Ooooo nice. Can we take our time and collect your tears now while you think about the past? I've got a bucket ready but by the looks of your post, I may need something bigger.
Yeah, I think you are right. Fans of the italian national team will be like liverpool - living in the past. Their team right now is not too bad though but I can't see them winning the euro '12 or the world cup '14. They have a big population (of 60 million people) and football is the number one sport so no matter how bad the youth system is they will still produce a few good players. The national coach Prandelli praised Germany for the excellent work on youth development and also said that Italy have made a big progress in that aspect in the last 2 years but if it is really true, it will show in about 7-8 years, not now.
Made for some entertaining reading this morning, shame it was closed. Nothing like some good old fashion bigotry to get your week started out right.
comn FR! move those world war 2 posts to the NSR and re-open the thread... I havent done talking trash about real
no Neuer should play naked...that will give him an extra leg in stopping the ball. but we absolutely need the best of neuer like what Petr Cech did for Chelsea at home in England.
Was gunna post this in the match thread but it degenerated into a trolls trolling trolls shitstorm and got 1984'd up. Anyway, Madrid is pissing their pants Does anyone think this is menacing at all?
Give me a f*cking break, we played a game at Westfallenstadion just a couple of days ago. Bernabeu is great but if we lose it's not because of the stadium, it'll be because we suck away from home.
I'll open the thread again ahead of the game tomorrow. Nobody wants to read a match thread where half of its content appears like a history class debate.
What's more is that it's a discourse on German history. I come here to get away from my trials and tribulations, not talk about trials and tribulations Not all of us who come here care all that much about Germany, I just want to talk about Bayern.
Can we open it after the Barca-Chelsea match tonight? I promise I won't bring up my grandfather's love affairs with Pilar in Spain in the late 30's...
People are acting as if this is the first time FC Bayern have ever played at the Bernabeu. Or like we haven't played at other big venues before.
I don't mind a bit of history here and there but its obviously a sensitive topic and some people can't seem to help themselves and it just snowballs into a giant mess. If you promise to behave then yes.
http://www.goal.com/en/news/15/germany/2012/04/24/3057453/real-madrid-confirm-squad-for-bayern-clash No surprises, Sahin, Diarra and Carvalho, Altintop all omitted. Still have to see who starts though but i figure itll be the same as last week.
and 3 goalkeepers LOL!!!..would probably be smarter to keep Diarra on the bench. Looks like we are going to win this.
Not really. They have 3 enormously talented midfielders, 2 strikers, a winger who can score for fun, 3 holding midfielders and 7 defenders. They don't need Lass because he's a destroyer, hasn't played much all season and cant do anything more than what khedira or even granero can do.
What the hell happened to Carvalho ? He used to play in the beginning of the season and then got a back injury and since then even when he is fit, Mourinho does not play him at all. I must have missed something.
He's one step ahead of Lass in the sense that he not only breaks up play but connects midfield to attack pretty well.