Today's Football

[Kai]

Not sure why the EFL Cup semi is still a two-legged affair, this heavily favours big teams to get into the final.

Surely this goes against the very spirit of a cup competition??

And a week long half-time break is hardly exciting. A bit more money for a lot less drama seems a poor trade-off.

Do they still have two-legged matches for the first two rounds? I've never understood why that was.

Not sure they ever had? All I know is that the bigger clubs join the competition in rounds 2 and 3.

[Michael5482]

Turkish football in a bit of a mess, Istanbulspor's president withdrew his team after a referee decision and refused to play on today so match abandoned.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67767410

[Kai]

Turkish football in a bit of a mess, Istanbulspor's president withdrew his team after a referee decision and refused to play on today so match abandoned.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67767410

Imagine walking off the pitch when you don't get a penalty decision

Absolutely ridiculous, permaban the guy and deduce 20 points

[Euler]

That's crazy

[Derek27]

Turkish football in a bit of a mess, Istanbulspor's president withdrew his team after a referee decision and refused to play on today so match abandoned.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67767410

Imagine walking off the pitch when you don't get a penalty decision

Absolutely ridiculous, permaban the guy and deduce 20 points

I've known a few kids that went berserk when they were losing a game, but I doubt any of them grew up to become president of a football club.

[Kai]

Considering laying Liverpool

I'm not having Xmas ruined again

[Kai]

Turkish football in a bit of a mess, Istanbulspor's president withdrew his team after a referee decision and refused to play on today so match abandoned.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67767410

Imagine walking off the pitch when you don't get a penalty decision

Absolutely ridiculous, permaban the guy and deduce 20 points

I've known a few kids that went berserk when they were losing a game, but I doubt any of them grew up to become president of a football club.

There was a club owner down in Greece couple years ago, he went down to the pitch to have a word with the ref, carrying a handgun

He was a close personal friend to Putin, so not much of a surprise there

Buncha cowboys down there

[Kai]

It was this guy : https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/43369490

[Derek27]

It was this guy : https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/43369490

Are you sure that article isn't a joke?

The club was deducted three points - but managed to overturn the sanction on appeal - after Olympiakos coach Oscar Garcia was hit by a toilet roll thrown from the stands at PAOK in February.

[Michael5482]

European Super Court judges UEFA & FIFA rules banning clubs from the European Super League was unlawful.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67783970

Sounds like it has more to run especially with all the money in football, UEFA & FIFA are greedy at the best of times but so are clubs especially all these big money foreign owners. The European Super League was just replacing greedy UEFA & FIFA with greedy clubs and owners.

Wouldn't surprise me to see the Saudi's sniffing about with a LIV style league shortly, the saving grace is English fans of every club won't entertain none of it full stop and rightly so. It's like certain clubs/individuals want to suck every last penny and with it the life out of football.

[Derek27]

UEFA president: We will not try to stop the proposed A22. Let their two clubs play each other every week.

[Derek27]

In Turkey they only seem to score goals from penalties!

[WildGherkin]

It was this guy : https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/43369490

Are you sure that article isn't a joke?

The club was deducted three points - but managed to overturn the sanction on appeal - after Olympiakos coach Oscar Garcia was hit by a toilet roll thrown from the stands at PAOK in February.

I skim read that and thought a literal toilet was thrown from the stands for a second. Wouldn't have been that surprising given the episodes that have occurred. When I was a kid Italy had a very bad hooligan problem and I recall someone dying after being hit by a vespa from the stand above.

[Kai]

Meanwhile, in Netherlands... Hercules, son of Jupiter, has knocked out Ajax, son of King Telamon.

Hercules are a 4th tier amateur team!

[Michael5482]

Nothing like a bit of money being exchanged to guide you