England > America

[spherrod]

Originally posted by: maddogchen
(yawn)....now if England had lost...that would have been interesting news.

not really - USA are ranked 10th in the world and England are 6th I think. The US team is a lot better than most people give them credit for. It would have been interesting to see both countries play their full strength teams.

 

[loic2003]

Originally posted by: BadDaddy
Soccer/football is nothing more than a bunch of men in shorts chasing a ball around a nice green field, trying to kick the stuffing out of it. Every once in a while, they scare the ball into a net and there is much celebration. I never thought that catching a ball in a big net would be so difficult.

American football is a bunch a wusses too scared to get hurt so they wear suits of armor and massive full-face helmets. Come watch a decent rugby game and you'll see some real men slogging the crap out of each other. Screw helmets, they just bleed

And it's football: not soccer. You use your foot to kick a ball instead of picking it up, etc.

 

[amol]

Originally posted by: alp

Originally posted by: LtPage1
1776+1812= America 2, England 0. i win.

did you actually win in 1812? i thought it was sort of a draw...

then we still won on aggregate

 

[DannyBoy]

Originally posted by: Merlyn3D
That's not real football, come over to the states and we'll show you real football

Fvck off, we invented the game.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: loic2003

Originally posted by: BadDaddy
Soccer/football is nothing more than a bunch of men in shorts chasing a ball around a nice green field, trying to kick the stuffing out of it. Every once in a while, they scare the ball into a net and there is much celebration. I never thought that catching a ball in a big net would be so difficult.

American football is a bunch a wusses too scared to get hurt so they wear suits of armor and massive full-face helmets. Come watch a decent rugby game and you'll see some real men slogging the crap out of each other. Screw helmets, they just bleed

And it's football: not soccer. You use your foot to kick a ball instead of picking it up, etc.

when you're paying someone millions of dollars to get out there and play you're going to armor them. unless you're into bad business decisions.

and it is soccer. soccer comes from the full name: association football. and the brits invented the word, so don't blame us.

american football started with rugby school football. and of course, rugby school football started from some primative game played in england in the 1700s or so, just like association football. so fsck off.

 

[DannyBoy]

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: loic2003

Originally posted by: BadDaddy
Soccer/football is nothing more than a bunch of men in shorts chasing a ball around a nice green field, trying to kick the stuffing out of it. Every once in a while, they scare the ball into a net and there is much celebration. I never thought that catching a ball in a big net would be so difficult.

American football is a bunch a wusses too scared to get hurt so they wear suits of armor and massive full-face helmets. Come watch a decent rugby game and you'll see some real men slogging the crap out of each other. Screw helmets, they just bleed

And it's football: not soccer. You use your foot to kick a ball instead of picking it up, etc.

when you're paying someone millions of dollars to get out there and play you're going to armor them. unless you're into bad business decisions.

and it is soccer. soccer comes from the full name: association football. and the brits invented the word, so don't blame us.

american football started with rugby school football. and of course, rugby school football started from some primative game played in england in the 1700s or so, just like association football. so fsck off.

And as with other things that america now has, the reason we don't have it, is because it is crap.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: DnaJ
And as with other things that america now has, the reason we don't have it, is because it is crap.

no, you just have a warped sense of what a good sport should be. does anyone ever manage to get through a game sober? the only way you could enjoy a sport as boring and uneventful as soccer is to be blasted out of your mind. hell, maybe i should ask if you can go through a season without one group of fans killing someone from another group of fans. wtf is wrong with you people?

 

[DannyBoy]

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: DnaJ
And as with other things that america now has, the reason we don't have it, is because it is crap.

no, you just have a warped sense of what a good sport should be. does anyone ever manage to get through a game sober? the only way you could enjoy a sport as boring and uneventful as soccer is to be blasted out of your mind. hell, maybe i should ask if you can go through a season without one group of fans killing someone from another group of fans. wtf is wrong with you people?

Don't ask me, I rarely watch Football, I'm a Rugby fan.

And, I don't drink, I spend my nights out Pacman Style.

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: LtPage1
1776+1812= America 2, England 0. i win.

Why is the white house white again? I'd hardly consider 1812 a "victory".

 

[amol]

Originally posted by: jagec

Originally posted by: LtPage1
1776+1812= America 2, England 0. i win.

Why is the white house white again? I'd hardly consider 1812 a "victory".

1812 was a draw.

America won on aggregate.

We went on to face Germany in the finals and won both matches.

 

[RbSX]

Originally posted by: Merlyn3D
That's not real football, come over to the states and we'll show you real football

Yeah yeah, footballs for pansys.. rugby!!!

 

[InterpolAgent]

I suppose baseball, golf, and nascar are considered sports here. :\ And as for having an object go back and forth between two teams, the same thing happens in basketball, nfl, and hockey ya moron (whomever said it), only thing is they don't make up extra points that aren't there (hockey excluded). But enough negativity defining sports, now for constructive criticism...

I watched the game and enjoyed it. I like how the american announcers overrate the US team, not saying that they're bad, but the need improvement. A pretty full strength US team lost to a second rate England team (borderline second/third rate imho). Don't get me wrong, the US has a lot of potential but they need to work on a few things...passing especially. Also, US plays dirty, a lot of fouls. I guess it's 'cause their used to playing central american teams that hate them. I think one of the main problems is their over-inflated egos. As good as they are, they still think they can take on the whole world. Therefore slacking off in their game. Usually they're up in the beginning and slacking off in the later minutes of the game. Watch their past games and you'll see. It was obvious in the last WC. Everyone doesn't take into account the US was playing teams that were worn out and tired. Teams that have club games 9 months out of 12. To say the US was a success just isn't true. FIFA rankings are bogus because of an absurd point differential equation that doesn't make any sense.

Positives: speed and strength. But honestly, get a new coach and work on passing. What was all the lobbing about when a few ground passes would have gotten the US through the weak central defence of England. US still has lots to learn...

 

[DivideBYZero]

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: DnaJ
And as with other things that america now has, the reason we don't have it, is because it is crap.

no, you just have a warped sense of what a good sport should be. does anyone ever manage to get through a game sober? the only way you could enjoy a sport as boring and uneventful as soccer is to be blasted out of your mind. hell, maybe i should ask if you can go through a season without one group of fans killing someone from another group of fans. wtf is wrong with you people?

I was watching the superbowl violence the other night. Never knew it there was a riot outside the stadium every year.

Talk about the pot/kettle!

 

[toant103]

Originally posted by: loic2003
Anyone watch the football game? Gripping stuff!

2-1

Cheers, all!

America 2 > England 0


1776 1812

 

[StinkyPinky]

Soccer is for girly men and football is for overpaid drones that have no thinking ability and need the coach to tell them what to do. Rugby is where it's at. A thinking mans game for thugs.

 

[BRObedoza]

the game was pretty boring. landon donovan sucks at finishing. england were just taking it easy until the US made a run at the end of the game.

 

[Red Dawn]

Soccer+England=National Pride

Soccer+USA=something for immigrants to do

 

[RichUK]

England rules, like everything the americans copy England and change it for the worse ..

 

[skace]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
you kick a round ball around.. what fun

here we play in in elementary school and it ends there where it should

stupid.

 

[Brule]

Originally posted by: Amol
1812 was a draw.

America won on aggregate.

We went on to face Germany in the finals and won both matches.

LMAO

Originally posted by: loic2003
American football is a bunch a wusses too scared to get hurt so they wear suits of armor and massive full-face helmets. Come watch a decent rugby game and you'll see some real men slogging the crap out of each other. Screw helmets, they just bleed

Rugby's always been fun to watch but it's not even in the same league as real football. The wear helmets for one good reason: Ray Lewis. The kind of massive injury guys like him would inflict on an stripped-down human would be ugly. He may also shoot them in a drive by after the game, let's see Nigel do that bit of first rate soccer holiganin'.

 

[loic2003]

Originally posted by: toant103

Originally posted by: loic2003
Anyone watch the football game? Gripping stuff!

2-1

Cheers, all!

America 2 > England 0


1776 1812

I don't get it... why are you talking about something that happened nearly 200 years ago that has nothing to do with sport? By the same thinking you could put
Vietnam 1 > America 0, but it'd still have absolutely no relevance to the discussion in hand that is the football result over the weekend. Stay on topic, please.


As for the comments on Rugby: I'm in agreement. I think it's a much better sport overall and more interesting to watch. My ex's old man had a box in the Leister Tiger's stadium that we often went to... great fun. I hate the whole crying to get free kicks in football; in a rugby game the guys just get right up even after they've been stamped in the head or whatever... fantastic stuff.

 

[preslove]

Originally posted by: LtPage1
1776+1812= America 2, England 0. i win.

You shouldn't mention that... Canada kicked our asses both time

 

[jai6638]

Originally posted by: DnaJ

Originally posted by: Merlyn3D
That's not real football, come over to the states and we'll show you real football

Fvck off, we invented the game.

damn straight...

 

[Rock Hydra]

Originally posted by: franguinho
to those of you that dont appreciate soccer shame on you its one of the most awesome sports ever invented

Wrong move buddy.