Probe launched as amateur club fakes player's death
What barmy league is this, you ask?
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Probe launched as amateur club fakes player's death
What barmy league is this, you ask?
The LSL...
Argentinean 3rd division match between the gloriously named Juventud Unida de Gualeguaychu and Defensores de Belgrano de Villa Ramallo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKK3y4M0cUg
'Stray Given' was one caption I saw for that :)
300 or so fans at a 16K stadium watch Qatar thump North Korea in the Asian Cup group stages, since a diplomatic blockade stopped Qatari fans travelling, and North Korea only ever lets a select group of fans attend away games: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...w/67513572.cms
As I recall when North Korea made it to the World Cup some of their fans were later revealed to be Chinese.
One goal separated four teams at the end of the Asian Cup group stage when it came to the third place sides moving forward - 2 "disciplinary points" of a difference sent Lebanon home and Vietnam to the knockouts. Lebanon needed to beat North Korea by four but managed a winning margin of three. How devastating must that have been?
And in additional news from the Asian Cup, Qatar players get shoes thrown at them by UAE's fans after strolling through their semi-final against the hosts 4-0: https://www.theguardian.com/football...-against-japan
Qatar making it to the final is notable enough on its own. Obviously some work has been done on that team since they were awarded the World Cup.
Lecce v Ascoli in Serie B was abandoned this evening after effectively seven seconds. The very first challenge resulted in a clash of heads and a nasty landing for Lecce's Scavone. Certainly knocked out cold; maybe worse. Ambulance drove onto the pitch to take him to hospital, and that was the end of the game. No news as yet on his condition
Was reminded of the above when reading about Canada's new professional league: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/46988859Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Canada has three teams in MLS but lacked their own league until now. Seven teams to start with, with nearly 4'500 km's between Pacific FC and HFX Wanderers.
Cuneo are playing Pro Piacenza in Serie C at the moment. Pro Piacenza (who aren't Piacenza; that's a different team in the same division) scratched their last four games and to avoid further sanctions, they've turned up today with seven players from the youth team.
Score was 16-0 at half time, and it's 19-0 now with a few minutes to go.
Cuneo had scored 18 goals all season before this
Thrown out of the league:Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
https://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2019...ut-of-serie-c/
Ah ref!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C7DJWu0OVk
Edit- bit more on it here - https://www.motherwelltimes.co.uk/sp...gton-1-4876282
As far as I am aware, the Laws don't actually say when a ref should blow for full time, in terms of "favourable position" etc, it's all just "understood". It could do with being defined.
You'd see it blown up when the ball goes out for a corner sometimes. I guess it depends on what's been added on already, if there was time wasting, etc.
I'll admit that, before yesterday, I had no idea that a player can refuse to be substituted, and have that refusal backed up by the laws: http://theifab.com/laws/the-players-...procedure-2018
That seems a widely under-noticed example of player power over those in nominal charge of the team.
Interesting. Didn't know that. It was a ****-up by the Chelsea management though as the player was obviously fit to continue but the physio must have said that he wasn't.
didn't the GK go down with cramp a couple of times?Quote:
Originally Posted by OwlsFan
either he had cramp and should have come off as instructed or he was faking the cramp (more likely) and deserved to have his bluff called.
Yes, he was down with cramp twice. Probably wanted it to go to penos so he could show off. Delighted when he fluffed one of the penalties. The Chelsea manager was caught between a rock and a hard place in the shoot out. I suspect he wanted to see the penalties missed by Man City rather than saved.
Over the weekend, we had 3 instance of fans getting on the pitch and getting close to/having a go at players - Tavernier at Hibernian, Grealish at Birmingham, and Smalling at Arsenal.
A big fine on the way for Birmingham no doubt. I wonder though, is it actually possible, apart from fences, to eradicate this completely. I suppose a wall of beefy security staff around the perimeter of the pitch might do the job.
You'd need a big number of guards to form a wall. 300-400 to ring the pitch anyway. Sounds completely impractical
We need to stop tying the game into inherent self-actualisation, so people don't be getting as worked up by derbies as this. But football's worth is tied up in giving self-actualisation, so that's not going to happen.
Interesting to compare the final of Euro 76, when there was a ring of fans the whole way around the pitch for the last ten minutes. Unthinkable now.
(Obviously it's dangerous too to draw conclusions on one highly unusual day's events)
Most of the suggested solutions seem to be just to hit the home club so hard (points deduction, games behind closed doors) that they will be forced into their own actions...but I'm not sure you can ever guarantee that security measures will prevent it, short of perimeter fences.
Maybe punishment so severe that a potential invader/attacker would know they are going to be utterly vilified by their own fans? But there are no doubt some Birmingham fans somewhere who think the guy's a 'legend' (to use the most serious of the confrontations as an example).
Is this a very prevalent problem though, or are the instances in the last few weeks a major aberration? A fence about the only cast-iron (ha!) guarantee, but very harsh punitive measures on the people doing it should be tried as a deterrent first. Aside from whatever criminal prosecution they may face, a serious ban from the clubs should do the trick and I say "serious" because I think there is a perception that it's just talk when clubs ban people, that they can't or won't make a serious effort to actually prevent certain individuals from buying tickets and getting into the ground consistently.
"Good enough for you Grealish, you utter scumbag" - a post I saw on a rare trawl through my Facebook feed. Irish Birmingham fan. So yeah, there's people who'll see a ban as a violation of their own freedom of speech (or some such bull****)
Do behind-closed-doors bans really work? There seems to be enough of them to suggest not
That was quick: https://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2019...so-much-worse/
Jersey refs go on strike owing to repeated incidents of abusive and violent conducts towards them: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/47720839
This is just fantastic.
https://twitter.com/ndrsport/status/...862535169?s=21
PAOK win the Greek league for the first time since 1984.
Calm celebrations ensue.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1120040078410227713
Maltese league decided by penalty shoot-out: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/48193097
Saw this while reading up on Salford's play-off win: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-lancashire-48220443
Their defeated opponents, AFC Flyde, had over 200K stolen from them by an accountant, who spent a good portion of it on a webcam girl. It nearly killed the club, and they can't recover the money. 32 month sentence.
Henrikh Mkhitaryan will miss the Europa League final over safety concerns regards Armenian citizens in Azerbaijan: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/48348207
Erling Haaland this afternoon scored 9 goals against Honduras in the U20s World Cup. I presume that's a record for any World Cup (5 is the record in the senior one; Salenko v Cameroon in 94)
Haaland is the son of Alf Inge Haaland, and has an LoI connection in that he was part of the Molde team that beat UCD on penalties in the UEFA Youth League two years ago. Leo Oestigaard, who scored the third goal for Norway today, opened the scoring in the UCD Bowl as Molde lost 2-1.
Despite that win, it's quite possible Norway won't reach the last 16 (of 24 teams). They lost their other two games to finish third in the group, and are currently third best of the third-place teams, with the three teams below them all still to play.
CAF Champions League Final, second leg, to be replayed after bizarre series of events: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/48533905
What that article doesn't mention is that the ref for the first leg was suspended for poor performance.
Mad. Ayman Ben Mohamed involved of course - ex UCD, Longford and Bohs
Journalists surrounding the Turkish team arriving in Iceland included a man holding a scouring brush in place of a mic (not sure of the source though): https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48580770
Just as suitable for entry here in that report is news that Turkish President Tayyip Ordogan was Mezut Ozil's Best Man last weekend.
Poor Turks, such a welcoming bunch themselves.
Mentioned original story in the WC 2022 Qualifying thread, now an unusual update: After Macau's FA refused to travel to Sri Lanka to play a qualifier, against their players' wishes, a Macau Cup game has 39 goals scored as part of a player-driven protest: https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/48660097
Korean fans file a lawsuit after Ronaldo failed to play at least one half of a friendly match: https://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2019...ntus-friendly/
Apparently the contract for the match stipulated Ronaldo's involvement. If my math/conversion is right, they're looking for around €800 each.
Wycombe's Joe Jacobson scored a hat-trick of set pieces earlier this season - one free-kick and two direct from corners.
Ref banned for headbutt on GK
https://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2020...on-goalkeeper/
On a slightly similar note - Warrenpoint v Ballymena in the Irish Cup last month ended with the Point keeper fighting fans in the terrace.
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/51489772
Substitution after 13 seconds in Estonian league.
Thier rules are that each team must start with 2 homegrown players, and due to Covid-19 isolating among the squad, they were forced to start a 16-year old homegrrown player who was immediately substituted for (I assume) a non-homegrown senior player.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=verHZJvIUBE