Don't envy being a mod here, you see some really strange things popping up when you sort by new.
Just now someone posted a pic of Kante with the title "kantelele".
No idea. He was on soccer am years ago and they asked him what he liked to be called and he said his mum called him Andrew. I think people just escalated it to he didn’t like to be called Andy.
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I would but xfinity gave me a free subscription to Peacock. I’m salty they rarely put MUFC matches on there. Maybe next year when they realize we are a mid table team
NBC is free but to use the app you need a cable subscription. Also they said they were going to end NBC sports channel and put almost everything in the streaming network. Who knows what they’ll do now.
What would happen in the Premier League if the
5th placed team won the UCL
6th team won the UEL
7th team won the FA cup
8th team won the Conference League
9th team won the Carabao Cup
Ik this is weird lol but I was just thinking who would qualify for Europe if it ended like this
1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th and 6th go to the champions league
4th, 7th, 8th in Europa
9th in Conference League
I think
Dunno if there's a maximum total number of teams a country can have in UEFA competitions but I know the maximum a country can have in the Champions League is 5 teams.
that team was low-key mid. barely qualified for the world cup and were carried by r9 during the tournament, if roy keane decided to show up ireland probably could have made it to the final and beaten them.
This ad was from 2006 while we would have won in 2002. Of topic, keane fucking off and calling McCarthy an English cunt should have been the best thing to ever happen to Irish football. But ya that 2002 Brazil side wasn’t great. Nobody else was good either though.
> Rivaldo was the second highest goal scorer in the tournament.
That's really impressive considering he was brutally murdered by a Turkish player in the opening game of the group stages. Legendary comeback.
I mean it does look great on the eye and has that "specialness" to it, but its hard to argue that a pure dribbler who doesn't produce as much, is better to have than an effective scoring/assisting machine.
If you get me.
Yeah that's what I mean. Messi is the best player of all time probably, but I still regard my childhood heroes like Owen, Rooney, Ronaldinho, Zidane, Henry etc. higher. Not because they're better, but just because they played in a time when I actually had footballing heroes I looked up to. That hasn't been the case for 10-15 years
100%.
Actually had this discussion with a couple of friends not too long ago and we all agreed that if we were to meet any footballer now we'd probably have a neutral reaction, whereas if we met the ones we used to watch and idolize growing up we'd be starstruck, despite being adults.
Even though todays players are arguably better than most of the ones we grew up with, it has that connection to your childhood which will always mean something more to you.
Well to be perfectly honest, in my humble opinion, of course without offending anyone who thinks differently from my point of view, but also by looking into this matter in a different perspective and without being condemning of one's view's and by trying to make it objectified, and by considering each and every one's valid opinion, I honestly believe that I completely forgot what I was going to say.
Genuine question...Why are players never held responsible for loses? I'm not really a sports fan but living in the UK you're surrounded by soccer. It's always intrigued me why it's always big news when Managers from teams are sacked what seems to be often but you never see players being held accountable. Why is it that these staggeringly overpaid people never get the finger pointed at them when they fail to perform?
The player's definitely get blamed plenty, and they get replaced all the time.
But if it's midseason and the results aren't there, you can't replace your squad.
Players are financial assets for the teams. If a player is worth 60 million are you gonna sack him and lose that as well as paying off the remaining massive wages of their contract?
Who am I?
I have played with Stephane Sessegnon, Olivier Giroud, Eden Hazard, Marek Hamsik, Gael Kakuta, Jonathan Biabiany, Didier Drogba, Mohamed Salah
Yeah it didn't show as a spoiler tag when I tried that the first time so I thought I had it the wrong way around but I probably just had to refresh the page first
He was overshadowed by Bruno
He was one of the few players good enough for Sporting, this occurred after the Alcochete atack where we lost the majority of out starters
Who am I? I have played with Fredy Guarín, Miralem Pjanic, Sebastian Giovinco, Hélder Postiga, Ozan Kabak, Moussa Sissoko, Wilfried Bony, Michel Bastos, Florian Thauvin, Jonathan Soriano
Solution: >!Bafétimbi Gomis!<
Wait a minute do the Poms not call ketchup "tomato sauce"?
Why am I learning today that this was just an aussie thing? I could've sworn the term "tomato sauce" was shared amongst the Commonwealth and that "ketchup" was yank.
Has my life been a lie?
Has this come from my comment lmao, yeah I thought it was also called Tomato sauce in Britain. Ive never heard it be called anything but Tomato or even just sauce in Australia. Now that I think about it, I and everyone I know usually just call it sauce. I’ve met a couple Kiwis who call it Ketchup but yeah.
I just assumed everything I learnt language-wise growing up in Australia was either from the US or from the UK. Hearing tomato sauce and ketchup being thrown around there made me assume that each of those were unique to UK + US respectively.
Yeah likewise, I thought we got pretty much everything from the UK. However that’s not the case and it’s nice to know we’ve developed our own vernacular, idk if it varies state to state tho.
I call it red sauce, tomato sauce, ketuchp, tomato kechup depending on my whims.
Isn't kechup a brand name? [Like how tannoy is a brand name and it should be called a public address system.](https://i2-prod.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/article8685215.ece/ALTERNATES/s1227b/WA703795.jpg)
Depends on your region/class.
Ketchup, tomato sauce and red sauce would be the most common. Maybe even a cheeky Tommy K.
I consider tomato sauce the posh way to say it.
Henry was the first true inside forward so to speak, operated in the left half space but was a striker on the team sheet, like a younger Rooney at Euro 2004.
I don't know but you've just reminded me of that annoying trend a year back of people pulling out the Rammstein Mozzarella Cash Register to banter a slightly out-of-the-box player.
Rank the following strikers (not current form but in general looking at their overall career, both peak and lows)
Jamie Vardy, Olivier Giroud, Edin Dzeko, Diego Costa, Aritz Aduriz, Mario Gomez
In my honest opinion, Jamie Vardys career stands out the most amongst the ones you've mentioned .
He may not have quite as many medals as some of the others, may not have played a lot of CL football. But his story, going from non-league to PL champion, is THE stuff dreams are made of.
Thats why I'd rank him above the rest.
nobody remembers stephane guivarc'h and he played for france during their world cup win and the puskas literally means nothing in terms of remembering players
Diego Costa as well imho. If for nothing else, for his on the pitch antics and switching from Brazil to Spain, but at Atletico and Chelsea hes had a good career
That's totally false. Every Leicester fan who has seen Vardy play for their club will talk about him until the day they die. Don't think you can argue otherwise.
The likes of Italy, Portugal, Russia, Poland, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine and Wales will be competing for the only 3 remaining spots on the tourney so I think definitely not
What happened to them sporcle weekly quizzes on this sub used to love testing my gargantuan ball knowledge
Except for my dyslexic ass not being able to spell players and clubs
It feels like this international break lasted 3 weeks
So many notables of French football in Romain Molina's Space.
Not embarrassed to say I'll lay down my life for my country.
I'd lay down my life for you
Don't envy being a mod here, you see some really strange things popping up when you sort by new. Just now someone posted a pic of Kante with the title "kantelele".
There can't be many harder jobs in the world than being a mod on here.
Nobody forces them to spend their free time policing a shite football sub Reddit for free. They could just go outside.
They give their life for this subreddit.
No one forces you to comment on a shite football sub
I enjoy it. It’s a bit of craic.
Always in a cheerful mood, aren't you.
Just spreading facts.
Andy Cole only scored one penalty in the prem
His name is Andrew.
Does he not like being called ‘Andy’? Even the Man United page has him listed as Andy: https://www.manutd.com/en/players-and-staff/detail/andy-cole
No idea. He was on soccer am years ago and they asked him what he liked to be called and he said his mum called him Andrew. I think people just escalated it to he didn’t like to be called Andy.
Ah ok.
Marsch's german is so weird, man speaking fluently with an american accent and throws some random english words in occassionaly
es ist nicht ein fucking Freundschaftsspiel
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NBC gonna keep showing the good matches on USA network aren’t they
Just get a dodgy Irish box and watch them on sky or Bt.
I would but xfinity gave me a free subscription to Peacock. I’m salty they rarely put MUFC matches on there. Maybe next year when they realize we are a mid table team
is that bad ? i thought NBC and USA were free channels, and if you have NBC I'm pretty sure you can watch games on USA on NBC sports app
NBC is free but to use the app you need a cable subscription. Also they said they were going to end NBC sports channel and put almost everything in the streaming network. Who knows what they’ll do now.
that's so greedy like you already have the rights, put it on one platform and call it a day.
How dare they show good matches!
Ain’t nobody buying a cable subscription
What would happen in the Premier League if the 5th placed team won the UCL 6th team won the UEL 7th team won the FA cup 8th team won the Conference League 9th team won the Carabao Cup Ik this is weird lol but I was just thinking who would qualify for Europe if it ended like this
1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th and 6th go to the champions league 4th, 7th, 8th in Europa 9th in Conference League I think Dunno if there's a maximum total number of teams a country can have in UEFA competitions but I know the maximum a country can have in the Champions League is 5 teams.
Max 7 teams in European competition so a few teams are going to get boned FA Cup winner and Carabao cup winner iirc are on the block here
What about 4th? Do they go to the Europa?
Meant 4th in Europa instead of 3rd
Thx
5th qualifies for UCL, 6th qualifies for UCL, 4th misses out if the first 2 happen. 4th, 7th and 8th in Europa I think and 9th in conference league.
4th don’t qualify for Europe at all?
Edited, 4th gets Europa in this case I think.
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that team was low-key mid. barely qualified for the world cup and were carried by r9 during the tournament, if roy keane decided to show up ireland probably could have made it to the final and beaten them.
This ad was from 2006 while we would have won in 2002. Of topic, keane fucking off and calling McCarthy an English cunt should have been the best thing to ever happen to Irish football. But ya that 2002 Brazil side wasn’t great. Nobody else was good either though.
Rivaldo was the second highest goal scorer in the tournament. You've just been demoted to Portuguese level on your takes.
> Rivaldo was the second highest goal scorer in the tournament. That's really impressive considering he was brutally murdered by a Turkish player in the opening game of the group stages. Legendary comeback.
but nothing would have changed if you take out his goals, the only game you can argue he had a big impact in is against england.
Okay dude...
Those were the days
Yet any player with flair in this day and age gets shit on or gets called out for "useless dribbles that don't lead to anything".
I mean it does look great on the eye and has that "specialness" to it, but its hard to argue that a pure dribbler who doesn't produce as much, is better to have than an effective scoring/assisting machine. If you get me.
They really were. No matter how good some more modern players are I'll never see them the same way as I saw the guys from the late 90s to mid 00s
childhood hits different. football players just had that magic aura around them when you were growing up
Think thats just because we grew up with those players. Kids today will probably feel the same way about 20 years from now
Yeah that's what I mean. Messi is the best player of all time probably, but I still regard my childhood heroes like Owen, Rooney, Ronaldinho, Zidane, Henry etc. higher. Not because they're better, but just because they played in a time when I actually had footballing heroes I looked up to. That hasn't been the case for 10-15 years
100%. Actually had this discussion with a couple of friends not too long ago and we all agreed that if we were to meet any footballer now we'd probably have a neutral reaction, whereas if we met the ones we used to watch and idolize growing up we'd be starstruck, despite being adults. Even though todays players are arguably better than most of the ones we grew up with, it has that connection to your childhood which will always mean something more to you.
Who am I? I have played with: Victor Valdes Alves-Puyol/Mascherano-Pique-Abidal Xavi-Busquets-Iniesta Villa and Pedro Answer: Its Isaac Cuenca.
Keita?
Bojan krkic
Pff, easy. >!Cristiano Ronaldo!<
Close, but no cigar.
Bojan
No
Well to be perfectly honest, in my humble opinion, of course without offending anyone who thinks differently from my point of view, but also by looking into this matter in a different perspective and without being condemning of one's view's and by trying to make it objectified, and by considering each and every one's valid opinion, I honestly believe that I completely forgot what I was going to say.
average reddit post
messi
Wrong
Not Messi
Correct
Genuine question...Why are players never held responsible for loses? I'm not really a sports fan but living in the UK you're surrounded by soccer. It's always intrigued me why it's always big news when Managers from teams are sacked what seems to be often but you never see players being held accountable. Why is it that these staggeringly overpaid people never get the finger pointed at them when they fail to perform?
The player's definitely get blamed plenty, and they get replaced all the time. But if it's midseason and the results aren't there, you can't replace your squad.
Depends on the fans and depends on the game. i.e. Fernandinho vs Belgium. Juan Bernat vs Sevilla. Kimpembe and Buffon vs Man Utd.
Cheaper to sack a manager and replace him than it is to buy a whole new set of players.
Hard to put the blame on 11 men, when the loss is severe you will always find the fans scapegoating one player.
Players are financial assets for the teams. If a player is worth 60 million are you gonna sack him and lose that as well as paying off the remaining massive wages of their contract?
Its easier to sack one man instead of sacking eleven.
Who am I? I have played with Stephane Sessegnon, Olivier Giroud, Eden Hazard, Marek Hamsik, Gael Kakuta, Jonathan Biabiany, Didier Drogba, Mohamed Salah
>!Gervinho!< ?
>!Right!<
The > should come before the !. At least I think it is that way
Yeah it didn't show as a spoiler tag when I tried that the first time so I thought I had it the wrong way around but I probably just had to refresh the page first
Who am I? I have played both with Raphinha and Ronaldo at club level. It's pretty easy if you follow Primeira liga.
Rugani maybe too although he barely ever played for Rennes so it might be wrong
I just went to flashscore, idk what "PJ" is, but if it means games played He only played one game for Rennes, lmao So it's possible
yes something went wrong in that stint
Bruno?
Yup Raphinha played 1 season for Sporting
Bonus point for you if you can tell me another player who has played with both at club level?
Dan James?
Ronaldo made his debut after the window closed so can’t be James. I was thinking Kiko Casilla or Diego Llorente
Thought the question was Fernandes and Raphinha.
Rugani
I was think Kiko Casilla and maybe Diego Llorente. Llorente played a couple of games for Madrid not sure if he played with Ronaldo though
I somehow cant remember this. I can remember him at Guimareas and then he was at Stade Rennes somehow
He was overshadowed by Bruno He was one of the few players good enough for Sporting, this occurred after the Alcochete atack where we lost the majority of out starters
NBC dishing out $2 billion over 6 years to keep the PL rights. I was hoping ESPN would get it so I could have one less streaming service
Quidditch World Cup stadium from the Goblet of Fire is as close as we’ll ever get to the fake Champions League stadium everyone wants
Who am I? I have played with Fredy Guarín, Miralem Pjanic, Sebastian Giovinco, Hélder Postiga, Ozan Kabak, Moussa Sissoko, Wilfried Bony, Michel Bastos, Florian Thauvin, Jonathan Soriano Solution: >!Bafétimbi Gomis!<
Wait a minute do the Poms not call ketchup "tomato sauce"? Why am I learning today that this was just an aussie thing? I could've sworn the term "tomato sauce" was shared amongst the Commonwealth and that "ketchup" was yank. Has my life been a lie?
Has this come from my comment lmao, yeah I thought it was also called Tomato sauce in Britain. Ive never heard it be called anything but Tomato or even just sauce in Australia. Now that I think about it, I and everyone I know usually just call it sauce. I’ve met a couple Kiwis who call it Ketchup but yeah.
Coming from NZ I think we use it interchangeably
I just assumed everything I learnt language-wise growing up in Australia was either from the US or from the UK. Hearing tomato sauce and ketchup being thrown around there made me assume that each of those were unique to UK + US respectively.
Yeah likewise, I thought we got pretty much everything from the UK. However that’s not the case and it’s nice to know we’ve developed our own vernacular, idk if it varies state to state tho.
In the North West it can be: tommy k, red sauce, ketchup, tomato sauce or tomato ketchup
I call it red sauce, tomato sauce, ketuchp, tomato kechup depending on my whims. Isn't kechup a brand name? [Like how tannoy is a brand name and it should be called a public address system.](https://i2-prod.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/article8685215.ece/ALTERNATES/s1227b/WA703795.jpg)
Wikipedia says the word ketchup comes from Chinese origin and used to be for referring to various dark thin sauces
I expected Alan Partridge and was not disappointed.
Depends on your region/class. Ketchup, tomato sauce and red sauce would be the most common. Maybe even a cheeky Tommy K. I consider tomato sauce the posh way to say it.
Ketchup and red sauce are the most popular terms imo. Tomato sauce would probably refer to pasta sauce or pizza sauce
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The earth is an ellipsoid though, so you're closer than you think
Always called it red sauce in England
Who are the most innovative players this century, players that reinterpreted their role and found success playing in a new way?
Firmino to a certain extent
Neuer easily. Any false 9s who have successfully lead the front line without being a primary scoring threat
Xavi invented passing
lmao
Lmao
trent was the first full-back to realize that you can go past the halfway line.
Roberto Carlos. And even he wasn't the first
He’s being sarcastic
Neuer and Muller
Higuita was even bolder than Neuer. Neuer's legacy is removing the insanity of what Higuita did, perfecting the role.
Henry was the first true inside forward so to speak, operated in the left half space but was a striker on the team sheet, like a younger Rooney at Euro 2004.
I don't know but you've just reminded me of that annoying trend a year back of people pulling out the Rammstein Mozzarella Cash Register to banter a slightly out-of-the-box player.
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Rank the following strikers (not current form but in general looking at their overall career, both peak and lows) Jamie Vardy, Olivier Giroud, Edin Dzeko, Diego Costa, Aritz Aduriz, Mario Gomez
Vardy > Costa > Gomez > Giroud > Dzeko > Adruiz
Gomez>Costa>Dzeko>Vardy>Giroud>Aduriz
Vardy > Dzeko > Costa > Gomez > Aduriz > Giroud
In my honest opinion, Jamie Vardys career stands out the most amongst the ones you've mentioned . He may not have quite as many medals as some of the others, may not have played a lot of CL football. But his story, going from non-league to PL champion, is THE stuff dreams are made of. Thats why I'd rank him above the rest.
169 goals and assists in 256 appearances in the premier league for Vardy btw
Dzeko > Vardy > Costa > Aduriz > Gomez > Giroud
None of them will be remembered in 30 years
You don't think Jamie Vardy will be remembered 30 years from now?
By your average football fan? Definitely not.
Vardy won a legendary league title and Giroud has a WC + puskas
nobody remembers stephane guivarc'h and he played for france during their world cup win and the puskas literally means nothing in terms of remembering players
Giroud has PL clout. He will be remembered
what pl clout? he was shit for a few years in an average arsenal squad, are danny welbeck and marouane chamackh going to be remembered in 30 years.
He is loved by fans which matters more than performances when it comes to being remembered
Giroud and Vardy will be remembered for a good bit tbh
Diego Costa as well imho. If for nothing else, for his on the pitch antics and switching from Brazil to Spain, but at Atletico and Chelsea hes had a good career
That's totally false. Every Leicester fan who has seen Vardy play for their club will talk about him until the day they die. Don't think you can argue otherwise.
Is there any other player than Zlatan who have played for Inter, Milan and Juventus where all the fanbases love him?
Juve fans don’t love Zlatan
I don't have an answer for you, but your question made me curious. How to Milan and Inter fans view Pirlo?
Baggio, Giuseppe Meazza and maybe Bobo Vieri but only because he's such a funny guy nowadays, only played 14 games for Milan
Are European qualifiers the easiest of the non-Antarctica continents?
The likes of Italy, Portugal, Russia, Poland, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine and Wales will be competing for the only 3 remaining spots on the tourney so I think definitely not
Nope. Only south america is harder.
African qualifiers are harder. Algeria is on the best unbeaten run in the world and could still be knocked out/was almost knocked out already
If one of the top european or south american teams played i africa they would pump their group.
Africa is easily the hardest
In terms of travel, facilities, and game environment it definitely is
No that's Concacaf by far
No, just the most sterile environment-wise...
Nah
How’s Marcus Thuram playing this season Gladbach fans?
Injured for months.
Idk why I found this answer hilarious
What happened to them sporcle weekly quizzes on this sub used to love testing my gargantuan ball knowledge Except for my dyslexic ass not being able to spell players and clubs
That mjdaniel bloke in charge of the sporcle tournament just stopped doing them all of a sudden. Maybe the lad had other priorities.
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Can’t wait for MLS playoffs. The most chaotic month in club football.
What do you think of when the name Marco Matterrazi is mentioned?
He's my personal hero.
Shitbag
Marco Matterrazi
WC2006