European Football Thread

[Јas]

Manchester United (SCO)

Chelsea (NIR)

Have there been major border redrawings that I missed?

With Scotland having Manchester and Northern Ireland taking London, does England still exist?

[Tender Branson]

Manchester United (SCO)

Chelsea (NIR)

Have there been major border redrawings that I missed?

With Scotland having Manchester and Northern Ireland taking London, does England still exist?

A late April joke, just wanted to see if anybody is noticing it ...

[minionofmidas]

Manchester United (SCO)

Chelsea (NIR)

Have there been major border redrawings that I missed?

With Scotland having Manchester and Northern Ireland taking London, does England still exist?

Gee, you should follow the news more closely. Chelsea have relocated to Belfast.
The Scottish-English border was moved to the Trent in exchange for the release of 15 English soldiers by Scottish authorities.

[The Man From G.O.P.]

Utd. goes down hard to Portsmouth, great result.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Why can't Chelsea and Man United both lose the premiership?

Anyway Come on Roma and Valencia!

[??????????]

When does NFL Europe start?

[bullmoose88]

When does NFL Europe start?

For once, you and I are in total agreement.

[Tender Branson]

When does NFL Europe start?

Its actually NFL Germany + Amsterdam ...

PS: It starts next Saturday, April 14.

[??????????]

When does NFL Europe start?

Its actually NFL Germany + Amsterdam ...

PS: It starts next Saturday, April 14.

Seriously though, how popular is it over there?

[Gustaf]

When does NFL Europe start?

Its actually NFL Germany + Amsterdam ...

PS: It starts next Saturday, April 14.

Seriously though, how popular is it over there?

American football? Let me put it like this. I've never met, seen nor even heard of anyone who plays it anywhere in Europe.

[??????????]

When does NFL Europe start?

Its actually NFL Germany + Amsterdam ...

PS: It starts next Saturday, April 14.

Seriously though, how popular is it over there?

American football? Let me put it like this. I've never met, seen nor even heard of anyone who plays it anywhere in Europe.

Have you ever watched it yourself? The main problem that most Americans seem to have with soccer is that it doesn't have enough offense. Americans love high scoring games...maybe soccer should play with no goalie or one of the players drops back to goalie.

[Gustaf]

When does NFL Europe start?

Its actually NFL Germany + Amsterdam ...

PS: It starts next Saturday, April 14.

Seriously though, how popular is it over there?

American football? Let me put it like this. I've never met, seen nor even heard of anyone who plays it anywhere in Europe.

Have you ever watched it yourself? The main problem that most Americans seem to have with soccer is that it doesn't have enough offense. Americans love high scoring games...maybe soccer should play with no goalie or one of the players drops back to goalie.

I've seen it on American movies...and I've played a little rugby. The problem is that it seems to one-dimensional. It's just people running into each other trying to get a ball a certain distance. Now, soccer is much more tactical and refined.

[Tender Branson]

When does NFL Europe start?

Its actually NFL Germany + Amsterdam ...

PS: It starts next Saturday, April 14.

Seriously though, how popular is it over there?

Not very popular. Just professionally played in bigger cities (above 100.000 inhabitants - at least in Austria) But I like to watch the SuperBowl each year with a friend of mine. Last time we had some girls with us who watched the game with us, but they fell asleep after half an hour. Remember, the Superbowl starts at midnight here, local time.

Austria has some good teams in the EFL (European Football League). The Vienna Vikings got the dynasty last year, by winning the Eurobowl 3 times (2004, 2005, 2006).

[??????????]

When does NFL Europe start?

Its actually NFL Germany + Amsterdam ...

PS: It starts next Saturday, April 14.

Seriously though, how popular is it over there?

American football? Let me put it like this. I've never met, seen nor even heard of anyone who plays it anywhere in Europe.

Have you ever watched it yourself? The main problem that most Americans seem to have with soccer is that it doesn't have enough offense. Americans love high scoring games...maybe soccer should play with no goalie or one of the players drops back to goalie.

I've seen it on American movies...and I've played a little rugby. The problem is that it seems to one-dimensional. It's just people running into each other trying to get a ball a certain distance. Now, soccer is much more tactical and refined.

Actually the playbooks of both the defense and offense are very complicated with quite often hundreds of unique plays per side per team.

[Јas]

When does NFL Europe start?

Its actually NFL Germany + Amsterdam ...

PS: It starts next Saturday, April 14.

Seriously though, how popular is it over there?

American football? Let me put it like this. I've never met, seen nor even heard of anyone who plays it anywhere in Europe.

Have you ever watched it yourself? The main problem that most Americans seem to have with soccer is that it doesn't have enough offense. Americans love high scoring games...maybe soccer should play with no goalie or one of the players drops back to goalie.

I've seen it on American movies...and I've played a little rugby. The problem is that it seems to one-dimensional. It's just people running into each other trying to get a ball a certain distance. Now, soccer is much more tactical and refined.

Actually the playbooks of both the defense and offense are very complicated with quite often hundreds of unique plays per side per team.

I've seen a few American football games (and made a few half hearted attempts to play). It's certainly one of the more enjoyable American sports to watch, but my biggest problem with it is the interminable number of pauses and breaks in play, which results in endless commercial breaks (ARGH!).

[??????????]

I've seen a few American football games (and made a few half hearted attempts to play). It's certainly one of the more enjoyable American sports to watch, but my biggest problem with it is the interminable number of pauses and breaks in play, which results in endless commercial breaks (ARGH!).

On the last part you are most definately correct! I know in highschool ball they have a rule that if the game goes over 21 points on one side the clock continues running unless a timeout is called. But American football does have way way to many commercial breaks.

[Michael Z]

When does NFL Europe start?

Its actually NFL Germany + Amsterdam ...

PS: It starts next Saturday, April 14.

Seriously though, how popular is it over there?

American football? Let me put it like this. I've never met, seen nor even heard of anyone who plays it anywhere in Europe.

Have you ever watched it yourself? The main problem that most Americans seem to have with soccer is that it doesn't have enough offense. Americans love high scoring games...maybe soccer should play with no goalie or one of the players drops back to goalie.

I know you're being tongue in cheek here, but to a lot of people that actually is the "beauty" of football/soccer. The emotional investment that goes into scoring a goal, and when your team does score it's just f***ing beautiful. Seriously, nothing can compare to the feeling of being in a stadium and going wild with thousands of other fans when your team scores. It wouldn't be the same if there was a goal every other minute.

Anyway, I actually enjoy watching American football, but like Jas said, I'd probably enjoy it a lot more if there weren't so many breaks. Out of all US sports I definitely like watching basketball the most. Go Sonics!

[The Man From G.O.P.]

States my friend you know no one enjoys American football more than you Harry and I, but do not hijack my thread about soccer...

and NFL Europe is horrible

[minionofmidas]

When does NFL Europe start?

Its actually NFL Germany + Amsterdam ...

PS: It starts next Saturday, April 14.

Seriously though, how popular is it over there?

American football? Let me put it like this. I've never met, seen nor even heard of anyone who plays it anywhere in Europe.

Have you ever watched it yourself? The main problem that most Americans seem to have with soccer is that it doesn't have enough offense. Americans love high scoring games...maybe soccer should play with no goalie or one of the players drops back to goalie.

I've seen it on American movies...and I've played a little rugby. The problem is that it seems to one-dimensional. It's just people running into each other trying to get a ball a certain distance. Now, soccer is much more tactical and refined.

Actually the playbooks of both the defense and offense are very complicated with quite often hundreds of unique plays per side per team.

Exactly. The game is so retarded and untactical (compared to soccer) that it can actually be broken down into repeatable situations like that - although granted there's quite a lot of them.
Of course, the whole bit about the breaks ties in here as well. If you scratched the play on rule and bookings for "tactical fouls" in soccer, it'd probably degenerate AF-like (except with even fewer goals than now) pretty quickly.

and NFL Europe is horrible

NFL Europe is basically a farm league of the NFL's, so of course you'd expect lower quality playing, wouldn't you?

Have you ever watched it yourself? The main problem that most Americans seem to have with soccer is that it doesn't have enough offense. Americans love high scoring games...maybe soccer should play with no goalie or one of the players drops back to goalie.

I know you're being tongue in cheek here, but to a lot of people that actually is the "beauty" of football/soccer. The emotional investment that goes into scoring a goal, and when your team does score it's just f***ing beautiful. Seriously, nothing can compare to the feeling of being in a stadium and going wild with thousands of other fans when your team scores. It wouldn't be the same if there was a goal every other minute.

Yeah. A goal is better than sex.

[MHS2002]

Man United really took it to Roma today. Unfortunately Chelsea got another last minute goal to beat Valencia. Is it just me or do Chelsea always, always score when they absolutely have to?

[The Man From G.O.P.]

I like Chelsea but I must say what a great result for M Utd and for England, UEFA needs to take a lesson and ban Italy from participation until they can clean up their act like England did.

Great job.

[Јas]

Best Man U performance I've seen in a long time. Destroyed Roma after a fairly tame performance over 48 hours before in losing to Portsmouth.

By far the best Michael Carrick has ever played for them, very good effort by Alan Smith too. Wayne Rooney, though, still not playing at the level he can.

[Silent Hunter]

That was a thrashing. Hopefully this will carry on into the FA Cup Semi-Final.

(I don't actually care who wins that match, provided it doesn't go into extra time. If it does, we'll have to wait an extra week for the third episode of Doctor Who)

[Tender Branson]

Oh God was that a great game. I love the English Stadium Atmosphere. Unique.

Have a watch:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu8ckDxgUK4

Simply great !

[minionofmidas]

YES! Bayern are out.