The 2022-23 Football (Soccer) Thread

[IbanezJem]

1 minute ago, Nova Carmina said:

No, no -- I think there may just be something wrong with Liverpool. Call it a crazy hunch.

Klopp fulfilling the 7th season prophecy?

[Nova Carmina]

Just now, IbanezJem said:

Klopp fulfilling the 7th season prophecy?

[IbanezJem]

2 minutes ago, Nova Carmina said:

It feels like Bielsa and the second season syndrome - any outcome is put down to it, either as an exception or the rule 

[IbanezJem]

Chancel Mbemba`s the one that used to turn up for Newcastle matches in a tuxedo, I think. He can get back in it now 

[Nova Carmina]

I need a distraction . . . Poch to Chelsea?

[IbanezJem]

Just now, Nova Carmina said:

I need a distraction . . . Poch to Chelsea?

[IbanezJem]

Just now, Nova Carmina said:

I need a distraction . . . Poch to Chelsea?

Potter surely, so he can get a good old-fashioned career setback on his CV, one that it is not his own fault. Not sure emerging coaches are the most successful at Chelsea.

[blackhawkrush]

Zielinski. 

[blackhawkrush]

Poland 3 USA 2  Now for Brazil in the semifinal. 

[blackhawkrush]

8 hours ago, blackhawkrush said:

Poland 3 USA 2  Now for Brazil in the semifinal. 

Let's not forget 1ga.  

[Nova Carmina]

Well, I guess Liverpool won't lose this weekend.

[IbanezJem]

22 minutes ago, Nova Carmina said:

Well, I guess Liverpool won't lose this weekend.

I`m very surprised they`ve done this - if every team is playing midweek and weekend up until the World Cup break, it seems like a feeble reason to implement the kind of insincere sanctimony I instinctively rail against. She was just an old human woman, no more no less - I mourn her as I would mourn any 96 year-old I didn`t know.

[blackhawkrush]

2 hours ago, IbanezJem said:

I`m very surprised they`ve done this - if every team is playing midweek and weekend up until the World Cup break, it seems like a feeble reason to implement the kind of insincere sanctimony I instinctively rail against. She was just an old human woman, no more no less - I mourn her as I would mourn any 96 year-old I didn`t know.

It will give Ekstraklasa a chance to take center stage. 

[blackhawkrush]

Cracovia is playing a friend of Wisla tonight, so there should be some fun-time in the stands.  

[blackhawkrush]

Widzew 2 Cracovia 0    At halftime, I told myself the second half can't be worse than the first. It was. 

[IbanezJem]

Without retreading over old ground, the Cricket had its suitably sombre start to the day - national anthems, no advertising hoardings, no fancy dress in the crowd etc., and it`s turned into a kind of celebratory event.  Mourning becomes electric, if you will. 

 

To tread over old ground, it seems to me that football could have paid appropriate tributes and actually had a one-of-a-kind weekend. I suspect that PL suits don`t trust a stadium full of football fans to keep their bazoo shut for long enough to get through a match without an egregious chant. 

[blackhawkrush]

3 hours ago, IbanezJem said:

Without retreading over old ground, the Cricket had its suitably sombre start to the day - national anthems, no advertising hoardings, no fancy dress in the crowd etc., and it`s turned into a kind of celebratory event.  Mourning becomes electric, if you will. 

 

To tread over old ground, it seems to me that football could have paid appropriate tributes and actually had a one-of-a-kind weekend. I suspect that PL suits don`t trust a stadium full of football fans to keep their bazoo shut for long enough to get through a match without an egregious chant. 

There was an Ekstraklasa game being played when the news came out that John Paul II died. The match was abandoned. I wonder if English teams would play their Champions League fixtures had the Queen died a few days earlier. 

[IbanezJem]

26 minutes ago, blackhawkrush said:

There was an Ekstraklasa game being played when the news came out that John Paul II died. The match was abandoned. I wonder if English teams would play their Champions League fixtures had the Queen died a few days earlier. 

The Europa League games involving British sides found a way to play on Thursday after the news broke. I just think decisions made with emotion and in deference to assumed protocol are generally wrong. Football is the only major sport not playing - I don`t count Horse Racing as that was a Queenie favourite so fair enough. 

[blackhawkrush]

Stal 2 Wisla 1    Unfortunately for Wisla, all Polish Kings expired quite some time ago. 

[blackhawkrush]

      1GA SWIATEK     

[blackhawkrush]

On 9/8/2022 at 2:46 PM, blackhawkrush said:

Poland 3 USA 2  Now for Brazil in the semifinal. 

Poland 3 Brazil 2  On to the final against Italy. It's on, Simon. 

[blackhawkrush]

Poland 1 Italy 3    And what's worse, I'm going to be eating Italian bread for supper tonight.    

[blackhawkrush]

Juventus/Milik adventure with VAR is the top story in Italy, not the volleyball final.    

[IbanezJem]

37 minutes ago, blackhawkrush said:

Juventus/Milik adventure with VAR is the top story in Italy, not the volleyball final.    

That was pretty insane though. Being sent off for celebrating a goal that was then disallowed by VAR but only because VAR didn`t look at the one camera angle that showed he was onside. 

[blackhawkrush]

2 hours ago, IbanezJem said:

That was pretty insane though. Being sent off for celebrating a goal that was then disallowed by VAR but only because VAR didn`t look at the one camera angle that showed he was onside. 

You already had a yellow, Arkadiusz.