Football/Futbol/Soccer thread

[prophet]

Please tell me someone else watched the Best of Enemies thing on ITV4? Keane and Viera talking about their rivalry, sitting down with each other etc... Absolutely brilliant television.

[AkydefGoldberg]

^I've got it on Sky Plus - watching it tomorrow. Seems the best thing ITV have put together in years.

[prophet]

^I've got it on Sky Plus - watching it tomorrow. Seems the best thing ITV have put together in years.

It's one of the best programmes I've watched this year. A great insight to arguably the biggest player rivalry the Premier League has ever seen.

EDIT: Just got done watching the Gala/Juve game. So strange watching a Champions League game at 1 in the afternoon and the pitch was damn near unplayable but nontheless an impressive win from Galatasaray thanks to Sneijder. I can't imagine Juve will be best pleased and it wouldn't surprise me to see them blame the pitch but they had enough chances to win the game and didn't.

[AkydefGoldberg]

Stunned Juve were out but Galatasaray probably played the conditions better. Surprise because you'd expect Juventus to get through but at least they'll be one of the favourites for the Europa League. Absolutely ridiculous that they go the EL - they should be out of Europe altogether, just undermines the EL IMO.

Also, this sounds like a Joe Kinnear plan.

I wonder which players go to which package. I'd be amazed if any newspaper paid unless they were chasing a story. Newcastle's on the pitch work seems to get undermined by bizarre, unnecessary moves by Ashley and co.

They missed out on their usual PR boost delivering Xmas presents with the ban of local media.

[SlightlyJames]

Just gone past the hour and Barca are hammering Celtic 5-0. They'll score even more I reckon. Neymar hadn't scored in the CL before tonight, now he has a hat-trick.

[PorkChop]

Fuck sake, another great game I'm missing

[SlightlyJames]

Actually a little bit of a revival going on here for Celtic, they're playing really well and they've bagged a goal, shame they waited until they were 6 goals down and out of time to do it. 6-1 FT.

[AkydefGoldberg]

Harsh on Napoli. Close to qualifying but Dortmund's late goal sees them as group winners with Arsenal second.

[prophet]

Arsenal should be kicking themselves. I'm confident that any one of the teams they could potentially draw in the next round will beat them. They're going to get a tougher game than needed and they've only themselves to blame.

[AkydefGoldberg]

Please tell me someone else watched the Best of Enemies thing on ITV4? Keane and Viera talking about their rivalry, sitting down with each other etc... Absolutely brilliant television.

Best thing ITV have done football documentary wise for a while.

Slightly spoiled by reading the contents in articles but still enjoyable to watch. A nostalgic look back at what was, I'd say, THE rivalry of the PL from 1996-2005 between Manchester United vs. Arsenal.

Keane and Vieira led their sides into battle and it was good to revisit the good and bad parts.

If you take away the Keane response to Fergie, was compelling to see what made both of them tick (if you didn't know already) and now in retirement, seem to like each other's company and bit of levity in there aswell.

Half expected Keane to say he'd had some tinge of regret over Haaland tackle but fair play to him, stuck by it.

Arsenal should be kicking themselves. I'm confident that any one of the teams they could potentially draw in the next round will beat them. They're going to get a tougher game than needed and they've only themselves to blame.

For them it's the league tbh. CL is a bonus if they do well but considering their league position, that's what they are most concerned about.

[prophet]

For them it's the league tbh. CL is a bonus if they do well but considering their league position, that's what they are most concerned about.

I agree but they should have won that group. It was there for them to wrap up and they were happy to just progress - no sense or urgency about them last night which was shocking considering if Napoli had scored one more Arsenal would've been out.

[PorkChop]

Shame Barnsey isn't here. I remember back on WWE-Club when Celtic beat Barca 1-0, he made like 3 topics about it and wouldn't shut up for weeks. I'd like to see what he has to say about it now!

[SlightlyJames]

^ aye I remember that, he did get a bit overboard when that happened

[PorkChop]

^ aye I remember that, he did get a bit overboard when that happened

He was a nutcase. Apparently he once asked Enygma if he could borrow his car to drive his daughter to school. What the fuck

[SlightlyJames]

I might be remembering this wrong but was he not the guy who knew Kane's cousin's Taxi Driver or something like that?

[PorkChop]

I might be remembering this wrong but was he not the guy who knew Kane's cousin's Taxi Driver or something like that?

Yep, that was him. He also uploaded the photo of himself in a onesie.

[AkydefGoldberg]

Barnsey? I must have missed him - sounds like he was really likeable :rolleyes

What was he about?

[Everlong]

Barnsey? I must have missed him - sounds like he was really likeable :rolleyes

What was he about?

Yeah, he was definitely most well-known for the taxi driver/Kane's uncle or whatever thing. That was hilarious. But he was just another one of those poor-grammared trolls who are really tedious at the time but also really funny in hindsight.

[Romo]

Good to see Spurs get a win today and Soldado to get a hat trick which will do wonders for his confidence! I'm expecting/hoping/wanting to see Spurs - Juve final, I think that would be incredible!

[AkydefGoldberg]

^Juve shouldn't even be in the EL. Ridiculous CL drop outs falling into the EL. Undermines the EL for me.

But good for Soldado's confidence - needs to deliver in the PL but that might come with the play of Spurs improving in the attacking third.