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« Reply #375 on: Friday, July 26, 2013, 19:23:19 » |
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In principle you'd rather have a global governing body with the welfare of all of football at it's core in charge than the elite leagues, who won't think twice about grinding everyone else into the dust and trousering as much cash as they can for their own benefit.
It's just a shame that the global governing body there is, is a total basket case, which is where the idea all falls down.
But I like the idea of the leagues having to wind their neck in a bit.
Yeah, agree with all that. Problem is FIFA's one of the few organisations around that can make the Leagues look like principled bodies working in the best interests of the sport.
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« Reply #376 on: Friday, July 26, 2013, 19:32:16 » |
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International football has had it's day, the players are payed so much they don't give a fuck. Why bother cancel the fucking thing. Oh we can't pockets have to be lined
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« Reply #377 on: Friday, July 26, 2013, 22:08:15 » |
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Oh cheer up.
It might be nice to have the greatest spectacle in world football actually in the winter, when the players aren't absolutely fucked, even if it's achieved through FIFA idiocy.
Have the domestic leagues run along side it - let's see the Premier League put that in their pipe and smoke it.
a winter world cup would give England it's best chance currently Imo. Still don't like they idea mind. Corrupt fifa cunts
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« Reply #378 on: Saturday, July 27, 2013, 12:37:02 » |
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a winter world cup would give England it's best chance currently Imo. Still don't like they idea mind. Corrupt fifa cunts
The last WC was a winter WC....didn't do England any favours, in fact we were worse than usual.
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« Reply #379 on: Saturday, July 27, 2013, 12:46:23 » |
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And winter temperatures in Qatar are probably not far from UK summer anyway.
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« Reply #381 on: Tuesday, July 30, 2013, 15:09:47 » |
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The last WC was a winter WC....didn't do England any favours, in fact we were worse than usual.
I am looking forward to watching England in Brazil. If the draw results in them being drawn in the North I look forward to the kick and rush approach being ruthlessly exposed once again.
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« Reply #382 on: Tuesday, July 30, 2013, 15:52:06 » |
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I might be barking up the wrong tree here, and someone will put me right (probably PaulD) but ....
Wasnt it part of the deal that too host the world cup it had to be done in the summer months so June and July. Hence all bids for the 2022 world cup were put togther using that criteria.
If the WC was as now seems inevitable switched to winter, could the countries who applied and were unsuccessful Australia, Japan, USA etc have a legal case against FIFA to reclaim some of the costs of bidding at the very least?
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« Reply #383 on: Tuesday, July 30, 2013, 15:59:37 » |
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Sepp Blatter - fanny batter
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« Reply #384 on: Tuesday, July 30, 2013, 16:01:17 » |
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Sepp Blatter - fanny batter
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The Great Stan
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« Reply #385 on: Tuesday, July 30, 2013, 16:06:05 » |
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Thought it was a bit hot!
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« Reply #386 on: Friday, August 2, 2013, 11:29:26 » |
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International football has had it's day, the players are payed so much they don't give a fuck. Why bother cancel the fucking thing. Oh we can't pockets have to be lined
Don't do that, it's the one aspect of the game where you can't just get a rich benefactor to buy you in a load of players from all over the globe and that people who don't actually enjoy the grind of club football can get behind. Just leave all the power to clubs run by oligarchs busy trying to hide human rights abuses, removing billions of pounds from their national economies and so on..
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« Reply #387 on: Friday, August 2, 2013, 20:04:40 » |
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Kieron Dyer: in 17 years he played just over 300 matches, scoring 23 Premier League goals, including none at all between 2007 and 2013. In this time he earned between £20m and £30m in wages (as opined in this quite good article http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2013/aug/02/1 I pinched the above quote from) sums up quite nicely much of what's wrong with modern football.
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« Reply #389 on: Friday, August 9, 2013, 11:24:12 » |
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You're my incurable malady. I miss the pleasure of your company.
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