Official 2014-15 Club Soccer/Football Discussion Thread

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Not the slightest French club in CL this year, this country is really sinking everywhere...

At least there is Guingamp (En Avant!), and Saint-Etienne in EL...

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Not the slightest French club in CL this year, this country is really sinking everywhere...

At least there is Guingamp (En Avant!), and Saint-Etienne in EL...

It's a good reason to root for our brave Athletic Club* in the CL.

In exchange, I'll wish the best of lucks to Guingamp and Saint-Ettienne in EL. I like how it sounds the latter, and there's an English pop band named Saint-Ettienne as well...

_{* I mean the gang from Bilbao, Atlético has already a fan on this forum.}

Ah, Bilbao...









When it comes to football I defnitely belong to the 1990s .

Hey but look at the fancy chart right now:

http://www.francefootball.fr/ligue-1/classement/

A French club is leading the French championship!

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Oh bordel, there is a rugby match here on the other hand, it's f**king honking all over...

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Well, legendary to speak about Luis Fernandez would be a bit too much. He's one of the big names of French football in the 1970s-1980s yeah, but it's overall the Platini generation to which he belongs which was kinda 'legendary'.

Well, nowadays he works in media and been overall famous, and well, often mocked, for his kinda 'very spontaneous/very natural' way to speak, which turned him into a kind of national carricature of someone of is always able to say a random idiocy. But I'd say it's overall the view a kind of bobo class would have regarding the random football supporter. The 'idiot' you love to have to reassure yourself.

The fact that he doesn't really care about all of apparently and thus continue to be always so 'spontaneous', doesn't help him, but I think he's kinda a bit aware about all of that, and his spontaneity gives him a job in media too. He commentated wolrd cup for BFMTV, and he's on regular radio show on RMC.

In any case all of this makes that you would look kinda odd if you refer to Luis Fernandez as a legendary for anybody under 40 I'd say.

As for regional clichés movies...

Ach, bloody heck, you too have been touched by that 'Welcome by the Ch'tis' syndrome...

Stars on my team's crest: four (including one within the last decade that I could enjoy)

What a swinddle it's been, as often with Italians...

You should thank us for both having let you this cup, and for all the drama we created in this final (we're often the champions to make drama anyways, in one way or another, in that sense the last cup we did was so boring...seemed all the point was to compete with Disney mascots to create the 'coolest football players', next stage might be to create a boys band, hey the market of 13 years old shouting/crying girls is still to be conquered!).

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'Legendary' can be interpreted in multiple ways I can only tell you about how Fernández was perceived here, from the little that I recall. Basically as a 'very spontaneous/very natural' man with a tendency to say occasionally weird things. I wouldn't say that he was ridiculed, rather he was perceived as a somewhat crazy, eccentric man . People here appreciates having a good laugh and for sure someone made jokes about him; he was good-humoured and didn't care. If I'm not wrong, he didn't enjoy success as coach and had to leave.

As for regional cliches, I'm not really a big fan but they are popular here. Sometimes it's a good thing. For example, there were good humour shows in the ETB (the Basque TV) based on exploiting their own cliches. On the one hand, they worked as a therapy to alleviate tensions, allowing Basques to laugh at themselves. On the other hand, they helped to change certain mental image of Basques outside. It may sound strange, but people in Spain didn't know that people in the Basque Country had sense of humour.

Gosh I was like remembering that he had won the Liga with Bilbao, but I checked it out, no, he 'only' qualified the club to the CL, which isn't that slight either, since you need to be born in Pays Basque (Spanish or French), or Navarre, or to have been in a Basque training center to be part of the team (did it ever win the Liga?).

Oh, and, I wasn't aware Basques had humour either.

About Bilbao and Athletico, well, sorry, I have nothing against Bilbao (I don't know what to think about the origin of their players policy though...), but Athletico would precisely be the Spanish club for which I would have a little something . Its status regarding Real, its history/sociology, and now the fact that one of the less annoying French players, Griezman, plays there now, well, n'en jetez plus!

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Just:

...woohoo!

And Red Star, maybe the most historical French club, only decent Parisian, created by Jules Rimet, who created the World Cup (which global sport events would you have without us? British invented sports, we made it universal...) is currently making it from National to L2!

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"Monaco, France"

LOLFox !

Well, yeah, never say that to a true Monégasgue, otherwise you'll discover how old wealthy people can be violent...

Wow, when was it? Was it when he was in...Monaco?