Spockydog Posted September 4, 2015 Share Posted September 4, 2015 Why do they call him the iron tulip rather than the enraged/confused cockatoo? Am I the only one who sees it? After the Swansea game, he certainly looked a bit like an angry cock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teng Ai Hui Posted September 5, 2015 Share Posted September 5, 2015 Own goal. USA 0-1 Peru It's good to see Jermaine Jones back on the pitch. I haven't heard anything about him since the Revs' playoff run last season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MercenaryChef Posted September 5, 2015 Share Posted September 5, 2015 Let's have some chelsea fan whining to add to the mix please! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigFatCoward Posted September 5, 2015 Share Posted September 5, 2015 i think they come in, realise that everyone hates them, then fuck back off again. this is how it should be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baxus Posted September 5, 2015 Share Posted September 5, 2015 I thought Baxus was a chelsea fan for the longest time. Here I was, thinking we were cyber-friends and then you had to go and do this! :crying: :P Serbia finally got out of negative points in these qualifiers by winning against Armenia last night. I'm so disappointed by our national football team I'm not even certain it was Armenia they played last night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raja Posted September 5, 2015 Share Posted September 5, 2015 Here I was, thinking we were cyber-friends and then you had to go and do this! :crying: :P I've known you're a Liverpool fan for a while - I think my initial impression was based on the fact that you had several posts about Matic and how important he would be for Chelsea. Also, here's an article about German Football which is fairly interesting - It's an extract from a book, I think - it focuses on the restructuring of the German FA and youth system that led up to their world cup win. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melphis Amekia Posted September 5, 2015 Share Posted September 5, 2015 Artem Rudnevs, a Latvian playing for HSV, almost got his tongue bitten off because of a fight with his wife who did the biting. Whoa, what the hell... Don't if I should be really disturbed or laughing. Probably both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winterfell is Burning Posted September 5, 2015 Share Posted September 5, 2015 Artem Rudnevs, a Latvian playing for HSV, almost got his tongue bitten off because of a fight with his wife who did the biting. Whoa, what the hell... Don't if I should be really disturbed or laughing. Probably both. Only in HSV... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baxus Posted September 5, 2015 Share Posted September 5, 2015 I've known you're a Liverpool fan for a while - I think my initial impression was based on the fact that you had several posts about Matic and how important he would be for Chelsea... and you were completely right. I've added the part you have obviously forgotten at the end there :P :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spockydog Posted September 5, 2015 Share Posted September 5, 2015 Have to laugh at all the journo's describing Wayne Rooney as England's greatest ever player after equalling Charlton's scoring record. Get real, idiots. ETA: Some perspective, here. After bursting onto the scene during his teenage years, the Manchester United striker has racked up 48 goals in total but never reached the heights which seemed to be beckoned by his 18 months as an international footballer. At Euro 2004 he looked like a world-beater in the making but, as the same competition approaches 12 years on, many England fans feel that they have simply not seen the best of their captain. While 48 goals in 105 caps seems like a reasonable return, a deeper investigation of those numbers takes much of the shine from Rooney's impending achievement. Since that summer of 2004, in which Rooney scored doubles against Switzerland and Croatia before picking up a foot injury as England exited to hosts Portugal in the quarter-finals, the forward has scored a grand total of two goals in tournament football. What's more, his 48 goals have largely come against international nobodies. Of the top 11 nations in the current Fifa world rankings, Rooney has scored against just two. His 2005 strike in a friendly against Argentina and goals in non-competitive home and away fixtures against Brazil in 2013 are the only occasions on which he has scored against the traditional powerhouses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spockydog Posted September 5, 2015 Share Posted September 5, 2015 Charlton and Rooney's 49 goals were scored over the course of thirteen seasons playing for England. Lineker was better than both of them. He sits third on 48 goals, scored over nine international seasons. If not for that clueless fucking turnip, I reckon he would have gone on to set a record that would have been pretty much impossible to beat. ETA: And, of course, unlike Rooney, Lineker has a World Cup Golden Boot to his name. Having said that, Rooney never shit himself when playing for England, so there's that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polishgenius Posted September 5, 2015 Share Posted September 5, 2015 To be fair, neither Rooney nor Charlton are really out-and-out number 9s, especially Charlton who, let's be fair, had an incredible record for a midfielder. Rooney is certainly a better player than Lineker was all-round, although not consistently. It amuses me that the man at 8th place on the goals-to-games ratio list, just below Lineker and above both Hurst and Shearer, is Peter Crouch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spockydog Posted September 5, 2015 Share Posted September 5, 2015 But isn't consistency one of the main factors in determining greatness? At Portugal in 2004, Rooney looked like he was destined to one day 'do a Maradona' and single-handedly win a tournament for England. But since then he's done fuck all. It's all very well banging them in against the likes of Andorra and San Marino etc in friendlies and qualifiers, but can you do it when it really matters? In Rooney's case, the answer has to be no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polishgenius Posted September 5, 2015 Share Posted September 5, 2015 Well, for England Lineker is better, true. All round, though, it's a lot closer- Rooney's still inconsistent but a lot less so at club level. p.s. Woy really needs to play Kane and Rooney together. One of the reasons Rooney's been frustrating against the top opposition is that he isn't a number 9, and shouldn't be relied upon as the main goalscorer, but England have almost had to and with Kane there's a perfect opportunity to play him in the number 10 role with a proper quality striker in front of him while Rooney's still got some juice left. I get that Hodgson's quite cautious but he really needs to fuck that off for this one. Hell, if Sturridge gets fit, play all 3 in a halfway-house between a 4-4-2 diamond and a 4-3-3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iskaral Pust Posted September 6, 2015 Share Posted September 6, 2015 Isn't the problem that both Kane and Rooney like to drop deep? Neither wants to stay forward as a #9. Sturridge likes to drop and roam too, but can be closer to a #9 than either. Rooney has scored a lot of his international goals against soft opposition but I thought that was true of Lineker too. There are relatively few games against top teams. Even in 1990 Lineker got two soft penalties against Cameroon to boost his tally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rorshach Posted September 6, 2015 Share Posted September 6, 2015 It's really obvious what the problem is here. Which team did Rooney play for when he looked like a world beater in 2004? Which team has he played for after that? Case closed. :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nas! Posted September 6, 2015 Share Posted September 6, 2015 My goodness, Netherlands. What is going on with you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lacuna Posted September 6, 2015 Share Posted September 6, 2015 I can hardly believe my eyes... Norway are up 2-0 against Croatia. Look for them to lose their bottle and let in two soft goals presently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoë Sumra Posted September 6, 2015 Author Share Posted September 6, 2015 How is Wales-Israel still at 0-0? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lessthanluke Posted September 6, 2015 Share Posted September 6, 2015 No idea. So frustrating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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