World Football

Quiz: Who is the "most loser" World Cup winner?
Myung Bo Hong and Antonio Carbajal share the inglorious records of most losses in World Cup finals: their NT have lost 8 matches when they played. Then there is a bunch of players with 7 losses... and one of them has actually won a WC! Can you name him? In your reply, please write: 1. Your answer 2. If it's cor... 11 May 2010 03:35

Real Madrid: 101 goals , 31 matches won out of 37
and still is going to lose the league. Real Madrid has scored more goals and won more matches than Barcelona this season but is not going to be enough. Why?. I demand a recount, I demand the intervention of the UN, I demand I don't know something: WE WAS ROBBED!!!!!!!!!. Why is it that always the bad guys end up ... 10 May 2010 11:02

real mardin update
hi everyone this is to explain why i have not been responding to miniger and other threads. for the last two and a half weeks now i have been in hospital with an extremely painful condition. i am still a resident. would rather not go into the details. sorry about the lower case but am typingthis from a ti... 28 May 2010 00:45

Eternal Golden Shoe
(See my previous posts for the criteria.) I've checked all the players that have scored 20 or more goals in the 2009-10 season, and here is where they rank against the Magnificient Nine: Age 23 278 Pele 191 Greaves 115 Carlos Bianchi 102 Fernando Gomes 99 Romario 96 van der Kuijlen 9... 11 May 2010 19:06

England are doomed!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/world-cup-2010/teams/england/7694290/World-Cup-2010-Jamie-Carragher-set-for-shock-return-to-the-England-squad.html ... 8 May 2010 20:03

The Dudek enigma
This is one curious case. 4 years at Real Madrid and still nobody knows wether he is a good goalkeeper or he sucks. He just sits on the bench, doesn't complain about anything and seems to enjoy a lot the Real Madrid victories. The funny thing of all this is that he is going to be offer yet another year at Real ... 7 May 2010 12:19

A sign that Americans still have a ways to go
I was lecturing a group of about 20 community college students on European immigration issues, and focusing on North African communities in France and elsewhere. Not ONE of them responded in the affirmative when I asked if they were familiar with "the headbut" from 2006. And this in the media market of the MLS team... 6 May 2010 16:35

Cristiano Ronaldo what a fantastic player
Manchester United could have asked for 150 million today and Real Madrid would have payed after his record breaking season with Real. 32 goals so far, 25 goals in 27 matches in the league, he is basically carrying Real on his shoulders. Ronaldo and Messi are an awesome spectacle and the spanish league is very lu... 6 May 2010 18:48

Motherwell vs. Hibernian
Mark V. wrote: Does anybody have any comments? Did anybody see it? Now THAT sounds like a hell of a match. 11' [0 - 1] C. Nish 16' [1 - 1] G. Coke 20' [1 - 2] C. Nish 28' [1 - 3] D. Riordan 36' [1 - 4] C. Nish 39' [2 - 4] J. Sutton 56' [2 - 5] A. Stokes 65' [2 - 6] A. Stokes 6... 7 May 2010 19:01

Mallorca - Real Madrid [R]
Anyone watching? Mallorca went ahead at 16 but Real equalised at 26. It is early in the 2nd half... I can't even find a live ticker! -- ciao, Bruce drift wave turbulence: http://www.rzg.mpg.de/~bds/ ... 5 May 2010 18:20