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Matt Rock
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I live in the United States, so European news gets to me late here. But in case you haven't heard, Thierry Henry, Arsenal's star Striker, has LEFT the British Football club and is officially playing for Barcelona next season.

I found out because Thierry Henry (or at least someone pretending to be him) is on my Myspace friends list, and I saw the Barca banner in his profile image. I refused to believe it, but then I went around the net and confirmed it. I think it's safe to say this sad news for Gunners fans around the world.

Apparently, Thierry Henry left the club in lieu of a 16-million dollar contract with Barcelona, citing that he's making the move because of the uncertainty surrounding Arsene Wenger's continued management of the Gunners. Peter Hill-Wood says it's rubbish. What do you guys think?


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I thought americans called our football soccer? Lol, I've always wondered why American football is called football. It's more like rugby.

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Quote: "I've always wondered why American football is called football. It's more like rugby."

And they don't play it with their feet, they kick it once and a while but they usually just run around carrying it. I never got into American Football, it lacks the finesse of real football. I always call it Football, 8/10ths of the world's population can't be wrong.


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Quote: "Lol, I've always wondered why American football is called football. It's more like rugby."

Yeah, except the Americans use like 2 metres of padding everywhere because they are scared of breaking a nail.

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Quote: "Yeah, except the Americans use like 2 metres of padding everywhere because they are scared of breaking a nail. "


Yes we are....damn broke a nail....

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Quote: "8/10ths of the world's population can't be wrong."

Yes they can.Here in America we do call it soccer.But don't worry.The NFL is arranging to bring football to your neck of the woods sooner or later...and I'm not scared of breaking a nail...I keep them trimmed really well...

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Quote: "Yeah, except the Americans use like 2 metres of padding everywhere because they are scared of breaking a nail."


Ah spoken like a person who has never played Though that padding will help protect the vital organs and skull, it barely reduces pain at all. You are pretty much guaranteed at least seven concusions in a pro footbal career, we won't mention the many bone breaks, muscle tears, and 6 knee surgeries you will need.

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Quote: "Though that padding will help protect the vital organs and skull, it barely reduces pain at all."

Sure.

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Quote: "The NFL is arranging to bring football to your neck of the woods sooner or later"

We have had an American football league in the UK,or at least here in Scotland since 1995 Fred,the most famous being the Scottish Claymores,and they couldn't care less about breaking a nail,more concerned with breaking their opponents heads

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Posted: 28th Jun 2007 06:39
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Quote: "The NFL is arranging to bring football to your neck of the woods sooner or later"


I don't think it will really catch on anywhere outside of the US. Even in Canada it's not a big deal, and we have the CFL here. Most of the population doesn't care.

Hockey, on the other hand

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Quote: "guaranteed at least seven concusions in a pro footbal career, we won't mention the many bone breaks, muscle tears, and 6 knee surgeries you will need."


Take it you were not very good then?

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Once and for all, the reason why American Football is called FootBall is because in the beginning passes weren't legal. What we now have as a quarterback could only kick the ball foward to move the ball in the air. Laterals, and handofffs were a part of the game. Now because of this, field goal kicking was more prominant. You couldn't just toss a hail mary into the enzone. hence the name Football.

And as far as the padding goes, because of the way American Football is played and the rules, and size of the players etc... the hits these guys take, sometimes standing still is incredible. I'm not saying that rugby or Australian rules football isn't insane. It is. But the way in which football is now played, it makes sense to have some padding. Again in history, there weren't nearly as much padding. And many of those heros suffered irreversible damage because of it. In fact many a current Football player still suffer life threatining or impairing injuries. Sorry, but I don't need to see people get mamed in order to enjoy the sport.

And if anyone doubts the physicalness of american football, I'm sure any of us can link you to a montage of hits. I don't doubt the physicalness in other countries sports, but American sports always seem fair game to jabbing insults. All of these sports take a toll on an athlete's body. I see more injuries in soccer/football than any other sport. And some people like to say it's a non-contact sport. Pffft, yeah right.

These happen throughout any game. And the fact that it's a start and stop game, means the players can be huge. And each time that ball is hiked, hits are happening to bodies that many people don't even realize. I'd really like to see any of us take a hit from a defensemen on a pro team, weighing 275lbs to well over 300lbs plus, coming at you at full speed, hitting you blind sided, as you go up in the air to catch a pigskin. Then comment on how great the padding is! Take a look at a NHL hockey goalie. They are padded to the hilt. But I can show you some pics of their bruised up bodies taking a puck at over a 100+ miles per hour. Even with the padding, nevermind when the puck finds the sweet spot in between.

Boxers punch with gloves. But it's been proven time and time again that it's actually more dangerous than lighter gloves, or bear-knuckle. Because ofthe cushioning, they take way more blows that jar the brain, than normal. And shots that should knock anyone out, allow the fighter to take more abuse, for a longer period of time. The brain being jarred against the skull could care less of what causes the force. Same thing goes for American Football players. The padding only means they think they can handle more and harder shots. I've met some retired players at training camps for signatures. Sit down with them and let them spend an hour telling you about all the injuries, surgeries, concussions, broken bones, blown out ligaments-joints-knees, life long pain, brain injuries etc. Then I'd like for someone to tell them that Football isn't tough because of the pads. These guys are tough as nails. They deal with more pain then most of usc ould ever fathom, on a daily basis. And yet they still have it in them to love and respect the game, and give you a smile when you see them.

grrrrr....

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Posted: 28th Jun 2007 08:32 Edited at: 28th Jun 2007 08:38
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And for those who skip over my verbose post HERE!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pirfMwp5nac

Now tell me that American Football isn't "Tough-As-Nails". I know your sports are tough, but please, show some intelligence about the game befor you knock-it in the future. Thanks!!

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Anybody who thinks American football is a sissy sport should have seen what happened to Joe Thiesman (hope I spelled that right).It's amazing the man could ever walk again.

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Back to Thierry...

I don't really care about his move. There will be some nice football coming out of the Nou Camp with him there. Just think, Messi, Ronny, Henry, and Eto'o ...and possibly Kaka... Playing in the same team.

*shudders*

But who won the FA cup?

Yes, thats right kids.

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Quote: "But who won the FA cup?"


That's a good question.I don't know much about soccer so what is the FA cup and who did win it?

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Still not as dangerous as hockey--- most hockey players have toothless grins and big scars. Hell, they used to not even play with helmets! They also used to have the goal posts bolted into the ground--- that is until a player slid into one, breaking his neck and getting killed.

But yah, I also heard the CFL is a tougher version of American Football than the NFL, but I could be misinformed. I may work on football video games, but I don't know or understand the sport!

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Why, Chelsea won of course!


Speaking of football, Aussie Rules is a great game. CAARN THE CATS!

Take Geelong FC for example. Home to the legend that is the Ablett family.

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Quote: "But who won the FA cup?"
Who cares? We all know who won the league (which apart from the World Cup is the most important thing) and who didn't get that 3 years in a row achievement. Now we know (sorry, been watching too much Mitchell and Webb...)...

Back to the subject though; Henry may do alright for Barca, but he needs to do it immediately. Not as if he is getting any younger, and he just clicked at Arsenal, whereas everywhere else he played he was only alright. Not that it matters, I mean what do we really care about Spanish football (apart from admiring the clubs)? Maybe if we meet them in Europe, but thats about it.

More importantly, IMO I think this could leave an already underpar Arsenal in a situation we haven't seen in a long time. Basically not being one of the big 3. At the minute it is Man Utd and Chelsea at the top with Liverpool and Arsenal fighting for 3rd. Without Henry then they had better come up with a good replacement. I heard Viduka was a likely replacement. Dunno about that. Was good at his best, but when was that? Not likely to do what Henry did. We shall see...

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Posted: 28th Jun 2007 10:22 Edited at: 28th Jun 2007 10:24
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Manchester United Forever baby . But I'm still a huge Arsenal fan and depressed that Henry left. EDIT: And let's not forget who defunct and derailed the Blues this season '. Great season if you love both Man U and the Gunners

All of this talk about how manly American Football is doesn't make up for the fact that they grab each other on the tushy. I'll bet that's a major reason why it's considered a "pansy" sport in the rest of the world. As for me, in HS doing laps with the soccer team and consistently lapping the school's football team was evidence that I should stick to the sport I love.

I'm not saying it's wrong to love American Football, but it REALLY makes me hostile when people say "soccer is for girls" and all that trash. PLEASE. We take extreme physical injuries as well, and we get up and keep moving, WITHOUT any sort of protection (other than shinguards, which weigh far less than what american football players wear). We play a straight 90 minutes plus stoppage time with no breaks (other than halftime)... no commercials or time-outs or any of that. And it simply can't be argued that "soccer" doesn't have a great deal more finesse than american football. Running around obstacles, living or static, is nothing compared to the footwork that you'll see in even a semi-talented footy player. When I see an american football player dodging other players and literally juggling the ball, then I'll call it a remotely fair comparison . That being said, I don't know enough about american football to list any of its benefits... but people who don't know anything about real football ("soccer") shouldn't just assume it's an inferior sport, because it simply isn't.

I'm totally not saying that about anyone here, I'm just saying it irks me when people do that in general, and I hear it a lot... constantly this summer while I've been playing with my friends, some punk comes over and starts talking crap. But then he always refuses my challenge to a foot race for speed and endurance go figure. And the football team in my HS always gave us a ton of crap for playing soccer. It just... GRR... it just makes me so friggin' mad!


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Quote: "I'll bet that's a major reason why it's considered a "pansy" sport in the rest of the world"
No, we just don't care. Honestly it really doesn't register. Dunno why, just the way it is. The only way we ever think about it is topics like this when we joke about Kevlar covered rugby players (which is where the pansy bit comes in). If it makes you feel any better when you are in a rugby scrum then some players have to grab between their team mates legs to keep position. And one of the positions is called a hooker. Used to hate gym back in Wales (they love Rugby)...

And move almost anywhere else in the world. Football players are Godlike basically. To the level where just about all other sports are practically nothing. Almost. In the UK when they say football is a religion they are only half joking. Cricket and Rugby are good when we are winning. Tennis is good (cos the football league has finished) for 5 minutes when a Britain manages to get to the 2nd round of Wimbledon (pretty much forget all other opens and tourneys). F1 is pretty good, but it helps that a British person is winning that now. Darts, snooker, and golf is good for late night channel flicking. Boxing is up about there too. Bowls (lawn, not the stike-strike-strike-strike-yawn-strike effort), X-sports, and pretty much any mainstream american sport is like some obscure late night sports channel that nobody watches.

Personally I think it all comes down to emotion, patriotism and history. And you are never going to beat football for that.

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Na Henry was definitely a hinderance last season.

Arsenal will be fine if Van Persie stays fit for the whole season. They'll sign an unglamourous striker, someone who will just blast off shots and not try and walk the ball into the net. Basically a budget Drogba... they'll try for Martins but might have to settle for someone like Nolan.

I honestly don't think they were any worse without Henry (which they were for most of the season), the wheels fell off after VP got injured against Man U. People forget that at that point in the season, they were looking very good. It all fell apart in about two weeks or less, going out of all the cups. After that they really couldn't give a crap they were never going to catch Chelsea or get caught...

They could do with a left winger, someone like Pires when he was younger.

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Quote: "The NFL is arranging to bring football to your neck of the woods sooner or later"


Quote: "Football is the name given to a number of different, but related, team sports, although the first sport with this name originated in the United Kingdom. The most popular of these world-wide is association football (also known as soccer)."


Quote: "The first detailed description of football in England was given by William FitzStephen in about 1174-1183. He described the activities of London youths during the annual festival of Shrove Tuesday"


Quote: "Modern American football grew out of a match between McGill University of Montreal, and Harvard University in 1874"


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Rugby



American Football



You can see that the Americans are scared of breaking nails, and the Brits are just rock solid and don't need padding
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Look at them very carefully grabbing each other.

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Ok, Henry. Really annoys me because his name is Hen-Ree but because he's French, we pronounce it On-Ree (well, not exactly, but that's as close as I can write it in a french accent). Why don't we pronounce it Hen-ree? We say Chow Yun Fat, instead of Tsiao yun farr (as I understand is it's correct pronounciation). So while we say On-Ree instead of Hen-Ree, he can burn in Barca.

As for Americano football. It's vicious. It's much worse than rugga. But personally, I don't like it for that reason. I really don't like the mentality of training people to do "big hits" and try and ruin the other players. Any contact sport has an element of aggression, but American Football is just OTT for me. Too much emphasis on training people to be brutal, rather than play a game. Just my opinion. I know the game is complex too.

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Quote: "because he's French, we pronounce it On-Ree"
Heh, I watched this comedian once who asked how come with a lot of languages English people feel the need (and get marked better in school!!!) to use the foreign accent? I mean you never hear someone talking french in complete cockney accent for example. *But* you never hear a foreigner talk English with one of our accents. I mean considering the amount of american TV abroad, then at least try an american accent! Or perhaps in the stereotypical 19th century english accent? Nope. Not even slightly... Weird eh?

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Not weird. Conspiracy.


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Quote: "come with a lot of languages English people feel the need (and get marked better in school!!!) to use the foreign accent?"

What do you mean accent? Do you mean simply saying the words properly or putting on a voice like someone from a particular region?

Quote: "I mean you never hear someone talking french in complete cockney accent for example."

You've heard English people speaking in a Charentais/Toulousian/whatever accent then? Didn't think so..

Quote: "I mean you never hear someone talking french in complete cockney accent for example."

No, but you (perhaps not all of the time) hear them trying to pronounce the words properly at least, which is just what the English try to do in other languages. If you think that a French person still sounds French when he tries to speak English, you're obviously under the misconception that an English person will always sound French when he tries to speak it.

Quote: "Not even slightly... Weird eh?"

It's not really weird that you know what an English accent sounds like, and not what a French accent sounds like.

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Well, you learn something everyday. Before, I never knew there was such thing as "Australian rules football", just goes to show. I wouldn't call myself football mad, but I enjoy playing it amongst other sports.

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Ah, but remember that I am Welsh. All I know is that the English try to sound like they have a carrot up each nose when trying to speak French, and the French still sound like they have a carrot up each nose when trying to speak English. Plus I am but a messenger repeating what some comedian said once. Probably in a stupid English accent (spit) if I remember rightly. Boyo.

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Quote: "Plus I am but a messenger repeating what some comedian said once."

Of course, I still have to preach my opinion however.

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Quote: "Arsenal will be fine if Van Persie stays fit for the whole season. They'll sign an unglamourous striker, someone who will just blast off shots and not try and walk the ball into the net. Basically a budget Drogba... they'll try for Martins but might have to settle for someone like Nolan."

I think when Henry was physically capable of playing, he definitely made his mark. He's a great tactician and holds the Gunners together like super glue. And it always seemed like his goals, while few and far between, were life-or-death. Take for instance his game-winning header against Manchester United in the match where Van Persie hurt himself and ended up getting benched for the rest of the season. Or the match a few games later where he literally passed to himself and produced a goal (ugh, can't remember who he did that against though). But then I wonder if maybe I'm just captivated by his flair... dunno. But as an Arsenal fan I can definitely say I'm going to miss him.

But you're right, there's still a lot of hope. Van Persie and Adebayor work well together. I think Julio Baptista has promise. I'm not into Theo Walcott, he's too green and needs a few seasons with a lesser team before taking to the pitch again with the Gunners. Diaby shows serious promise. In a pinch, Clichy can come up from the rear and while he may not be a scorer, he can definitely give the opposing defense a serious headache. Then of course there's the house favorites... Cesc Fabregas, Hleb, Flamini, Ljunberg, and the legendary Gilberto Silva.

On a side-note about Arsenal, I'm trying to think up a new nickname for Emirates. "Highbury Library" was such a fantastic nickname for their old stadium... but for the life of me I can't think of any words that rhyme with "Emirates."


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Just take a look in the Becktionary for one

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Im just happy Derby were promoted

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Thierry Henry is sold because he is injured and probably at the end of his useful playing career. They want some cash back before he is completely knackerd!

FYI, our new Prime Minister Gordan Brown is blind in one eye and partial sighted in the other due to playing rugby at school. It is dangerous, I've heard of kids having their necks broken, damn that's a sucky P.E. lesson

At my school one of the teachers was blinded due to cricket ball to the noggin and my woodwork teachers had missing fingers. Another dangerous class to take

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I used to be quite good at cricket, and once we were playing that version where you have to keep doing runs, and they can bowl if you haven't finished your run. Can't remember the name, but it is seriously fast and can knacker you out (as you have to make a single run no matter what). Anyways I was quite good, and with the rule of only underarm (was inside and we were only young) bowling then no-one could get me out. After half an hour or so and after getting the ball stuck at the top of the monkey bars, our gym teacher got annoyed (gym teachers are all retarded bullies IMO), grabbed the ball, announced he would bowl instead and chucked it at me overarm at the hardest pace he could (we were about 11 at the time). Smashed me right in the crown jewels if you know what I mean (no box for indoor easy cricket). I made a valiant attempt to hobble a run together before the gym teacher then bowled me out easily. ******* **** is all I can say, even after all these years. Hopefully he is dead now

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American sports are a constant source of amusement to us in the rest of the world. You take a respected international game, strip it its complexities and intricacies, get dressed up in soft marshmallow outfits, sprinkle in a few cheerleaders and get Whitney Houston to sing the American national anthem, then, once the game actually starts, have a little rest every few seconds while the ones who got worn out are replaced - then throw in a few commercial breaks, then have another break for hotdogs .... and you think you've got the best sport in the world! Ever wonder why the sports played in America are only played in America, and have never taken off in the rest of the world? It's because we have the proper versions already!

What's even more laughable is that Americans seem to constantly go on about how tough their sports are. Just for information, what you call baseball is derived from a game we call rounders, and is played by school girls. What you call Basketball is derived from a game called netball, (which is played here by school girls). What you call hockey is derived from a game we call .... er ... hockey (played on grass, not ice), and is played over here by school girls - without helmets, by the way.

And as for 'Football', as you call it - try playing Rugby Union or Rugby League. If you think getting hit by a big bloke hutling towards you is nasty, try getting hit by a big bloke, then getting hit by another (because the play doesn't stop in Rugby as soon as you get tackled), then getting buried at the bottom of a ruck, trampled on by another 10 men, studded in the back (not entirely legal but it happens all the time) - then try doing that without any padding, and for a whole 80 minutes with one short 5 minute break in the middle.

I'm not saying American Football isn't a tough sport - I really wouldn't want to have to play it - but I know for sure that when I played Rugby at school, I would have sure liked to be wearing some nice soft padding, have a break every few seconds, and have been replaced after a few minutes of play while I watched some cheerleaders - instead all I seem to remember is eating mud with my head buried in the ground!

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Personally, I like playing badminton - an extremely fast racquet sport, where you're probably 10 times more likely to lose an eye than either American football or Rugby!!

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I was left with the impression that Arsenal didn't really have much of a say in the trade, that Henry basically just said "buh-bye." You're right though, he spent most of the season watching and not playing, and in athlete-years he's 97 years old. But then if David Beckham can find a second wind, signing a huge mega-deal with LA Galaxy and returning to England's national team, I don't see why Henry couldn't... in my opinion he's far superior to Becks, and I think he's a few years younger as well .


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Quite funny, cause over here thats played by school girls.

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You mean you play it too?

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Rugby is very painful... I mean when I was playing for county, I fell akwardly from a tackle and broke my collarbone and my leg.
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Cricket is an excellent game.

Dazzag, ever thought about playing for England...at least you don't give your wicket away....

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man those school girls are nasty

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Yeah, I broke my arm nicely playing rugby at school. Was a good game too, I was carving it up!

Badminton is a great game. I used to play that so much. I miss it quite a bit!

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