Swift Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 The winners in all of this are Maribor, who essentially get a walkover in the next round. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 I will like that last post, but only because I now have Rangers as the team I support in Scotland, switching my allegiance from Dundee United. This is based on how amazing their fans were at Derby last week, loudest and funnest away fans I've ever heard. And pro-British, which is a check in my book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 Supporting dead things will make you feel icky. This Celtic/Warsaw story is pretty bizarre. How do two teams and the UEFA all miss that a guy's suspended? One for the history books... I suppose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirFozzie Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 well, what happened is he was suspended for three games in Legia's last Europa League game. He sat out the two games against St Pat's and the first leg, so all set right? Nope. Turns out there's a UEFA rule that says you have to be registered for a match to officially miss it, and Legia didn't submit the player on their match roster. So the matches didn't count towards the suspension So Legia thought he had served the suspension, while according to UEFA's rules he had two games remaining. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 Oh okay so it's one of those ridiculous pre-computer age rules that has no purpose anymore like making professional golfers sign a scorecard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirFozzie Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 Well. it also punishes the team for having a player sent off (since the player has to be registered to count for the suspension), that means they can only register 24 active players + the suspended player for that round. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 20 minutes into PSG's opener, and Ibra already has a goal, a bad miss, and a saved penalty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Magnificent 7 Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 Dodgy as fuck. Feel bad for Legia, who I think would have made the group stages as first Polish side in something like 18 years. Legia should be playing the next round, and we should be learning some hard and valuable lessons about risk. I do love the talk about zombies fans being such lovely fun chaps because of one personal experience despite a mountain of evidence they aren't. Ted Bundy was such a charming guy they said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Magnificent 7 Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 Southampton's 10m bid for Forster was accepted. He's a very good 'keeper and he'll be missed. Hey Celtic board...take a look at that 6-1 a few times and REINVEST THE FUCKING MONEY. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Magnificent 7 Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 Credit: Night of the Living Rednecks on Kerrydale St. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Magnificent 7 Posted August 9, 2014 Share Posted August 9, 2014 Stevie May sold to Sheffield Wednesday. Hopefully will keep scoring goals for the Owls down there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirFozzie Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 Blackpool had nine men early in the morning, they do call up enough youth team members/sign folks to have four subs, but still fall 2-0. And my favorite lower level team, Cambridge United, win their first game in the league in 9 years over Plymouth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 My sincere hope for Blackpool now is that, at some point this season, they score a goal from open play. Fuck. What went so dreadfully wrong there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirFozzie Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 So, the remnants of Hurricane Betha are hitting england.. hope Wembley has a good drainage system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SirFozzie Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 Edit: Not even one full day into the English season, we have our first firing http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/aug/10/huddersfield-mark-robins?CMP=twt_gu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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odessasteps Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 Does the Community Shield "count" as Arsenal winning hardware? I hope so, since it would kill one annoying talking point beforethe season even starts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 I think the season opening trophy being treated like a joke is one of those self-fulfilling prophecies when you have mega clubs who already have a lot going for them playing over it. If there was a year that some second division team won the FA Cup and by some miracle Sunderland or Swansea had won the Premiership (won't happen, but go with me here), I'm pretty sure they'd be quite happy to be playing over an additional free trophy any day. Not that I've heard anything about it this year, but teams that treat trophy games like a burden aren't very endearing to me. Be thankful your club is in such good shape, I say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swift Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 Does the Community Shield "count" as Arsenal winning hardware? I hope so, since it would kill one annoying talking point beforethe season even starts. Surely that talking point was put to bed when Arsenal won the FA Cup last year? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranesi Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 I think it matters more that they played a top four team and weren't sent home to mum dribbling piss down their legs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 Men in Blazers have jumped from ESPN to NBC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Magnificent 7 Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 Bein Sports is carrying the League Cup 1st round match between AFC Wimbledon and Milton Keynes Dons on Tuesday afternoon (2:40 ET). Watch it, should be a tasty atmosphere and let's hope Wimbledon cuffs them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 I presume it will be just as spirited as before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReiseReise Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 With the Bundesliga start two weeks from now, we are still in the depths of our World Cup aftermath.Roughly an hour ago, Miroslav Klose released an official statement, announcing his retirement from the Germany squad.He stated that he saw a childhood dream fulfilled in Winning Brazil 2014 and that he is proud having helped a great team to achieve a great goal. How can you blame the guy? He deserves to go out on a high note. He took his time to let stuff sink in and especially over the last few years he always seemed to focus on tournament years and the national squad. He took extended periods of time to heal injuries at Lazio, basically putting the national team´s interests his own. He deserves to retire a champion. Klose is not only the much talked about all time record scorer in World Cups but also the man to break legendaryat Gerd Mueller´s international goal record for Germany (Klose´s 71 compared to Mueller´s 68) after that benchmark seemed set in stone for almost fourty years. Addtionally Miroslav Klose is the second most capped player (137 games for Germany) right after Lothar Matthäus (154 games). Klose appeared in seven major tournaments for Germany:2002: FIFA WORLD CUP Japan & South Korea - runner up, 5 goals2004: UEFA EURO Portugal - group stage elimination, no goals2006: FIFA WORLD CUP Germany - third place, 5 goals, GOLDEN BOOT WINNER 2008: UEFA EURO Austria & Switzerland - runner up, 2 goals 2010: FIFA WORLD CUP South Africa - third place, 4 goals 2012: UEFA EURO Poland & Ukraine - semi-finals-elimination, 1 goal 2014: FIFA WORLD CUP Brazil - WINNER, 2 goals While Phillip Lahm probably deserved a similiar short listing of his credentials, Klose has been the last link between German footballs "dark ages" and the time where our squad were considered favourites or at least co-favourites at tournaments like today. Plus he was plain and simply my favourite Germany player over the last decade or so. Much respect and love for Miro, danke fuer alles. I hope he will have a great and enjoyable career sunset. Klose, aswell as Lahm, will get a sent off before the international friendly between Germany and Argentinia on September 3rd. Both won´t be playing, according to their own wishes, automatically making their final international appearance for Germany the 2014 World Cup final. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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