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fmc83 said:
CaptainPrefrences said:
Its a damn shame that I have to pay 40 extra Canadian dollars a month to watch some decent football.

Setanta, Gol Tv and Fox soccer Channel. You guys in Europe must get your leagues free.

 

Nah, we have to pay as well. I think it's two games per season in free-tv, the rest is pay-tv. But we still get gameday-summaries with all of the games in free-tv.

 

And yeah there's a thing called internet as well

 

As a canadian how do you feel about Owen "Injury Himself" Hargreaves (I still can't believe, that ManUtd. payed 25 million € for him) not playing for Canada, but for England?

I actually support Owen playing for England. His parents are from England and Canada rejected him in teh first place, thats why he went to Germany to play for Bayern. Owen is a fking monster in midfield and in right back. He can play winger or central. Its to bad he got injrued this season, we missed his set pieces and hustle, but we got Darren to cover for him.

 



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fmc83 said:
CaptainPrefrences said:
Its a damn shame that I have to pay 40 extra Canadian dollars a month to watch some decent football.

Setanta, Gol Tv and Fox soccer Channel. You guys in Europe must get your leagues free.

 

Nah, we have to pay as well. I think it's two games per season in free-tv, the rest is pay-tv. But we still get gameday-summaries with all of the games in free-tv.

 

And yeah there's a thing called internet as well

 

As a canadian how do you feel about Owen "Injury Himself" Hargreaves (I still can't believe, that ManUtd. payed 25 million € for him) not playing for Canada, but for England?

I actually support Owen playing for England. His parents are from England and Canada rejected him in teh first place, thats why he went to Germany to play for Bayern. Owen is a fking monster in midfield and in right back. He can play winger or central. Its to bad he got injrued this season, we missed his set pieces and hustle, but we got Darren to cover for him.

 



CaptainPrefrences said:

I actually support Owen playing for England. His parents are from England and Canada rejected him in teh first place, thats why he went to Germany to play for Bayern. Owen is a fking monster in midfield and in right back. He can play winger or central. Its to bad he got injrued this season, we missed his set pieces and hustle, but we got Darren to cover for him.

 

 

I know him very well, remember I saw him all the seven years he played for Bayern, and even from the beginning when he first appeared. He's definitely not a superstar, but a good defensive midfielder. Can't remember him playing right back or as winger as a regular though. But what I can tell you is, that we all were like if ManUtd really pays 25 million € for him: it's a no-brainer to sell him. It was the biggest sum ever payed for a Bundesliga-player (maybe Ribery will top that next year), and he's just not that good. He played a great world cup 2006, but he's injured way to often (see my added statistics)

 

Bayern II is the reserve team (playing in the 3rd highest division which was called Regional-League at that time)

First line on the right is games played, then goals, assists, yellow cards, yellow-red cards and red cards.

Bundesliga 2000/2001 FC Bayern München Mittelfeld   14 0 0   1 0 0  
Regionalliga Süd 2000/2001 FC Bayern München II Mittelfeld   15 4 0   5 0 0  
Bundesliga 2001/2002 FC Bayern München Mittelfeld   29 0 5   6 0 0  
Bundesliga 2002/2003 FC Bayern München Mittelfeld   25 1 4   0 0 0  
Bundesliga 2003/2004 FC Bayern München Mittelfeld   25 2 2   4 0 0  
Bundesliga 2004/2005 FC Bayern München Mittelfeld   27 1 3   5 0 0  
Bundesliga 2005/2006 FC Bayern München Mittelfeld   16 1 1   5 0 0  
Bundesliga 2006/2007 FC Bayern München Mittelfeld   9 0 0   1 0 0  
ENG: Premier League 2007/2008 Manchester United Mittelfeld   23 2 0   2 0 0  
ENG: Premier League 2008/2009 Manchester United Mittelfeld   2 0 0   0 0 0


Yea, its a shame when players have to be injured so often. When Owen is fit though, its no doubt he is one of the best DM in the PL, and i'm not being biased here. Ive been saying that since 2005.



fmc83 said:
Captendo said:

I have always wondered how a Bayern fan had felt that moment. Now I guess I know it!
Oh, and I think I do know that to suffer means :P
I mean, I'll be 17 this November, yet I saw:

-Juventus - Manchester 2-3
-Juventus - Milan
-Juventus in the Serie B

And this season is easily the worst.

But yeah, I even saw the "5 Maggio": Udinese - Juventus 0-2 and Lazio - Inter 4-2. So awesome!

Off course you do. I was just screwing around

 

You asked me before, how I saw the manipulation scandal in Italy. My italian is based solely on my average latin and french knowledge, so I just get half of the sense, if I read an italian newspaper. But from what I understood and read in German about it, my standpoint was, that this whole thing kind of went the Italian way. First you tell three teams will have to go down, then two and at the end, I was surprised, that at least Juve went down for that. Moggi, as an official man of the club should have know better. It's hard for the tifosi, but in the end it's a small piece of justice. That he didn't get sued was more to some laws Berlusconi-styles than anything else. Actually a bigger shame was what actually happened with Milan - they even played CL the next year (if I remember that right).

We had one case of manipulation in Germany in the last years and the referee actually went to jail after that. Even after that there were lots of improvements by laws and the Liga and it shouldn't happen that easily again. Do you think, that to manipulate a game got harder in Italy since the Moggi-affair?

 

 

Yep, you know a lot of stuff, as always.

Moggi's business wasn't just about "paying referees". It was never proved he actually did something like that. We deserved to get penalized but the trial was run by Guido Rossi, a member of Inter CDA. And Tronchetti Provera himself, the man behind the interceptations, was a member of Inter. But that's the Italian justice for you I guess. After all we have Berlusconi as a premier who keeps making a fool of all of us abroad, while he should be in a jail.

Now in Italy you see manipulated games, or at the very least, referees who make a lot of weird mistakes every single time. Too bad Berlusconi and Moratti managed to cut off Moggi of all his business, so they actually have their hands on anything. Only Tuttosport is the only journal which doesn't support for Milan and Inter. But of course, since it's a piece of crap, it's not thought as a real journal here, like it should be. Yet this should happen for the Gazzetta too, probably for the Corriere which is anyway the "best" among these. So, if a penalty isn't given to the Juve, it's a mistake. If it's not given to Milan (And it never happens), it's a cheat made by comunists against Berlusconi. I'm not joking, it's almost threatened as if it were. And the same goes for Inter. The Milan, his year, had something like one penalty every 3 matches. And they managed not to win.

Oh, and you brought up another topic: in the 2007 the Milan couldn't take part in the Champions, because penalized teams cannot get there. But you know, there is always that little mafia guy called Berlusconi who can...



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Finally Ranieri isn't our coach anymore!
The football has won, we have won, everyone has won. I cannot stand him, never been able to, and now he's finally gone.

Ferrara will be the coach for the next 2 matches.



Ranieri got fired wow.

Maybe a return to Chelsea? :)



CaptainPrefrences said:
Ranieri got fired wow.

Maybe a return to Chelsea? :)

 

I don't think Roman is this desperate.



Lol.

Even though I dislike Chelsea, I'm excited to see what theyll do next season.

Ballack, Deco, Alex, Mikel, Malouda just to name a few need to go.

Van der Vaart to ChelseA?



On Rai 1 there is an amazing charity match: a team with Del Piero, Zidane, Di Livio, Peruzzi and Montero against some of the most famous Italian singers. Since I listen only to English music (Queen and Beatles for the win) I'll support the other team, but it's always great to see so many awesome champs all together. And I LOVE Montero. I'd like to see Conte too.