[TheEnglishman]

Since the old one got lost in the new forums, I thought it would be worth making a new topic.
I have to say, I loved the new Wembley. It's absolutely huge and there was a good atmosphere there.

[Caael]

We're all lazy *******s and nobody will post here :D

[Sea of Time]

I'd post here but nobody likes talking about basketball or football (NFL), so I won't post here no more.

[Eugine]

And no one here seems interested in Cricket (which is probably the only sport I'm interested in).
We just aren't unified when it comes to sports unfortunately.

[TheEnglishman]

I'll watch cricket occasionaly but only international cricket. County cricket doesn't excite me.

[Folcon]

my two fav. sports

one: NASCAR - gotta love watching a bunch of cars drive around in circles for several hours, nothing beats that.

except perhaps my number two

two: fishing - even though i don't eat fish myself, where else can you take a several hour nap, and still call it a sport. :unsure:

[TheEnglishman]

I don't watch NASCAR but I will look at Formula 1 occasionaly. What other sport has a British person who's (temporarily) ahead of everyone else? :unsure:

[Aquamarine]

I used to be a huge fan Of Formula 1, but it just became so boring and repetative after some time.

[TheEnglishman]

It's a bit more interesting now that Micheal Schumacher (sp?) has moved on.

[Caael]

escout, on May 16 2007, 06:12 PM, said:

where else can you take a several hour nap, and still call it a sport. :unsure:

Yoga.

[TheEnglishman]

FA cup final today! I highly recommend watching it, even if you only have a passing interest in football. It's got two of the best teams in the world playing and even if it's only half as good as last year's final, it'll be entertaining.
EDIT: Or not. That was a rubbish match from both teams. What really makes me annoyed though is how Chelsea can do one good piece of football in 120 minutes and the commentators are like 'Well they were the better side.' I'm not saying Man United were brilliant, or even average, but on the basis of that match I'd say they deserved to win.
I can't say I'm from a neutral viewpoint though, especially since I'm wearing my United shirt right now. ;)

[Saturos S.]

Chelsea won the FA cup, Whoo!

Eat that Manchester!

...Still, it's only really a runner-up prize since Manchester won the Premier league and Chelsea got kicked out of the Champions League by Liverpool.

[TheEnglishman]

It has been overtaken by those competitons in terms of importance. I guess it's a bit sad, considering the FA cup is the oldest football competiton in the world. Ah well.

[Saturos S.]

Going from FA cup to champions league. I'm going to really, really, really pissed off if Milan win it. Since they weren't even allowed to participate in the first place. The Italian football association decided to finally do something about all the bribery in Italian football by punishing all the clubs. And at the last moment, when they finally could have done something, they decided to be all soft again. Shame as I see it, they could have changed Italian football for the better.

[TheEnglishman]

Well if it provides an exact re run of 2005's final I can live with it. The best final of anything I've ever seen (except the events of the final in 1999 :) ).

[Aquamarine]

Liverpool - Milan starting in a few minutes. Even though I'm not a huge sports fan, I know this'll be a night to remember. Go Liverpool!

[Folcon]

I hope the Bucks win the Super Bowl this year. Hurray for Yank football.

[TheEnglishman]

Aquamarine, on May 23 2007, 07:42 PM, said:

Liverpool - Milan starting in a few minutes. Even though I'm not a huge sports fan, I know this'll be a night to remember. Go Liverpool!

Good to see you know where allegiances should lie... with the English sides. I think Liverpool can come back from being 1-0 down right now.
EDIT: 2-1. Maybe not then.

[Aquamarine]

Lol what a shame. Not a very good game.
And of course I was all for Liverpool, when I'm British AND my cousins in England live in Liverpool.

[Sea of Time]

escout, on May 23 2007, 12:58 PM, said:

I hope the Bucks win the Super Bowl this year. Hurray for Yank football.

Bucs, the Bucks are the team from Milwaukee. But really, who's going to beat the Patriots?

[Folcon]

*sighs*

I mean the Buckaneers, from Tampa Bay. Not the basketball team called the Bucks.

[Sea of Time]

Good luck with your Tampa Bay franchise. They're going down the toilet, and fast.

[Folcon]

I support all teams from the Sunshine State, except the Jags.

[Saturos S.]

Aquamarine, on May 23 2007, 11:26 PM, said:

Lol what a shame. Not a very good game.
And of course I was all for Liverpool, when I'm British AND my cousins in England live in Liverpool.

I think most of Europe was for Europe. But that's probably because everyone hates Milan. The game sucked for a final, the goals sucked for a final (the 1-0 was... incredibly lucky) and both sides sucked overall.

And I'm a sour loser, this is the 2nd time Italians pissed me off in football, first the World Cup and now this.

...Stupid AC.

[TheEnglishman]

I think Liverpool were the better side generally, but they came in as the underdogs which never helps.

[Saturos S.]

And those Italians were lucky. I mean the first goal, Reina would have easily saved it if Inzagi hadn't accidentily deflected it. He didn't even realise that it was he who scored at first.

[TheEnglishman]

Ah well. At least I can be happy that english sides have been in the final for the past three years.

[Folcon]

*sigh* i'm being ignored. The NBA finals are coming up in just over a week, is anyone else looking foward to it?

[TheEnglishman]

To be fair me and Saturos Striker were talking about the best sport ever. Shame the season's pretty much over.
NBA... That's basketball right? Sorry I'm just not down with the American sports. Who's playing?

[Folcon]

good question, but hey, it's the national title event, who cares. Everything else that will be on will be reruns or "reality shows".

[Saturos S.]

They have finals? I always thought they had a league similar to the ones with football leagues instead of a tournament system.

They have the tournament knock-out system, right? Before I start making wrong presumptions.

[Sea of Time]

The four teams left right now are Utah, San Antonio, Detroit, and Cleveland. It will probably be Detroit and San Antonio in the final (which would be boring as hell) but you never know.

[TheEnglishman]

Bah. The football season's over now. I'm left with internationals in which I get to enjoy England struggle against teams like Macedonia and Croatia. :P
What makes it worse is that they're almost definitely lose against Brazil in the friendly. Ah well.

[Aquamarine]

Almost definitely? EVERYONE loses to Brazil! It's just the way it is.

[TheEnglishman]

They didn't in the World Cup. Brazil aren't the same side they were a few years ago. They're still good, but not quite as good. They'll still have more than enough to beat England though.

[Folcon]

I saw a game of lacrose(sp?) the other day. It was buttal. Like a cross between hocky, socer, and football. It was crazy. And my brother teaches in high school. One of his students is on the school lacrose team, and he's the goalie. Evidently he also like to show off the bruises he gets.

Hey wait. This is my 300th post. Sweet.

[TheEnglishman]

I've never watched a game. It looks like a bizarre sport to me.

[Saturos S.]

We actually play that game sometimes at school. It could be kind of rough I guess. But the way we play it, it hardly is. Since we enough trouble passing the ball and no one normally feels like soloing the whole time.

[TheEnglishman]

Doesn't sound as brutal as sports like Rugby though.

[Saturos S.]

We played rugby the other day at school too. My knee barely survived. It isn't too strong because off an old football injuring and it couldn't stand the pulls and people jumping on it.

The stupid part is that everyone says: "No, no, you don't need protection because you're not allowed to pass forwards, only backwards. American Football you can pass forwards, then you do need protection."

[TheEnglishman]

Bah. England should have won against Brazil. I can't believe they let in a goal so late in extra time.

[Saturos S.]

Hmm.. they lost then. I saw about 15 minutes of the game. It looked pretty... average, at least less then what one expect from two pretty good teams playing each other. But I guess that's just the friendly story.

[TheEnglishman]

No they drew, which is still quite a good result against Brazil. They let in a goal deep in extra time though which annoyed me. Would have been nice for England to win their first full international at Wembley.

[FlamingDuck]

*ahem* Going off topic. After seeing 2 "pro wrestling" matches, I can honestly say that it is the stupidest "sport" ever. It's 2+ jacked guys beating the crap out of each other with no rules to speak of. It's just senseless violence.

[TheEnglishman]

I thought that was staged. Am I mistaken?
Either way I wouldn't want to watch it. Who'd enjoy angry men in so few clothes?

[FlamingDuck]

I think that the mathces are pre-determined, and a couple of the hits are fake, but I think the rest is realish.

[TheEnglishman]

It's just dull in my opinion. I can't understand why it's so popular.

[Twit]

You know where its at?

Cross Country!

[TheEnglishman]

I remember Cross Country back in Middle School. I hated doing it.
Logo for the 2012 Olympics was shown today:
AHHH MY EYES!
Notice the amount who gave it the 'Wooden Spoon'

[Echo_djinn]

Thank god there will be no Spurs vs Pistons finals. I swear if I saw that again I'd be yelling out FIXED all throughout the Finals. Still, I can't help but be suspicious about Lebron making it to the finals. James is the poster boy of the NBA, the "next Jordan" some say. When MJ was still playing it only took him 3 years to make the finals for the first time in his career. Lebron took 4 years to finally make the finals. Hmmmm it's not much to look at but still, I am suspicious. ;)

[Sea of Time]

I don't think anything is fixed, I think Lebron came of age at the same time as the Pistons decided once again, not to show up in the ECF. It'll be interesting to see him against the Spurs. I think the Cavs can win.

[TheEnglishman]

Hurrah! England might actually win a match! 3-0 right now against the mighty Estonia!

[Saturos S.]

The European Championship under the 20 is happening now over here in Holland. I'm going to the Final, hoping that Holland gets there. They won it last year so they have a chance.

[TheEnglishman]

My mum put a bet on Holland 'because they wear orange.' It's as good a reason as any.

[Echo_djinn]

Damn Spurs. I frickin want to kill them. I am done watching sports until fall. I might watch a few Blue Jays games here and there but as of right now I could care less for them.

[TheEnglishman]

Woo hoo. Fixture list for next season's out. It reminds that football will be back... eventually.
EDIT: I can't believe England could play so well, do well in a penalty shootout and still lose. I hope Holland win it now cause they were pretty good in the end.

[Sea of Time]

Echo_djinn, on Jun 13 2007, 08:11 PM, said:

Damn Spurs. I frickin want to kill them. I am done watching sports until fall. I might watch a few Blue Jays games here and there but as of right now I could care less for them.

I hate how this year's playoffs went down. They need to start reseeding, and they need to do it now.

[TheEnglishman]

Looks like one of the best players is Britain is moving on. It's a shame because, as much as I dislike Arsenal, Thierry Henry was always a good player.

[Sea of Time]

So apparently, Canada is much more of a soccer nation than I expected. Our expansion MLS team, the Toronto FC is the only team in the league (other than the LA Galaxy, who for obvious reasons have sold out every game) that has sold out all of their games for the rest of the season. The crowds are insane and are the closest thing North America has to European crowds. Maybe it's the international scene, maybe it's Toronto's love of sports, but watching the games is nothing short of exciting, even for someone who tends to dislike soccer.

Oh yeah, and Canada got completely ripped off in the Gold Cup. We could've beaten the Americans, but the refs got in the way. Watch.