Tonight's theme is brought to you by '70s Detroit proto-punk band Death, which is what happened to Man City's season today in Hamburg.
Girl fight! [Dirty Tackle]
A pro-soccer column... in an American newspaper! [Chicago Tribune]
Forbes' 25 most valuable soccer franchises [The Offside]
Maurice Edu scored his first goal for Rangers [SI]
Adebayor is actually kind of boring [Off the Post]
Red Star - Partizan riot.... It's like Escape from New York meets Mad Max [The Offside]
An interview with FSC VP David Sternberg [Soccer Lens]
How to make the UEFA/Europa Cup interesting... A single game elimination tournament! [The Times Online]
And finally, Ford Field, Michigan Stadium and Michigan State Stadium considered for possible World Cup sites. [Free Press]
(Please save your tired Detroit sucks comments for someone who cares.)
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Thursday Backpasses: Death!
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An American writer at a major paper wrote a positive article about footie? I'm confused...
Anyways, I'm watching the first 45 of the Barca-Bayern match for the first time, and Barca is eviscerating them. (granted, we all know this today). But their goal in the 8th minute was 5 minutes overdue...
Ribery looks like the lone Munich player who gives a rat's ass...even Bayern's attacks look like one-off attempts, while Barcelona is constantly pressuring whatever defense Munich thinks they have...that front six looks unstoppable right now, even if the back four still have question-marks...
I liked Guardiola's comment after the game, that basically they wanted to kick the ball around to take pressure off their backline. Gameplan seemed to work well!
As for Bayern, you know it's bad when der Kaiser says that it's the worst effort he's ever seen. Klinsy to MLS and/or USMT?
I watched Liverpool live stomp ManU 4-1, and I didn't see anything like this. For all intents and purposes, this game was over 15 minutes in...knowing the final result actually undersells what Barca did. I'm at the 31st minute, and I'd expect a 6-0 final score if this was live. Barca must have yanked back the reins in the 2nd half, or Bayern grew some balls at half-time...
oh, and nice job filling in for umlaut. Can't be easy to take on that task...
Heh thanks! I have new-found appreciation for umlaut's task... although it's kind of fun actually.
If you saw this game live, I apologize, but this is insane. This is what I would imagine an EPL team playing a Blue Square Premier team would look like...oh, and Van Bommel just floored Messi, much like Mokoena did to Palacios last weekend (I'm not totally biased). Yet, Barca scored anyways...scarface has to wonder why he's still at Bayern?
Since I know nothing more happens, I'm done watching this, so I don't know "why" it stayed 4-0. That said, it should have been 6-0 when I stopped watching, and that's not presuming "good" luck...
Bayern was completely in over their heads in the first 45....
That was no girl fight! I want a refund.
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