The [Horribly Unpopular] Soccer Thread

[Qhrumphf]

I hate Arsenal because I'm Spurs. I hate Chelsea on principle.

Shed Boys/Headhunters/National Front and what have you. And that was BEFORE Russian mob I mean oil money.

 

[robdogj]

I hate Arsenal because I'm Spurs. I hate Chelsea on principle.

Shed Boys/Headhunters/National Front and what have you. And that was BEFORE Russian mob I mean oil money.

what about going 3 decades without a win at The Bridge in League Play? Or what about us CFC fans referring to White Hart Lane as 3 Point Lane - I don't have any animosity for spuds. I put them in the same boat as West Ham & QPR.

 

[robdogj]

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[Nubiwan]

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I like Frank Lampard. I liked his dad as a player too.

All the same, fans of other clubs always so preoccupied with what the reds are doing. Its like a football rite. The greatest team in English Football.

Gordon Banks never won the league. Worlds greatest keeper in his day. What does it mean?

Djimi Traore, Josemi, Harry Kewell, Vlad Smicer, Djerzy Dudek all have as many Champions league medals as Frank Lampard. What does it mean?

Liverpool have lost but 2 games in 69 league matches, and been in the last 2 European Cup finals (we have now won 6 of them and been in 9 Champions League/European Cup Finals). World Club Champions, Super Cup champions beating Frank's Chelsea side.

Its easy to see why people want to talk about our great side, and love and fear Klopp and Liverpool FC.

 

[Qhrumphf]

If Liverpool fans weren't insufferable before...

Congrats. You earned it. Now you'll be talking about it for the next 30 years and every time you don't repeat it accusing everyone else of cheating ("more than you" being the unspoken part you won't admit to).

 

[robdogj]

spuds - The gift that keeps on giving

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[Nubiwan]

I like Frank Lampard. I liked his dad as a player too.

All the same, fans of other clubs always so preoccupied with what the reds are doing. Its like a football rite. The greatest team in English Football.

Gordon Banks never won the league. Worlds greatest keeper in his day. What does it mean?

Djimi Traore, Josemi, Harry Kewell, Vlad Smicer, Djerzy Dudek all have as many Champions league medals as Frank Lampard. What does it mean?

Liverpool have lost but 2 games in 69 league matches, and been in the last 2 European Cup finals (we have now won 6 of them and been in 9 Champions League/European Cup Finals). World Club Champions, Super Cup champions beating Frank's Chelsea side.

Its easy to see why people want to talk about our great side, and love and fear Klopp and Liverpool FC.

RODOG started it with his Frank jibe. He likes to talk Liverpool

I have honoured those who need to be.

Won't hear any more from me. Many like talking about the greatest team in England, nonetheless.

 

[robdogj]

RODOG started it with his Frank jibe. He likes to talk Liverpool

I like to talk about all of Chelsea's rivals. Like this one:

btw, I dislike all of the dirty red sides equally in the EPL & I don't hate on spuds. I only LOL at them

 

[Nubiwan]

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Frank is not smiling after his sides result yesterday. Normally, I'd not give a crap, but Chelsea are basically handing United a CL place next year.

 

[Qhrumphf]

Welp football is dead. I didn't expect City to see proper justice, but this is a ******* joke.

 

[robdogj]

Chelsea are basically handing United a CL place next year.

You were saying?

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[Qhrumphf]

Seems Villa might stay up. More importantly, North London remains ours.

Happy Arseover/Arsenholes Day, whichever you prefer.

As long as I don't each shoe and finish seventh and Woolwich Wanderers win the FA Cup.

Not that i could actually root for the one team I hate more than Arsenal. But absent a giant meteor or other hand-of-god smiting, that'd be the preferential result.

 

[robdogj]

Not that i could actually root for the one team I hate more than Arsenal. But absent a giant meteor or other hand-of-god smiting, that'd be the preferential result.

You might as well go up to the mountains for a few days at the end of the month. Just to let you know, The Final will be on August 1st.

 

[Qhrumphf]

Reportedly the one and only Ledley King will be taking an assistant (and defense-oriented) coaching position at Spurs.

Perhaps when Jose inevitably burns the house down and gets sacked, Ledley can take the head spot. He was a hell of a captain.

 

[soccerdad]

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/budwei...o-the-160-keepers-he-scored-on-165855125.html

 

[Qhrumphf]

Gonna resurrect this one for a minute to vent.

I didn't think anything could make me abandon Tottenham Hotspur after 30 odd years of support. Jose Mourinho football is bad (so so f***ing bad) but not enough.

This Super League has me peering over the edge. This is disgusting and if they charge ahead with it as they seem to, unforgivable.

May be supporting my hometown Bristol City full time now I suppose.

 

[Qhrumphf]

This is going to destroy football, worldwide.

 

[skraeling]

At some point I will make it to Europe and will see an EPL and or a Bundesliga game.. I would find that a rare treat as a north American.

 

[soccerdad]

This is going to destroy football, worldwide.

I assume you have no objection to the Mourinho sacking. His whole staff. Will Spurs start to play to their potential with the Boring Boy gone?

 

[Qhrumphf]

That was some good news to wake up to but not in the light of yesterday's announcement.

I made a promise that if Spurs follow through with the Super League they're dead to me. I intend to stand by that. I hope they (and the other clubs involved) listen to their supporters and change course while they still can.

 

[soccerdad]

I don't see how they can do the super league. A player (and a coach) on a good team that gets in tournaments like CL, plays maybe 75 games a year, not counting national team play. Have they agreed to play another 10 to 20? And at what price?

 

[Qhrumphf]

It would, in theory, supplant the Champions League. So participating clubs would do this instead of Champions League or Europa. It f***s all the smaller leagues since only 5 additional clubs can qualify for this, so they have no shot and if UEFA continues UCL all the big viewership clubs will be gone and the big TV money with it.

 

[Birrofilo]

I am a Juventus supporter. I am very glad of this news, although I have no idea how much success it will have. Great clubs like PSV or Bayern will not accept to enter the competition on a qualification basis, while the others are guaranteed a place in the league forever. I think it will end up in a 20-25 close tournament, or even a 15 close tournament. After a few years, IF the formula has success, then it will be possible to open to entrants on a qualification basis.

I don't see anything wrong in this. A football club can adhere to a federation, or not adhere, or adhere to another federation, and it can also play in two federations, or in a federation and in a private tournament. People are born free.

At the moment nor FIGC nor UEFA have exclusivity clauses. Nowhere it is written that a club cannot engage in competitions outside the federal ones. Rules can change, but with due procedure, and not overnight by the decision of a couple persons. The 15 clubs have already sent a letter to UEFA intimating to abstain from illegal decisions.

I suppose that, if really UEFA goes on with their attitude, the Superleague will become a round-robin tournament. If the UEFA steps back, as it is likely, then the Superleague will possibly be a faster tournament, or the 15 clubs will just send the "second team" to the UEFA competitions.

The European Championship and the World Championship will, in theory, see a large part of the best players of the planet missing the competition IF UEFA expels the Superleague players. Not something that FIFA wants, ultimately. Try to explain to football enthusiasts that Ronaldo and Messi cannot play the world championship because they play in a private tournament...

I think there will be a lot of barking and no biting from UEFA and the federations.

This reminds me what happened in the Chess championship. From one organization (and a clear "world champion") to a splitting of federations. Chess remains a wonderful game though.

 

[Qhrumphf]

Let's call it what it is. It's a Coup D'Etat.

 

[soccerdad]

A coup against FIFA isn't a bad thing. FIFA blows. But tournaments where you merely buy your way in will not cut it.

 

[Qhrumphf]

Oh FIFA and UEFA are far from innocent victims. It's the small clubs, including in England Spain and Italy, and the supporters everywhere who are the victims.

 

[Kharnynb]

and chelsea and city are already trying to leave, the backlash is huge from supporters and national league associations, this is dead in the water.

 

[Qhrumphf]

Oh the collapse is glorious.

Sounds like Woodward and Agnelli have resigned over it. Hopefully Levy does the same.

 

[Qhrumphf]

(the Agnelli resignation disputed for the record)

 

[Qhrumphf]

City the first to officially confirm they've withdrawn