Euro2004 support thread

[Nemasis Enforcer]

I went through my team and made some significative changes, but now I'm done. Many of you will think of this team as deeply suicidal, but I've weighted the pros and cons and decided to risk it:


Goalkeepers:
- Casillas (ESP)
- Zuberbühler (SWI)

Defenders:
- Ujfaluši (CZE)
- Puyol (ESP)
- Šimic (CRO)
- Neretljak (CRO)
- Korablovs (LAT)

Midfielders:
- Nedved (CZE)
- Davids (NED)
- Figo (POR)
- Zidane (FRA)
- Ljungberg (SWE)

Forwards:
- Koller (CZE)
- Morientes (ESP)
- Ibrahimovic (SWE)

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I also signed up under a different name and kept my old formation just to see how it would have coped, but I won't join it in the Literotica League unless everyone is ok with it...

Im ok with you having 2 teams Lauren

Good midfield and strikers!!! good team over all too I think Croatia are gonna do well so yuor defender choice is very good I think.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Thanks.

I added my other team, but if anyone objects just say so and I'll withdraw it. I'm just curious to see how it does, but I don't need to have it in the league to do that.

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ATTENTION CLOUDY! NEWS FLASH!

 

[SnoopDog]

Well there are certainly more football maniacs in here than I thought.
We could try and take over control, lol.

One thing's for sure, when the World Cup comes to Germany in 2006 you are all warmly welcomed to come over and do nothing but celebrate. Yeah !
Let the games begin.

Snoopy

 

[Liar]

One thing's for sure, when the World Cup comes to Germany in 2006 you are all warmly welcomed to come over and do nothing but celebrate. Yeah !

I damn well plan to. It's just a day's drive away.

I just wonder who Ill have to go down on to get decent seats at good games.

#L

 

[cloudy]

Thanks.

I added my other team, but if anyone objects just say so and I'll withdraw it. I'm just curious to see how it does, but I don't need to have it in the league to do that.

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ATTENTION CLOUDY! NEWS FLASH!

Oh, that sucks monkey ass.

I'll make a trade later on, I guess. But who - I have no friggin' idea.

 

[Nemasis Enforcer]

Oh, that sucks monkey ass.

Awww Claudy im so sorry (lol)

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Oh, that sucks monkey ass.

Yeah.

Still, better know now than later on when the matches start...

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Hi Lauren.









I was lonely.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Re: Ok, alright. I've joined.

1: Cañizares

Tip for Gauche:

"... [Cañizares] would have been Spain's No1 in Korea/Japan were not for a freak injury involving a dropped bottle of aftershave prior to the tournament.

UEFA EURO 2004™ qualifying
That blow allowed Iker Casillas to reclaim the keeper's jersey and the Real Madrid CF custodian showed no sign of relinquishing it, confining Cañizares to the bench."


"UEFA EURO 2004™ qualifying
Casillas played in all eight Group 6 fixtures, conceding just four goals. He then kept goal in both legs of the play-off victory against Norway, keeping a clean sheet in Oslo."

3: Goumas

Nothing worrying, but I just heard in the news that he had a small injury in practice today. Should be fit to play against Portugal on Saturday, but just thought you'd like to know.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Hi Lauren.

I was lonely.

Hi, Abs!

 

[Guest]

Men=mice

Women=cows

 

[gauchecritic]

Ta Lauren, Cassilas in goal now and a few other changes too I'll post them later.

Gauche

 

[English Lady]

What's the number for the lit league?


I'll join there...and take mine off.....

 

[Guest]

What's the number for the lit league?


I'll join there...and take mine off.....

It's 28990-6811

Awww! Sweetie!

Lou

 

[English Lady]

Ahh theres no point doing two..I should have looked more carefully here*L*


Thanks Lou

 

[English Lady]

OK EL's Eleven are signed up now*L*

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Predictor Game | Home Page | Code to join Literotica League: 1162101@_193185

15 participants!

- Black Tulip
- Boobyprize
- CharleyH
- Cloudy
- Colleen Thomas
- Comp|icity
- CrazyyAngel
- Gauchecritic
- Lauren Hynde
- Liar
- Nemasis Enforcer
- Neonlyte
- Randi Grail
- SnoopDog
- Tatelou


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Fantasy Football | Home Page | Code to join Literotica League: 28990-6811

10 participants!

- Black Tulip | Tulip's Team
- CharleyH | Cavaliers de Mort
- Cloudy | Cloudy's Team
- English Lady | EL's Eleven!
- Gauchecritic | Leguin
- Lauren Hynde | Comando Suicida
- Liar | Yoohoo
- Nemasis Enforcer | Nemasis' Enforcers
- Neonlyte | neonopolous
- Tatelou | Lou's Lads
- Chloe Byrnes | Les Autres

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Predictor Game | Home Page | Code to join Literotica League: 1162101@_193185

15 participants!

This is going to be a piece of cake. There are only 48,772 players so far. We can take 'em.

Fantasy Football | Home Page | Code to join Literotica League: 28990-6811

10 participants!

70,018 players... It's a bit trickier, but we can do it.

 

[CharleyH]

Made a couple of changes, getting rid of Oddo. Why, Oh why would I have chosen an Italian who isn't even probably going to play the first game? And upgraded a couple of players 1 million left in my bank just in case I need to dump a Croat, and upgrade. Not bad.

I noticed the price of some players has fluxuated. Hm.

 

[English Lady]

I'll have a go at the predictor whatsit when I have five minutes to do so*L*

 

[neonlyte]

In Lisboa the early arrivals for Euro2004 have appeared. Easy to spot by their designer wear they are mostly affluent males in their late twenties and early thirties in small groups of three or four. The journalists stand out from the crowd, here early to write their background pieces, report on training camps, the stadia and atmosphere leading up to the opening match. They wear their accreditation on multicoloured ribbon hung round their necks emblazoned with the Mastercard logo and sit in groups arranged by nationality in the waterside restaurants and bars on the World Fair site. The fans, and their raucous cacophony, their badge of allegiance, will arrive closer to match-day, descend in a storm and move on to the next encounter.

The World Fair site looks glorious, flanked along one side by the silky green blue Tejo and boasting the usual crop of outlandish buildings obligatory for all such events it is a three-kilometre stretch of entertainment. There must be more than three hundred restaurants and bars of every imaginable type, there are arenas, concert halls, the aquarium, marinas, shops, play areas, gardens, and water features. The planting looks magnificent, as if it has spruced itself up for the occasion, pergola walkways festooned with blazing bougainvillea in shocking pink or the deepest of reds, cool velvet green palm forests, dotted with orange beaked strelitzia; and everywhere the sound of water. Bright tiled fountains spouting water across the playing children, a waterfall behind which you may pass, a water play area where you can damn streams, make wheels turn or use water to make tunes.

I expect this is where most football visitors will come to eat drink and dance away the night. They will know it as the World Fair or Expo site; it has another history. In the dock around which the Fair site is built was once an airport. Pan Am Clippers – flying boats - landed here from 1935 en-route from New York to Marseilles, via the Azores and Lisboa, the journey took 29 hours. Flying boats pretty much vanished at the end of the Second World War and the advent of long-range aircraft and the dock fell into disuse. Over the years the dock became clogged with silt and surrounded by ‘dirty’ industry, a gas production plant, Lisboa’s main abattoir, and sand and gravel operations. When I lived hear in the 1980’s I worked on behalf of an English client who wanted to turn the Flying Boat dock into a marina. That plan was discarded, too much bad development bounded the dock, and another site chosen in the estuary.

I worked with the then Lisboa City Architect, a pleasant man Tuella by name, like the wine, distinguished by his twisted teeth and almost translucent skin, and a young architect for the Lisboa Port Authority, Morgado. I drew a plan for them showing how the waterfront could be developed into entertainment zones, waterside restaurants and parks, its old cargo and passenger function now virtually extinct. I fought tooth and nail to get a Law passed through the Portuguese Parliament that would allow the Port Authority to grant long leases on land it legally owned to allow this new development to commence, including our marina project. The law was the very last Parliamentary act that the Prime Minister Mario Soares signed before he left party politics to become the President of Portugal.

The next week we signed our lease with the Port Authority. Our English client had arranged development funding with a division of Lloyd’s Bank in Portugal, the funding was transferred to his account, and he disappeared with £250,000 blowing four years of hard labour. He was never traced.

It was a body blow, took me years to recover but today I was able to walk along the World Fair site with my head held high aware of the changes I forced that opened the door for the development of the Lisboa waterfront. It would have happened anyway, but I like to think I played my part.

In 1977/78 I led the team that designed the Ministry of Research and Development for the Government of Iraq complete with its underground quarters capable of withstanding nuclear attack and six month life support systems. It was surmounted by a Palace in case you were wondering. I’m surprised that I have never been asked officially about what we designed, but that’s another story entirely.

I guess the point of all this is to balance life’s pluses and minuses and try to settle ones mind that some of the effort, some of the time, brings reward and pleasure, not necessarily to oneself.

Enjoy the football.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Thank you, Neonlyte.

 

[Natural Born Eros]

Hi guys

Just to let you know, my team (eros for england) is as follows:

Goalie:
Buffon (Italy)

Defenders:
Ashley Cole (England)
Nesta (Italy)
Nowotny (Germany)

Midfielders:
Beckham (England)
Costinha (Portugal)
Claus Jensen (Denmark)
Nillson (Sweden)

Forwards:
Pauleta (Portugal)
Tommasson (Denmark)
Raul (Spain)

I won't even tell you about my subs, since they will never, ever, be used, and were painstakingly selected for their cheapness!

BTW, thanks very much to Lauren et al for organising all this.

I've been stuck a firewall away from Lit for far too long, unable to more than read the stories - it has changed (and improved) so much in the time I've been away.

Eros

 

[gauchecritic]

Neon, you should send that piece to an English newspaper (don't ask which one, I don't read them)

It was very very interesting and would add a great amount of colour to the build up.

Gauche

 

[Lauren Hynde]

A warning to Lou, Gauche, and whoever else may have chosen Nuno Valente for their teams. All Portuguese journalists are predicting this as the starting line-up in the match against Greece, this Saturday:

GK: Ricardo
D: Paulo Ferreira, Fernando Couto, Jorge Andrade, Rui Jorge (not Nuno Valente)
M: Costinha, Petit (maybe Maniche), Figo, Simão, Rui Costa (maybe Deco)
F: Pauleta.