Soccer, Sports and Politics - Part Deux

Discussion in 'Politics & Current Events' started by argentine soccer fan, Feb 12, 2024.

  1. Khan

    Khan Member+

    Mar 16, 2000
    On the road
    Thats equally stoopid, because I've likewise not seen that work on officials.

    Tirades are stupid, and so are player bïtching at the ref.
     
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  2. Germerica

    Germerica Member+

    May 2, 2012
    SoCal burbs
    Club:
    Los Angeles
    FC Köln and Damian Downs win the 2 Bundesliga and automatic promotion!
     
  3. Val1

    Val1 Moderator
    Staff Member

    Arsenal
    Mar 12, 2004
    MD's Eastern Shore
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Today we are all Crystal Palace fans. Im out of town at a wedding, so pissed I couldn't watch live. As a kid living in England, Palace were my second favorite team, going from 4th division to 2nd in three years, largely because of their name. Still is the best team name in soccer.
     
  4. Deadtigers

    Deadtigers Member+

    Jul 23, 2015
    Independent Republic of the Bronx, NY
    Club:
    Manchester United FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Ghana
    What is the plural of mammoth?
     
  5. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Apr 29, 2001
    New Jersey, USA
    I'm partial to anything with a Lokomotiv in it or oddballs like Newell's Old Boys or Real Salt Lake FC Deportivo Maybe-Not-So-United
     
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  6. Deadtigers

    Deadtigers Member+

    Jul 23, 2015
    Independent Republic of the Bronx, NY
    Club:
    Manchester United FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Ghana
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  7. Germerica

    Germerica Member+

    May 2, 2012
    SoCal burbs
    Club:
    Los Angeles
    Maple Leafs and Jets both eliminated. Last Canadian club remaining are the Oilers… again.
     
  8. chaski

    chaski Moderator
    Staff Member

    Mar 20, 2000
    redacted
    Club:
    Lisburn Distillery FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Guam
    The Leafs are falling.
     
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  9. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Extinct
     
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  10. InTheSun

    InTheSun Member+

    Oct 20, 2005
    The Andes Mountains
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Ecuador
    Yeah, I love some of the South American team names. So many named after the neighborhood they were founded in or some other random name or even club they supported back in the old country. Some I like
    Bolivia's The Strongest
    Chile's Colo Colo
    Colombia's Millonarios
    Argentina's Ferrocarril Oeste
     
  11. BocaFan

    BocaFan Member+

    Aug 18, 2003
    Queens, NY
    Another game 7 yawner to go with that basketball game 7 on the same weekend.

    I'm not sure what added value playoffs really have, especially the bloated variety (?)

    Just glad most futbol leagues have stuck to the double round-robin / league format to determine the champions and pretty much everything else. I mean, how dramatic was Serie A yesterday, Ligue 1 the day before and Eredivisie last week (or last several weeks)?
     
  12. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Apr 29, 2001
    New Jersey, USA
    Mrs CPs team

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    Dang - when did he start swimming in Barry Bonds pool?
     
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  13. roby

    roby Member+

    SIRLOIN SALOON FC, PITTSFIELD MA
    Feb 27, 2005
    So Cal

    Ay, Wooly Bullys! :coffee:
     
  14. chaski

    chaski Moderator
    Staff Member

    Mar 20, 2000
    redacted
    Club:
    Lisburn Distillery FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Guam
    Not as dramatic as Arsenal and Newcastle battling yesterday for second place.
     
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  15. BocaFan

    BocaFan Member+

    Aug 18, 2003
    Queens, NY
    My interest there was to see if it would take until the last matchday of the season for Arsenal to secure a top 5 spot.
     
  16. ToMhIlL

    ToMhIlL Member+

    Feb 18, 1999
    Boxborough, MA
    Club:
    New England Revolution
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Sorry, the best we can do right now is Steve Nicol and Ray Hudson.
     
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  17. ToMhIlL

    ToMhIlL Member+

    Feb 18, 1999
    Boxborough, MA
    Club:
    New England Revolution
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Wouldn't it just be Mammoths? Not like Fish or Moose
    Nah, that's just hearsay, based on what Maddie told Hattie. For all we know, she watched Fox News.
     
  18. Deadtigers

    Deadtigers Member+

    Jul 23, 2015
    Independent Republic of the Bronx, NY
    Club:
    Manchester United FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Ghana
    I thought mammoths was too easy. I mean why would you not have the s. It's like going Red Bull instead of Bulls. Makes no sense.
     
  19. argentine soccer fan

    Staff Member

    Jan 18, 2001
    San Francisco Bay Area
    Club:
    CA Boca Juniors
    Nat'l Team:
    Argentina
    It's tue that refs don't like tirades and are not going to change calls based on them, but I think sometimes there is some value in those tirades. When I was playing if I saw our coach get on the ref when I thought (right or wrong) that the ref was being unfair to us it was to me a source of motivation.

    I remember one time back in college I thought we were being reffed unfairly, and our coach started complaining about the calls, and the ref stopped the game and yelled at him, "your job is to coach your team and my job is to ref the game. I let you do your job, so let me do mine" To which coach replied, "Then do it well". That last remark earned him a yellow card, but in some weird way I got some extra energy from that exchange, and I remember it to this day. Coach had our back.

    I've even seen it happen even in the pros, where players do get energized after their coach has their back and gets a yellow or a technical or whatever the penalty is in a given sport.

    Also as fans we are biased and we always think the ref is against us, so sometimes as a spectator I like it when the coach of the team I support stands up to the ref. And even as a neutral fan, there is some entertainment value from it, and sports after all is entertainment.

    So give me the Earl Weavers and the Billy Martins, and my old college soccer coach. I'm down with it.
     
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  20. Q*bert Jones III

    Q*bert Jones III The People's Poet

    Feb 12, 2005
    Woodstock, NY
    Club:
    DC United
    If your job is to sell more sodie pop, it makes perfect sense.
     
  21. roby

    roby Member+

    SIRLOIN SALOON FC, PITTSFIELD MA
    Feb 27, 2005
    So Cal
    I never paid much attention to the comments but when directed at a 13 yr old kid doing a u-10 match the line has been crossed. :(
     
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  22. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Gary Lineker posted an image of a rat in a social media post about Zionism, so he’s out at the BBC after this weekend.

    https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/45219597/gary-lineker-leave-bbc-not-present-2026-world-cup

    1. It kind of amazes me how in England, all the pundits whose political opinions I know are all lefty, like Phil Neville and Lineker.
    2. How he thought posting a rat in a post having anything to do with Jews is mind boggling. To me it’s as obviously over the line as posting an image of an ape when taking about black people, an automatic firing. I am not deep in the context of England or Lineker so maybe within the context it’s not as brain dead as I’m imagining it.
     
  23. russ

    russ Member+

    Feb 26, 1999
    Canton,NY
    Club:
    Liverpool FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    He's 64 and headed the ball a lot.So there's that.
    Also,according to the right,it's the left that are antisemitic now.
     
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  24. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I remember Pat Buchanan’s 1992 campaign, so it’s hard to wrap my head around this. The politics I grew up with and then our politics through my young and middle adulthood had anti Semites all on the right, not the left.

    That’s not true anymore. Much of the pro-Palestinian sentiment that is on the left is fair criticism of Israel, but some of it is anti Semitism. It bothers me. I don't have any idea how to change that. Neither does anyone else that I’ve seen.

    My position is that all bigotry is bad, not just bigotry against groups I don’t like. The left has fallen away from that.
     
  25. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    if you’re already a shark, I’m not sure you need PEDs. You’re already the alpha predator. Doing steroids is kind of rubbing it in, no?
     

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