The Court of Arbitrary Arbitration - Random Facts, Thoughts, Etc.

This is Everyone's Game#NoRoomForRacism pic.twitter.com/tYfQBd4g7w

— Premier League (@premierleague) March 30, 2019

 

It’s important that we all challenge discrimination within our game. #allredallequalhttps://t.co/YdrAGmX1yy pic.twitter.com/PnHbYjCN3R

— Manchester United (@ManUtd) April 12, 2019

 

Football must get tougher on racism - Sterling

https://www.skysports.com/football/...arsher-punishments-to-stop-racism-in-football

 

Hey anyone know what's going on with @johno haven't heard from him in a while.

 

He put us all on his Ignore list.

 

Interesting, suggests that the "leak" for the City game line-up may have been because the players (to everyones surprise) trained at the Cliff in full view of the public.

https://metro.co.uk/2019/04/25/ed-w...jaer-latest-manchester-united-defeat-9321186/

 

He ran out of excuses for Pogba.

 

http://www.espn.com/soccer/tulsa-ro...ract-terminated-after-racist-abuse-accusation

Too bad the bigger clubs don't follow this example. Player contract terminated for n word use.

 

Arya Stark made it look better than Iniesta, Gotze, Messi, Ronaldo, Aguero and Chastain...

 

#Unfollow Manchester United campaign underway and gathering momentum?

https://www.givemesport.com/1473794...low-man-united-campaign-is-gathering-momentum

I'm not on Twitter so I wasn't aware of this until today, but it's a real thing. Definitely not against it, if for no other reason that the higher ups need to realize the level of discontent among United fans.
And how the current situation (which we've been in for the last 6yrs) is simply unacceptable. And therefore, there needs to be massive changes on deck.

 

Raiola addresses his suspension by the Italian FA.

http://sportwitness.co.uk/mino-raio...rustrated-weirdo-impact-man-united-explained/

His comments are coming off as very confident, cavalier even. Hope that the reason for this will be revealed sooner rather than later (although, it wouldn't be surprising either if it end up being reversed or erased either).
More importantly though, one would hope that this would prompt UEFA to look into this and launch some kind of inquest on Raiola's business practices.

 

It'll be hilarious when it comes out that Ed squealed on Raiola about some shady shit he did, all so Raiola couldn't operate as an agent and sell Pogba.

Apparently, since he lost his licensure from the Italian governing agency, he can't operate under the English FA either until he secures alternative licensure.

 

Mino Raiola's ban has been made worldwide by FIFA.

http://www.espn.com/soccer/italian-...-agent-mino-raiolas-three-month-ban-worldwide

 

Good to see that fat cnut put in his place. No doubt he does plenty of shady shit behind the scenes to secure himself higher transfer fees. That guy is a first class piece of shit.

 

What will de Ligt and Pogba do? Do they stay put, fire Raiola, or use temporary alternative representation?

My bet is Pogba uses temporary alternative and Raiola still gets a cut.

I bet de Ligt fires his ass. He doesn't strike me as a typical Raiola client anyhow.

 

His suspension of 3mos takes him until early August. It could be argued that would leave him some time to conclude deals (since most European countries close their window at the end of the month/early September unlike the Prem) if he's in the clear by then.
Guessing another possibility would be for him to give power of attorney to an associate, to conduct business on his behalf. Looking forward to finding out the exact nature of the charges against him though.

 

FIFA drops their WC expansion plans for the 2022 edition.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/48373886

Pity it's not permanent. Guess we'll see when we get there, but 48 teams really looks to be too many.

 

Summer boredom. Let's pick a best XI of our two recent CL winners.

1999:

Schmeichel
GNeville-Johnsen-Stam-Irwin
Giggs-Beckham-Butt-Blomqvist
Yorke-Cole
Subs: Sheringham, OGS

2008:

VDS
Brown-Ferdinand-Vidic-Evra
Hargreaves-Scholes-Carrick-Ronaldo
Rooney-Tevez
Subs: Giggs, Nani, Anderson

My pick:

VDS
GNeville-Ferdinand-Stam-Evra
Beckham-Scholes-Carrick-Ronaldo
Rooney-Cole
Subs: Sheringham, OGS, Giggs

 

Shit line up You picked Rio over vidic

Everybody knows vidic is better.

 

Ok then pick your lineup.

 

Vidic was captain after all. Clearly miles better

 

I could but I take more pleasure in pointing out the obvious flaw in your lineup.