Random Sport Titbits

[Colly]

Bayern have ended their sponsorship deal with Qatar Airways after pressure from fan groups. Good shit.

[The Lusophone]

Al-Nassr losing to Benfica days after getting hammered by Celta Vigo is quite funny. Even funnier still when you look at their next two friendlies - PSG and Inter Milan.

[Colly]

They are not wrong.

 

[gunnar hendershow]

No spoilers once you see what happened. 

[FLiam]

Messi came on as a second-half sub in Inter Miami’s Leagues Cup game.

Of course he scored a 94th minute winner by hitting a beautiful free-kick into the top corner.

Sometimes football is magic.

[gunnar hendershow]

Could go in any number of threads but let's just put it here. Good ol' Messi.

[Gazz]

Must suck for Messi, having to play second fiddle to DeAndre Yedlin.

[Colly]

Shaka Hislop had a pretty nasty fall on ESPN yesterday/overnight which has obviously been pounced on by the usual ghouls. Sounds like good news though.

 

[Lineker]

 

[Gorka]

Just saw a TikTok from a bloke that does the Football League matchday text updates on the BBC website.

I can't quite believe it but he has to listen to three different games on three different devices and then update the site. I don't know why but I really thought people would have access to a stream rather than depend on a description the BBC local radio coverage gives. 

[Colly]

Maybe he can change things from the inside...

 

[Hobo]

 

 

[The Lusophone]

Flamengo are also Fluminense's biggest rivals.

[Gazz]

He's only had 19 managerial jobs in 14 seasons, including four stints at Audax. Most stable Brazilian football manager.

 

[Adam]

I'm fairly sure that's fake.

[gunnar hendershow]

Fake or not it is funny that he's basically required to have multiple jobs for the year as terms of coaching the national team.

[The Lusophone]

The 2028 LA Olympics will likely have baseball/softball, cricket, flag football, lacrosse and squash included as sports.

[Captain Kirk]

37 minutes ago, FestiveJack said:

The 2028 LA Olympics will likely have baseball/softball, cricket, flag football, lacrosse and squash included as sports.

Does anyone play actually flag football or lacrosse apart from America?

[The Lusophone]

8 hours ago, Captain Kirk said:

Does anyone play actually flag football or lacrosse apart from America?

Canada, Australia and England along with the US make the "traditional 4" leading members of the lacrosse world. In 2018 the Lacrosse World Championships were held outside of those four for the first time, in Israel. That being said, outside of the four the teams that have appeared at most World Championships are Japan and the Haudenosaunee lacrosse team, who are currently ranked third in the world, and likely wouldn't be part of the Olympics. 86 countries are part of the World Lacrosse organisation though.

Flag Football appears to be played by an eclectic mix of Latin American and northern and central European countries - and Israel, who hosted the last IFAF Flag Football World Championships. US are the best team but it looks like they get run close by Mexico, Denmark and especially Austria who hosted and won the first World Championship and have won three in total, beating the US in 2012's final.

[gunnar hendershow]

London has one club.