General Football Nonsense

[Cripps_orig]

Never watch online anyway.

All about sky, ESPN and now BT

[Niall_Quinn]

Great publicity, many more will watch it now.

[Letters]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-23350642



Should have hired 'Arry's lawyer

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23351824

Fifa president Sepp Blatter is determined to switch the 2022 World Cup to the winter because of the intense Qatar summer heat.

Who couldn't see that coming?

Ludicrous situation. Blatter will probably dead by 2022 anyway.

We'd be more than happy to host it in the Summer. :Rors:

In other news, FIFA and UEFA have again been knocked back by the European Court to take the World Cup off the free-to-air list ie: to let Sky take that as well.

[Cripps_orig]

Why the fuck do they want to take tournament football away from the people?

If that ever happened, it would be the end.

As for the World Cup in 2022, was the possibility of it being hosted in winter mentioned during the voting thing?

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

So FIFA can get more money. That's literally the only reason.

No, it was all about "harnessing the power off the sun's rays" to cool the stadiums. Sounds like a Bond film ffs.

Unsurprisingly these was a completely baseless suggestion as it's never been tried on this scale and would cost a fortune. There were also no any ideas for how to keep people cool when they weren't in the stadium; hence now trying to move it to winter.

[Ollie the Optimist]

If they move the World Cup it fucks up European football for two seasons.

The big clubs will lose most of their players, so leagues go a bit wierd. And probably best to take a "winter break" and carry on after World Cup. That affects the summer too, shorter holidays etc, season goes our of shape again.

[Niall_Quinn]

If they move the World Cup it fucks up European football for two seasons.

The big clubs will lose most of their players, so leagues go a bit wierd. And probably best to take a "winter break" and carry on after World Cup. That affects the summer too, shorter holidays etc, season goes our of shape again.

Yes, but Blatter and the gang make a huge pile of cash from the corrupt bastards in Qatar. Can you never see the positive side of things? Does it always have to be negative with you?

[McNamara That Ghost...]

At least FIFA/UEFA lost the appeal on the major tournaments being shown free-to-air over here.

Sense.

Money grabbing wankers.

[Niall_Quinn]

The "national" game, owned by a handful of wankers. They just don't get it. Then again the fucking corporate wankers are patenting DNA so soon we won't own ourselves. And if we don't own ourselves then we can't own footie.

Irrefutable business logic