Just don't get injured: The International Thread 2018 [R]

Discussion in 'Liverpool' started by el-capitano, Nov 12, 2016.

  1. imasyko

    imasyko Member+

    May 16, 2002
    Spring City, PA
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
  2. burning247

    burning247 Member+

    Liverpool FC
    England
    Sep 16, 2000
    Dallas
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    England
    I was there. Pretty cool to see Dempsey tie the record in his home state (although I'm not his biggest fan). The US looked a lot better but still don't great. Hopefully it's enough to beat Mexico/Jamaica on Wednesday.
     
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  3. MetroChile

    MetroChile Member+

    Jan 13, 2001
    NJ; Valpo.
    Club:
    Santiago Wanderers
    Nat'l Team:
    Chile
    How can you be an American and not like Dempsey?
     
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  4. StiltonFC

    StiltonFC He said to only look up -- Guster

    Mar 18, 2007
    SoCal
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    exactly...

    that's like being Chinese and not liking Chairman Mao...

    ooops, wait a minute...

    that's like being...
     
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  5. burning247

    burning247 Member+

    Liverpool FC
    England
    Sep 16, 2000
    Dallas
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    England
    I'm a Texan too and I don't like him. He's just an arrogant prick and the whole "Deuce" thing is just bananas. That being said, he is definitely been a game changer and knows where the goal is.
     
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  6. zaqualung

    zaqualung Member+

    Jun 17, 2015
    San Francisco
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    i'm generally suspicious of people with names like Clint or Chuck or Tex, etc .....
     
  7. hubbabubba

    hubbabubba Moderator
    Staff Member

    May 17, 2002
    Ann Arbor, MI
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Yeah, like him as a player, but as a person? Not so much... of course, all this is based on what we see of him on TV, so about as meaningful as a fart in a windstorm.
     
  8. burning247

    burning247 Member+

    Liverpool FC
    England
    Sep 16, 2000
    Dallas
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    England
    It doesn't help that I have a history of not liking prick players named Clint...

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  9. LiverpoolFanatic

    Liverpool FC, Philadelphia Union
    Feb 19, 2000
    Lancaster, PA
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
  10. MetroChile

    MetroChile Member+

    Jan 13, 2001
    NJ; Valpo.
    Club:
    Santiago Wanderers
    Nat'l Team:
    Chile
    Yea, kinda like that Suárez guy.
     
  11. delaynomo

    delaynomo Member+

    Jun 1, 2015
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Suarez actually comes across as very likeable off the pitch.
     
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  12. newterp

    newterp Moderator
    Staff Member

    Jun 6, 2007
    North Potomac, MD
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Luis Suarez? He's amazing off the field - probably as good as you will find.
     
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  13. White/Blue_since1860

    Orange14 is gay
    Jan 4, 2007
    Bum zua City
    Club:
    TSV 1860 München
    Nat'l Team:
    Germany
    Womens Euro QF had to be postponed yesterday although it duly looked possible to play

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  14. Sir Niney

    Sir Niney Member+

    Apr 12, 2015
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    It embodies the appalling hypocrisy of the English football media. There are so many examples I could choose, but Ryan Giggs is one that really sticks out. He screws his brother’s wife for the best part of a decade, but is still presented as a model pro and a good guy. Suarez does a few crazy things on the pitch while being a family man who never makes headlines for the wrong reasons off it, but is presented as a dirty foreigner who should be banned from football for life.

    There’s still a barely concealed strain of xenophobia in the English football press. We saw it again when Klopp took the players to salute the fans against West Brom last season. The media sh*tstorm that ensued beggared belief and much of it amounted to: “These bloody foreigners coming over here with their funny ways, infecting our football culture.”
     
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  15. SamScouse

    SamScouse Member+

    Jun 1, 2015
    Toronto
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    John Terry is another example. a total piece of crap as a person, but big parts of the uk media continue to treat him like he's a saint.
     
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  16. ryered

    ryered Member+

    Jan 15, 2007
    Hill Country
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    --other--
    To me just a different flavor of the same fetid sauce offered up by the U.S. sports media, traditionally they've glorified rednecks and general lowlifes and we all know how much press attention the furrin sports stars get. They're all appealing to the same audience - low education, low sophistication, etc.
     
  17. imasyko

    imasyko Member+

    May 16, 2002
    Spring City, PA
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    What a crock...
     
  18. el-capitano

    el-capitano Moderator
    Staff Member

    Aug 30, 2005
    Sydney
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Australia
    Check out especially UAE's first goal, the second isn't bad either too. (team in white.)

     
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  19. burning247

    burning247 Member+

    Liverpool FC
    England
    Sep 16, 2000
    Dallas
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    England
    Always good to see Saudi Arabia lose.
     
  20. zaqualung

    zaqualung Member+

    Jun 17, 2015
    San Francisco
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    low sophistication in the modern world = semi-mid sophistication.

    But, in reality, it's still like Clive James said about Dr. Zharkov - "they wouldn't know anti-matter from their elbow" ... and so, these press panderings to these strains of somewhat hidden humanity are quite natural, albeit ugly....
     
  21. zaqualung

    zaqualung Member+

    Jun 17, 2015
    San Francisco
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    a crock of what?
    Truth??

    the US is a rancid cesspit
     
  22. delaynomo

    delaynomo Member+

    Jun 1, 2015
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
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  23. SamScouse

    SamScouse Member+

    Jun 1, 2015
    Toronto
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    great news, well done to the lad, he's had a terrible year or so. good to see.
     
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  24. Red Bird

    Red Bird Member+

    Sep 30, 2003
    Oxford
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    England
  25. imasyko

    imasyko Member+

    May 16, 2002
    Spring City, PA
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    pot calling kettle...
     

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