Anyone saw the big Glasgow derby? Rangers trashed Celtic 4:2

Whoa.. I like Celtic, but i've never seen them play. I used them for a season in Fifa.

Yep, you're typical Old Firm derby, 6 goals, tonnes of yellow cards and two sendings off, great stuff!

A goal after 3 seconds in Ukraine second division this week: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbxEdQoGeBg

^^

Can't see youtube at work..but what did they do...backpass all the way to the goalkeeper who dodged the ball?

No Rapidshare. No Youtube. You work in an iron mine, captain? I'd half expect 'The Black Pearl' to be fitted with high speed internet with no blocking of websites.

Not my fault...all the crewmembers kept looking for porno...

No wonder 'The Black Pearl' is the most sought after ship in the world. Hey captain, can I drop a resume or CV type of thingy? Sounds like a cool place to work. People looking for porno at Youtube. Sheesh!

Let's get back on topic..

Anyone noticed Marseille's games lately? I watched them 3 times up till now and must say I'm impressed. Their defense is manybe the biggest issue as they look occasionaly very week. But other then that - Eric Gerets (their head coach) is using something similar Van Basten did this year with Holland. 30-20 minutes from time, when they allready lead with 1 goal, he takes out a midfielder and sends in a striker. Usually after that Zenden enters. And his system does work, even better then MvB's. I'm curious to see if they can compete with Lyon and Bordeaux. Up till now they are the most efficient Ligue 1 team,..

http://www.goal.com/en/Articolo.aspx?ContenutoId=850022

They are Filipo, Gerets is a good coach in my opinion he brought some seriousness to the club They have a stable and talented group, as you said I'm curious to see if they'll keep up like this (usually there's always some thing to blow every thing off in Marseille). Gerets biggest deal was to get rid of Cissé!

I can't believe it Rivaldo is in Iran as a Quruvchi Tashkent player in Asia Champions League.

It's Budyonkor Tashkent now...

I never liked him. I'm happy to see him disgrace himself (by playing solely for the money)!

Grenoble - Bourdeaux 52 min... Bordeaux down to 9 players still 0-0. Don't think Gourcuff will get much space now =/

Benfica 2-0 Sporting Lisbon

Rui Costa team won yesterday the first derby of the season. After the draw with Porto 3 weeks ago in Luz (1-1), now they've played very well and deserved the victory. Reyes was the MOTM (scored a nice goal, the 1st one). The 2nd goal was 3min after the 1st from Sidnei's header.

Highlights: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjCYC4-jf0Q

Sidnei is said to be one of the best young stars from South America. He's 19 and Benfica paid 6M/euros for half of his rights. From what I've saw he's very very good.

Sporting still leads the league with 1 more point over Porto and Benfica but next week it's Sporting-Porto, another big clash.

Congrats Rui! They have quite a decent looking side now, do Benfica.

It's the Sun. They're about as reliable as the Sun rising in the West. Stereotyping Russians I guess...

It's all over the net, The Sun was just where I read it, so that's the one I posted. It's hardly like the Sun to stick up for a Scottish team either.

If anyone's interested, Corinthians were promoted back to the Campeonato Brasileiro top division.

Oh so they were not in the top division...

The Norwegian cup final will be played today, Stabæk vs Vålerenga.
Stabæk have swept all before them in the domestic league and are brimming with confidence, Vålerenga have had another miserable season and ended up 10th in the league.
Cue verbal war between the Vålerenga fans and Ingebrigt Steen Jensen (Norway's Silvio Berlusconi)...

Noone seems to be interested but PSG and Lyon are playing a very good match. Current standing - PSG leading by one goal, playing very good, compact football.

So, PSG - Lyon 1:0 FT, Giuly goal.

Thanks, Fill. I strongly dislike French but I can't but help think that their league is half decent.

Once again, Lyon drop points. This time the managed a tie. Interesting...I hope OM can manage to reduce the difference and put extra pressure on them.


In other leagues: Ajax played 1-1 with arch rival Utrecht. Urbi Emanuelson and Oleguer played excellent. We should maybe consider Emanuelson.

A cookie to Rui Costa.

Benfica punished Maritimo 6-0 today and have gone first in the Portuguese liga for the first time in ages. Goals were by Reyes, Luisao, Nuno Gomes (2) and David Suazo (2).

Your Croatian hitman Ivan Klasnic scored then two vital goals against Lyon. Really miss him in the Bundesliga.

Lyon is in a sort of crisis I belive. I hope OM can get use of that. I watched the OM-Nice game. Once more, Marseille impressed me. There defense is maybe a big problem and they really would need another routinee CB, but man they switch fast to attack. Gerets makes wonders there! Zenden, Valbuena, Ben Arfa, Ziani...oh they just combine marvelous.

Klasnic finally did it! I'm so happy for him. Rumors are that he could return to the Bundesliga soon. Seems like HSV and Gladbach are interested in a loan deal.

Greek league highlights...

Pablo Garcia (has played for Real Madrid in the past) quite blatantly punches Diogo (new Brazilian star of Olympiacos, Arsenal wanted him (not that much apparently), Chelsea are scouting him) in the stomach in Olympiacos Vs PAOK.PAOK I'd say is the equivalent of Lazio in Greek football.
Here (the song speaks about a stab )

The Uruguayan was deified on the team's return to Salonica... PAOK fans are just crazy... they are in a league of their own. Stupid hooligans they are but so "off" it's hilarious!
Here

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A player tackles a fan that has entered the field... and gets a straight red!
Here

Na,na,na... correct me if I'm wrong, but the guy has some Milan past, right? He's one of the former Milan uru-guys?

He does according to wikipedia and I feel there's a hole in my memory, I cannot remember him with the Milan shirt at all!

*trying to be funny* Maybe he ate it all the time? (No...it ain't working)

Naah, I don't blame you guys not remember him. I think he had the number 55 or 56, and played say 3-4 times in 2000. It was the chaotic Zaccheroni era. But he didn't last till Ancelotti, even Terim I think...

My favorite football story of the week. I found the bolded part particularly amusing, given the subject of the article.

Rangers 0-1 Celtic. Scott McDonald 10 minutes into the 2nd half. Great game so far.

Celtic just beat Dundee United 11-10 on penalties to go to the Cup final, making it a Glasgow derby cup final, interesting!

Some updates:

- Eredivisie 08/09

Very interesting - AZ Alkmaar lead the league with 9 points advantage, Van Basten's Ajax are behind on second.
Ajax lost to Heerenveen at home 0:1, scorer Danijel Pranjic. I don't usually brag but the guy is still young, plays mostly LM or LB and scored so far 13 goals in the league. He also scored against us in the UEFA cup.

- Le Championat 08/09

Marseille get the needed striker - they signed Wiltord and Brandao (Shakhtar)
This is the most interesting title race in the past 8 years. Lyon never dropped so many points, and the competition was not that hard for years - Bordeaux (yes, with the incredible Gourcuff), Marseille and PSG are all very near.

Ituano Vs Santos... Kléber hits the post 4 times in 13 minutes... damn!

Brazilian league is weird.

Vitesse - Ajax Amsterdam 4:1

4 matches, 1 point won.

Marco van Basten's Ajax days seem to come to an end..

Big derby to start soon...

OM face Gourcuff's Bordeaux. Big test for both Lyon followers. Will watch the game carefully and report especially about Gourcuff...

HT OM-Bordeaux 0:0

60' OM score from a curious Chamakh own goal. Gourcuff so far marked out by M'Bambi...

(enjoy talking with myself)

FT O. Marseille - Bordeaux G. 1:0

- Marseille overall better, if considered that both Niang and Ben Arfa are out
- Gourcuff not bad at the beginning; marked very well by M'Bami and Taiwo; his biggest problem is his speed - compared to a not so fast M'Bami; average match
- Mandanda with a very good performance

Bordeaux finally beaten.

So they are 4 points adrift from the top, then, Bordeaux. What was Chamakh doing back there, he's a forward!? I didn't have time to catch the full match, but saw brief moments of it.

Oh, and good to see you keeping an eye out for Gourcuff performances, Sim. I don't think his place is in the French league, though, he'll move to some bigger club when the time is right. Establish himself for a couple of years, and then go big.

As far as I'm concerned, Gourcuff will wether move back to Milan or stay in France, Bordeaux, or even Lyon or Marseille.

Don't know what Chamakh had in mind but he scored a brilliant header.

Sim...about Kuffkuff, any noticeable improvements? Like his workrate? Defensive work? Of course if he plays very advanced, his defending won't be much to talk about but...