From Australia To Mexico, Footcer's Back
So yeah, how about Reading. They kicked some serious butt this weekend, right? Well, it wasn't without controversy on the Sheffield United end but come on you Royals and all that (Bobby Convey needs a new pair of World Cup shoes and all that)!
For the third weekend in a row, talking about the Premiership is just too painful. Though, thankfully, Manchester City sent Everton further into the depths of hades.
And what do you know? David Moyes is finally taking my (and a lot of other people's advice) and resting Tim Cahill. Or well, I should say that he's trying to force Australia to bench Cahill in their upcoming friendly against Jamaica at Craven Cottage.
I just hope he doesn't curse Fulham's home pitch since they're doing bad enough on their own. :(
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The expletives I want to use to describe Wigan right now are innumerable. That little f*c*ing team is doing stuff with nothing that is making much larger teams from much larger cities extremely upset. Though at this point it's like the words Wigan and upset should no longer be used in the same sentence.
Wigan is pissing me off. There's no mincing words on that.
They're like that precocious kid in movies and TV shows that is "wise behind their years" and make the grown-ups look like fools. At first there's a certain novelty to the small character's spunk ("ah look, little Wigan is acting like an Italian village team in Serie A challenging Chelsea in their first game before falling like they're supposed to.") but eventually you just want to scream at the scream for them to get back in their place ("that kid needs to be locked in their room.").
It's so rare for a team from such a small city to make it into the Premiership that I guess it's something that the league wasn't prepared for.
Whatever it is, I wish Wigan would just go back to playing rugby.
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Speaking of which, I'd like to thank the NFL for playing a game in Mexico City. The stadium looks packed and if they can get the Mexicans hooked on football instead of footcer it can be nothing but a good thing (though watching Univision and Telemundo and according to the linked article, Mexico and Mexicans is/are already in love with "futbol Americano").
Except it didn't work with the Europeans so I wouldn't expect this experiment to work either. :)
Though I have to say it's little too late to short circuit at least the next generation of Mexican footcer players as the baby baby Tri won the U-17 World Championships 3-0 over Brazil.
Not that I want the United States to be the top team in the region by anything other than their own successes or anything. ;)
For the third weekend in a row, talking about the Premiership is just too painful. Though, thankfully, Manchester City sent Everton further into the depths of hades.
And what do you know? David Moyes is finally taking my (and a lot of other people's advice) and resting Tim Cahill. Or well, I should say that he's trying to force Australia to bench Cahill in their upcoming friendly against Jamaica at Craven Cottage.
I just hope he doesn't curse Fulham's home pitch since they're doing bad enough on their own. :(
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The expletives I want to use to describe Wigan right now are innumerable. That little f*c*ing team is doing stuff with nothing that is making much larger teams from much larger cities extremely upset. Though at this point it's like the words Wigan and upset should no longer be used in the same sentence.
Wigan is pissing me off. There's no mincing words on that.
They're like that precocious kid in movies and TV shows that is "wise behind their years" and make the grown-ups look like fools. At first there's a certain novelty to the small character's spunk ("ah look, little Wigan is acting like an Italian village team in Serie A challenging Chelsea in their first game before falling like they're supposed to.") but eventually you just want to scream at the scream for them to get back in their place ("that kid needs to be locked in their room.").
It's so rare for a team from such a small city to make it into the Premiership that I guess it's something that the league wasn't prepared for.
Whatever it is, I wish Wigan would just go back to playing rugby.
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Speaking of which, I'd like to thank the NFL for playing a game in Mexico City. The stadium looks packed and if they can get the Mexicans hooked on football instead of footcer it can be nothing but a good thing (though watching Univision and Telemundo and according to the linked article, Mexico and Mexicans is/are already in love with "futbol Americano").
Except it didn't work with the Europeans so I wouldn't expect this experiment to work either. :)
Though I have to say it's little too late to short circuit at least the next generation of Mexican footcer players as the baby baby Tri won the U-17 World Championships 3-0 over Brazil.
Not that I want the United States to be the top team in the region by anything other than their own successes or anything. ;)
posted by incendiarymind at 8:01 PM
5 Comments:
Actually, the NFL Europe experiment did work... but only in Germany, for some reason. The Germans love that shit.
But they also love David Hasselhof, so there you go.
I heard that most of the attendees in Germany were actually U.S. servicemen. Of course it could just be pro-footcer propagandists saying that.
I don't think there are that many US servicemen in Germany. I think it's the pro-association football fans blowing smoke out their rears.
And really, why would Europeans want to see second-division American-rules football with no hope that if their team won the league they would be promoted to the NFL?
Granted, the crowds in Frankfurt may be heavily US servicemen, but what about Amsterdam? Hamburg? Dusseldorf? Not all of that is US sector. ;)
Kat. The same reason Mexicans wanted to watch two bottom of the barrel NFL teams. It's still better quality than their domestic leagues.
Hey, you're a Fire fan. Check this out:
http://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=253867
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