On the Eve of the new Season...

[vansmack]

Originally posted by god's shoeshine:
  still cant believe that england cant seem to get any forwards to start for them besides crouch, owen and rooney, especially with two of those being hurt all the time

I don't know what you're complaining about - you'll get a first glimpse of Owen and Smith up front.

[godsshoeshine]

see, as a toon suporter i really dont have a huge problem with it (although i'd like to see jimmy mils get a run out)
 
 as a fan of english football, i dont want to see all of my favorite player's euro chances hanging on players who are always hurt or cant get a game with their club

[vansmack]

My thoughts from the past few days....
 
 Micah Richards won't play for City next season.  He might be in Manchester next year, but he won't be wearing blue.
 
 Which has proven to be a bigger problem for England in the last 5-10 years:  Giggs being Welsh or Howard, Keller, Freidel, or (insert any other American keeper here) not being English?
 
 Casper Schmeichel makes me feel old.
 
 I was wrong but right - Heinze went overseas, just not to France.
 
 Spain is the perfect place for the diving Robben.  In hindsight, I'm glad United didn't sign him, though I was pissed when it happened.
 
 That was a blatant push in the US game that led to the Swedish goal.  A very unfortunate result.
 
 Lehmann's not injured.  He's just retarded.
 
 And with that, the next round of games:
 
 Saturday, August 25th
 
 7:30 Sunderland v Liverpool (Set)
 10:00 Chelsea v Portsmouth (Set)
 10:00 Arsenal v Manchester City (FSC)
 12:00 Everton v Blackburn (FSC)  
 4:30 Aston Villa v Fulham (Set Delayed)
 1:30am Derby v Birmingham  (FSC Delayed)  
 
  Sunday, August 26
 
 8:30 Middlesbrough v Newcastle Utd (Set)
 11:00 Manchester United v Tottenham  (FSC)

[godsshoeshine]

Originally posted by vansmack:
  Which has proven to be a bigger problem for England in the last 5-10 years:  Giggs being Welsh or Howard, Keller, Freidel, or (insert any other American keeper here) not being English?
 

given and keane being irish

[Frank Gallagher]

Originally posted by god's shoeshine:
   

Originally posted by vansmack:
  Which has proven to be a bigger problem for England in the last 5-10 years:  Giggs being Welsh or Howard, Keller, Freidel, or (insert any other American keeper here) not being English?
 

given and keane being irish [/b]

Roy, not Robbie...Robbie would never make the England sqaud.

[godsshoeshine]

roy to manage was my intent there
 
 really, i just wanted to say shay

[Frank Gallagher]

Originally posted by god's shoeshine:
  roy to manage was my intent there
 
 really, i just wanted to say shay

Roy would never manage England even if offered the job...neither would Fergie for that matter.

[vansmack]

My hero has retired....
 
   <img src="http://soccernet-akamai.espn.go.com/design05/images/domr/solskjaergoal_g.jpg" alt=" - " />
 
 It's going to be quite difficult to convince Smackette to name our first child Ole Gunnar now.....
 
 Manchester United hero Solskjaer reitres
 
 Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has brought the curtain down on his glorious playing career with Manchester United - but his Old Trafford days are from over.
 
 After 11 years and 366 appearances for the club he joined for a bargain £1.5million from Norwegian side Molde, Solskjaer has had to finally call it a day due to an ongoing knee injury.
 
 Striker Solskjaer, who famously scored the winner in the Champions League final against Bayern Munich to help the club win the treble in 1999, has made several comebacks in the last four years.
 
 More...

[godsshoeshine]

heh, i thought you'd be totally gutted
 

Originally posted by Roadbike Mankie:
   

Originally posted by god's shoeshine:
  roy to manage was my intent there
 
 really, i just wanted to say shay

Roy would never manage England even if offered the job...neither would Fergie for that matter. [/b]

Originally posted by god's shoeshine:
 really, i just wanted to say shay

[vansmack]

I nearly forgot that Gol TV has some Champions League matches this season....
 
 Tuesday, August 28
 
 3:00 Liverpool v Toulouse UEFA Champions League 2nd Leg
 
 
 Gol TV is channel 614 on D*TV, 268 on Comcast DC Cable, 407 on Dish Netwok, and 313 on FiOS.

[Frank Gallagher]

Spain international Antonio Puerta has died after suffering a heart attack in his club side Sevilla's 4-1 win against Getafe on Saturday.
 
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/europe/6964586.stm

[Frank Gallagher]

Manchester United striker Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has retired from football.
 
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/m/man_utd/6966229.stm

[vansmack]

Originally posted by Roadbike Mankie:
  Manchester United striker Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has retired from football.
 
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/m/man_utd/6966229.stm

Ahem, 4 posts up.  I'm crushed, but it's probably for the better.

[Barcelona]

Originally posted by Roadbike Mankie:
  Spain international Antonio Puerta has died after suffering a heart attack in his club side Sevilla's 4-1 win against Getafe on Saturday.
 
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/europe/6964586.stm

Really sad story, poor guy and poor famiy.

[sweetcell]

is this what british research dollars are being spent on - proving the worthlessness of their football exports?!?  :p    
 
  Study: T-rex could outrun David Beckham
 
 LONDON, England (Reuters) -- The smallest dinosaur could reach speeds of nearly 40 miles per hour and even the lumbering Tyrannosaurus rex would have been able to outrun most modern-day sportsmen, according to research published on Wednesday.
 
 Scientists using computer models calculated the top speeds for five meat-eating dinosaurs in a study they say can also illustrate how animals cope with climate change and extinction.
 
 The velociraptor, whose speed and ferocity was highlighted in the film "Jurassic Park", reached 24 miles per hour while the T-rex could muster speeds of up to 18 miles per hour, the study published in the Royal Society's Biological Sciences showed.
 
 "Our research, which used the minimum leg-muscle mass T-rex required for movement, suggests that while not incredibly fast, this carnivore was certainly capable of running and would have little difficulty in chasing down footballer David Beckham, for instance," said Phil Manning, a paleontologist at the University of Manchester, who worked on the study.   Continued...