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"Kick Corona out of football. Sponsored by Corona Lite"
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CyberPingu posted:"Kick Corona out of football. Sponsored by Corona Lite" It would at least be fun if they did this
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Mar 24, 2020 11:33
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https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/mar/26/despite-coronavirus-its-business-as-usual-for-world-cup-workers-in-qatarThe Guardian posted:Despite coronavirus, it's 'business as usual' for World Cup workers in Qatar quote:Migrant labourers building stadiums and infrastructure for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar are still being sent to work on crowded construction sites, despite a government order outlawing “all forms of gatherings” because of the coronavirus pandemic. quote:Such a condition would be nearly impossible to meet in Qatar, where workers live in crowded labour camps, sharing dormitories, often with eight to 10 others, and are transported to work in company buses crammed with up to 60 people. quote:“I worry a lot about getting the virus, but I need the money,” said one Kenyan construction worker, not employed on a World Cup project, who works 14-hour shifts. He said he wears gloves and a mask at work but it is not enough. “Only God is enough,” he added.
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Mar 26, 2020 17:03
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African AIDS cum posted:Would the USA have enough big stadiums to host such an event? Dude, don't post poo poo like this.
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Apr 2, 2020 09:56
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Persiflagist posted:Dude, don't post poo poo like this. Dude, don't quote poo poo from 3½ years ago.
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Apr 2, 2020 10:43
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jeebus bob posted:Dude, don't quote poo poo from 3½ years ago. This is the 2nd time I’ve seen this, it’s real weird
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Apr 2, 2020 11:44
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Also I've never seen that guy post itf before today where he's posted in 3 separate threads and every post references Tom
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Apr 2, 2020 12:11
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That’s some weird posting.
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Apr 2, 2020 12:14
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The post got a ban as well lol
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Apr 2, 2020 12:51
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Butterfly Valley posted:Also I've never seen that guy post itf before today where he's posted in 3 separate threads and every post references Tom I like this brash newcomer. Tom's posting days are numbered imo
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Apr 2, 2020 18:06
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Tom has like 4 accounts though. So it could just be him on another alt.
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Apr 2, 2020 19:00
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Glad to finally see someone standing up to Tom's posting reign of terror 3 years ago
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Apr 3, 2020 06:56
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I am Tom.
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Apr 5, 2020 03:04
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https://twitter.com/sportingintel/status/1247269372340682765?s=20 the Justice Department just dropped indictment/court docs related to Jack Warner and there are no surprises in there e: reading through and you can easily find out who some of the unnamed people are. "Co-Conspirator 2" is Mohd bin Hammam, former AFC chair and Qatari bid wrangler who has been banned for life from FIFA. plus you get to learn how the Copa Libertadores basically was a money-laundering scheme for much of the 2000s. Troy Queef fucked around with this message at 22:33 on Apr 6, 2020 |
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Apr 6, 2020 22:14
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Troy Queef posted:https://twitter.com/sportingintel/status/1247269372340682765?s=20 HOLY poo poo NO WAY who would have thought (I’m still glad it’s being released though)
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Apr 6, 2020 22:29
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Also in the indictment docThe Athletic posted:In October 2011, the U.S. soccer world woke to the shocking news that World Cup TV rights would move from ESPN to Fox. It wasn’t just that ESPN, which had televised the World Cup since 1994 and had helped popularize the then-exotic import, lost but that the sport would go to the brash Fox Sports. I am very shocked by this development and could have not seen it coming
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Apr 7, 2020 02:35
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Oh wow, they're finally gonna take FIFA down! Or, you know, have a couple small fish go to prison and sweep this under the rug, again.
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Apr 7, 2020 14:22
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Simone Poodoin posted:Oh wow, they're finally gonna take FIFA down! Considering all the people I see named in the indictment segments itt are no longer FIFA members, they'll congratulate themselves on already rooting out the bad apples and carry on as if nothing happened.
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Apr 7, 2020 15:08
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The only conceivably interesting thing here is whether or not ESPN would have any legal recourse against FOX Sports in the US since FOX won World Cup rights over ESPN thanks to bribes, but thanks to the USA's wonderful non-enforcement of antitrust laws they've since become owned by the same company.
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Apr 7, 2020 16:58
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Crazy Ted posted:The only conceivably interesting thing here is whether or not ESPN would have any legal recourse against FOX Sports in the US since FOX won World Cup rights over ESPN thanks to bribes, but thanks to the USA's wonderful non-enforcement of antitrust laws they've since become owned by the same company. Disney doesn’t own Fox Sports; it was one of the Fox TV properties that Murdoch kept in the acquisition (along with Fox News, Fox Business, etc.).
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Apr 7, 2020 17:08
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Weedle posted:Disney doesn’t own Fox Sports; it was one of the Fox TV properties that Murdoch kept in the acquisition (along with Fox News, Fox Business, etc.).
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Apr 7, 2020 18:11
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Crazy Ted posted:Really? I thought Disney still owned Fox Sports somehow, or at least their broadcast rights in some fashion. They briefly got some international FS brands but sold them off to Sinclair immediately at the behest of the DoJ.
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Apr 7, 2020 18:16
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It's why it's called 20th Century Studios now - Disney doesn't want to confuse people that they don't own Fox Corporation.
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Apr 7, 2020 19:40
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Crazy Ted posted:The only conceivably interesting thing here is whether or not ESPN would have any legal recourse against FOX Sports in the US since FOX won World Cup rights over ESPN thanks to bribes, but thanks to the USA's wonderful non-enforcement of antitrust laws they've since become owned by the same company. Remember, laws are pretty malleable in the US at the moment. Fox Sports is still a Murdoch company and he's best buddies with Trump, and therefore, with AG Barr as well.
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Apr 7, 2020 20:59
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Reviving this thread because I can’t think of where else to put it. https://www.scmp.com/sport/football/article/3113955/chinese-super-league-tightens-salary-and-spending-rules-warning The Chinese Super League is being told by the government to cap salaries further than they already are, capping foreign players at 3 million Euros a year. The loophole being that image rights and third party sponsorships are not capped but subject to approval by the government. I expect a lot of official Malaysian potato snack partner of Graziano Pellè to make up the difference.
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Dec 16, 2020 14:47
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Gigi Galli posted:Reviving this thread because I can’t think of where else to put it. just imagine how much axle grease you could sell with Pelle's image rights
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Dec 16, 2020 15:06
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Gigi Galli posted:Reviving this thread because I can’t think of where else to put it. Are they trying to focus on improving their domestic players? For how big China is their national team is terrible.
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Dec 16, 2020 17:26
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Literally Lewis Hamilton posted:Are they trying to focus on improving their domestic players? For how big China is their national team is terrible. i remember reading an article about their troubles ages ago and it boils down to how insane the real estate market is (still i think) which comes down to limiting the number of pitches in cities etc. so even if all the kids wanted to play and grow up to be footballers they won't physically have enough pitch space for them to play on
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Dec 16, 2020 17:38
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Butterfly Valley posted:Also I've never seen that guy post itf before today where he's posted in 3 separate threads and every post references Tom Wtf lol
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Dec 16, 2020 20:34
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poo poo's slowly dragging on for ol Sepp and FIFA in Switzerland: https://apnews.com/article/international-soccer-zurich-sports-europe-sepp-blatter-soccer-f682a9d6f83823d3dcb6bdc272970888 The latest is FIFA suing him for the hosed up deal he arranged with an insurance company to renovate their property for the football museum in Zurich and also pay them above market rent until 2045. Renovtion and rent add up to about $500m, plus the thing operates at a ridiculous loss and there was a $50m write off in 2016. The new lawsuit is being handled in Zurich's courts, he's still involved in two in the federal courts for payments to Platini and Warner. The Swiss federal prosecutor had to resign after "forgetting" what he talked about in unreported meetings with Infantino, so none of this will ever end.
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Dec 22, 2020 14:54
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At least 6,500 migrant workers have died in Qatar building poo poo for the World Cup
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Feb 23, 2021 15:40
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vyelkin posted:At least 6,500 migrant workers have died in Qatar building poo poo for the World Cup So when I still used Reddit. When I mentioned something like this before, someone unironically commented "But those workers all came from more dangerous backgrounds with jobs with higher mortality rates. So it's actually saved lives.
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Feb 23, 2021 15:46
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CyberPingu posted:So when I still used Reddit. When I mentioned something like this before, someone unironically commented "But those workers all came from more dangerous backgrounds with jobs with higher mortality rates. So it's actually saved lives. and hell, if you can't trust reddit who can you trust
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Feb 23, 2021 20:31
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https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/mar/24/sepp-blatter-gets-new-six-year-ban-from-football-after-fifa-investigationquote:The former Fifa president Sepp Blatter has been given a new ban of six years and eight months from football, the game’s global governing body has announced.  I’m sure this has taken care of the endemic corruption at FIFA.
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Mar 25, 2021 04:06
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Lol the tournament in Qatar is still happening. Blatter's only regret is that he won't get to partake in the biblical amounts of graft set to occur.
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Mar 25, 2021 05:28
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At least Sepp still isn't allowed to post in The Wagatha Christie
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Mar 25, 2021 05:37
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Pook Good Mook posted:Lol the tournament in Qatar is still happening. Blatter's only regret is that he won't get to partake in the biblical amounts of graft set to occur.
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Mar 25, 2021 06:05
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sticksy posted:https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/mar/24/sepp-blatter-gets-new-six-year-ban-from-football-after-fifa-investigation So their own investigations found that these two took CHF23-30 million and they fined them one million. That'll teach 'em!
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Mar 25, 2021 13:07
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Meanwhile UEFA is responding to Covid by getting rid of FFP: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/mar/25/football-financial-fair-play-rules-to-be-ripped-up-after-covid-crisis
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vyelkin posted:Meanwhile UEFA is responding to Covid by getting rid of FFP: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/mar/25/football-financial-fair-play-rules-to-be-ripped-up-after-covid-crisis Good it was useless anyway and now at least the big boys can really get stung on those comedy deals. Bring on the bloated mega contracts
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