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Post by Spike Kane on May 27, 2009 10:43:30 GMT -6
Now I know you guys aren't the biggest fans of Soccer but I'm sure you've all heard of Machester United. Well tonight they play against Barcelona in the Champions League final. The Champions League is a knockout tournament where all the teams in Europe who won their domestic cups, leagues or finished high enough to qualify face each other. England has three teams in the semi-finals, Chelsea (London), Machester United, and Arsenal (London). Man Utd beat Arsenal, and Barcelona beat Chelsea. So we're lined up with arguably the two best teams in Europe playing each other tonight (bear in mind Man Utd already won the Club World Cup, the Premier League, F.A. Community Sheild!) It looks like it'll be a good game. So if you ever wondered about watching Soccer to see what it's like, this on paper is probably the best game you could ever see. As a bitter Aston Villa supporter, I hope United get slaughtered....but meh....only if Thierry Henry scores.
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Post by JFK on May 27, 2009 12:30:59 GMT -6
I figured out why Soccer, football, fooball whatever ya call it, isnt so popular here state side, its never on FREE tv! I always see ad's for ppv packages but NOTHING on ESPN or Fox Sports ETC
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Post by Cyrus Daniels on May 27, 2009 12:56:16 GMT -6
Probably the same deal with Sports like Basketball, Hockey, American Football and the like over here, not huge coverage.
I haven't watched regular footie since around '96 when I was into it quite hugely, supporting Villa, then Liverpool (in order to try and impress this chick I fancied, epic fail btw she ignored me) but I still watch the MAJOR tournaments like the Euro and the World Cup (supporting Germany, not England cos we suck at our 'OWN' game!) so yeah, in short Man U = overrated in my opinion.
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Post by Spike Kane on May 29, 2009 12:13:38 GMT -6
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Post by JFK on May 29, 2009 15:02:44 GMT -6
basketball is huge in the rest of Europe it's just the clumsy brits who havent gotten into it yet
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Post by Xavier Williams on May 29, 2009 18:00:01 GMT -6
I wish we had Sky Sports... get WWE and UFC PPVs for free... bastards. And I only watch soccer during the Olympics or The World Cup... yea Im shallow like that.
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Post by Alex Jones on May 29, 2009 19:59:09 GMT -6
Best part was seeing the look on Cristiano Ronaldo's face.....or maybe Sir Alex Ferguson's grimace, he looked like he was going to walk down to the field and bitch slap each player....
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Post by Spike Kane on Jun 4, 2009 9:34:05 GMT -6
Brits are pretty good at Basketball actually, it's become really big over here. I think it goes Football, Rugby, Basketball, then the likes of Tennis and Cricket.
My home team is one of the best in the UK; Birmingham Bullets.
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