2020-21 Football thread (4 Viewers)

[nuke terrorist]

Per Bredesen (1930 - 3 October 2022)
Striker who spent most of his career playing in Italy and the only Norwegian to win Serie A (in 1956-57 w/ AC Milan).

Per Bredesen er død

Milan-helten og ein av dei aller første norske utanlandsproffane, Per Bredesen, er død, 91 år gammal.

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[Richie]

Holland, France, Greece & Gibraltar in our Euro 2024 group.. Laughably difficult on paper, the one upside being a lot of high profile glamour fixtures and the fact that Kenny's Ireland, when they have managed to look vaguely convincing, have tended to do it against the bigger teams. Very unlikely to take a top 2 spot and thanks to our lousy Nations League results we need all kinds of other group results to go our way to even make a playoff, so it's a shot to nothing almost

 

[Cormcolash]

Sack Kenny if we can't even beat France

 

[nuke terrorist]

John Duncan (1949 - 8 October 2022)

John Duncan, manager of Chesterfield’s run to FA Cup last four in 1997, dies at 73

Sir Alex Ferguson led the tributes to the former Spurs striker who also managed Scunthorpe, Hartlepool and Ipswich

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Yuriy Dehteryov (1948 - 9 October 2022)
Shakhtar Donetsk and USSR keeper who won 17 caps before Dasayev took over

Yuriy Dehteryov - Wikipedia

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[Unicron]

Good win for Arsenal yesterday, They look like clearly the second best team in the league at the moment, it's a shame that City are so good.

 

[nuke terrorist]

Good win for Arsenal yesterday, They look like clearly the second best team in the league at the moment, it's a shame that City are so good.

Deserved win alright. Didn't expect any more from Liverpool - they looked exhausted for the last fifteen minutes.
After clash mid air clash between Jesus, Virgil and Alison in last minute the ref stopped the game for three minutes for very little and there was a sub after that.

The needs to be more robust rules on injury time. Still too easy to get away with wasting time at end of a match.
Also if a sub is subbed you should lose a substitution (only 4 instead of 5).

 

[Unicron]

After clash mid air clash between Jesus, Virgil and Alison in last minute the ref stopped the game for three minutes for very little and there was a sub after that.

The real low point of the match was the treatment of Jesus and his assorted blows to the head. It seemed clear that Tsimikas, whether deliberately or by accident, KO'd him with his elbow. But he was allowed to continue.

Arsenal were specifically at fault in this instance but it was done in the context of the wider game, which still has a long way to go WRT head injuries.

 

[Unicron]

This is a real pity

Brighton’s Enock Mwepu forced to retire due to hereditary heart condition

Brighton’s chairman, Tony Bloom, said: ‘We are all absolutely devastated,’ after tests revealed Enock Mwepu had a career-ending hereditary heart condition

www.theguardian.com

 

[nuke terrorist]

This is a real pity

Brighton’s Enock Mwepu forced to retire due to hereditary heart condition

Brighton’s chairman, Tony Bloom, said: ‘We are all absolutely devastated,’ after tests revealed Enock Mwepu had a career-ending hereditary heart condition

www.theguardian.com

Poor guy

 

[Cormcolash]

He's no Ilunga Mwepa. "Oh bollocks!"

 

[Deadmanposting]

COYGIG!!!

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[Cormcolash]

Absolutely brutal stuff from Ireland straight out of the Trap/Charlton playbook. The top teams at the World Cup will take that shit apart, but they'll probably be fine against a lot of the shitter teams, so depends on the group draw really.
It's great that they managed to make the World Cup, and that will hopefully spark a big development in women's football in the country, but hard to see them making any tournaments coming up in the next few years if they keep giving the ball back to the opposition the way they were doing tonight.
I guess one thing that can be said is that the Trap style of defensive bullshit football is a bit more effective in the women's game because there aren't as many power blaster goals from outside the area to deal with. Organisation always helps in any match, and I think in women's football, teams find it harder to break down bus set-ups from defensive teams.

 

[nuke terrorist]

the first half was good in Glasgow, second half less so. Amber Barrett's first touch was immense.
Barrett's scored important goals for Ireland off the bench a few times now. I was worried when other results were going Ireland's way that we simply wouldn't score.
Courtney Brosnan was ace. she got lucky a second penalty wasn't given in first half but otherwise never put a foot wrong. the central defenders were strong too.

at half time we were looking at Rory Delap on youtube to compare him to Megan Campbell.
he seemed to have a lower trajectory and could throw the ball harder but not any further than Megan.

anyway really pleased. it's a huge overachievement to get there ahead of much better funded countries with a far stronger culture of women's football.



Sergio Brighenti (1932 - 10 October 2022)
Brighenti was assistant to Azeglio Vicini at Euro 88 and Italia 90.
As a player he scored 138 goals in Serie A and won 9 caps (2 goals). Brighenti won Serie A twice with Inter in 1952/53 and 53/54. He was also top scorer in Serie A in 1960/61 with 27 goals with Sampdoria.

Sergio Brighenti - Wikipedia

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[Cormcolash]

at half time we were looking at Rory Delap on youtube to compare him to Megan Campbell.
he seemed to have a lower trajectory and could throw the ball harder but not any further than Megan.

Yeah, Delap's throws were much more like an arrow, Campbell's more like a javelin trajectory. Great throws, but it says an awful fucking lot about your attacking capabilities that one of your main tactics is "Try and get a throw-in near the other team's box"

 

[Deadmanposting]

Uh oh

Ladies team singing 'RA songs in the dressing room




Shouldn't the orange shirts cancel that out tho?

 

[egg_]

IRA songs? Which songs?

 

[GARYXKNIFEDX]

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I doubt it was this song,but it's got a singalong chorus.

 

[Deadmanposting]

IRA songs? Which songs?

Up the 'RA I think?
Maybe more of a chant

As with most of these things, I did not see the 'crime' ..... just the outrage

 

[ann post]

Anyone giving out about it can go back to sniveling around Westminster with the rest of fine Gael.

 

[Deadmanposting]

I'd say it's generally not on
You can understand it happening in a dressing room after a big win though. And it is a banger as chants go.

We have it a bit easier in the south
We don't actually have to live with or deal with the consequences of an Irish team singing such chants. But people up north do. It's ammunition for the other side...and it all drags on and on.

It's worth reminding ourselves to knock this shit on the head, I think.





Happy to withdraw this opinion if a Nordie (a proper 6-county one) says it's bollocks.