2016 - 2017 Football Thread - Page 45

On September 25 2016 07:12 DucK- wrote:
Like the always say, Chelsea in 2014/15 didn't win the title. They were gifted it because everyone was so shit and they were just less shit. How Cahill, matic and ivanovic continues to keep their place is beyond me. This team is hella unbalanced. Midfield can't dominate, wingers (except hazard) can't threaten, defence just get split open so easily. Most of our flair players are quite bad actually

On September 25 2016 12:56 Dante08 wrote:


It was kinda the same for Leicester last season too..

On September 25 2016 13:05 DucK- wrote:


Difference was that Leicester played good. Chelsea played good only for first half, and utter trash in the second. Leicester won through merit, helped by challengers underperforming.

On September 26 2016 10:27 Dante08 wrote:


Leicester didnt really play that wel they had alot of 1-0 games where they just defended most of the game, similar tp Chelsea.

Anyway what is up with West Ham? 7th place last season, moved to a 60,000 stadium and now 18th place.

Fifa has disbanded its anti-racism task force, declaring the work complete despite ongoing concerns about discriminatory behaviour in Russia, the hosts of the 2018 World Cup.

Fifa has written to members of the task force to say that it has “completely fulfilled its temporary mission” and “is hereby dissolved and no longer in operation.”

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The task force was established in 2013 by then-Fifa President Sepp Blatter and headed by Jeffrey Webb, a vice-president of world soccer’s governing body until he was arrested in 2015 as part of the American investigation into corruption in football.

Webb, who pleaded guilty to racketeering charges, was replaced exactly a year ago as the task force chairman by the Congolese federation president, Constant Omari, who also sits on Fifa’s ruling council.

“We never had a single meeting under his chairmanship,” Obayiuwana said. “I wrote [to] him, more than once, asking for when a meeting would be held. But I never received a reply from him.”

On September 26 2016 23:36 zeo wrote:
Taskforce in an organization like FIFA is just a codeword for made up positions, so that they can have an excuse to give themselves obscene paychecks for doing basically nothing.

'You see, I make 10 million euro a year because I'm on the 'Board of Grass Length Regulations', an advisor to the Director of Anti-swearing in Womens football crowds' as well a position on an anti-racism taskforce.'

'Yeah, its really hard work! Sorry, I have to go to Aruba for the weekend.... for work reasons...'

On September 27 2016 00:34 Rebs wrote:


While I feel the same way, I think without some kind of evidence saying something like this is unfairly disparaging to anyone who might actually be doing good work.

But I guess disparaging people willy nilly is Mou 101 so his fans cant be much different.

And frankly thats not even the the point. The point is that the action itself implies that they dont want to acknowledge the problem. If they are removing the taskforce because its stupid and some other corrective actions are planned, fine.

But if they think there is no problem, then we have an even bigger problem then just racism in football.

Webb, who pleaded guilty to racketeering charges, was replaced exactly a year ago as the task force chairman by the Congolese federation president, Constant Omari, who also sits on Fifa’s ruling council.

“We never had a single meeting under his chairmanship,” Obayiuwana said. “I wrote [to] him, more than once, asking for when a meeting would be held. But I never received a reply from him.”