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Re: France are U19 European Champions
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Sun, 10Aug01 22:28by Salamandastron
Coming back from a goal down to get past the in-form Spanish side in the dying minutes, no less. This must be a great reprieve for French football, especially after their circus-show at the World Cup.
Anyone else follow football?
Re: France are U19 European Champions
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Mon, 10Aug02 01:23by shark
The young blues ("bleuets" in French) had a brilliant route and have erased a little the failure of the old French team.
Cheer and thanks to them to give us hope.
Re: France are U19 European Champions
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Sun, 10Aug08 19:59by David
Salamandastron wrote :
Anyone else follow football?
Yes, me.
Watched quite a lot of the World Cup, was happy to see Spain win. I follow Liverpool in the English Premier League.
Re: France are U19 European Champions
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Tue, 10Aug10 20:03by cheese101
did the under 19's have to rely on underhanded trickery to win?
i'm irish,and henry is quite hated here,as is french football in general,because they refused a rematch or anything...
Re: France are U19 European Champions
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Wed, 10Aug11 03:23by Kingnumber
cheese101 wrote : did the under 19's have to rely on underhanded trickery to win?
i'm irish,and henry is quite hated here,as is french football in general,because they refused a rematch or anything...
This might cheer you up xD
Re: France are U19 European Champions
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Sat, 10Aug14 13:48by Salamandastron
@cheese101: Nah, it was a good clean game with solid performances from both sides. Spain had the edge in the first half, and France looked the more dangerous in the second. If not for commanding jobs from both goalkeepers, it would have been a much higher scoring game.
Youtube link to the highlights:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_8X8uq_ZZY&feature=related@David: Hey, good to hear - I support Arsenal. We shall reconvene and talk trash after tomorrow's clash.
Re: France are U19 European Champions
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Sun, 10Aug15 23:27by cheese101
man u all de way
A beautiful reina cock up at the end of a fairly even match...almunia is looking soooo bad,u need a new goalie(try get given from man city)
Re: France are U19 European Champions
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Mon, 10Aug16 01:06by Salamandastron
Poor Reina - he'd gone past the point of no return by the time he got his hands on the ball.
I'd love to have Given on the team, but Man City now have so much money that they can afford to bench him the whole season instead of selling him to any potential rival for the top 4. Unless they sell him with a "provided you don't play him against us!" clause in the contract, I don't see it happening. Will probably have to settle for Schwarzer, if that deal goes through. At this point, almost anything has to be better than Almunia and Fabianski.
Re: France are U19 European Champions
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Mon, 10Aug16 02:49by Kingnumber
I believe Arsenal will sign Given because he is the type of player that will not be content with being on the bench. And if Arsenal do sign Given or even Schwarzer they have a good chance on winning the league or atleast a trophy.
P.S.
good going Blackpool on winning there first Premier league match 4-0
Re: France are U19 European Champions
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Mon, 10Aug16 05:24by cheese101
man u v newcastle 2moro/2day...it will b a tough one but i think man u will just make it
and man city can afford to bench him financially,but can they afford poor morale? just the thought of being benched for the opening match made him complain to the papers,(because he should be the no.1 goalkeeper,he outclasses almost every other keeper in the world...) but that sort of talk would possibly make the team play worse,cause fights etc.
Re: France are U19 European Champions
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Mon, 10Aug16 08:43by Salamandastron
Morale and squad cohesion will be the biggest hurdle for Man City if they want to have any success this year, that's true. I hope Balotelli gets regular playing time, it'd be good to see someone new light up the ground.
As for Arsenal, if we have an injury-free RVP and Rosicky, a committed Cesc, a motivated Arshavin, a competent GK and a defensive line that remembers not to wander too far off in front, then yeah, we're easily contenders.
Re: France are U19 European Champions
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Tue, 10Aug17 01:34by cheese101
if injuries dont hit u then yes,you are contenders...same with man. u...if the backline stops fucking about getting injured(ferdinand still is ffs),and we dont have 2 full back lines out,we have a chance
also,3-0 tonight,good start,berbatov has scored 2 goals in 2 games,hell has frozen over
Re: France are U19 European Champions
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Tue, 10Aug17 02:50by Kingnumber
Good game for Man Utd i hope that Berbatov will finally live up to his price Man Utd had to pay. Also Reina may be going to Arsenal after seeing as Liverpool have bought Ross Turnbull from Middlesbrough so you never know.
Re: France are U19 European Champions
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Tue, 10Aug17 05:56by cheese101
ha,after reina's mistake,he wont be a big step up from almunia
Re: France are U19 European Champions
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Tue, 10Aug17 20:12by David
Salamandastron wrote : Poor Reina - he'd gone past the point of no return by the time he got his hands on the ball.
I'd love to have Given on the team, but Man City now have so much money that they can afford to bench him the whole season instead of selling him to any potential rival for the top 4. Unless they sell him with a "provided you don't play him against us!" clause in the contract, I don't see it happening. Will probably have to settle for Schwarzer, if that deal goes through. At this point, almost anything has to be better than Almunia and Fabianski.
Reina was just unfortunate, looked like he didn't have enough time to react to the ball coming off the post.
The referee didn't have the best of games. Both red cards were pretty harsh & there was a dive by an Arsenal player very close to the ref who gave a free kick for a foul. The game was shown here in Australia on free to air tv tonight, coverage seemed to be from Arsenal.tv. Commentators didn't show much bias, which is unusual.