Football Thread

[TRF_Olyy]

Meh you Sale boys with your scottish money, it's made you bitter.

Give a ****,
60mil is a ridiculous amount of money for any sport, any team, especially when it's just 11 absolute wetters falling over and faking injuries for an hour and a half a week.

 

[Superalexmarket]

Leicester champion of the Premier is bigger than Japan beating SA in the RWC...super awesome!!!
Ranieri would be a good replacement in the gunners... goodbye Arsene.

 

[RoosTah]

Is this really that big of an upset? I mean, from what I've read Leicester were bought by a billionaire a few years ago and have been steadily improving ever since.

 

[nickdnz]

Is this really that big of an upset? I mean, from what I've read Leicester were bought by a billionaire a few years ago and have been steadily improving ever since.

Yes.

For a start that's not really correct. Of the twenty clubs in the Premier League last year, Leicester had the third lowest worth: http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/premier-leagues-richest-clubs-how-6293748. As far as football clubs go, Leicester also had a modest revenue stream.

As for steadily improving...well in 2014-2015 they finished 14th, and the season before that they won the Championship. So yes, they have been getting better results, but obviously no one saw them winning the ***le, and most probably predicted a reasonably low table finish.

Keep in mind that since 1992, no team outside of the big four (Man Utd, Man City, Chelsea and Arsenal) has won it except Blackburn Rovers for in the 1994-1995 season.

 

[j'nuh]

Give a ****,
60mil is a ridiculous amount of money for any sport, any team, especially when it's just 11 absolute wetters falling over and faking injuries for an hour and a half a week.

What about boxing? Mayweather. $300m in 2015. For two matches lol.

 

[pagliaccio_euforico]

Give a ****,
60mil is a ridiculous amount of money for any sport, any team, especially when it's just 11 absolute wetters falling over and faking injuries for an hour and a half a week.

where should that money go then? should the owners keep it all?

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Two seasons ago they were in £103m of debt.
Suggests they aren't exactly the most sustainable of businesses, really.

 

[Bee]

Still literally give zero ****s.
Football has so much money in it I find it hard to take it seriously as a real sport.
How many Leicester players are from Leicester? Is it really "Leicester" winning the league or is it the best mercs that £60m can buy?
(Edit: 3 in their entire squad, not sure how many have actually played - one guy I noticed has 0 games, so at most 2 products).

Meh, I genuinely hate football. Ignore my jaded views.

This.
But I actually doubt, that the whole Sharks' squad was born + bred in Sale, either...

 

[Tony Manx]

This.
But I actually doubt, that the whole Sharks' squad was born + bred in Sale, either...

Olyy is older even than me in his ways if not years!!!!

 

[LeinsterMan (NotTigsMan)]

Two seasons ago they were in £103m of debt.
Suggests they aren't exactly the most sustainable of businesses, really.

And last season made a profit of £26 million.

 

[smartcooky]

Is this really that big of an upset? I mean, from what I've read Leicester were bought by a billionaire a few years ago and have been steadily improving ever since.

Yes. On the opening day of the season in 2015, bookmakers gave them 5000-1 odds against winning the EPL. By comparison, the same bookmakers gave Japan odds of 200-1 against beating South Africa in RWC 2015

Also, consider Leicester City's player budget for this season was about NZ$62 million... Manchester United's was over NZ$625 million.

Only five teams had ever won the EPL

Man U - 13 ***les
Chelsea - 4
Arsenal -3
Man C.- 2
Blackburn Rovers - 1

 

[Tony Manx]

BBC are saying that the eye gouging tosser will probably get more than "three match ban"!!!

That is about 8 days compared to anything up to 18 months in rugby!

 

[valley commando]

Manchester City's overpaid pussies bomb out of Europe with hardly a shot of note on target, they only started playing in the last few minutes, ha ha idiots they are only in it for the money I've seen more passion and will to win in an under eights 5 a side game.

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Yes. On the opening day of the season in 2015, bookmakers gave them 5000-1 odds against winning the EPL. By comparison, the same bookmakers gave Japan odds of 200-1 against beating South Africa in RWC 2015

Also, consider Leicester City's player budget for this season was about NZ$62 million... Manchester United's was over NZ$625 million.

Only five teams had ever won the EPL

Man U - 13 ***les
Chelsea - 4
Arsenal -3
Man C.- 2
Blackburn Rovers - 1

I heard that Manchester United have spent more on their over paid tarts in the last 2 years than Leicester have spent in their entire history. At last it seems that money is proving to be the cancer that is rotting away at the rich premier clubs, with the over paid arrogant spoilt ***** of your so called top clubs, M Utd, M City, Arsenal, Chelsea et al proving as much value as a bucket full of holes.
Well done Leicester, West Ham and Spurs, lets hope it continues next year.

 

[Tony Manx]

BBC are saying that the eye gouging tosser will probably get more than "three match ban"!!!

That is about 8 days compared to anything up to 18 months in rugby!

Dembewhembe banned for 6 games for eye gouging! Football really is rotten to the core......a potentially blinding results in a nothing punishment!!

 

[pagliaccio_euforico]

at some point i really hope the governing bodies send a message to referees that they should stop taking crap from players... the asshats are making the sport unwatchable

 

[Tony Manx]

at some point i really hope the governing bodies send a message to referees that they should stop taking crap from players... the asshats are making the sport unwatchable

They had their chance with Demenememble and stuffed it as frightened of the lawyers!! Gotta laugh at Pochettininio saying he was harshly treated and should not have been more than three matches!!

Football a game played by cannibals!!

 

[SelimNiai]

If you get a chance catch Andrea Bocelli singing before Leicester's final game. Amazing stuff. Wish I could sing like that, I was such a bad tenor my music teacher gave me 5 quid change.

 

[valley commando]

They had their chance with Demenememble and stuffed it as frightened of the lawyers!! Gotta laugh at Pochettininio saying he was harshly treated and should not have been more than three matches!!

Football a game played by cannibals!!

18 months wouldn't have been to harsh. Soccer is played by dirty animals who if not for the fact they play sport(if you can call it that) would be banged up in prison or on the dole playing computer games or watching porn.

 

[Leonormous Boozer]

18 months wouldn't have been to harsh. Soccer is played by dirty animals who if not for the fact they play sport(if you can call it that) would be banged up in prison or on the dole playing computer games or watching porn.

So they'd be TRF users? That seems far fetched to me VC...

 

[Tony Manx]

So they'd be TRF users? That seems far fetched to me VC...

I do neither of those so, from my experience, maybe your experience of the TRF user may be little biased.....or maybe I am biased!!!!