European Leagues Thread 2012/2013

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Re: European Leagues Thread 2012/2013

by stealthpapes » 03 Apr 2019 16:50

Trying to remember my Parisian football. It's nothing like, for example, London.

Paris FC were briefly part of PSG but split.

Racing Metro are currently in the 3rd tier but in 1986 had just signed one of the world's most expensive players (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enzo_Francescoli, there's a decent bit of history about RC Paris there).

They've also got Red Star Paris who are as predictably dull as you can imagine.

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Re: European Leagues Thread 2012/2013

by Winston Biscuit » 03 Apr 2019 18:15

Bayern currently 1-2 down at home in the QF of the cup to a struggling 2nd tier team

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Re: European Leagues Thread 2012/2013

by The Enfield Royal71 » 03 Apr 2019 18:18

stealthpapes Trying to remember my Parisian football. It's nothing like, for example, London.

Paris FC were briefly part of PSG but split.

Racing Metro are currently in the 3rd tier but in 1986 had just signed one of the world's most expensive players (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enzo_Francescoli, there's a decent bit of history about RC Paris there).

They've also got Red Star Paris who are as predictably dull as you can imagine.


How could you forget Paris Foot Gay?

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Re: European Leagues Thread 2012/2013

by Winston Biscuit » 03 Apr 2019 19:24

Winston Biscuit Bayern currently 1-2 down at home in the QF of the cup to a struggling 2nd tier team


Then Bayern went 4-2 up, then it went back to 4-4 , then Bayern took a late 5-4 lead

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Re: European Leagues Thread 2012/2013

by Winston Biscuit » 04 Apr 2019 10:43

Ajax go top with a win last night (having played a game extra) which is quite the achievement when you consider PSV broke the record by winnning their first 13 league games this season

Highlights here, including a wonderful own goal at 1:52
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsrsff6qUeA


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by RFCMod » 04 Apr 2019 13:32

Remember in the mid 80's a weird plastic card collection, maybe by Panini which had clear plastic cards with the players printed on them, always remember the Racing Club Paris was part of the collection



stealthpapes Trying to remember my Parisian football. It's nothing like, for example, London.

Paris FC were briefly part of PSG but split.

Racing Metro are currently in the 3rd tier but in 1986 had just signed one of the world's most expensive players (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enzo_Francescoli, there's a decent bit of history about RC Paris there).

They've also got Red Star Paris who are as predictably dull as you can imagine.

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by Sanguine » 04 Apr 2019 13:42

Winston Biscuit Ajax go top with a win last night (having played a game extra) which is quite the achievement when you consider PSV broke the record by winnning their first 13 league games this season



Tbf both teams won 15 of their first 17 and were tied on 46 points at that point. They've actually just recovered a small mid-season 'slump' where they picked up four points in four games.

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Re: European Leagues Thread 2012/2013

by stealthpapes » 04 Apr 2019 18:35

RFCMod Remember in the mid 80's a weird plastic card collection, maybe by Panini which had clear plastic cards with the players printed on them, always remember the Racing Club Paris was part of the collection



stealthpapes Trying to remember my Parisian football. It's nothing like, for example, London.

Paris FC were briefly part of PSG but split.

Racing Metro are currently in the 3rd tier but in 1986 had just signed one of the world's most expensive players (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enzo_Francescoli, there's a decent bit of history about RC Paris there).

They've also got Red Star Paris who are as predictably dull as you can imagine.


Iconic kit,


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Re: European Leagues Thread 2012/2013

by Winston Biscuit » 04 Apr 2019 20:27

Atalanta 4-0 up over Bologna in 15 minutes. Puts them into 5th place if they can hang on.

Really want them to make the CL. Keep on and on hearing brilliant their football is to watch.


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Re: European Leagues Thread 2012/2013

by The Enfield Royal71 » 04 Apr 2019 22:20

I like that smaller argentinian messi v2 they have upfront alejandro gomez

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Re: European Leagues Thread 2012/2013

by Winston Biscuit » 05 Apr 2019 10:43

Bayern Vs Dortmund tomorrow

Dortmund currently 2 points ahead. A win for them leaves them 5 points clear with 6 left to play and 5 of those 6 are in the bottom half of the table

After this weekends game Bayern still have to play the teams currently in 3rd, 4th & 6th

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Re: European Leagues Thread 2012/2013

by Winston Biscuit » 06 Apr 2019 19:14

Currently Bayern 4-0 Dortmund.

Dortmund do have a recent history of getting hammered there


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by Sanguine » 11 Apr 2019 12:39



It's even better than a miss. It needs a whole new word. He didn't miss, he actually stopped the ball going in. :lol:

Choupo-Moting has said that he thought he was offside - in trying to take his foot back away from the ball, he's ended up cushioning it on the line.

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Re: European Leagues Thread 2012/2013

by Winston Biscuit » 14 Apr 2019 16:07

Athletic Bilbao, who were in the relegation zone in January, are now up to 7th place, level on points with 6th.

Juventus lose to Spal

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Re: European Leagues Thread 2012/2013

by Winston Biscuit » 23 Apr 2019 10:59

Vitor Oliveira manages a club to promotion to the Portuguese top division for the 11th (ELEVENTH) time.

Each of the last 6 clubs he has promoted he has done it in his first season in charge of them. 2 seasons ago he promoted Portimonense, a small club on the south coast, to the top division and they managed to convince him to stay on, he then got them to a very respectable 10th placed finish....then quit so he could go back down to the 2nd tier and do his thing :lol:

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Re: European Leagues Thread 2012/2013

by Sanguine » 26 Apr 2019 12:47

Interesting* stat - Luis Suarez is now Barcelona's joint-third highest La Liga scorer ever, with 131 goals. First, hadn't realised just how many goals he had scored since his move, but second, it occurred to be that that's not many goals by which to be the third highest scorer ever at Barcelona. Had a look and sure enough only five players ever have over 100 league goals, Samuel Eto'o in fifth with 103.

Kluivert got 90 in seven years, Rivaldo 86 in six. Lineker was only there three seasons, Maradona two, Romario two, Ronaldo only one.

For a club that has dominated like Barcelona, it's a surprise that until Messi (who has more than twice as many goals as Cesar Alvarez, who played in the 50s) they haven't had many players who have stayed at the club for a long time, and consistently scored goals.

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Re: European Leagues Thread 2012/2013

by Stranded » 26 Apr 2019 12:58

Sanguine Interesting* stat - Luis Suarez is now Barcelona's joint-third highest La Liga scorer ever, with 131 goals. First, hadn't realised just how many goals he had scored since his move, but second, it occurred to be that that's not many goals by which to be the third highest scorer ever at Barcelona. Had a look and sure enough only five players ever have over 100 league goals, Samuel Eto'o in fifth with 103.

Kluivert got 90 in seven years, Rivaldo 86 in six. Lineker was only there three seasons, Maradona two, Romario two, Ronaldo only one.

For a club that has dominated like Barcelona, it's a surprise that until Messi (who has more than twice as many goals as Cesar Alvarez, who played in the 50s) they haven't had many players who have stayed at the club for a long time, and consistently scored goals.


Hasn't that always essentially been the Barca way, certainly with forwards - buy in a top striker at the peak of his career, ring 2 or 3 strong years out of him before moving him on to part pay for a move for the next guy on the block.

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Re: European Leagues Thread 2012/2013

by stealthpapes » 26 Apr 2019 13:00

There was a chat about Suarez in the build up to the CL games. Best comment was "yeah, trained with him for years and I've no idea how good his first touch is". When its duff, he chases it down anyway.

Grade A shithat, but yeah, we all knew that.

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