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UEFA Europa League Season 2011/12
Cesc Soler- Number of posts : 9944
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Isco Benny- Number of posts : 19647
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Registration date : 2006-08-08
Group A for us again, just like last season.
Rubin will be tough.
Not that I give too much of a shit, but would be good to get through so we can smoke some German sausage in the next round,
cos I just love smoked sausage
Eng V Ger
BL V EPL
Noah V Blut
Good V Evil
Rubin will be tough.
Not that I give too much of a shit, but would be good to get through so we can smoke some German sausage in the next round,
cos I just love smoked sausage
Eng V Ger
BL V EPL
Noah V Blut
Good V Evil
debaser- Number of posts : 22064
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Tough group for Stoke. Fulham will be happy. Birmingham will no doubt be the shame of England
blutgraetsche- Number of posts : 23328
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Registration date : 2006-08-09
Noah und der Bale wrote:Group A for us again, just like last season.
Rubin will be tough.
Not that I give too much of a shit, but would be good to get through so we can smoke some German sausage in the next round,
cos I just love smoked sausage
Eng V Ger
BL V EPL
Noah V Blut
Good V Evil
You just love sausage in every form and from every angle.
The Bundesliga are the good ones, the corrupt, pampered EPL clubs ze evil. FACT!
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Spurs are a good side.. but can they do it in Tallaght(gut feeling is it'll be moved to the Aviva Stadium) on a wet Thursday night ? Gonna sort myself with tickets for that.
Isco Benny- Number of posts : 19647
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El LoCo Ade wrote:Spurs are a good side.. but can they do it in Tallaght(gut feeling is it'll be moved to the Aviva Stadium) on a wet Thursday night ? Gonna sort myself with tickets for that.
Drawing the Oirish is the best thing that could have happened in terms of generating some interest domestically.
Bonus.
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The big question is
Can Stoke do it on a cold Thursday night in Kiev?
Can Stoke do it on a cold Thursday night in Kiev?
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After fighting extinction, Shamrock Rovers savour unlikely Hoop dreams
For two decades Rovers were homeless, now glamour Europa League ties against Spurs and Rubin Kazan await
The fact that Shamrock Rovers chairman Jonathan Roche spent the aftermath of his side's unlikely victory over Partizan Belgrade figuring out how to get from the Balkans to Monaco for Friday's Europa League group stage draw suggests he may not have been hugely confident of success in last night's second leg. Playing their football in an Ireland where the majority of grown men watch perched on bar stools and have long referred to Premier League clubs such as Manchester United and Liverpool as "we", the men in green and white hoops have spent decades dealing with everything their sport has to throw at them except acclaim.
Champions of a domestic league where the highest earner trousers approximately €50,000 per year and the average salary is less than half that, the Irish champions went into last night's second leg desperately needing to score after a 1-1 draw in Dublin. A first-half Vladimir Volkov goal for Partizan, who played in last season's Champions League group stages, meant Rovers still needed a goal, which arrived in the scarcely credible form of an astonishing 30-yard screamer on the volley from full-back Pat Sullivan, to restore parity just before the hour. Substitute Stephen O'Donnell's extra-time penalty may not have been as aesthetically pleasing as his team-mate's strike, but will go down as the first spot-kick in football history to prompt the name of a League of Ireland club to trend worldwide on Twitter.
It's one hour and 34 minutes from Belgrade by plane, a short hop but plenty of time for Roche to have contemplated the long road the 16-times League of Ireland title-winners have travelled since their demotion to the second tier of the League of Ireland in 2005. While flirting with extinction and suffering the ignominy of relegation after years of financial mismanagement, Rovers were eventually saved by a consortium of supporters, including their current chairman, who have since turned the most successful club in Irish history into a model of prudence: one owned and run by its own fans, with a sustainable financial plan and loyal local support in their Dublin home of Tallaght.
The Rovers garden hasn't always been this rosy. For over 20 years the club's name was a byword for homelessness after their owners, the Kilcoyne family, enraged fans by selling their Milltown ground to property developers in 1987. As a cub reporter on Hot Press magazine in Dublin during the mid-90s, I vividly remember hailing a taxi to a post-pub house party in a Dublin suburb, only for the driver, a Hoops fan, to point-blank refuse the fare because our destination was the housing estate for which Rovers' ground had been sold to make way. Not long afterwards I began attending Rovers matches on a fairly regular basis, as their home fixtures were played in my then locale of Fairview at Tolka Park, a stadium they shared with landlords and local rivals Shelbourne. It was one of five different grounds in and around Dublin the nomadic Rovers were forced to call home throughout two decades after the sale of Milltown, not counting a handful of occasions when circumstance and penury forced them to play home fixtures at the grounds of opponents.
Such dark days seem a thing of the past since their takeover by the 400 Club, who quickly purged the dressing room, assembled a young new squad on a shoestring and slowly but surely got the club back on an even financial keel. Having secured promotion back to the Irish top flight after just one season in the doldrums (they conceded 13 goals in 36 games on their way to the title), the next step of their plan was to move into a 10,000-seater stadium owned by the local authority in Tallaght on Dublin's southside. Thwarted at every turn, after seemingly interminable wrangling over planning permission followed by an unsuccessful legal challenge for use of the ground from a local Gaelic Athletic Association club, Rovers eventually ran out as sole tenants of the Tallaght Stadium (revised capacity 6,000, much of it standing) on 13 March 2008. The official housewarming was staged the following July, with Newcastle United, Hibernian and Real Madrid among the guests of honour.
In the wake of last night's heroic victory over Partizan Belgrade, Rovers find themselves with a raft of new problems to contend with, not least how best to spend the £1m windfall which is guaranteed as a result of their qualification for the Europa League group stages. Under existing Uefa regulations, the club could be forced to stage their home games at Dublin's Aviva Stadium, although the cheaper and more romantic alternative is to install the seats that would bring their own ground up to the required standard. Of more pressing concern is the small matter of the Irish domestic football season played through the summer these days, with fiscal necessity dictating that the contracts of Rovers' players expire in November. It is a state of affairs that is less than ideal, not least because their European campaign will last until the middle of December at the earliest.
Shamrock Rovers are no strangers to European adventure, their most notable near miss coming in the early rounds of the 1966 Cup Winners Cup, when it took a late Gerd Muller strike in the Olympic Stadium to spare Bayern Munich's blushes in a 4-3 aggregate win. Only time will tell whether Rovers can run Rubin Kazan, PAOK Salonica and Tottenham Hotspur as close, but the fact that they're even scheduled to play such fixtures must surely be beyond their loyal fan base's wildest Hoop dreams.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2011/aug/26/shamrock-rovers-hoop-dreams
REAL FOOTBALL. Best of luck.
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Registration date : 2006-08-08
PAOK Salonika: Kresic, Malezas, Contreras, Lino, Etto, Pablo Garcia, Fotakis, Arias, Vieirinha, Athanasiadis, Salpingidis.
Subs: Chalkias, Balafas, Robert, Papazoglou, Ivic, Sznaucner, Tsoukalas.
Tottenham: Cudicini, Bassong, Corluka, Walker, Livermore, Townsend, Carroll, Pavlyuchenko, Giovani, Falque, Kane.
Subs: Gomes, Fredericks, Nicholson, Pritchard, Parrett, Stewart, Barthram.
Third string team at best.
Quite amusing, we could get hammered.
Giovani has a lot to prove tonight. Show us what you're made of Gio!
Subs: Chalkias, Balafas, Robert, Papazoglou, Ivic, Sznaucner, Tsoukalas.
Tottenham: Cudicini, Bassong, Corluka, Walker, Livermore, Townsend, Carroll, Pavlyuchenko, Giovani, Falque, Kane.
Subs: Gomes, Fredericks, Nicholson, Pritchard, Parrett, Stewart, Barthram.
Third string team at best.
Quite amusing, we could get hammered.
Giovani has a lot to prove tonight. Show us what you're made of Gio!
Isco Benny- Number of posts : 19647
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Registration date : 2006-08-08
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Shamrock Rovers already down 1-0 at home to Rubin Kazan after 2 minutes.
Could be a massacre in Ireland
Could be a massacre in Ireland
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Noah und der Bale wrote:PAOK Salonika: Kresic, Malezas, Contreras, Lino, Etto, Pablo Garcia, Fotakis, Arias, Vieirinha, Athanasiadis, Salpingidis.
Subs: Chalkias, Balafas, Robert, Papazoglou, Ivic, Sznaucner, Tsoukalas.
Tottenham: Cudicini, Bassong, Corluka, Walker, Livermore, Townsend, Carroll, Pavlyuchenko, Giovani, Falque, Kane.
Subs: Gomes, Fredericks, Nicholson, Pritchard, Parrett, Stewart, Barthram.
Third string team at best.
Quite amusing, we could get hammered.
Giovani has a lot to prove tonight. Show us what you're made of Gio!
Interesting team selection. It's a message to Levy, fill in the blanks.
Harry Redknapp wants more _____ for _______
money
turnips
players
Denise van Outen
Isco Benny- Number of posts : 19647
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0-0 in Greece we've been the better team. Not that anyone cares much.
Dynamo Kiev 0-1 Stoke city.
Stoke showing they can handle a col dark Thursday night in Ukraine
Dynamo Kiev 0-1 Stoke city.
Stoke showing they can handle a col dark Thursday night in Ukraine
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Athletic winning in Slovakia, great result for them if it stands.
@Noah
I care.
@Noah
I care.
Isco Benny- Number of posts : 19647
Age : 43
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Re: UEFA Europa League Season 2011/12
Thanks Jaime
Stoke game finished 1-1 with Kiev equalising in injury time.
Spurzzzzz game ended 0-0.
PSG smashed some other team.
Braga sold 13 tickets for their game at Birmingham.
Colonel Gaddafi was seen in the stands at the Lazio game.
Only one of these facts is a lie. Not that anyone cares about the EL
Stoke game finished 1-1 with Kiev equalising in injury time.
Spurzzzzz game ended 0-0.
PSG smashed some other team.
Braga sold 13 tickets for their game at Birmingham.
Colonel Gaddafi was seen in the stands at the Lazio game.
Only one of these facts is a lie. Not that anyone cares about the EL
Jaime- Number of posts : 32027
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Re: UEFA Europa League Season 2011/12
I care that 'Arry left out Krancjar! I thought surely he would play in EL and get me lots of fantasy football points.
I was hoping to the oldies Guti and Raul would get some last moments of glory but Guti was left out of Besiktas' rout. I guess I will have to wait and see about Schalke.
Will be interesting to see if Atletico's new 40m euro striker will finally score or if he will turn out to be like the rest of Atletico's history: sh!t.
I was hoping to the oldies Guti and Raul would get some last moments of glory but Guti was left out of Besiktas' rout. I guess I will have to wait and see about Schalke.
Will be interesting to see if Atletico's new 40m euro striker will finally score or if he will turn out to be like the rest of Atletico's history: sh!t.
Isco Benny- Number of posts : 19647
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Kranjcar looks like he's gonna be a starter or at least a heavily involved bench player for the first team. Quite right too, lovely player.
At Mad already 1-0 up against Celtic who are only back in this competition because Sion were naughty
At Mad already 1-0 up against Celtic who are only back in this competition because Sion were naughty
Isco Benny- Number of posts : 19647
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Re: UEFA Europa League Season 2011/12
Great little game the Fulham v Twente game. Both sides knocking it around nicely, very easy on the eye.
Johnson just scored , lovely dink with the outside of the boot.
Douglas - cb for Twente plays like the new Lucio
Johnson just scored , lovely dink with the outside of the boot.
Douglas - cb for Twente plays like the new Lucio
Isco Benny- Number of posts : 19647
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Re: UEFA Europa League Season 2011/12
Obvious big names aside, Matthew Briggs, Fulham's left back is very impressive.
Some really excellent football being played. Connieuseurs football the likes of Pierre and Blut would be proud of.
Is Dempsey one of the most underrated players in England? I think so.
Like the look of Leroy Fer on twente's team.
Some really excellent football being played. Connieuseurs football the likes of Pierre and Blut would be proud of.
Is Dempsey one of the most underrated players in England? I think so.
Like the look of Leroy Fer on twente's team.
Isco Benny- Number of posts : 19647
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Registration date : 2006-08-08
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Martin Jol's head is so awesome.
Come back to Spurs Marts.
Talking to myself now. Is the EL that shite that no one else is watching it?
Come back to Spurs Marts.
Talking to myself now. Is the EL that shite that no one else is watching it?
Jaime- Number of posts : 32027
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No it's pretty good actually! More people should watch. I'm tuned into Atletico-Celtic.
Isco Benny- Number of posts : 19647
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Registration date : 2006-08-08
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Re: UEFA Europa League Season 2011/12
How's that game? One sided? Celtic have the worst away record in the history of European football.
Twente equalise. Really good game this.
This Briggs kid is excellent. Technical ability for a left back is oustanding. Ashley cole better watch out
Twente equalise. Really good game this.
This Briggs kid is excellent. Technical ability for a left back is oustanding. Ashley cole better watch out
Jaime- Number of posts : 32027
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Yeah, I was about to say that Atletico look really good. Stroking the ball around like Barcelona. But then, it's Celtic. Not really creating a lot of clear cut chances but the new boys (Falcao, Turan, & Diego) all look good.
Hlebagone- Number of posts : 6086
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Was watching How I met your mother. Sorry, ashamed of myself. Will put the second half on of the Fulham game.
Jaime- Number of posts : 32027
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The other amusing thing to note is the announcers have been calling Celtic's James Forrest "Forrest Gump" the whole match.
Isco Benny- Number of posts : 19647
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Hlebagone wrote:Was watching How I met your mother. Sorry, ashamed of myself. Will put the second half on of the Fulham game.
Barney is pretty frickin funny in that to be fair.
Get the Fulham game on and support Martin Jol and his massive head
Isco Benny- Number of posts : 19647
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Favourite Player : Don't cha wish your left back was BAE? Don't cha
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Re: UEFA Europa League Season 2011/12
13 away fans at Birmingham.
13.
The Portuguese in no hurry to visit Englands second city. Their loss
13.
The Portuguese in no hurry to visit Englands second city. Their loss
Cesc Soler- Number of posts : 9944
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Been impressed with Douglas ever since we played Twente in a CL play-off three years ago. Still quite young IIRC & could possibly decide to represent Holland in the future.
debaser- Number of posts : 22064
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Re: UEFA Europa League Season 2011/12
Noah und der Bale wrote:13 away fans at Birmingham.
13.
The Portuguese in no hurry to visit Englands second city. Their loss
That's what we get when Arsenal let non-clubs play in Europe
Hlebagone- Number of posts : 6086
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Unlucky Clint.
Isco Benny- Number of posts : 19647
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Douglas - surely only a matter of time until a big club makes a bid for him. Triffic player.
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