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The Soccer Thread (IV)

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Inky_Wretch, Jul 2, 2009.

  1. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    My dreams of playing professional soccer live!

    After all, if a 12-year-old boy can debut in Bolivia's first division then why can't a 41-year-old. Now I just need my father to become a professional soccer coach.

    http://deadspin.com/5319720/
     
  2. MN Matt

    MN Matt Member

    That book is fucking fantastic by the way.
     
  3. Bubbler

    Bubbler Well-Known Member

    Great idea for a book. I might have to pick that one up.

    I really got into English soccer after reading Pete Davies' Twenty-Two Foreigners In Funny Shorts, which is the same concept, only it's a season through the prism of a lifelong Wrexham fan, one of only three Welsh clubs in the English league structure.

    It was written as an introduction to soccer for Americans before the '94 World Cup. Great, great book, worth it just to experience match day through the eyes of a fan alone.
     
  4. imjustagirl

    imjustagirl Active Member

    Yeah, but Chuck's book involves a blue bear.
     
  5. Birdscribe

    Birdscribe Active Member

    Run, don't walk.

    Great, great read, Bubbler.
     
  6. NoOneLikesUs

    NoOneLikesUs Active Member

    I had a similar experience only it came in the form of Tim Parks' A Season With Verona and Joe McGinniss' The Miracle of Castel di Sangro.
     
  7. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    Hell of a crowd tonight for Chelsea and Inter.
     
  8. GB-Hack

    GB-Hack Active Member

    Pretty entertaining game too. For a preseason game, it's had some bite.
     
  9. GB-Hack

    GB-Hack Active Member

    Pretty big blow for Arsenal: Samir Nasri broke his leg in training, and is expected to be out for three months.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/jul/21/samir-nasri-arsenal-broken-leg
     
  10. Piotr Rasputin

    Piotr Rasputin New Member

    Then why didn't you mention me in your milestone post a few weeks ago? Talked about Rush AND soccer, and I got no love.

    [/dorkuswithlongmemory]

    :):):):):) ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

    Absolutely correct that I'm being too black and white about this. I know the regular posters here have a higher standard for their fandom, for the most part. Aside from my wish that there was more MLS talk here (mostly because I don't really follow the foreign leagues any more than I need to), this is a group I'm happy to be a part of. Especially when compared to the mouth breathers at Big Soccer.

    But I never pass up a chance for a good rant about Eurosnob-type fanboys. I think it had been a couple years since the last one . . . and I have a bug in my butt about the issue from regularly reading too many soccer sites lately.

    But again, I digress.

    A couple of other things:

    - As far as soccer books go, I haven't read that many. Though like most who call themselves soccer scribes, my great unfulfilled ambition is to write one. Anyway, Among the Thugs remains my favorite.

    A Season With Verona is really enjoyable, and I'm still trying to get through Playing For Uncle Sam (I keep getting sidetracked by rock biographies and old X-Men comics). Wahl's Beckham book will be next, obviously.

    - Local media has been calling tonight's Inter Milan-Chelsea match "The biggest match on US soil since the 1994 World Cup! Never before have this many national team players taken the field!" Local TV news just repeated the "biggest match" foolishness.

    I'm sorry, but just about every World Cup qualifier - hell, ANY match involving the US national team - would be bigger than a preseason match between two European squads. It's crazy that they even tried to say that with a straight face.
     
  11. deskslave

    deskslave Active Member

    There are actually six, Bubs. Swansea and Cardiff are the only two left in the Football League, after Wrexham got relegated year before last. But there's also Newport County (Conference South, two below League Two), Merthyr Tydfil (Southern League Premier Division -- one below Conference South) and Colwyn Bay (Northern League First Division -- two below Conference South).

    As for Portsmouth, it's the club my dad supported growing up in England. And I figure with one top-flight trophy in the past 70 years, I can't be accused of glory-hunting.
     
  12. deskslave

    deskslave Active Member

    So Sven has his next job.

    Director of football at ... Notts County.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/n/notts_county/8162296.stm

    Notts County are, of course, the oldest football club in the world, though I doubt they had much to do until the second-oldest club was formed.

    Elsewhere in League Two, four players suspended and fined for betting on a game between Accrington Stanley and Bury. Three of them played for Accrington and bet on Bury to win, which they did, 2-0. Though none has been accused of match-fixing, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to make the leap.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_div_3/8162844.stm
     
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