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Football (Soccer)
Topic Started: Oct 24 2006, 11:15 AM (731 Views)
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I seem to start this topic everywhere lol.

Talk about Football in here.

Right I have been watching Ronaldinho lately, and Im not too impressed since the world cup, hes been poor for his standards, he doesn't deserve to be called world number one at all. Specaily with the way other footballers are playing atm.
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Hm..not much of a soccer fan, but the World Cup this year was crazy. :)
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lol, What a way for Zidane to retire. He certainly didn't go quietly lol
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Yeh.. it was a damn shame for a great tallent like that to leave the International circuit that way.. I believe Man U are top of the league today.. chelsea lost and so did Arsenal.
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Yeh, Get in lol...

Lets just hope it stays this way.
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England's glorious young guns

England's Under-21s will discover on Friday who they will get in their group at next summer's Uefa European Under-21 Championship in Holland.

Back in 1984 their England predecessors were crowned champions of Europe.

But did the players that beat Spain that year go on to footballing superstardom or did that prove to be their crowning moment?

Gary Bailey
Goalkeeper, Manchester United
Senior caps: 2 (U21 caps: 14)
Today the former keeper is South Africa's answer to Gary Lineker working as a television presenter. He also helped his country of birth win the rights to host the 2010 World Cup. Having tasted success in two FA Cup finals he was the first of the team to retire, with injury curtailing his career in 1986.

Mel Sterland
Defender, Sheffield Wednesday
Senior caps: 1 (U21 caps: 7)
He scored the only goal in the first leg in Seville to set England on their way but it did not exactly set his senior career going - he had to wait another five years for a cap. A Sheffield Wednesday stalwart before stints at Rangers and Leeds, he starred in the film When Saturday Comes in 1996.

Nick Pickering
Defender, Sunderland
Senior caps: 1 (U21 caps: 15)
Won more U21 caps than any other player involved and had already made his one and only senior appearance in a 1-1 draw against Australia the summer before. He moved from Sunderland to Coventry in 1986 and went on to win the FA Cup with the Sky Blues a year later.

Gary Stevens
Defender, Tottenham Hotspur
Senior caps: 7 (U21 caps: 7)
The chant "There's only one Gary Stevens" was a non-starter back then as there were two. This one was the dark-haired DJ lookalike who started his career at Brighton before moving on to Tottenham, where he enjoyed his greatest success. He finished his career at Portsmouth before going on to work as a pundit.

Paul Bracewell
Midfielder, Everton
Senior caps: 3 (U21 caps: 13)
In an injury-hit career he won two league titles and the Cup Winners' Cup with Everton but was on the losing team in the FA Cup final three times with the Toffees as well as Sunderland in 1992. He had a short-lived spell as Fulham manager after stopping playing and also took the helm at Halifax.

Dave Watson
Defender, Norwich City
Senior caps: 12 (U21 caps: 7)
The Liverpudlian had longevity. He was still playing in the 21st century when the curtain came down on a career during which he won a League Cup at Norwich and a league title and FA Cup with Everton. Has since managed Tranmere and now trains junior teams in the Liverpool area.

Derek Mountfield
Defender, Everton
Senior caps: 0 (U21 caps: 1)
This was the only U21 appearance for a man who won two league titles and an FA Cup at Everton before moving to Aston Villa where injuries took their toll and he dropped down the divisions before retiring. After a managerial spell in Ireland with Cork City he is now a pundit on Merseyside.

Nigel Callaghan
Midfielder, Watford
Senior caps: 0 (U21 caps: 9)
This success was consolation for a losing FA Cup final against Everton the weekend before - when Mountfield was on the winning side. The flying winger never enjoyed the same fame after leaving Watford for spells at Derby and Aston Villa and is now a DJ.

Danny Wallace
Midfielder, Southampton
Senior caps: 1 (U21 caps: 14)
Winger Wallace played for Saints for nine years before joining Manchester United in a £1.2m deal, helping trigger the success Sir Alex Ferguson enjoyed at the club. Diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1996, he completed the London Marathon in aid of his own MS charity this year.

Wallace completes seven-day London Marathon

Howard Gayle
Striker, Birmingham City
Senior caps: 0 (U21 caps: 3)
He had already failed to make the grade at Liverpool and Newcastle by this stage of his career and it was a matter of months before he was shown the door at Birmingham. Stints at Sunderland and Stoke followed before he lasted five seasons at Blackburn and wound down his career at Halifax.

Mark Hateley
Striker, Portsmouth
Senior caps: 32 (U21 caps: 10)
Was to enjoy the highest-profile career of any of the team and before the next season was a full international at AC Milan. Stints at Monaco, under Arsene Wenger, and Rangers followed before the combative forward played at QPR and Hull, where he was also manager. He is now a TV pundit.

Steve Hodge
Midfielder, Nottingham Forest
Senior caps: 24 (U21 caps: 8)
Hodge was involved in two World Cups and swapped shirts with Maradona in 1986. During spells with Nottingham Forest, Aston Villa and Tottenham he failed to land any domestic silverware before returning to Forest where he won the League Cup in 1989 and 1990. He also played for Leeds.

Kevin Brock
Midfielder, Oxford United
Senior caps: 0 (U21 caps: 4)
The fourth member of the team not to go on and win senior honours. He spent the majority of his career with Oxford as they rose up the league ladder and won the League Cup. Moves to QPR, Newcastle and Cardiff followed and he is still involved in the game as manager of non-league Banbury.

Goalkeeper Peter Hucker, defender Danny Thomas - who played in both legs of the 1982 success - midfielder Mark Chamberlain and Ipswich striker Mitch D'Avaray played in the first leg in Spain.

Of that quartet, Coventry full-back Thomas and Stoke winger Chamberlain went on to win senior caps.

In total, 65% of those involved in the victory took the step up to the next level on the international ladder.

That compares favourably with the group who won the title two years before (36%) and the 22-man England squad who played in the finals four years ago, of whom 50% have so far progressed through to the senior team.
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Looks a good squad.
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Wallwork hurt after bar stabbing

West Brom midfielder Ronnie Wallwork has been stabbed several times in an incident at a bar in Manchester.
The 29-year-old, on loan at Barnsley, was rushed to hospital with stab wounds to his hand, stomach and back.

Police, who were called to the Sugar Lounge in the city centre shortly after 2330 GMT on Thursday, do not believe the attack was random.

Wallwork is now in a stable condition and his injuries are not thought to be life-threatening.

He joined Barnsley on 23 November and has started two games since.

A statement on Barnsley's website read: "Barnsley can confirm that on-loan midfielder Ronnie Wallwork has been involved in an incident in Manchester last night.

"The club are deeply concerned about Ronnie and, although we do not know the full facts or circumstances surrounding the incident, we wish him a full and speedy recovery.


Wallwork was hurt at Manchester's Sugar Lounge bar

"Ronnie has been a model professional during his time at Barnsley and we will be liaising with West Bromwich Albion as to the best course of action."

West Brom echoed Barnsley's sentiments in their own statement which read:

"We are shocked and dismayed to hear that Ronnie Wallwork is in a Manchester hospital following an incident last night in which we understand he was stabbed several times.

"We are now making our own enquiries and are awaiting further details, but we have been informed by a member of Ronnie's family that he is in a stable condition."

Wallwork, a holding midfielder who can also play in defence, came though the youth system at Manchester United.

As he struggled to break into the first team Old Trafford, he was sent to Carlisle, Stockport and then Royal Antwerp on loan.

However, his spell in Belgium was marred by controversy when he was banned from football for life after he allegedly attacked a referee.

That punishment was reduced on appeal to just a one-year sanction which related only to Belgium.

Three years later, Wallwork was allowed to join West Brom on a free transfer after making just 28 appearances for United.

He was named the club's player of the year for 2004-05 when the Baggies escaped relegation, despite being bottom of the Premiership at Christmas.

But although he was given a new two-year contract in August, he fell out of favour when new manager Tony Mowbray arrived and was allowed to go out on loan to Barnsley.

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Arsenal V Chelsea today was a great game, fast and furious.. great equalizer from Chelsea... however sadly Drogba doinng what he does best and diving at any opportunity.. what a prat.
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Anyone else in here think that American 'Football' needs to start being called 'Gridiron'? I think that the name itself keeps the game from being more popular in Europe. Besides, the foot doesn't have much to do with the game of US Football..

Meanwhile, I plan on going to see some LA Galaxy games (Beckhams team) when I get to California.

I think the Europeans should be forced to keep Posh while we get to keep David..I think that's fair..

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xsas ya sum arsenal game up nicely. agree about american football,call it anything but not football
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I haven't been to see a football game in years... Last one I saw was Ipswich playing Norwich in a local Derby... I really enjoyed the game but my voice was hoarse from yelling :lmao:
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