   Football dream team
  Football, my dear Trans-Atlantic friends! It's called football! Not soccer.Anyway I haven't seen England pull a more ufgh-that-was-close victory than tonight's match with Trinidad and Tobago. I mean, their close-but-still-not-quite goals (both of them) would've been so much more the way I (and probably many other o' football... watcher (well, I'm nowehere near enough fanatical to be called a fan) ) would like it.So, I and some friends each started working on our dream teams. They stuck to the acutal players, who I know close to nothing about. Since I didn't want to be left out of the loop, I modified the rules of the game and expanded the pool of potential players to anyone.This is the result:- goalie: B.A. Baracus, sucker!- backs: Bruce Boxleitner, Steven Segal (with a welded-on machete), Celine Dion (in a constant calcium-prolonged grimace)and Sylvester the Cat for comic relief- centers: Andy Rooney (you have to have a Rooney...), MacGyver (some R.D.A. power can do no harm), one of the Transformers and that X-Man who could grow spikes out of his face- fowards: Chuck Norris and David HasselhoffAlso, to meet Hasselhoff's request, all games would have to be held on a beach and the surroundings completely demagnetised to prevent Chuck from pulling any telekinetic mind tricks.What's your football dream team?   
  The "double" and "triple"-winning Man U. sides. Yes, unaltered. Becks, Cantona, Giggsy... you know the drill! Glory! Glory, Man United!;  Does it bother anyone besides me that the only football team most Americans can think of is Manchester United?   ;Quote:Original post by ApochPiQDoes it bother anyone besides me that the only football team most Americans can think of is Manchester United?Being from the States, break the ice - name anything besides ManU. Off the top of your head :)   ;Quote:Original post by ApochPiQDoes it bother anyone besides me that the only football team most Americans can think of is Manchester United?What bothers you is your own problem, but I'm Old Trafford, dyed in red. I remember the black jerseys with yellow/gold piping. I was singing "Ooh-Aah, Cantona!" in 1995, mmkay? And I'm Nigerian. FYFI.Just in case that was some backhanded dig at me being a fair-weather, trend-following American. [smile]   ;Quote:Original post by ApochPiQDoes it bother anyone besides me that the only football team most Americans can think of is Manchester United?Hmm, I wonder if that was the case with Malcom Glazer...   ;Quote:Original post by OluseyiQuote:Original post by ApochPiQDoes it bother anyone besides me that the only football team most Americans can think of is Manchester United?What bothers you is your own problem, but I'm Old Trafford, dyed in red. I remember the black jerseys with yellow/gold piping. I was singing "Ooh-Aah, Cantona!" in 1995, mmkay? And I'm Nigerian. FYFI.Just in case that was some backhanded dig at me being a fair-weather, trend-following American. [smile]Actually, I figured that since you at least know a few players from Man. U., you probably knew more about the sport than the "average merkin." It just reminded me of a pet peeve of mine [wink]Most people are unaware, but there's actually a football league that operates in the U.S. - Major League Soccer. To be honest I've only heard of it recently, but I do know a couple of teams - the K.C. Wizards and Colorado Rapids. The L.A. Galaxy were also mentioned a couple of times during the ESPN coverage of the England/Trinidad-Tobago game today, as I gather one of the players for TT plays/played for the Galaxy as well.Actually, quite frankly, I don't follow British or European football much myself, and thus don't know many teams anymore (Chelsea and Liverpool come to mind, but that's it). It just seems that Man. U. gets all the fame in the U.S., which is kind of weird.   ;Quote:Being from the States, break the ice - name anything besides ManU. Off the top of your head :)Ooh! Ooh!  Real Madrid and  Arsenal!  I win.  I'm a pretty light soccer fan too (I reserve the name football solely for American football, my favorite sport).  But I hang out with a few big soccer people (ironically, the biggest one is  Manchester United fan).   ;Quote:Original post by irreversibleQuote:Original post by ApochPiQDoes it bother anyone besides me that the only football team most Americans can think of is Manchester United?Being from the States, break the ice - name anything besides ManU. Off the top of your head :)Arsenal, Liverpool, Tottenham, Aston Villa.[edit] Assuming you meant English teams   ;  Everton's Dixie Dean was the greatest striker the world has ever seen or will ever see. He scored something like 80 goals in a season once. He used to head the ball (with laces tying it together!) into the net and split his head open! That is hard as nails. He probably wasn't as skillful as Pele though.The best player I have ever seen on the telly was Diego Maradonna.The best goal I have seen live (at a match) was Chris Waddle for Bradford against Big Neville and Everton in the FA cup, about 8-9 years ago I reckon.Cantona was pretty good though. My mate says Kenny Dalglish was one of the best ever but he is so miserable and played for "the dark side".Some great players:Goal: Neville Southall. Gordon Banks.Defence: Bobby Moore.Midfield: Peter Reid. Diego Maradonna. Eric Cantona.Forwards: Dixie Dean. Pele. Peter Beardsley.   