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World Soccer XVIII: A New Season

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WeWantMore said:
Holy cow, what's gotten into Heskey lately?
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Of course we later saw the other side of Heskey but he really seems to enjoy that Martin is gone and Houllier is in. Did you hear the commentator talking about Heskey later? "I played with Emile, he's on the floor a lot, not tough..." exactly right. If Heskey were a boxer he'd look like a champ right up to the point he took the first good punch, then he'd be heading for the lockers

That goal at the end of the first was killer, another 10 seconds and they head to the half ahead vs. feeling like they got punched in the nuts.

Chelsea next week, we needed that point yesterday.
 
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And Liverpool just lost to Blackpool 2-1 AT Anfield.

Torres came out in the 11th minute, was he hurt?
 
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AMC said:
Is Liverpool really a relegation candidate? Is this the world we live in?
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I may pick on Pool, but it would be sad if that were the case. They have a great history. I really wish someone would make a shirt that said...

"Make the World a Better Place... Punch Gillette and Hicks in the Face."
 
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If Liverpool gets relegated (or even if they finish in the bottom 7 or so), to me that would be a good thing.

Personally, I'm dying to see more parity in Europe. You get it in Germany, to a degree, but the whole "the same people win all the time" story has started to get pretty old. I don't just want to see these teams miss out on the Champions League, or miss out on Europe entirely. I want to see them wallowing in mediocrity.

While Chelsea, United and Arsenal may still have a stranglehold on the rest of England, I can take comfort that the other member of the Big 4 is struggling mightily, while West Brom and Blackpool are in the top half of the table.
 
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ExileOnDaytonStreet said:
If Liverpool gets relegated (or even if they finish in the bottom 7 or so), to me that would be a good thing.

Personally, I'm dying to see more parity in Europe. You get it in Germany, to a degree, but the whole "the same people win all the time" story has started to get pretty old. I don't just want to see these teams miss out on the Champions League, or miss out on Europe entirely. I want to see them wallowing in mediocrity.

While Chelsea, United and Arsenal may still have a stranglehold on the rest of England, I can take comfort that the other member of the Big 4 is struggling mightily, while West Brom and Blackpool are in the top half of the table.
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I loved the 70s and 80s races. I wasn't alive or paying attention to them, but I did watch the retrospectives that the Beeb did and I loved them. Look at the winners in the 70s. You had Leeds, Derby County, Arsenal, Nottingham Forrest and Liverpool win the title. I know in the 80s it was only Pool, Everton and Villa, but there were others in the race.

I wish more teams would get into the race, but some just stand pat and don't do anything because they want to pad their bank accounts instead of making an attempt to win. (See Wigan, Wolves and others.)
 
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US Open Cup Final, Seattle and Columbus are 1-1 at halftime.
 
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Americans for Americans...but I would rather have the owner of the Red Sox than the owner of the Rangers who gave A-Rod that ridiculous contract.
 
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Priceless said:
Call Man U the "Evil Empire" then win a championship...
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I could go for that. And a new stadium pronto, because Anfield can't sustain the team with its limited size. They can't renovate it like they did with Fenway.

They need to build a new 65K stadium to challenge Utd and Arsenal and Chelski.
 
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Terrierbyassociation said:
I could go for that. And a new stadium pronto, because Anfield can't sustain the team with its limited size. They can't renovate it like they did with Fenway.

They need to build a new 65K stadium to challenge Utd and Arsenal and Chelski.
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As long as they leave Craven Cottage alone. Though, as a general rule, big stadiums are awful. Hopefully, all of soccer will go bankrupt in the next decade, and we can start over with small grounds, salary caps, the end of corporation ownership, and basically a repudiation of everything the EPL is.
 
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Kepler said:
As long as they leave Craven Cottage alone. Though, as a general rule, big stadiums are awful. Hopefully, all of soccer will go bankrupt in the next decade, and we can start over with small grounds, salary caps, the end of corporation ownership, and basically a repudiation of everything the EPL is.
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What? Why?
 
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