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Well... This weekend's results sure made the premiership a lot more interesting. Liverpool might not make it back into the top four now, let alone win the league! :| I can't believe they will fail to win it even once in all of Gerrard's prime.

My favorite part of MotD was when Hansen went on his "even you can understand this, Gabby" rant when he was talking about Figueroa's goal.

Bayern crush Juve 4-1 in an away game! :|

Was the ad itself already posted on here? I'd like to see the commercial.

Yeah, maybe. I don't really have any great kinship for the Brazilians ('least not the fellas, anyway) but I'd rather it was the Portugese that missed out, naturally for spiteful reasons. Apparently they (Brazil) are better in defence these days, but I honestly wouldn't know. To be fair, we seemed to do our best to make Trinidad & Tobago look like world beaters that day. What a pathetic performance. With quality all over midfield and attack, a world class goalkeeper and another generation of great wing-backs (Maicon, Dani Alves, Michel Bastos, ...) I think Brazil's only "weakness" if you can call it that is central defense. They rely a great big deal on Lucio in that department. I'm not sure they can handle Drogba. I wouldn't be all that surprised to see the Ivory Coast defeat Brazil. Yaya Touré faces similar midfields every week and their defense are no push-overs either. Portugal are the most likely candidate to go out. Although you never now. If Brazil loses to the Africans and draws Portugal (both far more likely than one might imagine) it could down to their respective goal difference against Korea.

England got the easiest group by far. Even easier than the one they got in 2006, and that one featured the world power that is Trinidad & Tobago... <_<

I imagine it more the other way round, with Portugal sweating having the Ivory Coast in their group. Should be a close run thang, me thinks. There's even a chance, however small, that Brazil might struggle to get out of their group now.

You still have an epic avi...

Where is that nude from?

Yeah, former all-star professional athletes like Dan Marino, Boomer Esiason and Shannon Sharpe never got any sort of female attention. Not even when they were big men on campus! = Obviously I was talking about right now, not twenty years ago. Even I regularly got lucky less than a decade ago. Though I might be wrong, and the old farts might be rolling in the hay with some young hottie every night. More power to them if so. Honestly though, I didn't imagine anyone was going to take my obvious attempt at making a little joke this seriously. Are you related to one of them?

It wasn't a classic Barça-Real by any means, but at least the good guys won!

That NFL vid was both cute and cringe-worthy. It was endearing to see Candice on there, but it was also clear throughout that she and the guys weren't entirely comfortable in each other's presence... Makes sense, since geriatric NFL studio guys and young supermodel likely don't mingle very often. But make no mistake about it, us old guys do like the sexy South-African!

^He fell out with everyone - Passarella, Bielsa, Bilardo. Our only coach he ever liked was Coco. What a waste for los albicelestes... <_< Would I be right in thinking that Redondo initially fell out with Passarella when he told him to cut his hair? ^That's what the (somewhat hysterical ) press said at the time but - bearing in mind most of our team was pretty heavy on the long, lank, and greasy persuasion - that woud be a bit rich... I think it was more a refusal of Redondo's to play in a certain position. I think I once read politics had a lot to do with it as well. Supposedly Redondo (who is left-leaning politically) didn't like some of the things Passarella had said about gay people.

And they're spec-ta-cu-lar.

I love Nash, but such a defensive liability should not have won two MVPs. Shawn Marion had to give him defensive cover in both of those seasons! I believe an MVP should be able to dominate on both ends of the floor. Kobe should have won in 06, and Shaq in 05.

No, no and no. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson and Kevin Johnson were class act guys Dude, Kareem was known for being a class A jerk even during his career. It's a public secret that the main reason he never got a serious chance at a head coaching job was because he antagonized too many people during his playing career. Magic I'll give you, one of the greatest team mates ever. Certainly the most fun NBA superstar to play with (other than maybe Bill Russell, but that is a very long time ago).

Thanks for pointing out the typo, no idea how I missed that one! I tried and failed to find my favorite youtube clip of his: a game after his return to Ajax in which he sets up four goals (that's the number I remember ) by drawing in defenders and then smartly finding a way to thread a pass to an unmarked team mate. After completing the quadsist (yes, I just invented that word), he scores the last goal of the game himself and the Amsterdam Arena goes completely bonkers.

That would require VS knowing what they're doing. There is a clear lack of heterosexual males involved in the decision making process!

Not wanting to sound too much like a typical guy here (who am I kidding ) but couldn't they have put her in an outfit that showcased that fine booty a bit more? Like some of the ones Skippy and Izabel were in?

That's some spectacular booty right there!

Forgotten Greats of the Beautiful Game The concept of this topic is to shine a light of those players who once dominated the game and/or their position, yet have since disappeared a bit from the collective memory, for whatever reason. And what beter candidate to kick things off with than... Jari Litmanen (Born February 20th, 1971) Career: 22 years and counting, one CL title, one CL runner-up, 9-time Finnish footballer of the year, four Dutch titles, three Dutch cups, three Dutch Super-cups, one club world cup, one European super-cup, all-time European scorer for Ajax Amsterdam, all-time leading scorer for the Finnish national team, most capped player for the Finnish national team, CL topscorer (95-96), Dutch league top scorer (93-94), one third place in European footballer of the year voting The last ever modern incarnation of the classic-number ten, before the game shifted towards scoring AMs, and the play-making responsibilities were handed over to the Pirlo's and Deco's of the world - (who played at the opposite end of the triangle from Litmanen). Captained the famous Ajax side of the mid-nineties after Frank Rijkaard retired. But deserves to be remembered as the metronome that made one of the most efficient and fun to watch offensive machines in the history of the world tick. The fact that he never recreated his earlier form at either Barça or Liverpool should be disregarded. Why? Because I say so, dammit! One of the main reasons he has withered away into obscurity is that he was all about the game and was infamous for shunning the media and desperately trying to keep as much of his personal life and feelings hidden from them. As such, there wasn't much more to love about him than his game, and when that started to fade, so did his reputation. Jari Litmanen deserves to be remembered for the two year-stretch from 94-96 in which he lead Ajax to two consecutive CL finals, winning the first against Milan, and losing the second to Juve on a penalty shoot-out. But his story starts before that. When Dennis Bergkamp left for Inter after the 92/93 season, the n

What up goons? I'm back!

Heya brother, yeah, needed a favour from the ol' gang (this thread). I sent you a PM when I left but never heard back. Peace and love, peace and love. That one might have slipped through the cracks... I sometimes get an obscene amount of messages, but most of 'em are mod-related.

Fred, you have returned!