itt liverpool not winning things; sandbox i love football

thinking of a thread where we figure out a team of players everybody LOVES.

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Mario

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????                     Dempsey?
         ????       Mario

wat did insomnia do?

Add RVI plz

hes a bit too rapey to actually like him tho

u do realize he is about the only football player accused of rape who conclusively wasn't guilty

nah. which pl player isn't rapey?

xp

can't see anyone not liking rvi tbh

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       van Persie    Mario

there was an ilx favourites team on my imaginary xi's thread on controversial former internet forum ilx (rip)

            Friedel?
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       van Persie    Mario

ilx favourites != beloved players

same thing

pretty sure it had both dempsey and friedel

sorry - went away for a bit. Pazzini slipped and launched it into the stands.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzOSgd0WvX0

ok but kitson can go swing.

THUDD. No wait, i hate him

yes i think it was good players only

i hated dave kitson thank god he no longer exists

thudd
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Given
Mata

that luiz yellow's a fuckin disgrace

so was the cahill sending off

On 18 July 2008, Kitson moved in a £5.5m move from Reading to Stoke City, breaking Stoke's record transfer fee.[7]

saw the cahill sending off.

Fuck'im, the covering centre half was thirty yards lateral, red card

It was Zat Knight tbf

A devastating veiled critique from Atwell

ref's gotta take that into account, yeah

thudd
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Given
Mata

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wld only take mata tbrr

fuck a friedel tbh, he's shit. enter krul

also, no david silva = no cred tbh

Hernandez surely

he can be on the bench though

you'd only take mata for what, ahh?

Defensive midfield?

morrison slide in on hart should prob be red, no?

beaut wrongly disallowed for swp

were adebayor and defoe both playing high as a 2? could bolton have played 3-5-2?

yes, and not after 18 mins, respectively

ah didn't realise the sending off was that early.

not sure the result would have altered mind

Lennon is england lw material on current form, we're a joy to watch atm but aren't putting them away and we're struggling a little when teams pack the defence.

Not the worst probs to have tho tbh

Romanian club Poli Timisoara's owner Marian Iancu says his 10-year sentence for money-laundering and tax evasion is a "gross miscarriage"......Iancu's previous best sanction: 2010 – fined £3,000 for calling Universitatea Craiova's Victor Piturca "a homosexual satanist" on live TV. Piturca called Iancu a "fat Gypsy" who likes to "stay in bed and eat 50 pies and 25 sandwiches". Iancu: "My fine is unjust. It's a total lack of respect."

goodbye socrates, hellloooo hayley mcqueen

r.i.p socrates, brazil '82 possibly my favourite international team ever (although I have high hopes for Germany '12)

Oh man, poor Socrates. Undoubtedly the coolest footballer there ever was.

The conclusion to the Brazilian championship is tonight, incidentally. Corinthians lead Vasco da Gama by two points with equal goal difference, and both have local derbies - Corinthians play Palmeiras, Vasco play Flamengo. Should be worth watching, I think kickoffs are 7pm.

In his early days there, he was notably unwilling to join in the wild celebrations of his team-mates when he scored a goal (of which there were 172 over the course of 297 matches); so much so that the fans complained to the club president. He, in turn, begged Sócrates to be more demonstrative, and Sócrates obliged, in future, with parodic celebrations, kneeling on the ground, throwing up his arms and invoking success from whatever gods there might be.

"England is too cold for Brazilian footballers," Socrates said. "It doesn't matter how talented the players are, the culture is so different so it does not surprise me when Brazilian players do not do as well as they should - though I hear there are now Brazilian restaurants in Manchester.

"The way of life is so correct and organised in Europe. It's not like that in Brazil, where things are more spontaneous. I was in Florence for a year with Fiorentina and sometimes I didn't want to train, but to hang out with friends, party or have a smoke. There's more to life than football, but Europe can be very regimented."

Haha, Manchester derby in the third round.

Classic

how can u talk of such savagery when sócrates isn't even cold yet

Fixed as usual

he'd be cold if he were in england tbf