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Mjolnirs said:
Slapdash said:
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Yeah, you def. need to get there early, I've been out for a couple CL finals and they've been mobbed. Even moreso for Barca, I would imagine.
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Yeah. I was talking to some guys who said the Thirsty Bear is a good place too, but will also be packed. Since I'll be cutting it close coming back from Alcatraz, may just find any old bar near there that has it on.

Should be a really fun game today.
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Does San Francisco have a Little Italy section? I would suggest you not be in that area looking for any old bar, especially as you will most likely have a Barca kit on.
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They evidently do because I wandered into it looking for a bar.

 
Vidal is walking a fine line. Nothing too bad after the first foul, but too much chippy. Ref's probably not going to cut him any slack on his next yellow-worthy foul.

 
Wish the potato search function would let me find the post from October where I said Rakitic was the best transfer of the year. Dude has been exactly what Barcelona needed.

 
What a game. Wish I dvd'd it. I'd watch it again right now. TREBLE!!!! Need to get slotted into the greatest teams of all time list now. I was nervous about Ter Sturgeon starting over Bravo, but he got the job done. He is a little too confident on the ball though.

 
CletiusMaximus said:
Soulfly3 said:
Lacazette to PSG has apparently been completed.

Huge coup. Love that PSG is trying to scoop up the best French talent, teams should always do this.

Just hope they don't get Kondogbia and Pogba too... Or the CL is gonna have one winner for the next 5+ years
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I'm still seeing lots of conflicting reports on Lacazette.
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:lmao: Don't mind Soulfly. Nothing he has ever posted in either forum has come true.

 
Congrats to Barça. Great season by them. Second best Barça squad I've ever seen, behind the tiki-taka treble. I wouldn't call this team as dominant, but probably more lethal.

I'm glad Xavi got to go out like that. He deserves it, for sure. Although Pirlo and Buffon also are very deserving.

As for the game, I appreciate guys playing just on the edge of being dirty, so I didn't mind people getting stuck in on Suárez. There was obviously no intent to injure there. For all of the Barça incredible passing and control in tight spaces, the back four actually stayed very disciplined tactically. Good covering for each other, particularly by Alba and Masch. I thought they had great games, but really this season and these titles belong to two people primarily, Messi and Rakatic. They make are the gasoline and the motor oil of that squad.

 
Someone on here a few weeks ago mentioned that Giovinco was one of the best MLS signings ever. He was playing very very well to that point but since then he has been hands down the best player in the league.

He has put typically horrible TFC on his tiny shoulders and continues to push them up the standings. They are now in 3rd in the East now and still have three games in hands on the second place team and four games in hand on the 1st place team.

This should finally be the year Toronto makes the playoffs.

 
NewlyRetired said:
Someone on here a few weeks ago mentioned that Giovinco was one of the best MLS signings ever. He was playing very very well to that point but since then he has been hands down the best player in the league.

He has put typically horrible TFC on his tiny shoulders and continues to push them up the standings. They are now in 3rd in the East now and still have three games in hands on the second place team and four games in hand on the 1st place team.

This should finally be the year Toronto makes the playoffs.
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He's looked great the couple times I"ve seen him

Poor, poor David Villa. Looks absolutely miserable out there.

 
Giovinco seems to be loving Toronto. The city, anyways...

Large Italian contingent here, and plenty to do/see... The mega $ doesn't hurt either... and well... they're winning, most importantly.

Since it is Toronto, I won't hang my hat on the fact that the winning will continue, but hopefully it does. This city needs something. Badly.

 
GB FIFA having their "ethics" guy come out and say 18/22 could be taken away if corruption found. It'd be comical except I don't laugh at these bafoons anymore since I'm cynical enough to think Blatter is angling for the "Ethics" guy to replace him. He'd be my betting choice at the moment.

 
BTW there's an ESPN article detailing Blatter talking with the SA President on arraging the 10 million payment to Warner and apparently emails from Valcke to SA FA as well.

Looks like Blatter got caught with his hand in the cookie jar. I know Warner is a crack pot, but it does put some credence to his election rigging claim if Blatter had the balls to reach out directly to the SA President about the 10 million.

 
Who could have predicted this? :)

FIFA has scored an embarrassing own goal as widely derided vanity film "United Passions" collected just $607 in its first two days released in the United States.

The film's release had coincided with an avalanche of corruption claims and bribery allegations following the indictment of 14 football figures by the FBI ahead of the FIFA presidency election May 28.

Considering the plot paints Sepp Blatter -- who resigned as FIFA president in the aftermath of the arrests in Zurich -- as an upstanding moral leader as it chronicles the history of the world football governing body, Frederic Auburtin's directorial effort has been ridiculed for the timing of its release date in the United States..

"United Passions" is reported to have had a budget of $22 million and included renowned actors such as Tim Roth (as Sepp Blatter), Sam Neill (as former FIFA president Joao Havelange) and Gerard Depardieu (as World Cup founder Jules Rimet).

However, its Hollywood stars have not helped its approval ratings and the film has been branded "proof of corporate insanity" by The Guardian, a "squirm-inducing heap of propaganda" by Los Angeles Times and "one of the most unwatchable films in recent memory" by The New York Times.

The appalling word-of-mouth that has followed the movie since it debuted at Cannes Film Festival last year led to it opening in only 10 theaters in the U.S. and it failed to even break the $1,000 mark in tickets sold Friday and Saturday.
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NewlyRetired said:
Who could have predicted this? :)

FIFA has scored an embarrassing own goal as widely derided vanity film "United Passions" collected just $607 in its first two days released in the United States.

The film's release had coincided with an avalanche of corruption claims and bribery allegations following the indictment of 14 football figures by the FBI ahead of the FIFA presidency election May 28.

Considering the plot paints Sepp Blatter -- who resigned as FIFA president in the aftermath of the arrests in Zurich -- as an upstanding moral leader as it chronicles the history of the world football governing body, Frederic Auburtin's directorial effort has been ridiculed for the timing of its release date in the United States..

"United Passions" is reported to have had a budget of $22 million and included renowned actors such as Tim Roth (as Sepp Blatter), Sam Neill (as former FIFA president Joao Havelange) and Gerard Depardieu (as World Cup founder Jules Rimet).

However, its Hollywood stars have not helped its approval ratings and the film has been branded "proof of corporate insanity" by The Guardian, a "squirm-inducing heap of propaganda" by Los Angeles Times and "one of the most unwatchable films in recent memory" by The New York Times.

The appalling word-of-mouth that has followed the movie since it debuted at Cannes Film Festival last year led to it opening in only 10 theaters in the U.S. and it failed to even break the $1,000 mark in tickets sold Friday and Saturday.
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This could be "The Room" for soccer fans.

 
fyi... U20 matchups for the knockout round

Wednesday 10 June

Ghana vs. Mali
Serbia vs. Hungary
USA vs. Colombia
Ukraine vs. Senegal

Thursday 11 June

Austria vs. Uzbekistan
Germany vs. Nigeria
Portugal vs. New Zealand
Brazil vs. Uruguay

 
Mexico is playing... oh... :bye: have a nice summer mexico.

eta: and most shocking- no Argentina, who could only manage 2 ties.

 
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El Floppo said:
Mexico is playing... oh... :bye: have a nice summer mexico.

eta: and most shocking- no Argentina, who could only manage 2 ties.
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I just noticed that the US was the only Concacaf side of the 4 that made it through.

Mexico going out early in a youth tournament is pretty rare.

 
NewlyRetired said:
El Floppo said:
Mexico is playing... oh... :bye: have a nice summer mexico.

eta: and most shocking- no Argentina, who could only manage 2 ties.
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I just noticed that the US was the only Concacaf side of the 4 that made it through.

Mexico going out early in a youth tournament is pretty rare.
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I saw that none of the other teams went through, but didn't connect that thought.

Honduras lost to Fiji... woof. Panama was always up against it in that brutal group. what a ####ty draw for them after they looked so strong in qualifying.

I really feel bad for Mexico though. :mellow:

 
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