I really wish someone would suspend him - he's more fucking frustrating than mambagrl and Don Beebe combined

12/6/2009 5:48:00 PM

haha I think it's just more noticeable because there's only a handful of soccer fans that post on a regular basis so he sticks out with his jackassery

12/6/2009 5:52:29 PM

you right.


I mean, I cut the fuck up everywhere else, but as my profile says, I only really come here to talk about soccer.


Being a fucking ignoramus about it is just as bad as trolling to me, and this kid is the quintessential definition of "ignoramus."

12/6/2009 5:54:57 PM

lol. i leave my house for a couple of innocent hours to eat nachos and have a couple beers...and maybe a couple soco shots...and this place turns to retard hell....wtf mate

12/6/2009 5:57:23 PM

yeah, let's get back to the previous topic of baller ass US goals...

"Agoos, the right footed clear..... SCOOORREESSSSSSSS"


that file I made when making that video came up on my playlist the other day as "agoosscooooooores.wav"

12/6/2009 6:01:30 PM

thats funny that that is your video. i never look at who the video's users are when i search them

12/6/2009 6:04:55 PM

is it too early for predictions up in here? or are we going to wait till next summer

12/6/2009 6:06:00 PM

god, i always miss the good stuff.

i'm going to hold off on my predictions for a little bit.

12/6/2009 6:56:48 PM

12/6/2009 7:11:02 PM

Haha. England is one of the best teams in the world, but I still think they're reaching a tad when pasting their heroes over the WC Trophy as if they've already won it.

Then again, it is The Sun.

12/6/2009 7:52:51 PM

The players and the team don't overrate themselves, the MEDIA do.


According to the English media, England can and should shit out a WC trophy at-will.


I mean, given the competition England plays against and has regular success against, you'd think the chips would fall our way a bit more often, but it is what it is.



Now on the other hand, american media puts the US team up on that same pedestal with no substance to support the opinion, and the casual fan buys into it hook line and sinker, because why would the media lie to them??!

[Edited on December 6, 2009 at 8:02 PM. Reason : .]

12/6/2009 8:00:07 PM

What US media outlet have you seen saying we should shit out World Cup trophies?

12/6/2009 8:04:57 PM

Alexi LOL-ASS needs to get fired and start auditioning for the part of Carrot Top's stand in.

I believe the rest of the media has been pretty fair in their assessment. Even Harkes, who usually annoys me, stated that he believes the best the US can get out of the England clash is a draw, which I believe to be a pretty fair assessment.

I still think this is one of the best draws the US could have received and still don't think they're a lock to advance. I'm about 60/40 that the US will advance right about now, with respect to their past few performances. Davies out doesn't help much either. To me, he was their wild card/ace in the hole.

[Edited on December 6, 2009 at 8:14 PM. Reason : .]

12/6/2009 8:10:06 PM

not saying they should shit them out, but buffoonery like Alexi Lalas' comments in the video amac posted on the last page are generally typical of US commentators.

[Edited on December 6, 2009 at 8:10 PM. Reason : .]

[Edited on December 6, 2009 at 8:12 PM. Reason : remember 2006? or 2002? or 1994? or even the confed cup?]

12/6/2009 8:10:46 PM

So, nothing outside of Lalas (lunatic fringe)

The US media is pretty even-handed when it comes to WC coverage

I don't think anything is blown out of proportion

I like you a bunch, but you just made that one up

12/6/2009 8:12:49 PM

No sir, there's an obvious media bias.


In fact, I need point no further than Dave O'Brien.


Julie Foudy's been known to spout some utter horseshit as well.

12/6/2009 8:28:59 PM

well .... she's a woman

12/6/2009 8:36:04 PM

Dave O'Brien knows jack shit about soccer so that's a bad example. He was a baseball guy forced to do soccer. Guys like Ley and Dellacamera are a lot more level-headed. You could tell by Ley's reaction to Lalas's reaction after the draw with regards to playing England. He was like, "Um, what the fuck are you so excited about?"

Foudy, Lalas, and Harkes are all super pro-US but what do you expect from ex-National team players?

And as far as hyping up the US... they HAVE to do that to a certain extent. What bandwagon casual soccer fan is going to give a fuck about watching soccer if all of them went on about how much we sucked (which we don't in the grand scheme of things, but whatever)? It's just like during the Olympics, all we hear about is how awesome American athletes are.

12/6/2009 8:38:17 PM

i really don't think the US media expects much out of the US. alexi lalas is just a promoter, so he'll rouse some rabble from time to time, but that's about it. the rest of the media plays it very cautious, because they know that putting the US far would make them less credible (and rightfully so). and every american analyst this year has had the US squeaking out of the first round, only to lose to germany, which is very plausible.

england, on the other hand, fully expect a world cup trophy every 2 years (yes, that's intentional). i often get accused of being an england hater, just because i never expect them to make it past the round of 16. every time, waaaayyy too much stock gets put on the english attacking game, and they fall short. and every time, they fall to a team with a dominate passing game, usually from south america or germany.

but hey, maybe they'll win it again the next time its held in england, and all of their matches are played in wembley.....and they have controversial goals ceded to them. maybe then, will the world cup trophy "be coming home"

the only real thing england fans should be excited about is having a man who wins at every level he coaches at the helm. that, in and of itself, is exciting.

[Edited on December 6, 2009 at 8:49 PM. Reason : ]

12/6/2009 8:47:31 PM

yeah yeah, we've been through this before. I know and understand the reasoning behind it.

12/6/2009 8:48:18 PM

^^ too be fair we generally dominate Olympic totals so that's not completely undeserved, soccer praise however is all smoke and mirrors.

12/6/2009 8:49:53 PM

i really don't know where all this "soccer praise" is coming from. unless you guys are watching your late local news analysts, i think most of the national guys are pretty level-headed.

and really, the US should be happy with this draw. I don't think there is any other group i would prefer to be in.



on a completely unrelated note. i'll personally be interested in seeing how spain does this time. they got a very favorable draw, and they did as well last world cup and fell flat in the knockout stages after dominating group play. i know they're the sexy pick after winning the euro's, but after arragones retired, i am interested in seeing how they adjust after their showing in the confed cup.


i'm also interested in watching the ivory coast (if they advance out of that group) and south africa, mostly because i think the ivory coast (and many african nations, for that matter) are exciting to watch.

[Edited on December 6, 2009 at 9:02 PM. Reason : ]

12/6/2009 8:52:12 PM

well I'm assuming it's mostly because of Lalas being such a fuck head after the draw...

^ I agree about Ivory Coast (I lived there for a year so I'm definitely pulling for them after the US) and I honestly think they should go through. I think Group G is a tad over hyped because Portugal is not as good as everybody is saying they are.

[Edited on December 6, 2009 at 8:58 PM. Reason : ivory coast]

12/6/2009 8:53:49 PM

yeah, but that's Lalas' bag. he's a promoter. a Don King type. that's just what he does.

i mean really, you can't have long red-hair, play the guitar, and then expect to be mr. serious.



i just hate how he starts every sentence with, "I mean, look..."

12/6/2009 8:57:19 PM

Basically, long story short, I'd like to pull a canvas bag over Alexi Lalas' face and hit him in the legs repeatedly with a lead pipe.

12/6/2009 9:01:37 PM

right but so would every other person that listens to him, even US fans

I personally liked Wynalda, even though I know not many other people liked him

12/6/2009 9:06:59 PM

so how many we gettin up in ruckus that saturday for USA v England?

12/6/2009 10:02:35 PM

Lalas is doing a good job of promoting my desire for him to be run over by a cement mixer.

12/6/2009 10:02:35 PM

^^ i'll be there, i know that.

12/6/2009 10:13:52 PM

I'll be there if we ain't at Hibernian instead.

[Edited on December 6, 2009 at 11:01 PM. Reason : I love the Ruck, but Hibernian sounds like THE place to be. ]

12/6/2009 11:00:51 PM

true. basically i think JT was just saying we were going to watch the game together. doesn't really matter where.

12/6/2009 11:11:38 PM

Hedley was telling me that good lookin' foreign women come out of the woodwork to watch it at Hibernian.


That doesn't really apply to you since you're getting married and all.... but it damn sure does for me!!

12/6/2009 11:19:04 PM

^^^Yeh, the one in Cary was great during the Germany vs Italy simi-final in 2006. We were packed shoulder to shoulder in the bar.

Quote :

"The US won one game against England in 1950 in World Cup play. Neither the US nor the English made it out of that group. If you even understood the concept of the game in tournament fashion -which you obviously don't - you would realize that one win in the group stages doesn't make or break anything. If you looked at the group standings the US still finished dead last in that group. What does that mean? It means that in 1950, when England finished second in the group, and the US finished last, England were a better team. Success in the group stages is measured over 3 games, not one. But you're too fucking stupid to understand that, which means that you'd also think a 2006 bottom-feeding US squad that somehow managed to miraculously draw in the group stages with eventual Champions Italy were somehow equal to them. Overall record: England 7 wins - US 2 wins - 0 draws England have outscored the US 35 to 8 in 9 games, the most recent being a 2-0 embarrassment of the US back in May. Every single International game counts for something, because every single game contributes to World Ranking, friendly or tournament. Again, something I wouldn't expect you to be able to comprehend, though. But honestly, I don't even know why I'm even bothering to type this out. You're an illiterate retard who doesn't have 2 brain cells to rub together, so why would you understand the finer points of tournament play?"

I know every game counts for something, but in the end a friendly is still a friendly. Screw the world rankings and seeding. All that matters is tournament play. USA 1 England 0! If you win in June then you can talk smack all you want! Until then, YOU LOST GET OVER IT!

12/6/2009 11:36:37 PM

Somebody fucking ban this retard. Please.

12/6/2009 11:41:17 PM

^So all State fans are retarded for being happy that we beat UNC even though they won more games?

12/6/2009 11:51:25 PM

man, i kinda like Lalas, he says dumb shit all the time, but at least he's really enthusiastic about our team.

I think we have a chance against england, they tend to mess up almost every world cup, but it's a small chance at that. We would need some tim howard heroics like today vs tottenham, but England winning is definitely not a given. They've lost to much worse teams than us, and we've beaten teams recently that are just as good as them.

12/7/2009 12:04:11 AM

^I think England wins vs USA and makes it to the simi-finals before they lose. With that being said, there is a reason they play the games. No one thought T&T would tie Sweden while playing 10 vs 11 for an entire half and then hold England scoreless for 80 minutes in their next game.

12/7/2009 12:08:39 AM

Quote :

"Lalas is doing a good job of promoting my desire for him to be run over by a cement mixer."

yeah he's reinforcing the typical egotistical american stereotype, while the british guys were saying it will be a tough game and pointing out usa's strenghts, all lalas could say was "we're gonna win, na na na na na na"

12/7/2009 12:19:15 AM

Quote :

"Hedley was telling me that good lookin' foreign women come out of the woodwork to watch it at Hibernian. That doesn't really apply to you since you're getting married and all.... but it damn sure does for me"

this newsletter, i'd like to subscribe

12/7/2009 12:56:46 AM

Hot foreign women and soccer? Where do I sign up?

12/7/2009 1:50:34 AM

I don't know where I'll be watching the USA games but I will be attending that Honduran bar in Durham that showed the USA-Honduras game for all the Honduras games. that's for damn sure.

12/7/2009 9:59:10 AM

[Edited on December 7, 2009 at 1:13 PM. Reason : you know better than to do this in ST. take a timeout.]

12/7/2009 12:34:40 PM

NSFW FUCKER, SUSPEND

12/7/2009 12:43:12 PM

for realz

the lady shouldn't have to look at that without warning

12/7/2009 12:47:22 PM

suspend. thanks alot butthead.


but i do like lunchtime tits.

[Edited on December 7, 2009 at 1:06 PM. Reason : ]

12/7/2009 1:05:16 PM

yay, sfw again!

12/7/2009 1:44:35 PM

SUCCESS

12/7/2009 1:45:09 PM

gg

12/7/2009 1:54:33 PM

omg

omg

FTW

12/7/2009 1:56:40 PM

lol wut i missed??

12/7/2009 2:32:46 PM