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Kafka
Footballguy
Ramsay Hunt Experience
Footballguy
Kafka
Footballguy
Ramsay Hunt Experience
Footballguy
On Twitter, there are two types of Liverpool transfer posts.
"This Brazilian star headed to Anfield!" = Laughing Klopp
"This German star snubs Liverpool!" = Angry Klopp
Kafka
Footballguy
Kafka
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Ramsay Hunt Experience
Footballguy
NewlyRetired
Footballguy
Some of you old foggies and maybe a couple of youngins might appreciate this walk down memory lane.
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* In the early 90's, the web was not really in play yet as a tool for fans to discuss topics.
* One popular way the early internet people discussed things online was to use the usenet news groups which was kind of a very simple form of an online bulletin board
* Soccer was VERY unpopular in the US at that time and many of us discussed the sport in the newsgroup rec.sport.misc There were a ton of sport specific news groups at the time but soccer was lumped in with cricket and rugby and other non entities of that period.
* Soon enough soccer dominated that rec.sport.misc news group to the point where the powers that be created rec.sport.soccer where any and all soccer topics were discussed. To say it was the wild west of internet soccer posting would be an injustice.
* In the early to mid 90's, email became much more popular and as such, email lists started to pop up. One of the first soccer related ones was a US National Team mailing list.
* By the time the mid 90's came, and MLS launched, every MLS team had their own mailing lists. I ran the Revs one back then and each team had a "NewlyRetired" type geek running their mailing lists
* Over in NY, the MetroStars had a young kid named Jesse Hertzberg who helped run the MetroStars mailing list. He soon started experimenting with some brand new web based forum software and slowly migrated his mailing list over to the new web based forum in the late 90's.
* Soon after he migrated his list, he sent me an email asking if I wanted to check out the new software to see if it is something we might want to use.
* I looked at it and it was fantastic. It looked smooth and ultra modern compared to what we were doing with the email lists.
* I asked my group if they wanted to move and it caused a holy war. Half wanted to move, half thought there was no way the email lists should be abandoned.
* I was stuck so I had to choose and always being a person who admires new and shiny things, I decided to move over and many Revs fans came with me as we created a small sub section of his web site which was then called www.soccerboards.com
* Soon enough Jesse and myself convinced more and more MLS teams to migrate their email lists over to his web site. He also convinced the hugely popular US National Team email list to give it a shot which added a ton of new users to his site. This caused another holy war as the email list stayed running with people who did not want to move while half the list migrated over.
* www.soccerboards.com grew and grew and grew. Starting with one forum and quickly in a couple of years expanding to over 50 and then soon after over a 100. Eventually most of the remaining email lists died off and people either reluctantly moved forward or left for good.
* Jesse figured out a way to monetize the site and decided that they needed to rebrand and www.bigsoccer.com was born.
* Roughly around the same time, many various topics (sports, music, movies, home theater etc) started their own specific forums of which there was always an FFA type sub forum and typically a soccer thread would eventually grow into those forums, much like what you see here on footballguys.com
* Finally reddit got more and more popular with many various soccer threads spinning off from from the original and still most popular r/soccer reddit.
* Ironically, when reading r/soccer today on reddit it struck me how IDENTICAL in nature it is going all the way back to rec.sport.soccer. The only real difference is the ability to post the video based material which we never had access to in the 90's.
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* In the early 90's, the web was not really in play yet as a tool for fans to discuss topics.
* One popular way the early internet people discussed things online was to use the usenet news groups which was kind of a very simple form of an online bulletin board
* Soccer was VERY unpopular in the US at that time and many of us discussed the sport in the newsgroup rec.sport.misc There were a ton of sport specific news groups at the time but soccer was lumped in with cricket and rugby and other non entities of that period.
* Soon enough soccer dominated that rec.sport.misc news group to the point where the powers that be created rec.sport.soccer where any and all soccer topics were discussed. To say it was the wild west of internet soccer posting would be an injustice.
* In the early to mid 90's, email became much more popular and as such, email lists started to pop up. One of the first soccer related ones was a US National Team mailing list.
* By the time the mid 90's came, and MLS launched, every MLS team had their own mailing lists. I ran the Revs one back then and each team had a "NewlyRetired" type geek running their mailing lists
* Over in NY, the MetroStars had a young kid named Jesse Hertzberg who helped run the MetroStars mailing list. He soon started experimenting with some brand new web based forum software and slowly migrated his mailing list over to the new web based forum in the late 90's.
* Soon after he migrated his list, he sent me an email asking if I wanted to check out the new software to see if it is something we might want to use.
* I looked at it and it was fantastic. It looked smooth and ultra modern compared to what we were doing with the email lists.
* I asked my group if they wanted to move and it caused a holy war. Half wanted to move, half thought there was no way the email lists should be abandoned.
* I was stuck so I had to choose and always being a person who admires new and shiny things, I decided to move over and many Revs fans came with me as we created a small sub section of his web site which was then called www.soccerboards.com
* Soon enough Jesse and myself convinced more and more MLS teams to migrate their email lists over to his web site. He also convinced the hugely popular US National Team email list to give it a shot which added a ton of new users to his site. This caused another holy war as the email list stayed running with people who did not want to move while half the list migrated over.
* www.soccerboards.com grew and grew and grew. Starting with one forum and quickly in a couple of years expanding to over 50 and then soon after over a 100. Eventually most of the remaining email lists died off and people either reluctantly moved forward or left for good.
* Jesse figured out a way to monetize the site and decided that they needed to rebrand and www.bigsoccer.com was born.
* Roughly around the same time, many various topics (sports, music, movies, home theater etc) started their own specific forums of which there was always an FFA type sub forum and typically a soccer thread would eventually grow into those forums, much like what you see here on footballguys.com
* Finally reddit got more and more popular with many various soccer threads spinning off from from the original and still most popular r/soccer reddit.
* Ironically, when reading r/soccer today on reddit it struck me how IDENTICAL in nature it is going all the way back to rec.sport.soccer. The only real difference is the ability to post the video based material which we never had access to in the 90's.
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Dinsy Ejotuz
Footballguy
In case you've been wondering what Ronaldinho is up to, he's clowning fools in the Indian Futsal league. Anyone know the backstory here?
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CletiusMaximus
Footballguy
El Floppo
Footballguy
I was going to post the video along the lines of- this kid might be something someday. had NO idea this was in India-wtf?
I'd guess backstory = payday
El Floppo
Footballguy
somebody needs to compare clopp with suarez for overbite magnificence.
angry klopp
Ramsay Hunt Experience
Footballguy
Throwing my hat in the ring because I too can wear my white dress shirt uncomfortably tight.
El Floppo
Footballguy
Discover the desired profile of the new Belgian Red Devils’ head coach.
- Experience and results in the currently fast changing world of football
- Proven record in transmitting tactical and strategical knowledge to top level players
- Proven record to be able to work with experts in modern high level football
- Treating his own social and high performance context
- Strong and open communicator
- Ruling generation management
- Proved to be able to operate in an existing structure and organisation + in full confidence being able to work with the team management, training facilities and financial, commercial and communication framework.
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The Gator
Footballguy
The Gator
Footballguy
Jaysus
Good times!
Free FPL league to join if anyone wants to mess around on the side: https://fantasy.premierleague.com
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58569-20702
shader
Footballguy
I can't decide if it reeks of desperation or if it shows ambition.ManU to make 100 million pound bid today for Pogba?
roadkill1292
Footballguy
We had another one at another site, I think. There were 12 of us. When I get home I'll try to dig up the details. If nothing else, I don't think we ever announced the winner here (wasn't me).
The Gator
Footballguy
CGRdrJoe
Footballguy
shader
Footballguy
Selling for 1M and buying for 100M...Not too many teams would have the guts to make that sort of decision.
Eephus
Footballguy
Ramsay Hunt Experience
Footballguy
Yeah, if it works out, it was ambition. Same as any other big money transfer. As with Bale, I imagine the narrative will change 10 times in the first 18 months.
CGRdrJoe
Footballguy
The handling of Giggs showed that they could care less about the past and are more concerned with the now.
El Floppo
Footballguy
CGRdrJoe
Footballguy
When you want to colloquially express that you don’t care at all about something you might say “I couldn’t care less.” This phrase first popped up in British English at the turn of the 20th century and is still popular today. In the 1960s, a controversial American variant of this phase entered popular usage: “I could care less.” Many native English speakers, both in the UK and US, find this expression to be logically flawed. If you couldn’t care less, then you care so little about something that it would be impossible for you to care any less than you do. If you could care less, however, you are saying, literally, that it is possible for you to care less than you care now. Those who take issue with this believe this later variant says very little about your level of caring, and so eschew it.
El Floppo
Footballguy
Ramsay Hunt Experience
Footballguy
Peter Nowak is available.
The Gator
Footballguy
Sammy3469
Footballguy
NewlyRetired
Footballguy
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B Maverick
Footballguy
who's Orlano City?
Eephus
Footballguy
NewlyRetired
Footballguy
B Maverick
Footballguy
Eephus
Footballguy
Ramsay Hunt Experience
Footballguy
I'm already working on the brain stimulation games to allow me to understand Kafka posts in vertical format.
