FOOTBALL THREAD (the real football not that american crap)

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[Molly]

I am puzzled how someone can't question a sport where you carry the ball with your hands and then you call it "Football" - totally stupid...
Besides, American Football is just Rugby for weaklings...

[Penitent]

I am puzzled how someone can't question a sport where you carry the ball with your hands and then you call it "Football" - totally stupid...
Besides, American Football is just Rugby for weaklings...

In olden times, rugby was also called football, even though it uses mainly hands.  Since American football was based on rugby, it was also called football.

 Association Football (Futbol) was called, as slang, "Soc" as opposed to "Ruggers" (rugby football).  This is how Americans came to call Association Football "Soccer." 

[Prpavi]

In olden times, rugby was also called football, even though it uses mainly hands.  Since American football was based on rugby, it was also called football.

 Association Football (Futbol) was called, as slang, "Soc" as opposed to "Ruggers" (rugby football).  This is how Americans came to call Association Football "Soccer."

yeye cool story brah, now move along we don't really care...

[Tor!]

Talking about England team and not mentioning Wilshere, pst pst 

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I am a gunner 

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[NuberT]

classic
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[Prpavi]

Talking about England team and not mentioning Wilshere, pst pst 

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I am a gunner 

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So will you finally buy a decent striker like Falcao or Cavani? or will you still rely on Giroud or maybe even Bendtner haha

p.s.

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Every Gunner is a runner  im Chelsea btw

[Franke]

@ Moncho: Well, but the Sanish style of play brought them the World Cup and the last two European Championships. I don't think they are overrated. It's such a pain in the ass to play against them. They should however try to further develop as the lack of goal attempts could turn out nasty vs teams who make good use of their chances.

@ benkei: Though I (of course) support Nürnberg, I feel quite sad about the current situation in Bremen. I've always liked their team for what they achieved with the few money they invested. I still hope they won't sack Schaaf as a head coach.

EDIT: Oh yes, and this

[Elmuri]

So 13.4. super sexy and interesting finnish league, Veikkausliiga,will start and the struggle for the Finnish championship may begin. First time for it was played in 1908, so football has quite long traditions in Finland. Finland was even accepted to FIFA the same year, before England

Here are short introductions of the teams who will play this season, they arent in any particular order.


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HJK (Helsinki): Four championships in a row, and stable economy. Got some nice old national team players for this season, Mikael Forssell and Teemu Tainio. Nice mix of

experienced players and younger talents, like Joel Pohjanpalo and Rasmus Schüller. Defence line could be better. The goal is again championship and maybe group-stage in Europe

League if there's some luck in the qualification. Biggest attendances last year (average 3757).

Stadium: Sonera stadium (capaticity 10 770)

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Honka (Espoo): Was a top club before, but lack of money and spectators have made the team weaker. They have sold their most important players to HJK to get at least some money

and had to let some go because of unpaid salaries. Now the average age of the team is just over 20. One big surprise signing, Abdoulaye Méïté who has nearly 50 caps for Ivory

coast, but one defender doesn't make any significant difference. Plays in Europe league qualifications.

"Stadium": Tapiolan urheilupuisto (4 500) (not really a stadium, just some temporary stands around the pitch)

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RoPS (Rovaniemi): Traditional club from Lappland, usually switching between the 1st and the 2nd league, last year they won the 2nd league, and maybe have difficulty not to be

last now. New signing Antti Okkonen will help in theis struggle.

Stadium: Rovaniemen keskuskenttä (2 400)

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Inter (Turku): Have been a top team for a few years now, but this pre-season has been very difficult, has lost to quite weak opponents and barely won estonian Nomme Kalju.

Lost their key player, Mika Ojala for Swedish Häcken. They have some quality players in the opening eleven, but the bench is really weak. Interesting to see if they will do

better than in the pre-season. Last seasons best scorer, Irakli Sirbiladze playes there. Plays in Europe league qualifications.

Stadium: Veritas stadium (8 072)

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TPS (Turku): Strong, balanced and traditional team, maybe the best goalkeepers in the league, Henrik Moisander and Jukka Lehtovaara. Got back Wayne Brown from England who did

well there few years ago. I don't really appreciate their coach and neither do many of their supporters afaik. Probably will be 2nd or 3rd this season. The second highest

attendance last year, 3043. Plays in Europe league qualifications.

Stadium: Veritas stadium (8 072)

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VPS (Vaasa): Traditionally seen as the most boring team in the league, a bit boring players, no scandals, alway in the mid-table etc. National team goalkeeper Henri Sillanpää

returned for this season. Seems to be mid-table material again.

Stadium: Hietalahden jalkapallostadion (4 250)

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MyPa (Myllykoski/Kouvola): Team from a small town, supported by the local paper factory. Does quite well for a team from such a small place, was 7th last year. Lots of young

players from the big citys, who couldn't make it in their "own" teams first squad yet. Forward Pekka Sihvola scored 14 goals last season.

Stadium: Saviniemi (4 167)

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Jaro (Pietarsaari): Also from a small town from the Swedish-speaking area. Player material is quite weak, high odds that they will have to struggle to play in the first league

next year. Big midfielder talent Simon Skrabb.

Stadium: Pietarsaaren keskuskenttä (3 000)

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IFK Mariehamn (Maarianhamina): From Åland, island between Finland and Sweden. An interesting team with a national team player Petteri Forsell, who is on loan from Bursaspor.

Lots of foreign players, especially from Sweden. Could have use for better forward, last years best scorer ALeksei Kangaskolkka left for Swedish 2nd division. Hard to know

what to expect of them, because I don't know these new foreigners, pre-season was dissappointment. Plays in Europe league qualifications.

Stadium: Wiklöf Holding Arena (1 637)

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Lahti (Lahti): Average team with average players, maybe the best is Jonki Kauko who surprisingly joined from Inter, even if he was rumoured to move abroad to 2nd Bundesliga.

Fairly new club, forged from old traditional clubs. Stadium is horrible and it is meant for skiing competitions, luckuily they are allowed to play few games in football

stadium that is not suitable for todays needs.

Stadium: Lahden hiihtostadium (7 465)

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KuPS (Kuopio): Their new signings have made expections to them very high, they got two ex-HJK players, Rami Hakanpää and Dawda Bah, also Jussi Kujala who played in Holland for

some time. Also few young more or less promising talents.

Stadium: SS-Arena (4 000) (no chocolate chip cookie)

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JJK (Jyväskylä): Last year was a dissappointment, key player Jani Virtanen was in bad shape and really fat, maybe he has done some excersice this year. Otherwise mostle

average skilled players, young forward Eero Markkanen is expected to score a lot, last year 7 goals in 14 matches.

Stadium: Harjun stadion (3 000)


Table 2012:

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1    HJK    33    19    7    7    63    33    +30    64
2    FC Inter    33    17    7    9    57    42    +15    58
3    TPS    33    16    6    11    55    33    +22    54
4    IFK Mariehamn    33    13    12    8    50    43    +7    51
5    FC Lahti    33    16    2    15    45    49    −4    50
6    MYPA    33    13    10    10    39    33    +6    49
7    FC Honka    33    12    7    14    37    38    −1    43
8    VPS    33    12    7    14    36    38    −2    43
9    JJK    33    12    4    17    54    65    −11    40
10    KuPS    33    10    6    17    39    53    −14    36
11    FF Jaro    33    8    9    16    28    51    −23    33
12    Haka    33    9    5    19    32    57    −25    32

Some pictures:

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Derby in Turku gets the best attendances
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KuPS supporters from the Finnish cup -final
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Big talent Joel Pohjanpalo scored a hattrick in 3 minutes
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Honka's stadium yesterday 
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[Tor!]

So will you finally buy a decent striker like Falcao or Cavani?

Any of those would be awesome, but I doubt the board will let it happen 

[Folms]

Any of those would be awesome, but I doubt the board Wenger will let it happen 

Corrected.

[Umbra]

I always wondered why islandic and some finnish clubs were named with 2-4 letters in football manager. Then i clicked on them and saw their full names. Needless to say, i broke my tounge. 

P.S. My favourite team

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From the premiership

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My two most hated teams

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I hate the team but i love the magnificent Kun! Tevez is an ok dude too
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[Folms]

My two most hated teams

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I hate the team but i love the magnificent Kun! Tevez is an ok dude too
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This. 

[Tor!]

Corrected.

Kroenke.

My two most hated teams

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I hate the team but i love the magnificent Kun! Tevez is an ok dude too
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+1

[Tennenoth]

I might as well show my face for two seconds and mention who I support, if only because I live here and my past generations supported them.

Portsmouth FC aka Pompey aka broke.

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I'll just leave now... I'll move back to 2004/2005...

Hopefully we'll soon be fan owned though which might work out well.