Simply for the love of football

[Doctor DOOM]

Sometimes one's desperate urge to get the maximum attention, be the hero of the day and hog the limelight may fall flat on its face and backfire.
Just ask Cristiano Ronaldo about that, who had insisted on taking the final penalty even prior to the start of the tournament. Referring to the matter of taking the final penalty in a tie break which decides the winner of the tie, and a ticket to the final of the second-most important international tournament in football.

Of course, taking such poses usually doesnt help with garnering sympathy either. ol' horse legs pose!

Thankfully, the more deserving team, Spain, came out of it as winners and still have a chance to make an unprecedented treble (Euro-WorldCup- Euro). Olle!




lol
even at the time of tragedy and elimination this idiot cant stay away from wtaching himself on the stadium screen
the freak seems to be in love with himself. in 90 minutes of a game 87 minutes of it his head and eyes are glued to the screen rather than the ball. no wonder he sliced that last ball in min 89. the f**k was busy admiring himsef on the screen rather than focusing on the ball!
hahahaha

[Doctor DOOM]

and while on the subject of euro 2012, here's one spicy little article from an english fan that really tickled me.
enjoy:

The harsh review of England’s Euro 2012 run from a retired footballer





Can't even take a decent picture. (Reuters)

I'm Bert Tiddle and you've never heard of me. I cemented my position as England's greatest ever penalty taker when I scored with an inadvertent chip after Coventry City's 1987 FA Cup semifinal against Leeds. After I did, Dave Bennett told me that we won in extra time and there was no shootout. Dave Bennett is a numpty.

Being honest is for lepers and house pets, but I'll tell you this anyway: I was supposed to provide regular reports from Euro 2012 but England kept not losing, so what was I going to write, "Well done, lads -- have a bowl of compliments for your efforts"? Not likely. Plus you mingers wouldn't have read that anyway. Convincing the Russians to fight everyone was more of a delight.

So England have finally been knocked out of this stupid tournament and I've been deported from Ukraine for "being too racist against other white people." When I got home, Pimento, one of my 18 kids, said, "Dad, did you bring me back anything from the Euros?" Then I gave him a human finger and he cried. Here's how everyone stained England's reputation yet again...

Wade Rooney: Didn't even play in the first two matches because he's a bin bag and he only scored one goal in the two matches he did play. Terrible. Also his hair was an ever-changing horror show. He should just shave that surgical mess off and stay bald. It's not like the prostitutes he visits while his wife is pregnant will care as long as he's got the money.

Young Ainsley Cole: First off, you had no business taking two penalties in a row. Second, we should ban everyone called Ainsley from English football after this. Except Newcastle owner Mike Ainsley because he's a top man. Third, calling yourself "Young" won't get you any sympathy from old Bert. Like I tell my 18 kids, "If you're old enough to fart, you're old enough to never make a mistake and vicious abuse when you do. What do you think you are, human? You disgust me. Now go tell your mother that those bomb threats to her personal trainer were from me."

Joe Hart: Mug.

Joe Hart: Sticking your tongue out at penalty takers doesn't make you look hard, it makes you look like a mental patient. It didn't work and now you should be forced to lick a pack of feral cats.

Jade Milner: Glaucoma, one of my 18 kids, is a more valuable contributor than you are and he can't even read. You should be a bagger at Tesco like he is, except no one will say it's OK when you crush their eggs with a melon because you have no excuse.

Roy Hodgson: Yes, I applied for the England job but the second I didn't get it I decided it was a twunt's gig. Meanwhile, Roy isn't Harry Redknapp and he proved it. Harry would've had this lot in the finals against Iceland and he wouldn't have paid a penny of tax in doing it. After they got knocked out, I texted Harry to see what legendary insult he had for Hodgson and he texted back "Xkqd rtusy" because he still doesn't know how to text or spell. Everyone knows that a 4-4-2 is worse than no formation at all and that's exactly what Harry would've brought. Plus Harry's jowls make Hodgson's look unattractive by comparison.

And finally, the only bright spot in this dreadful England team: Jim Terry. Maybe if all those idiot fans hated the rest of the players for no good reason as much as they hate JT, they would've all played as well as him.

Now that England have been eliminated and Euro 2012 is over, it's time to focus on more important things like prank calling Alan Shearer and poking Joey Barton with a stick. I'm going to kick the television.

[Doctor DOOM]

another fantastic article. for all my love and admiration for the spanish style, the writer hits the spot on a few valid items ... albeit mixed with that old english sarcasm borne out of jingoistic, false superiority complex (that they know full well has no justification):

Several ways to make Spain matches more exciting


Spain blurring your vision with their endless passes. (Getty)
Four years of Spain's tiki-taka passing and possession heavy domination has left many football fans (excluding all Spain supporters, of course) bored with the foregone conclusion that is their success. But while spectators and opponents often forget that a bit of egalitarian belief and discipline can, at times, get a result against Spain (see: the U.S. in 2009 and Switzerland in 2010), there are easier ways to break the soul-crushing machine that Spain has become. Here are a few ideas...


-Electric collars: When basketball wanted to kill the trend of possession heavy and boredom inducing games, they introduced the 24-second shot clock that was credited with rescuing the NBA. Well, that's already been done and a piddly countdown wouldn't be enough to instill a sense of urgency in Spain at this point anyway. Instead, each player for Spain should wear an electrified collar and whenever its possession in a given match hits 65 percent, every one of them would be shocked into a quivering heap so the other team can have a go. As a fun bonus idea, Sergio Busquets would be given a plain collar and fans can point and laugh when he goes down with the rest of his teammates as they're being zapped, convulsing more than all of them for no reason whatsoever.


-Make them play all matches in drought-stricken areas: The one match where Spain didn't get an ideal result at Euro 2012 so far was its group stage opening 1-1 draw against Italy in which several members of the Spanish side complained about the dry pitch after the match. So, deny them their precious pitch water and watch as Xavi goes to the futile effort of trying to nourish the playing surface with sports drinks. Your electrolytes will be useless.


-Force them to use at least one freaking striker at all times: Seriously, Fernando Llorente must have the self-esteem of a turtle at a nightclub at this point.


-Name Jose Mourinho the team's new manager: Current Spain manager Vicente del Bosque and his fluffy mustache are a calming influence for his team. But with Mourinho at the helm, the simmering bitterness among the team predominantly comprised of Barcelona and Real Madrid players would surely boil over. It's difficult to control a match when the manager is encouraging Sergio Ramos to hit Gerard Pique with a folding chair.


-Get them angry: It's easy to play out your master plan like robots when your opponents park the bus, hide under the seats and hope you don't hurt them too bad, but it's far more fun for all parties involved when a bit of angst is thrown into the equation. Before every match, invite Zlatan Ibrahimovic into Spain's dressing room and have him look each of them in the eye, one by one, and tell them that he is infinitely better than they are at everything. Including baking, teeth brushing and sandwich making. He can also charges each of their credit cards for 10 copies of his autobiography, I am Zlatan, for added rage-inducement.


-Mario Balotelli: Put Mario Balotelli on the team.


-Laxatives: As a number of fine comedy films have shown in the past, laxatives make everything more exciting. One shot for every player before a match and Spain will be playing with a refreshing sense of urgency. Granted, they might be slower to come out of the dressing room after halftime, but that could force some early substitutes and might actually give Fernando Llorente a chance to play.

[Doctor DOOM]

Posted at: 20:49 on Monday, April 22, 2013 Category: Statistics Written by: EnriqueSDS







FC Barcelona and Bayern Munich are juggernauts of the football world both on and off the field. One day remains before the epic clash and among the many interesting story lines, the battle for the ball may be most intriguing of all. More after the jump.


Debate around possession of course exists, the term “sterile possession” is used as its main criticism. But statistically it has been proven that more possession on average leads to increased attacking opportunities. and Bayern are the teams with the most possession in the 2012/13 UEFA Champions League, with the Catalan side hoarding an average of 68%7,910 passes thus far (83% successful) versus 6,011 passes of which 76% found their target. Xavi boasts FC Barcelona’s greatest passing record, with a total of 1,143 (14.45% of the team total). Bayern’s most frequent passer is defender Philip Lahm with a total of 667 (11.10% of the team total).


A special note too on Xavi. In the 1-1 draw versus Paris Saint-Germain some weeks past, the legendary midfielder completed 92 of 92 passes, a perfect passing game. This is a record in terms of the 100% accuracy related to number of attempts. The previous record was held by another legend of the game, Javier Zanetti, who in 2010 made 72 of 72.


Adding credence to statements earlier, Xavi and Lahm also top the team’s assist charts in the competition, with the most frequent passers supplying four assistsleast this year with 87, while Bayern have committed the most fouls in the competition with 137.



Read more: http://www.totalbarca.com/2013/stati...#ixzz2REYhK0QX

[Doctor DOOM]

I would like all of you to watch the video clip below. It's about Messi. but with a difference.
it is in spanish but has english subtitles which you can activate ("cc" button, for those who dont know how to active them).
But dont activate the english yet (or if you know spanish, silence the audio). of if they are activated, de-activate it temporarily.
first watch the clip. form your opinion on what it was about and what the focus of the clip could be.

then, watch it again with the subtitiles (they change quickly, so you may need to pause it often to read the whole text) and enjoy.

"MESSI IS A DOG"

[Doctor DOOM]

Wanted to write something on the matter of DEFENSIVE MIDFIELDER's duties but lost it.

However, I encourage everyone to watch the first leg of Bayern-barca in Munich and focus on Javi Martinez's performance. His positioning, marking, runs, presses, timing, zoning, ... everything that he did in that game was absolute brilliance and top notch.
That performance can be recorded as a great lesson for anyone who likes to play as a DM.

As a former def-mid, when I used to play, I must say I have never come across a more perfect performance by a def-mid (or at least I cant recall). This feat is made even more valuable when you notice one of his victims was a world class magician, Iniesta ... who was unable to do ANYthing in that game and was taken out of the game by Martinez's intelligent marking. To do this to such a magnificent player, it takes proportional skills and intelligence.
How and when he pressed, at what angle he approached the mark, when he got close and when he kept a distance, ... everything he did was rulebook quality.

I wish I could have a nice link to the game so everyone here could see just what a Def-Mid should do. I wish our own players like Nekounam, Ando Ebrahimi, Haghighi, ... record and watch this game again and again to know what can be achieved

[KeonKish]

javi martinez is excellent, however he plays further back than players like ando... ando plays more of a schwienstiger role, but yes, bayerns midfield absolutely destroyed barcas midfielders!
I play DM myself almost half the time, and although I just play for fun, one of the most important things a DM must do, is be very aggresive and get in the faces of all the opposing creative players,

for instance: when a player with high skill is running, everyone just runs next to him, im always the one who jumps in and stops his run

but yes, I wish our players tried to better themselves, but most of them probably have big egos...

[Doctor DOOM]

Ando is "pushed" that high. otherwise, his best games are when he stays back and becomes the link/wall between midfield and defense lines.
he is pushed up, because we foolishly insist on using two SIMILAR DM's - mostly because both are big names and no coach has the guts to bench one of them in favor of a more PRODUCTIVE & CREATIVE mid!
so to build on the faulty foundation, ando is pushed as a CM or RM even at times(!!!) ... instead of just putting a player who BELONGS and SUITS the CM or RM duties!

being name victims and putting too much in store of "names" instead of form and duties of a position has brought us only misery and failures and falling short of targets. And most tragic; there's no end in sight!!!

[Dreamer]

I really don't understand why Neko or Ando aren't used as subs for each other ... surely a position which requires this much running and such an aggressive style of play can get tiring, and since we have (more than 2) players who are good in that position, instead of playing them both leading to a static midfield, why not play one and bring in the other (ando) in the second half?

The only issue that I can see when doing this is that without Nekounam, the team doesn't really have a captain or another strong character.

[Doctor DOOM]

like him or not, you have got to respect him:
The day he walked into the club (1986) and the day he left (2013)

[KeonKish]

I really don't understand why Neko or Ando aren't used as subs for each other ... surely a position which requires this much running and such an aggressive style of play can get tiring, and since we have (more than 2) players who are good in that position, instead of playing them both leading to a static midfield, why not play one and bring in the other (ando) in the second half?

The only issue that I can see when doing this is that without Nekounam, the team doesn't really have a captain or another strong character.

ando definitely has a strong character...

[Paradigm]

At the end of the day, you'll need players who can convert 70% or 80% chances, since having more opportunities alone is not gonna win you games. I am thinking (as an example) about a club like Foolad, which had problems after their strikers ran dry towards the end of the season.

Doc, did you say you used to be a defensive mid yourself as a player? I did not know that... When/where did you play?

[Doctor DOOM]

70-80% strike rate? that's Messi level rate. that means out of every 4 attempts you score 3 goals!!!! that's phenomenal!
mate, I'd settle for 55-60% rate anyday of the week for our players. The problem is they have something like 30-40% or some even lower!!!

That's why I say for our forwards, the more opportunities we create, the more chances they'll have to finally score. Hence the dire need for a creative midfielder/playmaker in the line up.... when we usually see the spot sacrificed in favor of yet another defensive minded mid!!!!
if we dont have a playmaker who can consistently provide opportunities for our lone striker Mr. X, then he may get 1 or 2 clearcut chances. that by his strike rate of 30% is not enough. he'd need at least 1 more chance (if not 2) to eventually score a goal. which may never come as your DM's arent that creative and industrious to be able to provide it for the third or fourth time!
and when your team lacks a creative mid, you exponentially reduce the number of chances provided for your forwards




yes, mostly at the university team as well as for the Iranian students' team.
Although I doubled as a forward a few times too. but the mordeh-khor variety. not the industrious one.
wasnt very successful though except a few header goals here and there

[Doctor DOOM]

a few comments on Moan-rinho's latest debacle and perhaps his final parting gift to madrid:


Mou regrets being sent off… so many eyes to poke….



Barca and Atletico fans chanting (literally begging) Mou to stay at Madrid

[Paradigm]

Out of this 400 million pounds, how much tax does he have to pay? I imagine it is probably quite a lot, given the European tax rates.