Football!

[hinarei]

if it weren't for Platini and the failure of the laughably-called Big Four to win the Cup this year you'd have no problems Or would you? I always get stuck on how the multitude of ways Everton can fail to get into Europe actually work...

[wålf-kun]

Originally Posted by selo

Well, the man does know about football, he was doing a great job at chelsea before the owner/president started bugging about how he should play and who should play

Guess it's a reason why he was hired as manager in Chelsea Just too bad Abramovitsj had to interfere...

I agree Everton's done fairly well this year, but of course - 4th = Champions League = lots of monies and honour

Originally Posted by Betong Åsna

Good god, this Merseyside derby is the most important in my memory. The ref better not be planning on taking yet more points off us.

pf, blaming the referee, learn to take a loss (or a draw, I suppose), mate But I do of course agree the Merseyside derby should be settled fair, without some referee screwing up...

[KC]

Yeah, How Bout Them Giants

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they're too awful to play the awesome real football

[hinarei]

Originally Posted by KC

Yeah, How Bout Them Giants

we're talking football here, KC. The actual game of football, where you use your feet to propel a ball into a goal. Not the American, wrong version And no, not sawwwwwwkerrrrrr either.

[wålf-kun]

Ah, jolly good match today! Liverpool 1-0 Everton And Torres did it again! That guy's so worth every quid to Atletico!

Now, please let me hear your excuses! Was it the pitch? Referee? Anything else? I didn't actually see the match myself, but from what I read it was a fair victory...

On another note, the Norwegian Tippeliga started today! So now we'll have 7 months of mediocre football in the far north to look forward to! I truly miss actually going to a football match these days, so I'll be there supporting my precious Lyn next Sunday and onwards!

[Betong Åsna]

Excuses? Not this time. We're just tired, and we'll really struggle to keep up a push for 5th place on current form, never mind 4th.

Injury list is long, squad list is short. Same old story.

It was a crap game, too. You just scored, and then neither of us looked like we fancied it after that.

[Yonathen]

new Subject.
Your football hero?
Mine is Dennis Bergkamp

[Betong Åsna]

Tricky! What do you mean by 'hero', exactly?

[Yonathen]

Your rolemodel, the one who got you to start liking football or the one you admire the most

[Betong Åsna]

Admire, eh? Well, when I was little and starting to get into football, Everton were so crap that it would be hard to look up to any of their players. And I wouldn't have given a second thought to players from other teams.

I suppose I could say Dixie Dean, although he's another age entirely and a bit hard to relate to >_<

[Yonathen]

You can say that again, i was expecting Pele/Maradona/Cruijf

[Betong Åsna]

Better to pick a true great who's graced the shirt of your own side, surely!

[wålf-kun]

Now I've never had any ambition on the football field myself, and therefore I don't have like a "hero" type. I do have some footballers I admire and like, among them Steven Gerrard and Paul Scholes (yeah, I know where he plays...), both great players and loyal to their clubs. Me likes that As I am, after all, Norwegian (and therefore I love Liverpool, as dear Donkey has pointed out) Solskjær would also be a natural favourite.

[Yonathen]

Gerrard is great yes, you Liverpool fanatic
If you begin talking about your "natural" favo i'll say Fan Zhiyi