World football thread.

[Reg Dingle]

^ Is that not a superb record for the Paddy job?

[Edmond]

Unfortunately most players are now sourced from Africa rather than Liverpool. :/

[harrybarracuda]

U17 World Cup knockout: England 1-1 Uzbekistan in the second half.

Watching it on Fox Sports 1 with English commentary.

[harrybarracuda]

Uzbekistan take the lead.

Perhaps it's not coming home.

[harrybarracuda]

England have missed a veritable hatful of chances.

It's definitely not coming home.

The commentator is fair ripping the poor kids to shreds.

Eng 1-2 Uzb FT

[Bettyboo]

It's never coming home...

(Not until the two twats have been ritually sacrificed.)

[harrybarracuda]

It's never coming home...

(Not until the two twats have been ritually sacrificed.)

Actually England won it in 2017.

But of course you of all people wouldn't have known that.

[Bettyboo]

I nearly went to see it, me and a mate were on the way to Seoul to watch it (as it so happens...).

Nearly, but not quite. A shame really, or I could've stuck that fact up ya, 'Arry. Could've. Should've. Might've. Didn't. Near, but yet so far - I feel like Gascoigne stretching out a leg against the Germans in extra time...

[harrybarracuda]

I nearly went to see it, me and a mate were on the way to Seoul to watch it (as it so happens...).

That doesn't surprise me at all considering it's being played in Indonesia.

[harrybarracuda]

So IFAB have agreed to trial Sin Bins.

Other things they talked about were using VAR for corners, throw ins, and yellow card decisions leading to reds.

Give me fucking strength.

[cyrille]

How about your hero Arsene's ideas about 64 team world cups every two years?

[harrybarracuda]

How about your hero Arsene's ideas about 64 team world cups every two years?

Even he realises it was a silly idea. Especially considering how much he used to moan about losing players on international duty.

But I suppose he was being paid to promote FIFA.

"Arsene Wenger, FIFA's chief of Global Football Development, and advisor for 'beIN Sports' in Qatar, defended the idea of a World Cup every two years in 2021, but his opinion has changed over time and he has now gone back on that idea."

[harrybarracuda]

What a terrible shame that Geordie Arabia were denied all three points by a bunch of witless VAR twats.

Oh how my heart bleeds for them.

[helge]

a bunch of witless VAR twats.

UEFA seems to agree with you.

The VAR ref Tomazs Kwiatkowski has been told to step down for his next planned match.

Which was today

[harrybarracuda]

UEFA seems to agree with you.

The VAR ref Tomazs Kwiatkowski has been told to step down for his next planned match.

Which was today

And yet it was the witless ref who awarded the goal having looked at all the replays.

Funny old game innit.

[cyrille]

Great News!

Steve Bruce is interested in the vacancy as manager of Republic of Ireland.

He says he is 'itching' to get back into management.

[malmomike77]

He got a lot of abuse when he was Sunderland manager from the Toon lot, if be mucks up the Oirish job i imagine Sin Fein won't be so easy on him

[hallelujah]

Dear West Midlands Police,

Anyone who has spent years and decades watching their team and being treated like shit at the hands of you on repeated trips to Villa Park, Molineux, The Hawthorns, St Andrews, Highfield Road etc are thinking of you regarding Thursday night when you got lamped by a load of jam rolls.



Thoughts and prayers.

[Bettyboo]

How about your hero Arsene's ideas about 64 team world cups every two years?

With a packet of sweets and a cheeky smile, Wenger is a ... ...

Also, an irritating twat.

[cyrille]

He is bacteria.

[hallelujah]

He is bacteria.

Sounds like your posts on football.

[harrybarracuda]

With a packet of sweets and a cheeky smile, Wenger is a ... ...

Also, an irritating twat.

That's a shitty attempt at a troll even by your admittedly asinine standards.

[helge]

England got a really easy group for the Euro Cup.

It's more or less home already

[malmomike77]

Red faces for Uefa as Euro 2024 draw disrupted by ‘pornographic noises’

Pornographic noises disrupted Saturday evening’s Euro 2024 draw in Hamburg.


The interruption, which sounded like sexual moaning, was initially heard after Switzerland were drawn in the same group as Scotland, Hungary and hosts Germany, prompting smirks among the audience.


Someone is playing sex noises at the Euro 2024 draw���������� #EURO2024 pic.twitter.com/f7hzqT1kSF
— Ryy (@AFC_Ryy) December 2, 2023


The draw host, Giorgio Marchetti, the deputy general secretary of Uefa, attempted to take control of the situation, saying: “There is some noise here that... has now stopped. No noise any more.” But further sporadic interruptions were heard as the draw continued.


Asked if he had noticed any unusual noises in the hall during the draw, Gareth Southgate said: “I did. I’m assuming it was some sort of a prank, but it was hard to really make out what it was.”


Similar noises disrupted the BBC’s live coverage of an FA Cup match between Wolves and Liverpool in January. Daniel Jarvis, an internet prankster who claimed responsibility for that incident, also claimed responsibility for the latest stunt. “Listen that was us, that was us,” he said in a video posted on X. “We got it in there, we put the phone in there, we rung it.”


Red faces for Uefa as Euro 2024 draw disrupted by ‘pornographic noises’ | Euro 2024 | The Guardian

[hallelujah]

Red faces for Uefa as Euro 2024 draw disrupted by ‘pornographic noises’

Pornographic noises disrupted Saturday evening’s Euro 2024 draw in Hamburg.


The interruption, which sounded like sexual moaning, was initially heard after Switzerland were drawn in the same group as Scotland, Hungary and hosts Germany, prompting smirks among the audience.


Someone is playing sex noises at the Euro 2024 draw���������� #EURO2024 pic.twitter.com/f7hzqT1kSF
— Ryy (@AFC_Ryy) December 2, 2023


The draw host, Giorgio Marchetti, the deputy general secretary of Uefa, attempted to take control of the situation, saying: “There is some noise here that... has now stopped. No noise any more.” But further sporadic interruptions were heard as the draw continued.


Asked if he had noticed any unusual noises in the hall during the draw, Gareth Southgate said: “I did. I’m assuming it was some sort of a prank, but it was hard to really make out what it was.”


Similar noises disrupted the BBC’s live coverage of an FA Cup match between Wolves and Liverpool in January. Daniel Jarvis, an internet prankster who claimed responsibility for that incident, also claimed responsibility for the latest stunt. “Listen that was us, that was us,” he said in a video posted on X. “We got it in there, we put the phone in there, we rung it.”


Red faces for Uefa as Euro 2024 draw disrupted by ‘pornographic noises’ | Euro 2024 | The Guardian

The Guardian are reporting drawing Denmark, Serbia, and Slovenia as avoiding trickier-looking foes



How do these wankers get jobs talking about football? They're clueless.