Official Football Thread - 12/13

[SajN]

Anyway, for today's match...hm...I don't know who I want to win.

Barcelona, of course, because you're my friend (or was, I don't know) and wants me to be happy, no?

[Trimss]

Well I love Barcelona and I love Bayern so may the best win.

[Slimm]

Coming back to the whole foreign fans thing. It's because supporting your local is actually a deep rooted thing in football culture. Supporting a foreign team is usually bandwagoning and there's no denying that. I mean, how many foreign fans do you think Bolton Wanderers have? Probably not much. Somehow all the "true foreign fans" support the best clubs in the world. Which is fine, but I'd rather support my local shitty team than a team somewhere across the globe.

[cityfan31]

and all their foreign fans can celebrate as if they have any connection with the club

What do you have against foreign fans? Football is a universal sport. Who's to decide who we can be fans of or not? I have watched Norwegian football, and I find it boring as hell. There is nothing there that interests me. I've always wanted to visit the city Barcelona (before I was a fan of the team), and suddenly I became a fan after seeing few games around 2002 or something.

Oh, wait, I don't live in Spain. I guess I gotta force myself to stop loving Barcelona and force myself to love a Norwegian team (where none of them are interesting enough for me).

OH SHIT, wait a second. I am not even Norwegian. Jesus... I gotta go cheer for a Pakistani team! Woho.

Well obviously everyone can support who they want. But.....

I think supporting a club is about more than just watching a team you find interesting. I have a problem with people following glory because it strikes me as the easy way out. You also miss out on so much.

The only analogy I can think of is, imagine picking Real Madrid on Football Manager and winning La Liga in the first season. Then imagine picking Wycombe Wanderers and after 10 seasons, winning an FA Cup or getting into the Premiership. Yes, you've had 9 years of struggle, of pain, but think who has the best feeling at that moment. And that feeling is amplified if we transfer the analogy to real life, and you've spent your time, money, sweat and tears following that club around the country. You've watched them play terrible football, lose to dreadful teams and continuously disappoint you, grasping defeat from the jaws of victory every time. You've watched this team with your family, with your friends, with the same supporters for years, through good and (mostly) bad times. Imagine the feeling when for once, everything goes right and you achieve success. That's the dream and that's the whole point of football.

City winning the FA Cup in 2010 was that moment for me. It's indescribably good. And Aguero just about topped it off last year.

You just can't get that feeling if you randomly pick a team from the other side of the globe because they've got your favourite player in their team.

/\ Slimm knows where it's at.

[Fleka]

Coming back to the whole foreign fans thing. It's because supporting your local is actually a deep rooted thing in football culture. Supporting a foreign team is usually bandwagoning and there's no denying that. I mean, how many foreign fans do you think Bolton Wanderers have? Probably not much. Somehow all the "true foreign fans" support the best clubs in the world. Which is fine, but I'd rather support my local shitty team than a team somewhere across the globe.

I agree.

[SajN]

So one offside goal, and one goal where Muller blocks the player right before the goal, which should've been a free kick.


Barca isn't playing good today, but still...




(and no need to mention the hand balls, it doesn't make it okay)

[Fleka]

What goes around-comes around, SajN.

[SajN]

Barca are so terrible nowadays.

[Trimss]

Bayern are impressive though.

[SajN]

What goes around-comes around, SajN.

This happens to Barca often though, but none of you see it or care because you hate Barca.




It should've been 2-0 instead of 4-0 because of the things I mentioned, everybody knows that, but still... 2-0 or 4-0, Bayern deserve the win, no doubt at all.

[Guess_Who]

Painful to watch. I wanted a SaJn- Revolutionary in the final. I mean, Barça- Madrid.

I hope Madrid has more luck. I want a spanish team in the final.

[Fleka]

What goes around-comes around, SajN.

This happens to Barca often though, but none of you see it or care because you hate Barca.




It should've been 2-0 instead of 4-0 because of the things I mentioned, everybody knows that, but still... 2-0 or 4-0, Bayern deserve the win, no doubt at all.

I really don`t hate Barcelona. I don`t enjoy watching sports as much as I did because money and who knows whose interests decide who will win something. Barcelona won 2009 CL with the BIG help from UEFA. And many times more, when they didn`t play good enough-ref would jump in. Now it all bounced back. And I`m glad. And I would feel the same about every other club that had that much help.

[SajN]

Well, I expected Barca to lost but I didn't think they were gonna get humiliated.

And it doesn't matter if it was 1-0 or 10-0, Barca was just awful.

Word.




Jordi Alba is a cunt.





And I hope we get new defenders next season. It seems like they all forgot how to mark the men of other team this season. Terrible, terrible, terrible...

All creds to Bayern. I hope they win CL (if they meet Real Madrid).

[SajN]

Honestly, unless a team is as disgraceful as Korea in 2002, it will never be as bad.

What happened then?

[Trimss]

Painful to watch. I wanted a SaJn- Revolutionary in the final. I mean, Barça- Madrid.

I hope Madrid has more luck. I want a spanish team in the final.

Would have been the dumbest final ever.. Enough of Barca - Real this year.

I want a Bayern Dortmund final.