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What sites do you do to for Arsenal news, analysis, opinions? I’ve never really found one I like@ kanjiman –
The old aesthetics vs results dilemna; as a fan are you happy to win trophies with ugly 1-0 wins, or would you rather come 2nd/3rd with beautiful football?
Arsenal have been lacking grit and steel in their side, and have at times become too fascinated with ‘beautiful’ football. Perhaps not so much this season, but recent seasons they kept trying to pass the ball into the net, making me want to throw my remote through the TV.It’s interesting seeing young people who have grown up with the beautiful football of Barca/Arsenal etc playing football now. To an extent a lot of them have inherited the same problem. They are obsessed with retaining posesession, great passing etc. But shooting, scoring?! It’s almost as though they’re not interested in it!
Can you expain – in what way do Barca play ugly?
@ Chris – thanks a lot! I thought that was what you meant, but I didn’t how to do the audio! Cheers.
The sentences in Anki are a good way to revise the grammar; it’s a shame to lose them.
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vanandrew.
@kanjiman – It’s funny that we were lamenting the lack of players being involved with one club, then Di Matteo manages his old club to CL glory!
@ chris – I was frustrated at Chelsea’s victory partly because of their style, which was really annoying to watch. I like counter-attacking football, when teams remember to attack when they get possession! Chelsea weren’t really counter-attacking with conviction when they got possession, they were just so cautious.
@Chris – Sorry, I’m not sure what you mean. Copy them from each lesson and make anki decks like that?
Thanks guys, that helps.
@kanjiman8 – there is no justice in the football world; that CL final proves it. Just terrible.
Agree about Japan/Korea, both the leagues are getting better and do well in the Asian CL. They do happen to have the odd Brazilian in the side who often make the difference though.
World Cups are brilliant with that festive atmosphere, similar to the Olympics. I think the last few have been of less quality due to style – the footballing world has embraced conservative styles of play more and more.
We may be of a similar vintage – those are the sorts of players that got me into football.
My picture is of Kazushi Sakuraba – Japanese mixed martial arts superstar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazushi_Sakuraba …. http://www.saku39.com/
I’ll leave it at that, as I could go on about for him forever!
@tripmaster – I’ve just started season 4 too and noticed this.
I just browsed through all of season 4 & 5 and there doesn’t seem to be any more sentence decks.@kanjiman8 – I thought a draft would be daft, but when you put it that way, I’d love to see that, it’d be hilarious – Messi would have to get used to those wet Tuesday nights in Stoke if it was his home club!!!
Sure Spain will be favourites, but I think less so than previous. In the World Cup a few teams pushed them (even Switzerland), and in the years since then I think people have had a chance to develop ways to play against Spain/Barcelona.
Don’t hold your breath on an Asian team winning it!I quite like international comps and get a bit annoyed when people slag it off, when they say that unlike the CL it’s not all the best players competing. I like the fact that there are constraints on who is in a team, and managers have to use strategy more and $$$ less.
Welcome Amy
@yggbert – Indeed Germany will kick ‘em all! They did so well at the last tournament, & this time they’ll have the young Dortmund players coming through too. Exciting!
@Chris – I agree money has always been an issue (going back 100 years), but I feel that it’s got to some sort of tipping point now, where it has a much larger negative impact & poorer clubs have much less chance of succeeding than they once did.
The influence of the G14 is largely to blame.
@kanjiman – that’s kinda of the problem, it’s harder to think of players like Adams, Maldini etc in the current game.
How to solve the money problem is hard, hopefully the new UEFA rules do it. I’m not convinced drafts and salary caps are the answer though. You end up with leagues where everybody gets to be a winner if you wait for your turn, which lacks a sense of achievement.
I’m Iron Chef has plenty of ideas
Hopefully – it was awkward having to “unlearn” then learn some of the radicals that changed earlier this year.
@ Chris – Agree on the Ox, he seemed to play with maturity beyond his age this season. Hopefully he plays more next season.
@Kanjiman – RVP has to stay! He’s been at Arsenal for so long now, if he threw that away to go to City for money & not play less would be a tragedy. Mr Tintin is better than that!
Sadly, you’re right money has ruined it to a large extent. I’m a lot less passionate about football than I used to be. It’s slowly gotten worse – the mid-2000s was end for me. Too much money, commercialism, short-sightedness, hype, celebrity and very impersonal. For me one of the aspects that got me in was the connection with the community the clubs had, with small stadiums in the area they’re from (e.g. Highbury) now it’s all mega-stadiums (e.g. “Emirates” – urgh, even the name is tainted).
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