European Football Thread

[Starvinho]

3-1 now. Benzema.

[Baddar]

Brilliant counter.

[Dan]

Real Madrid are brilliant.

[Jimmy]

Hilarious defending.

[Dan]

Busquets has been shit.

[Lineker]

Dortmund lost AGAIN in the league today. Wonder how much patience their board will have with Klopp.

[TCO]

Bayern will win the league by all the points this year again anyhow, might as well trust him.

He'd walk into almost any job of he does go.

[Lineker]

all my wuts.

How Gerso Fernandes managed to put the ball in the back of the net here is beyond us.

But it sure was beautiful.

The 23-year-old made something out of nothing to score a miraculous goal for Moreirense vs. Gil Vicente in Portugal's Primeira Liga.

With his back to goal and simply shielding the ball from a defender, he propped the ball up and kicked it over his head from a seemingly impossible angle to score.

[Lineker]

Gattuso unquits!

[Lineker]

Zinedine Zidane has been suspended from coaching for three months for taking charge of a team without the right qualifications.

[Lineker]

Gigi Buffon is making his 500th appearance for Juventus tonight; the match at Genoa is on BTS1.

[Baddar]

Celta just beat Barca 1-0 at the Nou Camp.

[Colly]

They broke my acca.

[Baddar]

They were frustrating to watch. Made a host of chances and should have won comfortably, but never really had any speed to their attacks, even in the dying moments.

[Lineker]

African players at Russian club FC Rostov want coach Igor Gamula out over allegedly making racist comments.

Asked about Rostov signing a Cameroon player, Gamula apparently told Russian media the club had "enough dark-skinned players, we've got six of the things".

As a result, players including South Africa international Siyanda Xulu are demanding his dismissal.

Gamula told Russian agency Tass: "I've never divided players into good or bad, foreigners or Russians."

He added he had apologised to the team.

Xulu is one of five African players in the squad, with the others emanating from Angola, Mali, Gabon and Ivory Coast.

"People around the world are absolutely disgusted," Xulu's agent Paul Mitchell told BBC World Service.

"We just hope that Rostov as a club will make the necessary recommendations and in our view should get rid of the coach.

"I spoke with Siyanda this morning and I also spoke to the club. The intention was to meet with the president and get this situation sorted out, but not to train under this current coach.

"We've got to stand together and stamp racism out of football."

Gamula told Tass that all players had taken part in training on Monday, adding: "I was deeply worried and didn't sleep for two days. I hadn't wanted to insult or upset anyone.''

Rostov won the Russian Cup last season, but are struggling this season, lying 14th in the Russian league.

Rostov is one of the host cities for the 2018 World Cup.

[Baddar]

"6 of the things"

"the things"

Almost laughable. Russia is a joke.

[Colly]

Yeah, it's utterly disgusting but I still had to chuckle. Astounds me that there are still people like that working in relatively high profile roles.

[King Ellis]

But Obafemi Martins is his best friend!

[Colly]

Did they play each other in an U21 competition in 1972?

[Lineker]

David Moyes is the new Real Sociedad head coach.