Vegetable posted:Biannual world cups are fine. Disrupting the club calendar to accommodate toasty countries also sound fine. People just have a lot of inertia about this kinda poo poo. World Cups are great. What the gently caress
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if Arsenal had just bit the bullet and given Wenger a lifetime contract, the World Cup would stay every four years why don't you all just sit and think about that next time you're calling for sacking a manager, because you never know what the butterfly effect has in store
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having a lol over the guy who used to rage about Bernard Tapie's corruption shamelessly stumping for bi-annual World Cups
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Oct 1, 2021 14:29
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Don't make me post the verdict of the FIFA investigation into corruption at FIFA
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Jose posted:gently caress arsene wenger if/when this actually happens cause fifa is awful, it'd be nice if all of the usual nations just boycotted the first non-4 year WC and see how fifa likes trying to sell a tourney where the semis are like lithuania vs lebanon, see how much money that brings in
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Karl Sharks posted:if/when this actually happens cause fifa is awful, it'd be nice if all of the usual nations just boycotted the first non-4 year WC and see how fifa likes trying to sell a tourney where the semis are like lithuania vs lebanon, see how much money that brings in I’d watch this tbh. They should do the World Cup and the World Cup 2 with a bunch of nations that didn’t qualify for the actual World Cup if they want to go every two years. FIFA pay me 1 billion francs for this idea.
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Gigi Galli posted:I’d watch this tbh. They should do the World Cup and the World Cup 2 with a bunch of nations that didn’t qualify for the actual World Cup if they want to go every two years. I think Infantino already mentioned about a tournament for teams that don't qualify for the World Cup is an idea they may explore in the future.
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psyer posted:I think Infantino already mentioned about a tournament for teams that don't qualify for the World Cup is an idea they may explore in the future. I remember there was discussion about this back in 2018, mainly as a means for Italy and the US to play in something.
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Edward Mass posted:I remember there was discussion about this back in 2018, mainly as a means for Italy and the US to play in something. The World Toilet
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Oct 4, 2021 02:23
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I think you will find the World Invitational Tournament is a proud sporting tradition as old as soccer itself.
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Edward Mass posted:I think you will find the World Invitational Tournament is a proud sporting tradition as old as soccer itself.
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Edward Mass posted:I think you will find the World Invitational Tournament is a proud sporting tradition as old as soccer itself. We joke but.... I would sooner have this then the 64 Team tournament or whatever.
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Oct 4, 2021 07:50
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The thing is Wengers plan is actually pretty good, apart from the World Cup being every 2 years. If that bit could be disengaged from the main detail it would work out. Qualifying being a 4 week tournament of its own as it were is a solid concept as it attaches more significance to the process as it happens. The season being broken up so England can play Moldova and Andorra is nothing but tedious for everyone involved.
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psyer posted:I think Infantino already mentioned about a tournament for teams that don't qualify for the World Cup is an idea they may explore in the future. Just roll this into the Homeless World Cup
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Oct 4, 2021 15:19
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On 2nd thought, the homeless have been through enough, they shouldn’t have to deal with FIFA and probably don’t have money for bribes.
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they should stop trying to squeeze money out of the sport quite so greedily imo
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All opinions are my own and if you don't like them I have others
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https://news.sky.com/story/former-fifa-officials-sepp-blatter-and-michel-platini-charged-with-fraud-12457982quote:Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter and his ex-UEFA counterpart Michel Platini have been charged with fraud in Switzerland. quote:In addition to being charged with fraud, Blatter has been charged with mismanagement, misappropriation of FIFA funds and forgery of a document.
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Nov 2, 2021 16:47
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Switzerland has laws against fraud?
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Pook Good Mook posted:Switzerland has laws against fraud? If they think you're stiffing them for their take, absolutely.
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Pook Good Mook posted:Switzerland has laws against fraud? You don't see Pep managing FC Basel
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For Halloween I passed out copies of United Passions. This doubled its total revenue. Joseph Blatter is a saint.
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Gigi Galli posted:You don't see Pep managing FC Basel lol
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Nov 9, 2021 18:39
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The world cup is a CIA op
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"Former" CIA officer, hmm?
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This feels like the thread for it. Two Norwegian journalists were arrested and detained for two days by Qatari authorities for "trespassing" after they tried to interview migrant workers. The same thing happened to a BBC team back in 2015 when they deviated from the official tour group and tried to conduct their own interviews. And it comes right on the heels of Josimar being threatened with a lawsuit over their reporting on the case of Abdullah Ibhais, a former Qatari World Cup communications employee who NRK was set to speak to, but he was arrested on Monday last week just hours before the interview was set to take place. https://twitter.com/tariqpanja/status/1463452524258672641?s=20 Grimson fucked around with this message at 14:21 on Nov 24, 2021 |
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Nov 24, 2021 14:07
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I'm frantically checking every betting site to find the market on which footballer is going to end up detained during the world cup and putting my mortgage on harry maguire
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the sex ghost posted:I'm frantically checking every betting site to find the market on which footballer is going to end up detained during the world cup and putting my mortgage on harry maguire Wait, you guys qualified?
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the sex ghost posted:I'm frantically checking every betting site to find the market on which footballer is going to end up detained during the world cup and putting my mortgage on harry maguire Entire squads are going to be arrested for doing their usual group sex filming and Qatar will win the whole thing.
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Nov 24, 2021 15:06
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Qatar is normally a dry country right? I have in my head that they've said they'll let fans drink but I don't know if they've grasped the scale of everyone wanting to be hosed up all the time
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Nov 24, 2021 15:26
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Dunno necessarily where the best place to post this is, but lol lmao https://twitter.com/MailSport/status/1463405798785171460
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ilmucche posted:Qatar is normally a dry country right? I have in my head that they've said they'll let fans drink but I don't know if they've grasped the scale of everyone wanting to be hosed up all the time It straddles the same line a lot of Middle Eastern countries do where foreigners can get licenses to buy alcohol for personal use from the state-owned liqour stores, and some hotels can sell to non-Muslims, whereas Muslims are strictly prohibited. They have implied that fans will be allowed to drink, but if I were there and a drinker I'd probably refrain just because of the potential consequences of anything I did while drunk being far more sever.
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trem_two posted:Dunno necessarily where the best place to post this is, but lol lmao Football halves are too long as well, let’s make them into 2 twenty minute quarters instead and we can squeeze 5 minutes of commercials in between
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trem_two posted:Dunno necessarily where the best place to post this is, but lol lmao Haha, gently caress
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Nov 24, 2021 16:38
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I'm looking forward to 80,000 people calling Ed Sheeran a wanker in Wembley
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Mrenda posted:I'm looking forward to 80,000 people calling Ed Sheeran a wanker in Wembley Is he doing stadium tours again?
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I don't think I've ever wanted Millwall to make a cup final before
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fast cars loose anus posted:It straddles the same line a lot of Middle Eastern countries do where foreigners can get licenses to buy alcohol for personal use from the state-owned liqour stores, and some hotels can sell to non-Muslims, whereas Muslims are strictly prohibited. They have implied that fans will be allowed to drink, but if I were there and a drinker I'd probably refrain just because of the potential consequences of anything I did while drunk being far more sever. its better than that: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/nov/18/alcohol-cruise-ships-rainbow-flags-what-awaits-fans-at-qatar-world-cup qatar are literally going to park a couple of cruise ships off the coast and let fans from all nations stay on them and drink there is no way this can go wrong
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