Round ball code talk

[chiwigi]

Well done Forest - good to see them back in the top flight. We just need to get QPR and Millwall up there to make the EPL just like the AFL.

hahah, lets also add Charlton and Leyton Orient to make it really tight in London .

 

[Garibaldi Red]

Very Happy for the Tricky Trees!

Very happy for the Welshman in charge. He certainly brought a fresh outlook on the club as a whole and that was firmly embraced by the staff, players and supporters.

 

[chiwigi]

Very happy for the Welshman in charge. He certainly brought a fresh outlook on the club as a whole and that was firmly embraced by the staff, players and supporters.

And my mate Merthyr Johnny who is on the board (and the best sports documentary maker in the world imo). .

I knew Steve, he was a couple of years under me playing for county.

His Dad Keith was a fantastic bloke though, he used to be a top tier referee, but he'd also come and referee boys clubs games and help out in all the Valleys Towns! Same pre game talks too .

Proper family! There were mad fights all through town at this game!!!

 

[chiwigi]

And while I'm here, Gareth Bale, ONE OF THE GREATEST EVER! Suffers from Tredrea Syndrome (he not English instead of not Victorian) so doesn't get the plaudits he clearly deserves!

Honours​

Tottenham Hotspur

• Football League/EFL Cup runner-up: 2008–09,[295] 2020–21[296]

Real Madrid

• La Liga: 2016–17,[297] 2019–20,[165] 2021–22[298]
• Copa del Rey: 2013–14[299]
• Supercopa de España: 2017[300]
• UEFA Champions League: 2013–14,[301] 2015–16,[302] 2016–17,[303] 2017–18,[304] 2021–22[305]
• UEFA Super Cup: 2014,[306] 2016,[307] 2017[308]
• FIFA Club World Cup: 2014,[309] 2017,[310] 2018[311]

Individual

• Tottenham Hotspur Young Player of the Year: 2009–10,[312] 2010–11[313]
• Tottenham Hotspur Player of the Year: 2012–13[314]
• UEFA Team of the Year: 2011,[315] 2013[316]
• UEFA Champions League Squad of the Season: 2015–16[317]
• Welsh Footballer of the Year: 2010,[51] 2011,[318] 2013,[319] 2014,[320] 2015,[321] 2016[322]
• ESM Team of the Year: 2012–13[323]
• The Football League Team of the Decade[324]
• Premier League Player of the Month: April 2010, January 2012, February 2013[325]
• PFA Team of the Year: 2006–07 Championship,[326] 2010–11 Premier League,[56] 2011–12 Premier League,[327] 2012–13 Premier League[86]
• PFA Players' Player of the Year: 2010–11,[56] 2012–13[86]
• PFA Young Player of the Year: 2012–13[86]
• FWA Footballer of the Year: 2012–13[328]
• Premier League Player of the Season: 2012–13[325]
• FIFA Club World Cup Golden Ball: 2018[329]
• BBC Wales Carwyn James Junior Sportsman of the Year: 2006[21]
• Football Association of Wales Young Player of the Year: 2007[330]
• BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year: 2010[331]

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[Garibaldi Red]

And my mate Merthyr Johnny who is on the board (and the best sports documentary maker in the world imo). .

I knew Steve, he was a couple of years under me playing for county.

His Dad Keith was a fantastic bloke though, he used to be a top tier referee, but he'd also come and referee boys clubs games and help out in all the Valleys Towns! Same pre game talks too .

Proper family! There were mad fights all through town at this game!!!

Yes, how could I forget him, he always believed in miracles.
I used to hang around with a bloke from Merthyr, not sure if I have mentioned it to you before. His name is Kevin Mitchell. He married a girl who used to live up the street from my wife. She went back home to Wales, met & married him, then they came to live here in SA.
I also see that Grimsby are in the National League final. I should mention this but they have scored in the 119th minute of their last 2 games.

 

[chiwigi]

Yes, how could I forget him, he always believed in miracles.
I used to hang around with a bloke from Merthyr, not sure if I have mentioned it to you before. His name is Kevin Mitchell. He married a girl who used to live up the street from my wife. She went back home to Wales, met & married him, then they came to live here in SA.
I also see that Grimsby are in the National League final. I should mention this but they have scored in the 119th minute of their last 2 games.

I’m a big Grimsby fan, they’re my second team, used to go to a lot of their games (again we may have had this conversation, just a shame it was against Wrexham, but they’ll go up next year anyway!

 

[Schulzenfest]

Most regions of England are represented, but how can it be called a true EPL if Wales isn't there?

u wot

How can we be called the Australian Football League without a team from New Zealand?

 

[chiwigi]

u wot

How can we be called the Australian Football League without a team from New Zealand?

It is not the EPL, that is an informal lazy name it is the Premier League! Any more than the AFL is called the VFL.

It shouldn't be called the EFL, that is a very recent marketing thing FOR THE football league ONLY. (2015)! It would basically be like the AFL turning around next week and rebranding to Super League Victoria!

Actually that wouldn't be so bad as it was once the VFL, the Football League has never been the English Football League.

 

[Schulzenfest]

It shouldn't be called the EFL, that is a very recent marketing thing FOR THE football league ONLY. (2015)! It would basically be like the AFL turning around next week and rebranding to Super League Victoria!

F***in hell m8, don't give them ideas. I hope Gil's not reading this.

 

[EskimoPAFC]

u wot

How can we be called the Australian Football League without a team from New Zealand?

Good point.

The Stewart Island Kiwis can join next season.

 

[Grave Danger]

So much for a quiet off season...

Emerson Royal: Footballer unscathed after gunfight during mugging in Brazil

Emerson Royal thanks an off-duty police officer who saved him from an armed robbery in Brazil.

www.bbc.com

 

[Garibaldi Red]

Big weekend chiwigi

 

[chiwigi]

Big weekend chiwigi

Yup, ducking awesome!!!

 

[dirty2]

Australia beat UAE this morning to set up a match vs Peru (next Tuesday 3:30am) Winner makes the world cup.

 

[EskimoPAFC]

Australia beat UAE this morning to set up a match vs Peru (next Tuesday 3:30am) Winner makes the world cup.

Yep banter has started early today with my Peruvian co-worker.

We'll start underdogs but you never know what will happen in a playoff game.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Bloody slept thru about 90% of the game and woke up just before the broadcast ended so saw highlights of the goals.

One small advantage over Peru we have, is this will be our 12th or 13th game in middle east as part of the 3 year campaign to qualify for this world cup.

Not as good as playing in front of 83k in Sydney but I will take any small advantage.

 

[Burningleviathan]

Greame Arnold is Australian soccers Ken Hinkley. He'll probably pull off the win and we'll be stuck with him for another four years.

That said, fingers crossed for the win.

 

[Harlott]

We exist to qualify for the World Cup.

 

[EskimoPAFC]

We exist to qualify for the World Cup.

We sort of do though, really the aim is to compete for the win in Asia Cup and make it out of the group stage in the World Cup. Being able to go beyond that without extreme luck really is going to take some time.

Its not like the cyclical AFL where virtually every team other than us have made it to a GF in the last decade.

 

[EskimoPAFC]

Great effort so far this morning. Can be proud of this no matter how the shootout ends up.

 

[dirty2]

Off to the world cup!!!!!!!!

 

[EskimoPAFC]

Eddie Redmayne gets it done!

 

[GremioPower]

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Viva la Grey Wiggle.

Excruciating to watch. Missed the 1st half but sheer elation at the end.

Shades of 1974 qualification. Had to travel everywhere to make it thru to the WC as the last team to qualify.

16 games away out of 20 games is a tough route to take, leaving it to the 6th penalty.

 

[GremioPower]

the last team to qualify

I think there is still Costa Rica v. New Zealand to be played.