That rivalry might be special again here in a year or two. Harbaugh is a pretty good coach and should have the Wolverines up to par in a couple of years. A Meyer-Harbaugh rivalry should be fun to watch. I'm not sure if your city would build a soccer specific stadium or use existing facilities, but Crew Stadium is one of the best concert venues I've ever been to. Everything is up and close and it's not to big. They make a ton of revenue off those concerts there alone.
I have always felt St Louis is generally underrated as a sports town. Your love of baseball is well established but you have been given the respect you deserve by the NFL. Dunno if you are old enough to remember the Hawks NBA team but they played a sterling brand of basketball. Zelmo Beatty, Bob Petit, Lou Hudson, Lenny Wilkins, and Richie Guerin were among the team's best players. Sadly the owner made a money deal to sell the team to Atlanta. Thankfully, you got a NHL franchise but you well deserve an NBA team.
I'm not a soccer fan.They could be playing the World Cup in my back yard and I'd pull the shade down. The men's team lost to Jamaica, I see. This seems like the baseball equivalent of being swept by the Colorado Rockies. But as I said, I don't follow the sport.
I love soccer. My son is grown now, but for years he played on a club (travel) team. Our teams: FC Dallas and Manchester City.
No, my son's soccer uniform was the same color as Man City, so we started going for them. That's it. We still watch the EPL on Saturday mornings from 7:00 am to 11:00 am. I've been to a Super Bowl. The next thing on my bucket list is to go to the Derby game (Man City-Man U).
As a life long Liverpool fan, I wholeheartedly support your choice in club. There is a saying in English football, "ABU" - Anyone But United. Of course, at Liverpool we believe in making the league a fair race, so obviously this is why we have gifted the undoubted talent of Sterling to Manchester! I would highly recommend the Manchester derby, as fierce a derby as you can get.
Manchester City vs Chelsea is kicking off in 15 minutes. Never mind the Manchester derby. We're only the second week into the new Premier League season and already what are probably the two best teams in Britain are about to clash.
I am not a huge fan, but I will watch it. The same with baseball, basketball, and most other sports. I am not the kind to have a fantasy team, and follow individual players, but I will watch them if they are on and I am not busy.
Ah 'The Special One' (Jose Mourhino), it takes a very brave and very confident man to think that he can continuously play the media to their team's advantage. He has rightly been considered a master at media manipulation for all these years. The thing is, Mourinho normally deflects attention by commenting on referees, opposition players/managers; whereas now he is bringing attention to the inner workings of the club. For those who are unaware, this is the story of reigning English champions Chelsea, who have only gained one point out of six in the opening two games of the English Premier League (one draw, one lose). Mourinho decided to publically blamed two of his medical staff for going onto the pitch to treat an (injured) player after the referee signalled for them to come on. Chelsea were short a player at the time due to a sending off. He really is a £$%*.Sometimes a likeable £$%*, but a £$%* none the less.
I'll answer that with a video trailer for a film about the club's story, which (along with the style of play we've brought to the premiership) is winning the club new fans all over the world: [video=youtube;bFGLhvYY5bQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFGLhvYY5bQ[/video] Oh, and I'll just leave this here too, because I can't resist:
Fair point re sport generally, but to be honest nothing really matches this: [video=youtube;AM4mIlYKG9s]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AM4mIlYKG9s[/video]
[video=youtube;YS4AfMflkOk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS4AfMflkOk[/video] I'll see your Millennium Stadium and raise you Croke Park. Ireland vs England for the first time ever in Croke Park stadium. The stadium had been the venue for a massacre of 6 spectators and one gaelic football player at the hands of the British army, at a match during the Irish War of independence 90 years previously. The British army came onto the pitch and shot into the packed stands and at the players. The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) banned the playing of all non-Irish sports in the stadium (effectively all the British field sports: soccer, rugby etc.) and banned all British military personnel from membership of their sporting organisation. 2007 saw the lifting of these rules and the first soccer and rugby matches at Croke Park. While the first rugby match in Croke Park was against France the previous week, the only match anyone was think of was the one against The Sassenach (the English). Even still, French captain Raphael Ibanez stated that he had never before heard a national anthem sang with such passion. When it came to the day of the English match, even the 20 stone plus giant Irish forwards were reduced to tears with the emotion of it all. I was there with a half Irish/half English group and I don't think anyone in attendance will ever forget that day. Oh and did I mention we hammered the English; final score Ireland 43 England 13. The Welsh topple sheep, the Irish topple empires
1) England are ranked higher than Wales in the Rugby World Rankings and Wales, unlike England, have never won the World Cup not are ever likely to. 2) The FIFA football rankings are a load of old baloney. As for Wales, they're a one-man team who would struggle without Bale. 3) England - the so-called "inferior" team to Wales - are the first team to qualify for Euro 2016, whereas Wales still haven't qualified yet and are looking as though they are gouing to fail spectactularly right at the end.
PS- Aaaron Ramsey would be an automatic first choice in the English midfield if he suffered the horror of being English
Aaron Ramsey is WELSH, and therefore deserves our sympathy. Although I'm not sure what's worse - being Welsh or being Irish. After all, both (like the Scots) are whingeing, chippy Celts with an inferiority complex towards their greater, richer and much more successful English neighbours. Being a Welshman, Irishman or Scotsman is to constantly wish you were English and constantly in the knowledge that the whole world looks upon you all as inferiors of the English
And that was what? Your first and only win of that tournament since 1949, or something like that? Come back and tell us all how "great" Ireland are when they have actually won MORE Five/Six Nations tournaments than England have. You've won 13 of them compared to England's 26 yet England have played in less Six Nations tournaments than Ireland and Wales have. Also, like your Welsh mate, come back and brag about how so much "better" than England your team is when they finally do something they haven't yet done but England have - win a World Cup.
