Victims of a Campaign- The Other Footy Teams Thread

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  1. The Jitty Slitter

    The Jitty Slitter Moderator
    Staff Member

    Bayern München
    Germany
    Jul 23, 2004
    Fascist Hellscape
    Club:
    FC Sankt Pauli
    Nat'l Team:
    Belgium
    When Stokes had that ball deflect for an extra 4 right after he was caught on the boundary but the fielder stepped on the rope to make it 6 I knew it was not our day
     
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  2. mebeSajid

    mebeSajid Member+

    Feb 16, 2009
    Atlanta, GA
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    That was one of the cruelest losses I've ever seen. I'm referring, of course, to the Wimbledon final.

    The Cricket World Cup final, I don't have words for. I've never seen anything like that. That deserves a new entry on Bill Simmons's Levels of Losing scale.
     
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  3. The Jitty Slitter

    The Jitty Slitter Moderator
    Staff Member

    Bayern München
    Germany
    Jul 23, 2004
    Fascist Hellscape
    Club:
    FC Sankt Pauli
    Nat'l Team:
    Belgium
    Bizarre to lose on an arbitrary count back - but we knew we needed 2 off the last ball

    It turns out we was robbed, as England should have only be credited with 5 for the overthrows not 6

    you couldn't make it up
     
  4. Bluto11

    Bluto11 The sky is falling!

    May 16, 2003
    Chicago, IL
    What are the chances that Hawkeye gives an "umpire's call" on a ball that according to Hawkeye is clearing hitting leg stump? Does that happen a lot? Roy falling for a duck would've changed things greatly.
     
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  5. DaPrince84

    DaPrince84 Member+

    Aug 22, 2001
    MD
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    --other--
    Yesterday was one of the best sports days of the year, and no one in the US seemed to care lol.
     
  6. The Jitty Slitter

    The Jitty Slitter Moderator
    Staff Member

    Bayern München
    Germany
    Jul 23, 2004
    Fascist Hellscape
    Club:
    FC Sankt Pauli
    Nat'l Team:
    Belgium
    Yeah - it does happen a bit but we just really didn't get the breaks!
     
  7. thebigman

    thebigman Member+

    May 25, 2006
    Birmingham
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    England
    Wot about Mahrez doh?
     
  8. mebeSajid

    mebeSajid Member+

    Feb 16, 2009
    Atlanta, GA
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    People cared about Wimbledon. But as awesome as the Wimbledon match was, it was only the second best contest in London yesterday.
     
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  9. DaPrince84

    DaPrince84 Member+

    Aug 22, 2001
    MD
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    --other--


    English dont care at all about AFCON?
     
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  10. Tonerl

    Tonerl Member+

    Arsenal
    May 10, 2006
    Cincinnati, OH
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I’m not English, but I have trouble caring about international soccer of any stripe. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
     
  11. thebigman

    thebigman Member+

    May 25, 2006
    Birmingham
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    England
    I don’t have access to watch it but I would if I could

    I’m not sure what the general consensus is?
     
  12. The Jitty Slitter

    The Jitty Slitter Moderator
    Staff Member

    Bayern München
    Germany
    Jul 23, 2004
    Fascist Hellscape
    Club:
    FC Sankt Pauli
    Nat'l Team:
    Belgium
    Think its difficult to be excited about a tournament your team isn't playing in

    e.g. I watched some of the Womens' Wold Cup largely because Germany gets very excited about it.

    I don't watch any regional tournaments
     
  13. bandwagongooner

    bandwagongooner Member+

    Dec 9, 2006
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Group stages are usually the best part of any tournament, like the first weekend of the NCAAs is better than the rest.
     
  14. yossarian

    yossarian Moderator
    Staff Member

    Jun 16, 1999
    Big City Blinking
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Bar in St. John was packed with people glued to the TV watching the Wimbledon final.
     
  15. NorthBank

    NorthBank Member+

    Arsenal; NYRB
    United States
    Mar 29, 2006
    Connecticut
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Yeah, and I bet most of them weren't Swiss or Serbs. ;)

    Djoko fans at Centre Court were way outnumbered by Fed fans, by at least 4 to 1 it seemed. Novak lives an interesting tennis life where he's one of the greatest players of all time, and yet he doesn't seem as loved as he he could or should be.
     
  16. The Jitty Slitter

    The Jitty Slitter Moderator
    Staff Member

    Bayern München
    Germany
    Jul 23, 2004
    Fascist Hellscape
    Club:
    FC Sankt Pauli
    Nat'l Team:
    Belgium
    Tennis is bobbins

    The same 3 dopers win every tournament for years
     
  17. mebeSajid

    mebeSajid Member+

    Feb 16, 2009
    Atlanta, GA
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Part of it is that Djokovic seems like a jerk, and part of it is that Federer makes it look so incredibly effortless.

    Djokovic and Nadal are 32, which is on the older side for tennis, but other players that age have played at a very high level.

    Maybe Federer's doping, but he's probably just a freak of nature.
     
  18. NorthBank

    NorthBank Member+

    Arsenal; NYRB
    United States
    Mar 29, 2006
    Connecticut
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Unlikely the reason. The women's game is wide open these days. Only the men's game has this dominant triumvirate. That just happens in sports sometimes. And we've had it now in men's tennis for a little while now. In a few years it'll be all over I suspect.
     
  19. NorthBank

    NorthBank Member+

    Arsenal; NYRB
    United States
    Mar 29, 2006
    Connecticut
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Federer is one of the classiest athletes there has ever been. He also is near to being the most talented and successful of all time. Even if Djoko surpasses him in major titles (and I'm sure that's his goal), he'll never hold a candle in my book.
     
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  20. DaPrince84

    DaPrince84 Member+

    Aug 22, 2001
    MD
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    --other--
    You. Don't. Know. Him.



    Joker is the GOAT.
     
  21. thebigman

    thebigman Member+

    May 25, 2006
    Birmingham
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    England
    He will be in about 4 years when he’s eclipsed federer

    God knows who will take the mantle after these guys
     
  22. DaPrince84

    DaPrince84 Member+

    Aug 22, 2001
    MD
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    --other--
    He don’t need the majors record for me. Joker is the best player we have seen. Since he won his second major in 2011, he been better than Nadal and Fed Dawg.
     
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  23. mebeSajid

    mebeSajid Member+

    Feb 16, 2009
    Atlanta, GA
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Djokovic mostly won after Federer turned 30 though.

    The only knock on Federer is that he couldn't beat Nadal in Paris. His peak was something else. 20 straight grand slam semis and ten straight finals (only losses in those finals was to Nadal) is mindboggling.

    From 2005-2010, if Federer was on your side of the draw, you'd be safe in booking your plane ticket for the day after you could face him.
     
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  24. danielh

    danielh Member+

    May 30, 2013
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    I'd take 2009/10 Nadal over anyone -- even though that Nadal only lasted a couple of years in that form. The man would injure himself to win (that crazy arm contortion to get maximum top spin). And we have to give the man credit for winning the french 12+ times -- you don't win that tournament without pure grit and a great overall game.

    All said, I hate to give men's tennis a goat. There have been too many great players to give it up right now. I feel like they haven't quite had their MJ moment yet.
     
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  25. Shen-O

    Shen-O Member+

    United States
    Jul 26, 2005
    Los Angeles
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    The real goat
    The Brazilian Ronaldo of tennis
     

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