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Re: The SNH Football thread
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2014 3:37 pm
by ehbes
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/17/fashi ... share&_r=1
My eyes are bleeding from what ive just read
Europhilic allure and fashionable otherness have made soccer the new baseball — the go-to sport of the thinking class
“Any time I’m at a book party or reading, and soccer comes up in conversation, I find myself surrounded by young men in shabby-genteel, loosely fitting tweed jackets gushing over the Gunners,”
"American fans can follow games and instantaneously track information from global leagues both big and small, feeling as close to their favorite teams as if they lived within a thrown beer of their stadium.”
Re: The SNH Football thread
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2014 4:03 pm
by DJoe
Re: The SNH Football thread
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2014 4:03 pm
by DJoe
'hey man, what team do you root for?'
so gay
Re: The SNH Football thread
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2014 4:13 pm
by ehbes
DJoe wrote:'hey man, what team do you root for?'
so gay
Ummmm that's how we say it..
Re: The SNH Football thread
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2014 4:17 pm
by DJoe
yeah but you dont root for them. it implies no passion just a sort of 'if i had to pick one'
big difference between rooting for and supporting if you know what i mean
Re: The SNH Football thread
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2014 4:28 pm
by ehbes
I know what you mean but they are pretty interchangeable
Re: The SNH Football thread
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2014 4:54 pm
by murky21
Big up all the American prem fans tho, I've been heavily into NBA all my life and can be a mission following shit in a different country, lots of late nights and searching for coverage etc, can take a bit of dedication
Re: The SNH Football thread
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2014 5:03 pm
by murky21
Guess EPL is pretty big in the states now tho, quite easy
Re: The SNH Football thread
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2014 5:08 pm
by ehbes
murky21 wrote:Guess EPL is pretty big in the states now tho, quite easy
No it isn't. Only this yeah has nbc sports and espn start covering it and even then they are the first to get bump to make room for other things. Speaking with people is say 1-2 in 10 can name a player other than Rooney in the BPL, with many thinking Ronaldo is still on Utd
Re: The SNH Football thread
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2014 7:55 pm
by garethom
Bit easier for american football fans, the games are just on early, like a 3pm kick off is what, 10am on the eastern seaboard? 12 o clock is 7 am. I'd get up early to watch a game.
Some of the NFL games kill me. Devoed when I look at the Colts schedule and there's thursday/sunday night games, cos it means I'm going to work on an hour and a half's sleep.
Re: The SNH Football thread
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2014 7:58 pm
by ehbes
Lol yeah that sucks... Fuck I hate the 7 am kick offs lol
Re: The SNH Football thread
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2014 8:00 pm
by garethom
Guessing it's the same with you and Liverpool, ehbes, but like, I want the Colts to be good, but not so good that more than half their games are prime time haha. Couple of my mates are Pats fans #bandwagon and the season before last, seemed everyone of their games was a later sunday game.
Re: The SNH Football thread
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2014 8:05 pm
by DJoe
so FA cup final is at 5pm last train out to hull is like 9 something. bit of a par on hull fans (who may be celebrating in the stadium etc.) who are likely to miss last train home
final should be at 3pm
another example of television rights coming before fans.
Re: The SNH Football thread
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2014 8:10 pm
by ehbes
garethom wrote:Guessing it's the same with you and Liverpool, ehbes, but like, I want the Colts to be good, but not so good that more than half their games are prime time haha. Couple of my mates are Pats fans #bandwagon and the season before last, seemed everyone of their games was a later sunday game.
all out game seem to be at 4 its crazy haha. we almost never get the sunday night game
Re: The SNH Football thread
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2014 8:11 pm
by m8son666
Why is the premiership called the EPL now? i dunno why but it pisses me off, why does everything get americanised ffs.
tbh it's probably the main reason football is getting more popular in america cos they can finally understand the game now it has a three letter acronym
Re: The SNH Football thread
Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2014 8:16 pm
by garethom
Don't so much mind a 4pm (9pm here) start, because I can hack going to bed at 1 before work, but the 8pm (I think) games are a killer. Thing with soccer as well, is that you know the whole deal is gonna be roughly 2 hours. American Football can proper go on, the Colts - Broncos game last year ended up being an almost 6am finish here.
Re: The SNH Football thread
Posted: Fri Apr 18, 2014 1:41 pm
by hubb
There's escapingly small difference between what Tan was trying and what Abramovich did.
yeah, it's not the english premier league its just premier league
like it's not known as ligue 1 l'Allemand in nothern africa either lol
Re: The SNH Football thread
Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2014 1:59 pm
by hubb
how do you guys rate Eriksen? what level etc
Re: The SNH Football thread
Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2014 2:51 pm
by rockonin
hubb wrote:how do you guys rate Eriksen? what level etc
Not seen him much, but from what i've seen he's pretty good at set pieces, especially free kicks.
Re: The SNH Football thread
Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2014 3:09 pm
by hubb
No doubt. He is almost a mini Pirlo in that regard. I think he scores two in three, where Pirlo scores two in five (but has had a lot more freekicks obviously).
It's just impossible forming an oppinion on him over here where he's viewed as the next comming of jesus with silly billy Bendtner being the closest to his level.
I personally think he's way too good for spurs.
