The Soccer Thread (IV)

Hands up, all those who are surprised ... so we can smack you.

 

He's right. The whistle blowing in the middle of a United move at 4 minutes a couple of seconds even with a goal in the 92nd? Utter BS.

 

Arsenal 6-2 Blackburn.

Whoa.

 

This is not Liverpool's year.

 

There's your target, Spurs and City.

 

Although I tend to agree any team playing Lucas for 90 minutes most days has little chance of winning the league, I prefer to at least hang on a while to see if it's possible.

 

On Monty Python's 40th birthday, a neat little opportunity to cross-thread. Enjoy!

 

...and Marx was claiming he was offside.

Nice find. Thanks!

 

I absolutely love that sketch. The Pythons had some soccer skills:

(after the rugby highlights)

 

There's a 4-minute clip from "The Damned United" over at EPL Talk.
As far as I'm concerned, after "The Queen" and "Frost/Nixon" I would gladly fork over $8.50 to watch Michael Sheen read aloud the menu at a KFC.
Still can't believe the Academy did not nominate him for both, let alone either.
I suspect after watching the clip this movie might be a bit better than that.

http://www.epltalk.com/

Just scroll down a bit. It is pretty sweet.
Picture opens Friday in New York and LA, other cities to follow.

 

There are now a few more "official U.S. Soccer bars," including several branches of the Fado chain of Irish pubs, and Nevada Smiths in New York City.

Is there going to be some crazy cover charge?

 

On this week's episode of 'As The Pompey World Turns':

-- The club is sold. Again. To an Arab billionaire. No, a different one.

-- He went to the big city, but the big city swallowed him up and spat him out. Now he comes back to the girl and the town he spurned. (No, not Harry Redknapp. Avram Grant, who's going to be the director of football. For about two weeks. Until he sacks Paul Hart and takes his job.)

-- The players are finally paid! Although apparently not paying them motivated them, since they finally won a damn game.

-- Oh, and the next game? Is against Tottenham. I hear there's some connection between the two teams.

They are, if nothing else, a source of continuing entertainment.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/p/portsmouth/8295129.stm