Anyone else seen this? news.uk.msn.com/video-clips/?VideoID=2ivta44f *Topless woman tries to steal Euro Cup that is... How staged does it look!

Anyone else seen this? news.uk.msn.com/video-clips/?VideoID=2ivta44f *Topless woman tries to steal Euro Cup that is... How staged does it look!

Well, Bobby Martinez looks certain to be in charge at Anfield next season.

Yes. Nice article on pens as well sir.

After extra time they should give the cup to the team with the most possession, shots, shots on target etc etc. Might stop teams getting a pasting and hanging on for dear life only to win on pens.





Not that any team has done that recently

What if they're the same?



Maybe we should have an ice hockey-esque shootout, where the players have to dribble the ball from the halfway line and score - or score from outside of the box. It would certainly stop things like Bayern sending Neuer in third.



To be honest, there's no real way to decide a game fairly. Golden goal was fairer than a shootout IMO, purely because the game was at least being decided by a goal in open play.



Maybe we should go to a judges scorecard like boxing; the British will be able to come up with even more conspiracy theories.

It was a good idea in theory, but, in reality, sides just became more negative as the fear of losing overtook any ambition they had to score the decisive goal.



I don't think there is a fair way of doing it.....Shots on target is a reasonable shout, and maybe in a one-off game you could try the team who scored the first goal decides it (though a goaless draw would bollox that one up!!!).

I'd use a points system.



Most possession 1pt

Most shots 1pt

Most on target 1pt



If it was a tie then you could just use 90 minutes as opposed to 120 and if still level use the number of shots that hit woodwork or corners to decide.



If all things are still level then the two sides are obviously inseperable and should just share the trophy lol.

They should just take it to an American Idol style vote. And forget about the score during the game too. How can it be fair Bayern to be leading a match for 84 minutes, Man Utd to be leading for 2 and Man United be declared the winners? It can't. So lets do away with goals altogether and just go with the voting system.



Arsene Wenger supports it.

Barca starting well here. If you can't appreciate their football you are an imbecile.

I used to think the NASL shoot outs were a good idea



'NASL Shootout: Cosmos/Diplomats 1980'

The best 'shoot-out' was the one with Diana Ross to open the 1994 world cup.



International soccer has been boring for years. Blatter and his pals fiddling with a few knobs isn't going to change that.



This is the worst Athletic cup performance... since the Wafer League final last month.

Meh. All they do is pass the ball, incredibly accurately, score goals. Have one of the best players to ever grace the game and have been the best side in Europe of the past five years.



Chelsea beat them, so they are rubbish.

Just going back to the golden goal, there are two problems that grated. The more practical one was that in itself a golden goal is just as big a lottery as penalties but at least with extra-time you had the chance to claw back goals. However the bigger problem was that it never felt right finishing a football game like that. Perhaps it's different from those that were there and experienced it but whenever there was a golden goal I always felt that it always felt like a damp squib end to a game. Like a false finish. In sports where this is the norm i.e. American sports, it feels fine, but it doesn't suit football.

It suits American Football partly because of the "your turn, our turn" nature of the game. There's usually a degree of build up to the score. In football when the goal can come out of the blue, such as the Euro 96 final, it seemed odd.



If they are going to make more of an effort to get a result in extra time I quite like the idea of reducing the game to 9 a side. Would open up the game but still keep it resembling something like the real thing.

The pens in yesterdays play off final were shocking, was 2-2 before going to sudden death!

Italians at it again.

Lazio captain Stefano Mauri arrested, Juventus coach Antonio Conte & Italy defender Domenico Criscito questioned by police over match-fixing allegations. Just can't get enough.

This Hazard fella obviously likes himself a bit, what with all these ''i'll reveal who i've signed for on X date at X time'' stories... Can only imagine he's taken the ££££ and joined Citeh with that attitude

He's taken the £££ and joined Chelsea. Chelsea made him an offer of silly silly money. City could have matched it but they already have lots of players on silly silly money, so there comes a point where too many players on silly silly money costs you a lot of money and harms your chances of abiding by the new Fair Play rules.

Eden Hazard: 192 apps, 50 goals and 30 assists.

Shinji Kagawa: 198 apps, 86 goals and 45 assists.

Food for thought.

Why the hell did they choose ukraine and poland?



Their football fans are SCUM.

a sizeable donation to a cause close to someone's heart?

Its bad but its the same in large parts of Europe I'm afraid. See Croatia / Serbia also.

Why did Qatar get the world cup despite the fact it would mean players running around in 40oC heat? Why did South Africa get the world cup despite it meaning hundreds of thousands of people having their homes bulldozed to make way for white elephant stadiums? Why do players look to move club every two or three seasons? Why are players able to hold clubs to ransom, making them jump through hoops? Why does the gap between the Premier League and the Football League grow wider by the year? Why does anything happen in soccer?

I didn't think ukraine and poland would have alot of money. They're just sh*t eastern european countries that no one gives a f*ck about.