Football Thread

[Leonormous Boozer]

Prefer our route to Wales' or NI and I still wouldn't bet on it at all. Czech are a bit of a basket case and we owe the Danes but yeah, going to need a third and fourth consecutive upset against regulars in finals tournaments.

 

[Vaquer]

2 Dutch teams (Netherlands and Curaçao) in the same world cup finals sounds like a first https://www.fifa.com/en/tournaments/mens/worldcup/canadamexicousa2026/articles/final-draw-results

 

[Cruz_del_Sur]

2 Dutch teams (Netherlands and Curaçao) in the same world cup finals sounds like a first https://www.fifa.com/en/tournaments/mens/worldcup/canadamexicousa2026/articles/final-draw-results

A bit like having Wales and England in the same group in 2022, innit?

 

[Reiser99]

Football continuing to show how to **** up a video review system and the referees authority.

Key Match Incidents Panel: Everton wrongly denied penalty in Arsenal defeat

Everton should have been awarded a penalty in their 1-0 defeat by Arsenal, the Premier League's Key Match Incidents Panel has said.

www.bbc.com

Honestly, how does releasing this information help in anyway? Even if it was 5-0 in favour, but they voted 3-2, so even that suggests it wasn't certain. Whole system is ridiculous.

Anyone know if it's just the premier league releasing reviews or football as a whole?

 

[Leonormous Boozer]

Football continuing to show how to **** up a video review system and the referees authority.

Key Match Incidents Panel: Everton wrongly denied penalty in Arsenal defeat

Everton should have been awarded a penalty in their 1-0 defeat by Arsenal, the Premier League's Key Match Incidents Panel has said.

www.bbc.com

Honestly, how does releasing this information help in anyway? Even if it was 5-0 in favour, but they voted 3-2, so even that suggests it wasn't certain. Whole system is ridiculous.

Anyone know if it's just the premier league releasing reviews or football as a whole?

I think there's merit to public reviews. Football refereeing at the top level is pretty cut throat from what I understand and mistakes aren't taken lightly at all. And it's reffed to a far higher standard than rugby.

Obviously its an easier sport to officiate and although they've got a lot better, they have taken to video reviews bizarrely slowly, but I reckon rugby has more to learn from soccer than vice versa in terms of refereeing.

 

[Vieux Talonneur]

33 days!

Madness. Either way the Board’s to blame for completely getting the wrong man or failing to give the right man time. Whichever, I’m sure he’ll get a decent payout.

How Wilfried Nancy's calamitous reign unfolded at Celtic

BBC Sport takes an amble through Wilfried Nancy's short tenure as Celtic manager.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Welsh Exile]

Solksjear apparently getting the UTD job on an interim basis.

Liam Rosenoir is a wild pick for Chelsea. That won’t end well

Slot rumoured to be sacked end of the week as well. The crazy world of football.

 

[Welsh Exile]

At least West Ham are getting relegated though so not a total write off season.

 

[Leonormous Boozer]

Solksjear apparently getting the UTD job on an interim basis.

Liam Rosenoir is a wild pick for Chelsea. That won’t end well

Slot rumoured to be sacked end of the week as well. The crazy world of football.

Getting rid of Amorim is confirmation to me that UTD will never be successful again. He was slowly turning things around despite getting cut off at the knees again and again, basically sacked for telling the board where they're going wrong imo.

The PL is corporate sport by numbers at it's worst though.

 

[Welsh Exile]

Getting rid of Amorim is confirmation to me that UTD will never be successful again. He was slowly turning things around despite getting cut off at the knees again and again, basically sacked for telling the board where they're going wrong imo.

The PL is corporate sport by numbers at it's worst though.

Yeah, not even sacked coz of results. Sacked because he spoke out against the hierarchy (and not even anything that bad from what I can see)

Same for Moresca as well it seems. Though he didn’t seem to say anything publicly but it appears they weren’t getting on behind the scenes.

Same for Nuno at Forrest when he spoke out against Marinakis.

I agree, even though they always seemed like one bad result away from a disaster UTD were looking alright and you’d think they had a great chance at finishing 5th which is CL qualification now so results were on track. Just goes to show, like in most jobs in life, it’s more about how well you toe the company line than results (though results are clearly important)

On the flip side, Thomas Frank who doesn’t look cut out for the Spurs job is doing a great job at keeping his mouth shut and he’s still in a job and unlikely to lose it before the end of the season even though Spurs are awful.

 

[Welsh Exile]

Taking the boy to his first away game tonight. Going to get him some Stone Island clobber and a knuckleduster. Propa Nawty.

 

[BrokenWing]

Apparently, it's been 117 years since a non league side knockout out the fa cup holders…

The previous non league side were Crystal Palace.

 

[Reiser99]

Morocco are through to the AFCON semi finals.

Afcon 2025: Cameroon 0-2 Morocco - Host nation through to semi-finals

Goals from Brahim Diaz and Ismael Saibari help Afcon 2025 hosts Morocco to a 2-0 win over Cameroon and a place in the semi-finals against Algeria or Nigeria.

www.bbc.com

They are unbeaten in 25 games stretching back to 2023.

The won the Arab Nations Cup just before this tournament and by just before I mean 3 days. The final was on 18th December and the first match which Morocco were in was 21st December and was the opening game of the tournament as they are hosts. If they win the tournament that would be an incredible feat for players who haven't had a rest since 2nd December.