Essential The Official Football (Soccer) Thread - The Slotification of Liverpool is nearly complete

[Kunty McPhuck]

Pollux Troy

 

[Kunty McPhuck]

I actually know a Gavin, and he's Black

Me too, but not American

 

[Scottie Drippin]

Always thought that character was based on Craig Bellamy.

I thought he was Robbie Fowler.

 

[mastermind]

Has there ever been an american called 'gavin'?

Or has any 'gary' ever been referred to as 'gaz'?

These are the things i'm wondering at this time.

I went to High School with a Gavin

Always thought that character was based on Craig Bellamy.

I thought he was Robbie Fowler.

honestly cant see this because of how about his looks that Gavin dude was.

I thought he was DBecks until DBecks was in the 2nd movie, so I dont know.

 

[frush11]

May come as a surprise to some, but on just pure novelty, I kinda like this whole GBE/OTF/300 Movement. Don't get me wrong, I won't put any of this stuff in the Zune now, but I feel it.

Beats go hard, they bout that life

 

[SubZeroDegrees]

Didn't know that so many people on the site watched Soap Operas. Leaving with women and being the youngest in the house, had no choice. Shed a little tear when all them Soaps got cancelled.

Part of my childhood died when those Soaps went RIP

Once in while The Arcadium churns out a good thread

http://www.the-coli.com/arcadium/39149-tv-shows-you-embarrassed-say-you-watch-name-em-8.html

I was more a young and the restless guy. Victor and Drusilla was the only one that keep me interested.

Drusilla was bad too.

 

[phillycavsfan]

I started watching updated 90210 because I wanted to support Mike from the Wire getting some shine. The plotlines that they give this dude are so bad it's hilarious. But at least he's getting paid.

When it turns up on Netflix I'll still watch the last season. I heard they hooked up Dixon with Adrianna.

 

[Montez]

I went to High Sschool with a Gavin





honestly cant see this because of how about his looks that Gavin dude was.

I thought he was DBecks until DBecks was in the 2nd movie, so I dont know.

I thought he was Robbie Fowler.

Gavin was too fukked up to be Becks. Santiago seemed more like Becks.

Fowler is a good shout because they guy who wrote the series is a big Liverpool fan.

 

[StraxStrax]

So Fellaini wants out? I hope he stays in the EPL but he could be great midfielder in Italy.

 

[StraxStrax]

Americans Abroad: Aron Johannsson Starts Strong - NYTimes.com

While most of the top leagues in Europe are taking an early break for the FIFA international window, the first eight games of the Danish Superliga season already has some great stories.

The perennial power F.C. Copenhagen has returned to its dominant form and will probably be the favorite this year after a stunning collapse last season. Aalborg and the defending champions, F.C. Nordsjaelland, are also in pursuit of one of the Superliga’s two Champions League berths.

One of the biggest surprises, however, is the play of AGF Aarhus’ 21-year-old Icelandic-American forward Aron Johannsson, who is leading the Superliga in scoring with seven goals.

In his past two games, Johannsson has been remarkable: he scored all four goals in a 4-1 win over a strong Horsens team, including three within four minutes for one of the fastest hat tricks ever, and in his next game he scored twice against Silkeborg.

“The last two games everything went great,” Johannsson said. “It has been a little bit surprising for me. At the start of the season we were not playing well and it was not looking good. Then it came and we played a brilliant game. It happened very fast.”

Johannsson has been with AGF Aarhus since 2010, when he transferred from the Icelandic club Fjolnir. At the time AGF Aarhus were in the Danish First Division (the country’s second tier), but the club quickly earned promotion back to the Superliga.

Growing up as a youth player in Iceland, the right-footed Johannsson played primarily on the wing in a 4-3-3. But when he moved to Denmark, he switched to a forward role in a 4-4-2, and it is in this position where he has flourished.

Last season was Johannsson’s first in the Superliga. He scored seven goals in 30 games but all of them came in his final 16 appearances. With his strong finish carrying over into the current season, he now has 14 goals in his last 24 Superliga games and is considered one of the more promising forwards in Denmark.

“I came here two years ago and I was just a small kid from Iceland who was never really expected to do anything,” Johannsson said. “In my old club in Iceland, I used to be the best player. When I got to AGF, I was nothing. I then realized I had to work very hard mainly in the gym to get physically stronger. I worked very hard to get into the team and now, two years later, things are going really well.”

AGF Aarhus is an ambitious club, rebounding after a difficult season in 2008-09 which saw it surprisingly relegated out of the Superliga. With a core of young players such as Johannsson, AGF finished last year in fifth place and this year has a goal to finish in the top four and earn a spot in the Europa League.

Based on the club’s recent play, Johannsson is optimistic.

“We want to aim for the Europa League this year because I think we have a good enough team to make it,” he said. “I’m the top scorer right now and I’ve scored six goals in the last two games and those were the best two games we’ve played as a team. If we continue to play so well as a team then of course I hope to continue to score.”

Johannsson’s strong start has also brought questions about his international future. He holds dual citizenship with Iceland and the United States since he was born in Mobile, Ala., where his parents were studying at the University of South Alabama.

He returned to live in Iceland when he was three years old but returned to the United States at 17 to play at Florida’s IMG Academy. It was there he played with United States youth internationals Zarek Valentin and Gale Agbossoumonde.

In the current international window, Johannsson is playing with Iceland’s under-21 national team as it prepares to face Belgium. His continued strong play in Denmark, however, could soon attract interest from the United States national team, which regularly competes in the World Cup and has a stronger national team than Iceland.

Johannsson said he was happy playing with Iceland but should the United States national team call, he realizes that the offer could simply be too good to pass up.

“To tell the truth, I’ve never really thought about playing for the United States national team,” Johannsson said. “I’ve lived in Iceland almost my whole life. I’ve always had it as a goal to play for the Icelandic national team. But if Jurgen Klinsmann calls me and says he wants me to play for the United States, then it would be pretty hard to say no. “

 

[yoyoyo1]

Football, like baseball, is one of those sports that I always try and make an effort to get into. I like the game but I can't ever be bothered learning all the teams and the big players on those teams. Like always there's too much going on the first day and I end up just watching what's on TV.

Giants, always.. Jets in the background (provided there's no soccer on), SNF, MNF in the background

With basketball I don't even bother watching any of the games, I like hockey more but there's too much to follow every day as well. Don't even follow boxing all that much anymore.

Of course sports betting changes these thoughts as soon as it factors in but I don't really do it for these sports anymore.

 

[WickedGames]

Brehs. I saw this niqqa Nathan Dyer (Swansea) out last night. I seem to always see footballers when I visit my boys in southampton.
This man is proof that size doesn't really matter in terms of prem footballers. Dude is like 5'5 and has a tiny ass frame
I think dude tried to son me. He was hype as fukk and just walked up to me talkin bout "That a topman ting darg?" Referring to my shirt . It was a topman shirt so I didnt know if dude was takin a sly shot at me rockin cheaper clothes or he actually bought something similar (which would be weird as he prob earns like 25k a week)

He was with some slore and she shouted out "yo nathan lets go" and then i clocked who it was but for some reason I said "You nathan redmond mate?" The niqqa flipped NATHAN REDMOND WTF? I tried to correct myself but dude was just actin a fool. It was jokes.

Later some lil nig was askin him for a photo and he was shoutin out "watch me on motd bruv!"

Footballers are dikks.
I know, cool story

 

[Premeditated]

Football, like baseball, is one of those sports that I always try and make an effort to get into. I like the game but I can't ever be bothered learning all the teams and the big players on those teams. Like always there's too much going on the first day and I end up just watching what's on TV.

Giants, always.. Jets in the background (provided there's no soccer on), SNF, MNF in the background

With basketball I don't even bother watching any of the games, I like hockey more but there's too much to follow every day as well. Don't even follow boxing all that much anymore.

Of course sports betting changes these thoughts as soon as it factors in but I don't really do it for these sports anymore.

this whole post is just

 

[KingHurst]

TACTICAL ANALYSIS
By Jonathan Wilson

Luis Suarez hit the woodwork eight times last season, which would have been a Premier League record had Robin van Persie, as well as scoring 30 goals, not also hit the frame of the goal 10 times. It is the central statistic in the debate over the forward and his effectiveness, perhaps even over Liverpool as a whole.
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At Ajax, he scored 81 goals in 110 games. With the Uruguay national team he’s scored 28 in 54. Scoring ratios can be misleading because they say little about the level of opposition or the style of play, but it’s fair to say that Liverpool would have expected more than 16 league goals in a little over a season and a half when they spent £23 million on him.

THREE-PRONGED ATTACK
THE FRONT MAN: Suarez should thrive with sufficient support from deep
And that’s where the woodwork figure comes in. At the moment for Liverpool, Suarez scores a goal every three games. Had all of those efforts that hit the woodwork gone in, he’d have scored one every other game.

The player himself seems baffled by how often he narrowly misses. "In Holland I was lucky," he said in an interview with The Guardian last month. "It felt like everything went in. I could shoot with my shoulder or my tummy and it would go in. Now it's different. I understand that I have to score more goals than I am scoring. Maybe you try to be so precise to make sure that the keeper doesn't reach it that you end up hitting the post. Sometimes you hit it badly and it goes in. This year, maybe I'll try to hit it badly."

Bad luck? Being over-precise? A lack of confidence? When you see how Suarez can finish at times - think, for instance, of his goal for Uruguay against Paraguay in last year’s Copa America final and the two he got in the semi-final against Peru, or of his brilliant hat-trick for Liverpool against Norwich City in the league last season – you feel the issue can’t be technical, that it must be mental.

Suarez’s near-misses fitted into a wider pattern at Liverpool. They came eighth, their worst finish in over half a century, yet in the top five leagues in Europe, only Barcelona had a greater proportion of their play in the attacking third of the pitch. In only five of the 38 games did Liverpool have fewer shots than their opponents. Only three teams had more shots on goal than Liverpool last season. All of this suggests that, for all the criticism of their style of play, the issue was chance conversion: Liverpool missed five of their six penalties and hit the woodwork a total of 33 times.


Off target | Suarez has netted just 16 league goals for Liverpool

Maybe the issue is primarily one of confidence - perhaps once Suarez starts scoring goals he will find that the ball keeps going in, his reflexes and radar honed by the sort of surging self-belief he felt at Ajax and in Argentina last summer. Or perhaps the issue is as much one of style.

FORWARD MOBILITY
ALWAYS ON THE MOVE: Suarez is at his best in fluid systems
In signing Andy Carroll, an archetypal target-man, plus Charlie Adam, Stewart Downing and Jordan Henderson, all of whom had been the best chance-creators at their respective clubs the previous season (and were the highest-ranked players in chance creation that Liverpool could realistically sign), the Reds made clear that their principal mode of attack was going to be to get crosses into the box. Suarez’s role in that, presumably, would have been to play off Carroll, feeding on knockdowns and looking to engage the more creative side of his game, sliding balls wide for players to deliver crosses into the middle.

With Carroll injured or out of form for so much of the season, though, and Adam, Downing and Henderson all struggling to adapt, that never quite worked out and Liverpool were, in a sense, caught between styles from an attacking point of view. It may be, odd as it may sound, that they were creating the wrong sort of chances.

Suarez has historically been at his best in fluid systems. Uruguay have played with a front two and front three under Oscar Tabarez, but in both formations the forwards are mobile: Suarez is always encouraged to drop deep or move wide (he started out as a winger), to manipulate defences through his understanding with Diego Forlan and Edinson Cavani, forwards who have a similar ability to play either as the main striker or off a main striker.

In that regard, the style Brendan Rodgers is trying to implement should be ideal for Suarez – and if it is, the confidence and his natural finishing may return.

They lack cover and experience, but in theory a front three of Suarez, Fabio Borini and Raheem Sterling with a player breaking from midfield should get the best out of the Uruguayan, as he acknowledges.

"It suits me," he says. "He knows I never stand still, that I am always moving, not a static, fixed striker, and he thinks that in the way we are going to play now I can do a lot of damage.”

The question, then, is whether the rest of the side can provide the platform to turn theory into practice.

Suarez gonna flourish under rodgers m8s


kunty u mad?


must be killin ya m8

 

[yoyoyo1]

this whole post is just

what about it tho?