Football (Soccer) Thread

[FunkMonk]

£115m Enzo missing a penalty for Chelsea and £115m Caicedo giving a penalty away

£230m to lose to West Ham with 10 men

If football gods exist they are smiling

https://twitter.com/Rory_Talks_Ball/status/1693315004513067033?s=20

 

[HVC]

Guess Vilda was vindicated. 13 minutes was way too much extra time. I know there was a penalty review but when I see that much time I assume FIFA had a prefered winner and Spain wasn't it.

On the contrary it's great to see injury time actually represent the time wasted.
That was an agonisingly dull second half with so much dead time

Weren't you just complaining that the wrexham second half was too exciting

[HVC]

Poor England

It's never coming home.

It's almost comforting, isn't it

[Sheilbh]

It's almost comforting, isn't it

Reminds me of when I decided to follow Everton Women more - they had a pretty decent reputation and the men's team were particularly torrid at the time.

Immediately dragged into a relegation fight

[Josquius]

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It's almost comforting, isn't it

Reminds me of when I decided to follow Everton Women more - they had a pretty decent reputation and the men's team were particularly torrid at the time.

Immediately dragged into a relegation fight

Try Sunderland women. From one of the top teams in the country to knocked down two divisions due to a failing to do some paperwork /to make way for more glamorous teams suddenly deciding they cared about women's teams.

[Threviel]

Great tournament by Spain, they played the most entertaining football of the tournament.

Must be conflicting for Spaniards, they did win and that is good, but they did not bore everyone to tears so it's very much an un-Spanish type of win.

[Josephus]

Try Sunderland women.

I will if I ever get out there. Right now Sunderland is 365th in cities of the world I'd like to visit.

[celedhring]

Looks like our FA president is in dire straits after that unsolicited kiss to one of the players during the celebration and comments inside the dressing room. His manoeuvering behind the scenes to defuse the situation (i.e. allegedly pressuring the player and the team captain to publicly say it was not a big deal) has made things worse. The player has now called (through the players' union) for punishment.

He's a corrupt arsehole (like his predecessor) so good riddance if it happens - but I doubt it.

[Tamas]

I like the huge contrast between how a lot of people like to view football as some moral/value driven thing (like they do with most sports) and the fact that it is a consistent stream of scumbags who rise to the leadership of the sport.

[celedhring]

Ok, several media now reporting that he's quitting. Today FIFA announced that they'd be investigating him, and when you're too toxic even for FIFA...

Good riddance, although I expect whomever replaces him will be another crook.

[Josquius]

Really sad for the team their victory seems to have become all about this

[Sheilbh]

Ok, several media now reporting that he's quitting. Today FIFA announced that they'd be investigating him, and when you're too toxic even for FIFA...

Good riddance, although I expect whomever replaces him will be another crook.

Turns out he's not. The clips are wild.

[FunkMonk]

Wtf is happening with the Spanish FA

[celedhring]

Yeah, it was a truly WTF moment. The speech was unhinged, shades of that Wolf of Wall Street scene where he's about to quit to avoid prosecution but he's so coked up he reverses his decision on the spot.

Anyway, the Spanish government - through the Spanish Sports Council - is taking up the matter to the sports courts.

[FunkMonk]

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/aug/26/spain-football-federation-threatens-to-sue-protesting-female-players

The Spanish football federation has threatened to sue Jenni Hermoso, the player at the centre of a row over its president's conduct, for lying and defamation.

It has also threatened to sue the 79 women's football players who signed a letter in which they refused to play for their country as long as Rubiales remained in his post.

In a statement, the federation said that it would take the "necessary legal action" and told the players that "playing for the national team is an obligation on any member of the federation called upon to do so".

...

The federation reproduced a series of still photographs of the incident that it claims show that Hermoso lifted Rubiales off his feet and was not only willing but an instigator of the kiss.

This is insane. Like quadrupling down on the victim.