[ FOOTBALL ] Champions League

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
20/10/2009 23:42

AZ (Alkmaar, Holland) - Arsenal (kind of EU team with one Englishman... ): 1 - 1. Well done, Dutchmen!

pinkchilli


Joined: 30/11/2008
Posts: 689

Message Posted:
20/10/2009 23:57

Liverpool 1 - 2 Lyon was a great game. The best example of refereeing I've seen for ages.



DC. Another Dutchman!



Why is the player Dirk Kuyt (previously his surname was pronounced, as in the English word KITE, but) now has his name pronounced KOYT, or phonetically as in the game QUOIT(S)?



I looked up this site: http://inogolo.com/pronunciation/d837/Dirk_Kuyt but I don't know WHY the pronounciation has recently changed?



PC

newscoop


Joined: 23/12/2007
Posts: 2197

Message Posted:
21/10/2009 00:11

DC;



AZ looked a fairly decent compact unit and their FOUR Dutchmen all looked comfortable on the ball.



Don't expect them to make the knock out stage though.

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
21/10/2009 00:12

RE msg 2, pinkchilli: We have a real problem here! Difficult to discuss it on paper or on a screen though. All pronounciations you mention are wrong - and not one British man or woman will ever be able to pronounce it the right way... I've tried to teach the right pronounciation several times to British football fans in The Castle Bar, but I've given up... It's like the "th" in "the" which for me is an impossible sound...

Furthermore, if I remember well, Dirk's surname is spelled "Kuijt", where the "ij" (the i and j on a keyboard, but as one character not existing in the English language or in any other language!) is usually wrongly written as y in English.

If I ever meet you I'll pronounce his name 10x for you and then we both give up and have a beer (or "bier" in my native language). OK..?

TheStonedCrow


Joined: 27/06/2009
Posts: 96

Message Posted:
21/10/2009 02:04

I'll have a beer off you Dutch and you can say it as many times as you want !!



TSC

AlexF065


Joined: 07/09/2009
Posts: 271

Message Posted:
21/10/2009 03:01

AK had 2 dutch players and YOU have a pop at ARSENAL

Hippo


Joined: 02/02/2007
Posts: 2070

Message Posted:
21/10/2009 07:54

The Sad Crusader takes every opportunity to run down anything that is at all British, he would be wise to remember that if it wasn't for the British there wouldn't be a Holland.

pinkchilli


Joined: 30/11/2008
Posts: 689

Message Posted:
21/10/2009 09:23

Cheers DC

cyprusairsoft



Joined: 22/06/2009
Posts: 2066

Message Posted:
21/10/2009 10:00

I remember when az had a great team in the 80 s



and we had a great final in amsterdam when the dutch won the second leg of the eufa cup

but ipswich town won 5 4 on agg

Tiggy


Joined: 25/07/2007
Posts: 1994

Message Posted:
21/10/2009 10:35

AZ...great team! just because a bunch of carrot crunchers beat them in the uefa final!



Glad to see Keane is getting his payback now.

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
21/10/2009 10:41

RE msg 6, AlexF065: (...) AK had 2 dutch players and YOU have a pop at ARSENAL (...)

=> AK?! What do I care about a football club called AK? The thread is about AZ (Alkmaar/Zaanstreek, Holland)... Although msg 3 is not quite correct - have a look at it.

hollie


Joined: 15/07/2009
Posts: 149

Message Posted:
21/10/2009 10:56

Rangers got stuffed at home last night by some diddy team from Romania. Two home CL GAMES and 8 goals conceeded. Not good enough, no where near good enough.

I'm afraid Scottish football is going to become a joke if something isn't done soon!

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
21/10/2009 11:00

RE msg 7, Hoppi: (...) The Sad Crusader takes every opportunity to run down anything that is at all British, he would be wise to remember that if it wasn't for the British there wouldn't be a Holland. (...)

=> Everybody in Holland, including all Dutch expats all over the world, remember how *you*, "Hoppi, the British", fought the "Battle of Arnhem" all by yourself. You're very famous there - they keep some hippos in the Arnhem Zoo in your honour.



P.S. Maybe you'd better focus on 1.000.000 British voters (6%), who voted BNP - standing now for everything bad in 1939-45.



P.P.S. Good to see you back after your ban here and all your childish crying about it on another board!

Jimmyboy63


Joined: 16/03/2009
Posts: 400

Message Posted:
21/10/2009 13:18

Liverpool lose again!!!!



how many lives has the Fat Spanish waiter got left



Man Utd on sunday.......no Gerrard or Torres for Liverpool

Tiggy


Joined: 25/07/2007
Posts: 1994

Message Posted:
21/10/2009 14:31

Well said DC.

clayton


Joined: 30/11/2008
Posts: 1143

Message Posted:
21/10/2009 21:48

keane

tiggy you know you really like him

decanddyl


Joined: 17/01/2009
Posts: 792

Message Posted:
21/10/2009 22:29

Man United win away again with a depleted team, no Giggs, Fletcher and Rooney. Roll on the weekend see if they can make it five in a row for Liverfool.

Jimmyboy63


Joined: 16/03/2009
Posts: 400

Message Posted:
22/10/2009 00:55

yes United win away again and rest there key players for sunday



I predict the fat Spanish waiter to get sacked and THE LEGEND for caretaker manager

hollie


Joined: 15/07/2009
Posts: 149

Message Posted:
22/10/2009 10:31

JimmyBoy63, he's won the champions league and come runner up. He probably deserves a little more respect than that.

Jimmyboy63


Joined: 16/03/2009
Posts: 400

Message Posted:
22/10/2009 10:56

Yes but you ask any Liverpool fan and the only thing that matters for them is to win the league!!!



and that is how the manager will be judged

decanddyl


Joined: 17/01/2009
Posts: 792

Message Posted:
22/10/2009 16:34

The Liverpool manager does deserve respect for what he has achieved by as stated the "Holy Grail" for any club is to win the Premiership. Having mfollowed Man Utd since 1965 and gone through some awful years I can understand the frustration of the Liverpool fans but the way the league is going this year I can imagine it might be won with the least number of points for the "champions".

ukturk



Joined: 01/09/2007
Posts: 1974

Message Posted:
22/10/2009 16:49

its so good to see and i havent missed a thing since ive been gone, that nothing has changed some people still bring politics or their own agendas in to posting even with a football thread!!!!!



az did really well they got a good team with the legend ronald koeman at the helm they must be doing something right to win the eredivise and to top that they made the gonners look standard well i wud say that being a spurs fan!!!! lol and in actual fact az has got 5 dutch players in their team but if u look at most of the top teams in holland i.e ajax,psv etc dont have many dutch players because they go off to italy,spain,uk,germany better prospects

the only british team that look good this season in the champ league and i hate to say it is chelski

cyprusairsoft



Joined: 22/06/2009
Posts: 2066

Message Posted:
22/10/2009 17:05

hey tiggy thanks for the warm greeting carrot crunchers and you coming from a spud basher family as well shame on you



yes keano is having a bad time but what goes around comes watch this space



our worst start for 50 years but i know we are good enough to turn it round



any takers for a bet what odds for us to beat the drop or go down put your money where your spud chopping mouth is and bet for charity in trnc

ukturk



Joined: 01/09/2007
Posts: 1974

Message Posted:
22/10/2009 17:23

sorry to say i dont think keane will last that long he has gone into management to early and olny relies on his name on wot he once wos and ipswich will never recapture the times they had under the great bobby robson, wot they need is a big cash injection and a solid no thrills manager to get them promoted to awake the sleeping giant they once wos

regards

Tiggy


Joined: 25/07/2007
Posts: 1994

Message Posted:
22/10/2009 17:35

Only joking John, Ipswich were a class act for several years and I looked out for their results every week. My team Chelsea has some great games against them, David Webb in particular:



Although he spent much of his Chelsea career as a right back, he also played in central defence (his original position) and occasionally as a centre forward, once hitting a hat-trick against Ipswich Town in December 1968. He even played as a goalkeeper for an entire match, also against Ipswich, on 27 December 1971, keeping a clean sheet in the process. We won 2-0 and one of our goals should have been disallowed as it hit the side stantion and neved entered the goal. I was at the game.



You look a pussy in your photo!!