Football (Soccer) Thread

[The Larch]

Everybody should be happy. The next few weeks would be absolutely unbearable over here. Now we'll get plenty of merengue drama, though.

[celedhring]

My schadenfreude counter is over 9000 at the moment, watching Spanish late night footie shows.

[Josephus]

Sorry for the outburst, it's a pet peeve of mine.

No problem. Lesson learned.

[celedhring]

Sorry for the outburst, it's a pet peeve of mine.

We call it "El Clàssic" over here 

[Liep]

My schadenfreude counter is over 9000 at the moment, watching Spanish late night footie shows.

The Spanish sports papers sure know how to write about failure.

[The Larch]

Spanish sport rags dial it up to 12 on ocasions like these.

[Pedrito]

Good prevails.

It's still an Italian team. Lawful Neutral at best, imho.

I wouldn't define Lawful a team that was sent in Serie B following Calciopoli.

L.

[Liep]

Good prevails.

It's still an Italian team. Lawful Neutral at best, imho.

I wouldn't define Lawful a team that was sent in Serie B following Calciopoli.

L.

As a baseline we must assume that all Italian teams cheat, and so we can't fault Juventus more just because they got caught.

[The Larch]

With Moggi in charge it can be argued that they were Neutral Evil at that time.

[celedhring]

Champions 

[Liep]

So Xavi is moving to Qatar. I really, really want to see his pay check. He's one of those players who deserves a few quiet seasons while earning ridiculous money before he gets chewed up by fans and media once he starts coaching.

[celedhring]

So Xavi is moving to Qatar. I really, really want to see his pay check. He's one of those players who deserves a few quiet seasons while earning ridiculous money before he gets chewed up by fans and media once he starts coaching.

He reportedly gets less per season than at Barça, but with a longer contract.

And yes, we love to overhype and then eat and spit out our legends over here.

[Liep]

He reportedly gets less per season than at Barça, but with a longer contract.

With 0% tax I'm sure.

[The Larch]

So Xavi is moving to Qatar. I really, really want to see his pay check. He's one of those players who deserves a few quiet seasons while earning ridiculous money before he gets chewed up by fans and media once he starts coaching.

He reportedly gets less per season than at Barça, but with a longer contract.

And yes, we love to overhype and then eat and spit out our legends over here.

Over/under on how long it'll take him to coach Barcelona?

[celedhring]

So Xavi is moving to Qatar. I really, really want to see his pay check. He's one of those players who deserves a few quiet seasons while earning ridiculous money before he gets chewed up by fans and media once he starts coaching.

He reportedly gets less per season than at Barça, but with a longer contract.

And yes, we love to overhype and then eat and spit out our legends over here.

Over/under on how long it'll take him to coach Barcelona?

Two consecutive second place finishes. Three at best.