:

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Re: European Club Soccer Thread! (EPL, Champions League, Europa, etc... :D )
« Reply #16343 on: February 10, 2019, 11:39:03 AM »
Chlolsea. Can we stop saying "big six" yet? Chelsea and Arsenal are completely finished.

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« Reply #16344 on: February 10, 2019, 07:27:39 PM »
Kinda feel bad for Arsenal, Chelsea is lol. Too bad they aren't getting relegated with their neighbors.

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Re: European Club Soccer Thread! (EPL, Champions League, Europa, etc... :D )
« Reply #16345 on: February 11, 2019, 07:32:15 PM »
Chlolsea. Can we stop saying "big six" yet? Chelsea and Arsenal are completely finished.

Finished with what?

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European Club Soccer Thread! (EPL, Champions League, Europa, etc... :D )
« Reply #16346 on: February 11, 2019, 07:38:37 PM »
Chlolsea. Can we stop saying "big six" yet? Chelsea and Arsenal are completely finished.

Finished with what?

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Re: European Club Soccer Thread! (EPL, Champions League, Europa, etc... :D )
« Reply #16347 on: February 11, 2019, 09:56:24 PM »
Chlolsea. Can we stop saying "big six" yet? Chelsea and Arsenal are completely finished.

Finished with what?

The top 4, I'd presume

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« Reply #16348 on: February 12, 2019, 10:03:14 AM »
Finished as clubs. Roman doesn't care anymore.

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« Reply #16349 on: February 12, 2019, 06:31:50 PM »
That referee was crap, we should have been a man up 5 minutes into the second half.
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