Football Banter

(04-10-2013 15:12 )Fernandez Esperenda Wrote:  ... we just said we were fed up of them breaking up the season... nobody was questioning the rules... you are wrong anyway as in Brasil, USA, and many other countries in South America the Domestic league still goes ahead during tournaments and internationals...

Maybe so , but none of them are in the same Qualifying Zones .
Before it became compulsory many European countries used to cancel their domestic programmes prior to Internationals .England began to follow suit in the late 70's.Back then all England's qualifiers were played on Wednesday nights .The league programme for the previous Saturday was brought forward to the previous Tuesday & Wednesday nights . This then gave ALL the UK teams a clear 6 days to prepare for their respective qualifiers .Before this came about clubs would withdraw their players on the Saturday night ,claiming they were injured .This then left the International managers rushing around calling up sub-standard replacements .Funny thing though , the "injured " players generally made a miraculous recovery and played the following Saturday for their respective club sides .

(04-10-2013 20:10 )thescientist Wrote:  

(04-10-2013 17:57 )William H Bonney Wrote:  

(04-10-2013 16:28 )thescientist Wrote:  Why was the temperature issue in Qatar not raised by anyone before the voting took place.

It was. It was discussed at length.

The Qatar organisers dealt with the issue by promising air conditioned stadiums. It was almost a year later when the stadium architects decided that the air conditioning plan would never work.

If they can't meet one of the main promises, that should be good enough to take the world cup of them . Oh but they can't, can they, all the FIFA corrupt bastards would have give their presents back!

If the Qataris want to bankrupt FIFA let them. it's more than they deserve for taking backhanders in the first place it would finally expose FIFA for what it is a corrupt organisation run by people with no morals or considerations for others except for it own employees and as for their presents that would be the icing on the cake seeing Mr Blatter finally having to give back something he knew he shouldn't have taken in the first place.

(04-10-2013 19:07 )dan g 27 Wrote:  I really fear for Newcastle this season from what I have seen so far.

Im going to the cardiff game today so whilst I sympathise with your plight Im looking forward to us picking up another three points and continuing to be ahead of man u in the table!!

(05-10-2013 06:35 )babelover48 Wrote:  that would be the icing on the cake seeing Mr Blatter finally having to give back something he knew he shouldn't have taken in the first place.

Blatter didn't want Qatar anyway. He made it clear at the time that his own choice was USA.

To me, they're now not able to deliver the package they presented in order to win the bidding for the World Cup. So, if they cannot fulfill that then surely there are grounds to reverse their initial decision and take it elsewhere. They no longer can fulfill the winning package.

If i say, for £10, i'll paint your house with this red paint i have here and you say ok that looks great, deal. Then i come back next week and say sorry i only have 1 tin and i will need 3 so i will do it this lovely green instead, you would tell me to *&$% OFF! lol. Rightly so. I can no longer fulfill the deal we made. The deal is off.

So much for Spurs bet the excuse will be the squad not big enough lol

probably the long trip to russia the other night will be the excuse

They got spanked....no excuses!!!!!

I didn't realise Atheltic Bilbao have a new stadium, looks huge!