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Football / Referees
« on: May 10, 2009, 11:10:57 AM »
Greetings forumites it's been a looooooooong time!

hear nuh.. after that whole scene dat went down on Stanford bridge dey mid week, right, isn't it time that UEFA have referees from Europe ref games all over the continent regardless of the league?...

I'll give an example:
an English ref handling Barcelona v Villareal....
or an Italian ref handling Liverpool v Middlesborough...
or a Spanish ref handling Hertha Berlin v Borussia Dortmund and so on and so on and so on, so as to REALLY make impartial the referees job...

just an idea...

thoughts?...

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Football / If ypu need to know about injured or recovering players...
« on: December 17, 2008, 04:41:43 AM »
check out the linky below...

this works for the EPL...

http://www.physioroom.com/news/english_premier_league/epl_injury_table.php

cheers fellas...

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2010 World Cup - South Africa / 2010 World Cup's transport legacy
« on: November 24, 2008, 07:31:46 AM »
linky-> http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/africa/7744927.stm

South Africa will invest US$15.96 billion in transport for an estimated 450,000 visitors during the 2010 World Cup, Transport Minister Jeff Radebe said on Sunday.

Radebe told a news conference the amount included funds for airport and roads upgrades and the creation of new rail and bus systems.

He also said the money would ensure a major overhaul of the country's transport system, leaving a legacy after the tournament.

"We are driven by a desire to make sure that South Africa becomes a destination of choice for tourists and business.

The World Cup in 2010 is a catalyst for the development of our system because we need to meet FIFA requirements," Radebe said.

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Football / Ah see these 2 boys in London recently...
« on: November 17, 2008, 03:42:41 PM »
http://www.viddler.com/explore/tt-abvg_video/videos/3/

Sorry there fellas.. ah get tie up watching the friendly...

Yeah, these 2 fellas was outside Trafalgar Square juggling and pulling off some amazing footwork...

just found it on the hard drive and decided to push it up for you all to see...

enjoy...

 

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Football / Whistling in the dark
« on: November 12, 2008, 11:45:31 AM »
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SPORT/football/11/10/lehmann.referees/index.html

LONDON, England (CNN) -- Referees get it in the neck from just about everybody in football -- but has an official ever driven a player to the brink of retirement?
Jens Lehmann has threatened to quit in protest at the standard of Germany's referees.

Jens Lehmann has threatened to quit in protest at the standard of Germany's referees.

Well, they have now. Ever-eccentric Stuttgart goalkeeper Jens Lehmann has threatened to quit football in protest at the standard of refereeing in Germany's Bundesliga.

Referee Babak Rafati gave two controversial goals -- one for either side -- in Stuttgart's 2-2 draw away to Eintracht Frankfurt at the weekend.

"We all have reason to be not too happy with the performance of the referee," the former Arsenal shot-stopper seethed afterwards.

"I kept asking myself what on earth he was blowing for. What that man did was unbelievable." Read more about football at Football Fanzone.

Lehmann, 39, was given his third booking of the season for dissent later in the match, leaving him incredulous.

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"There was a situation in which a Frankfurt player feigned an injury so we could not launch a counter-attack," he continued.

"The referee said he had to stop play for the injury and then the man stands up and doesn't even leave the field to be treated. I told the referee, 'Look! There he goes!' and he shows me a yellow card -- incredible.

"That was so bad that I may as well not bother playing in future. I did not even say anything nasty to the referee. I am sorry, but things cannot go on like this."

Lehmann's stance might be unusual but there are plenty of instances where players might have hung up their boots over poor refereeing decisions.

The entire England team of 1986 had a strong case for quitting after Tunisian referee Ali Bennaceur awarded Maradona's 'hand of God' goal in the World Cup quarter-final.

Or how about Fernando Morientes' header for Spain against South Korea in the 2002 World Cup quarter-final that was ruled out when the referee's assistant somehow thought the ball had run out of play before Joaquin crossed from the byline?

Share your thoughts about the standard of refereeing and let us know about the men in the middle in your country. Post your comments in the Sound Off box below and we'll publish the best.

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Football / Name yuh T&T "B" Squad...
« on: November 03, 2008, 04:50:36 PM »
using the perfectly good players that we have, (yes Sancho could be included here, he on de rebound no?...)

pick yuh 'B' team...

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Football / Where is Hector Sam?
« on: November 02, 2008, 09:22:20 AM »
Hector Sam?...

anybody?...

he still playin'?

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Football / World’s worst soccer team happy to win first point
« on: October 30, 2008, 07:31:49 PM »

World’s worst soccer team happy to win first point

By Ek Madra


PHNOM PENH (Reuters)—After six fruitless years playing international soccer, the world’s worst team are beginning to see the romance of the beautiful game.

When the rag-tag national side of East Timor drew 2-2 with fellow strugglers Cambodia last week, they clinched the first point they had ever won to stem a seemingly endless run of defeats.

FIFA’s lowest-ranked nation finally had something to celebrate.

“It was the first game we didn’t lose—we’re all very proud,” said long-serving, long-suffering coach Pedro Almeida, a motorcycle mechanic in the country’s sleepy capital Dili.

“We are not happy with our world ranking and we are hoping our players will continue to improve,” he told Reuters.

Almeida says it is no surprise that his team of inexperienced misfits have never won a match.

Although aid and investment have trickled into the cash-strapped Southeast Asian nation since it gained full independence in 2002, hardly any has been spent on sport.

The country’s handful of balding soccer pitches are barely usable and its federation chiefs say it is almost impossible to find opponents for friendly matches.

Grassless pitches

The soldiers, grocers and port workers who make up the national side receive no money or expenses and many struggle to fulfill their international soccer commitments.

“We have no resources to keep this team together and we barely have grass to play on,” added the 53-year-old Almeida, who has introduced 12 new players in the last month alone.

“The squad changes constantly because the players have families and cannot afford time off work. When they are 21 or 22, they have to quit.”

There are signs of better things to come, however.

East Timor were only 10 minutes away from their first win when they conceded a late goal against the Cambodians, while a clumsy own goal denied them a shock draw on their World Cup qualifying debut against Hong Kong a year ago.

World governing body FIFA has pledged to improve some of East Timor’s rugged playing surfaces by the end of next year and Almeida says the team’s confidence is growing fast.

Defender Alfredo Esteves, who plays for unfashionable Australian outfit Wollongong FC, is East Timor’s only professional player but he believes others will soon follow in his footsteps.

“Everyone has seen that East Timor’s performance has been improving,” said the Portuguese-born Esteves, who reached the peak of his career playing in the United States with the Minnesota Thunder and the New Hampshire Phantoms.

Better future

“We have a lot of young players and we now feel the future will be better for us.

“I believe that we will grow and we will show to other national teams that even East Timor can play football too,” added Esteves, who at 32 is the team’s most experienced campaigner.

The inspirational captain, however, does not have high hopes for the team, who in 2006 reached their highest ranking—198th of the 200 competing countries.

“My ambition is just to have more games for East Timor to play,” he said.

With a little help, coach Almeida believes his side can pull away from teams such as the Cook Islands, American Samoa and Montserrat, their long-time friends at the foot of the rankings table.

He does not ask for much. For now, a pitch with grass will do.

“We cannot see our first win coming in the next few years but we will never quit,” he said.

“But soon we will get our first good pitch and we hope to have another. That will help our players to develop and represent their country at a much better level.”

(Writing by Martin Petty; Editing by Clare Fallon)

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Football / This is a really good example...
« on: October 28, 2008, 04:15:54 PM »
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/africa/7693750.stm


Tanzania football's domestic revival

By Emmanuel Muga
BBC Sport, Dar es Salaam

Officials from the Tanzanian Football Federation (TFF) have praised the growing popularity of domestic football in the wake of Sunday's Dar es Salaam derby, which attracted a record crowd of up to 70,000 spectators.

The match between Simba and Young Africans kicked off at the same time as the English Premier League glamour game between Chelsea and Liverpool - who both have a massive following in Tanzania - but the fans opted to watch the live game.

Young Africans won the game 1-0 and the players were awarded the club's entire share of the gate collections.

"This shows that Tanzanians love their clubs more than foreign teams," TFF Secretary General Frederick Mwakalebela told BBC Sport.

   I know some avid fans of Liverpool who came to the stadium instead of following their team on TV
TFF Secretary General Frederick Mwakalebela
"This is something we should be proud of.

"Nowhere else in Africa, except in Egypt, will you find fans ignoring a big match on TV to watch a local derby.

"We have a good stadium, TFF has restored discipline in the league and improved its organisation, and that's why people now trust local football," he said.

Mwakalebela said that unlike in the past when they feared organising a big game to coincide with a key English Premier League clash, they can now stage a match without the risk of losing revenues.

"I know some avid fans of Liverpool who came to the stadium instead of following their team on TV," he said.

Tickets sold out and riot police had to fire teargas canisters to disperse rioting fans, who were trying to force their way into the overcrowded 60,000-capacity new stadium.

Matches involving Simba and Young Africans, also known as Yanga, as well as the national team are major crowd-pullers.

So Sunday's match was not a one-off event. The popularity of the game is rising, mainly due to the influx of foreign players and the upgrading of stadiums.

The title-deciding second round of the league will kick off in late December and attendances are expected to stay high, particularly for games involving Yanga, Simba, Kagera Sugar, Azam, Mtibwa and Police.

Mwakalebela, who estimated Sunday's attendance to be between 60,000 to 70,000 fans, said sponsors were also cashing in on the rising popularity and the league was generating money, which attracts foreign players.

Kenyan striker Bernard Mwalala, who scored the only goal for Yanga on Sunday, is one of many foreign players in the Tanzanian league.

Others include his compatriots George Owino and leading scorer in the league Boniface Ambani, as well as Wisdom Ndlovu from Malawi and goalkeeper Obrein Curkovic from Serbia, who all play for Young Africans.

Nigerian duo Eme Ezechukwu and Orji Obina play for Simba and last year's top scorer Mike Katende from Uganda plays for Kagera Sugar.

"In Kenya local football is dead, teams play in front of empty stands, but here it is different, it is exciting, that's why we choose to come here if you can't go to Europe," Mwalala told BBC Sport.

The league has two major sponsors, while the national team is sponsored by four companies, who invest millions of dollars every year.

Young Africans currently top the table on 27 points, followed by Kagera Sugar who have 19 points.

Story from BBC SPORT:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/sport2/hi/football/africa/7693750.stm

Published: 2008/10/27 16:24:16 GMT

© BBC MMVIII


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Football / How often yuh does play a week?...
« on: October 28, 2008, 02:32:33 PM »
for me I does try for 3 times a week (with the youthman or the fellas on de block) and on a weekend, some work with the youthman in goals, or to the bar to watch a game...

still though, on any occasion meh boots and de ball in the trunk (not inflated... we have a slick twin action bicycle pump for dat though)

I know it seems regular enough, though, not as organized as it seems, but with work and now this economic slowdown... it means working harder to make ends meet...

I was just wondering, even if you are working for yourself, or juggling a boss on yuh ass like a diaper, just how often do you go for a game/sweat/session...?

ladies, if yuh playing the game don't feel like you can't answer...

it is an open question to everybody...

thanks...

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Jokes / Why did Cinderella's football team lose all the time?...
« on: October 23, 2008, 02:48:28 PM »
wait for it...
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Her coach... was a pumpkin...

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Football / Red Bulls keeper Cepero makes memorable MLS debut
« on: October 20, 2008, 05:07:46 AM »
LINKY here -> http://sports.yahoo.com/sow/news;_ylt=AgCBd_1kQw3F_Kl.cJhyN5Amw7YF?slug=afp-fblusamlsredbullscepero&prov=afp&type=lgns

Red Bulls keeper Cepero makes memorable MLS debut

EAST RUTHERFORD, New Jersey, (AFP) - New York Red Bulls goalkeeper Danny Cepero made Major League Soccer history in his debut Saturday, scoring a goal from inside his own half in a 3-1 victory over Columbus Crew.

Cepero was only given his first MLS start after top goalkeeper Jon Conway was slapped with a 10-game suspension for a positive dope test.

Conway and defender Jeff Parke tested positive for muscle-builder androstatriendione and boldenone metabolites, with both players claiming they had unwittingly taken the banned substances in an over-the-counter supplement.

Given his chance, Cepero certainly made the most of it.

New York's Juan Pablo Angel opened the scoring at the start of the second half, then canceled out Steven Lenhart's equalizer.

Cepero became the first goalkeeper in the history of the US league to score in open play.

The 23-year-old knocked a hopeful free-kick upfield in the 83rd minute. It took a big bounce in the Crew area - right over the head of Crew keeper Andy Gruenebaum and into the net.

The victory kept the Red Bulls in charge of their playoff destiny with 39 points with one game to go in the regular season.

Needing two wins from their final two regular-season games to secure a playoff berth, the Red Bulls were rocked this week by the drugs suspensions.

The Red Bulls must win in Chicago on Thursday to insure their passage into the postseason.

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Football / Wouldn't it be nice...
« on: October 18, 2008, 01:11:26 PM »
If both we and JA make it automatically out of the Hex... and say probably Mexico... then we could see a potential Brazil USA playoff...

ah cyah handle dem play off dramas again fellas...

just a thought...

now before anybody say anything... just imagine for a minute what the right results will bring... I mean, should we get to that stage and all things (ragged as they are) work for us and we TRULY live up to our potential...

we can do this people...

yes, we can...

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Cricket Anyone / Hmmm...
« on: October 07, 2008, 03:41:58 PM »
The $20 million Twenty20 match between England and the 'Stanford Superstars' is in doubt after the West Indies Cricket Board lost a High Court battle with their sponsors Digicel.

The decision by the court to order the WICB to withdraw its sanction for the match means that it could be called off, or if it goes ahead, will feature a severely weakened West Indies line-up.

The Windies board had argued that, because the 'Stanford Superstars' was not an official West Indies team, the sponsors' rights were not affected, and therefore made all its contracted players available for selection.

more

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,12123_4257878,00.htm


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Football / Medico... medico....
« on: October 06, 2008, 06:50:02 PM »
does anyone know the condition of these 2 players involved in this clash of heads?...

freakish...

ttp://schoolsoccernet.com/Multimedia/VideoManagement/VideoPlayer/TabId/113/VideoId/290/Clash-Of-Heads.aspx

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Football / Greetings T&T Football Massive...
« on: October 06, 2008, 06:20:10 PM »
Tallman, Flex, palos...

greetings and thanks for having me on here... as a Trini in exile, managing a reggae band in Ireland I feel a unique sense of Trinidadianness out here in this "wilderness"...

so after half a decade in the shadows of this cold European country, where I have gone to see Avery John play for Bohemian F.C., Shelbourne F.C., and Longford Town in the Irish Eircom League and Peter Crouch and Fernando Torres play for Liverpool FC... I felt the need  to find a place to share... a place to discuss, not only football matters but everything in this life...

I felt the need to look at my QRC past and reach out to my bredrin and dem who does ever wonder why they doh see meh...

but is a cool scene, everything easy... like Sunday mornin'...

This is a really nice setup you guys have here...

I'm happy to be here...

kaisocagoals

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