what a game by man u! poor scholes ftmw!

thoughts on chelsey and liverpool tomorrow?

 

Believe it or not I know what youre talking about. "Proper Football"
I work with a guy from Manchester.

 

no one else watch soccer?

 

What?? You guys watch the fitber? Sweet!

I'm a Kopite (L'pool) so I can barely bring myself to say the name ManU...a.k.a. The Red Filth. Decent goal by the ginger midget Scholes I must admit. Grudgingly.

So today...Liverpool and Chelski. Liverpool for sure. Chelsea have no heart, no soul.

If Liverpool FC were a car, they'd be a 1964 Mustang. Classic, elegant but powerfull. Chelski would be a 2007 Honda Civic with a big fart cannon exhaust...overpriced, brash and all fart and no ****.

BritStang

 

yup....i have a lot of soccer friends so we watch "football" a lot. you would be surprised how many people do watch football. its just not highly publicized or recognized...

 

Damn it all to hell!

Bloody Chelski ricers

BritStang

 

Who the **** cares about soccer. a bunch of pansies kicking a ball for a few hours, scoring every once in a great while. It wouldn't be so bad if the giant bags of douche didn't flop around like they got shot in the stomache just from a tackle. They get carried off on a stretcher and suddenly, a miracle cure is found, and 5 minutes later they are back on the field.

 

^^^ obviously never been the recipient of an illegal slide tackle. Dude i used to hit people HARD (like hard enough to make them flop around like you described) and I'm nowhere near as strong as a professional soccer player.

I bet you think curling takes pure athleticism too.

 

Over 3 billion people.

 

stupid ******* chelsey, damn it all to hell. i'm gong to cry tonight

and, if you think soccer is for pansies, we'll go for a 50/50 ball and see how much you'd like to do that 50 times a game

 

I grew up playing both soccer and rugby. I was a better rugby player than soccer player so I played after college for a team in the national league in London. I ran up the usual litany of rugby injuries....fractures, concussions, etc., but easily the worst injury I ever suffered was from playing soccer when I executed a slide tackle badly and tore...well, just about every damn muscle off my knee. Put a permanent end to my soccer days and took me out of rugby for a season and a half.

Rugby hits are mostly square on and involve upper body, soccer injuries are often nasty twists. Also, you're so pumped up during a game of rugby you don't feel the hits. For those who like rugby, here's one of my favorite compilations of rugby hits:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc0Ut5y-GRc

CrimsonRed02, you might prefer this soccer vs rugby comparison:

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

BritStang

 

I never said soccer wasn't "hard" or that tackles didn't occasionally really hurt. But for god's sake people get taken out ON STRETCHERS and then come back in the game. There is video on youtube of soccer teams actually PRACTICING falling down and acting hurt.

 

People over exaggerate when they get hurt in EVERY sport.