Football (Soccer) Thread

[celedhring]

You got a red card on a play that just maybe wasnt a penatly.

It was always a red card regardless of the penalty, and we got a goal wrongly disallowed later on.

[Warspite]

[The Larch]

Remember the Neymar-gate, which costed Barcelona's president his job? The judge has just indicted today the club itself for a potential financial crime. 

[celedhring]

€9m, pocket change given our loooong story of problems with the Spanish IRS. We paid up €40m just a few years ago.

Oh, what I would give for a proper board. 

[FunkMonk]

End Spanish football and send all their players to the MLS. 

[Zanza]

Euro 2016 qualifying groups:

Group A: Netherlands, Czech Republic, Turkey, Latvia, Iceland, Kazakhstan.
Group B: Bosnia-Hercegovina, Belgium, Israel, Wales, Cyprus, Andorra.
Group C: Spain, Ukraine, Slovakia, Belarus, FYR Macedonia, Luxembourg.
Group D: Germany, Republic of Ireland, Poland, Scotland, Georgia, Gibraltar.
Group E: England, Switzerland, Slovenia, Estonia, Lithuania, San Marino.
Group F: Greece, Hungary, Romania, Finland, Northern Ireland, Faroe Islands.
Group G: Russia, Sweden, Austria, Montenegro, Moldova, Liechtenstein.
Group H: Italy, Croatia, Norway, Bulgaria, Azerbaijan, Malta.
Group I: Portugal, Denmark, Serbia, Armenia, Albania.

The top two teams in each of the nine groups qualify for the tournament finals, along with the best third-placed finisher. The remaining eight third-placed teams go into the play-offs in November 2015.

[Liep]

Wait, Bosnia was seeded first? They should've joined us then for maximum Balkan fun. Anyhoo, it's an annoying group which we'll surely fail in.

Also have Gibraltar competed before?

[Josquius]

No, its their first time, just got recognised by UEFA a little while ago, not recognised by FIFA yet. They play all their games in Portugal.
Earlier today I read an article about them on the BBC website. They were hoping for England and a bunch of minnows. They got Scotland....I guess that's nice for them. And I suppose Germany will appeal too.
I read in the article that things were set so that they would not be drawn in the same group as Spain. I wonder if there are other blocks in place in the draw.

England seems to have gotten a fairly light group.

[dps]

Wait, Bosnia was seeded first?

Doesn't seem to me like anybody in that group resembles a first seed.

[Zanza]

Schalke might just barely not make it against Real...

[Maladict]

Schalke might just barely not make it against Real...

wow 

Bad week for the English teams.

[Duque de Bragança]

Lots of action and suspense in Frankfurt for the Europa League between Frankfurt and Porto. Like a remake of the first game with more goals [spoiler]and a different result[/spoiler]
[spoiler]I must confess i started to despair once[/spoiler]

Weird time for the start which made me miss the beginning. 

[Josquius]

Cup final day. I fear the worst. Yet ha'way the lads,

[Liep]

Cup final day. I fear the worst. Yet ha'way the lads,

You'll win, don't worry.

[Josquius]

Fuck this world