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Adyossi.

"sublime skill from Ameobi"

It's bad enough when the top teams treat cups as second rate competitions, it's horrendous when it's done by teams like us imho. As pointed out the cup could have served a few good purposes for us. We've done this for years and i can never understand it. Not like our trophy cabinet is brimming is it? I'd rather make sure we stayed up. Going down because of a couple of cup games would be as cheap an excuse as you could get from sportsdirect tbh.

It's bad enough when the top teams treat cups as second rate competitions, it's horrendous when it's done by teams like us imho.

We can't even send out a team that gives Chelsea a walloping (© Mike Ashley) when we face their reserves...

http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-east-ne...61634-27290398/

It certainly was a tough choice for Real between Dullardyce and Mourinho.

Is a good idea. They must know that a lot of supporters and current or potential members post on forums. Why dont they visit a few of them and state their case? why not take the public meetings they were having to forums? Of course they will be trolled, but surely thats what mods are for? Their public relation exercises are generally more or less on par with the club's ones tbh.

I vant to laugh too.

I can invade it if you vant me to.

British tabloids tbh.

The word down here is that Schalke are very close to sign him - at least that is what their manager Magath is saying.

It was nonsense back then when it was reported and I still think it is. There was nothing about Schweinsteiger leaving Bayern in the German media back then. There were rumours about some Italian clubs being interested IIRC with much higher fees quoted. But Bayern had just appointed Klinsmann who was a huge supporter of Schweinsteiger, so the move to Newcastle would have been really strange and really surprised everyone down here. I also remember a German journalist reporting from a strange call he got from a English journalist (from the Chronicle IIRC) wanting to know about Schweinsteiger moving to Newcastle as an ridiculous example of fabricated stories on deadline day. I think I have posted the link some time ago (probably when Baggio came up with the Schweinsteiger drivel in defense of Ashley & Co.). But I can't be arsed to look for it.

http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/newcastle-u...72703-26849835/ Que?

World thickest player moves to Russia: Oba Martins to Kasan

Well, we were doomed to fail when both Stevie and Parky predicted us to go through. Rubbish performance. We probably run out of steam and luck - or both. Spain were far better and clearly deserved it. I still don't know how you can allow Puyol a totally free header from a corner though.

I am invading Poland.

Danish people need us and our supermarkets to get cheaper beer at the weekends and Belgians are probably to busy hating each other to really think about us.

Same here, on top of that they've played consistantly better than anyone else in the tournament, and usually it ends up being some dodgy shit like Italy in 2006 or to a much lesser extent France in 98 winning it when there were teams who played much better but didn't get the luck. Spain have brought very little to the World Cup by comparison, without Villa they'd be back home already. Really hope it's either the Germans or the Dutch. Really? Obviously the Dutch who have won every game in regular time aren't as consistent as a team who lost to Serbia and struggled to beat Ghana. The Germans have been great but the Dutch have been better. What a load of nonsense. The dutch have pilloried by their press. They played shit in all the group games, should've been 3-0 down at HT against Brazil, and were far from dominant against Slovakia. They've had the results but have been no where near as impressive as Germany. The Dutch have had more consistent results than Germany. Germany have been more impressive in most of their games. I look forward to a Uruguay Spain Final although I would prefer to see the Dutch give Germany a good hoofing in Jo'burg. More consistent? Because they lost with 10 men for 65 minutes against Serbia? The dutch have been functional and fortunate. It's a non-argument as to who has been more impressive, imo the Germans have delivered the best three performances of the tournament. Slovakia were easily the equals of Holland. Germany 4 0 1 13 2 Holland 5 0 0 9 3 Bullshit! You're obviously watching a different world cup. Germany were beaten before they went to 10 men and as I said Ghana could have had them if they had better composure in front of goal. Both teams showed that if you mark Schweinsteiger out of the match and press their defence then they are fucked. The Dutch on the other hand have been cruising along only doing what is necessary and the Brasil game was an example of their ability to step up a gear when things are going against them. Brasil may have been their first real test but they proved their point. Hopefully it will be an asian referee for the final for you anarl. Tbh we would have got something out of the game against Serbia even with 10 men if Lukas "all I can do is whack the ball with full power as long as it's not a penalty" Podolski didn't have as many brain cells as Craig Moore. The game against Ghana wasn't that different to any of Holland's group games imho. Couple of reasons: Loads of Dutch people still hold grudges because of the way Germans behaved during the time of the occupation in the 40s and let Germans feel it, especially when it comes to football - which leads to Germans not liking them. It all then boiled a bit over during and after the World Cup 1974 and hasn't settled since then. Ronald Koeman wiping his arse with a German shirt in 1988 and Rijkhard's behaviour 1990 added to it a lot. It's also a love-hate relationship with all those German tourists going to Holland and acting like numpties and millions of Dutch doing the same over here. For the game on Wednesday, it's strange as I always expect the teams (apart from those at the group stage) to finally find there form against us. It hasn't happened though. So it depends on if the Spain of 2008 turns up on Wednesday or the one from 2010. If it's the former we stand a good chance as long as we play as well as we have done so far. If it's the other Spain we probably get torressed again.

Thanks. I don't know about today's match. It's probably going to be a battle of two dodgy defences, so it depends what they throw at us and we at them. If Messi only has a half decent day he'll most likely murder us.

In no way I said or wanted to suggest that there isn't any rivalry. Of course England is seen as a rival - how could it not looking at the history of the teams and those classic matches? Of course there is a fair share of idiots thinking of English people as "Inselaffen" but then I think the predominant feeling of the gereral public towards England rather is one of respect. And as much as our only tabloid (Bild Zeitung) is probably trying to stir things up a bit themselves, people are not getting as agitated about the match as English people do. It's a match at the knock-out stage of the World Cup, it's a match against a good team and an old rival. But in the end that's it. It's totally different to the climate a match against the Dutch would create, which would indeed bring out the awfully worst from the German majority. You can also argue that a match against Italy - another rival - would bring out more venom from the common "kleine Deutschländer". I was thinking about what the European equivalent of Brazil - Argentina was last night, as i was trying to explain to our lass how big the game was. I said (i promise) that Germany - Italy probably should be considered the biggest game in Europe because of their respective tournament records but for us, Germany is the biggest. I then continued that, its also about the history between the teams and the perception of under-performing, or bad luck (penalities etc) from us that means a victory in an important match is due but it fell on deaf ears as by this time, she'd fallen asleep. I totally understand the meaning of the game for English people and certainly don't want to take anything away from it or mock it. It's fair enough considering the rivalry between the two nations, not only on the football pitch. Even if some of the war rhetoric banter is getting a bit tedious over the time...

I also like Stevie's photo - though I am not sure what a picture of three (likely to be yank) pornstars at a international porn fair does actually say about Jorman people - or Stevie for that matter...

In no way I said or wanted to suggest that there isn't any rivalry. Of course England is seen as a rival - how could it not looking at the history of the teams and those classic matches? Of course there is a fair share of idiots thinking of English people as "Inselaffen" but then I think the predominant feeling of the gereral public towards England rather is one of respect. And as much as our only tabloid (Bild Zeitung) is probably trying to stir things up a bit themselves, people are not getting as agitated about the match as English people do. It's a match at the knock-out stage of the World Cup, it's a match against a good team and an old rival. But in the end that's it. It's totally different to the climate a match against the Dutch would create, which would indeed bring out the awfully worst from the German majority. You can also argue that a match against Italy - another rival - would bring out more venom from the common "kleine Deutschländer".

It's the best thing that could have happened to England iyam. And I am not trying to use Parky's reversed logic here. It's what I told English friends already before yesterday. I pretty sure that England will win the game and I guess you will win it quite comfortably. It's not only that (at least) on paper you have the better players, they will also be for once totally motivated for this game. You only have to look at some comments here and the rhetoric in the press to see how much this game means to England - at least far more than it means to German people and the team. Add to it Beckenbauer's comments who were light hearted but only good for motivating the opposition. It's a shame that unfortunately there are still some people in England to take him serious because here in Germany he is well known for talking rubbish and changing his opinion even more often than Craig is posting old jokes. You can bet he'll be waxing lyrical about England and English football after the game. I'd rather played USA and actually hoped that Ghana would score a late equalizer just to see us avoid England. Unfortunately not. At least this game will make the day for all the little Englanders like Stevie. We might have a decent young team that is capable of playing good football with the necessary confidence. It's ok for playing the likes of Australia and Ghana, it would also have been ok for Serbia if not for Klose's stupidity and if Podolski would have more than the IQ of a slater...