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These are edited really terribly. It'd be nice if they gave us a couple seconds before the actual strike. And where's that Crouch goal?My favorite part of this is the goalie on Ben Arfa's goal. I watched it like 10 times.
very first post in the entire thread in factIsn't a Zidane to the Fire rumor on page 1? Good times.Heck, even the very existence of this thread is arguably because of Becks.If I remember correctly we had a thread about Becks signing with MLS that grew into a general soccer discussion which spawned this thread.
There are probably a 100 goals that could make this list if not more. It is an impossible task to whittle it down to just 10 IMO. Throwing in the women's goal was kind of a waste though of one of the 10. They just should have had a second vote for women's goals. Instead of the Puskas award, name it the Mia Hamm award and start to build some legacy for the women's game.
It seems like that list was tokenism + some star power. That Messi goal was great, but by no means was it one of the best 10 scored this year.
It's a no-brainer in the Top 10.
Cisse's goal did win the "goal of the season" award from the BBC. After the game, Alan Pardew made a point to say that Cisse "meant it" and he "hit it true", but at the time I was sure it was a miss-hit (sour grapes, I know). I've never played organized soccer so am ignorant on such matters, but it sure seems very rare to see players intentionally swerve one off the outside of their foot from so far out.
I also had my doubts (and I'm still kind of a Newcastle guy, I suppose). In the final analysis, I'm not sure if it really matters. Even if he meant to do it, it's not as if he could reproduce that shot if you gave him 10 tries. There's no scenario where a huge amount of luck doesn't play into it.Last year, I started playing again in a pretty simple rec league. And I surprised myself at actually being better than I thought I'd be. Toward the end of the season, I started trying stuff I never would have considered. So it came to be that I ended up taking a ball off my chest from about 30 yards away, swiveling around, and hitting a first time volley. And scoring on a 6 foot goal. I never should have tried it. It was a completely crazy idea. I couldn't get the damn thing within 15 yards of the goal if I tried it again. But I hit it just right. I scored another goal earlier that year where I essentially tripped over the ball and it trickled past the keeper. While I intended one and not the other, they were both lucky goals.
Screw that. Harry for Shepherd's Bush!
Gotta be Liverpool, right?
I think Sessegnon got his second against West Brom this weekend.Sunderland
And their leading scorer leads the entire EPL. 10 goals for Suarez and no one else on the team has more than 1.
I think it's Aston Villa. I haven't looked.
BZZZZZZZZZT.Looked it up, and wasn't surprised.
Suarez has been sitting on four yellows for a while now.Yes!
The Bundesliga usually has a couple midweek matchdays during the season. This week helps them get to 17 weeks (half the season) before the winter break.On that note, Bayern v Freiburg on GOL TV tomorrow at 2pm live. Replay at 8pm.
Hannover kicked some ### today
There are midweek slates (at least for EPL) on the weeks of XMas and New Years, so there'll be four games between Dec 22 and Jan 2, and then the winter break.
Liverpooloops, a little alte here
What the hell is going on over there? Why isn't anyone else getting goals?
Borini's hurt.
Andy Carroll is at the Boleyn Ground. They really have no backup for Suarez if he's suspended or hurt before January. They didn't have a forward on the bench last weekend.Borini's hurt.
Did you see who tried to get on the end of Glen Johnson's beautiful cross Sunday? Jose Enrique from the wing.Jose.Enrique.With his chest
It should be an interesting January window for them. If it's not, 
Here is a pic from stadium porn of the temporary stadium they want to build while the real stadium is being built. This group seems beyond ambitious. I wonder where the real money is behind this or if it is just pie in the sky talk. Guess we should find out if this is fluff or real on Dec. 11th. They obviously have to get into MLS to make this work. I think Ives was going to write an article on that possibility.
I don't know much about that organization. Can you share some info? And what city?
Big Phil seems like a reasonable choice. The Brazil job is as much managing egos and the media as it is tactics.
It's not like those guys are going to listen anyway.
I don't see why they wouldn't. Does anyone really want to play in the Europa league?
I can remember when the Brazilian media chastised Phil for winning ugly. I think Dunga got a raw deal. He was knocked out by the eventual finalist because Felipe Melo had an awful game (own goal and a red card). That, as they say, is football. The guy otherwise won, a lot, with perhaps the least talented generation of Brazillian players I can remember.
No one WANTS to play in Europa League instead of the CL. However, for some teams if gives them a nice revenue stream with extra games against European competition, as well as exposure for both recruiting and marketing.
