Football The 2012 / 2013 Season Thread

[eksdee]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2012/oct/16/fernando-torres-care-chelsea-won-lost

Would love to say this is a complete surprise.

 

[Ch3tan]

lol at not closing the roof... silly Poles :/

 

[ileks]

If the game is played tomorrow, will it be on ITV?

 

[ileks]

Apparently it's on tomorrow at 4pm (on ITV I'm assuming).

 

[eksdee]

 

[Aoami]

Portugal 0 - 1 NI. What?

 

[Lethul]

Yeees 4-4

 

[megadave]

sweden came back from 4-0 against germany? how the fuck did that happen?

 

[megadave]

What do you reckon will be the result of all this?


View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZZY9U1CdDs&feature=player_embedded

 

[Raven]

Not a lot I imagine

 

[Ch3tan]

Massive fines and a long international ban for Serbia. Won't happen though.

 

[Lethul]

sweden came back from 4-0 against germany? how the fuck did that happen?

We are bettar!!1

 

[rynnor]

Fantastic performance by Northern Ireland getting a point off Portugal and threatening to get all 3.

 

[Embattle]

What do you reckon will be the result of all this?

What ever it is if England had been the instigators I suspect it would of been harsher.

 

[Ormorof]

absolute disgrace there's even reports of bits of concrete being thrown at Rose at the end of the game?

racist chants + assault should mean an international ban for Serbia, and not just the U21 side, then they might actually start taking some action against their own players + fans for this kind of bullshit

 

[Everz]

UEFA are a bunch of racist cretins themselves if Serbia aren't booted, backwards country with a backwards bunch of people.

Get them the fuck out, end of story, though we know it will be a fine.

 

[Ormorof]

"what racism? we didnt see or hear any!" - Serbian FA have taken the Arsene Wenger approach http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19976781

 

[Shagrat]

well that was a fucking awful 45 minutes. slow, unimaginative and poor.

gerrard, cleverley, carrick and rooney need passing lessons, so many passes going astray, sunday league teams have better pass completion % than England from that 45 minutes.

Crap.

 

[Litmus]

well that was a fucking awful 45 minutes. slow, unimaginative and poor.

gerrard, cleverley, carrick and rooney need passing lessons, so many passes going astray, sunday league teams have better pass completion % than England from that 45 minutes.

Crap.

Just same old same old then?

 

[megadave]

What's Hart doing there? The press will still label him one of the best in the world when he's not.

 

[rynnor]

Uefa will give Serbia a 40k fine and England a 30k fine because they love racism and hate england.

 

[Ch3tan]

Danny Rose's interview on sky sports about this is very good. Feel really bad for the bloke, no one deserves that kind of abuse.

 

[Lethul]

View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9uJZA9sqQk

woooo!

 

[cHodAX]

Danny Rose's interview on sky sports about this is very good. Feel really bad for the bloke, no one deserves that kind of abuse.

The FA need to refuse to implement any ban on him, the guy reacted under the worst provocation imaginable and it was sustained abuse from players/fans. No wonder he flipped, poor fucker.

 

[rynnor]

What happened to the Ref and officials in that game - it was completely out of control and dont Serbs have groundsmen?

 

[soze]

Complete mob mentality there, the fact that staff and player were involved is shocking. I don't give a fuck about lowering expectations for countries that are not so well developed. The minimum they should be looking for is long bans for the players and staff that threw punches and kicks. And they should get 5 or 10 games behind closed doors. The fact they have come out lying about it though shows they know nothing but a fine will happen after all it all happened on the pitch and we know the people in charge of football think it should just be left on the pitch! I also bet Danny Rose gets a ban that matches that of the longest Serbian ban.

 

[Embattle]

A large part of the reaction from players, teams and fans comes from the feeling that the organizing body does little against the perpetrators but token gestures of punishment.

 

[Ormorof]

yep according to the press one of UEFA's own officials was hit by something so it would be even more absurd if all Serbia get is a small fine

force them to play next 3 games behind closed doors, and if there's any re-occurrence of this kind of crap ban them from all UEFA competitions for 4 years - their players and clubs might wake up and do something or at least keep their mouths shut if they miss out on Europa League, Champs league, WC 2014 and Euro 2016 monies

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Surprisingly Terry isn't appealing.

Probably because he's been advised that any appeal would completely fail and may cause further sanctions.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Cole's been fined £90k for calling the FA a bunch of twats....

Let's see how that compares with Serbia's punishment...