Was it a second yellow last night, Harry?
Should have had him off at half time.
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Was it a second yellow last night, Harry?
Should have had him off at half time.
Apparently so.Quote:
Originally Posted by dirk diggler
Apparently the ref got played, but there's no VAR for a second yellow.
Brilliant .. ? poor kris Boyd ? ? | By FionaFacebook
Boyd's ragin, gone in a cream puff and locked himself in the bogs.
:D
He doesn't take these things well, does he?Quote:
Originally Posted by dirk diggler
:smileylaughing:
They're at it again.
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Saudi Arabian side Al Ahli have agreed fees for Chelsea striker targets Ivan Toney and Victor Osimhen.
The potential double swoop is worth £107.3m with Al Ahli agreeing a £40m fee with Brentford for Toney, while Sky in Italy report they have also agreed a £67.3m (€80m) fee for Napoli's Osimhen
Mr. "Hoof it forward" has finally expired. Whoever wrote this shit is a genius:
"match analysis which led him to advocate a high tempo, high pressing, direct football philosophy"
WhQuote:
Former FA director of coaching Charles Hughes passes away at the age of 91. We are saddened to learn that our former director of coaching Charles Hughes has passed away at the age of 91. Hughes had a profound impact on football in England for more than 30 years before his retirement in 1997.
https://www.thefa.com/news/2024/aug/...nt%20in%201997.
Fans criticise 'dynamic pricing' at Valencia
After spending hours in an online queue last week, some Oasis fans were faced with a big price hike when buying tickets for the band's reunion tour - and the practice is coming to elite-level European football.
This week Spanish top-flight club Valencia announced they would use the controversial system of 'dynamic pricing' for home matches.
"Following the global trend in shows, sporting events and entertainment, Valencia will join this practice, which has the support and technology of La Liga," the club said.
"Tickets will therefore go on sale at a base price, which could increase as the days go by. Buying your tickets early will ensure you get the best price."
A spokesperson for Valencia supporters' group Libertad VCF told BBC Sport: "We are radically against it.
"It is a strategy of pure speculation based on demand without taking into consideration that football fans are not simply customers who don't care if they fly with Ryanair or British Airways.
"Those who can will bear it, and those who cannot will have their seat taken by a tourist who does not care whether Valencia win or lose."
A spokesperson for the Football Supporters' Association (FSA), which represents fans in England and Wales, said: "With impeccable timing after the Oasis fiasco, voices in football have started to float the idea of infecting football with dynamic pricing.
"Never underestimate the potential for the most greedy owners in football to try and import terrible ideas from other industries to exploit supporter loyalty.
"Matchgoers are already mobilising against the recent wave of price rises and attacks on concessions. Any underhand increases will be met with enormous opposition."
Furthermore, Football Supporters Europe - which represents fans across the continent - said: "FSE strongly opposes so-called 'dynamic pricing' in football. It is nothing but blatant greed - it's that simple."
The Premier League requires clubs to publish ticket prices at the start of each season, in theory preventing dynamic pricing.
About 70% of tickets sold by Premier League clubs are season tickets and not sold on an event-by-event basis.
But fan groups from clubs including Liverpool, Tottenham, West Ham and Wolves have protested against changes to ticket prices and procedures made this year, with 19 of 20 Premier League clubs raising prices before the 2024-25 season, according to the FSA.
Revenue from ticket sales is crucial to the financial sustainability of the 72 clubs in the English Football League (EFL), and attendances across all fixtures in the Championship, League One and League Two was a combined 23 million in 2023-24.
Dynamic pricing has not been discussed in any of the EFL’s regular forums with clubs.
Valencia, who are majority owned by former Salford City shareholder Peter Lim, said: "We understand the concern but we believe it's more about fairness.
"It wouldn’t be fair for someone who planned ahead and bought a ticket early to pay the same as someone who waited until the last minute.
"We believe that the primary concern is not the concept of dynamic pricing itself, as it’s a common practice in industries like concerts or airlines.
"Instead, the frustration seems to stem from the uncertainty surrounding fixture schedules. Fans find it challenging to plan and purchase tickets in advance without knowing when the games will take place."
Libertad VCF said: "What is not fair is that a fan, who loves his club, who went to the Mestalla for the first time when taken as a child by their father, who stuck by their club when it went down to the second division, is treated as a mere 'spectator'.
"The fans are not just customers - they are the ones who created the club, who have followed it throughout its history, and are the most important element of a club.
"Maybe that doesn't show in the financial accounts, but clubs without fans are nothing."
BBC Sport has contacted the Premier League, the EFL and La Liga for comment.
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/cx2y6kdk4z0o
Australia managed to lose at home to Bahrain last week.
:D
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rSIgCO...EgMjAyNA%3D%3D
Yes, I've been baiting convicts wherever I can find them. It's like losing to the Isle of Wight.
:)
https://i.imgur.com/NAOsu9O.jpeg
Looks like a dashing young Mendy
https://i.imgur.com/i8F54KO.jpeg
Some nostalgia for Hal
Also visited the home of the fFannnnnneeeees
https://i.imgur.com/NtEFziI.jpeg
Sven laid to rest today.
David Beckham joins mourners at Sven-Goran Eriksson’s funeral in Sweden | Sven-Goran Eriksson | The Guardian
Some shagging he did, Mr Burns.
Fair play to him.
Hilarious, a European institution talking about concern over scope creep.......5555555555, christ i loath UEFA, corrupt wankers.
England 'could face Euros ban' over regulator plan
Uefa has warned ministers that England could be excluded from the European Championship it is co-hosting in 2028 over "concerns" that a planned independent football regulator could lead to "government interference" in the sport.
A bill to establish a body to oversee the top five tiers of the men's game in England was reintroduced in July.
The UK government has said the football watchdog will "protect clubs" by "ensuring their financial sustainability".
But in a letter sent to Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy and seen by BBC Sport, Uefa general secretary Theodore Theodoridis wrote: "We do have concerns remaining... as normally football regulation should be managed by the national federation.
"One particular area of concern stems from one of Uefa's fundamental requirements, which is that there should be no government interference in the running of football.
"We have specific rules that guard against this in order to guarantee the autonomy of sport and fairness of sporting competition; the ultimate sanction for which would be excluding the federation from Uefa and teams from competition."
The FA's exclusion from Uefa could also prevent English clubs from competing in European competitions. But a Uefa source suggested that officials did not expect it to reach that stage.
'Scope creep'
The previous government announced plans to appoint a regulator last year following a fan-led review, which said such a body was necessary for the long-term financial stability of the men's professional game after issues including mismanagement and plans for a breakaway European Super League.
The regulator will oversee a licensing system to ensure clubs are run sustainably, take over a strengthened owners and directors test, and give fans a greater say in key decisions.
But Theodoridis warned Nandy: "Uefa is concerned about the potential for scope creep within the IFR [independent football regulator].
"While the initial intent of the IFR is to oversee the long-term financial sustainability of clubs and heritage assets, there is always a risk that, once established, the IFR may expand its mandate beyond these areas."
That "could undermine the established structures and processes of the sport, and amount to government interference", he wrote.
He added that it was "imperative to protect and preserve the independence of the FA", and that legislation that "compromises the FA's autonomy as the primary regulator of football in England" would not comply with the Uefa and Fifa statutes.
"It follows that the criteria defining and evaluating the IFR's independence must be meticulously crafted to avoid potential conflicts with the FA's role. This is necessary to prevent sanctions under Uefa and Fifa statutes.
"The IFR's scope must remain focused on the long-term financial sustainability of clubs with a view to ensuring that it does not overstep into areas that might be perceived as external interference in football governance."
Theodoridis also warned Nandy that clauses in the legislation that oblige the regulator to consider the government's foreign and trade policy objectives when deciding on the suitability of future owners "raise specific concerns".
He added that Uefa "respectfully requires further clarification and understanding... in this context to ensure compliance with the Uefa Statutes and to prevent unwanted implications for football governance".
Backstop power
The reintroduced Football Governance Bill will also give the new regulator "backstop powers", which could be used to intervene between the Premier League and the English Football League (EFL) after their failure to agree a funding deal. Talks over a so-called 'New Deal' collapsed in March, with the two organisations unable to agree a funding plan.
In his letter, Theodoridis told Nandy that "the concept of a backstop power introduces significant concerns regarding the balance of power within football governance".
He wrote: "Mandating redistribution which effects the competitive balance in the game and wider European competition would be of concern to us. We also fear that having a third party intervene in redistribution would likely prevent amicable solutions being found.
"As we see it, the 'backstop' power, while intended as a safety net, should be carefully reconsidered to avoid undermining these fundamental principles."
In a statement, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) said: "The Football Governance Bill will establish a new Independent Football Regulator that will put fans back at the heart of the game, and tackle fundamental governance problems to ensure that English football is sustainable for the benefit of the clubs' communities going forward."
Privately, officials are said to believe there is no risk of England being banned by Uefa.
'Scare story'
In May, David Newton, the FA's head of football operations, told MPs: "Uefa and Fifa have statutes of their own, which basically prevent state interference in the running of football and football competitions.
"We have worked closely with Uefa and Fifa, and with the DCMS... They have been taken through where we have got to.
"Although we have not had a definitive view as such, it is reasonably clear that a tightness of the bill relating to football governance is not likely to present huge or significant problems, subject to any changes that may occur.
"However, anything wider would increase the risk of Fifa or Uefa intervention. That is obviously a place we do not want to be, because of the sanctions that may flow, in theory, from that."
Niall Couper, chief executive of football campaign group Fair Game, said: "This is nothing short of a scare story.
"With 58% of the top 92 technically insolvent and annual loses of £10m a year in the Championship viewed as 'a success', football is an industry in desperate need of financial reform. The government should not be derailed by such nonsense."
Last month, the Premier League said it "looked forward" to working with the new government, but that "it was critical that the regulation was proportionate and effective".
Uefa declined to comment.
Uefa warns England could be banned from Euro 2028 over regulator concerns - BBC Sport
Perhaps if UEFA had done its job properly, such regulation would not be needed.
Their pathetic climb down against the Mancs was obviously the last straw.
https://x.com/HLTCO/status/1835590269963518012
A new take on the Will Grigg one.
The joy on the fans and players faces.
:)
How can you not be entirely in love with this wonderful game of ours?
Manchester Cheaty tipped post relegation to head the Shabby Dhabi sheik yer booty league .
Manager Joe 69 saud earlier
We all moist got away with it
You can fool Backspin all of the time
You can foil leftovers moose of the thyme
Butt you cannot fool all of the sheeple haul of the rhyme
Must be getting old, woulda said 63 is ancient and a good innings a few years ago. :)
My mum and dad are in their 70s and I'm not far off 50.Quote:
Originally Posted by Edmond
Both are fucking ancient to the little me. :)
Isn't Norton not far off 90?
Yes to us middle aged the first gray pube is always a shock.Quote:
Originally Posted by Edmond
Muriel of the tail is don't shag Grannies or for omniverous inc grandads
You are now the old bloke you used to laugh at while cock climbing in Baile McMintaigh
Probably had a few years left in him until...Quote:
Originally Posted by Edmond
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The former striker fell seriously ill this month after being hospitalised with a head injury.
When you make some great mates playing for Rayong United for a year....
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A professional footballer was arrested in Scotland on suspicion of orchestrating the attempted import of £600,000 worth of cannabis from Thailand through Stansted Airport.
Jay Emmanuel-Thomas, 33, was detained by National Crime Agency (NCA) officers in Gourock, Inverclyde, on Wednesday morning in an operation supported by Police Scotland.
Emmanuel-Thomas currently plays for Greenock Morton in the Scottish Championship.
London-born, he started his career at Arsenal and went on to play for various clubs, including Ipswich Town, Bristol City, QPR, Livingston and Aberdeen.
Andy Carroll (remember him?) has joined French 4th Divn FC Girondin de Bordeaux, I'm guessing for the wine.
Well I picked grapes there 40 years ago.
Getting paid about 20 times more for playing football there...I would have. :D
It's a long way from the Bigg market in October, like.
He'll doubtless be 'injured' for a large part of it too.