Football Clips & Pics!
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Allen7
Conference
- 17 May 2021
Ladies and Gentleman...as u all know Croatia is a real football Powerhouse, but has an awful infrastructure and stadiums,
so finally they had build a proper stadium and i visited it a few weeks ago...13.000 places but looks great
gabe.paul.logan
Too old for this s***
Im sorry but this edit got me.
gabe.paul.logan
Too old for this s***
slamsoze
International
- 28 September 2010
Dude watching most of my football idols, from early childhood to the late university years, playing a veterans friendly match, makes me feel so old....
@slamsoze
For a second, I thought I saw "Minanda" in the starting lineup.
And Edgar Davids looking cool as always.
IDOLOS!!
For a second, I thought I saw "Minanda" in the starting lineup.
And Edgar Davids looking cool as always.
IDOLOS!!
slamsoze
International
- 28 September 2010
haha... Could be mate. Minanda was named Miranda in the ML with more "realistic" ML defaults names, like Ivanov, Castello, Stromer, Daric, Valery, etc.@slamsoze
For a second, I thought I saw "Minanda" in the starting lineup.
And Edgar Davids looking cool as always.
IDOLOS!!
IIRC was PES 2.
I also felt nostalgic in the video, watching Wright-Philips struggling to sprint. I remember like yesterday the days that he was considered the fastest football player in EPL and i assume while Europe. Although i believe Nelson Cuevas of River Plate, from Paraguay, was faster imho.
DTM
Non-League
- 8 October 2021
I don't know if this is the correct place for this but there are a lot of gazetta football italia episodes on YouTube now still the greatest football show ever in my view, and the football is still an education even today
Allen7
Conference
- 17 May 2021
i made a video on how to pronounce brazilian team names/cities correctly
- 15 July 2003
This is something I feel is lost on younger people now. Things like Gazzetta, Eurogoals, the Champions League and major tournaments were so exotic and otherworldly. Sticker books and World Soccer would be another window into the world.
It simply cannot be more exciting now, surely? No mystique, nothing to explore, no gaps for your imagination to fill in. Football consumption when I was young was like a game of football itself - mostly tedious and uneventful but punctuated by moments of absolute joy and memories and emotions that live with you forever.
I'm sure kids would argue that it's better to have the level of access you have now but if something becomes so normal it just can't have the same impact.
[burns daughter's tablet]
- Staff
- #8,472
I started writing a reply to this in agreement, and found myself disagreeing with myself half-way through.
I'm just about old enough to remember the Anglo-Italian cup. I remember that window into foreign football being absolutely fascinating - having very little idea how the Italians played, and even less idea who the players were, until seeing them in the flesh at Prenton Park aged 10. It was magic.
But if it was still a thing, and I was that age again today (like some kind of regen), it would still feel pretty special I reckon - I don't exactly know Ascoli inside out (I believe they were the last Italian team to visit PP).
Does all of this non-domestic content you could immerse yourself in - the countless number of catch-up content on all the sports TV channels, YouTube videos, podcasts, opinion pieces and all that for La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga etc. - actually lead to you immersing yourself in it? Perversely, the more of this content there is, the less interested I find myself, personally speaking - and as a result, the games themselves still hold a mystique.
But then, football is killing itself in the same way, with the number of games there are now domestically and continentally. I was far more excited when you had to wait weeks for the next "big game", particularly when it comes to the European ones.
I have been a religious watcher of Match of the Day since I was 10, but this year, I found myself not caring any more after a few gameweeks. If you want to keep up-to-date it takes so much time that I just resent it, and don't enjoy it. Let alone the European catch-ups.
I'm mostly just looking at the results via BBC SPORT now and leaving it at that.
goalgerd
File Maker
Since he's been in the news this week for all the wrong reasons
I couldn't agree more. The World Cup's used to be so exciting seeing these players you'd often never even heard of, let alone just not ever seen play. I remember as a kid, watching that Brazil v Italy game in 1982 in total awe. Socrates, Zico, Falcao, Junior, Eder, all these wonderful players I'd barely heard of let alone watched play before the tournament. Also back then, European nights were on the radio with some highlights on Sportsnight. The radio commentaries were somehow magical, my brother and I listening to it and visualising the match. I remember one night we were allowed to stay up to watch Sportsnight, that didn't start until 9.30pm, even though it was a school night, so we avoided the radio and the score and told my mum not to tell us. She evidently checked the scores on ceefax and came into the room and asked us if it went to extra time if it was a draw!!
We still remind her of that sometimes!I guess it ties in with the instant gratification of todays world. The anticipation of waiting for something was part of the excitement.
Oh and Flipper, I see you've signed Tom McIntyre, did they not learn not to sign our ex players when they signed Yengi? To be fair he might do ok, he barely played for us after breaking his ankle on his debut. What did you make of Yengi in his brief spell? And how bad was it?
If he was half as good as he thinks he is he'd be some player. Ah I remember the Ango Italian cup. We played at home to Fiorentina in it and if I remember right, lost 3-2. It was a cracking game and somehow exotic at the same time.
You are so right about the more there is the less interested you are. Certainly for me anyway and it's not even just football. There's more sport on tv than ever and I watch less than ever. I used to devour everything, especially in the days of Grandstand and World of Sport. With football on tv now I've taken to turning it on at kick off, making a drink or something at half time and turning it off when the final whistle goes. I really don't need to watch an hour and a half build up and then watch again afterwards where they can tell me what I just saw for myself. It's not necessary. As for the co commentators...
- 15 July 2003
I couldn't agree more. The World Cup's used to be so exciting seeing these players you'd often never even heard of, let alone just not ever seen play. I remember as a kid, watching that Brazil v Italy game in 1982 in total awe. Socrates, Zico, Falcao, Junior, Eder, all these wonderful players I'd barely heard of let alone watched play before the tournament. Also back then, European nights were on the radio with some highlights on Sportsnight. The radio commentaries were somehow magical, my brother and I listening to it and visualising the match. I remember one night we were allowed to stay up to watch Sportsnight, that didn't start until 9.30pm, even though it was a school night, so we avoided the radio and the score and told my mum not to tell us. She evidently checked the scores on ceefax and came into the room and asked us if it went to extra time if it was a draw!!
I guess it ties in with the instant gratification of todays world. The anticipation of waiting for something was part of the excitement.
Oh and Flipper, I see you've signed Tom McIntyre, did they not learn not to sign our ex players when they signed Yengi? To be fair he might do ok, he barely played for us after breaking his ankle on his debut. What did you make of Yengi in his brief spell? And how bad was it?
Ah I remember the Ango Italian cup. We played at home to Fiorentina in it and if I remember right, lost 3-2. It was a cracking game and somehow exotic at the same time.
You are so right about the more there is the less interested you are. Certainly for me anyway and it's not even just football. There's more sport on tv than ever and I watch less than ever. I used to devour everything, especially in the days of Grandstand and World of Sport. With football on tv now I've taken to turning it on at kick off, making a drink or something at half time and turning it off when the final whistle goes. I really don't need to watch an hour and a half build up and then watch again afterwards where they can tell me what I just saw for myself. It's not necessary. As for the co commentators...
Great memories there. Exactly how I feel. Less was more!
Oh Yengi. He did enough to enter the W(orst)OAT debate. That he had some pedigree and was given the number nine only to barely manage a good touch never mind game. He scored one goal at least. Great move to Japan considering how bad he was.
He was a myth. He had two good games for us and that was in League One. His first touch is abysmal and quite often not followed by a second.
Actually that brings up another point about modern day football, I don't know if its the same at Aberdeen these days and elsewhere but here players seem to get their own song after one game, and often because the syllables fit and little more! It has me remembering the days when a player really had to earn a song, another thing I miss.
goalgerd
File Maker
Whenever modern football is annoying, I put on the first world cup I watched as a kid. This performance by Diego in Mexico has only been matched before or since by Michel Platini two years previously.
Allen7
Conference
- 17 May 2021
Story about new Brazilian superstar!