Guest Edwin Posted April 25, 2020 Share Posted April 25, 2020 On 4/12/2020 at 7:22 AM, Fuzzy Dunlop said: YOUR TEAM'S ALL TIME FAVOURITE XI Jan Oblak; Filipe Luís, Diego Godín, Miranda, Juanfran; Paulo Futre, Gabi, Diego Pablo Simeone, Koke; Fernando Torres, Radamel Falcao That was pretty hard to put together. Too many good players I can throw in there though -- Diego Forlán, Kiko, Tiago, Milinko Pantić, Sergio Agüero, Diego Costa, David de Gea, Thibaut Courtois, etc. I was thinking about the players almost signed, but the transfers feel through -- R9, Riquelme, Klinsmann, Cantona, Stoichkov, Kluivert, Eto'o, Anelka and most recently Lacazette, Cavani and Lautaro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxB Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 (edited) So Alan Pardew got his £100,000 bonus for avoiding relegation as manager of ADO Den Haag. They would have gone down but the Eredivisie season was abandoned. Certain Rangers-affiliated ex players are saying the SFA should follow the Dutch lead. End the season, declare Celtic earned the Champions League spot, but don't crown a league champion. So not only do Celtic not get nine in a row, next season it's reset to zero and they have to start over. So not biased at all there. Edited April 27, 2020 by AxB 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 I thought I heard Pardew donating the bonus money. the bad thing about these restart decisions is that either authorities cannot set aside their tribalism or at least their motives will be questioned by people through their biased POV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolfan in NYC Posted April 28, 2020 Author Share Posted April 28, 2020 French officials have announced Ligue 1 & Ligue 2 will not continue their seasons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Edwin Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 (edited) Eredivisie also announced they will not be continuing their season and that it would be voided and Ajax would not be recognized as the the league winners. I know the Premier League, Bundesliga and LaLiga are doing the best they could to resume the league with the games taking place in closed door stadiums. Edited April 28, 2020 by Edwin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 Silly thought popped into my head: what if, instead of empty stadiums, the various leagues played indoor soccer? Not even making the results count against the standings, just something to do for awhile as I know it's been done there in some form. I want Manchester Red Evils vs Arsenal Gunners at the O2, dang it. EDIT: I know the typo is there but I was too tickled to fix it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 1 hour ago, Pete said: Silly thought popped into my head: what if, instead of empty stadiums, the various leagues played indoor soccer? Not even making the results count against the standings, just something to do for awhile as I know it's been done there in some form. I want Manchester Red Evils vs Arsenal Gunners at the O2, dang it. EDIT: I know the typo is there but I was too tickled to fix it. Glad you didn't. Made me chuckle. Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReiseReise Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 Ligue 1 finished, by point average, PSG declared champions, two teams get relegated. There may be a precedent for BPL if matches can't continue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 Lyon already threatening to sue, of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiji Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 What a nightmare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 There is no perfect solution, so at least some club is going to be upset. Just seems like using will just garner bad PR for that club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxB Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 (edited) If some leagues actually resume* and others don't, what happens to next season? Surely they aren't proposing to have English football restart in June, play through July and then start pre-season again in August? What happens to this year's Europa League and Champions League**, let alone qualification for next year? * nb: I'd say it's more than 50% likely that the Englsih league at least attempts to start playing games again. ** Obviously if French teams aren't playing domestic football and English teams are, that means you've got one set of players who are match fit and one set who aren't. So to actually play the games wouldn't be fair. But if they cancel the games, does that mean Liverpool are considered to have retained the Champion's League? Interesting way to win the double, that. Edited May 1, 2020 by AxB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 The Uefa dictum recently was that if a league cant finish, they have to come up with final standings that will figure out the next CL/EL competitors. Thats what France just did. Supposed.y, if a league “voids” the season, instead of doing a final table, they will not be in the CL/EL. With some countries not having sports until September, i think the CL will not finish. Unless they all go to a neutral site. Not surprisingly, psg has suggested playing their CL matches in Qatar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 It's a parody account of Liverpool Mayor, Joe Anderson but I briefly thought he was talking about Fat Spanish Waiter from here back in the day. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throughsilver Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 9 hours ago, AxB said: But if they cancel the games, does that mean Liverpool are considered to have retained the Champion's League? Interesting way to win the double, that. The double? They might win nothing, at this rate. There will just be no winner of the champ league, unless they can play the games later. The domestic leagues have a decent amount of data in order to "complete" the season (even if average points for the season just means there will be no change in the tables. How about predictive analytics, if they're all so clever? Higher weighting to more recent matches etc). But UEFA only have group stages and aborted round of 16 games to go on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolfan in NYC Posted May 2, 2020 Author Share Posted May 2, 2020 The USWNT's lawsuit for equal pay against US Soccer was dismissed on Friday. The judge has allowed their claim of unequal work/travel conditions to go to trial though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Edwin Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 If LaLiga can't resume and they end the season, there's talks Barça would be announced as the league champs and Atleti would be in 6th, so they should be dropping to the EL, but given what they did in the last CL game and their performance in previous leagues and European competitions, they are getting an invite in the CL from UEFA, so all's well on my end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 If they start “inviting” teams that don’t qualify on merit from last year, just go ahead and start the European Super League and be down with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Edwin Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 Sure, that would make sense, but in their defense -- it would not have been fair to just reject them from the CL when they just pulled off an enormous upset in which they weren't given a shot by hardly anyone outside of their fan base eliminating one of the best clubs in the world and the past champions. Plus, we don't know how far they could have realistically run in the competition itself this season and there is a very high chance they would have finished in a top 3 league spot as they are 2 points away from a CL spot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChesterCopperpot Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 On 4/30/2020 at 8:16 AM, Pete said: Silly thought popped into my head: what if, instead of empty stadiums, the various leagues played indoor soccer? Not even making the results count against the standings, just something to do for awhile as I know it's been done there in some form. I want Manchester Red Evils vs Arsenal Gunners at the O2, dang it. EDIT: I know the typo is there but I was too tickled to fix it. The Guinness Soccer 6's were a thing in the mid to late 80's when English teams were banned from playing in Europe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted May 4, 2020 Share Posted May 4, 2020 9 hours ago, ChesterCopperpot said: The Guinness Soccer 6's were a thing in the mid to late 80's when English teams were banned from playing in Europe THE G-MEX! Looks like if MISL put a team in the Kibbie Dome. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChesterCopperpot Posted May 5, 2020 Share Posted May 5, 2020 Bundesliga slated for May 15th return Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabremike Posted May 5, 2020 Share Posted May 5, 2020 3 hours ago, ChesterCopperpot said: Bundesliga slated for May 15th return None of them are any match for the new largest club on Earth: The mighty FSC Slutsk, future champions of Belarus, Europe and the entire world!!!!!! #SlutskArmy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Edwin Posted May 5, 2020 Share Posted May 5, 2020 Ousmane Dembélé won't be allowed to play the remainder of the league games with Barcelona if the league does continue. He spent an extensive amount of time injured and the club signed and registered Martin Braithwaite as his replacement. He will however be eligible to play the remainder of the Champions League games if the competition does somehow continue this season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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