St Evan Echoes posted:

everything peter beadsley says is a slur

UnlimitedSpessmans posted:

looking forward to the mince for this.

quote:

But Beardsley was allowed to continue in his role and it was to the dismay of many within the academy when Gibson reluctantly left his boyhood club in the summer, joining Everton in a deal which could rise to £6million.

We understand the 17-year-old had the support of several academy coaches, one of whom advised him to leave for the good of his career.

Jose posted:

so everyone at the club hated beardsley but because it never went public the club put up with him

https://twitter.com/CraigHope_DM/status/950864100262862848

Jose posted:

so everyone at the club hated beardsley but because it never went public the club put up with him

https://twitter.com/CraigHope_DM/status/950864100262862848

quote:

Russia doped all its international football teams, with the Russian sports minister instructing that the players should never be caught testing positive, according to the whistleblower who has exposed the scale of corruption in Russian sport.

And Russia planned to swap urine samples at the 2018 World Cup so that its footballers could take drugs with impunity this summer, in a carbon copy of their operation at the Sochi Winter Olympics, according to those close to Grigory Rodchenkov, the former head of the Moscow anti-doping laboratory.

Rodchenkov is now in witness protection in the USA, having already provided damning evidence against Russian sportsmen and women.

But Bryan Fogel, director of Icarus, the documentary film which detailed Rodchenkov’s flight to the USA and revealed the extent of the Russian doping conspiracy, has indicated that the lab director’s testimony on football will be just as damning as for winter sports or athletics.

It means that FIFA are heading into the Russia 2018 World Cup while trying to investigate and potentially discipline the host nation for what looks like the biggest doping scandal football has known. It could lead to the Russia team losing several players and will likely lead to calls for Russia to be banned from their own World Cup.

Fogel, who spent two years investigating doping and getting to know Rodchenkov before he went into witness protection, has revealed more details about Russia’s football doping programme and how it was allegedly orchestrated by Vitaly Mutko, the Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, who until last month was in charge of Russia 2018.

Fogel said: ‘What I know from Grigory is that the order from Mutko was: “Football must be clean.”

‘What that meant was that there should never be positives reported in football, even though all the footballers were on the state-sponsored doping programme.’

Rodchenkov is the whistleblower who initially revealed to Fogel and then to the World Anti-Doping Agency that Russian government security agents had helped him defraud the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics by passing tainted Russian samples through a hole in the wall in the anti-doping lab, to be replaced with clean urine.

Pressure is now on FIFA to interview Rodchenkov. However, FIFA have yet to make contact with him, other than indicating to the WADA intermediary that they wish to do so.

FIFA claim they want to analyse all the data they have been given to allow for a more informed interview with Rodchenkov ‘relatively soon’.

Blue Star Error posted:

And Russia planned to swap urine samples

Blue Star Error posted:

Blue Star Error posted:

oliwan posted:

Russia did nothing wrong

Eau de MacGowan posted:

the scale of riots if russia gets banned from russia will be, as the french say, encroyable

Vagabundo posted:

So what would be the process here, if Russia is told to gently caress off out of its own World Cup (they probably won't). Does a new UEFA qualification spot open up?

Breath Ray posted:

they field players who can test clean in the most inspiring underdog story ever told

vyelkin posted:

Qatar will take it

Loving Africa Chaps posted:

Pretty sure Qatar's stadiums are still some muddy foundations made from a unique mix of cement and south asian immigrants

Vagabundo posted:

So what would be the process here, if Russia is told to gently caress off out of its own World Cup (they probably won't). Does a new UEFA qualification spot open up?

FullLeatherJacket posted:

FIFA would clearly just have to give it to the highest ranked UEFA team not to qualify

Infantino and Berlusconi then go out to the piazza and kiss passionately

trem_two posted:

https://twitter.com/ShaneBurns_/status/952167729292857344
https://twitter.com/fcsm_official/status/952107025202319364

djssniper posted:

Watch http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6333060/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 Icarus

St Evan Echoes posted:

piss tape confirmed

Breath Ray posted:

what happened to the white playerr who held his nose about the black player the other day, I think in the villa game

peanut- posted:

Why not go to Russia? They might have got the tournament through massive bribery, but so did everyone else. It’s a proper football country with loads of booze and mental fans, it would be fun.