General Football Thread

[Baddar]

The Brazil-Russia friendly, being played at Stamford Bridge, has just started on ITV4.

I like that VM have added the HD channels of 2, 3 and 4 to their setup.

[brenchill]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=ienZj9onV0Q&feature=endscreen

The best

[Lineker]

A lawyer who helped win the landmark Bosman Ruling says new Uefa Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations would not stand up to a legal challenge.

[stokeriño]

Well, yeah. There's so much of "normal" football that would fall apart under EU law if anyone ever bothered to seriously pursue it in the courts (e.g. clubs forcing a player who wants out to stay)... But whatever.

The NextGen Series - Europe's preeminent U19 club competition - will have an all-English final after Chelsea beat Arsenal 4-3 (aet) and Aston Villa beat Sporting Lisbon 3-1 (also aet) earlier today!

That cup final will take place this Monday.

[Summers]

Brilliant!

[Lineker]

Is that the tournament which Eurosport have been airing?

[stokeriño]

Dunno. I've had Chelsea TV talking about it and showing the Chelsea games which is why I know anything about it at all.

EDIT: Apparently yes, it is. KO is 5pm Monday and will be on Eurosport.

[Jimmy]

Messi has done it. Scoring in 19 consecutive games against every other team in La Liga. This will never ever happen again. Incredible!

From Lineker's twitter.

[Baddar]

Decent.

[Summers]

He needs to score an own goal in the next game.

[Cheeky Hughes]

This Bayern vs. Hamburg game. :lmao:

[Cymbols]

Torino vs Napoli has been a bloody good game. It's had goals, drama, everything

[Cymbols]

This Bayern vs. Hamburg game. :lmao:

I see what you mean! Mental!

[Berober]

Villa are the Champions of Europe! (Under 19's)

[Summers]

Just said that in the Prem thread. Good game and good win. Massive achievement for the lads.

[stokeriño]

Congrats Villa.

I also enjoyed Arsenal losing the 3rd place playoff.

[Lineker]

David James has moved to Iceland!

[TCO]

The supermarket or the country?

[Lineker]

The latter. He's linked up with Hermann Hreidarrsson's IBV.

And playing against Pompey in a fund-raiser.

[Khain]

I want you all to watch this beauty by Dinho yesterday in the Libertadores