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Football Thread |OT16| Bacon & Dregs

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demented

Member
Montenegro still first, next game vs England here in Podgorica gonna be great, whoever wins gonna be first :)

Now to find a ticket for that game...
 
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Broder Salsa

Banned
I feel bad for Cech, but no one can handle the Cornelius.
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What a goal.
 
choodi

choodi

Banned
Holy shit, not sure if anyone posted this before, but I have to say that this sums up the 2022 world cup bid process and decision perfectly.

The whole situation leaves a bitter taste in my mouth, and now watching all this Qatari money flow to the usual corrupt suspects, it sickens me even more.

http://www.lifesapitch.co.uk/opinions/you-can-only-laugh-at-fifas-handling-of-the-2022-world-cup/

There comes a point where it is no longer possible to be angry with Fifa. Outrage is a finite resource and the well has run dry. All you can do now is sit back and laugh uproariously at the mess they have made of the 2022 World Cup.

Officially, Fifa insisted this week that the tournament will take place in Qatar in the summer. However, Fifa’s president Sepp Blatter has said that “you cannot possibly play football there” in the summer. Fifa’s general secretary Jérôme Valcke said three weeks ago that Fifa would have to think about moving it to the winter. Fifa said this week, once again officially, that Qatar has to decide to move it to the winter.

Qatar, according to Blatter, don’t want to suggest moving it to the winter, because that would invite a legal challenge from bid rivals Australia and the US, who are still understandably rather miffed that Fifa invited them to tender for a ‘summer’ tournament and then gave it to a nation where you couldn’t possibly play football in the summer.

Even if everyone decided to move it to the winter, the Premier League have said that they are strongly opposed to having their season messed up. Well, officially that’s what they said. Premier League chairman Dave Richards has said that he thinks it should be moved to the winter too, but he’s leaving soon and has a history of going off message and then falling into water features, so make of that what you will.

It’s an extraordinarily complicated clusterfudge and it’s going to be very entertaining watching them struggle with it for the next nine years. It’s even more entertaining when you consider how ludicrous it was to award the tournament to Qatar in the first place.

This may come as something of a surprise to Fifa committee members, but Qatar has always been very hot in the summer. This is not a new development. In fact, the innate ‘hotness’ of the country was specifically mentioned in the FIFA technical reports.

Qatar has promised to air-condition the stadiums, a move as friendly to the environment as a swift kick in the swingers. But what about the supporters outside the stadium? In 50 degree heat, where are hundreds of thousands of football fans going to go? Where are they going to get water? And what will happen if, as Richards so memorably put it, they say that they would like to go for a pint, and that pint is a pint of beer? They’ll be dehydrating in their thousands.

There has been much talk of man-made clouds, presumably using the same technology pioneered by Donald Sutherland in the video for Kate Bush’s Cloudbusting, but by this point most rational human beings might conclude that it was all getting out of hand. Unfortunately, rational human beings don’t appear to sit on the Fifa executive committee.

If they did, they would have noticed the incompatibility of Fifa’s ‘fight’ against discrimination and their decision to award the World Cup to a nation where homosexuality is illegal.

A rational human being might have questioned why the World Cup was being given to a nation with no credible history or future as a hotbed of football.

A rational human being might have asked why the World Cup was being given to a nation with a population of less than 2million, the majority of whom are impoverished migrant workers who couldn’t afford to buy an official soft drink at a game, let alone a ticket.
A rational human being would have scrapped this folly a long time ago and awarded the tournament to Australia or the US.

Fifa, it seems, is no home for rational thought. Until it is, all you can do is laugh.
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keit4

Banned
The draw is the best result. Now the team will play under pressure against France, and Spain under pressure is the best Spain.
 
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3Sixty

Member
Jermaine Defoe International goals.

Andorra :4
Bulgaria :3
San Marino :2
Trinidad & Tobago :2
Holland :2
Slovenia :2
Poland :1
Kazakhstan: 1
Moldova :1
Italy:1

#Elite
 
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