European Football Thread

[METALMAN]

Staying in Valencia for the international break didn't do him too much good then. :/

[stokeriño]

Weather was probably nice.

[MDK]

The rain mainly falls on the plain. 

[EddieG]

Wasn't he at the England games, as he's still a coach for Woy?

[Adam]

Yeah he was, he just joined up later I believe. He was definitely there celebrating on the touchline at the end if the Germany game.

No shame for him anyway, was a ridiculously tough first job in management and he will have learned a lot. I hope he sticks at it, he should try managing in the football league next.

[Baddar]

Squad wise, Valencia aren't that much stronger than the majority of the league anyway. A couple of quality players (Mustafi, Gaya, Alcacer) but a lot of, as yet, undelivered promise.

[Lineker]

Neville will be fine. Fully expect him to be managing somewhere in England next season.

[MDK]

Maybe he can take over at Villa next season. A lot less pressure and he might be able to build from the ground up with that lovely parachute payment they will get.

[Baddar]

Or he'll return to Sky where he belongs. He's been a big miss!

[DavidMarrio]

Carragher is gonna have a field day when Neville goes back to MNF. 

[DavidMarrio]

Also...Uefa have charged us in regards to illicit chanting.  The chant in question: Manchester is full of shit. 

Anything in regards to Munich,  Hillsborough, Heysel etc is perfectly okay but saying a place is shit. NAH THAT IS NOT ON!!. 

Absolute farce. UEFA are an utter joke. 

[Adam]

Really? That chant gets sang by both teams at every single game I ever go to. Baffling.

[Lineker]

People sing that Tottenham is a shit hole all the time. And frankly they're right.

[METALMAN]

I remember someone threw a brick at me because SOMEONE ELSE said Motherwell was full of shit as we were leaving a game.

A BRICK.

[GoN_]

20 hours ago, stokeriño said:

Weather was probably nice.

Last tuesday it was something like 29ºC during the afternoon (If you don't know whether that's hot or not, google it).

[stokeriño]

I'm of the celsius generation of British folk, so I understand that fine.  

[METALMAN]

As usual, there's only one problem here:

 

Also, jeez, that is the worst map projection I've ever seen. I've come over all neocolonial.

[Lineker]

Quote

Marko Nikolic, the head coach of the Slovenian league leaders, Olimpija Ljubljana, has apologised for calling one of his own players a “black idiot” but will not lose his job over the comment.

Olimpija were trailing 1-0 at home to Zavrc on Sunday when the Nigerian forward Blessing Eleke scored a stoppage-time equaliser and embarked on an exuberant celebration.

Nikolic, 36, said he made “an emotional reaction” as Eleke’s celebrations meant his side had less time to find a winner. “I never intended to offend the player racially or otherwise and I don’t want to be associated with intolerance, racism or discrimination of any kind,” Nikolic told the club’s website.

“I spoke to Eleke and he said he understood my reaction because emotional outbursts of this kind can happen. I apologise for my reaction generated solely by the rush to score the winning goal after getting a 92nd-minute equaliser and I thank the team for not judging my act as racist.“

Olimpija, who have never won a league title in either Slovenia or the former Yugoslavia, are two points ahead of the champions, Maribor, with seven games remaining.

The Olimpija president, Milan Mandaric, the former Leicester City and Portsmouth owner, said: “The club distances itself from all individual acts which contravene our philosophy and condemns such acts strongly.

“However, after careful consideration and talks with Nikolic and Eleke, we have come to the conclusion that the coach did not target the player’s race. It was an emotional reaction generated by an overwhelming desire to win the match.

“There is no excuse, but due to the circumstances, we have refrained from making a decision which would have affected the career of a young and talented coach who has a bright future.”

[Lineker]

AC Milan have sacked head coach Sinisa Mihajlovic, with youth-team boss Cristian Brocchi replacing him until the end of the season.

[Baddar]

Match fixing in Italy? What match fixing?

 

Oh.