Football (Soccer) Thread

[Josephus]

Do you think this will be getting coverage on sports news if the Chelsea doctor wasn't a woman...and hot?

http://www.espnfc.us/chelsea/story/2781310/eva-carneiro-dismissal-case-vs-chelsea-goes-to-full-tribunal

So that this discrimination case is getting attention is discrimination? Primarily I think this gets attention because of the well known douchebaggery that is Mourinho.

I think Mourinhio plays a key part. I'm just arguing though that if the team doctor was a 40-year-old bloke it wouldn't get half the attention.

[Liep]

Do you think this will be getting coverage on sports news if the Chelsea doctor wasn't a woman...and hot?

http://www.espnfc.us/chelsea/story/2781310/eva-carneiro-dismissal-case-vs-chelsea-goes-to-full-tribunal

So that this discrimination case is getting attention is discrimination? Primarily I think this gets attention because of the well known douchebaggery that is Mourinho.

I think Mourinhio plays a key part. I'm just arguing though that if the team doctor was a 40-year-old bloke it wouldn't get half the attention.

The whole point is to find out if she has been treated the same way as a 40 year old bloke would've or not. It's news because she's a woman and there's not many of them in the Premier League, so you're right in that.

[Liep]

Who will throw away their title chance first: Arsenal or Leicester?

[Pedrito]

Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid will be barred to do any buying for the next two market sessions: they made some illegal signings of underage players.

L.

[Josephus]

Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid will be barred to do any buying for the next two market sessions: they made some illegal signings of underage players.

L.

REal Madrid are having all sorts of back office issues this year.

[Josquius]

Sunderland have gone two games without being a total embarrassment

Yesterday's referee though. .... it was some amateur brought in at the last moment when mariner (also crap) fell ill.
Jesus that guy. Gave Swansea a penalty when their player kicked the ground and fell over and then to make up for it sent one of their players off for no reason.

No. Weren't they crying sexism from the moment she was sacked?

Who are 'they'?

The press.

[katmai]

Everton!
Chelsea

[Liep]

Everton!
Chelsea

Too soon.

[katmai]

Yes indeed.

[katmai]

Everton was rubbed!

[Alcibiades]

[Liep]

Eriksen scores twice by deflected shots and Danish press goes apeshit. We really need better players so the papers don't have to focus so much on our only star.

[Josquius]

Today results were all round

[Zanza]

Uli Hoeness will be released from prison (for tax fraud) end of February. He had made Bayern into the club they are today between 1979 and 2014 (when he was arrested). Will be interesting to see if he will come back into a more public role. As part of his rehabilitation he had already been allowed to work with Bayern's youth team.

[Syt]

I've always liked Uli Hoeneß. He's a dickwad for committing tax fraud, but as you say - he turned Bayern into what the club is today and laid a foundation where they're one of the financially strongest and most solid clubs in Europe's top tier.

And his interviews were always funny, often in an arrogant way, but he would rarely bullshit. I particularly recall when Christoph Daum was tagged as future German team coach, and Hoeneß stepped forward saying that with Daum's history of drug abuse this would be an inappropriate decision. Daum rejected the claims, and the general public immediately sided with him. Eventually Daum did a drug test which indeed came back positive.