Diet Kirk
Silver Member
Gold cymbals! I wonder what they would sound like. Actually I wonder if anyone has ever made cymbals out of precious metals. Obviously too pricey to market, but what would they sound like? too soft perhaps?
Anybody else who doesn't care about the World Cup?
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Gold cymbals! I wonder what they would sound like. Actually I wonder if anyone has ever made cymbals out of precious metals. Obviously too pricey to market, but what would they sound like? too soft perhaps?
jonescrusher
Pioneer Member
Based on current market value, England are in the top five most valuable. I agree, pretty meaningless.
Heritage? Not the same as success, but the heritage is still undeniable. Believe me, i'm not bigging up England, piss-poor doesn't begin to cover it.
Still, better than Ireland, eh?
Souljacker
Silver Member
Based on current market value, England are in the top five most valuable. I agree, pretty meaningless.
Heritage? Not the same as success, but the heritage is still undeniable. Believe me, i'm not bigging up England, piss-poor doesn't begin to cover it.
Still, better than Ireland, eh?
The market value is likely to continue as long as young English players with one good season behind them are sold for £25/30/35 million.
Yeah, Ireland at the moment are very ordinary, a team full of journeymen players and still relying on an ageing striker for goals. Definitely a lean period.
Souljacker
Silver Member
Well done Germany! What a unit.
Disappointed for Messi, but he has silenced any critics he had left with his important displays for Argentina in this World Cup, he is one of the best of all time, as if that couldn't be assumed already.
Disappointed for Messi, but he has silenced any critics he had left with his important displays for Argentina in this World Cup, he is one of the best of all time, as if that couldn't be assumed already.
Somebody cared about the world cup!!!
The World Cup final set a new Twitter record of 618,725 tweets per minute discussing the match, according to Twitter data.
Meanwhile, Facebook also said the game hit record numbers, prompting 280 million interactions, with 88 million people engaged globally. For comparison, 66 million people had more than 200 million posts, comments and likes during the Brazil-Germany semifinal match.
This live-time heat map illustrates just how much the Twittersphere lit up across the globe as Germany outlasted Argentina 1-0 to win the nation's fourth World Cup trophy:
The World Cup final set a new Twitter record of 618,725 tweets per minute discussing the match, according to Twitter data.
Meanwhile, Facebook also said the game hit record numbers, prompting 280 million interactions, with 88 million people engaged globally. For comparison, 66 million people had more than 200 million posts, comments and likes during the Brazil-Germany semifinal match.
This live-time heat map illustrates just how much the Twittersphere lit up across the globe as Germany outlasted Argentina 1-0 to win the nation's fourth World Cup trophy:
On the contrary,I thought the WC final was great.Germany played their patient/waiting game,while Argentina took many limb shots on goal,and relied on a quick counter attack.Those often result in correct off sides calls,so a goal scored there is called correctly back.Germanys lone goal in overtime was a thing of beauty,and no goal keeper alive could have stopped it.
I personally,grew up around(real football) soccer,having been raised an a mostly European immigrant neighborhood,and attending a Catholic school that sponsored soccer teams,so I played the beautiful game.There were also some public and private soccer pitches(fields) to play on in Ridgewood NY.
American football is also cool but how often do you ever use your feet to kick the egg shaped ball,which isn't a ball at all?I also love baseball,but that can out of almost all sports, be as boring as golf.Hockey is a great game,but it's the only game where fighting is allowed.That's BS,as it's one of the reason for it's fan base.Take away fighting,and the sport would lose fans.The sport should be ablot the sport,skating,passing and shooting.Fight like that in any other team sport,and you're out of the game and possibly suspended,fired or arrested.There I said it.let the flames begin.
Steve B
I personally,grew up around(real football) soccer,having been raised an a mostly European immigrant neighborhood,and attending a Catholic school that sponsored soccer teams,so I played the beautiful game.There were also some public and private soccer pitches(fields) to play on in Ridgewood NY.
American football is also cool but how often do you ever use your feet to kick the egg shaped ball,which isn't a ball at all?I also love baseball,but that can out of almost all sports, be as boring as golf.Hockey is a great game,but it's the only game where fighting is allowed.That's BS,as it's one of the reason for it's fan base.Take away fighting,and the sport would lose fans.The sport should be ablot the sport,skating,passing and shooting.Fight like that in any other team sport,and you're out of the game and possibly suspended,fired or arrested.There I said it.let the flames begin.
Steve B
opentune
Platinum Member
Damn Canadians eh? Really the fighting aspect is mostly a Canadian - North American slant on the game. It derives from those old original 6 teams...like the Bruins- Canadian rivalry games. The Europeans play a much more civilized and finesse hockey game, with better show of skills and talent - skating, passing shooting. You are correct the fans here would miss fighting. I think the fighting aspect of a sport is somehow very important to many fans as an outlet. For the life of me I cannot handle UFA 'fighting' as something to watch as entertainment
Oh ya world cup. Good final game, glad its over ....1 month is way too long.
Europeans are the reason for the helmets and face sheilds with their constant high sticking. Not sure how civilized that is.
opentune
Platinum Member
Huh?
The physical nature of the game, the really hard hitting - sticks on on heads, or heads on borards - is the reason for helmets. Just common sense, came about in late 70s' on, and eventually the hitting became harder, so padding went up in size. Compare the padding in a picture of Gordie Howe to say Sidney Crosby, neither of whom is super-big by their standards.
The hard hitting signature of the game originates on this side of Atlantic. Most high sticking is often accidental, and when not, is usually delivered by the brutes of the game. Are you meaning to say the European players are the brutes or goons of todays NHL?
Grunter we may need another 'off topic' thread to hash this one out
jonescrusher
Pioneer Member
Best World Cup ever, not sure how Russia is going to get close to matching it.
Huh?
The physical nature of the game, the really hard hitting - sticks on on heads, or heads on borards - is the reason for helmets. Just common sense, came about in late 70s' on, and eventually the hitting became harder, so padding went up in size. Compare the padding in a picture of Gordie Howe to say Sidney Crosby, neither of whom is super-big by their standards.
The hard hitting signature of the game originates on this side of Atlantic. Most high sticking is often accidental, and when not, is usually delivered by the brutes of the game. Are you meaning to say the European players are the brutes or goons of todays NHL?
Grunter we may need another 'off topic' thread to hash this one out
The Euros aren't the goons but they are not very "cautious" with their sticks.