Official Football Thread. Season - 13/14

[SpiderDiaze]

I've been a Real Madrid supporter ever since I was 6 years old but never went to the Bernabeu.

Did you start supporting them because they were winning stuff?

[SajN]

I've been a Real Madrid supporter ever since I was 6 years old but never went to the Bernabeu.

Did you start supporting them because they were winning stuff?

And there we go.

[SpiderDiaze]

But that is half of United's support.

True

They have over 36 million likes on Facebook, and Manchester has a population of just over 500,000.

I blame the sugar daddy billionaires making the sport into a money making business.

[SpiderDiaze]

I was on the kop a few years back waving a flag and some American told me to sit down because I was blocking his view and he couldn't take pictures and record it so I told him to fuck off then he went and snitched to a steward in the middle of YNWA. That's why home atmospheres have gone so shit.

[Francesco]

Sajn is right... here we go again with the ridiculous Never been to England/Spain or wherever statements. For 1000th time... football is meant to be international & that's why teams go on international tours in pre season. If teams wanted to stay local then they wouldn't even need the media.
Ironically it still comes from people who haven't kicked a ball in their life...

[Francesco]

Anyone see the Fiorentina v Juventus game? Rossi on fire Loved him since Villarreal, it will be fun to see him and Gomez killing shit together.
With that being said, Fiorentina really has a nice squad this year.

I watched the whole game... shit was totally surreal. I initially expected Juve to drop points there but then I wrote Fiorentina off after the second Juve goal... & but things got surreal & it went the other way.
Roma is 5 points clear now... I won't get carrier away 'cuz it's very early in the season but it's definitely a great position to be in.

[Francesco]

Anyone see the Fiorentina v Juventus game? Rossi on fire Loved him since Villarreal, it will be fun to see him and Gomez killing shit together.
With that being said, Fiorentina really has a nice squad this year.

I watched the whole game... shit was totally unreal. I initially expected Juve to drop points there but then I wrote Fiorentina off after the second Juve goal.
Roma is 5 points clear... I won't get carrier away 'cuz it's very early in the season but it's definitely a great position to be in.

I totally wrote them off after the second goal aswell.
And yeah, Roma is on a great streak right now, god damn. Another plus for Roma, is that they can focus purely on the league this year, with no CL or EL.

You're right... Totti got injured though... Roma always look ordinary without him & unfortunately the next game is away to Udinese. I hope he'll be fit by then.

[dR3]

Damn, Totti missing the Udinese game. That might be scary.

This one was better:

[SpiderDiaze]

Boss goals them

[SpiderDiaze]

Palace are shite and deserve to go down. Shockingly poor.

[Innovation]

Palace are shite and deserve to go down. Shockingly poor.

Well, they are the team who beat City early on in the season. They're not that bad.

[SpiderDiaze]

Palace are shite and deserve to go down. Shockingly poor.

Well, they are the team who beat City early on in the season. They're not that bad.

Not that bad? Sitting at the bottom of the league with only a win and 7 defeats? They are poor.

[SpiderDiaze]

This has to be one of the most competetive seasons in a long time.

PL: Arsenal, Chelsea, City, Liverpool, United, Tottenham - Most of these have a chance of winning, all of them could be second.

La Liga: Barcelona, Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid - Atm, all of these could win the league, even ATM.

Serie A: Juventus, Roma, Napoli, maybe even Fiorentina - All have a chance of winning

We in for a great season of football, folks! Also, when the season is over, we got WC2014

Liverpool and Spurs won't win the league, Spurs squad haven't gelled together and Liverpool haven't got the squad to stay in form but I can see us finishing top 4 if we keep our form up. Worst Liverpool can finish is 5th at least.

Roma got a great chance of winning the league, playing great football and still unbeaten. Napoli could even possibly win it also Rafa is a boss manager. As long as Juve don't win it it's all good.

Don't follow La Liga as much but want Barca to win.

Far too early to be speaking about who will win WC2014, Ireland will not win it unfortunately

[Francesco]

Damn, Totti missing the Udinese game. That might be scary.

Roma confirmed he'll miss the next two games & could be out for a month... fucking nightmare.

[RSoares]

World Cup European Qualifying Play-Off:

Portugal - Sweden
France - Ukraine
Greece - Romania
Iceland - Croatia

So, Ibrahimovic + 10... That's okay