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[Námo]

... Nick Clegg ...

I thought he was dead (at least politically); you never read anything about this guy in the (foreign) media.

[Vortigern]

He'll lose his seat at the next general election and then he'll really be dead politically. Signing up for the coalition has ruined him forever. Daft bugger.

[Puppeteer]

Who is our Foreign Secretary?

Another vapid, vacuous mould of conceited Tory Coalition hypocrisy - a certain William Hague.

Edited by Puppeteer, 12 March 2011 - 06:34 PM.

[Yarrum]

Fun fact: the only reported casualty from the Sendai earthquake and tsunami outside of japan was one person in California. However, given that the tsunami that hit California was about ten centimeters high, he was probably just being a retard.

[Vortigern]

Probably a surfer. Those guys are idiots.

[Kwen]

I vent that I should be starting my life right now. But I'm not. Fuccckkk...

[Mathijs]

Well, leaves more time for modding.

[Námo]

Yup

(or Sup ??)

[Námo]

Tomorrow Denmark will meet Norway in a qualification match for the European Championship in football, in Oslo's Ullevål Stadium - the Danes have expressed concerns on the bad conditions of the field (which probably would be an advantage for the Norwegians) ... and just see below what they now are doing to make that advantage even bigger:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBC7fD7W1Gw

Not exactly what I would call fair play.

[Lauri]

Nothing wrong there
Not that it doesn't look very fake

[Vortigern]

Tomorrow England play Wales at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff. Apparently it's a day for international derbies. Anyway, Capello's going to pick his same old guard of players who don't work as a team but are just about good enough to beat a country like Wales and we'll probably scrape through 1-0 and call it a roaring success because that's just how England does it. I honestly can't wait for England to get a manager who understands that the best players don't always make the best team. Or failing that, one who just decides that if you do nothing but attack, chances are you'll score enough to win. Now that'd be fun, playing with five strikers. Defend against that, bitches.

[Lauri]

When England get's a good manager (for them), perhaps they'll start doing good again.
Because seriously, they play horrible as a team, yet have one of the strongest on paper.

Is it mostly Capello's fault? Most likely, yeah

Edited by Lauri, 25 March 2011 - 11:51 PM.

[Vortigern]

Everybody in England has known that for years, and yet no manager seems to grasp it. Not Sven, not Steve McLaren, and definitely not Capello. We need someone with no fear, someone who's not afraid to say to the big name players "You're being shit, get out of my team", or to pick a team made up almost entirely of rookies or young players, just to see how it goes. In a friendly, of course, but still. Capello's never once done that. In our last friendly match, the only rookie he played was Cardiff City's Jay Bothroyd, and that was for the last 15 minutes, and he hasn't even considered picking him since.

[m@tt]

We won, and we played well. And then drew with Ghana last night, despite playing a weaker team.

As for the team of rookies - last night was fairly close. Two debuts and several of the players only had a few caps.

[Lauri]

But Carroll fixed your beef! (a phrase that sounds ridiculous when it's not said in Norwegian)

[_Haldir_]

I know this is the vent your anger topic, but i couldn't resist:

Australia stuns Germany, 2-1, in soccer exhibition

Australia, which was on the receiving end of a 4-0 drubbing by Germany at the World Cup last summer, turned the tables on international soccer's third-ranked team by defeating the Germans, 2-1, in Dortmund on Tuesday. The game was only a friendly but the result nevertheless sent shockwaves through Germany, which reached the World Cup semifinals in South Africa only eight months ago..

..Mario Gomez gave Germany the lead after 26 minutes, but second-half goals four minutes apart by David Carney and Luke Wilkshire, the latter on a penalty kick, earned the Socceroos their unlikely triumph. Germany Coach Joachim Loew, who opted not to field a full-strength team, called the result "a little unfortunate," adding that "in the second half we threw the game away."

Australia might have been inspired in part by a disdainful remark made on the eve of the match by former German international Uli Hoeness, the outspoken president of Bayern Munich. "A match between Bayern's A and B teams is more intense" than a game with Australia, Hoeness said"..

http://www.latimes.c...0,3951454.story

Ahaha, oh yes.

[Vortigern]

Things did not go well for Spurs tonight. 4-0 down after the first leg. On the plus side, 'Arry might decide to just go for it and play with four strikers, which would be nice. Or rather, it would be if that lanky laddy Peter Crouch hadn't gotten himself sent off after 14 minutes, which leaves Spurs with a choice of Defoe, Pavlyuchenko and Van der Vaart. Meh, start 'em all and go all out for the goals. It's not like we can get knocked out any worse.

On the plus side, Schalke 04 hammered Inter Milan at the San Siro, which I find hilarious. Rafa Benitez's mess takes so long to clear up that even now they can't beat the team everyone said was the gimme for this round.

[Lauri]

Oh do I hope Schalke 04 goes further!
Same for Spurs, but we all know they have quite a disadvantage, unlike Schalke.

I don't have any love for Schalke really, but beating Inter, gogo!
Would be lovely to see Schalke in the finals against whomever, and beat them, as a "In your face, we can do this shit"

[Vortigern]

I can agree with that. Schalke vs Shakhtar Donetsk in the final would be brilliant. A big middle finger to the establishment.

Spurs' real disadvantage is that they only have three strikers in the squad, and none of them are particularly good. (Not counting van der Vaart because really he's an attacking midfielder.) If Spurs had been able to sign Raul instead of Schalke maybe it would have been different. When I saw that he was leaving Real Madrid I was desperately hoping we could get him on board, but no such luck.

[Vortigern]

Gomes... Also Ronaldo, but mostly Gomes. *shakes fist in impotent rage*