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Fight On

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  1. Hahaha for many Americans, "the world" consists of everything from California to New York!..hence why our sports leagues often refer to the champions as the "world champs"....all except the MLS.
  2. No sir.. It was Moment of the Year for him! deservingly so..that was the best sporting moment of my entire life. there was really little competition, as this may show: 3:25 is fricking priceless.
  3. We have an annual sports award show here in the states called the ESPYs(ESPN). You would think it would be a candidate for play of the year!
  4. Fight On

    Wigan

    Could you imagine the cross nev would've put in from that spot?
  5. The NFL is on a salary cap, though. But yeah still a little suprising!
  6. Update on the team: Just played our first actual game Wednsday. Our games have kept being pushed back due to really bad weather in the past few weeks. Well, as for the game, all 21 of our players showed up to the game, and the other team had about 40 players, and they had 3x the student body of us. They were much more talented than us as a team, but at the end of the first 40 minute half, we were only down 2-0..which was good for us. In the second half, our attack really picked up, and I started to get fed the ball. I got the ball on the left wing, took a few light touches, and split the right back and one of the center halves (I was about 40 yards out at this point). I outran the defense, got one on one with the GK, and passed it into the side netting for my teams' (and my) first ever goal! I can honestly say this: I have scored many touchdowns in Am. football, hit many homeruns in baseball, and hit even more threes in basketball over the entirity of my life, but there is absolutely NOTHING more thrilling than scoring a goal.. especially with the work I had put into getting there. We ended up losing the game 4-1, but it was a great first outing being that 18 out of our 21 players had never competed in an actual game. Now here's something I thought was funny.. You see, not ever playing/scoring in an actual game, I had never had an oppurtunity to celebrate a goal. For the past year I have watched as guys (most of the time) would run stright to the corner flag and celebrate with the fans. So, by instinct almost, I ran straight to the corner flag but all I saw was a giant, mostly vacant, parking lot... fortunately some of my teammates ran up behind and greeted me there so I didn't look like a complete idiot ;nevertheless, it was the time of my life!
  7. Loved seeing that from Arteta!
  8. Correct me if I'm wrong... But you fellas didn't see the American commercials, did you? If not, then you must! I had no rooting interest in the game last night but i was all ear for the commercials. Companies pay millions and millions to make an awesome ad and then more to get it during the Superbowl. YouTube 'super bowl commercials' and you'll surely be kept entertained for a while. As for the other non-super bowl games that have just normal commercials, I completely agree with you. Ever since I've discovered football(soccer), that's one thing I've always loved...no commercials!(except for halftime of course) I love Am. Football/basketball but now that I've become more of football guy I have become spoiled with the limited amount of commercials.
  9. Well that makes me feel much better! Now if Felli can do the same...
  10. I would much rather keep Baines and Fellaini than to purchase any sort of player over the Summer.. I know this team could do very well, but it does us no good if we don't have the finances to keep them around.
  11. Fergie at the half-time show was even worse.. she sang(yelled) like she was pregnant. Usher saved that show. As for Aguilera, she looked... a little nasty. I was at a Super Bowl party at the time, and nobody would quit talking about how nasty she looked to actully listen to her!
  12. No problem, man!.. Thanks, man.. And yeah we used stakes that you use to cook hot dogs for corner flags! And as for the RB, I'll figure out when we train with an actual ball tomorrow! My coach really admires the old Dutch way of playing football..which is of course total football. I don't really know how some of the guys are gonna grasp a system like that but I guess I'll see! He wants our base formation to look like this: ----------GK---------- -----------X---------- ----X------------X---- -----------X---------- ----X------------X---- -----------X---------- ----X------------X---- -----------X---------- And oh I have tried to spread my love for the Toffees, but to little avail! Brad is a Liverpool fan and a lot of the guys are Chelsea fans. You see, in America, we have a over-whelming, and a little bit annoying, tendency to be attracted toward the teams that are the best at that moment. So as soon as I told them who won the Prem. this past season, most made up their mind quickly. I even have made a few MLS fans out of them.. (Go Red Bulls!)
  13. It seems we have a different word for everything, and I assumed that one was for sure different! I've learned something new already
  14. Hello! I'm from Tennessee (United States), I'm 16 years of age, and I've been a Toffee fan for almost a year. Here's my story.. I think it's pretty cool! It was 6:30 in the morning on a Saturday (only God knows what I was doing up at that time), and I turned on the TV. Everton and Manchester United were just about to play, and American football games weren't going to start for a few hours, so I figured I would try to give it a shot. The ONLY thing I knew, in terms of the teams that were playing, about was that Man U were supposed to be really good, but as for Everton..I knew nothing. Then, as the game was beginning to get under way, the announcer mention Landon Donovan, and at that point I thought he had been traded to Everton (trading is what goes on in American sports..not transfers). Then they mentioned Tim Howard was American, so I immediately had a rooting interest. That morning, my passion for soccer..oops.. my passion for FOOTBALL sparked as I watched an entire game for the first time in my life, even coming out of my seat when Rodwell slotted home the dagger! Shortly after that game, I purchased a soccer ball from a local supermarket. I could kick an American football pretty well, so I figured it would be cake to juggle it and do the fancy bending stuff. I went out into my yard and within 3 minutes I was embarassed at not being able to kick the ball over 20 yards in the air, much less direct its course! It didn't end there though, for weeks I consumed myself in a channel that I never knew existed (Fox Soccer Channel) and learned about the game, and watched game after game. At that time, I figured it was just a little fettish that would soon pass away, but it never did. I found myself spending countless hours outside kicking/juggling/messing around. Now just a little FYI, our school has NO football(soccer) teams. I was a little embarrased to admit to my bros that I had developed a passion for the sport. One day, I invited a friend of mine over to play(we'll say his name is Brad), and we played for hours, and, even though he was terrible like I was when I first began, he loved playing( Mind you, this guy likely has a professional Am. football and baseball future ahead of him). So, we went down into the forest and cut down 3 tress..with the two axes we cut 6 pieces from them and made 2 home-made soccer goals (no nets) like you'd see in kids playing on in Africa or something. After that, he would drive to my house daily, and we'd spend hours playing/practicing/and having penalty shoot-outs. One day, me and Brad invited 12 other guys to my house to play a little pick-up game, and of course none of them, including me, had any experience playing a soccer game or anything..Brad and I were the only ones who knew the rules so we spent forever explaining. Of course, because of the time we spent playing, Brad and I scored almost all of our teams goals. Now if you guys saw this...you'd say it was "absolutely terrible quality". Guys had no idea how to have a build-up or anything. After playing for nearly 4 hours, (theses guys were ALL top-class basketball, am. football, and baseball players) everyone had loved it..so we played again the next day. We all ended up playing nearly twice every week for the rest of the Summer. When school got back around, I approached my principal(which is what we call the head of the school in America), and I asked him about possibly having a football team. He said if I could find enough players then he would consider it. I got 32 guys to sign a sheet saying theyd play, and, shortly thereafter, we had a coach. So ever since the beginning of January, we have been going for 2 hours everyday after school(5 days a week). We lift weights, jump, run the bleachers, and just run flat out for miles in below freezing weather. Most of these guys were out at my property playing most of the time, so it's all worth it for us. We actually have two real goals now, and itis nice to have a net for once! We begin our first practice with an actual ball tomorrow, with our first game coming March the first. Soccer is here to stay in this town, and we are even having a local Upward soccer league(google it if you don't know what Upward soccer is) for the kids! I am, of course, the captain of a team full of 17/18 year olds. I am a humble person, but I am by far the most talented of us all. So, what in the heck does this all have to with EFC? Well, most people in this town don't know it, but thinks to EFC defeating Man U, I have taken a simple passion for the game to now what will hopefully spread amongst the rest of this town and all of the small kids. So thank you Everton FC for giving me a new passion, and my town an oppurtuninty to fall in love with something new. Wish me luck in the season ahead! Everton-3 Manchester United-1 2-20-2010 The game that began it all.
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