2019-2020 Football / Calcio / Futbol / Fußball Thread

[Gsinill]

Originally Posted by echappist

I'm trying really hard not to type a really hackneyed and trite retort

Go ahead, we are used to it

[echappist]

Originally Posted by Gsinill

Go ahead, we are used to it

nah, let's not

I'm rather embarrassed that I couldn't think of anything original or punny. @Martl's comment was waiting for a clever response, and I was found wanting... Now if I could only come up with a pun containing the word "stasi"...

[wc1934]

Originally Posted by echappist

i'm not sure if that is worthy of kudos though (as much as I find their Teutonic manager and cosmopolitan team generally likeable)...

btw, psyched for tomorrow? Chances of me getting much done tomorrow is about nil. Perhaps I should be thankful that all the interesting matches occur on one day of the week, so that I can be productive on the other day. I have no idea how they decided which groups to play on which day, as the matches on Wednesday are thoroughly insipid...



Jones ought to consider himself lucky to be compared to Süle

and what do the said big clubs have in common?

I think so - they could have just gone with the flow - more teams/managers need to make statements.
Have to be psyched for tomorrow - (hopes for the scudetto is vanishing - those last 2 games killed me). A win gets them into the round of 16. Forza Napoli!

[martl]

Originally Posted by echappist

nah, let's not

I'm rather embarrassed that I couldn't think of anything original or punny. @Martl's comment was waiting for a clever response, and I was found wanting... Now if I could only come up with a pun containing the word "stasi"...

no need to hold back, online discussions about football are a full-contact sport
i spend time on english dominated football forums and i'm used to condescending remarks about german humour from people who think photoshopping 3rd reich uniforms on Schweinsteiger is hilarious

[goonster]

In Austria they say that making a German laugh is a challenge, but cracking up a Swiss person is a lifetime achievement.

Germans are plenty funny and deserve credit for embracing deadpan, and rarely laughing at their own jokes.

The FC. Bayern PR machine, so desperate to control the narrative and preserve the ego of the tribe: 100% humorless.

[echappist]

Originally Posted by goonster

In Austria they say that making a German laugh is a challenge, but cracking up a Swiss person is a lifetime achievement.

Germans are plenty funny and deserve credit for embracing deadpan, and rarely laughing at their own jokes.

The FC. Bayern PR machine, so desperate to control the narrative and preserve the ego of the tribe: 100% humorless.

has to be said that it's hilarious to outsiders

btw, what do you make of the whole kerfuffle over scheduling? They now have to play two games in two days, with a split squad. That's patently unfair.

About time they did away with that Mickey Mouse cup...

And as much as I dislike Pep, he's got it right that the Premier League has its noggin up its rear end when it scheduled City to play two games in less than 72 hours. Effing farce...

And don't get me started on the half-ass way the Premier League decided to implement VAR. The cynic in me thinks that they purposely botched the set up, so it'll get scuttled...

[echappist]

Yikes, Napoli digs itself into an early hole...

this may be another 4-3 affair

[goonster]

Ci vediamo a Anfield.

[echappist]

damn, so many cracking matches today. didn't know which one to watch. I'm really happy about the BVB 09 win; that was a gutsy performance to come back from two down at home. For a team with a knack of snatching ties from the jaws of victory, it was good to see them snatch a victory from the jaws of defeat for once. Game on for this weekend's game in München

Originally Posted by goonster

Ci vediamo a Anfield.

one wonders what the Ox has to do to get in the starting eleven

I think it was his presence that really exposed Man City in those three games in 2018

My bet is that Klopp will play it safe and start Wijnaldum and Henderson, with the Ox coming in around 60 minutes

[echappist]

so FC Bayern is going after Arsene Wenger as interim manager? That's quite inconceivable, really, given how Wenger had a knack of shipping goals to Bayern...

And in other Arsenal related news, out of all the people Arsenal could have picked for captain, they picked PEA? Yikes

[martl]

Originally Posted by echappist

so FC Bayern is going after Arsene Wenger as interim manager? That's quite inconceivable, really, given how Wenger had a knack of shipping goals to Bayern...

And in other Arsenal related news, out of all the people Arsenal could have picked for captain, they picked PEA? Yikes

the Wenger rumour has not been overly loud to hear on location. my money is, if nothing horrible happens the next 2 matches with the BVB match, Flick stays for the season, then Ten Hag.

[wc1934]

US women (sans Ellis) vs Sweden coming on shortly.

[echappist]

Yikes, BVB took a royal pasting in München...

Sort of a trend ever since Klopp left. What really puzzle me is that one have mid-table and relegation contenders playing spirited matches against the Bavarians, but Dortmund seems to offer no resistance.

Bottling sounds about appropriate

[goonster]

Well, it was fun dancing on Bayern's grave while it lasted . . .

[echappist]

Originally Posted by goonster

Well, it was fun dancing on Bayern's grave while it lasted . . .

well, one can't kill what's already dead.