Your football team? (Soccer for you american people)

[Dim]

Okay, so what's your favourite football team? Tell me a bit about them, some well known players, league position etc.

My team: Aston Villa FC
League: English Premiership
Position: About 10th
Top players: Nolberto Solano (Peru), Juan Pablo Angel (When he starts scoring, Columbia), Martin Laursen (Danish), Thomas Sorensen (Danish)
Record signing: Juan Pablo Angel (9.5 million from River Plate)

[Exotic]

man utd., duy

[Orimattilanjymy]

Arsenal! :thumbsup:

[DoTheFandango]

Arsenal.

Thank god for Satelite, or I wouldn't see any good football/soccer.

[Galleleo]

Club: Ajax
Competition: Holland Casino Eredivisie
Position: 3rd.
Top Players: Maxwell (brazil), sneijder (dutch), rosales (argentinie), Trabelsi (somewhere from africa), escude (france) galasek (tsjech) v.d. vaart (dutch) and I guess Charisteas now that we bought him in the winter (greek)
Record Signing: I have no clue, I guess it was Zlatan for about 12 to 15 million, I don't really remember how must players cost.


LtR: Rosales, de jong, Mitea, Babel (guy in background), sneijder, v.d. vaart.

[eehh]

there's only one arsene wenger,
there's only one arsene wenger..
with a packet of sweets and a cheeky smile,
wenger is a fucking pedophile!

go back to woolwich, you fucking cunts!

[Tyson]

Team - FK Partizan
Country - Serbia and Montenegro
City - Belgrade
Fans - Grobari
League - First Meridian League
Biggest Rival - Fk Red Star
Currently playing in - Uefa Cup, First Meridian League
Next game on 16.02.2005 at Dnjepar (Ukraine)
Stadium Capacity - 32.710

Stadium:

[Desperate]

Real Madrid's the team, Zidane & Raul the players.

[Acidmouse]

I support my local team, you set of fockers should do the same.

[ConcreteSchlyrd]

I represent Holland for international play.


My favorite club team is Celtic. Neil Lennon is a fucking badass.

[Galleleo]

Nice Conc! nice..

Haha real madrid is crap, they have all these stars, but they don't form an actual team, its just all induvidual skill running through each other. If they would actually be a team and less egotistical, they would win more and be better.

[Rion.]

I'm not being, like, "funny", aggressive, sarcastic, whatever... And I realise for some reason a lot of football fans are very zealous about defending their religio- I mean sport, but really... What is so super-ultra-awesome about it?

Why is it better than hockey? Or basketball?

Or any other sport for that matter?

Edit: And why do you care about things like this:

Record signing: Juan Pablo Angel (9.5 million from River Plate)?

[Kim]

AC milan. Favorite player has got to be A. Shevchenko.

World football would be Brasil, favorite player being ronaldinho.

[NaiLed]

British sports minister Richard Caborn wants Spain coach Luis Aragones to be punished after his latest outburst.

Aragones already faces action from the Spanish Football Federation after a racist comment about Thierry Henry.

But the row has escalated after he called Henry's Arsenal team-mate Jose Antonio Reyes "a gypsy".

"These latest comments confirm my view that there is an urgent need for strong action by the Spanish FA," Caborn told the Sunday Mirror.

"When it comes to racism there should be absolute zero tolerance. Punishing him is a decision that should have been taken some time ago."

Caborn is also unhappy about Fifa's decision to fine the Spanish Federation £45,000 following the racist abuse suffered by several England players during November's friendly and U-21 matches.

"Fifa missed an opportunity to stamp its authority and take some sort of symbolic action," he added.

The row over Aragones intensified on Friday as he attempted to justify his comment about Henry earlier in the season.

He told Spanish newspaper El Mundo: "Reyes is ethnically a gypsy. I have got a lot of gypsy and black friends.

"All I did was to motivate the gypsy by telling him he was better than the black.

"I consider myself a citizen of the world, I don't care about their skin colour. I feel I have been the victim of a lynching.

"I didn't use the term 'black' with any racist meaning."

[ZeUs!!]

My team: Ipswich Town
League: Division One (The Championship is the new name for Division One. Previously the football hierarchy consisted of The Premiership being the top flight, and Division One, Two and Three beneath it. For the start of this year many critics were worried that the gulf in class and money emerging between the teams in The Premiership and Division One that was leading to most newly-promoted teams being relegated straight away was harming the game (they're pretty clever these guys). Therefore they had a meeting and decided that the best way to address the imbalance in prize money distributed and the unwillingness of many players to play in the first division was to... change the name of the division. Therefore they left it to a man who had made his money selling mayonnaise to come up with possibly the worst name concieved since Chris met Gwenyth to re-name Division One to The Championship and Divisions Two and Three to League One and League Two. The identity of the mystical mayonnaise manufacturer? Ipswich Town chairman David Sheepshanks. Nice one Sheepy.)
Position: TOP OF THE TABLE THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
Top players: Matty Holland, Marcus Stewart, Kieron Dyer, Hermann Hreidars-... what? Oh yeah we sold them all when we got relegated and had player on premiership wages in a club with a division one income. 3 years later and after much begging with the bank manager we've got a squad consisting of 57 year-old midfielders with two dodgy knees and 12 year-old kids plucked out of our academy to make up the numbers. Having said all that, we're doing quite well this year. Our biggest asset is our attack on the basis that we have no defence. Therefore our game plan is usually to score more goals than we let in, rather than to win the ball in defence and build the play up through the three rows. As division one is more physical than the prem you really need one guy to win the ball and one guy to finish the moves in attack. Our answer to this is Darren Bent and Shekfi Kuqi. Bent's an England under-21 international who's as fast as a slippery cheetah on speed. Ecstacy and LSD. Washed down with a tequilla slammer. And a line of coke. I went to the Stoke game and as soon as we get the ball in midfield we're looking to release Bent, whether that means slot a ball inbetween two opposition defenders or hoof it over their heads. Darren's also a great finisher and we rely on him for most of our goals, however he's as thin as a rake and can't tackle to save his life which is why we have Shefki Kuqi partnering him up front. He runs through people:



Record signing: Italian goalkeeper Matteo Sereni for £4.5m from Brescia the year we won promotion... and dropped him that christmas. Sold him the season after for about £3m.





When I hook my laptop up to the internet I'll take a picture of my shirt with my webcam.

I'm not being, like, "funny", aggressive, sarcastic, whatever... And I realise for some reason a lot of football fans are very zealous about defending their religio- I mean sport, but really... What is so super-ultra-awesome about it?

Why is it better than hockey? Or basketball?

Or any other sport for that matter?

Edit: And why do you care about things like this:

Record signing: Juan Pablo Angel (9.5 million from River Plate)?

People get apssionate about anything, especially their hobby. You're very passionate about wearing black and frowning in public - the only reason people insult stuff so vigourously is because they're intimidated by it as they see it as something the cool kids like, when really if you don't like football just ignore it and start reading the newspaper from the front page like everyone else.

People care about record signings as it gives an idea of the scale of the club