Official Football Thread

[Lukedfrt 91]

Let's hope Arsenal do the scum over today! SOTV

[Juice29 0]

mike96 said:

Juice29 said:

I thought Qatar was in the middle of the desert. The World Cup happens in Summer. How will the players cope?

It'll happen on December, won't it? 

That messes with almost every single major domestic league/championship

[AMSKRR 3]

Exactly. I don't think it would really be possible. How could we take 1 month or so out of the football calendar in Europe? It would disrupt leagues, cups, European competitions...I just don't see how it would work personally...Maybe the season would have to end in June, but then that might disrupt other things..

Also, it could mean that some players end up away from families at Christmas, because although it is due to end on something like the 23rd December, Christmas travel is not exactly reliable is it? 

[f1since08 60]

Juice29 said:

Hoping to get some action at the Stadium of Light Chris? :tongue:

Yes :p 

I wouldn't mind having the world cup in the summer, none of our players get called up so if we play the big teams we may have a chance ;)

[sjsharp2010 227]

mike96 said:

Juice29 said:

I thought Qatar was in the middle of the desert. The World Cup happens in Summer. How will the players cope?

It'll happen on December, won't it? 

Yeah I think it's been moved to January/Feb time I heard on Sky sports a while back when conditions are at their coolest in that area of the world. It means all the domestic action is likely to get postponed for about a month and the football calendar that year will be in a bit of chaos but unfortunately we'll just have to put up with it I think.

[Platy 6]

fIsince08 said:

Juice29 said:

Hoping to get some action at the Stadium of Light Chris? :tongue:

Yes :p 

I wouldn't mind having the world cup in the summer, none of our players get called up so if we play the big teams we may have a chance ;)

I don't think many other teams in the Championship are effected by international call up ;)

[Juice29 0]

SUper nervous for the FA cup final. This match makes or breaks our season :tired_face: 

[Platy 6]

Qatar needs to be stripped of it, not because of the bribery and corruption, but because of the human rights violations in that country. Its become bigger than football and if FIFA continue to support a world cup there then there's a bigger problem.

[Hughesy 254]

Lukedfrt said:

Let's hope Arsenal do the scum over today! SOTV

Come on Villa  o:)

[Juice29 0]

1-0 to Arsenal at half-time

[AMSKRR 3]

Hopefully Villa can get the next goal...Make it interesting.

[Hughesy 254]

Kinda in two minds actually, as if Arsenal win Southampton qualify for the Europa League which would be awesome :)

[Platy 6]

Alexis definitely made the right choice of going to Arsenal instead of Liverpool.

[AMSKRR 3]

Yeah, I bet he is glad haha

And that goal. Incredible. 

[Juice29 0]

3-0 now game over for villa. I bet @Lukedfrt is happy :joy:

[Juice29 0]

WE DID IT BACK TO BACK FA CUPS GET IN! :joy: 4-0 :smiley:

[AMSKRR 3]

Last seasons game was far better...

[sloty 0]

Well done the gunners 

[Lukedfrt 91]

What a day, didn't get back until 5 this morning aha. 
Absolutely buzzing, won 70 pound on it as well!!  :#

[onetwothree 0]

https://twitter.com/RobHarris/status/605045115300794368

[sjsharp2010 227]

AMS97KRR said:

Exactly. I don't think it would really be possible. How could we take 1 month or so out of the football calendar in Europe? It would disrupt leagues, cups, European competitions...I just don't see how it would work personally...Maybe the season would have to end in June, but then that might disrupt other things..

Also, it could mean that some players end up away from families at Christmas, because although it is due to end on something like the 23rd December, Christmas travel is not exactly reliable is it? 

in fairness though some countries leagues are still disrupted anyway we just don't see it because it's not generally our league that is disrupted in fairness. Given that for us we're in our close season then As leagues that are played during the summer still do get disrupted. So there would be disruptions somewhere regardless of when it took place. The only difference with the new dates for that is it'll be us that'll face it. A lot of the Scandinavian leagues play during the summer as do the US and Brazillian leagues. They've adjusted to having a WC in the middle of their seasons so I guess it's something we are going to have to adjust to.

[Platy 6]

Sepp Blatter is resigning.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/32982449

[Juice29 0]

Good Riddance!

[sjsharp2010 227]

yeah it looks like he's finally got the hint shame he didn' tdo this before the election though given Fifa now need to stage another one

[Hughesy 254]

Blatter is stepping down, live pictures of me celebrating