Comparison of Football between America and England

What we call football in America does not mean the same thing in England, where, ironically, football is origniated. People in America refer to what English call football as soccer, and There simply is not a thing to which Americans refer as football(rogby is not American football) in England.

It is quite interesting to compare American football with English football, which, according to Englsih, is the authentic one. Just like our obsession with football, English also have a same obsession with their respective football. American got NFL, and English dudes got their Barclays Premium League--just a fancy name to show off. However, BPL is not the only league with which English football clubs participate; they also play for several domestic cups and the EUCL, the European Champions League, which is just like the playoffs but held among multiple nations.

Normally each team from both NFL and BPL only play one game per week, but there are several occasions where they have to play two games per week. There are 20 teams in BPL, and each team has to play 38 games, with a spin from August to May the next coming year. In BPL, winning a game means 3 points, tie a game means 1 point, and losing one means 0 point. The team which ends up in the first position gets the trophy, top 4 gets a chance to play in European Champions League next season, 5th to 7th gets a chance to play in Europa League, and last 3 gets delegation.

Just like NFL, BPL makes a ridiculously amount of money each year. It is said that from the season 2016-2017, BPL will be able to make about 4 billion UK pounds per year merely from broadcasting.
There are about 4 super teams in Premier League: Chelsea, Manchster City, Manchster United, and Arsenal.

Apart from BPL, there are several other leagues of soccer in England, which are all inferior to BLP. The top teams from those leagues could get promoted into an upper level league. So each year, there are 3 teams get delegated from Premier League into Emglish Champions League, and 3 teams get promoted to Premier League.

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442oons-- The most Hilarious Parody Channel of Soccer on YouTube

442oons-- The most Hilarious Parody Channel of Soccer on YouTube 

        442oons is a soccer channel on YouTube that makes a series of short parody films with funny cartoon characters incarnated by soccer stars and managers.




















The channel was created by Dean Sobbart, who was an English actor before creating the 442oons.The show is widely popular, for its extremely exaggerated-- in a funny way--characters and sardonic theme. 442oons has created more than 40 characters with each of whom presents a soccer star or manager(boss), as shown in the image above.

The 442oons primarily focuses on the English Premier League, since Dean himself is English. However, it also covers soccer games worldwide. 442oons also casts some of hilarious parodies of some soccer related things or soccer stars related things. The 442oons first launched circa 2011, when  Manschster United lost the European Championship final. It did not really cover anything except the Premier League untill they launched the the series of FIFA world Cup 2014. The series turned out to be a big success and made 442oons famous on YouTube and among soccer fans. After that, they started to make a variety of short cartoons on soccer stars' personal appearances, performance, and affairs which the general public is eager to see.

The famous cartoon characters  include
 Moyes

Chewy Suarez

Thomasshole Muller

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Phace Jones

Woy Hodgson

Cristiano Arrogantaldo

To this point, there are more than one hundred videos in 442oons for the season 2015-2016, including the Premier League, Champions league, Spanish League, soccer stars ,and managers' parodies.

Each character has his or her own disticntive personalities and traits ,with a strong comic effect, that can be traced back to that of the original model. For example, Chewy Suarez...

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PES 2016 VS. FIFA 16

        There is a long-time debate about those two soccer games, Pro Evolution Soccer, and FIFA. In this September, both games presented their  new versions, PES 2016, and FIFA 16.
        Here is an in-depth analysis regarding the ultimate comparison about those two games( I am a FIFA player though).

PES 2016

So, I have a problem with the way most sports games are both marketed and reviewed that I’m going to get out of the way first. There’s an obsessive focus on small details, changes, tweaks and updates compared to those found in last year’s version. On the one hand, I get it, these games don’t change that much year-to-year, so coverage needs something to focus on.

But there’s an issue with this approach, and it’s that if this is all you focus on, you start to lose sight of the forest for the trees. A lot of this year’s FIFA reviews, for example, are doubling down on things like a small goalkeeping AI change and a new way to send faster passes. Those are important to note, sure, but are they that big of a deal when looking at the game as a whole?

Last year I lamented that as good as PES was getting on the field, it’s off-field woes were keeping it from pulling ahead as the better overall package. I thought the only thing that would help Konami’s game improve was a better suite of licenses, or an abandonment of the publisher’s insane fascination with menus and network connectivity messages.

FIFA 16

This stuff might all sound like fluff compared to the core gameplay, but it’s important fluff, and for many can help be the deciding factor in which of these two games they devote the next 9 months to playing. Your undying love for Manchester City, for example, may mean you preferFIFA’s glitz and Etihad™ Stadium® branding over Pro Evo’s more substantial and rewarding gameplay.

As important as it is, though, I just feel like PES 2016 is such a superior offering as an actual game of football that you’d have to be very into licenses to let that sway you. I mean, I enjoy seeing authentic TV pre-game visuals in a video game as much as the next guy, but I enjoy PES’sturdy, free-flowing football a lot more.


PES 2016, overall, has a better reputation on field--gameplay and graphics. I have to admit the fact that PES 2016 has improved a lot compared to its previous version, PES 2015, and has a better game performance than FIFA 16. 

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Citation: http://kotaku.com/fifa-16-vs-pes-2016-which-is-better-1732271050

Stephen Curry Scored 40 in 3 Quarters, Leading Warrior Winning the Opener

      Stephen Curry Scored 40 Points in the Opener Game

       Stephen Curry threw his arm in the air in delight and body bumped teammates after knocking down shots from all over the floor, and it all looked so familiar to what happened here only four months ago.The NBA MVP showed in a hurry he hasn't lost a step or his swagger, scoring 40 points to lead the Golden State Warriors to a 111-95 victory over the New Orleans Pelicans on Tuesday night to open their title defense.

       Stephen Curry was the MVP of regular games last season and ler his team, the Golden State Warrior, win the NBA title for that season. He has been regarded as one of best players in NBA this season and ESPN has ranked him as top five players who have the greatest potential to win the MVP. Certainly, Curry used that amazing game to show ESPN that he should be the only one to be considered as MVP for this season. Comparing his performance with that of LBJ, whose final shot has been ruthlessly blocked by Gassol in his opener game, that he lost his first game against Chicago bulls by 97:99, Stephen Curry has since been in the leading position to win the MVP this season.

     In the game against New Orleans Pelicans on Tuesday night, Stephen unbelievably scored 24 points in the first quater, with 7 out of 9 shots on target and 4 3-points shots. He only used 32 minutes to score 40 points with 7 assistants and 6 rebounds.
    While Anthony Davis had a really poor perfamnce in that game with 1 out 16 shits in target by the time Curry had reached 40 points, and New Orleans gave up that game by the end of third quarter had ended.
     This game showed that Stephen Curry along with other newly born superstars, has been taking the dominant power in NBA, and mightf replace the place of LBJ and Kobe in this season, since LBJ is 31 years.
   

Melo Scored 21 points Making NY Knicks Win the Game against Washington Wizard

Melo Scored 21 points Making NY Knicks Win the Game against Washington Wizard

After a very disappointing season, Carmelo claimed his glorious return by keeping his strong performance 2 game in the row. Carmelo Anthony continued his return from a knee operation with his second straight strong performance, scoring 21 points in 25 minutes as the New York Knicks beat the Washington Wizards 115-104 on Friday night.

Anthony underwent a left knee surgery last season that had resulted him not being able to play the rest of the last season since the all star weekend that hosted in New York city. The New York Knicks, therefore, received its worst season performance since Carmelo Anthony has been in use squad. Lots of experts from ESPN have pointed out that the chance for New York Knicks back to the playoff this coming season is virtually impossible, and also claimed that Anthony has passed his best time of basketball. 

However, Anthony and New York Knicks seem quite strong and fully prepared now. In his first game since surgery, Anthony shot 8 of 10 for 17 points against Paschoalotto Bauru of Brazil. He managed to keep his top performance to the second game against Washington Wizard, the playoff team last season, by shooting 10 out of 15, including 4 of 5 in the second half. He made a pretty turnaround fade away from 18 feet with 1.9 seconds remaining in the first half.

The New York Knicks took this game by scoring 115 to 104. Now, is New York Knicks fully prepared to get into playoff this season? Is Melo prepared to show his dominant power over others in NBA? We might know those answers soon in a month. 
Citation http://www.nba.com/games/20151009/NYKWAS/gameinfo.html?ls=iref:nba:scoreboard

Han Zheng

Mr. Taylor

Sports reading and Writing 

Sept.29, 2015

          Sportsmanship 

Today`s press often built a sport star`s success as how much money and honor he has . The general public, to some extent, loves to hear and admired the extreme wealth of a superstar in football, soccer, basketball, baseball, etc. However, the very nature of a sport is not about monetary achievement or honors but a spirit and enjoyment— that is, the sportsmanship. 

When I was a young boy, I did not really care about sports util when I was entering 4th grade. I met some good friends in the 4th grade ,and started to play soccer with them as pastime. I had always been enjoying watching soccer but never got a chance to play it before. I, surprisingly liked playing soccer immediately after. I clearly remembered my friends and I played soccer in the soccer field at our elementary school, sometimes even on the basketball field. 

I at this point did not have ideas about entering JV or varsity soccer team, or planning to get a scholarship to a good college for playing soccer: I just played for fun. I gradually found my talent in playing soccer, and I even became a starter in the field a year later. The most important gift from playing soccer in my childhood was not those merits but a longstanding and cherished friendship that still is keeping till today. 

After I went to a middle school in a different district, I met people who I completely  had not acquainted before. I was quit anxious about in what way I could make friends. This question was perfectly solved by soccer. I joined the soccer team in 7th grade and in there I met a person later as one of best friends. I still can remember in a winter someday in middl school, we played soccer just two of us on a soccer field covered with snow. Why did we play soccer in this extreme weather? Because we loved it. We loved the feeling touching the ball and running on the field. Since there were just two people in that field,My friend and me, we only could practice shooting like free kick and penalty. It now might sound boring, which it was boring, but ,when we were touching the ball on this snowy field, only felt we was as sense of joy and satisfaction. I guess that is the sportsmanship. 

Mr. £58m Scored Twice to Lift Man United to the Second Place

        Mr. £58m Scored Twice to Lift Man United to the Second Place 
     Anthony Martial hit a dream start in premier league by scoring 3 goals in 2 games. In today`s game, Manchester United versus Southampton, Martial equalized with United's first shot on target and then took advantage of a terrible Maya Yoshida back pass to slot in a second.Then Juan Mata added the third goal for Manchester United and made sure that Manchester United would take 3 points with them back to Manchester. Clearly, the 19-year-old young French man, Martial responded to concerns and doubts from critics by leading Manchester United to the second place of premier league, only 2 pints away from the leading team, Manchester City. 

      Anthony Martial was born in December 5, 1995. Manchester United signed him from his former team, AS Monaco, for £36 million, potentially rising to £58 million, on a four-year contract with the option of another year. It is the highest payment for teenage in the history of football( according to English press). When the transfer firstly exposed to the public, most of soccer critic, including the manager of Manchester United, Louis van Gaal, called that transfer ridiculous. The manager of Manchester United claims that this transfter was made based on the future consideration since Martial shows his great potential to become a new " Henry". Though people doubt that he could everually become a same level ot even better level than Henry, his countryman, Martial has responded with amazing performance so far in premier League and in European Champion League.
     The young, prospective Frenchman, Anthony Martial, does resemble his forerunner, Henry, in several ways. First, they both gained a prominent strart of their resptive careers. Henry was shinning star in 1998 world cup, and then transfered to Junventus FC. Although He was able to compete a starting position in Juventus, he then transfered to Aresnsal at the age of 21, where He became the king of Harblem. Second, they all had a mature emotion and a sophisticated manner toward press and fans and his teamates, which was inportant to build up the chemistry of their teams. Third, They all had a strong confidence in the field without the supposed nervouness of a youngplayer.
     Since he has scored 3 gaols in 2 consecutive games in premier goal, he became the second player in Manchester United who accomplished this in the first two games. And remeber he could still Accomplish more if he can manage to maintain his outstanding performance.
    Besides Man United, The manager of French national team also would wine about this. After Benzama, He will be the second choice in ST/CF. Since the beginning of this term, Manchester United has suffered a lack of offend power due to sorry performance of Rooney, it is interesting to see whether Martial can stand up to increase Manchester United offend strength.

Citation: BBC. Sport. Uk