Soccer Thread : 2004-05 (14 Viewers)

[LMF^^]

Australia is finally officially a part of the AFC!

Nah, still waitin fo the approval of FIFA.

 

[HeCtic]

Australia is finally officially a part of the AFC!

Officially invited, just need FIFA to rubber stamp it. Apart from New Zealand the rest of Oceania will love to see us out, so we're basiacally in now.

Good times ahead, the financial benefits of this are massive, once major corporations realise that a lot of our games will be beamed into potentially millions of households into Asia they'll jump on the sponsorship bandwagon. Who'd have thought that rugger-bugger John O'Neill would do so much for real football in such a short space of time.

Potentially we're the third or 4th best team in the region so unless we draw Korea or Japan in round one we should qualify for 2010. Plus Asian Champions League, Asian Cup every 4 years etc etc

Fuck me I'm happy about this. Hope it doesn't all cock up somewhere.

 

[timbk2]

just came back from the socceroos appearance... no cahill dammit

only emerton, bresc, shwarzzer, neil, and jade north were there.. and some matildas

gave out a heap of nike balls and stuff

 

[cappen]

im fummin i couldnt go to that....i would of wanted to see cahill the most neway so meh, hopefully another time

 

[Italian Hotshot]

Nuts, should've gone considering I had the day off from Uni.

Just read it on the Football365 site and had a good chuckle ...

Wigan Athletic chairman Dave Whelan has promised to give manager Paul Jewell a £40 million transfer kitty if they win promotion to the Premiership this season ...

Come again? £40 million equates roughly to $1 billion Australian?

 

[timbk2]

SBS TV ---

Champions League
LIVERPOOL v JUVENTUS
Wed, Apr 6 @ 6.30am

Champions League
AC MILAN v INTER MILAN
Thur, Apr 7 @ 6.30am


awesome! they are showing the liverpool match live
ac vs. inter is also a mouthwatering encounter

 

[cappen]

Come again? £40 million equates roughly to $1 billion Australian?

that price does seem like its a bit of a joke....

 

[RUB!X]

yeh its just not funny

 

[cappen]

well u could laugh at how ludicris it is.....

 

[braad]

they should update their stadium or carpark or sumthing first

 

[cappen]

hahah probably

 

[HeCtic]

Come again? £40 million equates roughly to $1 billion Australian?

Nah, it equates to about 100million AUD. And good luck to Paul Jewell if he gets that type of money, the guy worked wonders on a budget at places like Bradford etc so it'll be a big boost for em.

 

[cappen]

Nah, it equates to about 100million AUD. And good luck to Paul Jewell if he gets that type of money, the guy worked wonders on a budget at places like Bradford etc so it'll be a big boost for em.

thats still a shit load of money to me.....

 

[braad]

he worked wonders with bradford....he worked me?

as long as i get the $100 mill i dont care

 

[HeCtic]

Dave Whelan their owner also owns JJB Sports, a big brand of sportswear in the UK. 40 mill pounds is spare change from under the couch for him. Still a very generous transfer kitty nonetheless.

 

[cappen]

fuck it would b sweet to b in tha posi, to have that much money as like pocket change......

 

[braad]

i'd need bigger pockets

 

[cappen]

i'd need bigger pockets

and a few more too

 

[Constip8edSkunk]

40mil is like 1/5 of chelseas spendings in 2 yrs...

 

[LMF^^]

You can buy a whole team of decent playerz wit 40mil.