Football (Soccer)
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How do people think it's gonna go in the Bernabeu tonight? It's a total cliché but the first goal is all important; if Real score first it could get very interesting.
I still think Dortmund have done enough.
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I would be astounded if Real managed to reverse it.
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Yeh, tis a big ask. No doubt they could score a few, but keeping a clean sheet might be beyond them too.
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I think Dortmund are far too disciplined to allow them to score 4 to be honest. If I had to predict I would go 2 - 1 Madrid tonight.
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Left it a bit too late didn't they. Although they should've been 3 nil up within the first 15 minutes.
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Well, what a drubbing…..
...reckon my team, Norwich City, may have faired better against Bayern tonight.
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It won't catch, you guys don't get the concept of a draw
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Americans also don't get the concept of offside.
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The draw is simple wabi sabi.
The unadulterated joy of a hard fought point when your team has faced and held a superior opposition.
The pain of your team completely dominating the opposition and being unfairly denied all points by a last minute stroke of luck.
Offside is somewhat harder to justify, English men spend a frustrating amount of time explaining it to English women, mainly without success.
I shall therefore not even attempt to explain it to Americans
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By the by, my team are not playing their opening match until Monday evening, so it is making a nice change for me to enjoy opening day without the pressure of us taking a beating. That particular joy can wait until Monday when we face the richest team in the league in their own ground
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The Beautiful Game. (No draws here)
I paraphrase this from Abuja.ng
"Nigeria has etched its name in football's hall of infamy". It is no secret that football in our country is corrupted by pervasive match fixing, but last month this cheating reached an absurd new level.
It involved 2 clubs - Plateau United Feeders and Police Machine FC - who were each vying in separate, simultaneous matches for a single spot in the professional League. The winner on goal difference would clinch it.
In both cases the games became frenzies of goal scoring, as each teams opponents left the goal untended so that the predetermined winner could hoof in ball after ball.
Plateau United defeated Akurba by 79 goals to nil, whilst in the other match, Police Machine (and that is doubly ironic) won 67-0.
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Yeah agreed, offsides isn't hard to grasp. Nothing in football is, it's a simple sport. One of the good things about it. Compare the rule book to golf, baseball, American football… Guessing it's a bit shorter.
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Anyway else enjoy seeing Man City getting outclassed by Bayern last night?
(Sascha i'm looking at you….)
