The General Football Thread

Lionel Messi made a cultural faux pas when he donated his football boots to charity in Egypt:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-35920482

For a couple of decades at least I been aware of this cultural difference after seeing people hitting others with shoes, for example when a journalist threw his shoes at US President Bush [the article refers to this]. It's used as an insult. The sole of the shoe touches the dirty ground, so if one even donates a pair of shoes/boots that's considered wrong.

Takes all sorts to make a world.

 

Gary Neville sacked by Valencia.

 

There's a surprise. Never a good move for him....get back to punditting (if there is such a word).

 

Punditment.

 

How long until he ends up back in the Sky studio?

 

Seconds. I think at the time he was considered as being on a sabbatical rather than having left.

 

Probably Sunday at 1:30 just in time to see another 'perfect away performance'

 

http://www.fcbarcelona.com/football...koeman-on-clasico-encounters-past-and-present

Ronald talking about Barcelona and his favourite match when playing against Real Madrid.

 

Philip Neville keeps his job at valencia.

 

Awkward

 

Jose Mourinho named as Nigeria coach, apparently. Didn't see that one coming!





Ah, it's April the first.

 

I find Easter to be annoying, Valentines day pointless, but Fools day, who the **** invented that ****. Bah

 

You forgot 'humbug'.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/35935559

Information on the UEFA charges for Liverpool/United.

Apparently the illicit chants charge is related to Manchester itself rather than the Munich disaster.

So "manchester is full of ****" is enough for a UEFA charge? Wouldn't suprise me if these 2 got bigger fines than some Eastern European clubs do for racism.

Talk about setting a dangerous precedent....

 

Best to stay off the whole internet today.

 

Does that mean we can look forward to being charged (when we play in the Europa next season ) for singing the "get your gun my son and shoot the Pompey scum" song?

 

Only if we play Portsmouth in the Europa...

 

More likely that our kids will play them in the JPT

 

Well we won't have any problems if we don't sing it. There's a novel idea.

 

Looks like the scum who did this is going to get away with it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-35946438