I have to learn to like soccer football, because I work in an English pub.
I know the basics, as in...you have to make goals to win, but I got totally lost today with the aggregate and stoppage and had no idea why the stoppage was almost another half hour and Madrid beat Liverpool even though Liverpool outscored them 2-1. HELP!
Also, who do I go for in the World Cup? We're allowed to wear colors. :scared:
-Suu, the stupid American.
:mullet:
Screw football, watch Hurling (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AM-kB1e96CA).
After a quick google search, Madrid won because the competition is based on 2 games rather than 1. So overall it was 2-2 over two games, but Madrid got 1 away goal, while Liverpool got 0. Liverpool would have needed to beat them by 2 in that game to win.
Also the stoppage time wasn't 30 minutes, that was extra time, because the score (overall) was tied at full time at 1 home goal each.
It works as two 45 minute halves, then, if extra time is needed, two 15 minute halves.
As for the World Cup, I always enjoy watching Portugal, they were one of the most exciting teams last world cup. Or dressing up as a North Korean might be fun.
eta: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Away_goals_rule
Football is the epitomy of boring suck and fail. That's why all the cabbages lap it up. It's basically the european version of Nascar. All you need to do is memorise the names of every player in the premier leagues and then answer every statement with "yes but what about _______" or "I wouldn't really rank him but _________ on the other hand"
not really following the world cup,
so id go for countries you know or like
say Italy or Greece
...English league
Manchester united seems to be the default
while im cheering for Chelsea
they just recently got a big influence of money and have great passing game
if they can learn how to shoot, sometimes i fucking swear
Quote from: Suu on April 30, 2010, 03:44:26 AM
I have to learn to like soccer football, because I work in an English pub.
I know the basics, as in...you have to make goals to win, but I got totally lost today with the aggregate and stoppage and had no idea why the stoppage was almost another half hour and Madrid beat Liverpool even though Liverpool outscored them 2-1. HELP!
Also, who do I go for in the World Cup? We're allowed to wear colors. :scared:
-Suu, the stupid American.
:mullet:
First off, its actually OK to say soccer but you could try finding an english pronunciation on the net and use that . . . in fact finding some English pronunciations which are quite 'different' could be quite fun and mindfucky
Remember that overtime is Extra time in Britain and like Rumckle said wiki is your friend
|If you don't give a flying fuck about any particular team - and I'm assuming you aren't supporting the USA or you wouldn't have asked the question - try http://www.uksoccershop.com/categories/1286.html and find a colour combo you like and see which countries you can hit with each colour combo.
P3nt obviously just doesn't get the poetry of 'the beautiful game' :wink: but if you wanna follow his advice try supporting Newcastle United black & white vertical stripes [slimming] fanatical fanbase, just being promoted back to the Premiership where
we they belong, you only need to learn one or two players names . . . and if you can make a better fist of saying "howay the lads" than Jimmy Carter you will really wow your customers. Plus - added advantage just say it and wander off if the technical stuff gets too arcane
PS I see your menu offers "Newcastle steak" what on earth is that ?
MMIX Geordie to the bone
I tend to root for Aberdeen, because I just really like yelling "AAAABEEEERDEEEEEEEEEEEEN!"
Brazil, because they're nuts!
Quote from: Suu on April 30, 2010, 03:44:26 AM
Also, who do I go for in the World Cup? We're allowed to wear colors. :scared:
Orange, naturally.
For the rules stuff, best to ask Fred (she's on IRC a lot). I know the rules, but not the english words for it, and even then she knows them better than me :)
Okay, so like baseball, they play a series of games, but unlike baseball, the amount of goals made home or away during the series effects the outcome. Gotcha. (That would totally make baseball more interesting...)
I had the Brown soccer club laughing their asses off yesterday. Nice bunch of kids.
And Newcastle steak is like beef teriyaki, only instead of teriyaki sauce it's marinated in Newcastle beer and other spices. It's bitchin'. We did actually change the name of Londonderry Beef Stew to just Stout Beef Stew because, well...It pissed off the Irish.
Quote from: Suu on April 30, 2010, 03:02:54 PM
Okay, so like baseball, they play a series of games, but unlike baseball, the amount of goals made home or away during the series effects the outcome. Gotcha. (That would totally make baseball more interesting...)
That depends on the competition, in UEFA (the comp you were watching) they do it that way for the finals.
ETA:
In the world cup they play round robin pools, then single game knock-out for the final 16 teams. In that case ties are decided by extra time, followed by a penalty shoot out (if needed).
Okay, easy enough...
I guess by process of ethic elimination, odds, and the fact that if they win again Providence will be nothing but a week long party, I'm going for Italy.
Quote from: LMNO on April 30, 2010, 01:33:58 PM
I tend to root for Aberdeen, because I just really like yelling "AAAABEEEERDEEEEEEEEEEEEN!"
. . . so you are a Dandies fan . . . well, no surprise there then :wink:
Quote from: Suu on April 30, 2010, 04:50:26 PM
I guess by process of ethic elimination, odds, and the fact that if they win again Providence will be nothing but a week long party, I'm going for Italy.
"
ETHIC elimination" (http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a289/goblinhill/icon_rofl.gif) . . . so you have been watching those cheating, diving, Eyeties play /tongueincheek
I haven't had enough coffee yet. :cry:
Quote from: Suu on April 30, 2010, 05:14:23 PM
I haven't had enough coffee yet. :cry:
when they work out how to send a decent cuppa through the intertubes that will probably spell the end for bipedal humanity - hmmm, that's sad - no more footie . . . :cry:
Quote from: Suu on April 30, 2010, 04:50:26 PM
I guess by process of ethic elimination, odds, and the fact that if they win again Providence will be nothing but a week long party, I'm going for Italy.
NOOOOOO ITALY IS A CHEATING SACK OF POOOOOP :argh!:
GO NETHERLANDS AND WEAR TONS OF ORANNNNNNNGE!
I dunno...those German boys who go to Brown University are awfully hot....
As your financial advisor, I strongly suggest you wear the team colors of whatever country has the best tippers.
Quote from: LMNO on April 30, 2010, 07:43:24 PM
As your financial advisor, I strongly suggest you wear the team colors of whatever country has the best tippers.
^ this!
Quote from: LMNO on April 30, 2010, 07:43:24 PM
As your financial advisor, I strongly suggest you wear the team colors of whatever country has the best tippers.
That eliminates ANY student from Brown University. Like my coworker said, maybe they wouldn't be so bad if they went to a REAL Ivy League school.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/eng_prem/8663686.stm 8-0 GO BLUE
You could always, y'know, root for America.
But for sure don't root for Italy. Buncha limp-wristed flop artists who spend nearly as much time whining to the refs as actually playing soccer. If you're not gonna root for your own country, I'd pick a non-european team for both the underdog factor and the "won't alienate any of your customers" factor. Aside from the US, I'd like to see Cote D'Ivoire do well (Didier Drogba is my favorite player to watch) and I'm rooting hard for the Socceroos to upset Germany in the group round and win their group (since we'll probably end up playing the winner of that group in the elimination round and we do NOT want to face Germany).
I would wear a Southampton FC shirt as they are my home team. It is red and white horizontal stripes. The vertical stripes are known as hoops, btw.
Also they are a lower division team and this will mean the obscurity will not offend anyone. Also this will appease the rain goddess.
And for extra impressiveness learn the offside rule.
I would go for the Brazil shirt as you could still rock the yellow eyeshadow.
That and they have always had awesome skills.
My backup teams are Portugal and England. Only because the majority of the people I know are going for Portugal and I don't want to get ganked.
I've also been told to NOT go for France, because apparently as far as cheating goes, they're worse than Italy.
True dat. Also, they only even got into the world cup because of a blatant hand-ball goal that wasn't called, and since they got in at Ireland's expense, rooting for them will most likely NOT endear you to any irish customers you encounter.
So I heard...OH I heard....I hate the French anyway, so this simply adds insult to injury.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/10096028.stm
when politics and sports mix :D
Greece v Argentina
Quote from: LMNO on April 30, 2010, 01:33:58 PM
I tend to root for Aberdeen, because I just really like yelling "AAAABEEEERDEEEEEEEEEEEEN!"
Oddly enough, that's something I find true of EVERY other Aberdeen F.C. fan. That, and they like Tenants Lager and falling over in a puddle of vomit and spilled kebabs outside Pittodrie.
~~~Payne: Long term Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire resident.
And for the World Cup, I'm supporting the traditional Scottish team again this go round, A.B.E. (Anyone But England, basically whoever England are playing at any given time).
I can still do that despite having an English girlfriend.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Payne on May 18, 2010, 10:42:58 AM
And for the World Cup, I'm supporting the traditional Scottish team again this go round, A.B.E. (Anyone But England, basically whoever England are playing at any given time).
I can still do that despite having an English girlfriend.
it is only a tradition because yet again Scotland failed to qualify . . .
MMIX - will enjoy the football better after England are eliminated, because the tension of waiting for them to:- shoot themselves in the foot by losing to the weakest teams in the group phase, draw all their matches and go out on goal difference, finish with 9 men, lose yet another penalty shootout, or get screwed by this years Maradona, spoils it for me
Quote from: MMIX on May 18, 2010, 04:00:21 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Payne on May 18, 2010, 10:42:58 AM
And for the World Cup, I'm supporting the traditional Scottish team again this go round, A.B.E. (Anyone But England, basically whoever England are playing at any given time).
I can still do that despite having an English girlfriend.
it is only a tradition because yet again Scotland failed to qualify . . .
....so?
I just say we all hate France.
speaking of abe
saw a bunch of people trying to brazil, england's 2018 bid
Quote from: The Good Reverend Payne on May 18, 2010, 10:39:54 AM
Quote from: LMNO on April 30, 2010, 01:33:58 PM
I tend to root for Aberdeen, because I just really like yelling "AAAABEEEERDEEEEEEEEEEEEN!"
Oddly enough, that's something I find true of EVERY other Aberdeen F.C. fan. That, and they like Tenants Lager and falling over in a puddle of vomit and spilled kebabs outside Pittodrie.
~~~Payne: Long term Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire resident.
I will illustrate my knowledge of, and interest in soccer thus: Aberdeen makes me think of Dune.
AAARRAAAAAKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN!
Quote from: The Good Reverend Payne on May 18, 2010, 05:35:41 PM
Quote from: MMIX on May 18, 2010, 04:00:21 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Payne on May 18, 2010, 10:42:58 AM
And for the World Cup, I'm supporting the traditional Scottish team again this go round, A.B.E. (Anyone But England, basically whoever England are playing at any given time).
I can still do that despite having an English girlfriend.
it is only a tradition because yet again Scotland failed to qualify . . .
....so?
But i support the Republic Of Ireland!
who also failed to qualify,
i like to fap over the japanese team.
Quote from: Rainy Day Pixie on May 18, 2010, 11:40:17 PM
But i support the Republic Of Ireland!
who also failed to qualify,
Not so much "failed to qualify" as had their own "Hand of God" disaster courtesy of the beautiful Thierry Henri - who at least had the good grace to admit it afterwards.
Quote from: Rainy Day Pixie on May 18, 2010, 11:40:17 PM
i like to fap over the japanese team.
You know - I'm pretty sure that there is a proper technical term for that :wink:
:omg:
how can it be offsides if they got a guy on the goal post....
Mexico cheated of a goal in a tied game on home turf :fnord:
You need 2 people between the striker and the goal, normally the keeper is there, but in this case he wasn't.
Also, there have been a few interesting results, so far. I really wasn't expecting Korea to kick so much ass, or France to choke up against Nigeria.
Fuck soccer, or footbol or whatever the hell it's called
SHIRLING OR GTFO!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gu3mbl8SAk
BEST. SPORT. EVER.
Quote from: Rumckle on June 13, 2010, 07:41:33 AM
You need 2 people between the striker and the goal, normally the keeper is there, but in this case he wasn't.
Also, there have been a few interesting results, so far. I really wasn't expecting Korea to kick so much ass, or France to choke up against Nigeria.
I hope France fails EVERYTHING. :argh!:
Also: The United States had more fans in the bar yesterday than England. :eek:
Quote from: PeregrineBF on April 30, 2010, 06:18:23 AM
Screw football, watch Hurling (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AM-kB1e96CA).
^this. Only team sport I get excited about.
HURLEY!!! YESS!!!
OMG, it's like...field hockey on methamphetamines. :fap:
BANNED REF :lulz: