Fútbol, Le Foot, Voetbal, ποδόσφαιρο

[philipl]

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/05/3-charts-that-show-the-economics-of-european-football/

[Rover_Shaun]

17 hours ago, danger19_80 said:

Wow, really sad. RIP Justin Edinburgh.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/48568007

Went to the BBC to read about it and had to trawl through 25 pointless monkey tennis articles to find it. You can tell the BBC have the rights to the park football world cup ?

[Husky]

Just now, Rover_Shaun said:

You can tell the BBC have the rights to the park football world cup ?

The one in Qatar?

[windymiller7]

Very sad news. Puts a bit of perspective into things. Looked like having a good career in management as well. Obviously well liked at orient.

RIP Justin. 

[Rover_Shaun]

Just now, Husky said:

The one in Qatar?

The current one in france

[Husky]

Just now, Rover_Shaun said:

The current one in france

It can't be that bad. There's no rolling around on the floor for half the game for a start.

And unless money has changed things in the last few years, I recall the lionesses showed a lot more passion in the last world cup than the men did.

 

 

[arbitro]

I speak to so many people who compare the women's game to the men's but I think that's grossly unfair for many, many reasons. What I would say is that the women's game has come on massively in recent years and probably will grow even more with the advent of professionalism.

I will watch England against Scotland tonight and if it's crap I will turn it off much as I would with any other televised game I watch.

[arbitro]

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/rovers/news/17694307.bradley-dack-pays-tribute-to-former-boss-justin-edinburgh/

Some nice tributes to Justin Edinburgh from Rovers players particularly Bradley Dack.

[Stuart]

Just now, arbitro said:

I speak to so many people who compare the women's game to the men's but I think that's grossly unfair for many, many reasons. What I would say is that the women's game has come on massively in recent years and probably will grow even more with the advent of professionalism.

I will watch England against Scotland tonight and if it's crap I will turn it off much as I would with any other televised game I watch.

I’d want England to beat Scotland any day of the week, at amateur level, at tiddlywinks... between primary school children!

[Sparks Rover]

Why does the sky commentator call all the Portuguese  Fernadeshh, neveshh, diashhh, gedeshh

[Oldgregg86]

Just now, Sparks Rover said:

Why does the sky commentator call all the Portuguese  Fernadeshh, neveshh, diashhh, gedeshh

If you press the red button You can get celebrity commentary

maybe you have sat on the remote and your arse has selected Sean connery

Edited June 9, 2019 by Oldgregg86

[Husky]

This Netherlands team looks very poor compared to Holland.

[Sparks Rover]

Just now, Husky said:

This Netherlands team looks very poor compared to Holland.

??

[Husky]

Hmmmm. England's result into perspective?

The Netherlands lack cutting edge and a decent striker. As shown against us - 27 shots - aside from the 3 gifted goals they were all rubbish - and they were rubbish again tonight.

Though of course they'll blame it all on 'being tired'.

That keeper though

 

 

 

Edited June 9, 2019 by Husky

[Husky]

The women are off, because the rain got too hard. Awwwww! It's getting as soft as men's football.

Just pass out the Wash n Go, they'll soon want to go back out.

Edited June 11, 2019 by Husky

[speeeeeeedie]

Mesut Ozil got married at the weekend to an ex Miss Turkey. Erdogan was at the service, and was apparently best man.

After the controversy he caused last year over being photographed with Erdogan I don't think that this move will earn him any goodwill amongst the German populace.

[JacknOry]

Jokanovic managing in Qatar. Good manager, wasted over there.

[arbitro]

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/breaking-michel-platini-arrested-amid-16535358

Hopefully the investigation filters through to the national federations too.

Platini was one of the best players I ever saw. He is now tarnished and gets what he deserves if he is found guilty. If anything is proved I wonder if they could take the World Cup away from Quatar?

[dave birch]

Surprised no one has picked up on this. It could get interesting.

[Bigdoggsteel]

Corruption in giving Qatar the world cup? I refuse to believe it 

[Husky]

I can't quite believe it's 7 years until the next proper World Cup - and it will probably get ruined beyond belief by then.

[Mattyblue]

The North America 2026 one will be 48 teams, which will make it a right unwieldy mess.

Edited June 18, 2019 by Mattyblue

[Husky]

The World Cup is OVER!

Thank God for the Nations League.

 

[speeeeeeedie]

2 hours ago, arbitro said:

https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/breaking-michel-platini-arrested-amid-16535358

Hopefully the investigation filters through to the national federations too.

Platini was one of the best players I ever saw. He is now tarnished and gets what he deserves if he is found guilty. If anything is proved I wonder if they could take the World Cup away from Quatar?

The whole process around Qatar was crooked, but I doubt that they'll take the competition off them.

The FBI were investigating the whole shambles, yet I've not seen much lately on progress. Platini, Blatter, bin Hamman, Chuck Blazer, Jack Warner, and others were knee deep in it all.

[Bigdoggsteel]

The thing was they were getting such perks anyway, but it wasn't enough. They wanted more. Greed, greed, greed. 

I read FIFA delegates who attended a dinner where Qatar gave their pitch received "goodie bags" worth over 1 million pounds. That was legit like, before you even get into corruption.