My Formal Rather Belated Introduction!!!
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From: The Scrutineer on 7 Apr 2010 00:05 > Well Daniel I am an Australian citizen, though born and bred in > Britain. I live about an hour or so from Sydney. I am in my late 40s, > moved here about 20 years ago. I get back to the UK about once every > 18 months to catch up with my family there, and pack in as many live > games as possible. Whilst not a Londoner I lived in the Eastend for > almost 10 years before moving to Australia. It was great because I had > my pick of top class games most weekends. Still miss London terribly. > Nice to meet you, and thank you for being courteous, Hmm, you may not be far from me, I live in Wollongong, which is about an hour or so south from Sydney. One would miss home, but I bet you love the weather better here :) amongst other things, though as a football fan, you don't get a choice of top class matches here, especially when compared to anywhere in London, led alone the Eastend!!! > I have supported Man Utd since a certain night in May 1968. My Dad, > who was never a football fan let me stay up late to watch it. I have > been hooked on the Reds ever since, through the highs and lows. Living > in Australia you will know how hard it is to watch live stuff, you > have got to be dedicated to the task. > Haha, true fan then, sticking by a team through the highs and lows shows your dedication to the cause, and YES, I first hand do know how hard it is to watch football from Europe particularly in Australia, all the main leagues are available, good quality HD availability of the matches, but like last night, I stayed up from 2am - 6:45am just to watch the two champions league matches. To be honest, it's a real struggle. Favourite player would be Best? > I have four boys, aged between 18 and 13, all have played or do play > football to a decent level. Other sports we all get involved in are > swimming and cricket. A couple of my boys are in the NSW swimming > development squad. Plenty of 5.00am get ups. > > Good idea of yours for the thread. Well done. > Cricket, swimming, football, one day when I have kids, it will be essential they play sport, there's nothing better in life than seeing them play i'd imagine!!! NSW development squad, nice, may there be some Ian Thorpe's amongst them, in a swimming capacity I mean :) Thanks for introducing yourself, hope others are also taking a chance at reading all the posts on here, and appreciate you thinking its a good idea!!!
From: The Scrutineer on 7 Apr 2010 00:22 > Pleased to finally make your formal acquaintance, Daniel. My handle is > my name. I'm 33 years of age and have lived in Australia for most of > my life but am of Afghan origins. I've been a dedicated follower of > Serie A for more than 20 years now. Used to be a Juve fan but found > myself in the Rossoneri camp at some point early in this decade (they > were my father's favourites). > Thank you for being courteous Abubakr, and nice to meet you too!!! I bet you loved the Serie A highlights show that used to be on SBS every Saturday at 10 as much as I did, it also played an important role for me to, Parma were the first team I ever supported as a very young boy, way before I even heard of Arsenal. Usually when I say I like Parma, people say why, my reason truely is, the day felt better when I saw the result, and when they lost, the day would pan out to be a long one!!! Milan though are a great choice, and honestly can't believe we beat you a few weeks back for the first time in a long time!!! :p > I also follow the English top flight though I don't favor any > particular club these days, though I do have a soft spot for Everton > as they were the champions around the time I started to watch the > First Division. Also follow La Liga but don't favour any club, but > rather the style of play and nobody in their right mind could look > past Barcelona in the second of half of this decade. > Yeah, Everton have great traditions, and that era was a long time ago now, but still they battle on, and yeah, on Barcelona, only a team led out by Sam Allardyce would look past it!!! They simply are clever with the ball, and special as a unit!!! > As to NTs, though will always support the Socceroos over other teams, > I am an ardent fan of Argentina and now to a lesser extent Brasil. > Favourite player of all time is Maradona, but I was also a huge fan of > Baggio (one of the reasons I supported Juve), Zidane, Gullit, Van > Basten growing up. Great list too, it's good to know the choices are popular in Maradona, van Basten, outside of a few tapes I have, it was a shame I missed such a great era, and usually blame my parents sometimes, Up the Socceroos of course, and just imagine how Messi in current form will go at the WC quite frightening!!! If I may, how do you think Australia will fare in the group stage? Are we any chance to get at least four points again?
From: The Scrutineer on 7 Apr 2010 00:36 > By some distance he's my second favourite player of all time. The best > #10 of the past two decades. Im not going to disagree, I have a soft spot for all out of the former Yugoslavia!!! > > > Love the Arsenal flavour, Dennis was super, and Adams too, just on a > > side issue, would you prefer Adams or Terry? > > You're kidding right? I can't stand Terry. The best English centre back of > the past two decades is Woodgate. He was one of the best man to man > markers in the game, even though no one really plays man to man anymore. Well his unfortunate injuries are the sole reason he didn;t fulfull the great start to his career!!! I'd pick Adams to Terry!!! > > > MMA, cool, but Baking, whats your favourite recipe? > > A moist, rich chocolate cake with a creamy fudge sauce. I'm good with > chocolate in general. > Sounds delicious, now I have a craving for some white chocolate!!!
From: Jussi Uosukainen on 7 Apr 2010 04:01 The Scrutineer <vlade4(a)bigpond.com> wrote: > Sorry for wasting a thread, but I'm Daniel, born and bred Australian, with > European heritage!!! > > 22 years old, currently a student, and a real passionate football fan, which > I can easily say is by far the most interesting most loved thing in life for > me (outside of the way a female is put together). > > As some of you may know by now , yes I am an Arsenal fan, and generally > speaking have an interest in global football issues/leagues as we don't have > the strongest football locally, that though hopefully changing one day, and > maybe the best come here to play in a World Cup one day, (Which we can be > ready for at any time!!!) > > I am relatively young compared to what I think some of you may be aged :), > but it's refreshing to read all contributors comments, and value each of > your opinions very highly!!! I know I can't always be right, but when I am, > I'm generally modest about it, and when wrong, accept being so and value the > correction highly. > > Hopefully it's not asking a lot, but I would like to know, if someone > replies, a brief introduction about yourself, nationality, age, favourite > team, and maybe even your favourite player ever!!! Hell even a World Cup > tip!!! > > Nice to indulge in football chat with you all, and hopefully for a long time > to come!!! > I also write with my own full name. I'm 29 years old and have lived almost all my life in the same town, right here next to Helsinki. I find it perferct place to bring up my two sons (3,5 years and 2,5 months) with my wife of 5 years (we started dating in high school 12 years ago...). I'm trying to graduate with a bachelors degree in Media Engineering before midsummers eve, so I would graduate before I turn 30. I have worked fulltime during most of my studies, and landed my dream job 1,5 years ago, working as a sysadmin/it manager/cto for the biggest post production company in Finland. I was very late in becoming a football fan, but I realized I was a football when I felt awful and pissed off for several days when Leverkusen beat Liverpool in the CL. Liverpool is my favourite team, followed by the Finnish NT and our local team, Honka. I used to have a soft spot for Man City, but after the arabs came in I lost interest. OF foreign NTs England and Holland are my favourites. I have also managed to visit Anfield once, and have seen Fowler score in the Kop-end. My favourite players are Litmanen and Hyypiä, for obvious reasons Of foreigners I like Gerrard (when he is on form) and Torres, while I do concede that Messi is the best in the world right now. I also started playing football at the ripe age of 24. Our team achievedpromotion from the 7th level fo the finnish pyramid to the 6th last autumn. My preferred position is striker or right back. My only strength is pretty good reading of the game, but everything else (especially my lack of speed) lets me down. -- /jussi - It's 106 miles to Chicago. We've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses. - Hit it. * The Blues Brothers
From: Abubakr on 7 Apr 2010 04:56
On 7 Apr, 14:22, "The Scrutineer" <vla...(a)bigpond.com> wrote: > > Pleased to finally make your formal acquaintance, Daniel. My handle is > > my name. I'm 33 years of age and have lived in Australia for most of > > my life but am of Afghan origins. I've been a dedicated follower of > > Serie A for more than 20 years now. Used to be a Juve fan but found > > myself in the Rossoneri camp at some point early in this decade (they > > were my father's favourites). > > Thank you for being courteous Abubakr, and nice to meet you too!!! > I bet you loved the Serie A highlights show that used to be on SBS every > Saturday at 10 as much as I did, it also played an important role for me to, > Parma were the first team I ever supported as a very young boy, way before I > even heard of Arsenal. Usually when I say I like Parma, people say why, my > reason truely is, the day felt better when I saw the result, and when they > lost, the day would pan out to be a long one!!! Milan though are a great > choice, and honestly can't believe we beat you a few weeks back for the > first time in a long time!!! :p Oh yes, that SBS show was all we had for years in Australia. Parma has made a habit of making splash in Serie A against Milan. I remember they announced their arrival in their first ever season in Serie A in 1990 by beating the Rossoneri, and of course then went on to be one of the best clubs during the 90's. > > I also follow the English top flight though I don't favor any > > particular club these days, though I do have a soft spot for Everton > > as they were the champions around the time I started to watch the > > First Division. Also follow La Liga but don't favour any club, but > > rather the style of play and nobody in their right mind could look > > past Barcelona in the second of half of this decade. > > Yeah, Everton have great traditions, and that era was a long time ago now, > but still they battle on, and yeah, on Barcelona, only a team led out by Sam > Allardyce would look past it!!! They simply are clever with the ball, and > special as a unit!!! They are peerless in this day. > > As to NTs, though will always support the Socceroos over other teams, > > I am an ardent fan of Argentina and now to a lesser extent Brasil. > > Favourite player of all time is Maradona, but I was also a huge fan of > > Baggio (one of the reasons I supported Juve), Zidane, Gullit, Van > > Basten growing up. > > Great list too, it's good to know the choices are popular in Maradona, van > Basten, outside of a few tapes I have, it was a shame I missed such a great > era, and usually blame my parents sometimes, > > Up the Socceroos of course, and just imagine how Messi in current form will > go at the WC quite frightening!!! > > If I may, how do you think Australia will fare in the group stage? Are we > any chance to get at least four points again? We're a chance but it's going to be tough. I think they need to get a result against Germany in the first game to have a chance. Their problems are in creating chances and scoring goals. Verbeek is a terribly cautious manager at the best of times and he hasn't been helped by the fact that Australia doesn't have any good strikers around, but hasn't helped himself either by continuing to snub Nicky Carle who's the one player in midfield that can provide some spark of creativity and freshness. Apart from that, the team is built around the stalwarts of 2006, all pretty much four years past their best. I just don't know where goals are going to come from this time. |