European Football Thread

[TCO]

Yeah Sundays and Mondays in the Premier League are the only reason to keep Sky nowadays. We're still getting the Wednesday Champions League games on RTE so it won't be as big a hit for us at least.

[Baddar]

Sky have won the rights to La Liga for the next 3 years. Glad in a way, because I'd miss Guillem, Gerry etc.

[Lineker]

They obviously decided to fork out last minute because they realised "shit we are going to have a football channel with no football to put on it".

[Thrilla]

Sky have won the rights to La Liga for the next 3 years. Glad in a way, because I'd miss Guillem, Gerry etc.

 Poor Scott Minto would be out of work

Edited August 5, 2015 by Thrilla

[Dan]

BT had looked poised to freeze its bitter rivals out of showing Real Madrid and Barcelona for the next three years when Sky pulled out of the bidding process in protest at it going to a second round.
But La Liga performed a surprise u-turn and asked Sky directly whether they could re-enter the bidding process. They duly made another offer, and ensured the channel will remain the home of El Clásico, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo for the next three years.

[Lineker]

Sky have won the rights to La Liga for the next 3 years. Glad in a way, because I'd miss Guillem, Gerry etc.

 Poor Scott Minto would be out of work

How Scott Minto of all people ended up with that gig I will never know.

[Colly]

Portugal is kind of Spain-y. That's all I've got.

Glad of this since I'm not shelling out for BT, I'm sort of amused by La Liga reaching out to Sky though. "They said Michael Owen was going to commentate, save us!"

[TCO]

Sky have a bigger audience, are still the best presenters of football around and La Liga have shifted the Saturday kick-offs specifically for the UK's absurd broadcasting rules. So I'd imagine they'd ideally like it to reach the most people in the best possible way.

They can have as much content as they want but BT is still a bit shit overall. 

[Lineker]

Bielsa has resigned as Marseille manager after an opening day defeat to Caen. There are murmurs of him taking the vacant Mexico national team job.

[Lineker]

UEFA Super Cup is on BT Sport Europe tonight; Barcelona vs. Sevilla. ITV will show highlights after the late news.

[Baddar]

I'll watch it, because why not.

[Baddar]

Ever Banega puts Sevilla ahead!

Lol, Messi replies with an even better FK of his own. 1-1.

Aaaand Messi scores another free kick, maybe even better again, 2-1 Barca. 

[Baddar]

Barca were 4-1 up, Sevilla fought back to 4-4 and it's gone to extra time now.

[Gazz]

Have a go Shag, he's off his line!

[Lineker]

How the hell are Barca losing 4-0? 

[EddieG]

Have a go Shag, he's off his line!

Liverpool alumni Mikel San Jose that.

How the hell are Barca losing 4-0? 

'cause nobody gives a flying fuck about the Spanish super cup, even less so than the community shield, and it's Barca, they could still turn it around 5-0 at the camp nou.

[Hobo]

Damien Duff might make his debut for Shamrock Rovers against Cork City tonight. He's been named among the substitutes.

He signed an 18 month deal with Rovers in July and all of his wages are going to be going to charity.

[DavidMarrio]

Good guy Damien Duff! 

[Lineker]

The Barcelona defender Gerard Piqué faces being suspended for up to 12 weeks following an extraordinary outburst aimed at an assistant referee during the second leg of his club’s Spanish Super Cup tie against Athletic Bilbao.

Piqué was dismissed 10 minutes into the second half after he responded to a decision given against his side by angrily making his way to the side of the pitch and shouting in the face of the referee’s assistant. According to the referee, the words used were: “Me cago en tu puta madre” which translates as “I shit on your whore mother”.

However, Sergio Busquets is unsure his Barça team-mate would have used that particular wording.

The midfielder said: “According to the ref, [the red card] was because he shat on the whoring mother of the linesman. The TV might have caught it, but I’m sure Gerard wouldn’t have called her a whore or something like that.”

Barcelona, reduced to 10 men, drew 1-1 in the second leg but lost 5-1 on aggregate to last season’s seventh-placed side in La Liga.

[Sam]

Does it translate to whore mother? I would have translated it as I shit on your fucking mother as puta in front of a noun is used all the time to say fucking in Spanish. Still not the nicest thing in the world to say but perhaps changes the implications a little.

Whilst we're discussing Spanish if you were to describe something as being "de puta madre" you would be saying that it's great/fantastic, I used to use that a lot when hanging with my Spanish friends.

Perhaps we've misheard a preposition and he was simply meaning to say he had a great poo. 

Edited August 18, 2015 by Sam