Come anticipate Roy Hodgson's three months in charge og England with me.

I have to correct myself, it wasn't quite to midfield. Clearly I haven't watched it enough recently.

0:25, yes!

i mean yeah this is awesome but just not near BEST EVER

id guess a high proportion of these sort of freakish goals occur in the first or last minutes of games, before an equilibrium is found and when the game degenerates into ramdomness

did you actually watch the game tho? id guess that if you did it would explain the ~unexpectedness~ not really applying to those who had already seen it described

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Schalke line up had 3 or 4 19 year olds in it and they still pwnd Inter. Guess that team does need rebuilding after all. Nice to see Raul being Raul. Schalke have been desperate this season, still bottom 1/3 in Bundesliga I think, but when he can be bothered Farfan is a heck of a player.

Recorded both games last night and decided to watch first ten mins of Inter/Schalke before I left for work at 2am this morning, my loud cry of "HOLY FUCK!" when Stankovic scored after 25 secs may lead to recriminations when the rest of my household arrives home from work later. But if ever a goal was worthy of the term it was that one.

Actually i've just watched it again and from the angle behind the goal you can clearly see that he's shinned it. Oh well

Stupid rushing goalkeepers are practical at epidemic proportions.

― pandemic, Wednesday, November 14, 2012 11:31 PM (19 minutes ago)

this is probably true yeah

goalkeepers now are supposed to be reasonably athletic and competent at normal fitba skills

you'd never have seen neville southall trying to execute a diving headed clearance outside of his own area

LITMANEN WHOOHOO LITMANEN WOOHOOO. You fools! :) He's a god, Ajax immediatly improved a 100% with all his clever passes and forcing his team mates to play one-touch footie. Suddenly even our problem child Ibrahimovic is connecting and scoring goals too.

Real Madrid. Even as a fan I was sort of shocked by the cold efficiency with which they killed off Roma. Cold but always with a sense of beauty of course. The last 10 minutes reminded me a lot of the way Ajax around 1972 would freeze games just by passing into infinity.

― Omar, Wednesday, September 18, 2002 5:54 PM (10 years ago)

Zlatan has scored more bewildering and unlikely goals than that one. Shame I didn't watch tonight. He seems to be doing v. well in France too. I guess being a lazy and arrogant bugger won't see him change much in his 30s.

with lg on this one, and you'll never convince me. he's a level above mido but nothing more

didn't he get in fights with mido when they were at ajax

you would fuckin assume so

Mido 0.23 goals / game in top 5 leagues, Ibra 0.57 and ever rising, I guess that's "a level."

you can prove anything with stats, you specifically i mean

Speaking of their time together at Dutch club Ajax between 2001 and 2003, Ibrahimovic, who now plays for AC Milan in Italy, said: “Mido, my friend, publicly declared that he wanted to be sold. Not especially tactical, in all honesty, he wasn't exactly a diplomat, he was like me but even worse.

“Later, when he had been on the bench against Eindhoven, he came into the changing room and called us all lousy.”

Ibrahimovic said the pair argued before the row turned physical.

“He grabbed a pair of scissors which were lying on a bench there and threw them at me. It was completely mad, to be honest.

“The scissors swooshed past my head, straight into the locker room wall and hit with a crack and, of course, I stood up and gave him a punch, a bang.

“But after ten minutes we went out, arm in arm, and a long time later I found out that our team manager had saved those scissors as a memory, kind of like something to show to the children, that this was the one that Zlatan almost got in his face.”

Dutch club Ajax

Fools. The rule is: if you watch the clip and you can't see where the goal is coming from, it goes in the pantheon.

It's amazing cos I've never seen anyone score that exact goal before.

^ This

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2010/sep/10/the-joy-of-six-overhead-scissor-kicks

god i hate this fucking feature. no trevor sinclair, of course.

Aw c'mon, Joy of Six is the best.

i can't stand the way they purposely leave out the obvious choice, it's so indie. plus i reckon they just google to find the most obscure entries.

no hugo sanchez no credibility

the ilm of footballing lists

has this been mentioned yet?

http://www.wsc.co.uk/wsc-daily/1154-november-2012/9168-zlatan-ibrahimovic-s-uncompromising-book

it's either that or tulisa's book for christmas

"I'm not violent, but if I were Guardiola I would have been frightened."

"If we don't succeed in being No1, I'd be more than happy to go into the play-offs," he said. "The important thing is we get one of those two positions. The group we are in was quite underestimated but that is often the case."

There's not a word here that isn't true, but you can't help wondering whether somebody else might fancy doing this bit of the job. Fortunately nobody's listening to him atm.

he doesn't tickle yr belly for you, how did we ever think he'd work for liverpool or england

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/64449000/jpg/_64449673_64449672.jpg

‏@rioferdy5
I'm Gutted I had to pull out of england squad, but it was the right decision for my intricate pre-planned programme.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/64634000/jpg/_64634352_alex_ferguson_pa.jpg

I think it's more down to Rio being so fragile that he's unwilling to risk his last chance at an FA Cup medal.

If you can't beat them, look like them

nice kit, doesn't belong on a England team

Why do England fans sing No Surrender?

"The song - which seems linked to Northern Irish unionist or loyalist politics..."

Get away!

On the surface of it, expressing historic resentment towards an organisation that killed civilians and soldiers in the UK could hardly be construed as a breach of section five of the Public Order Act. Or indeed "offensive" in any meaningful sense of the word.

hmmm

LOL BBC

!!

it's interesting how england football fans invented this "no surrender" phrase.

they started it miss

I'm kind of amazed at that piece, I don't think the writer means any harm but surely they're walking into a total firestorm with that sentence which just jumps off the page.

reads like concern trolling to me

This article is the biggest load of shit ever. Outrage, letting the nation down - I can't even pick a quote, I'd have to quote the whole thing. Looks like we're back to business as usual.

One of his most recent pronouncements on his Twitter feed was to tell some critic: “bore of u mug”.

Uhhh

captaincy outrage is by far the best kind. the only comparable thing i can think of that would be even more pompous and false would be ripping on the selection of a team mascot who hasn't even finished his homework.

The outrage at Cole is almost an afterthought though - he's already frothing with rage just about the choreography.

christ why am i inflicting this gruel on myself even as background noise? pathetic desperation of the football junkie with his fix withdrawn

Find it extremely difficult to articulate the feelings of hopelessness and horror that watching England gives me. There's nothing quite like it

think you just articulated it tbh, very well to boot

watching ireland

been watching world in motion a bit this past week. It's such an aberration

ireland are almost hatefully bad

disappointed in how you're spending your holiday tbh