N'Al on 20/6/2010 at 20:32
FOOTBRAWLQuote Posted by SD
Exhaustion is a great leveller.
Meh. Cheap excuse. Most of the South American teams' top players play for top level (European) clubs too, and none of them seem particularly 'levelled'.
Tomi on 20/6/2010 at 22:27
I'm still not sure whether Keïta just runs into Kaka there, or if Kaka actually gives a little punch there. Of course it doesn't hit Keïta anywhere near the face, so he should have been booked for feigning the injury, but Kaka can see Keïta running next to him and decides to give him an unnecessary little punch... which could just about justify the booking.
See how Kaka is trying to escape from the referee too, I don't think he would have done that if he really had done nothing.
Medlar on 20/6/2010 at 22:45
Nah! he just ran into him, felt a tit and tried to save face! :thumb:
AR Master on 20/6/2010 at 23:18
Quote Posted by hopper
When GBM did that joke, it was funny.
if you for one fucking instant think that i am reading two hundred fucking posts about the gayest goddamn sport next to synchronized buttfucking just to see if nobody made an obvious and hilarious joke just to know if i can post some snide bitter comment then you have another thought coming you whiny little prissy bitch
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Chade on 20/6/2010 at 23:24
Quote Posted by Namdrol
Such consistency (tied to money and the skill said money can buy), does suggest that [luck] doesn't have that much of an effect.
I'm pretty damn sure I remember a new scientist article many years ago where they showed that statistically, random chance does play a larger part in soccer then [insert most other sports here ... this was a long time ago and I can only remember the gist].
Also, as RBJ said, it's pretty damn obvious. The final score loses information about 99% of the game, instead reflecting only a handful of catastrophic events.
ercles on 21/6/2010 at 00:36
Quote Posted by SD
As you say, they're the top teams, so their players play for all the top clubs.
What this means is that you have footballers who tend to play more club matches, and at a higher intensity, than those of the lesser nations.
So while a national side like Algeria might be composed of fringe squad players from mid-table sides in the French First Division, they've probably played half as many matches this season as England's players have.
Exhaustion is a great leveller.
One thing you hear consistently across all sports is that there is no substitute for match fitness, and I'm not really sure that I've seen signs in the matches I've seen yet of the players being gassed before the match is over. Niggling injuries from a long season I can believe, but not necessarily a lack of fitness.
I would have thought that a more realistic expectation would have been that it is very difficult to get a team of high profile stars to bond together and actually play like a team, which you see often in a bunch of different sports. Also, the lack
Briareos H on 21/6/2010 at 05:42
Quote Posted by AR Master
if you for one fucking instant think that i am reading two hundred fucking posts about the gayest goddamn sport next to synchronized buttfucking just to see if nobody made an obvious and hilarious joke just to know if i can post some snide bitter comment then you have another thought coming you whiny little prissy bitch
you're giving a bad reputation to not using punctuation, i suggest suicide, or being banned
AR Master on 21/6/2010 at 06:25
i suggest shutting up
ps its you. you are the one who should shut up.
Brian The Dog on 21/6/2010 at 08:03
Quote Posted by ercles
One thing you hear consistently across all sports is that there is no substitute for match fitness, and I'm not really sure that I've seen signs in the matches I've seen yet of the players being gassed before the match is over. Niggling injuries from a long season I can believe, but not necessarily a lack of fitness.
I would have thought that a more realistic expectation would have been that it is very difficult to get a team of high profile stars to bond together and actually play like a team, which you see often in a bunch of different sports. Also, the lack
Brazil had to go through 18 games to qualify, some of their players played 60 games this season, but they still seemed OK. Personally I think it's more to do with the lower-ranked teams being better organised whereas the "better" teams are all just thrown together and expected to work without much training together. Although tiredness does have a part, sure.
On the plus side for England, we're not as chaotic as the French! Normally it's the Dutch who implode, but this one takes the biscuit.
