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by **Lionheart** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 7:16 am

Red black white wrote:
wee_boi888 wrote:Prob thinking of the AFL team the Sydney Swans hahaha. But they didnt exist til 19XX though...whered you get that info, Red Black White?

From a Brazilian webpage. It is not a very reliable webpage though. It's funny the capacity of Sydney's stadium. How can this club have more than 50.000 fans if it was founded 2 years ago? LOL

Aussie stadium (now renamed Telstra Stadium) is the stadium built for the 2000 Sydney Olympic games.

The 50,000 capacity that you have listed is also questionable as it is the same stadium that hosted Australia's 2nd leg W.C qualifier against Uruguay and that crowd was offically listed in excess of 83,000.

by **kazza** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 9:39 am

A.B. wrote:
Isn't Liverpool halfway across the world from you?

Since when did the East Coast of US become halfway across the world from UK? Take some geography classes tit.

The point is never having been to Liverpool (or England for that matter), never having ever watched a premiership football match live means that you are not in a position to judge whether it is too far for the club.

If you knew anything about the club, you will know that we have tried to win this cup and never succeeded. You would not know this however because firstly you are an idiot, and more importantly a couple of years ago you supported Real Madrid.

An idiot who has never travelled, living life through the internet, flip flops the team he supports every few years (depending on who is winning) re-hashes every opinion he reads including slang terms and makes it his own is irrelevant.

tit?? The only time you have seen one of those is when your mother is serving lunch.

Still a virgin? :laugh:

by **MilitiaRusher** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 11:16 am

The team I would like to see on Thursday, considering all the inavailabilities (Hamann might not be available for the first game):

Dudek

Raven Josemi Traore Warnock

Pongolle Sissoko Alonso Riise

Cisse Crouch

SUBS: All the other players.

And on Sunday:

Reina

Finnan Carragher Hyypia Riise

Gerrard Hamann Alonso Kewell
Garcia
Morientes

SUBS: All the other players.

by **stmichael** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 1:07 pm

saprissa are currently leading sydney 1-0 with about ten minutes to go so it looks like we'll be playing them on thursday.

by **LFC #1** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 1:28 pm

Final Score

Sydney FC 0 -1 Deportivo Saprissa.

Sydney were the better side for most of it, Saprissa have a coueel of quick players who may be dangerous on the counter attack and looked reasonably good in the air defensively. Not much to write home about though, we should breeze past them. :cool:

by **tubby** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 1:41 pm

real madrid galacticos wrote:who cares about the world club championship...its a nonsense tournament which does not involve the world best teams...nobody gives a damn who wins it....why not every 3 seasons or 4 there will be no euro champs league no south america champs league and all the bloody champs league in this world...and have a world club championship in the format of the champs league....that way we can know who is the champs of the world...hahaha its like the world cup but for clubs, who thinks its a good idea??

This would never happen ever. I dont think the fans could afford to follow their team all round the world for a whole season.

How old are you RMGalacticos?

by **tubby** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 1:45 pm

The Manhattan Project wrote:
But to categorise football fans in Asia as "glory hunters" are just showing your ignorance.

I never said they were all gloryhunters.

But as you said, LFC and Man Utd attract large numbers of support, which is because of their successes over the decades. Success attracts support.

With LFC winning the Champions League, now was the best time to take advantage of that and go to Asia for this competition. No doubt the long established LFC fans in Asia will turn out.

Also, the gloryhunters will show up too, buying the shirts and the merchandise. Whether they stick with the club doesn't matter, but after the CL win, now is the time to take advantage of fickle fans, because as the years go by, Chelsea are definately going to do it too.

That kind of "support" isn't great, admittedly, but it is a source of revenue that LFC will exploit, and rightly so.

Its true they are all gloary hunter in Asia. They support whoever is winning and is the best at that moment in time.

The facts speak for themselves. David Beckham was sold to RM for £25M. His numbered shirt came out in Asia before it did in Madrd !!!!! And the entire £25M was recouped within 3 weeks on just his shirt sales. It was the same when Utd were winning eveything. Teh Asians were going mad. Just face it. If you want to make money you need to market your idea in a place where the demand for different clubs (ie: clubs who are winning ) differs at each time allowing differnt clubs a shared success.

In short:

Glory hunters

by **LFC #1** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 1:49 pm

You'll get picked up on that bavlondon. Unfortunately many countries other than England who follwo the Englis leagues have a lrage majority of fans who support the team who is winning i.e. glory hunters. However their are a lot of dedicated fans in these countries who don't enjoy getting tarred with the same brush.

To say ALL are glory hunters is utter rubbish.

by **wrighty (not mark!)** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 1:54 pm

Funny. My yankee cousin gets my yankee auntie to get him a footie shirt when she comes to visit us. First Liverpool, then Man utd and then ARSEnal. Will not be surprised if he either asks for the liverpool kit again or the chelsea one.

by **SouthCoastShankly** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 4:00 pm

So there it is Liverpool v Deportivo Saprissa in the semi

Sydney FC 0-1 Deportivo Saprissa

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/4520360.stm

Sydney's Mark Rudan and Deportivo Saprissa's Randall Azofeifa challenge for the ball
Sydney battled hard but lacked their opponents' experience
Deportivo Saprissa will face Liverpool in the semi-finals of the World Club Championship after Cristian Bolanos' 47th-minute strike saw off Sydney FC.

The winger controlled a long ball on his chest and guided the ball past Sydney keeper Clint Bolton.

The Costa Ricans were marginally better throughout against hard-working Sydney, who were captained by ex-Manchester United striker Dwight Yorke.

Alvin Ceccoli was sent off late on for a challenge on Saprissa's keeper.

The last four are now finalised, with Saprissa playing Liverpool in Yokohama on Thursday and Sao Paulo facing Asian champions Al Ittihad in Tokyo on Wednesday.

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Lets be honest though either team would of been a push over, it does say alot when Sydney FC are in a Wold Club championship! I reckon even Sunderland could beat them

by **Bandeirante_SPFC** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 5:21 pm

Red black white wrote:
Bandeirante_SPFC wrote:
Red black white wrote:
Mikz wrote:Who cares about sao paulo. This is someone -probably a disgruntled Liverpool fan,who has googled all the info on them and who is waiting and hoping on our losing to the brazilians -then hes gonna rub it in.

LOL

I'm a São Paulo fan...go on...ask ANYTHING abou São Paulo or about other Brazilian teams...or even about Brazil.

VAI LÁ, VAI LÁ, VAI LÁ...VAI LÁ DE CORAÇÃO
VAMOS SÃO PAULO VAMOS SÃO PAULO
VAMOS SER CAMPEÃO

DOMINGOOOO EU VOU LÁ NO MORUMBI EU VOU EU VOU!!!

A INDEPENDENTE VAI INVADIR!!!!!!

VOU LEVAR FOGUETES E BANDEIRAS
NÃO VAI SER DE BRINCADEIRA ELE VAI SER CAMPEÃO!!!!

PORQUÊ EU NÃO QUERO CADEIRA NUMERADA
QUERO IR PRA ARQUIBANCADA PRA SENTIR MAIS EMOÇÃO!!!!

PORQUÊ O QUÊ!!!
BOTA PRA FODER!!!!

E O NOME DELE SÃO VOCÊS QUEM VÃO DIZER!!!!
OoOoOoOoOoOoOoO SÃO PAULOOO!!!!
OoOoOoOoOoOoOoO SÃO PAULOOO!!!!

SALVE O TRICOLOR PAULISTAAA
Amado Clube brasileiroo
Tu es forte, tu es grandee
Dentre os grandes, es o primeiro
Tu es forte, tu es grandeeeee
Dentre os grandes es o primeirooo

OH TRICOLOR Ô Ô
Clube bem amaaadooo

É de que cidade?? Vai comemorar o Tri mundial onde? Tá chegando a hora!

Atletico Paranaense avenged their Libertadores Cup final defeat to Sao Paulo by beating the same opponents 4-2 in a stormy match played in their Arena da Baixada stadium in Curitiba.the game was interupted by a teenage streaker in a gorilla mask....

Ok what was the streakers name?

LOL I remember the game...but not of this incident..I'm not very sure, but I think that our defender, Alex, received red card in this game.

are Al-Ittihad any good?

Definitely not.
I watched the game between Al-Ittihad and Al-Ahly.

Sou de Itu, interior. Vou ver se vou no Sagrado Bar ou se fico por aqui mesmo! É o triiiiiiiiiii!!!!!!!!!!

Abração!!!

by **Santa** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 5:36 pm

The Manhattan Project wrote:
But to categorise football fans in Asia as "glory hunters" are just showing your ignorance.

I never said they were all gloryhunters.

But as you said, LFC and Man Utd attract large numbers of support, which is because of their successes over the decades. Success attracts support.

With LFC winning the Champions League, now was the best time to take advantage of that and go to Asia for this competition. No doubt the long established LFC fans in Asia will turn out.

Also, the gloryhunters will show up too, buying the shirts and the merchandise. Whether they stick with the club doesn't matter, but after the CL win, now is the time to take advantage of fickle fans, because as the years go by, Chelsea are definately going to do it too.

That kind of "support" isn't great, admittedly, but it is a source of revenue that LFC will exploit, and rightly so.

more money always better, and football is huge in Asia...wonder why our moneyman Rick Perry didn't take advantage of the LFC brand into Asia in a big way like Manure, Real or even Chelsea?

by **Santa** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 5:41 pm

bavlondon wrote:Its true they are all gloary hunter in Asia. They support whoever is winning and is the best at that moment in time.

The facts speak for themselves. David Beckham was sold to RM for £25M. His numbered shirt came out in Asia before it did in Madrd !!!!! And the entire £25M was recouped within 3 weeks on just his shirt sales. It was the same when Utd were winning eveything. Teh Asians were going mad. Just face it. If you want to make money you need to market your idea in a place where the demand for different clubs (ie: clubs who are winning ) differs at each time allowing differnt clubs a shared success.

In short:

Glory hunters

I'll take it that you've never been to Asia or understand it's culture, so I'll ignore your ignorance and take it that you just talk out of your @SS :bump

by **Red black white** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 6:06 pm

SEMI-FINALS

São Paulo FC x Al-Ittihad

Liverpool FC x Deportivo Saprissa

Next game: São Paulo x Al-Ittihad on Wednesday.

by **JohnBull** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 6:16 pm

I must say, it does cheapen any tournament when there's a goalie called Clint Bolton, WhTF do they get these teams from ?

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