Tuesday Open Thread

As expected, our boy Jozy is starting for Hull v. Southend United today.

I saw that! The lineup has him and Fagan up-front

That is the ugliest 2500 dollar jacket ever made.

I would spit on myself if I ever wore a jacket like that.

And a Panathanaikos OG effectively hands the tie to Atletico, up 4-2 now, with 3 away goals.

Jozy starting! Phil Brown figured it out quicker than Bob Bradley. One more reason to say: BRADLEY OUT!

Lot of empty seats at the Calderon, shame on you Atletico fans.

FWIW, American Mike Grella is starting for Leeds against Watford.

Hull scores, but it wasn’t Jozy so I don’t give crap.
Anyways, Tom Cairney scores from 20 yards out to put Hull on top.

Hull up 1-0 through some dickbag not named Jozy.

Will Lyon put up another 5-spot on Anderlecht? Stay tuned!

Maccabi Haifa!!! Salzburg!!! Who will be standing after the anschluss?!

Do Arsenal fans wish they still had Gilberto?

Dunn scores for Blackburn

and yes, Georger, they do

Why does every club with vertical stripes now have a blank spot where the number is? Is there some new rule that says you have to have the number unobstructed? It ruins these kits.

0-0 in the Tranmere/Bolton tilt, aka Fat Sam v. The LFC Spice Boys (Barnes and McAteer)

(though technically Barnes pre-dates the Spice Boys)

Pisswich take a 1-0 lead on the road @ Peterborough, thanks to Tomas Priskin (or Pisskin)

God Leto and Cisse are playing together for Panpizza, this is like a clinic on failed LFC players.

Have to say, I’m really impressed by the quality of the Maccabi pitch. I was expecting a bombed out stadium with turf or something.

We have a zombie announcer in the Haifa-S’burg match. Could . . . he . . . please . . . speak . . . a . . . little . . . faster . . .?

@LB – don’t speak for us! Personally, I would still like to have Gilberto.

The side boards at Calderon are way too close to the touchline, Ujfaluši just damn near racked himself on it.

Are they actually playing in Israel? When we played them three years ago we had to play the away leg in Kiev because Israel was such a mess.

Piquionne scores for Pompey on his full debut…

Apparently it’s the National Team stadium, the Ramat-Gan, only FIFA approved stadium in Israel.

The game is taking place in Palest-, er, Isreal.

or Israel. Either/or.

Panathinaikos are off the swarthiness chart.

ESPN not providing even automated gamecasts for these games. Good to see they’re not being snotty about losing the rights.

Millwall take a 1-0 lead at Upton Park

Holy timestamp, Batman!

Haifa score, like the annnouncer just mentioned though, doesn’t really change what Salzburg have to do. Still need 2 goals.

Major violence outside Upton Park, BBC 5 Live are reporting. Not sure what exactly that means

Green Street 3 filming?

Haifa fans are up for this match, good for them.

I’m off for an afternoon of “There Will Be Blood” in HD. Is there a open-thread for that?

re: Upton Park: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/8221451.stm

Jozy just scored from 25 yards out, because Jozy Altidore is a man!

Here’s more of the same re: trouble
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/aug/25/trouble-reported-west-ham-millwall

3-0 Lyon already, on a hattie from Lisandro Lopez.

And West Ham is playing Millwall in the Milk Cup? That’s a recipe for disaster.

Maybe they should go back to calling it the Milk Cup. There can’t be any violence surrounding something called the Milk Cup, can there?

“There can’t be any violence surrounding something called the Milk Cup, can there”

Having seen Inglorious Basterds this weekend, a cup of milk can be the forerunner to a bloodbath.

Quack, Qu-brrcckkk. Jozy killing ducks.

Where’s Frodo when you need him…

@Goat @NYK

But then the Hammers and Millwall fans would be crying over spilt milk, wouldn’t they?

JOZY!

Way to go, Jerzy.

How about the Fluffy Puppies and Kittens Board sponsor the league cup, then?

Haifa are going to the group stages, the appropriately named Golaso scores on a deflected shot from 20 yards out.

So does Pompey celebrate their first win of the season? Or just know that they’re still s**te — just better than one of the worst teams in League 2?

Maybe Pompey will fire Paul Hart now. Firing managers after big League Cup wins seems to be in style this season.

Also, because I actually look these things up, based on today’s CL projected winners (based on 78% of precincts reporting), here are the team’s UEFA coefficient, which determines which “pot” they’ll be in for the Group Stage draw on Thursday.

Lyon – 91.033 (As long as Arsenal goes through, Lyon is guaranteed no better than 9th, so that’s the 2nd pot)
Atletico Madrid – 41.853 (Approx. 22nd, 3rd pot)
Debrecen – 1.633 (easily 32nd — 4th pot)
FC Zurich — 14.05 (4th pot)
Maccabi Haifa — 17.05 (4th pot)

Here’s the link to the UEFA CL team coefficients.

http://www.uefa.com/competitions/ucl/format/newsid=837576.html

Live it up, Pompey. It might be the only win you get this year.

Wolfsburg would be a hell of a team to draw from pot 3

@Ryan: believe it or not, Wolfsburg will probably be in Pot 4. The only way they wouldn’t be is if 2 of the following 3 teams win their ties tomorrow: Timisoara; Sheriff Tiraspol; Apoel Nicossia.

That would push Wolfsburg up to 24th out of 32 teams. Otherwise, they’re in pot 4.

no idea if this will format well, but my guess on the 32 group stage teams, and their coefficients. I’m assuming that Pot 1 are teams 1-8, pot 2 is 9-16, etc. Of course I could always read the 42 page document on their website to determine the seeding rules for the group draw. But then I wouldn’t get any real work done.
—Group Stage Teams——–Coefficient
1 Barcelona 121.853
2 Liverpool 118.899
3 Chelsea 118.899
4 Man United 111.899
5 Sevilla 110.853
6 AC Milan 110.582
7 Arsenal 106.899
8 Bayern Munich 98.339
9 Lyon 91.033
10 Inter Milan 87.582
11 Real Madrid 78.853
12 CSKA Moscow 71.525
13 Porto 68.292
14 Sporting Lisbon 68.292
15 AZ Alkmaar 64.826
16 Juventus 63.582
17 Rangers 56.575
18 Olympiacos 52.633
19 Marseille 48.033
20 Dynamo Kyiv 46.37
21 Stuttgart 45.339
22 Atletico Madrid 41.853
23 Bordeaux 40.033
24 Besiktas 32.445
25 FC København 26.89
26 Wolfsburg 21.339
27 Standard Liege 21.065
28 Maccabi Haifa FC 17.05
29 FC Zürich 14.05
30 Rubin Kazan 9.525
31 Unirea Urziceni 8.781
32 Debrecen 1.633

Wow. So there’s a shot (1 in 4096, but still) that one of the CL groups shakes out with
Chelsea, Real, Bordeaux, and Wolfsburg

(Who got me going on the CL anyway?)

Based on those figures, my group of death:
Chelsea
Real Madrid
Bordeaux
Wolfsburg

Arsenal’s best hope:
Arsenal
AZ Alkmaar
Besiktas
Debrecen

One could argue CSKA Moscow over Alkmaar, but no one wants to play a meaningful game in Russia in Nov/Dec.

Great minds think alike…

Just like to say that I’ve seen my beloved Exeter beat Hereford, so if Pompey couldn’t manage it today then they are indeed in dire straits.

Twitter news, so grain of salt, but apparently West Ham- Milwall was suspended after a 2nd pitch invasion

Eladio, so with one change (Fiorentina winning) I get a much prettier group stage: Liverpool, Inter, Marsaille, and Wolfsburg.

According to the guardian some guy got stabbed outside Upton Park.

The Guardian has Everton buying Sylvain Distin, but doesn’t mention Senderos. Gaaaah. I want closure.

[...] Unprofessional Foul [...]

Re: Riots at Upton Park

How is Steven Cohen going to blame this on Liverpool supporters? Discuss.

I contend that Liverpool supporters will blame it on Steven Cohen.

The jacket is gortex! You should quit hatin! If it’s good enough for Costanza a decade and a half ago it’s good enough for a 22 yr-old Spanish millionaire today.

I don’t know about anyone else, but I just hated that it did not zip up straight.