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General Discussion / Re: Football enjoyment

Last post by Twig - Today at 10:13:49 PM

I remember football back to the early 60's well and my view is that it's just as good as it always was. Better given the much improved played surfaces for talent to shine on and the vastly improved athleticism of modern players. You can cite diving today but there was thuggery then. The dark arts have always existed in some shape or form.

What has declined in my opinion is the leadership of the game at home and internationally. FIFA are shocking, UEFA only slightly better and our Prem has bent over for years to lick the backsides of the top five or six clubs. Meanwhile insufficient of the Prem's bounty trickles down to grassroots football.

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General Discussion / Re: Old Sod's Army-from the me...

Last post by Twig - Today at 10:06:08 PM

England away to Spain in Madrid in November will be cracking

It certainly will, if Kane hadn't missed his pen we'd have picked up a point at least so the November game should be interesting.

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General Discussion / Re: Old Sod's Army-from the me...

Last post by Wolfie Smith - Today at 09:39:15 PM

England away to Spain in Madrid in November will be cracking

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General Discussion / Re: Old Sod's Army-from the me...

Last post by alfie - Today at 08:35:56 PM

Never like England play, boring football. Used to like them in the 70s.  Exciting players and attacking football. Despite being Scottish, I used to go to Wembley quite often to watch England.

Not boring at the moment.

There will always be international breaks outside of tournaments. You can't expect National teams to only meet up and play when there is a tournament on. I actually prefer having the Nations League over friendlies, it makes the matches more interesting and worthwhile.

Must say that I have never seen a Croatian team this bad.

Perhaps, but England have been bloody good imo.

Yep you're not wrong.

#5

General Discussion / Football enjoyment

Last post by Barrett487 - Today at 08:10:18 PM

Back in the day.............

It was about the football, not money, diving, celebrities, or politics. Sportsmanship was rife.

I miss those days.  Good honest players (well maybe some dodgy ones) playing their hearts out for their team.

I haven't attended a game for a while. Football is somewhat inferior these days.

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General Discussion / Re: Old Sod's Army-from the me...

Last post by Barrett487 - Today at 08:05:15 PM

Hear,hear

I agree with your agreement Mr F

btw, pleased to see your post. All too seldom these days   

[Are all of these clean?]

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General Discussion / Re: Man City Found Guilty of 1...

Last post by Twig - Today at 07:53:52 PM

Through the City Football Group, Sheikh Mansour holds varying ownership stakes in numerous international clubs, including Manchester City F.C. (England), New York City FC (USA), Melbourne City FC (Australia), Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan), Montevideo City Torque (Uruguay), Girona FC (Spain), Shenzhen Peng City (China), Mumbai City FC (India), Lommel SK (Belgium), ESTAC Troyes (France), Palermo FC (Italy), Esporte Clube Bahia (Brazil), and partner club Club Bolívar (Bolivia). Outside of CFG, he directly owns Al Jazira Club in the UAE

Are all of these clean?

I'd almost bet my house that they are not!

I tend to agree but in some of those cases there is probably less incentive to massively cheat the rules.

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General Discussion / Re: Man City Found Guilty of 1...

Last post by Twig - Today at 07:52:42 PM

Sheik, Rattle, n,Roll.
Going to be hard to call their bluff,
when they own all the cards.

Sorry but what cards are those exactly?

#9

General Discussion / Re: FFCW update

Last post by Twig - Today at 07:50:53 PM

Great update thanks

#10

General Discussion / Re: Man City Found Guilty of 1...

Last post by bill taylors apprentice - Today at 07:48:45 PM

UAE are threatening to pull billions out of Britain if City done!

This indicates to me that they are guilty as sin

Exactly!
It's the pathetic bully boy tactic, if I shout loud enough and make threats, people will back down and I'll get my own way.