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zeo
Profile Joined October 2009
Serbia6336 Posts
February 24 2015 17:40 GMT
#11701
On February 25 2015 02:10 Rebs wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 25 2015 02:09 Micro_Jackson wrote:
Lets go Australia, lets go UEFA Champions League, lets go leagues, lets go clubs. Lets sue the shit out if FIFA. For denying you chances because of "its too hot in the Australian summer", for shreding all shedules (no boxing day is huge) and for making the years around that redicules in terms of transfer windows.


Uhmmm, Australian summer is like Nov/Dec to Jan/Feb. Did someone really make that argument ?

But you can play football in Australia no problem during Australian winter.
"No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot." - Mark Twain
sharkie
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Austria18590 Posts
February 24 2015 17:41 GMT
#11702
On February 25 2015 01:36 Greg_J wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 25 2015 01:29 sharkie wrote:
What a huge farce by all.

Each and every club and national league would have the power to take out their teams/club players out of this WC to protest against it. But no one has done, no one even threatened Fifa with it.
I love how Rummenige is one of the one whining about it when it's known that he has tons of friends in Qatar lol.

This time Qatar bribed the others enough that everyone will be fine with the 2022 Qatar. Football is becoming more and more a joke.

I don't think clubs do have this power. WestHham where fined for playing one of their players when he claimed to be too injurred to play in the African Cup of Nations


On February 25 2015 01:49 Skynx wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 25 2015 01:36 Greg_J wrote:
On February 25 2015 01:29 sharkie wrote:
What a huge farce by all.

Each and every club and national league would have the power to take out their teams/club players out of this WC to protest against it. But no one has done, no one even threatened Fifa with it.
I love how Rummenige is one of the one whining about it when it's known that he has tons of friends in Qatar lol.

This time Qatar bribed the others enough that everyone will be fine with the 2022 Qatar. Football is becoming more and more a joke.

I don't think clubs do have this power. WestHham where fined for playing one of their players when he claimed to be too injurred to play in the African Cup of Nations

Clubs are fined like mad even if they think about not sending a player on national duty, it falls on national FA's tbh.


FIFA can fine all they want. If the big clubs were to boycott the WC FIFA would bow to their wishes.
But all the big clubs are bribed as hell.

They all love Qatar.
Pandemona *
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
February 24 2015 17:46 GMT
#11703
Matic Ban reduced to 2 games

However...Chelsea are pissed!

The Chelsea Football Club Board is extremely disappointed and frustrated that the FA Regulatory Commission has today decided not to reduce Nemanja Matic’s suspension to the maximum extent permitted under FA rules.


Haha, this is far from over :D Chelsea going full crazy mode. Im guessing they wanted it reduced to 1. Oh well

Better than 3
ModeratorTeam Liquid Football Thread Guru! - Chelsea FC ♥
Rebs
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Pakistan10726 Posts
February 24 2015 18:05 GMT
#11704
On February 25 2015 02:40 zeo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 25 2015 02:10 Rebs wrote:
On February 25 2015 02:09 Micro_Jackson wrote:
Lets go Australia, lets go UEFA Champions League, lets go leagues, lets go clubs. Lets sue the shit out if FIFA. For denying you chances because of "its too hot in the Australian summer", for shreding all shedules (no boxing day is huge) and for making the years around that redicules in terms of transfer windows.


Uhmmm, Australian summer is like Nov/Dec to Jan/Feb. Did someone really make that argument ?

But you can play football in Australia no problem during Australian winter.


Yeah no shit dude.

I was just curious if someone actually made that argument because it would be monumentally stupid.
zeo
Profile Joined October 2009
Serbia6336 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-02-24 18:26:15
February 24 2015 18:21 GMT
#11705
On February 25 2015 03:05 Rebs wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 25 2015 02:40 zeo wrote:
On February 25 2015 02:10 Rebs wrote:
On February 25 2015 02:09 Micro_Jackson wrote:
Lets go Australia, lets go UEFA Champions League, lets go leagues, lets go clubs. Lets sue the shit out if FIFA. For denying you chances because of "its too hot in the Australian summer", for shreding all shedules (no boxing day is huge) and for making the years around that redicules in terms of transfer windows.


Uhmmm, Australian summer is like Nov/Dec to Jan/Feb. Did someone really make that argument ?

But you can play football in Australia no problem during Australian winter.


Yeah no shit dude.

I was just curious if someone actually made that argument because it would be monumentally stupid.

Oh, ok. It doesn't really matter if any argument make sense or not, all that matter is 'how much money can FIFA make'. I can see how Russia won the bid for 2018, it has a well established football infrastructure and the investments the Russian government makes will help bring football in that country to a higher level. And of course FIFA can make a nice profit.

Qatar on the other hand... 86,250 seat stadium, another 70k seat stadium and another 10 40-50k seat stadiums. Really? The average attendance for the Qatar first league: 5,073 (mostly people payed to go watch/cheer for a team)

At least if the US won there would have been 12 world class stadiums with over 70,000 seats already built. Not to mention the US needs another football fever injection.
"No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot." - Mark Twain
Sermokala
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States14104 Posts
February 24 2015 18:46 GMT
#11706
On February 25 2015 03:21 zeo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 25 2015 03:05 Rebs wrote:
On February 25 2015 02:40 zeo wrote:
On February 25 2015 02:10 Rebs wrote:
On February 25 2015 02:09 Micro_Jackson wrote:
Lets go Australia, lets go UEFA Champions League, lets go leagues, lets go clubs. Lets sue the shit out if FIFA. For denying you chances because of "its too hot in the Australian summer", for shreding all shedules (no boxing day is huge) and for making the years around that redicules in terms of transfer windows.


Uhmmm, Australian summer is like Nov/Dec to Jan/Feb. Did someone really make that argument ?

But you can play football in Australia no problem during Australian winter.


Yeah no shit dude.

I was just curious if someone actually made that argument because it would be monumentally stupid.

Oh, ok. It doesn't really matter if any argument make sense or not, all that matter is 'how much money can FIFA make'. I can see how Russia won the bid for 2018, it has a well established football infrastructure and the investments the Russian government makes will help bring football in that country to a higher level. And of course FIFA can make a nice profit.

Qatar on the other hand... 86,250 seat stadium, another 70k seat stadium and another 10 40-50k seat stadiums. Really? The average attendance for the Qatar first league: 5,073 (mostly people payed to go watch/cheer for a team)

At least if the US won there would have been 12 world class stadiums with over 70,000 seats already built. Not to mention the US needs another football fever injection.

the problem with most of the fields in the USA is the grass. American football fields use astro turf and tend to have covered roofs where real grass can't grow. The tech to have turf on the same level as what FIFA wants is different to the specifications that American football wants.

Then again the tech might catch up in a decade or 2 when the USA might get the world cup.
A wise man will say that he knows nothing. We're gona party like its 2752 Hail Dark Brandon
NuclearJudas
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
6546 Posts
February 24 2015 18:49 GMT
#11707
On February 25 2015 02:46 Pandemona wrote:
Matic Ban reduced to 2 games

However...Chelsea are pissed!

The Chelsea Football Club Board is extremely disappointed and frustrated that the FA Regulatory Commission has today decided not to reduce Nemanja Matic’s suspension to the maximum extent permitted under FA rules.


Haha, this is far from over :D Chelsea going full crazy mode. Im guessing they wanted it reduced to 1. Oh well

Better than 3

Giroud gets 3 matches for looking sternly at an opponent (squaring up), but Matic has his reduced for two when he intentionally bowled Barnes over? The FA are such a fucking joke.
Life is like Tetris. Your errors pile up but your accomplishments disappear. - Robert Ohlén | http://railroaddiary.wordpress.com/ - My words about stuff.
Rebs
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Pakistan10726 Posts
February 24 2015 18:57 GMT
#11708
On February 25 2015 03:49 NuclearJudas wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 25 2015 02:46 Pandemona wrote:
Matic Ban reduced to 2 games

However...Chelsea are pissed!

The Chelsea Football Club Board is extremely disappointed and frustrated that the FA Regulatory Commission has today decided not to reduce Nemanja Matic’s suspension to the maximum extent permitted under FA rules.


Haha, this is far from over :D Chelsea going full crazy mode. Im guessing they wanted it reduced to 1. Oh well

Better than 3

Giroud gets 3 matches for looking sternly at an opponent (squaring up), but Matic has his reduced for two when he intentionally bowled Barnes over? The FA are such a fucking joke.


Some "Mou magic" from the FA.
Micro_Jackson
Profile Joined August 2011
Germany2002 Posts
February 24 2015 19:00 GMT
#11709
On February 25 2015 03:05 Rebs wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 25 2015 02:40 zeo wrote:
On February 25 2015 02:10 Rebs wrote:
On February 25 2015 02:09 Micro_Jackson wrote:
Lets go Australia, lets go UEFA Champions League, lets go leagues, lets go clubs. Lets sue the shit out if FIFA. For denying you chances because of "its too hot in the Australian summer", for shreding all shedules (no boxing day is huge) and for making the years around that redicules in terms of transfer windows.


Uhmmm, Australian summer is like Nov/Dec to Jan/Feb. Did someone really make that argument ?

But you can play football in Australia no problem during Australian winter.


Yeah no shit dude.

I was just curious if someone actually made that argument because it would be monumentally stupid.


Maybe it was just me beeing monumentally stupid. I have it in my head that the climate was an argument against Australia but honestly i cant find any sources on that.
Or maybe i mixed it up with the +10 hours to europe or the lack of black money.
Ferrose
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States11378 Posts
February 24 2015 19:51 GMT
#11710
On February 25 2015 03:49 NuclearJudas wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 25 2015 02:46 Pandemona wrote:
Matic Ban reduced to 2 games

However...Chelsea are pissed!

The Chelsea Football Club Board is extremely disappointed and frustrated that the FA Regulatory Commission has today decided not to reduce Nemanja Matic’s suspension to the maximum extent permitted under FA rules.


Haha, this is far from over :D Chelsea going full crazy mode. Im guessing they wanted it reduced to 1. Oh well

Better than 3

Giroud gets 3 matches for looking sternly at an opponent (squaring up), but Matic has his reduced for two when he intentionally bowled Barnes over? The FA are such a fucking joke.


It's because Wenger doesn't have a persecution complex and doesn't have to throw a fit every time he doesn't get his way. Arsenal didn't even appeal Giroud's suspension.

That said, it's still of course impossible to take the FA seriously. The reasoning for reducing Matic's punishment seems very arbitrary...
@113candlemagic Office lady by day, lonely woman at night. | Official lolicon of thread 94273
Melliflue
Profile Joined October 2012
United Kingdom1389 Posts
February 24 2015 21:00 GMT
#11711
On February 25 2015 04:51 Ferrose wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 25 2015 03:49 NuclearJudas wrote:
On February 25 2015 02:46 Pandemona wrote:
Matic Ban reduced to 2 games

However...Chelsea are pissed!

The Chelsea Football Club Board is extremely disappointed and frustrated that the FA Regulatory Commission has today decided not to reduce Nemanja Matic’s suspension to the maximum extent permitted under FA rules.


Haha, this is far from over :D Chelsea going full crazy mode. Im guessing they wanted it reduced to 1. Oh well

Better than 3

Giroud gets 3 matches for looking sternly at an opponent (squaring up), but Matic has his reduced for two when he intentionally bowled Barnes over? The FA are such a fucking joke.


It's because Wenger doesn't have a persecution complex and doesn't have to throw a fit every time he doesn't get his way. Arsenal didn't even appeal Giroud's suspension.

That said, it's still of course impossible to take the FA seriously. The reasoning for reducing Matic's punishment seems very arbitrary...

Giroud pushed his head into another player's head. You can't do that. He deserved a red card for it. The difference between Matic and Giroud is that Matic was reacting to a tackle that could have left him seriously injured whereas Giroud was reacting to a push in the back. Matic's reaction was far more understandable. And yeah, I think provocation has to be taken into account when dealing with player reactions. Then again, maybe if Arsenal had appealed they would also have been able to get Giroud's suspension reduced to 2 games. I don't know.

(Btw, I'm a West Brom fan and I think Chelsea get a lot of stick in the media who often portray them as villains. I am not convinced the referees are out for them though, but neither am I convinced that Mourinho holds special sway over the FA. But that was a truly terrible game by Martin Atkinson. The standard of refereeing has been awful all season, sadly.)
gDPhantom
Profile Joined January 2015
New Zealand162 Posts
February 24 2015 21:18 GMT
#11712
jesus clichy, why even go for that kind of challenge when youre on a yellow in such a big game?

Utter Stupidity. Probably just lost his team the chance at an equalizer.
YNWA
Pandemona *
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
February 24 2015 21:39 GMT
#11713
On February 25 2015 06:18 gDPhantom wrote:
jesus clichy, why even go for that kind of challenge when youre on a yellow in such a big game?

Utter Stupidity. Probably just lost his team the chance at an equalizer.


http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/sports/464249-champions-league-and-europa-league-2014-15-thread

Try to use this for Champs/Europa league please my friend :D
ModeratorTeam Liquid Football Thread Guru! - Chelsea FC ♥
gDPhantom
Profile Joined January 2015
New Zealand162 Posts
February 24 2015 21:52 GMT
#11714
On February 25 2015 06:39 Pandemona wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 25 2015 06:18 gDPhantom wrote:
jesus clichy, why even go for that kind of challenge when youre on a yellow in such a big game?

Utter Stupidity. Probably just lost his team the chance at an equalizer.


http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/sports/464249-champions-league-and-europa-league-2014-15-thread

Try to use this for Champs/Europa league please my friend :D

oh sorry, whats this thread for then? it has champions league in the OP of this thread so im confused
YNWA
Sermokala
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States14104 Posts
February 25 2015 01:10 GMT
#11715
On February 25 2015 06:52 gDPhantom wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 25 2015 06:39 Pandemona wrote:
On February 25 2015 06:18 gDPhantom wrote:
jesus clichy, why even go for that kind of challenge when youre on a yellow in such a big game?

Utter Stupidity. Probably just lost his team the chance at an equalizer.


http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/sports/464249-champions-league-and-europa-league-2014-15-thread

Try to use this for Champs/Europa league please my friend :D

oh sorry, whats this thread for then? it has champions league in the OP of this thread so im confused

This is for general footballing activities like transfers and the leagues.
A wise man will say that he knows nothing. We're gona party like its 2752 Hail Dark Brandon
Pandemona *
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
February 25 2015 08:44 GMT
#11716
On February 25 2015 06:52 gDPhantom wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 25 2015 06:39 Pandemona wrote:
On February 25 2015 06:18 gDPhantom wrote:
jesus clichy, why even go for that kind of challenge when youre on a yellow in such a big game?

Utter Stupidity. Probably just lost his team the chance at an equalizer.


http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/sports/464249-champions-league-and-europa-league-2014-15-thread

Try to use this for Champs/Europa league please my friend :D

oh sorry, whats this thread for then? it has champions league in the OP of this thread so im confused

The op has links, the banner for Champs/Europa are links and u click and takes u to the thread :D
ModeratorTeam Liquid Football Thread Guru! - Chelsea FC ♥
Skynx
Profile Blog Joined January 2013
Turkey7150 Posts
February 25 2015 12:21 GMT
#11717
This is where people discuss Messi vs Ronaldo or how bad Dortmund is. Welcome my friend.
"When seagulls follow the troller, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea. Thank you very much" - King Cantona | STX 4 eva
haitike
Profile Joined June 2009
Spain2724 Posts
February 25 2015 13:21 GMT
#11718
On February 25 2015 21:21 Skynx wrote:
This is where people discuss Messi vs Ronaldo or how bad Dortmund is. Welcome my friend.


+ Pandemonia Chealsea stuff, M.United VanGaal fail and Qatar WC hate.
smr
Profile Joined April 2011
Germany4808 Posts
February 25 2015 14:13 GMT
#11719
+ mls tweets
Greg_J
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
China4409 Posts
February 25 2015 14:37 GMT
#11720
And every now and then I rant about Exeter City and no one listens to me.
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