The [Horribly Unpopular] Soccer Thread

[HoppyDaze]

A thread titled "The [Horribly Unpopular] Soccer Thread" invites trolling. I never insulted anyone or took anything to a personal level. If that's how you folks perceived it than I apologize. This is the internet. I was just ribbing you guys. It doesn't help that when I try to actually talk about soccer I am completely ignored. Anyway...mission complete fellas. You really got me. Although someone should explain to me how I got banned for "gay slur" resulting from something I posted in this thread. I highly suspect it was a sensitive member(s) who misconstrued my comments and flagged it. Yes I said 85% of soccer players are gay, but you all are the ones who assumed negativity in the statement. Again, my apologies ...

 

[aygov]

A thread titled "The [Horribly Unpopular] Soccer Thread" invites trolling. I never insulted anyone or took anything to a personal level. If that's how you folks perceived it than I apologize. This is the internet. I was just ribbing you guys. It doesn't help that when I try to actually talk about soccer I am completely ignored. Anyway...mission complete fellas. You really got me. Although someone should explain to me how I got banned for "gay slur" resulting from something I posted in this thread. I highly suspect it was a sensitive member(s) who misconstrued my comments and flagged it. Yes I said 85% of soccer players are gay, but you all are the ones who assumed negativity in the statement. Again, my apologies ...

Well that sucks. Perhaps a PM from the offended rather than a mod report and ban.

I always appreciate a bit of banter with fans of other sports.

 

[Punity]

Need some help. Better birthday present I can choose one. WC match USMNT vs Panama(i believe) or Sounders v Whitecaps 50k+ already going to that game. Both at Century Link field so no issues with travel.

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

A thread titled "The [Horribly Unpopular] Soccer Thread" invites trolling. I never insulted anyone or took anything to a personal level. If that's how you folks perceived it than I apologize. This is the internet. I was just ribbing you guys. It doesn't help that when I try to actually talk about soccer I am completely ignored. Anyway...mission complete fellas. You really got me. Although someone should explain to me how I got banned for "gay slur" resulting from something I posted in this thread. I highly suspect it was a sensitive member(s) who misconstrued my comments and flagged it. Yes I said 85% of soccer players are gay, but you all are the ones who assumed negativity in the statement. Again, my apologies ...

You got suspended? Sorry to hear that. I was not offended personally by the gay stuff. I just called it stupid because I thought it was stupid........Now, that scarf stuff.......Well, that's just plain offensive, Mr. Foamy Hand!! :cross:

 

[BrewKnurd]

I really hope we can carry the momentum from the Germany game. 2-1 Dempsey brace. I'd say 2-0, but I'm not confident in our back line.

I think I heard the us has never won a qualifier in Jamaica. Now, history means nothing, really. So I'm hoping for a win, and I think 2-1 is probably a pretty likely scoreline.

Hoping jozy can keep up what he started on Sunday. Although, really, I'm in the camp that it's really more on the midfield to get him the ball in meaningful places, like they did against Germany.

 

[Pappers_]

A thread titled "The [Horribly Unpopular] Soccer Thread" invites trolling. I never insulted anyone or took anything to a personal level. If that's how you folks perceived it than I apologize. This is the internet. I was just ribbing you guys. It doesn't help that when I try to actually talk about soccer I am completely ignored. Anyway...mission complete fellas. You really got me. Although someone should explain to me how I got banned for "gay slur" resulting from something I posted in this thread. I highly suspect it was a sensitive member(s) who misconstrued my comments and flagged it. Yes I said 85% of soccer players are gay, but you all are the ones who assumed negativity in the statement. Again, my apologies ...

Lets be clear and accurate about what happened. An administrator deleted a post of yours with the note "sexual orientation as an insult is NOT appropriate." You ignored her and continued to post calling people gay. Your explanation above that you meant nothing insulting by it is disingenuous and beside the point - you were asked to stop.

When you ignored the administrator's request to stop, another moderator came in and deleted more of your posts and gave you the two day ban, for thumbing your nose at the previous request.

The appropriate lesson here for everyone is two-fold: 1) no using of sexual orientation as an insult and 2) when an administrator or moderator asks you to refrain from something, please do so or we will use other means to get your attention.

 

[Catfish78]

Finland v Belarus, live right now!

Okay I know, no one cares. If I didn't live here I wouldn't care either.


4:30am is not a good time for me to catch the US match. I am really hoping they can hold their back line together to get passed Jamaica.

 

[hoppyhoppyhippo]

Finland v Belarus, live right now!

Okay I know, no one cares. If I didn't live here I wouldn't care either.


4:30am is not a good time for me to catch the US match. I am really hoping they can hold their back line together to get passed Jamaica.

US should do well against Jamaica, they lost last time in Kingston, but I'm sure the squad will be better this time.

 

[Grannyknot]

US should do well against Jamaica, they lost last time in Kingston, but I'm sure the squad will be better this time.

me too. from what I remember about the last game in Kingston, it rained the whole time, the pitch was horrible, we didn't have Bradley, and played a strange midfield combination, but can't remember who it was.

Michael Bradley, while he didn't really play a huge role against Germany, has become one of my favorite players.

 

[Catfish78]

US should do well against Jamaica, they lost last time in Kingston, but I'm sure the squad will be better this time.

I hope so.


PS: Finland 1 - 0 Belarus

 

[hoppyhoppyhippo]

Jozy!!!!

 

[hoppyhoppyhippo]

Great first half for the red white and blue.

 

[sfrisby]

Completely flat beginning of second half.

 

[hoppyhoppyhippo]

Jamaicans are playing dirty. How there hasn't been a yellow yet to get the game under control is beyond me.

 

[Yooper]

"to be clear" my ass. None of that crap happened. I had no previous contact with any admin; maybe something was posted in the thread and I never saw it.
Anyway... enjoy your soccer thread guys.

You should have seen it. I gave you the first warning. Passedpawn gave you the next two, and I'm not sure who deleted/warned you the last two. I could look but I don't want to put the effort into it. You are the only person in this thread that required 5 warnings (or even one, actually) and if you missed it, then there is no help for you.

If you choose to ignore warnings, you will definitely find yourself uninvited to participate in our forum. At this point, there will be no further warnings.

A simple rule of thumb is to not be an ass. If your posts are deleted over and over and you're the only one- then you ARE being an ass. It's not too hard to figure out. If you're having problems with it, please contact TxBrew so he can explain it more simply to you, if that will help.

 

[hoppyhoppyhippo]

Holy crap!!!

Woooooooo fergie time!

 

[Grannyknot]

I called it. 2-1 with a winner from Bradley....Evans.

 

[passedpawn]

woot

 

[hoppyhoppyhippo]

I called it. 2-1 with a winner from Bradley....Evans.

I was so annoyed that we gave up such a bad goal (though I think the guy may have been offsides, I'd want to watch it again later) but I was OK with 1 point cause I knew we still had a shot to wind up over Mexico, but getting the win was clutch. We're still behind Costa Rica in GD, but I think we'll be OK, we've got 4 home games left to their 3. We also can take a win in Costa Rica to really seal the deal against them

 

[sfrisby]

Can't wait till Tuesday.

 

[hoppyhoppyhippo]

And the Mexican's drew nice. So now if we just end our current set with 2 home wins we'll be 3 points up over the Mexicans would 4 to go. Would be awesome if somehow they were the 3rd team who has to play for their lives. But since they have 2 games against the Costa Ricans they can easily knock them down and position themselves well, they still have 3 home games left and assuming those are all wins it would be hard to imagine them not making a top 2 seed.

 

[Catfish78]

Just saw the highlights, the Jamaican goal definitely looked offsides to me.[ame]http://youtu.be/e0zqwYSAjh0[/ame]

Nice that they came away with the 3 points.

 

[hoppyhoppyhippo]

Wow that was worse that I thought, it wasn't even close. Shame they took a goal opp from Jozy when he was seemingly on but allowed that. Refs were brutal to the US.

 

[hopstupid]

Horrible marking

that was a huge #### up!




Robert Snodgrass earns Scotland shock qualifying victory in Croatia

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/jun/07/croatia-scotland-world-cup-qualifier

Hopefully city doesn't offer 20 million for him.

 

[hopstupid]

So a mouthy whiner like Piers Morgan is representative of all Arsenal fans now? I'm sorry man, but get a clue.

And no you can criticize all you want, it just looks really hilarious to have a fan who's team has NEVER won the PL and whose last trophy of note was the football league cup in 1985 incessantly railing on about our trophy drought. Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

Arsenal fans are paying the highest ticket prices to watch a farm team. Don't get mad at me bro just facts probably doesn't bother you that much cause you aren't going to many of their games.

 

[passedpawn]

Just saw the highlights, the Jamaican goal definitely looked offsides to me.Nice that they came away with the 3 points.

Yep.

 

[aygov]

Arsenal fans are paying the highest ticket prices to watch a farm team. Don't get mad at me bro just facts probably doesn't bother you that much cause you aren't going to many of their games.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahha... I'll leave you to your ignorance.

 

[Grannyknot]

Arsenal fans are paying the highest ticket prices to watch a farm team. Don't get mad at me bro just facts probably doesn't bother you that much cause you aren't going to many of their games.

You sure are full of all the tired old anti-arsenal talking points. Let us know when you're able to string them together in a coherent point.

 

[hoppyhoppyhippo]

Horrible marking

that was a huge #### up!

Someone did miss their mark, but dude was about 3 feet offsides and pushed off, if the US made that play it would have been unbelievable. They could have made the play (or made the play tougher) but it would have taken nearly a perfect read especially with the player closest to the scorer being pushed backwards.

 

[hopstupid]

Someone did miss their mark, but dude was about 3 feet offsides and pushed off, if the US made that play it would have been unbelievable. They could have made the play (or made the play tougher) but it would have taken nearly a perfect read especially with the player closest to the scorer being pushed backwards.

haha that guy did two hand shove him you're right. He plays in the Championship not bad either.




sorry guys i had to this is just to good