General Football Thread

[Baddar]

Goalkeeper, goalkeeper.

[stokeriño]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22024669

"EU suspects state aid in football... The EU is studying allegations that some top European clubs, including Real Madrid, have received state aid in violation of EU competition rules."

What's that phrase? Oh yes.

No shit, sherlock.

[Adam]

Ebbsfleet United have had a 24-hour trip to get to and from their game at Barrow as they were held up by...a baked bean spillage

[Baddar]

In heinz-ight, I bet they had a laugh on the coach.

[Colly]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22024669

"EU suspects state aid in football... The EU is studying allegations that some top European clubs, including Real Madrid, have received state aid in violation of EU competition rules."

What's that phrase? Oh yes.

No shit, sherlock.

Just on that, if Spain goes the way of Greece and Cyprus are Real and Barca (part funded by the Catalan government) fucked?

[Lineker]

Pretty sure that the Catalan government is fucked already.

[Rafael]

Brazil beat Bolivia 4-0 in a friendly match earlier today in tribute to the young Kevin Espada, killed in the Corinthians/San Jose game for the Libertadores, the first person to die in a football match in Bolivian history.

[Lineker]

Matthew Le Tissier signs for non-league Guernsey FC

[Colly]

Comment number 85. People are really fucking stupid.

[OctoberRaven]

NASL: Proving that there are indeed worse referees than Ricardo Salazar since 2011.

[stokeriño]

Alex Kiwomya scored twice in the last three minutes at Anfield to hand Chelsea a 2-0 advantage over Liverpool in the 1st leg of the FA Youth Cup semifinal. ^_^

[Lineker]

Dozens of fans of the Argentine football club Huracan have stormed the club's changing rooms after a training session and assaulted some players.

They also stole players' belongings and damaged their cars outside the stadium in Buenos Aires.

The masked fans carried out the attack after a disappointing result.

Second division Huracan had been knocked out of Copa Argentina by first division opponents Godoy Cruz on penalties on Wednesday.

"We were in the showers after Thursday's training session when the disguised fans stormed the rooms and threatened the players," said coach Jose Maria Llop.

He said some of the players had been beaten.

"When we left the stadium, we found out eight cars had been damaged," he added.

The club's president, Alejandro Nadur, said the fans had come in two buses and entered the stadium.

"What they did would not have been justified, even if we had lost 15-0 to Godoy Cruz," he said.

[stokeriño]

Chelsea U21 are into the final of the FA Youth Cup after beating Liverpool U21 2-1 (4-1 on aggregate). They will face Norwich U21 in a two-legged final.

Hoping for a similar scoreline on Sunday.

[Jimmy]

Do Norwich get a 1-0 advantage by virtue of each player having to play with 6 toes on each foot?

[stokeriño]

Sure, why not.

[Jam]

Just got in from the Kiddy Harriers Vs Stockport game, eventful to say the least. Stockport fans pitch invaded when they went 1-0 down and attacked a couple of the Harriers players (and I think some of their own). I'd be surprised if they didn't get some sort of heavy sanction from it. Delayed the game 30 minutes in the second half, and by the time it restarted Mansfield had won making this game irrelevant. Shame as was very surprised at the quality of football both sides played, especially in the second half from Kidderminster. Some very talented players in that league

[Adam]

I hope Stockport don't come back for a long time, if ever. Horrible place, horrible club with even worse fans. Not sad at all to see them plunging to the depths of the Blue Square North.

[Lineker]

Holy shit, Thomas Gravesen played for Real Madrid??!

[9 to 5]

Welcome to the present.

[Lineker]

I'm on a dead night shift and found myself reading the Galacticos wiki page. My mind had completely blanked out the fact that he went there.