H-Dreamer Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 Gets worse here every day, as politicians see it as an easy way to get votes from casual fans and uninterested people who get fed the "soccer fans are evil"-crap by the media every day. So they increase pressure on the FA to increase security. Nowadays they want tents at every stadium, where fans would have to strip nude for a search. That's totally insane. even more insane are those people who say they would happily strip, cause they "have nothing to hide". I have nothing to hide, but fuck them if they think I strip for a fucking police officer at a football game. They keep claiming violence is on the rise, while there are 2 injured persons per game and that includes 2nd Division games. 2 per game(!), when there are over 40.000 people visiting each game. In comparision to other similar big events thats ridiculously low. The statistics also don't track how many of those injured people were injured by the fans and how many by the police. Also they do track how many people are charged for violence, but they don't track how many of them are actually found guilty. Police is complaining every time someone says, that officers have to wear a name or number so they can't hide in anonymity. I see all these things and can't help thinking "and so it begins, again". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jules Posted December 8, 2012 Author Share Posted December 8, 2012 Fortuna Sittard with another away win. Firmly in a playoff spot, which is really all I wanted for this year. Just 5 points behind first place though... :o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H-Dreamer Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 Istanbul player hit by bottle and smoke bomb: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/soccer-dirty-tackle/dtotd-galatasaray-burak-yilmaz-hit-smoke-bomb-fans-175703033--sow.html Too many idiots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giaco Posted January 6, 2013 Share Posted January 6, 2013 I swear Sepp Blatter is the biggest jackass ever. http://www.football-italia.net/29136/blatter-boateng-wrong-run-away Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LindG1000 Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 What's all this noise about Ronaldo leaving RM? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jules Posted January 14, 2013 Author Share Posted January 14, 2013 What's all this noise about Ronaldo leaving RM? He's been unhappy as of late, no one really knows why, so rumours are he wants to leave RM. But where to go? There aren't many teams who can afford his salary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluephoria Posted January 16, 2013 Share Posted January 16, 2013 Where have you been? He's had issues for a mont or two now and has been saying he wants to go back to Manchester United for like 2 weeks now.. Prob won't happen but he's made tons of comments about it.. Madrid reportedly want something like 200 mil for him so, yea... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High and Wide Posted January 21, 2013 Share Posted January 21, 2013 Sneijder to Galatasaray http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/jan/20/internazionale-wesley-sneijder-galatasaray Wesley Sneijder's protracted departure from Internazionale has ended with the Holland international signing for Galatasaray. The 28-year-old has been in contract talks with the Turkish club since Inter accepted an ?8m bid two weeks ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H-Dreamer Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 Ajax fined for fans stating their opinion on modern soccer: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/4751426/Ajax-banner-fine.html Ridiculous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ba Ba Bluey Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 French Magazine Reports That Qatar Bribed Its Way To The 2022 World Cup http://deadspin.com/5980241/french-magazine-reports-that-qatar-bribed-its-way-to-the-2022-world-cup#13595830600272&{"type":"iframeUpdated","height":1254} Shocker. This is not new; from the moment Qatar was named the 2022 World Cup hosts, allegations have been made that FIFA committee members had accepted millions of dollars in bribes to make it happen. Some of those executives were even banned or quit in disgrace! So it's not outside the realm of probability. The latest claims come from this week's edition of respected magazine France Football, and they seem to imply UEFA head Michel Platini was pressured to switch his vote from the United States to Qatar. The "evidence" is of the isn't that curious? sort rather than a hard paper trail. Platini, the magazine reports, attended a dinner with then-French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Qatar's crown prince, and a representative of French club Paris Saint-Germain. This "secret meeting" was held nine days before the World Cup vote. Here are the dots, which you're asked to connect: PSG, Sarkozy's favorite team, was sold to the Qatar Investment Authority, overseen by the crown prince. Platini's son was hired by the Qatar Investment Authority. Al Jazeera, owned by the Qatar royal family, launched a sports network that now owns broadcast rights to the French League and UEFA tournaments. There is some actual evidence to back up France Football's general claims of bribery. An internal email from FIFA secretary-general Jerome Valcke saying that Qatar "bought the 2022 World Cup". A former employee on the Qatar bid says two African executives, including African Confederation President Issa Hayatou, were bought off in exchange for their votes. Former FIFA media chief Guido Tognoni says bribery was rampant. Naturally, everyone involved denies the allegations. Said Platini: "President Sarkozy would never have asked me to vote for Qatar 2022 because he knows that I'm my own man. I made my choice with complete independence following a simple logic... opening up countries who have never organised major sporting events." 2022 is nearly a decade away?we're seriously running the risk of scandal fatigue. And we haven't even involved Sepp Blatter or Russia yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ole_20 Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 Becks is signing with PSG today...as long as Zlatan isn't a bitch about sharing the limelight, and understands just how much better Becks' service could make him, things should work out well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jules Posted January 31, 2013 Author Share Posted January 31, 2013 Yeah, awesome to see Becks back in Europe like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ole_20 Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 Yeah, awesome to see Becks back in Europe like this. i agree...while it was nice to be able to see the Galaxy games when he was around in NY, it's nice to see his ambition is still there playing for a European club on the rise.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H-Dreamer Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 Wait Becks still isn't retired? How old was he again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ole_20 Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 haha...he'll be 38 by season's end Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NYRangers92 Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 is the French league actually competitive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ole_20 Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 is the French league actually competitive? some decent teams in it...PSG is trying to build a team to dominate and compete in Europe, but they had been blindly spending money...now, they're TRYING to make deals that fit their needs, but they're still a bit away.....and clubs like Lyon and Marseille are so well-run that they don't need to, nor do they spend anywhere near as much money as PSG and they compete for the league every season.... some great talent comes through the French league...GREAT, but ultimately it just falls short of being a top league in the world....i'd say if you have to really rank it, it's probably the 5th best league in the world at the moment... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H-Dreamer Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 PSG has shelled out money and soul like shit this season. It's totally insane and helps ruining many other teams, cause player prices get totally inflated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ole_20 Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 PSG has shelled out money and soul like shit this season. It's totally insane and helps ruining many other teams, cause player prices get totally inflated. totally agree...it's absurd the amount they're paying for players....absurd..... and Anzhi buying Willian today didn't help ?34 million Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ba Ba Bluey Posted February 4, 2013 Share Posted February 4, 2013 http://sports.yahoo.com/news/match-fixing-probe-found-380-103613303--sow.html THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) -- A wide-ranging match-fixing investigation has uncovered more than 680 suspicious games - including World Cup and European Championship qualifiers and two Champions League games - and found evidence that a Singapore-based crime gang is closely involved in match-fixing, Europol said Monday. The investigation by Europol, the European Union's joint police body, found 380 suspicious matches in Europe and another 300 questionable games outside the continent, mainly in Africa, Asia and South and Central America. ''This is a sad day for European (soccer),'' Rob Wainwright, the head of Europol, told a news conference. He said criminals were cashing in on soccer corruption ''on a scale and in a way that threatens the very fabric of the game.'' Europol said 425 match officials, club officials, players and criminals from at least 15 countries were involved in fixing the European soccer games dating back to 2008. The agency declined to name specific suspects, teams or games so as not to disrupt ongoing national police investigations. It was unclear exactly how many of 680 games mentioned were previously known to have been tainted, but the very public announcement shed light on the murky underworld of match-fixers, who bet on fixed games to reap enormous profits around the globe. The probe uncovered (euro) 8 million ($10.9 million) in betting profits and (euro) 2 million ($2.7 million) in bribes to players and officials and has already led to several prosecutions. Those numbers are far lower than many previous estimates of the amount of cash involved in match-fixing and betting on rigged matches, but prosecutors said the amounts they named were what they could directly pin down through 13,000 emails, paper trails, phone records and computer records. ''This is the tip of the iceberg,'' said German investigator Friedhelm Althans, who also said two World Cup qualification matches in Africa and one in Central America were among those under suspicion. Wainwright said while many fixed soccer matches were already known from criminal trials in Europe, the Europol investigation that began in July 2011 lifted the lid on the widespread involvement of organized crime in rigging games. ''This is the first time we have established substantial evidence that organized crime is now operating in the world of football,'' he said. ''(That) highlights a big problem for the integrity of football in Europe.'' He said a Singapore-based criminal network was involved in the match-fixing, spending up to (euro) 100,000 ($136,500) per match to bribe players and officials. Again not shocked... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jules Posted February 4, 2013 Author Share Posted February 4, 2013 Trying to act surprised. Can't. Too many players from too many countries on too many teams and with too much money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H-Dreamer Posted February 4, 2013 Share Posted February 4, 2013 Yeah, I think we all could easily name games we thought to be possibly rigged because strange things happened or the ref was bad. Still sad to see it's possibly true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluephoria Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 Pini Zahavi is in my office right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H-Dreamer Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 Had to google him, but that Wikipedia entry makes him look like a jewish clich? used by fascists. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluephoria Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 Haha.. He's one of the biggest agents in all of football! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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