I don't want to sound dramatic, but after Kurt you're the last member here you'd want to pull the Gatuuso card on.

Ronaldinho couldn't lead a starving man to water.

Kaka has always and will always be the better player, unfortunately we took the wrong decision in getting rid of him.

Well that's what you think ... i think you will regret what you're sayin .. maybe not ... we'll see ... you keep hatin on ronaldinho i don't know why ... on his prime he was better then kaka on his prime... but now things change ... and ronaldinho changed from exellent to very bad ... last season he changed from very bad to bad ... and now he's changing ... i hope if it's not from bad to exellent ... it's from bad to very good ... because if he even is half what he was at barca he can lead milan to success ... and btw kaka didn't single-handly took milan to success ... he had pirlo ; inzaghi ; shevchenko ; cafu ; gattuso.... and all these great milan players .... ronaldinho took barca to winning trophies after 6 years without winning anything ... !!! now he is with milan ... and he can do the same he did with barca but instead of 6 years it's 2 or 3 years (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/cool.gif)

...Ok.

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It makes me happy that Maradona is sad.

I will never understand how a player as poor as Ramirez has a place in the Brazil NT but other than that Dunga has done an amazing job. I'm not just saying this only because they beat Argentina as with the center-backs the latter have they were lucky to get away with 3 goals but Brazil look like a very solid team and they were able to cope with Argentina's great offensive players rather easily. And no this is not easy with the player he has that's just a silly point, everyone was saying the same thing about Scolari at Portugal and now that he's gone they cannot even qualify...

On another note, it's frustrating how many nasty tackles defenders are allowed to make, Kaka and Messi were both treated highly unfairly.


I agree he's just **** we don't need to point it. Oops!

EDIT: Buffon's first save in this video is great!

*cough* a bitter *cough* englishmen from WC Final (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

England have never lost a World Cup Final.

We also haven't lost to Argentina in over a decade. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

Birminghams 2018 World Cup Bid

Cities have to bid to be part of the World Cup!? London, Birmingham and Manchester should be just given a place given their size and that they all represent the north, middle and south of the country.

I like how Villa Park is the stadium Birmingham will use, while West Brom and Birminghams stadiums will be used for training purposes only. Great. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

This post has been edited by kurtsimonw: Sep 8 2009, 08:22 AM

So the various news outlets in Italy (gazzetta, mediaset, etc) seem to think Pirlo may be benched for Italy-Bulgaria. The current projected lineup for the game is (according to mediaset):

Buffon
Zambrotta Cannavaro Chiellini Grosso
De Rossi Marchisio Camoranesi
Pepe Gilardino Iaquinta

Thats the worst line up that Lippi can possibly put out. Marchisio??? I'd take a 1 legged Pirlo over him any day. Iaquinta, Gila and Pepe??? I'm sure that will strike fear in Bulgarian hearts, Iaquinta tripping over his lanky legs, Gila getting into offside positions for 3/4 of the game, while Pepe runs rings around himself (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif) This is why I can't take watching the Azzurri any longer, atleast until either Lippi cleans up his act or he's replaced. There are so many great Italian players out there that its inexcusable that he's leaving them behind while the team is playing like sh!t. Pepe shouldn't even be let near the NT let alone starting FFS same goes for Iaquinta and Marchisio, not when there are far better players available to Lippi but he won't call up because they're not in his buddy list or play for Juve!!

I actually don't mind Marchisio in the lineup.

Pepe, I agree with. A big fins down for him. If it were D'Agostino....

I do mind Marcihsio when there are far better players that can be called up or in the line-up, D'Agostino, Palombo, Aquilani (when he's fit, as he wasn't being called up when he was not injured either) all are better options. And there's Pirlo still we all saw what happened when Lippi decided to drop him... I mean if Marchisio was the last option then fine, but its unacceptable to see him starting when there are all these better players available.

And Pepe is another thing, he's obviously a Lippi personal favourite as there is no way that he would make it into the NT on pure merit, he's utter cr@p and when you concider that Cassano is back in Italy it gets me even more p!ssed

I'm not a fan of the Italian national team, but I would still prefer to see a few players over Pepe, I really fail to see why he's even in the squad, but starting a competitive game!?