Bruce Boudreau Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 Hey guys anyone know where and when I can watch el classico for Pacific time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizarre Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 (edited) 12 hours ago, Chip Kelly said: Hey guys anyone know where and when I can watch el classico for Pacific time? When I'm back home I use this site http://www.canadasoccertv.ca if you don't get the channel it's on you to get creative. Edited April 2, 2016 by Bizarre 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRussianRocket. Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 What a match so far...pls hold it off. Barca paying off the refs/linesman. Take away a goal and go a man down right after...still no match for Ronaldo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drdeath Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 Just now, TheRussianRocket. said: What a match so far...pls hold it off. Barca paying off the refs/linesman. Take away a goal and go a man down right after...still no match for Ronaldo. They're hardly paying the ref off he's just completely incompetent. Ramos should have been sent off in the first half. This second half has been pretty awesome watching though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bruce Boudreau Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 Found the stream boy did the second half ever makeup for the first! Didn't think Real could actually beat Barca at the Camp Nou. Wow. Viva REAL!!! Can't wait for a rematch in the Champions league final hopefully. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottish⑦Canuck Posted April 2, 2016 Author Share Posted April 2, 2016 9 minutes ago, TheRussianRocket. said: Such a talented footballer. But what a knob end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRussianRocket. Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 9 minutes ago, Scottish⑦Canuck said: Such a talented footballer. But what a knob end. I don't get this tbh. ...but anyways, one thing I have to say, really really impressed with what Zidane has done. Really making players accountable and gets the most out of them. Especially love how the strikers (including Ronaldo) go back and help pressure to get the ball back. Before it was just them standing around waiting for the ball to come to them but things are changing for the better. Very glad with that change and it's great to see them taking on the bigger role as a challenge and not as a punishment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kazmanian Devil Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 (edited) @TheRussianRocket. Do you also support Bayern, Juventus, and PSG? Edited April 2, 2016 by Kazmanian Devil 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRussianRocket. Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 @Kazmanian Devil I support bae, aka CR7 <333 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottish⑦Canuck Posted April 2, 2016 Author Share Posted April 2, 2016 8 minutes ago, TheRussianRocket. said: I don't get this tbh. ...but anyways, one thing I have to say, really really impressed with what Zidane has done. Really making players accountable and gets the most out of them. Especially love how the strikers (including Ronaldo) go back and help pressure to get the ball back. Before it was just them standing around waiting for the ball to come to them but things are changing for the better. Very glad with that change and it's great to see them taking on the bigger role as a challenge and not as a punishment. It's quite simple. He's an egomaniac. Totally obsessed with himself and only himself. That's why he'll never command the same respect as Messi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lateralus91 Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 43 minutes ago, Scottish⑦Canuck said: It's quite simple. He's an egomaniac. Totally obsessed with himself and only himself. That's why he'll never command the same respect as Messi. Since he's at Real, he has developed into the ultimate goal scoring machine. But he can't do much else, imho. He's not creating much. If the team is bad, he's not scoring either. He's great when you have a 3-0 lead. He will score another 5 goals for sure. But in other situations, there's not just Messi who I would play instead of Ronaldo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AV. Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 Story going around on Twitter that Arsenal, Chelsea, and Leicester have been using or used PEDs Lolwut. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottish⑦Canuck Posted April 3, 2016 Author Share Posted April 3, 2016 9 hours ago, Lateralus91 said: Since he's at Real, he has developed into the ultimate goal scoring machine. But he can't do much else, imho. He's not creating much. If the team is bad, he's not scoring either. He's great when you have a 3-0 lead. He will score another 5 goals for sure. But in other situations, there's not just Messi who I would play instead of Ronaldo. Pretty much. Nice win for Dortmund yesterday. Not the best performance but I liked the way the subs played to win the game. Ramos has been making me eat my words ever since I made that comment. Maybe he reads CDC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
otherwise Posted April 4, 2016 Share Posted April 4, 2016 Happy about the City win yesterday, I only watched the 1st half before having to go to work, but it was better, I think having KDB back helped big time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottish⑦Canuck Posted April 6, 2016 Author Share Posted April 6, 2016 Quote Football is such a great game because it can be so many things to so many people. Take Thursday's meeting between Dortmund and Liverpool. When the draw paired those two clubs, many people were delighted for reasons that have nothing to do with what may happen on the pitch. Actually, some of them won't even watch the pitch but the stands instead. "Will the Dortmund fans be singing 'You'll Never Walk Alone' against Liverpool?" a reader asked me after the draw. When I said they would, he rejoiced: "It will be cool to hear the whole ground sing it." He's not the only one looking forward to that. Even UEFA's website referred to the tie as "a You'll Never Walk Alone derby", adding that the song "will be ringing out from all four sides of the BVB Stadion as Borussia Dortmund take on Liverpool in the UEFA Europa League quarter-finals, the two clubs having an anthem -- as well as Jürgen Klopp -- in common." It's not just a song and a coach that connect the two teams, though. Liverpool FC has a special place in Dortmund lore while Dortmund, the city, is a special place for many Liverpool fans. However, the best way of telling that story is indeed to have a look at how a sentimental American show tune, having first travelled from Broadway to Merseyside, then moved from Britain to Germany. To do this, we have to go back to a Tuesday night at Anfield in April, 1966. Liverpool were hosting Celtic in the second leg of the Cup Winners' Cup semifinals. It was an epic meeting: a Celtic website says "the game was played in monsoon conditions which turned the pitch, which had already been covered in snow and lashed by rain in the past week, into a mud bath." The Reds won 2-0 and went through to the final though the Scottish fans didn't return home empty-handed. They had lost the game but they had gained a song. The 2014 documentary "Walk On," a film that premiered on British television one day before the 25th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster, traces Celtic's obsession with "You'll Never Walk Alone" back to this night at Anfield. Ever since, the tune is linked almost as closely with Celtic as with Liverpool. This would become important a quarter of a century later but first, let's get back to 1966. Having squeezed past Celtic, 2-1 on aggregate, who would Liverpool meet in the final but Dortmund? And where would they meet Dortmund but in Glasgow? As detailed last month, Dortmund won that final 2-1 in extra time, becoming the first German team to lift a European trophy. It was an important moment not just for the club. When the final whistle rang, the German radio commentator Kurt Brumme stated that "German football is now established in Europe. It has earned the right to be mentioned in the same breath with Real Madrid, Benfica, Inter." Liverpool enjoyed the song during their 2001 UEFA Cup win vs. Alaves that happened in Dortmund's stadium. Although Borussia have won bigger trophies since, the 1966 team that overcame Liverpool is still revered in Dortmund. In early May, four weeks after the Reds come to town and 50 years after the final, a book about the side called "Die Helden von 66" will be published: "The Heroes of '66." During his research, author Gregor Schnittker learned that Otmar Rhein, an influential Dortmund club official, had excellent relations to Celtic as early as the mid-1960s. "His son told me that he and his mum travelled to Glasgow for the final on an invitation from Celtic," says Schnittker. "He also said his father later became an honorary member of Celtic." "Normal" Dortmund fans felt welcome in Glasgow, too. Many locals (particularly Celtic fans, of course) wished them all the best against Liverpool and treated the German visitors to rounds of drinks in the pubs. That despite the fact few Dortmund fans at the time spoke English well enough to hold down a conversation, especially in Glasgow. It may also explain why they didn't pick up on "You'll Never Walk Alone" when it reverberated around Hampden Park that night. During the years that followed, there were few occasions for Dortmund fans to renew their acquaintance with the song through either Liverpool or Celtic. Borussia played two friendlies against the Reds -- in 1975, when Dortmund were in the second division, and in 1984 -- losing both. In 1983, they were defeated by Celtic during a tournament in Kassel. But these scattered low-profile games didn't popularise "You'll Never Walk Alone" in Germany. After all, not even the legendary clashes between Mönchengladbach and Liverpool during the 1970s had done that. Paradoxically, it was left to a club with only the most tenuous of historical links to either Liverpool or Celtic to trigger the Teutonic YNWA craze. Malte Oberschelp, a German who's written a book about the history of the song and its impact on football, says St. Pauli fans imported the tune into the Bundesliga. We can even narrow down when and how it happened: In early 1991, three contributors to the St. Pauli fanzine "Millerntor Roar" trekked across Britain to meet like-minded souls. They ventured as far north as Glasgow, where they struck up a friendship with the Celtic fans behind "Not the View" magazine. Listen to what the coach and players have to say about what makes Borussia Dortmund's 'Yellow Wall' one of the most unique fan bases in football. Later that year, the St. Pauli fans produced a season-review video. Inspired by their new Celtic friends, they used a punk version of "You'll Never Walk Alone" by a band from Ipswich called The Adicts for the soundtrack. It struck a nerve with the club's supporters and they took up singing the song at the games. Since the Adicts version was hard to get hold of in those pre-internet days, the Hamburg band Rubbermaids recorded their own take on the tune. It came out in January, 1994 and would be played before St. Pauli home games for years. Hamburg was a fitting birthplace for the German obsession with "You'll Never Walk Alone." Scousers had fallen in love with the tune when it became a hit in late 1963 for the Merseybeat band Gerry and the Pacemakers. However, the group first performed the song two years earlier, in 1961. Where? According to Oberschelp, it was in Hamburg's Top Ten, a music club barely a mile south of St. Pauli's ground. From St. Pauli, the song spread through the Bundesliga like wildfire in the early 1990s. The Kaiserslautern version, sung with religious fervour, became particularly famous and by August of 1996, a Kaiserslautern fanzine matter-of-factly listed the tune under "terrace chants" alongside domestic classics such as "Zieht den Bayern die Lederhosen aus" ("Pull down Bayern's Lederhosen," sung to the tune of "Yellow Submarine"). Around the same time, German fans also grew fond of singing "Three Lions" (due to the "football's coming home" chorus) but while this fad soon petered out, YNWA's popularity proved more lasting. When Bayer Leverkusen played at Old Trafford in April, 2002, the visiting fans struck up the song, only to receive angry boos from the home crowd. Some Leverkusen fans later claimed they wanted to needle their hosts, but I still suspect they simply didn't know they were belting out the club anthem of United's biggest rivals. After all, it had become a commonplace tune sung nearly everywhere in Germany. In fact, so many German fans were singing YNWA that the St. Pauli supporters grew tired of it. Barely six months after Leverkusen's televised rendition in Manchester, the tune was replaced as St. Pauli's pre-match anthem by the theme song of a 1957 film set in Hamburg. Dortmund's exposure to the song came in the 1960s though it wasn't until the modern era that it returned. So where does Dortmund fit in this tale? In all likelihood, Borussia's fans were inspired by St. Pauli to adopt the song, like everyone else in the Bundesliga. But maybe, just maybe, there was another impulse. In 1987, Dortmund met Celtic in the UEFA Cup. It was the height of the hooligan era and the Germans came up with a novel idea how to prevent trouble: a big party for both groups of supporters before the game. This original fan fest was a success and established a tradition. It also led to isolated friendships between Dortmund and Celtic fans. Five years later -- in 1992, just when "You'll Never Walk Alone" was becoming hugely popular in St. Pauli -- Borussia played Celtic again. For my book about Dortmund's support, a Celtic fan called George Docherty told me: "I still recall this second party. It was many times better than the one in 1987. The city of Dortmund and the fans made us all feel so welcome." Paul Larkin, the author of numerous Celtic books, told me: "When I was there in 1992, there was a fan fest in a big square in the city centre. Fans mingled freely and there were both Irish and German bands playing. I distinctly remember a really good, friendly atmosphere at the ground and a full all-fan version of 'You'll Never Walk Alone.'" So it's not totally clear whether the song gained currency in Dortmund via St. Pauli, or if it was due to those peaceful parties. Either way, it happened because of Celtic, not Liverpool though the Reds still play a role in this story. Liverpool and Dortmund shared the song again during a 2014 friendly, which Liverpool won 4-0. In May of 2001, half of Merseyside (or so it seemed) descended upon Dortmund for the UEFA Cup final between the Reds and Alavés, one of the most memorable matches in Liverpool history. The marvellous version of YNWA that rang around the ground that night put Dortmund's best efforts to shame; it reinforced the opinion of those Borussia fans who felt the tune was someone else's property and should be dropped from the repertoire. But as fate would have it, only four months after the Alavés final Liverpool travelled to Dortmund yet again, for a Champions League match against Borussia. Before the game, a local singer walked onto the pitch. He had first cashed in on the popularity of "You'll Never Walk Alone" among Borussia's fans in late 1996, when he recorded a version with his mainstream pop band. Now he presented his solo version. It was no match for Gerry Marsden (or the Rubbermaids) but the visiting Reds, perhaps in a lenient mood given the memories of that magical night in May, were courteous enough to not boo him down. Communal singing ensued that was more entertaining than the 90 scoreless minutes of football. It's possible that the moment sealed YNWA's fate in Dortmund: the tune was here to stay. Actually, it's been here for so long now that even some of the song's detractors have made their peace with it and raise their scarves along with everyone else when it's played over the tannoy. The black-and-yellow version of YNWA is at the very least an impressive sight, but it also sounds good these days. With practice, the sweet silver song of a lark has become second nature to the Germans. Two years ago, they even passed the acid test. In August 2014, Dortmund travelled to Liverpool for a pre-season friendly that the hosts went on to win 4-0. It was the first game between the two clubs since the 2001 encounters. Before kick-off, both sets of fans sang YNWA together to produce what Liverpool's official YouTube channel called an "amazing rendition." The next one is just around the corner. Great article. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lateralus91 Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 Wolfsburg gave Real quite a little spanking tonight. Could have been even higher than 2-0. And Marcelo should clearly have been sent off. Real got theirselves a bit of a challenge for the second leg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
otherwise Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 David luiz lol. Not an amazing performance by City but the result is good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptainCanuck001 Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 Madrid lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kazmanian Devil Posted April 6, 2016 Share Posted April 6, 2016 @TheRussianRocket. must hurt supporting 2 European giants and having both of them get outdone by Wolfsburg 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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