Urawa Reds V Manchester United, 17th July, 2007

Such a fun match to watch. Good friendly, brilliant crowd, fantastically enjoyable match. Good to see a lot of the players get a run out.
 
Good work out.And respect to Urawa Reds they were a decent opposition.
 
Hmm...Inter Milan Vs China XI later...Hope them Chinese don't throw another fit.
 
I had to basically watch a slideshow of the match with a few seconds of action now and then. Still a draw is a fair result and the team will benefit from this first pre season friendly.
 
Smith was useless unfortunately... It was a friendly and they only one who seemed to give a feck was Rooney but the Japanese wanted to win.
 
Pitty we didn't saw Hargreaves in the centre of midfield and Nani heping Ronaldo on those wings.
 
raven_blade2002 said:
I had to basically watch a slideshow of the match with a few seconds of action now and then. Still a draw is a fair result and the team will benefit from this first pre season friendly.
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:lol: i know what you mean mate, these fecking chinese channels dont seem to work properly for me either
 
enghuei said:
Yeah! First trophy of the season!
First trophy for Scholes as the captain!
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I do hope you're taking the piss

I stayed away from this match and this thread for a reason. I can't stand people trying to make out that a first basic exercise in match fitness of the summer is somehow an important, season defining game :wenger:
 
kikks said:
His yank-tourettes is acting up.
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Soccer is an English term first used in Oxford University in the late 1880's.....it is not an American version of football at all!!!

The Americans, Austrlalians and others use it to differentiate fotball from their local versions.........but it is a British term!

Paddy is OK!
 
Lot 49 said:
It was alright. I'm just bitter I missed both our goals but saw both of theirs :(
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So am I! But I watch that Urawa #16 doing a similar stepovers as Ronaldo and Mancini :lol:

I noticed that this Urawa Red Diamonds was one of the participants in the AFC Champs League alongside with Sidney FC, a chinese club and Indonesian champions. That Robson Ponte chap, was former bundesliga player wasn't it? Surprising me that Shinji Ono wasn't include in the Japanese Asian Cup squad.

Relax, lads, its only a meaningless pre-season game.
 
Mr. MUJAC said:
Soccer is an English term first used in Oxford University in the late 1880's.....it is not an American version of football at all!!!

The Americans, Austrlalians and others use it to differentiate fotball from their local versions.........but it is a British term!

Paddy is OK!
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Correct (sort of), but many muppets won't have it.

Soccer is a contraction of asSOCiation (as in this code of Football) and the ER they used to stick on the end of words in the public schools at the time. Rugger was used for Rugby Football and Soccer used for Association Football as a way of differentiating the two codes of football that have exactly the same root. Don't tell the muppets on here that Rugby is Football though, they wont have it.
 
WeasteDevil said:
Correct (sort of), but many muppets won't have it.

Soccer is a contraction of asSOCiation (as in this code of Football) and the ER they used to stick on the end of words in the public schools at the time. Rugger was used for Rugby Football and Soccer used for Association Football as a way of differentiating the two codes of football that have exactly the same root. Don't tell the muppets on here that Rugby is Football though, they wont have it.
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...and the term soccer was in very common use her until the mid-late seventies.
 
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