Holiday Over....for now

Well after posting yesterday and getting some typing under my fingers I figured I should get back to what I do best.....FB bashing and GS supporting or something like that.

The last couple of weeks have seen some rather odd events in the World of Football. Zidane recieving a 3 match ban, Masernazi 1 2 match ban whihc was quite okay, anyone with facial hair like that should be banned anyway. Then we have the ridiculous saga of the Spaghetti leagues match fixing saga. First relegate them all, now reinstate 3 of them and watch Juve will be back in Serie A at the start of the season. Funny thing is though they have now sold most of their good players!!!!

Of course the Turkish League has its own scandal with Denizili apparently bribing Malatya to throw their match or something. The only surprsie for me is that it was not the Kadikoy brigade bribing Denizli to lose and therefore guaranteeing the titel, alhtough maybe that would have been way too obvious even for Aziz. And there's a story, reign, no-one else steps forward and then be reluctantly brought back!!! Good for stability that is, as is appointing Zico who fails to undertsand that Anelka and his brothers can barely survive on three ferraris a year and needs another multi milion transfer to top up the family coffers. With Appiah looking to leave it looks like the wait for Chimps League success and the next Super Lig title will have to wait. Shame.

As for Galatasaray a somewhat indifferent warm up camp finished with a resounding 4-1 win against FC Brussles. This sprouted contentnment!!!

Still no real transfer news for CimBom although it seems as if Heinz will be away due to injury. Actually other than Chelski and Real Madrid (who want to buy everyone) not many players seem to be moving yet, still there is a month to go until the window closes and teams like Man Utd have not even really started.

This last few weeks has been really hectic. Moving from Cleveland to New Jersey in the middle of a heatwave and then holiday has taken its toll and I am glad of the rest. Anyway by the end of this week it will be back to reality!!

Stop Press: I see the TFF have granted the chance to Galatasaray to get the season off to a winning start in Ankara on August 4th with an away game at Ankaraspor. Bad time of year to playing there actually with the heat but should be a relatively easy three points in the bag.

Bye for now......

Holiday Fever

Well hello there.

I have not disappeared simply gone on holiday without a computer for once so this is being written from a friends PC.

I will be back to seal with all issues Galatasaray in the very near future.

How was it for you?????

So that's the World Cup done and dusted, Zidane in retirement and hopefully a long ban for the cheating Eyetie. I cannot help but be sickened by the comments coming from Maserrati and his agent, "Me I dont know the word terrorist, I never mentioned his mother" when lip readers have basically confirmed what he said, how stupid is this guy, and the recent one about Totti, classic!!!!!!

Anyway I feel this was a slightly indifferent World Cup and although superbly organized and hooligan free, more Poles and Germans were arrested than English for goodness sake, there was no real high drama, except for the Oz matches. Even the final was hardly edge of the seat stuff.

On reflection Italy were not the best team and really how could such a boring, cheating team be allowed to win. Brazil were crap and the stand out team were Argentina but the coach messed their chances up.

Enough though as the real action starts now.

Galatasaray have started the transfer ball rolling taking Tolga Seyhan on loan and Okan Burak for free. There has been alot of questions asked about Okan but even at 32 he can probably do a job for the team, especially as Saidou has gone. I am not sure he will play 90 mins or even all the games but as I say he can come on and tighten things up as he more a midfiled player than a winger these days. Tolga I am not sure about so lets wait and see but he has got potential.

At the moment Galatasary are failing to impress on a tour of Belgium and Holland losing the first match to a team called Germs 1-0 and drawing with that powerhouse Lierse 1-1. Well it can, I hope, only get better....maybe the Club should stop paying them.

My how time flies though, World Cup finished and only 1 month to the start of the EPL and the Turkish Super Lig, add in Intertoto matches, Chimps and Uefa qualifying games and football is an all year sport!!!!!

Back again

I am back.

Last few days have been hectic with relocating from Cleveland to New Jersey and the inevitable disruption in internet and TV services. I even missed the World Cup Final as a result of the move!!!!!

Anyway back online and ready for a new season.

So Italy won the World Cup, how the hell did that happen because they certainly were not the best team and any team that includes people who spit, Totti, elbow, racially abuse, cheat (remember the Oz game) and generally behave like low class scum cannot be considered as World Champions whatever the result.

Cheats Prosper

So England are out and the team with the worst disciplinary record and the worst attitude progress to the semi finals of the World Cup.

The amount of diving and cheating going on by the Portugese was a joke. Maniche made a clear dive clutching his face when it was clear he was not touched, where was the yellow card??? Figo spent most of the time falling over every time an English defender came near him and should of course not have been playing after the head butt in the Holland match.

I wonder whether Ronaldo will still be at Manchester United at the start of next season after his theatrics and blatant cheating. His part in Rooney's sending off was a disgrace. I thought FIFA had told players thath asking for psople to be booked etc. would result in a yellow card, but it appears that is not happening with Portugal who have managed to get three payers sent off by their asppaling whining attitude. Watching the tussle between Carvalho and Rooney, Carvalho had Rooneys leg in a scissors hold so just where was Rooney supposed to stand, and why was it not a free kick to England! His massive over reaction and Ronaldo's attitude got Rooney sent off. Pushing a player in the chest cannot surely be a red card. Still what mre can you expect from an Argentinian referee.

I am glad Scolari will not be the England coach next time because I would hate England to play the way Portugal do. Maybe its in the genes because Mourinho at Cheslki has his players doing the same.

Now for France to beat Brazil???

Fun filled Friday

Hello again. After a hectic week which involved a three day business trip to the Big Apple I arrived back ion Cleveland at 2am this morning after a 4 hr delay at Newark Airport. Oh the joys of flying.

So its biggggg Friday for the World Cup.

Now we will see how brave the Germans are, if the Argies are as good as the media keeps telling us, can Ingalland play football, are the Ukraine a one man band, can Itallians play without selecting the referee in advance, can Portugal play without cheating etc. etc.

Let the fun commence....

Blue Monday

After the firewirks of the Portugal Holland match todasy affair whihc saw the spaghetti eating girly men cheat their way to a victory over Oztrailer with another highly dubious penalty seemed quite tame. I am sorry to see the Ozzies go especially to the Eyeties who asre almost as bad as the Portugese in the cheating department.

Speaking of which I cant believe the nerve of fat Phil who wants Deco's red card rescinding because the Dutch did not give the ball back. Well after what Figo had just got away with if I were on the Dutch team neither would I have given the ball back.

Speaking of Figo I see FIFA had a collective lack of nerve in failing to apply the laws as they are published. A headbutt is a red card irrespective of whether Mark van Bommel recieves it or not.

Oh well I guess I will be supporting England from here on in..... until Saturday anayway...

Disgrace to football

This man used to be good player, now he just a diving cheating bastard.


Luis Figo is nothing other than a cheat pure and simple and should be thrown from the World Cup. I thought a headbutt was an automatic red card and what about his piece of pure acting tpo get the Dutch player sent off. He is a fucking cheat and was directly repsonsible for the farce this match descended into. Commentators on TV were saying that the only thing to be remembered would be the referee well I dont agree. I think the only deceision he got wrong was not sending Figo off after he nutted van Bommel the rest were all correct decisions given the instructions FIFA have given out and the rank stupidity of the players.

Disgrace to football

This man used to be good player, now he just a diving cheating bastard.


Luis Figo is nothing other than a cheat pure and simple and should be thrown from the World Cup. I thought a headbutt was an automatic red card and what about his piece of pure acting tpo get the Dutch player sent off. He is a fucking cheat and was directly repsonsible for the farce this match descended into. Commentators on TV were saying that the only thing to be remembered would be the referee well I dont agree. I think the only deceision he got wrong was not sending Figo off after he nutted van Bommel the rest were all correct decisions given the instructions FIFA have given out and the rank stupidity of the players.

The day after and the day before

So it looks like I succeeded with driving Ozkanka to the point of despair by waving a Coopers before his very eyes!! Tee heee....

I tell you what though the refs are so inconsistent. Today in the Germany Sweden game the Germans asked for a Swedish player, Lucic, to be sent off and the Brazilian ref obliged. His first yellow card was for actually winning the ball from a Kraut and his second was for putting his arm out, complete bullshit in my opinion. What was that all about, I for one am totally sick and fed up of players asking for other players to be booked. This decision basically killed the game and the Germans in my mind are cheating bastards who I really hope get knocked out as soon as possible. And then Frings who made a completely deliberate handball to stop a Swedish attack was only yellow carded and it was him telling the useless ref to send of the Swede. I was so happy when he got smacked in the face later, bastard square head.

Then in the Argentina Mexico match how did Heinze stay on the pitch. He is my favourite Man Utd player but when he took out the Mexican attacker he was the last defender and that should have been a red card. Plus the Swiss ref's performance had more holes in it than a cheese. They are so inconsistent it is so frustrating!!!

Anyway here is the last comment on Graham Poll.

I found this on the official Yahoo World Cup Site. This is the dream team of players leaving after the group stages, what do you think???

Team (4-3-3): Cech (Czech Republic); Eboue (Côte d'Ivoire), R Kovac (Croatia), Vidic (Serbia and Montenegro), Lee Y-P (Korea Republic); Nakata (Japan), Yorke (Trinidad and Tobago), Rosicky (Czech Republic), Nedved (Czech Republic); Drogba (Côte d'Ivoire), Kezman (Serbia and Montenegro). Subs: Kawaguchi (Japan), Jaidi (Tunisia), Acuna (Paraguay), Baros (Czech Republic), Prso (Croatia).

Oz envy

Sorry Ozkanka but I had to post these. Here is what I will be drinking for the next few days in the You Ess of Eh!



And here is what you all will be drinking in Turkey thanks to Tekel and the Turkish Government



and here is a great T shirt I found on the SMH web site whihc you pointed me to in your blog....



I am officially supporting Oztrailer now that the You Ess of Eh! has been sent home much to my Colonial Master husbands complete and utter disgust.....although he did jump from his seat, punch the air and shout yes, get in you bastard, when Kewell scored!!!!!!

Turkey at the World Cupl

Yes you read the title right. I know Turkey are not there but what about the players for other countries who play in Turkey, how are they doing, do you care well you should if they play for your team because if they are doing well the chances are they will be leaving which if truth to be told is good news for Galatasaray.

Galatsaray:
Marek Heinz - Czech Republic. Played for 13 minutes 1 game. Gone home already.
Sasa Ilic - Serbia and Montenegro. Played for 90 minutes 1 game. Gone home already.
Stjepan Tomas - Croatia. Played 1 game 82 minutes, 2 handballs. Gone home already.

Impressive eh!!

Fenerbahce:
Steven Appiah - Ghana captain. Played 3 games, 270 minutes, 1 goal. Through to second round.

Goodbye Appiah!!!! Shame........not.

Ankaraspor:
Richard Kingson - Ghana. Played 3 games, 270 minutes conceded 3 goals, through to second round.
Dragosalv Jervic - Serbia and Montenegro. 3 games 270 minutes, conceded 10 goals, gone home already.

Erciyesspor:
Riadh Bouazizi - Tunisia. Played 3 games, 188 minutes gone home already.

Samsunspor:
Anis Ayari - Tunisia. 2 games 146 minutes. Gone home already.

Gaiantepspor:
Sofiane Melliti - Tunisia. 0 games 0 minutes. Gone home already.

Trabzonspor'
Eul Yong Lee - South Korea. 2 games 112 minutes. Gone home already.

Switzerland:
Hakan Yakin - Through to second round.

Not exactly stunning stuff but at least the Turkish League is providing employment for some of the also rans!!!! There are other players who used to play in Turkey, as well but I have left those out. Anybody knows I have missed someone please let me know and I will update the list accordingly.

I really do wonder how long Appiah will stay after his performace to date though.

The worst referee in the World???

Is Graham Poll the worst referee in football. If you read the hysterical comments published in the Guardian and littering the cybersphere you would certainly think so but I have to say that in this case I disagree. First of all the Swiss idiot who runs FIFA, Splatter has opf course got his own take on things. He is quoted as saying "I'm not surprised about the reaction. There are people there and one of them should have intervened and run on to the field and said, 'Stop, stop.'

"That's why they have the communication system. The assistants and the fourth official have the right to call on the referee and tell him. It is not understandable how this happened."

Splatter seems to have fogotten that the refs and linesmen are miked up!!! Plonker. Of course he has yet to make commnents on referees who give penalties for nothing and send players off for breathing on others, the Swiss (no surpise there then) in Spain Ukraine and Merk in any match you care to mention but then they speak German so must be okay!!! FIFA also have themselvesd to blame, they asked no instructed refs to target time wasting, dissent etc. and the refs have been doing except to the Bazilians of course. The players know it so in my view if they throw or kick a ball away they only have themselves to blame.

Anyway on the specific accustaions, yes he gave three yellow cards and has admitted as much so that was definitley a mistake. As for the two penalties not given, the first one for the rugby tackle should have been easily spotted by the linesman as Poll maybe could not see clearly what was happening. Same for the second handball. When I watched the match I did not see Tomas, Galatsaray's best defender, make contact with his hand. It was only from the fifth slow motion replay that it could be seen. If you check where Poll was there was no way he could have seen it as Tomas's hand was below the level of the other heads. Mistake, absolutely not.

Remember the officials work as a team and the linesman can bring the referee's attention to incidents. This is especially true of the yellow card issue, was no-one else taking notes?????

Of course alot of the Oztrailer supporters are making a huge fuss conveniently forgetting that the linesman allowed an offside goal and that in the Japan Oz game Japan had a clear penalty claim waved away for a clear foul by Cahill a couple of minutes after Oz had scored. What goes around comes around!

Did Poll have a good game, maybe not but I really dont think he deserves the abuse handed out by clueless plonkers who have maybe never played the game and definitley not refereed one with Splatter breathing down you neck.

And before Ozkanka thinks I am being anti Oz I will be wearing the gold and green when they line up to take on the spaghetti eating diving girly men from the shit container that is the boot of Italy......

The good, the bad and the ugly

Tremedous day of football in Germany. The US lost to Ghana but played reasonably well. I do however think that the referee, Markus Merk had a large infuence on the game with the ridiculous penalty award, contrast that to the rugby tackle on Viduka in the Oztrailer game that was not given. On thing about Ghana I don't like is the diving that went on as the game progressed, too much Eyetalian footie watching I think.

Then on to the thud and blunder of Croatia and Oztrailer. Great game, maybe not the prettiest technically but hugely entertaining and tense and with the best goalkeeper mistake of the tournament. Amazingly for a country that is so good at sports that involve catching a ball that the Ozkeeper could not catch a slow moving football! Graham Poll also did well given the circumstances although Simunic should have been sent off about 5 minutes before he was. Hate to say it but one of our own, Tomas should have given up two penalties as he handled the ball twice, the first given the second not. Anyway history was made by the Ozzies, Porknaldo also made history and I hope the French go out tomorrow!

The good


The bad



and the ugly



I wonder when OzKanka will be sober enough to post!!!

The gay swede.....draws

Dams, damn, damn, for a moment there it looked like fast Freddy the gay diving swede was going to lose to Ingerlland but of course some comedy club defending allowed Larsson to score in the last minute. Oh well.

Overall though England looked better although with Owen and possibly Neville out for the remainder of the matches they may struggle later, that is on the assumption they beat Ecuador which I think they should. I tell you what though if Cole was called Colenaldo the entire football media would be dribbling all over their knees after thye goal he scored today. And just think he will be fourth choice at Chelski next season behind Lampard, Essien, Makelele, Bollocks, Mikel and the half dozen other assorted internationals the inflated ego thinks he needs.

So Sweden play Germany next. I hope fast Freddy and his mates stuff them!!!!

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Officially bad

With an average of 5 yellow cards per match and a number of reds it would seem that this World Cup could be considered a vicious dirty affair. Well not really. Leaving aside Italian Elbow Jobs there have not been that many really bad fouls or dirty games. I mean even the France Korea match attracted 4 yellow cards and there was hardly a bad tackle. I have watched many EPL games where only one or two cards are issued and there are many more physical challenges. I am obvioulsy not going to comment on Turkish ref's in this regard!!

One thing I have noticed is that in the World Cup the referee's appear to belioeve they just have to shout at players and not talk to them like the refs in the EPL do. Markus Merk set the tone in the Brazil Oztrailer game by basically shouting at the players after the first tackle. Then of course every time some poncy overhyped girly hair sporting Brazilian fell over he awarded a free kick. Obviously the Brazilians have been checking up on Nobhead's art of cheating video collection which by now runs to many DVD's. One thing else I noticed is that every time the Brazilians fell over they grabbed the ball with their hands effectively forcing Merk to give a free kick or daring him to red card them for deliberate hand ball! And lets face it who is going to send of Kaka or Ronaldinho!!! Talk about cheating, I wonder what Splatter would say about that!!!!

Having seen how the Ozzies took the game to Brazil and the very ordinary defending that was present I have a feeling that if a team with a really good playmaker, which lets face it is something the Ozzies do not have, but the same attacking attitude to take on the Brazilians could probably get a result. I hope so.

Bye for now....

Ouch!!!!!!

Who would have thought it, a great and enthralling game played between the US and Italy. The game finished 1-1 and the red card count 2-1 to the US. I have to eat some humble pie as a day after saying the Yanks can't tackle well tackle they certainly did, if a little bit too much at times! However I have some sympathy for the Masroeni as the replay showed he actually got the ball first and whilst it may have been 999/1000 a yellow card, a red card it certainly was not. I guess the total overreaction from the spaghetti eating diving cheat Pirlo helped make up the anti-Yankee referess mind for him. No wonder no-one watches Italian football! De Rossi deserved his, when you look at the player, throw the elbow and make no attempt at the ball its a red card all the way. Pope was perhaps a bit unlucky, certainly in the EPL he would not have been sent off but the ref seemed to want to make the headlines for all the wrong reason tonight. I hope Splatter is pleased that a great game was marred by the ridiculous refereeing performance. Lets hope that's the last we see of that useless moron.

Anyway tomorrow sees the Oz Brazil fest and the Croatia Japan love in. Will Oz Kanak be happy drunk or sad drunk tomorrow....only time will tell. I hope Oztrailer win if only so we get to see the inflatable sheep .........

Surprises and certainties

Well that was a somewhat surprising result, Ghana beating the Czech's 2-0. It could perhaps have been more with the penalty miss and Cech performing heroics in goal. What a difference 5 days can make, the same Czezh team that ripped the US apart were themselves made to look very ordinary by Ghana. I hate to admit it but Appiah had an excellent game, lets hope someone buys him from FB!!!

As for the rest well England are looking ordinary although they have not conceded a goal and against TnT were much better, just could not put the ball in the net!. Argentina are looking awesome but really do you want to peak for the group games or the knockout phase, the performance against Serbia will have given a lot of info to the knockout stage opposition!

Anyway here's hoping that the US can at least draw with Italy this afternoon....

OOps

Its safe to say that football or soccer has been dealt a blow here in the US of A by the crap display of the US team against the Czech's. Apparently 2.3million houselholds watched the match but I wonder how many switched off before the end. If only the team had played the way they talked!!

Whilst I cannot say there was the same sort of fever around that you find in most other countries when their team is in the World Cup there has been more interest shown by people here and more people seem aware that something is happening in Germany. But given the USA's performance in 2002 and contrast that with this year (so far) the locals are already beginning to lose interest. Americans love winning, a draw does not exist for them as they fail to appreciate the subtelties of the beautiful game. So unless the team can pull its collective finger out and win the next two games and progress, the cause of football may be hurt for a couple of years.

Bruce Arena's comments after the match should also be examined. Yes a number of players were awful, Beasley was non-existant and I lost count of how many times he passed backwards, Donavon, was he playing, the defence was poor especially for the first goal. However Arena deserves criticicm for playing Beasley out of position and maybe for not doing his homework on the Czech's. All the focus was on Koller and Nedved, had he never heard of Rosicky!

Having watched the Italy Ghana match I have a feeling that the US will struggle against them both. Italy because of their tactical acumen and skill and Ghana because of their physical presence. One problem the US based players have is that MLS is effectively non-contact so the players have a hard time adjusting to the physical game and I am sure that the match against Ghana will be physical.

I hope the US can improve and at least get a result but I fear for them....

Anyway onwards and upwards.....

Oztrailer set the sun on Japan

What a good game. I wonder when Oz Kanka will be sober enough to post anything remotely sensible!!

For 80 mins though it looked like Oztrailer were going to continue their fine tradition of never scoring a goal in the Workd Cup Finals and then suddenly 3 in eight minutes. The first a tad lucky but the second two excellent ones. Even the first could have been a penalty for handball but what the hell they all count. I bet the ref was glad though that his mistake in allowing the Japanese goal to stand after a somewhat blatant bodycheck on Schwarzer did not in the end affect the outcome. So all Oztrailer need to do now is beat the Oztrailer supply team from Croatia and draw with Brazil....easy really.

As for the other game yesterday, well Portugal looked good for 55 minutes until Ronaldo left and Mexico alos looked proimising whilst perhaps being a tad flattered by the 3-1 score, personally I thought 2-1 would have been a fairere reflection, but hey since when was football fair.

Anyway the TV is warming up for the US match so its bye for now.

Oh yes, Oztrailer basically got a Get OUt of Jaoil Free card today, how the first settlers would have wished for the same thing............tee hee!!!!!!!!!