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post #1 of 78
4/19/10 at 1:05pm
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OK - so as not to intermingle w/ the ongoing 'El Clasico' discussion, bring your thoughts, hopes and fears for the rest of the season here. What's happening, what happened, what's going to happen. A month left and things look to be fairly exciting (for a change). Roma maintains, Chelsea stumbles, Milan & Arsenal blow it. ManU & Inter keep on the pressure. What say the Germans and the Spanish? IINM, the Eredivise looks to be exciting as well....
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post #2 of 78
4/19/10 at 2:22pm
My Milan continue to find new and interesting ways to piss away points. I could just vomit. All I ask at this point is that we lock down third and a CL place for next season.

Obviously would prefer to see Roma wrestle the scudetto away from Inter scum.

It's amazing Ranieri can walk with balls that big. Wonder when the last time Totti and De Rossi were hooked at the half.
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post #3 of 78
4/19/10 at 2:30pm
AJAX will have to be lucky to win the dutch eredivisie championship. Twente is choking a bit now that the pressure is on them. They won the game against Feyenoord though, but that was not a full on confrontation because Feyenoord did not really want to win.
Ajax plays really well lately. Twente is a great club and I would like to see them become champions for the first time, eventhough I am an Ajax fan.

I went to Barcelona a couple of weeks ago to see Barca play against Bilbao and it certainly is an impressive team. I like Rafael van der Vaart and I wish him all the best but I just can not root for Real when Barcelona is a much more sympathetic club in my opinion. The dutch connection with Barcelona is really strong and Real is just buying players like its nothing. We had like 5 or 6 dutchmen playing for Real 2 years ago or something. Now there are only 2 left. Robben en Sneijder both got sold off. Look where that brought Real.
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post #4 of 78
4/19/10 at 2:30pm
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Originally Posted by Virginia Dandy View Post
My Milan continue to find new and interesting ways to piss away points. I could just vomit. All I ask at this point is that we lock down third and a CL place for next season.

Obviously would prefer to see Roma wrestle the scudetto away from Inter scum.

It's amazing Ranieri can walk with balls that big. Wonder when the last time Totti and De Rossi were hooked at the half.

You know, FSC delayed their broadcast, so I watched it live in Spanish (I don't bother to try and follow, and only use the commentary as an indicator if I'm out of view of the screen. Note: spanish language announcers are even more excitable than Italian ). It took me a couple of minutes to figure out what was going on - Menez for Totti and Taddei for De Rossi! I don't know his thinking, but I suspect he feared loosing them for the Samp game, and things did not seem to be clicking....
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post #5 of 78
4/19/10 at 3:08pm
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Originally Posted by Virginia Dandy View Post
My Milan continue to find new and interesting ways to piss away points. I could just vomit. All I ask at this point is that we lock down third and a CL place for next season.

Obviously would prefer to see Roma wrestle the scudetto away from Inter scum.

It's amazing Ranieri can walk with balls that big. Wonder when the last time Totti and De Rossi were hooked at the half.

Samp played well.Hope they do the same for Roma.If Milan dont spend some serious money in the summer expect them to lose the CL spot next year.
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post #6 of 78
4/19/10 at 3:54pm
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You know, FSC delayed their broadcast, so I watched it live in Spanish (I don't bother to try and follow, and only use the commentary as an indicator if I'm out of view of the screen. Note: spanish language announcers are even more excitable than Italian ). It took me a couple of minutes to figure out what was going on - Menez for Totti and Taddei for De Rossi! I don't know his thinking, but I suspect he feared loosing them for the Samp game, and things did not seem to be clicking....

Raineri said he took them both off because they had yellows and since they were native Romans were most likely to both get second cards (not sure if that is true or not). I watch Fox Soccer, GolTV and RAI for watching games. RAI's picture quality still looks like a broadcast from 1978. Fox Soccer just started broadcasting in HD, which isn't all that great. I finally caught a la liga game on ESPN 2 HD (Real vs Valencia). I was shocked at how much better the picture quality is. Wish they would show Serie A on that channel.
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post #7 of 78
4/19/10 at 3:59pm
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Raineri said he took them both off because they had yellows and since they were native Romans were most likely to both get second cards (not sure if that is true or not). I watch Fox Soccer, GolTV and RAI for watching games. RAI's picture quality still looks like a broadcast from 1978. Fox Soccer just started broadcasting in HD, which isn't all that great. I finally caught a la liga game on ESPN 2 HD (Real vs Valencia). I was shocked at how much better the picture quality is. Wish they would show Serie A on that channel.

+1

I dropped RAI b/c the picture quality is so terrible - plus about 90% of the games I wanted to see were on FSC anyway.
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post #8 of 78
4/19/10 at 9:11pm
Chelsea's running out of steam at a very rapid pace. I think their loss to Inter in the Champ's really phased them. With Cech's knee problems, and now Mikel's? injury, results like Hotspur will become commonplace for the next month, much to my chagrin.
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post #9 of 78
4/20/10 at 3:20am
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Chelsea's running out of steam at a very rapid pace. I think their loss to Inter in the Champ's really phased them. With Cech's knee problems, and now Mikel's? injury, results like Hotspur will become commonplace for the next month, much to my chagrin.

I think the Inter loss combined with the Terry saga has left its toll on the clubhouse. They will need lots of new blood next because it seems their cycle is coming to an end.
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post #10 of 78
4/20/10 at 5:47am
Well, Chelsea are still ahead and must remain favourite. The scousers are now Torre-less and so will probably collapse in spectacular form.
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post #11 of 78
4/20/10 at 1:14pm
Inter-Barca tonight..Hope Mou can pull this one off.It would be a miracle if we can keep them from scoring.
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post #12 of 78
4/20/10 at 2:35pm
I have no cable service, no dish, and can't really watch internet tv at work right now. I am gutted. So much great football on.
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post #13 of 78
4/20/10 at 4:45pm
Zlatan is playing for Barcelona \\o/
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post #14 of 78
4/20/10 at 5:44pm
Wow, Inter surprised me.
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post #15 of 78
4/20/10 at 5:55pm
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Wow, Inter surprised me.
Really? Not me. I expected them to play negative, counter-attacking anti-football. The numerous, cheap fouls and subtle play-acting to get cards are Mourinho specialties. What I didn't expect was all the delay tactics. I've never seen a team delay so much. Only 4 minutes of stoppage time??? The ref should have booked more Inter players as well.
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