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I also got it today I'll play it when i get home. I'll probably run my usual "get Gravesend and Northfleet to Premiership" game to IAceI: Noone ever does. It's sad isn't it? to dragon27: FM is the actual new "version" of CM. Eidos Interactive and Sigames split up, so one got the Name, and the other got the Game (not Triple H ). If you're not very familiar with the sport shouldn't you play one of those managerial games not very into depth but with all those neat (useless) features like changing jerseys and stuff? I'm just saying this cause usually people who don't know much don't have the patience to play a game as cm and eventually end up asking me about easier games. Simple games... Those you finish a season in an afternoon

Mutu Suspended for 7 months (now it's official). Kinda lucky considering the suspension would have to go from 6 months to 2 years by law. The suspension started in october 25th which is the date he was pre-suspended. He's also fined in 20k.. His agent isn't worried with how Chelsea dealt with that since he allready had proposals from 4 clubs, two of them from England. Either way whoever gets him will probably only get to see him play next season.

It had to be an african country cause in 2006 South Africa was supposed to get the World Cup. Losing the organization to germany was a big surprise and was also seen as a bit of racism from the organizers....therefore It was established the next world cup (2010) would be organized by an african country... Nigeria, Cameroon, Morocco and South Africa were the Countries that applied, IIRC.

IIRC, haven't they not got it now? ←

I have a huge bunch of pic packs including for prospect players until last season... If you still haven't got them yet say something in this thread to let me know. I'll look for them. I've saved them in some cd.

I assume most of the people here are english so i'm looking to read their opinions (honest opinions) on a portuguese player who plays in england. Cristiano Ronaldo played a real shitty game versus liechtenstein (REAL SHITTY). Now.. half week later... Portugal is beating Russia 5-1 (10 minutes till the end of the match). Ronaldo scored twice (the second one was a very nice one) and assisted one of the others and started the play of the last one (was scored as i write this ). Is he that inconsistent in England?.. I know he still has a lot to learn but he is one of the few players i find very talented on the portuguese national team. So what do you think? Now just to stay on topic... You can be happy beating azerbaijan 1-0, unlike some teams that draw 2-2 with liechtenstein No really... england must do better than that but at least they didn't drop points... EDIT: 6-1 Sorry about that... WHY THE FUCK DO WE BEAT RUSSIA 6-1 AND TIE WITH FUCKIN LIECHTENSTEIN??????!!!! EDIT2: SOrry 7-1... I don't think any of my words would demonstrate how i'm feeling right now.

i pity you

I know there are a lot of football fans in here, and even if they pay more attention to their respective national teams, they'll find this result odd at least... As a background it's enough to say Liechtenstein has won 1! game and draw 3 in its football history. Liechtenstein is the fourth smallest nation in the world.The country has no league and only seven football clubs who play in swiss lower divisions. Their football stadium capacity of about 3500 is enough to get more than 10% of the population in there. Portugal : the last european cup runner-up (maybe unfairly but nevertheless runners-up). The best result Liechtenstein managed to achieve in the 4 previous matches against Portugal was a 5-0 defeat. the other results were 7-0, 7-0 and 8-0. Portugal had a 2-0 lead at half-time. Not great but enough, one would predict... Liechtenstein scored the 1-2. I was shocked. When they scored the equalizer i couldn't stop laughing (Yes, I'm Portuguese). The last time i remember Portugal playin that badly was in a friendly match versus Finland a few years back. Finland dominated the match and beat Portugal 4-1 (if i remember correctly). Jari Litmanen played a wonderful game. That was a friendly and even though it was a scandal here. Newspapers wrote about nothing else. And Finland is NOT the Liechtenstein and this was NOT a friendly game... I can't imagine how the press will react. As a side note i can say i have no fun watching Portugal anymore... With Rui Costa, Figo, Paulo Sousa, even Joao Pinto out of the team i feel i'm watching some other team... I remember reading in the foreign press a few years back, Portugal was a great team who played attractive attacking football but couldn't capitalize.. Nowadays, we do neither. Despite not playing an awful game Deco is yet to play a great game for Portugal as he did for Porto...as he does for Barcelona. To conclude...the next guy who has the nerve to say the team we have now is better than the previous one just because we got to the euro-cup final gets a fuckin poke in the eye thank you... I wonder how the czechs are doing...

i believe i was pretty understandable when i said small venues ←

Admittedly, I haven't heard the band in question, but this strikes me as being uncommited, and well, lazy. If he's not going to bother singing his songs 'since they're on the CD', why have concerts? Like I said, I'm not familiar with them, so there may be something I'm missing here, but that just doesn't seem right to me. I know loads of people who think that the live performances are much more important than CDs, and I kinda agree. Anyone else get what I'm meaning or is it just me? ←

The fact you put Alkaline Trio in that list with those bands sort of down grades your arguement (Actually, what arguement). Alkaline Trio are a phenomenal band (Of course each their own oppinion) and have develloped and modified their sound over time. Now they are pretty much more of a punky band than an emo band (Even their older stuff is different to the likes of Finch, Dashboard *eugh*, Taking Back Sunday. Who in turn are different to each other). This of course is just my oppinion, and i'm just sticking up for one of my favourite bands. I've never heard of Fall Out Boy but Taking Back Sunday are okay, nothing to write home about though. On a scale 100 in talent i'd give them around 47 (So average'ish, possibly below, have a couple of good songs) ←

answering johnny perfect... i agree with you when you talk about italy dominating sweden in the first half. i was actually very impressed. but check the subs in that game just because italy was winning 1-0 ... and you'll see what i meant. Giving the game to a team with a forward line like sweden is terrible... you know they will probably score if given to many chances. I know italy also played a really offensive game in the second half against bulgaria. I didn't mention italy as a disappointment if you check. But i wasn't to impressed as a whole either. About the beckham part, i don't agree one bit. Beckham is a good player...yes it is... but is far overrated. He is probably one of the best in the world in crossing and free kicks, but what else? he's only average in dribbling, i wouldn't even say he's good (and that's very important for a winger), he isn't as fast as a winger should be, and he doesn't even compensate with other characteristics unrelated to his position. He could at least be a good header, he isn't. He could at least be good at getting the ball back. he isn't (and i know he is a lot better in his defensive duties than he was a few years back). To be one of the best you need to be great in your position or at least be a complete guy. He is good at his position but not great, and even if we can see he's trying to be better in all aspects of his game, he still isn't that good. EDIT: just one more thing.. when i said 7 defensive players, i don't mean 7 defenders, i'm counting the goalie and the anchorman also. Either way there's not much room to put talent in when you only get 4 spots left

As one of the few portuguese people on the board i may say i'm happy with portugal being in the final. Of course this doesn't mean by any means that portugal has been the best team in the tournament. Above all, i'm a huge football fan, and i cheer for good football and not teams in particular. As i usually don't post in this thread, i will now write a review on the whole euro2004. The czechs were by far the best team in the Euro. I wouldn't call it a surprise cause i was expecting it all along. They lost to greece after dominating the whole 90 minutes (well... wasn't that what all the other teams beaten by greece did before?). Greece were actually better in those 15 minutes of overtime so it wasn't a total upset when they scored. Collina isn't the best referee in the world and screwed the czechs for the second time in 4 years. He's just another guy who's "over-pushed" :smug: for his image. Kinda like the david beckham of referees (to all english people in the board i'm not criticising england...just the way everyone talks about beckham when he's not that good). Holland and the czech Republic were my personal favourites before the Euro started so i was thrilled to know they were playing eachother in the groups stage. I wasn't disappointed at all afterwards. It was the best match in the euro in my opinion even if it wasn't as great as Spain - Yugoslavia in the euro 2000. Speaking of Yugoslavia, i believe the euro lost in good football thanks to the absence of good teams like romania, yugoslavia or turkey beaten in the qualifiers by more efficient (and boring) teams. There were three teams i was hoping they would lose in the early stages, cause i didn't like the way they played in the last few years. Those were: Germany (who had a great team until the 90's but when your last great player is allready retired you assume things aren't going to be good). Italy (a team full of good players who can't be put together cause when 7 of your starters are defensive players there isn't much room to the talent). I believe what i don't like about italy is their system... their coaches. Not their players. England (i didn't like their style). They surprised me a lot bringing good plays and plenty of goals to the euro. They should have been first in the group so they would beat the crap out of greece afterwards. I truly believe greece wouldn't reach this far if england had come in their way. Just a reminder to some english supporters... the referee did some errors in the match vs portugal (e.g. a few fouls commited by jorge andrade weren't awarded) but the goal was well disallowed. You can't mess with the goalie in his area of action. That box is his box. He hasn't got to be kicked there for a foul to be awarded. If his action is stopped, then it's a foul. Read the rules kids. Disappointments: Croatia - One of the best teams of the mid-90's. I guess people in croatia must miss the likes of prosinecky, suker, boban or even boksic. Bulgaria - Read above, and replace mid 90's with early 90's and change the players to stoichkov, balakov... Holland - Just cause i expected them to reach the finals, as i did in euro 2000. One of the best teams in the last 10 years is yet to win a major title. France - Well...you watched the tournament...(they were better than greece though) Teams who proved they didn't deserve the spot in the finals: Latvia and Switzerland Positive Surprises: Denmark - Come on fellow danish... After that lousy euro 2000 and after losing schmeichel, and both laudrups, you gotta understand i wasn't expecting much. It's true they lost in the quarters, but the quality of their midfielders in particular surprised me a lot. They were the best team in all 3 games of their group. Don't believe me? watch them again and you'll see. England - all reasons were written above. It wasn't their progression that surprised me. It was the quality of their football...and Rooney :smug: Finally as for my birth country... Portugal isn't playing as well as they did from 96 to 2001, but it seems to be enough. They keep the tradition of missing goals going one on one with the keeper though. That was the part they were supposed to stop doing . At least they're playing better than in the friendly games prior to the euro finals. If the quality of play was what defined the champion czech republic would win it. Final Things: I'm sorry if the post is too long but i almost never write in this thread, that's why i'm writing it all now. I'm also sorry if you don't understand it I know my english is only good enough to write small statements or opinions but not to write a huge report like this one. And to put an end to everyone's pain (if anyone does bother reading this) this are only my opinions. I don't own the truth. Noone does. This is how i've seen the tournament. Luv u all

oh yeah. you said it well. How i miss those days when portugal was the underdog. only 3 official losses (one in the overtime, and none with 2 goals difference) between the end of euro 96 and the beggining of the WC 2002.