Football (Soccer) Thread

[Sheilbh]

Arsenal fans: what is happening?

[FunkMonk]

Arsenal fans: what is happening?

[FunkMonk]

The short version: players are bad, shockingly poor transfers over last several seasons, Arteta is new at this and probably doesn't have the toolset yet to manage this crisis, club management structure has been chaotic since Wenger left, and it seems the dressing room is in revolt.

[Admiral Yi]

Aubameyang needs to get a new do.

[Duque de Bragança]

Round of 16 Champions' League:

Borussia Mönchengladbach-Manchester City

Lázio-Bayern

Atlético de Madrid-Chelsea

RB Lípsia-Liverpool

FC Porto-Juventus

Barcelona-PSG (! Remontada?!)

Sevilha-Borussia Dortmund

Atalanta-Real Madrid


Europa League Round of 32

Wolfsberger AC - Tottenham

FC Krasnodar -Dínamo Zagreb

Young Boys Bern - Bayer Leverkusen

Molde FK -Hoffenheim

Granada CF - Napoli

Maccabi Tel Aviv - Chakhtior Donetsk

Lille - Ajax Amsterdam

Olympiakos -PSV Eindhoven

Dynamo Kiev - Club Bruges

Real Sociedad -Manchester United

Ben fica Al-Ushbona - Arsenal

Red Star Belgrado -AC Milão

Royal Antuérpia - Glasgow Rangers

Slavia Praga - Leicester

RB Salzburgo - Villarreal

Braga - AS Roma


Toponyms/Exonyms should be pretty easy to figure out. 

[Maladict]

Toponyms/Exonyms should be pretty easy to figure out. 

Exonyms are fascinating. Why does Leipzig get one in Portuguese? Apart from being unpronouncable 

[The Larch]

Lipsia? Really?

[Threviel]

Lisbon is Al-Uschbona?

[Tamas]

Arsenal fans: what is happening?

[Sheilbh]

Arsenal fans: what is happening?

I have a Spurs fan who was sending me screenshots of AFTV and the moment "Big Sam" started trending.

[FunkMonk]

Arsenal fans: what is happening?

https://twitter.com/arseblog/status/1338228789378158595

[Maladict]

Lisbon is Al-Uschbona?

That's just Duque's islamophobia.

[Duque de Bragança]

Lipsia? Really?

Same as in Italian, Italians use it even more often (medieval latinisation). Hell, Augsburgo is Augusta for them (Augusta Vindelicorum). I guess it fell into disuse in Castilian. Wiki, which loves archaic exonyms, says precisely it's archaic castillan.
Lípsia is not as common as it used to be, despite being such a nice sounding-one.

French still uses Lipsiens for Leipzigers...
OTOH, all latin language as a variation of of Colonia (Claudia Ara Agripinensis)

Göteborg, being the sole North Sea outlet of Sweden for a long time has the still commonly used Gotemburgo. An adaptation, more than a true exonym.

PS: somewhat disappointed Italians say Weser and not Visurgo (Visurgis in Latin).  

[Duque de Bragança]

Lisbon is Al-Uschbona?

That's just Duque's islamophobia.

Ushbona, not the German spelling of the Arabic exonym, bitte.
LULZ that's a reminder to Lisboetes, namely Benfica fans, who think Portugal begins and only exist through Benfica (real name is Sport Lisboa e Benfica SLB in short), the other common one is reminding Benfica fans of their Régime club status under Salazar. Would not trigger so much wokes around here I guess. 

[Duque de Bragança]

Toponyms/Exonyms should be pretty easy to figure out. 

Exonyms are fascinating. Why does Leipzig get one in Portuguese? Apart from being unpronouncable 

Hard to pronounce indeed, but still falling slowing into disuse.