Footy terms for newbs

well whaddya know - Maradona apologised for the Hand of God incident 22 years later ...

Can we please stop mentioning Maradona and Payne in the same sentence? Cheers.

And Henry.

TLAs FTW!

I've opted for "hand of knob".

further questions

1) Most A-league Clubs, if not all do.

2) July/August. Can't remember if they are starting earlier or ending later to accommodate the new team.'

3) Because if we came third it means there are 2 teams we didn't beat. No ones knocking the lads though - great season. Just a bit gutting to get so close.

Actually I think most people are VERY happy with coming third.  Junior822010-03-16 12:06:09

- so do the players themselves now get like a three month break? stealthkiwi2010-03-16 12:13:26

Their contracts expire at the end of this month.

That goal AND people on here generally just love to complain  I remember on the live chat with Greenacre reading John Mitchell lament "You lot are never happy are you? "
S.O.N2010-03-16 14:44:20

Off to WINZ?

Fair enough... Henry only batted it to a teammate. Unfair to compare him to Payne.

Tourists = people who stand in the fever zone to experiance the atmosphere rather than contritbute to it

Fair weather fans = the 20,000 extra people in the stadium for the Jets game (don't get me wrong, it was awesome, I just hope more of them come for regular season games next year!)

I resent a lack of distinction being made around here between fair weather fans and fans from abroad/rest of the country who have to pay more than the price of a season ticket (in some cases) just to get to one game.  And obviously these individuals in question would rather go to a semi-final than a round 4 clash with the mighty Fury or whoever.

That rant has tired me out.  Thankyou.

Fair Weather Tourists

Spelling = You're doing it wrong.

Now THATS chewin' a brick!!!!

ROP = Ring of Payne = Sydney Football Stadium

I don't see the attraction of EPL teams to be honest. Yeah, my Mum is English, and I've lived there myself, but it's not my football, like the Nix or the All Whites are.

Agreed.. I enjoy watching it (the EPL) too but could never find a team to "latch on to" as a supporter. I think it means more if the team is your local, no matter how woeful. Eg, my sister-in-law supports Ipswich passionately because thats her home town and she still lives near enough to Ipswich (actually Chelmsford which isn't that near) to get along to regular games. Thats dedication for you ( and suffering). But she reserves the right to complain about Ipswich to the cows come home but she still loves them.
Thats why the Phoenix are so important to the football-starved in New Zild.

Hmm... doesn't make them any less of a fan if there is not connection with the town the club represents? It means something doesn't it?

This is where I am at. I've been a football fan since I played as a kid, but never identified with a club. When I started watching the EPL a few years back I latched on to Perennial strugglers Liverpool, it was just after their Champions League win, but my interest in them has understandably wained. I don't identify with the team at all. My mum's from Leicester, but considering their games aren't televised it is hard to form a connection with them.

Then along come the Nix. I didn't really follow them closely for the first two seasons, but after the AW v Bahrain game I wanted to get involved. So the Yellow Fever made me a Nix fan. I wanted to be like you guys! Real supporters, through thick and thin. Like a family. Count me in. This OUR football and our team.

Exactly. You can't counterfeit a genuine connection.

Junior822010-03-19 10:28:24

getting back to 'my topic'.... I'm confused. Why are they called Perennial strugglers Liverpool if are a top 4 team as someone else stated earlier in this thread? Wdn't that make them once were struggling Liverpo.ol? stealthkiwi2010-03-19 10:41:54

lol by the fact I had to work out how to edit that I see why now

Because, to put it simply, Perennial strugglers Liverpool are f**king hopeless.

Quite. Sorry, I should have qualified my statement better. I was only talking from a personal perspective and wasn't inferring any judgement about other people's preferences.
My brother has been a  Perennial strugglers Liverpool supporter since the mid-1970s. He's never been to  Perennial strugglers Liverpool, ever. I don't consider that makes him worth less as a fan than an actual scouser.

Different things attract different people to a team and often its more than one thing. I'm not even a proper Wellingtonian having spent the last 14 years in Chch. And i was born in Auckland.

I think what i was trying to say was that for me it was the NZ connection that was important to me. Having been to games in the UK and seen the passion and camaraderie of the fans there, I decided that was what I wanted; a home side.




the ant2010-03-19 11:08:04

LOL!! Is it just me but whenever I typed in Perennial strugglers Perennial strugglers Liverpool the words "Perenial strugglers" attaches itself to the fron of their name. A bug? Some trickery by the backoffice team?

HA! It did again!! From now on I will have refer to them as the Liver-boys!

Someone else try it!!!
the ant2010-03-19 11:11:01

Like i said above mate, it's because they're f**king hopeless.

stealthkiwi2010-03-19 11:12:05

Have you not seen them play this year?

Consider yourself lucky. It's similar to watching the special olympics. You know the players are trying their best, but you can't escape the fact they are plain retarded.

LOL
a team like Wycombe Wanderers could be considered f**king hopeless.
But being 5th in the EPL probably doesn't rate to the same level of retardedness.

It does when you expect to win the league.

That's because he's a gooner so has to make himself feel better by slagging off other teams.