and this is how to win games
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enWKPnPu77k
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481Rick Reuben wrote:We're all sensitive people
With so much love to give, understand me sugar
Since we got to be... Lets say, I love you
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482What's great about that is that he gets hit...then there's a pause...then he falls. Brilliant!
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483honeyisfunny wrote:While we're on the subject of great challenges:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RvuuiEgsY0
Harold Schumacher. Didn't even get sent off, didn't even get blown for a
foul. Broken vertebrae and no teeth. Apparently Harold even moaned that
the physio was taking too long to get the player off. Those unfamiliar
with 'soccer' please watch and learn! 1.30 in.
I remember watching that game. When Battison's hand went limp I
honestly thought he'd killed him. You can see from the shot behind the
goal the ref has e perfect view and that Schumacher jumps after the ball
goes past him. That's worse than anything Terry hurlock could muster.
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484Ivan Dobsky wrote:honeyisfunny wrote:While we're on the subject of great challenges:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RvuuiEgsY0
Harold Schumacher. Didn't even get sent off, didn't even get blown for a
foul. Broken vertebrae and no teeth. Apparently Harold even moaned that
the physio was taking too long to get the player off. Those unfamiliar
with 'soccer' please watch and learn! 1.30 in.
I remember watching that game. When Battison's hand went limp I
honestly thought he'd killed him. You can see from the shot behind the
goal the ref has e perfect view and that Schumacher jumps after the ball
goes past him. That's worse than anything Terry hurlock could muster.
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This game is the reason why I will never root for Germany in any sport.
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486Yes, that was really ugly and his name is Harald or "Toni" Schumacher, by the way.
It were the days of ugly prison football. It started somewhere around 1982-83 when the Germans became famous for terrible, ugly, tanklike football. The "22 players on the pitch and in the end Germany wins" kind of football. No risk, no guts and definitely no fun to watch. It lasted until 2004. In the meantime Germany didn't win against any of the "big" football nations. They were pretty shit during the last two years, to be honest. Even less fun to watch. I expected them to go down in the first round.
And all of a sudden they've played four great games in a row. 3 1/2 to be fair, the second half of the game against Sweden was pretty boring. I don't know if you realized it, but they don't play "German" anymore. England did. I'm happily surprised.
I'm even a bit more excited because of Miro Klose. We grew up in the same small town, a village of 3500 inhabitants. As kids we played for the same club. He's two years younger than I am, so we never played in the same team but he played there until his early twenties.
Miro is the first player who plays for Germany whom I know. He's a great guy and comparing him to players like Andrej Schewtschenko, who's "worth" ten times as much, is a lot of fun because he plays ten times better.
No matter how the game end's today, Germany played some good football so far. If they keep on playing like they've played in the first games and still lose against Argentina today, then salut Argentina. Argentina played amazingly well so far and whoever wins today's game deserves to win the World Cup.
It were the days of ugly prison football. It started somewhere around 1982-83 when the Germans became famous for terrible, ugly, tanklike football. The "22 players on the pitch and in the end Germany wins" kind of football. No risk, no guts and definitely no fun to watch. It lasted until 2004. In the meantime Germany didn't win against any of the "big" football nations. They were pretty shit during the last two years, to be honest. Even less fun to watch. I expected them to go down in the first round.
And all of a sudden they've played four great games in a row. 3 1/2 to be fair, the second half of the game against Sweden was pretty boring. I don't know if you realized it, but they don't play "German" anymore. England did. I'm happily surprised.
I'm even a bit more excited because of Miro Klose. We grew up in the same small town, a village of 3500 inhabitants. As kids we played for the same club. He's two years younger than I am, so we never played in the same team but he played there until his early twenties.
Miro is the first player who plays for Germany whom I know. He's a great guy and comparing him to players like Andrej Schewtschenko, who's "worth" ten times as much, is a lot of fun because he plays ten times better.
No matter how the game end's today, Germany played some good football so far. If they keep on playing like they've played in the first games and still lose against Argentina today, then salut Argentina. Argentina played amazingly well so far and whoever wins today's game deserves to win the World Cup.
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488Klose equalizes!
I still think Germany could win. 9 Minutes remaining.
(Klinsman's prancing, whenever Germany scores, is incredible)
I still think Germany could win. 9 Minutes remaining.
(Klinsman's prancing, whenever Germany scores, is incredible)
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489oooh... PKs ....
i don't know why i find myself rooting against argentina--or, in this case, for zee germans--but this has been a solid, intriguing match.
i don't know why i find myself rooting against argentina--or, in this case, for zee germans--but this has been a solid, intriguing match.
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490Jens Lehmann! Balls of Steel.
Well done, Germany.
Ooooh and a fight's broken out! WTF!
Well done, Germany.
Ooooh and a fight's broken out! WTF!