Football The 2014/2015 Season Thread

[CorNokZ]

Sum up your team's season with a picture

FC Copenhagen

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Valencia

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And just for fun, Manchester United

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[Moriath]

Sum up your team's season with a picture

FC Copenhagen

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Valencia

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And just for fun, Manchester United

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Two of those arnt pictures they are animated gifs

 

[caLLous]

Liverpool*:



* Very obviously not my team but it was posted in reference to Spurs after we lost to Stoke a few weeks ago. It just seems more appropriate for 'pool now.

 

[CorNokZ]

Two of those arnt pictures they are animated gifs

The season Moriath FC

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[CorNokZ]

Wins La Décima and gets sacked.. Poor Ancelotti!

Watched the press meeting in Spanish and the Real Madrid president Florentino Pérez said that they will announce a new head coach within a week and that it will be a plus if he speaks Spanish. Benitez confirmed as new Head Coach of Real Madrid. Klopp to Liverpool. Book it

 

[DaGaffer]

I will never, ever understand the attraction of Real, for players or managers; a nest of vipers.

 

[Embattle]

I've always had a issue with RM and to a lesser degree La Liga. I just dislike the way the club operates, some attitudes of certain players, fans and the media react to certain situations.

 

[Billargh]

https://www.facebook.com/558991560820785/videos/903526993033905

 

[Shagrat]

dont understand the thinking behind decisions like this:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...0-months-after-sacking-Slavisa-Jokanovic.html

guy gets them to the Prem, has the team playing good football and gets sacked. Odd! So now they are after a 5th manager in 10 months to build for the Premier.

 

[Embattle]

Although BBC has the story slightly differently - http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/32885212

 

[Job]

Holy about time, they have arrested half of FIFA in Zurich.
http://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/580177/FIFA-corruption-arrested-Jack-Warner-Zurich-Qatar

 

[Embattle]

Love it.

 

[Raven]

About time.

 

[DaGaffer]

Without Blatter on the charge sheet it's just little fish. It's a start though. *edit* Jack Warner is on the list. Yay!

 

[Embattle]

Swiss legal authorities have announced that criminal proceedings have opened "against persons unknown on suspicion of criminal mismanagement and of money laundering in connection with the allocation of the 2018 and 2022 football World Cups".

I'm hoping it costs Blatter either way, although I suspect he will escape in his usual eel like way.

 

[Ormorof]

Is anyone even running against him anymore?

 

[Calaen]

Yeah Prince Ali is I believe, the other contenders, did the right thing and have tried to get their own supporters to vote for Ali, I can't see Blatter losing, simply because the African nations are corrupt as fuck and would hate to lose the freebies they get. But if they can take the voting into the second round, it will be a step forward.

 

[Scouse]

To be fair - 65 million over 30 years is nothing.

Funny how they've all been arrested - when someone like Bob Diamond, who presided over a bank performing criminal activites, got paid £21 million in a pay off when he left - approximately a 3rd of what FIFA are alleged to have spunked - is still sitting pretty. As are all the rest of them.

But meh. In my opinion - in the grand scheme of things who gives a fuck if FIFA are corrupt? Football can be corrupt as it likes - yeah, it makes a nice "ha! - banged to rights" story - but all that does is distract us from things that actually matter....

 

[caLLous]

The FIFA Director of Comms has just told the press conference that Blatter told him he wasn't involved in any of this corruption. That's good enough for me!!

 

[Hawkwind]

The FIFA Director of Comms has just told the press conference that Blatter told him he wasn't involved in any of this corruption. That's good enough for me!!

No he just presided over it all, without any knowledge....hmmmm

 

[Scouse]

No he just presided over it all, without any knowledge....hmmmm

That's what all the bankers did. And nobody arrested them...

 

[DaGaffer]

That's what all the bankers did. And nobody arrested them...

Actually bankers have been arrested here in Ireland...

 

[Scouse]

Actually bankers have been arrested here in Ireland...

Not enough of 'em and not on serious enough charges - and certainly not the big boys from from the big banks.

That guy resigned in 2008 - before all the big shit came out.

 

[Embattle]

This is about football not banks and a lack of action in one shouldn't affect the other, plus I feel this is just the tip of a much larger iceberg.

 

[Lethul]

What a surprise FIFA was corrupt! :O Never saw that coming!

 

[caLLous]

I wish we could see this board he keeps pointing at...

 

[Calaen]

Now they actually have people who have pleaded guilty and are willing to take plea bargains, it's going to get really uncomfortable for Blatter, he can't pretend he didn't know about this kind of thing. They'll be singing like little birds in a bid to get their own sentences reduced!

 

[Hawkwind]

Watching Kelly Currie chief Atty behind the charges. He said FIFA corruption has been ongoing for two decades a world cup of fraud and today they have been issued a red card. Our investigation is still in progress.

I just hope they get that bastard Blatter. Currie did mention fraud over the Presidential elections in 2011, so there is hope.

 

[caLLous]

It was the IRS guy Weber who said they'd shown FIFA a red card. Everybody groaned.

 

[Scouse]

NThey'll be singing like little birds in a bid to get their own sentences reduced!

Their sentences will be small IMO. 60 million over 30 years = £2m/year in bribes.

Funders of our political parties bribe donate more than that.