He meant a whole lot to a lot of people and at the end of the day he is still a son, a father, a grandfather and deserves to be mourned by people. Did you know him personally, a good friend of yours, distant family perhaps? Those are the people you mourn. IMO all this mourning of celebrities is sim...

Party at mine tonight, going to be a big celebration. Drug cheats should not be mourned. I think you need to pump the brakes there a little. It's not like he was responsible for mass genocide or enslaving people, he was a footballer. You are within your rights to not like him as a person and/or a p...

I reckon Juve do pretty well consistently with the refs in Italy, most non-Juve fans would agree with that as it is not 1-2 incidents a year, but numerous examples. E.g. Copa Italia- Torino vs Juve, Zaza commits two yellow card offences including a clear cut two footed challenge an gets away with i...

Do you not think he would have been dismissed if it was a headbutt? So the right decision is always made in sport is it? Just seems AGAIN they got the rub of the green - a real lack of consistency between the higuain incident and that one Don't insult my intelligence I don't wish to get into an arg...

I'll be back after you guys get knocked out 7-0 on aggregate. Enjoy your road to the Semi final DVD :arrow: What I understand from that comment is that you should only talk about and support your team when they win it all and in doing so, they have to beat the "best" teams in the process,...

Been a while, but semi finals here we come :D Have you played anyone good? What I find interesting is that he never alluded to anything other than the fact that it has been a while since we have gone as far as the semi's in the Champions League and that it is exciting to get there. Nothing untrue w...

Farcical situation at Parma. Heaps more misery on a already struggling Serie A.

This will probably lend credence to arguments for a 18 team league. May not be a bad thing, condense the finances and players to make competitiveness both on and off the pitch the number one priority.

I'll beat everyone to the punch - few decisions went our way this morning, I haven't seen the pen incident yet but it would make up for the clear handball we didn't get in the 1st half. Typically difficult game vs Chievo away next week. Strinic a bargain and looks great at LB for free. Seen the fir...

He has some talent no doubt. But getborn's point is spot on, Real Madrid have dished out that absurd amount of money off the back of a pretty good world cup, and as is typical of Real they tend to focus just as much on marketing hype as performance on the pitch. When you look at it, his club form d...

He has some talent no doubt. But getborn's point is spot on, Real Madrid have dished out that absurd amount of money off the back of a pretty good world cup, and as is typical of Real they tend to focus just as much on marketing hype as performance on the pitch. When you look at it, his club form do...

Dissapointing to see how the whole thing has unravelled. I can't quite put my finger on why he has left. Surely it can't be over a strategy/personell change, beacause with Allegri you will get that anyway. Unless the board lump him with the players of their choosing and tell him to make it work, if ...

Comparing the European championships to a cup competition in one league. Wow, if everybody didn't already know, you are a f**kwit.

Your original comment was that you did not consider Balotelli Italian, the whole basis of your argument was parentage over location and just because Balotelli was born in Italy does not entitle him to a passport, one parent had to be Italian. You completely disproved this theory by your own admissio...

God is an Englishman wrote:

Trezegoal #17 wrote:And who creates the laws within each respective country?

My god it's like speaking to a child.

the governments obviously.

Say no more....

And who creates the laws within each respective country?

My god it's like speaking to a child.

According to your rationale half the England squad are ineligible to play for England - in that case who is? I have said all along that you should only be able to represent a country that you were entitled to the passport of at birth. That would rule sterling and ballotelli out. And it's this defin...

So we have established that you believe that parentage should take precedence over location, we have established that being born in a country doesn't guarantee a citizenship in that country, or at least in Australia, one of the parents must be a citizen of that country. This is your view as I unders...

Being born in Australia doesn't automatically give someone Australian citizenship. Precisely. However, does being born to an australian parent autmoatically give someone Australian citizenship. Parentage > location. Even the law backs me up on this one. I should have clarified that one parent is a ...

Was he entitled to an italian passport at birth? He was born in Italy so yes. My mother was born here, what's that got to do with anything? I think you'll find he wasn't. Oh and a little clue, your mother is one of your parents. Both my parents weren't born here, yet I was born here and as such am ...

Sorry I will seek to clarify my comments, as I know what I meant, but others may not. Of course there are still parts of the world where people still haven't climbed very far up the evolutionary tree, and atrocities still occur as a result of this. But we are talking about a three time offender who...

So by your logic, if a player recieves a ban as a result of a red card for a really bad tackle that could of broken a players leg, but didn't, a defence of the ban would be, "well I didn't injure the other player". Peanut. Not at all, but do you think he'd get 4 months? For the first time...

Biting is a base instinct inherit to animals, fortunately we have evolved past this evolutionary stage long before football was being played, so no excuses. Regardless of the Suarez argument. When did we evolve to the point where we are not 'animals', (please check up zoological classification ie K...

So by your logic, if a player recieves a ban as a result of a red card for a really bad tackle that could of broken a players leg, but didn't, a defence of the ban would be, "well I didn't injure the other player".

Peanut.

Someone help bomber before the hole he's digging caves in. :lol: He is venturing into GMAE territory with those comments, he'll soon challenge for the title of the forum's biggest peanut. Common response for people who are backed into a corner and cant think for themselves. I've displayed my opinio...

El Capitano wrote:Someone help bomber before the hole he's digging caves in.

He is venturing into GMAE territory with those comments, he'll soon challenge for the title of the forum's biggest peanut.

Penalty 100%. Whether the referee saw this contact, or his call was based on Samaras' reaction is a different story. Didn't see it in real time so can't comment, remembering though that the refs don't have slow motion multiple camera angles. Regardless the correct decision was made. Samaras was firs...

Whilst the seeding selection for the World Cup is at times seen as farcical, it is the current system and football federations are and should be well aware of how it works. That being said I don't believe the FIGC have placed enough importance on this and done everything in their power to play the s...

Italy were poor and England poorer. Thats the truth of it. Both sides below expectations. I wont confess to have watched every game, but I have watched most of the traditionally big games. In my opinion, the Italy v England was one of the best games I've watched, and no I'm not just saying this bec...

Simply not good enough in the end. Forgetting what happened in the Uruguay game, as surprising as Costa Rica have been, with the quality Italy has they should have beaten them, thus making the last game academic. But instead they turn in that insipid performance only days after beating what I thoug...

Simply not good enough in the end. Forgetting what happened in the Uruguay game, as surprising as Costa Rica have been, with the quality Italy has they should have beaten them, thus making the last game academic. But instead they turn in that insipid performance only days after beating what I though...