Howmanheyman 33246 Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 28 minutes ago, Alex said: Agreed, they can fuck right off. The Guardian, for all its right on, moral affections, is particularly guilty of the kind of regional prejudice HMHM mentioned recently. Trendy Man City are sound (as were Chelsea) but it’s a different matter if the Geordies want nice things too. I’ve already gone over the reasons why the relationships between Russia and the UK and our country and the Saudis are not remotely analogous but how I still don’t condone the atrocities of the latter in any way. Did I mention the Guardian can fuck right off? Pep is king as is Klopp. Chelsea's Tuchel is revered but Howe is simply not in their league so is easy meat. I would say that Howe would be fucking lauded to the hilt if he was doing shit and our fans weren't impressed with his performances but I fucking love the ignoring of the money abramovich spunked on Chelsea or the tetchy Guardiola getting a free ride. There absolutely is regional prejudice at play and it isn't limited to football, it fucking stinks and needs called out far more vigorously as it goes totally under the radar anywhere else in the country. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 14011 Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 Yeh as soon as they need access to a top club the issues will become a footnote. “Football Joe” were having a pop at us only for it to be pointed out that A. They’re profile picture is a PSG player B. A large part of their finance is Russian money. There’s always a tweet. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 35095 Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 1 hour ago, Howay said: Oh that game was the moral nadir of the sport, not things like awarding a World Cup to Qatar who the proceeded to build all the stadiums using basically slaves in appalling conditions? Or countless other examples. Alex is spot on btw, they can scream hypocrisy about the Saudi relationship v Russian one, it is to a degree of course but that’s how foreign policy works. Countries align with certain other countries and have rivalries (for want of a better word) with others that’s ambitions encroach on theirs. Putin regularly calls out things the West does but is more than fine with the shit places like China and India do, hypocritical? Yes, but things just work like that and there won’t just suddenly be some moralistic impartiality taken for the sake of football. Do they not stop to think of the fucking embarrassment and insult SA would take to effectively being told by a bureaucratic body in the UK that they’re scum and their money is no good, while at the same time the UK government is openly encouraging them to do the exact thing they’re trying to do? Of course people can say they don’t give a fuck but the UK government, and general UK foreign policy would. They’ll sit on this moral high horse until we are up there with Manchester City tbh, maybe the regional point HMHM brings up will keep us as a lightening rod for it but it’ll slow down. Absolutely, man. The bit about the moral nadir. Apart from everything that went on at Fifa under Blatter (and before) you have the next World Cup in Qatar (as you mention) and the last one was in FUCKING RUSSIA ffs! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 44901 Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 19 minutes ago, Alex said: Absolutely, man. The bit about the moral nadir. Apart from everything that went on at Fifa under Blatter (and before) you have the next World Cup in Qatar (as you mention) and the last one was in FUCKING RUSSIA ffs! I know I'm basically repeating both of your points here, but... The WC Final was held in the Luzhniki Stadium, on the exact same turf where Putin held his batshit pro-war rally the other day. And there are thousands of workers in Qatar living 4 to a room in what amount to prison cells, who've had their passports taken from them, and who aren't getting paid the wages they were promised to send home to their families. All to build stadiums for a World Cup. Maybe Newcastle United being owned by Saudis isn't even CLOSE to football's actual moral nadir. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 44901 Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 The Gary Neville thing on Amazon Prime about Qatar is worth a watch. There's bits with him talking to the workers and then talking to the agent bloke about the fact that they're all telling him they've had their passports removed, etc. Clearly lots of appalling shit going on, and it's not even like it's a secret. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wykikitoon 20168 Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 Funny now Everton are so fucking shite they're Everton and not Frank Lampards Everton. As if to distance the ugly fat fuck from what a disaster he is. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 15544 Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 More of this please 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaddockLad 17281 Posted March 24, 2022 Share Posted March 24, 2022 Sign him up.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wykikitoon 20168 Posted March 24, 2022 Share Posted March 24, 2022 Them lambs will be sore tonight 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spongebob toonpants 3997 Posted March 24, 2022 Share Posted March 24, 2022 LOL Italy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayatollah Hermione 13873 Posted March 24, 2022 Author Share Posted March 24, 2022 Right, time to open up that doping investigation for last summer. A fucking preposterous anomaly. Throw that 100m sprinter in as well, that was dodgy as fuck 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaddockLad 17281 Posted March 24, 2022 Share Posted March 24, 2022 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaddockLad 17281 Posted March 24, 2022 Share Posted March 24, 2022 6 minutes ago, Ayatollah Hermione said: Right, time to open up that doping investigation for last summer. A fucking preposterous anomaly. Throw that 100m sprinter in as well, that was dodgy as fuck And those fuckin ponces who won Eurovision 😑 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 15544 Posted March 24, 2022 Share Posted March 24, 2022 Bloody hell, just saw the result. Amazing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 15544 Posted March 24, 2022 Share Posted March 24, 2022 27 minutes ago, PaddockLad said: And those fuckin ponces who won Eurovision 😑 Different kind of drug test needed there 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 44901 Posted March 25, 2022 Share Posted March 25, 2022 Watched the highlights on Sky Sports YouTube channel. Fuck me, Italy missed some chances. The goal celebrations/Mancini's face are great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 35095 Posted March 25, 2022 Share Posted March 25, 2022 Start putting pineapple on pizza again 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toonpack 9434 Posted March 25, 2022 Share Posted March 25, 2022 31 minutes ago, Alex said: Start putting pineapple on pizza again Why would you ever not ?? I also think a WC without Italy, ain’t a World Cup, would say same for Germany, Brazil and Argentina. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaddockLad 17281 Posted March 25, 2022 Share Posted March 25, 2022 7 minutes ago, Toonpack said: Why would you ever not ?? I also think a WC without Italy, ain’t a World Cup, would say same for Germany, Brazil and Argentina. Well they weren't at the last one either.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toonpack 9434 Posted March 25, 2022 Share Posted March 25, 2022 4 minutes ago, PaddockLad said: Well they weren't at the last one either.... nope but my view still stands 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 35095 Posted March 25, 2022 Share Posted March 25, 2022 16 minutes ago, PaddockLad said: Well they weren't at the last one either.... Very noble of them to boycott these despotic regimes 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 35095 Posted March 25, 2022 Share Posted March 25, 2022 14 minutes ago, Toonpack said: nope but my view still stands I know what you mean. They've had a rubbish record since they won it in 2006 though. Failed to get out the group stages in 2010 & 2014, then haven’t qualified for the last one or this one. It’s not like they haven’t had good players available in that time either. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 44901 Posted March 25, 2022 Share Posted March 25, 2022 A world cup without Italy or Germany is an extra specially hilarious World Cup to me. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wykikitoon 20168 Posted March 25, 2022 Share Posted March 25, 2022 21 minutes ago, Gemmill said: A world cup without Italy or Germany is an extra specially hilarious World Cup to me. and we still wont win 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig 6682 Posted March 25, 2022 Share Posted March 25, 2022 1 hour ago, Toonpack said: I also think a WC without Italy, ain’t a World Cup, would say same for Germany, Brazil and Argentina. I don't subscribe to this. If you're not good enough to beat North Macedonia, you have no right being there. Whoever you are. It'd be like say the Premier League without Manchester United or Liverpool isn't the Premier League. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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