OT: soccer thread

Post #1181 » by **fatlever** » Sun May 25, 2014 3:48 pm

Det the Threat wrote:@fats:
Found something regardin fantasy world cup game.
http://en.mcdonalds.fantasy.fifa.com/

Interested in doing a league there?

looks good. i am definitely in.

LamarMatic7 · Post #1182 » by **LamarMatic7** » Sat May 31, 2014 6:51 pm

WOW. Reports of Lampard leaving Chelsea for New York. It was in a way inevitable but, damn, it's hard to imagine Lampard playing for another team. I guess I always thought that he would retire as a Chelsea player.

Post #1183 » by **fatlever** » Sun Jun 1, 2014 1:40 am

yeah, tough situation with lamps being out of contract. the rumors all year had us offering him another 1 year contract, but now it seems less likely. to be honest, lamps really isnt good enough any more to play more than a handful of games for chelsea, mostly cups and games vs lower level teams. you cant really get away with playing him vs the really good teams in europe. playing him in those easy games really takes away minutes from some of our young midfielders that really need the minutes. on the other hand, he is a club legend. but if he wants to keep playing big minutes, then a move to MLS seems like a good spot.

Post #1184 » by **fatlever** » Sun Jun 1, 2014 1:44 am

http://weaintgotnohistory.sbnation.com/ ... rk-city-fc

weird wrinkle to the NYCFC rumor - they dont begin play until spring 2015. lamps is out of contract with chelsea this summer. what the hell would he do from the end of the world cup until the following spring?

Post #1185 » by **fatlever** » Sun Jun 1, 2014 1:45 am

finally got around to watching the hillsborough 30 for 30 documentary last night. my god that was depressing.

LamarMatic7 · Post #1186 » by **LamarMatic7** » Sun Jun 1, 2014 8:43 am

fatlever wrote:finally got around to watching the hillsborough 30 for 30 documentary last night. my god that was depressing.

have you seen any of the other 30 for 30 soccer docs? The sudden amount of them is kind of overwhelming but I guess that I do want to see them all as I have done with the all the other 30 for 30s.

Post #1187 » by **fatlever** » Sun Jun 1, 2014 4:12 pm

LamarMatic7 wrote:
fatlever wrote:finally got around to watching the hillsborough 30 for 30 documentary last night. my god that was depressing.

have you seen any of the other 30 for 30 soccer docs? The sudden amount of them is kind of overwhelming but I guess that I do want to see them all as I have done with the all the other 30 for 30s.

i have the rest of them on my DVR waiting to be watched. although they were recorded from ESPN classic, in standard def, with an annoying ticker scroll on the bottom.

Post #1188 » by **fatlever** » Sun Jun 1, 2014 6:00 pm

usa vs turkey, starting now on espn 2. 2nd of 3 friendlies before world cup.

BeesWax · Post #1189 » by **BeesWax** » Sun Jun 1, 2014 8:29 pm

fatlever wrote:usa vs turkey, starting now on espn 2. 2nd of 3 friendlies before world cup.

Not that impressive. Man I am not sold on this 23.

Post #1190 » by **fatlever** » Tue Jun 3, 2014 8:41 pm

Det the Threat wrote:@fats:
Found something regardin fantasy world cup game.
http://en.mcdonalds.fantasy.fifa.com/

Interested in doing a league there?

i am signed up. turns out i already had an account, probably from the last world cup. sweet. you cant pick your team for another 4 days though. and i am not sure how to create a private league yet. regardless, if anyone is interested, go ahead an sign up. we'll figure out the rest later.

Det the Threat · Post #1191 » by **Det the Threat** » Sat Jun 7, 2014 5:52 am

fatlever wrote:
Det the Threat wrote:@fats:
Found something regardin fantasy world cup game.
http://en.mcdonalds.fantasy.fifa.com/

Interested in doing a league there?

i am signed up. turns out i already had an account, probably from the last world cup. sweet. you cant pick your team for another 4 days though. and i am not sure how to create a private league yet. regardless, if anyone is interested, go ahead an sign up. we'll figure out the rest later.

Yeah, the game starts on June 8th.

Let's see if we can get a solid league together.

BTW: Be sure to not select Marco Reus for your team, cause he just got injured last night and most likely won't make it to the world cup.
So now we'll have to play without our best offensive player. :evil:

It's about at the 1:30 minute mark. Also, Miroslav Klose scored his 69th goal for Germany, becoming the all time leading scorer for the national team. He's now got one goal more then Gerd Müller. Though, Klose needed 132 games for that, while Müller scored 68 goals and only played 62 times for Germany.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQUR1Gbh-KU[/youtube]

Thaliontil · Post #1192 » by **Thaliontil** » Sat Jun 7, 2014 10:15 am

I´m in for the league

Post #1193 » by **Diop** » Sun Jun 8, 2014 8:13 am

I've been sucked into the Off Topic forum World Cup Bandwagoner league.

We are all randomly allocated a team to support and have to trash talk all other teams, like we've been following them all our lives. I got given England.

I know absolutely nothing about soccer, so I'm having to reply on stereotypes and racism for my trash talk.

Tupik · Post #1194 » by **Tupik** » Sun Jun 8, 2014 11:34 am

****, Ribery is out for the World Cup... Huge blow for us

Det the Threat · Post #1195 » by **Det the Threat** » Sun Jun 8, 2014 4:23 pm

Tupik wrote:****, Ribery is out for the World Cup... Huge blow for us

Well, we're without Reus for the world cup and Löw's playing four centre backs in the back line. :roll:

Anyway's the team arrived in camp today and had to take a boat for the last part of the trip.

Also, one will be able to select his team on that fantasy game in an hour or so. Maybe we should try and ask for some more people to join on the soccer forums?

BeesWax · Post #1196 » by **BeesWax** » Sun Jun 8, 2014 4:26 pm

Det the Threat wrote:
Tupik wrote:****, Ribery is out for the World Cup... Huge blow for us

Well, we're without Reus for the world cup and Löw's playing four centre backs in the back line.

Anyway's the team arrived in camp today and had to take a boat for the last part of the trip.

Also, one will be able to select his team on that fantasy game in an hour or so. Maybe we should try and ask for some more people to join on the soccer forums?

I tried to join but the link was broken.

Post #1197 » by **fatlever** » Sun Jun 8, 2014 5:27 pm

Sachmo wrote:I've been sucked into the Off Topic forum World Cup Bandwagoner league.

We are all randomly allocated a team to support and have to trash talk all other teams, like we've been following them all our lives. I got given England.

I know absolutely nothing about soccer, so I'm having to reply on stereotypes and racism for my trash talk.

just keep bragging about steven gerrard and frank lampard, like they are still in their mid 20s. then grossly overrate every single english player who is younger than 25 and refer to them as the english messi. also, under no circumstances should you admit that wayne rooney was ever bald. his hair is real and glorious. when all else fails you can make fun of all the other countries for being notorious divers.

Post #1198 » by **fatlever** » Sun Jun 8, 2014 5:32 pm

jdm3 wrote:I tried to join but the link was broken.

strange. the link works for me.

you can also get there via fifa.com > games > mcdonald's fantasy challenge

BeesWax · Post #1199 » by **BeesWax** » Sun Jun 8, 2014 5:56 pm

fatlever wrote:
jdm3 wrote:I tried to join but the link was broken.

strange. the link works for me.

you can also get there via fifa.com > games > mcdonald's fantasy challenge

I got in. The link to it wasn't working earlier but it let me in now. How do we set up a league?

Det the Threat · Post #1200 » by **Det the Threat** » Sun Jun 8, 2014 6:45 pm

jdm3 wrote:
fatlever wrote:
jdm3 wrote:I tried to join but the link was broken.

strange. the link works for me.

you can also get there via fifa.com > games > mcdonald's fantasy challenge

I got in. The link to it wasn't working earlier but it let me in now. How do we set up a league?

Have any of you been able to start selecting your squad?

When I try it still says you'll be able to do so in over an hour, just like four hours ago. :eek1: