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Offline Pei

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« on: February 13, 2003, 09:12:02 AM »
in football last night

THis far more important news than Iraq!

Is it time to burn the goal posts and put them in an urn?
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« Reply #1 on: February 13, 2003, 09:16:09 AM »
Australia played well. England played like it was a friendly... which it was.

As for some new Football Ashes - bring it on squeak. :D
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« Reply #2 on: February 13, 2003, 09:39:26 AM »
Spain 3 - Germany 1 :p

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« Reply #3 on: February 13, 2003, 09:44:33 AM »
What about Canada kicking Bangladesh's butt in Cricket on the weekend? Now there was an bellybutton whoopin. Teach them Bangladeshees to look at Canada sideways. Whoo Hooo. How's them apples Bangladesh?
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« Reply #4 on: February 13, 2003, 09:46:17 AM »
I read Sven fielded an entirely different team in the second half.  Kinda hard to maintain any cohesiveness for 90 minutes when you do that.

Was reading articles on all the friendlies.  Was hilarious.  the Dutch 1-0 victory over Argentina was a shocker!  (yeah, those Dutch can't play soccer, I mean football, at all!)

Spain is a good side, and 3-1 over Germany is nice, even in a friendly.

oh yeah, US 2 Jamaica 1.  :)
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« Reply #5 on: February 13, 2003, 09:57:27 AM »
That's right Nifty. It was a game of two halves... and two England teams. They were all young players in the 2nd half, including the yougest Englishman to earn a cap - Mickey Rooney at 17 years old and 111 days. :)

Strangely, we conceded two goals in the first half, but the youth team conceded one and scored one.

Aaah well. It's not so much 'England expects', more like 'Expect England to dissappoint'. :D

Well done on beating those Jamaican bad-boys. :)
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« Reply #6 on: February 13, 2003, 10:07:48 AM »
heh, we played with our "B" team (if you can consider us being decent enough to have a "B" team) while Jamaica brought in their Euro based players.  It was in Jamaica too.  I wouldn't consider it a great result, but a good result for the younger, less experienced American players.

On a side note...  McBride scored again in the Premiership over the weekend.  :)
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« Reply #7 on: February 13, 2003, 10:11:24 AM »
Did you watch the game? Do they carry US footy games on US channels?

McBride is a very good player. I can see him being around for a long while over here. It's a shame real football gets so little coverage in the US.
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« Reply #8 on: February 13, 2003, 01:10:59 PM »
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Australia played well. England played like it was a friendly... which it was.

As for some new Football Ashes - bring it on squeak. :D

ROFL Dowding.

I think we should launch a pre-emptive strike against Australia nd confiscate their weapons of mass destruction (their Cricket team).

I wish the Americans could play cricket, then we could put all this silly arguing behind us and settle it in a gentlemanly way instead.
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« Reply #9 on: February 13, 2003, 01:13:49 PM »
Bounder don't be ridiculous.

We'd probably lose to the US at cricket - everytime we teach someone how to play, they beat us eventually. :D
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« Reply #10 on: February 13, 2003, 02:47:10 PM »
no, since it was in Jamaica, none of the US main sport channels wanted to pay to show the game.  A spanish speaking station (Telemundo) picked up the game on delayed broadcast, but I don't get Telemundo.  I do however get Galavision, so I could have watched Costa Rica and Honduras (I think, someone was playing) in some Carribean tournament.  I actually just didn't watch TV last night.  ;)  Most of our Men's games are shown live either on espn or espn2. Sometimes ABC (country wide broadcast, not just on cable/satellite) carries them.

So far, the USA has had 3 men's friendlies this year.  Vs Canada in Fort Lauderdale, vs Argentina in Miami and at Jamaica in Kingston.  

Canada match was pay per view (I bought it, 4-0 US win.)  Argentina was on espn2 (1-0 Argentine win) and as I said, the 2-1 US win over Jamaica wasn't live, but was delayed on a Spanish speaking station I don't get.  ;)

Our domestic league (MLS!  hehe) gets 1 game a week on espn/espn2.  We can PPV the entire season and get access to all the games for about $70 (I do this.)

We have a cable/satellite station called Fox Sports World.  This shows international games.  We get 2 or 3 English Premiership games a week, some League Cup matches (not FA cup, we have to PPV those), usually 1 Bundesliga, 1 La Liga (almost always Real Madrid or Barcelona) and 1 Scottish match a week.   Last season we got some Eiredivisie (sp?) matches, but I haven't seen any this year.

Fox Sports World also shows Sky Sports News every day.

We can sometimes PPV international friendlies (and like I said, the FA cup matches.)  The above mentioned matches (england/aussies; germany/spain; dutch/argentina) were all available for about $15 or $20 a pop.  I didn't really check, because they were jsut friendlies.

We usually get Champion's League matches live (joy, that's only like 2pm local time!  I'm at work), but just one a week when they are playing.  They don't really show UEFA Cup matches until later stages.

Under age teams and Women's teams are hit or miss as to what they'll show.

That's pretty much my access to soccer via TV (I know you asked just about the US teams, but still, decided to tell all!)

I'll be...  I just checked FSW, and we've got FA cup match this weekend.  hardly any of it is live.

http://www.foxsportsworld.com to see what I get in terms of international soccer.  :)
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