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Gigi Galli posted:I was also thinking this. Gigi Galli posted:Russia is going to have to have real grass pitches for the World Cup, even though most of their stadiums are turf, right? Crazy Ted fucked around with this message at 23:16 on Oct 5, 2014 |
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Tsaedje posted:What surfaces would they play on if Canada hosted the men's World Cup? If the reason for the fake pitches is the climate it's not an issue of sexual discrimination. If FIFA requires the men's World Cup to be played on real grass but not the women's there is a slight case. The reason for the fake pitches is that it's cheaper, because of the climate. There is a football stadium in Canada that has a real grass field (BMO Field in Toronto, not being used for the Women's World Cup because of really, really stupid reasons), but it used to have astroturf and it was total garbage. The players who played there regularly got injured all the time and it contributed to the team playing very poorly. Then, one time Real Madrid came for a friendly and the team installed real grass for that one match because Madrid's players didn't want to play on turf, and then removed it again after the friendly, and the team's players and fans raised such a poo poo fit that the team was willing to pay the extra money to cater to Real Madrid but not for their own players that finally they replaced it with a permanent real grass pitch. It's purely an issue of cost, that maintaining good grass is harder because of the climate but not impossible. I believe the case being made (in Canadian human rights courts, remember, not in FIFA or sport courts) is that if Canada somehow managed to host the World Cup they would hold it on grass, but because the women's tournament is less important then they're not bothering to do the same. In Canada that kind of institutional discrimination is a big no-go, even if everyone knows that's how football operates globally.
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Tsaedje posted:What surfaces would they play on if Canada hosted the men's World Cup? If the reason for the fake pitches is the climate it's not an issue of sexual discrimination. If FIFA requires the men's World Cup to be played on real grass but not the women's there is a slight case. We'd lay down grass, owned
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I'm sure ol' Sepp "[females] could, for example, have tighter shorts" Blatter will resolve this to everyone's satisfaction.
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Gigi Galli posted:I was also thinking this. Talking completely out of my rear end it's probably a standing issue - my guess is that until FIFA was 100% committed to using turf the case wasn't quite ready to bring before a court. Simply awarding the WWC to Canada didn't guarantee it (even if it was 99% likely) is they had to wait.
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Crazy Ted posted:Well then why didn't the players file suit when the WWC was first awarded to Canada since it was already known then that all of the stadiums would use FieldTurf? Players might not have known at the time. Nobody reads until someone loud tells them to.
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Earthy Ape Unit posted:Talking completely out of my rear end it's probably a standing issue - my guess is that until FIFA was 100% committed to using turf the case wasn't quite ready to bring before a court. Simply awarding the WWC to Canada didn't guarantee it (even if it was 99% likely) is they had to wait. That's also a good point, I wouldn't put it beyond FIFA to not announce the decision until that decision became irreversible.
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Jermaine Dildoe posted:We'd lay down grass, owned I guess we'll find out in 2026.
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(Sepp Blatter sarcastic voice) oooh Canadian human rights courts oooh scary im scared
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That lovely FIFA movie cost $27 million. I'm sure they could've paid for a few grass fields with that money.
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You can't grow grass in Canada
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Charlotte Hornets posted:You can't grow grass in Canada That's a lie, BC Bud is the best. 
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Bio-Hazard posted:That's a lie, BC Bud is the best. Not since CA/OR/CO legalized it.
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Tigren posted:Not since CA/OR/CO legalized it. not even close to the right states, it WA and CO
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Lord of Garbagemen posted:not even close to the right states, it WA and CO Yeah Oregon is a huge pile of loving redneck fail, please don't confuse it with Washington, home of legal weed, a more successful economy, football supporters that believe in a proper gender binary, cooler ski mountains and *checks notes* a college football team that's actually beaten Arizona in the last 3 years.
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Is anything stopping Canada from going "Ok fine, we won't host the WWC"?
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Great White Hope posted:Is anything stopping Canada from going "Ok fine, we won't host the WWC"? No, because money moves from one pocket to another and noone has any regard for the belles.
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Great White Hope posted:Is anything stopping Canada from going "Ok fine, we won't host the WWC"? Canada is too polite to not host it after promising to.
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The women are lucky to even have a world cup to be honest. FIFA should spice things up by allowing a team of local high school boys to compete in it and win the whole thing, that would show them.
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Earthy Ape Unit posted:a college football team that's actually beaten Arizona in the last 3 years. this is pure gold, ++A would read again
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African AIDS cum posted:The women are lucky to even have a world cup to be honest. FIFA should spice things up by allowing a team of local high school boys to compete in it and win the whole thing, that would show them. avatar + post
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Great White Hope posted:Is anything stopping Canada from going "Ok fine, we won't host the WWC"? After this, the last FIFA tournament Canada will not have hosted is the men's senior World Cup. They want to point at a successful tournament and use it as credibility for a 2026 bid. On top of that, in just the past 8-9 years there's been a huge upswing in popularity and media attention towards not just soccer in general, but our local and national teams as well. Believe it or not, but after London 2012 the women's team are a bigger draw than our perennially poo poo men's team. They want to keep the spotlight and momentum going to keep interest growing in the domestic game and not just what you watch on TV Saturday morning. Poonior Toilett fucked around with this message at 13:43 on Oct 7, 2014 |
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Reprisal posted:avatar + post I know, seriously. What's up with that guy?
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Fifa should combine the mens and womens game then freely let the women take performance enhancing drugs to level it out a bit.
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Primpod posted:Fifa should combine the mens and womens game then freely let the women take performance enhancing drugs to level it out a bit. even the most rigorous of pep guardiola doping regimes wouldn't help women "even" it up
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Lord of Garbagemen posted:even the most rigorous of pep guardiola doping regimes wouldn't help women "even" it up I think that at the height of the soviet doping program they solved that problem by altering the body chemistry so drastically the women essentially became men.
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Byolante posted:I think that at the height of the soviet doping program they solved that problem by altering the body chemistry so drastically the women essentially became men. Must have been tough with twitter and Steam still decades away
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Jermaine Dildoe posted:Must have been tough with twitter and Steam still decades away Lol
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Byolante posted:I think that at the height of the soviet doping program they solved that problem by altering the body chemistry so drastically the women essentially became men. This can't be right because Tumblr didn't exist until 2007.
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A writer watched the FIFA film and the main takeaway he got was that FIFA really, REALLY hates the English.
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I really hope this thing sees the light of day
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Here we see Blatter—at this point Havelange's No. 2—having lunch with a friend. He's worried, distracted; his friend wants to know what's wrong. "Talk to me, Sepp." "A while ago when it was time to pay our personnel, the accountant announced that there was nothing left in the coffers. Havelange wouldn't take my call." "And?" "And I signed a personal check for two hundred thousand Swiss francs." "My God." "But it was that or they weren't getting paid. I mean, can you imagine what the press would have done with a story like that? Worst of it is, I don't know where the money's gone. I mean I have my suspicions, but I can't be certain."
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After being elected president of FIFA, Blatter calls together all the FIFA higher-ups to tell them what for. There have been some irregularities, after all—hints that not everyone is as honest and incorruptible as he is. "Now, the next tournament will take place in both South Korea and Japan, far from Europe" he tells the assembled big-wigs. "Some of you may feel that this is a good opportunity to close lucrative deals with certain lobbies. Think again. No sport is spotless; there is just a lot more money involved in ours, which is why from now on we will be exemplary in all respects. The slightest breach of ethics will be severely punished."  The assembled bureaucrats, who for whatever reason just happen to have some attractive Adidas and Coca-Cola products laying around, say things like "Haw haw! Is that a threat, Mr. President?" and "President Havelange would have never dared to treat us with such utter contempt," to which the imperturbable Blatter has a reasonable comeback: "Well, maybe he should have." "President Havelange—" "Is no longer president. I am. João Havelange presided over our family for 24 years. Did he make mistakes? Perhaps. It's not for me to judge. But I am warning you—all of you. We will play by my rules now. Gentlemen." Truly, the hero football deserves.
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It's been said before and I'll say it again: Sepp Blatter is the world's greatest troll.
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I thought Tim Roth was respectable.
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Wirth1000 posted:I thought Tim Roth was respectable. yeah and now his bank balance is even more respectable
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TheBigAristotle posted:I really hope this thing sees the light of day I won't speculate on theatrical runs or DVD releases, but uh, it's out there, man. I'm kinda surprised nobody's posted it to Youtube, tbh. After Roth's "we're going to be an ethical FIFA, dammit!" bit, he pulled this face:  Gonna watch the whole thing at some point this week
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Wirth1000 posted:I thought Tim Roth was respectable. Eau de MacGowan posted:yeah and now his bank balance is even more respectable and he has excellent tickets to every world cup final for the rest of his life.
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Re women's world cup, surely they're not being discriminated because men = good and women = bad but the surfaces being replaced is in line with the tournament budget (which would be in line with what it brings in) being obviously lower for the lasses? I see United Passions is on torrents sites, brilliant.
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Mike Toole posted:I won't speculate on theatrical runs or DVD releases, but uh, it's out there, man. I'm kinda surprised nobody's posted it to Youtube, tbh. It wasn't as terrible as I thought it'd be honestly. If it were not produced and funded by FIFA, it'd just be another sub par football movie rather than a film doubling as propaganda and a hit piece against the English.
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