Essential The Official Football (Soccer) Thread - RIP Diogo Jota

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Gilver said:
Genuinely thought as it got closer the excitement of the football would outweigh the obvious issues with Qatar etc but this really is going to be a shytshow with crap football isn't it.

Whoever wins it gets an asterisk next to their name imo. This World Cup is Liverpool's title win, doesn't count.

Unless England win it
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Bubble world cup lol
 
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Yippee Ki Yay said:
This world cup is bullshyt
So many are going to miss it through injury just because of Fifa corruption :scust:

I saw Coutinho is going to miss it now as well the other day :scust:
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So players wouldn't have been injured if the WC was in June after a long domestic and Contininental competitions.

This actually might be the best WC in terms off play. Cause players are actually gonna be fit and not completely worn out after playing a full season
 
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frush11 said:
So players wouldn't have been injured if the WC was in June after a long domestic and Contininental competitions.

This actually might be the best WC in terms off play. Cause players are actually gonna be fit and not completely worn out after playing a full season
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This would hold water if a) off-season wasn’t shortened to like 5 weeks and b) fixtures weren’t piled up for the last 8 weeks.

If anything, players are more tired/fatigued now than they would have been at this point of any other season and we’re seeing it with the amount of injuries occurring in such a short space of time.
 
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EA said:
This would hold water if a) off-season wasn’t shortened to like 5 weeks and b) fixtures weren’t piled up for the last 8 weeks.

If anything, players are more tired/fatigued now than they would have been at this point of any other season and we’re seeing it with the amount of injuries occurring in such a short space of time.
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Exactly, most players have been worked harder than Stephen A Smith over the last 12 months :flabbynsick:
 
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Gilver said:
Exactly, most players have been worked harder than Stephen A Smith over the last 12 months :flabbynsick:
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Even before the covid stuff, top players were already worn out. I remember a stretch when Alexis Sanchez didn't get a real off-season break for like 3/4 years
 
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frush11 said:
So players wouldn't have been injured if the WC was in June after a long domestic and Contininental competitions.

This actually might be the best WC in terms off play. Cause players are actually gonna be fit and not completely worn out after playing a full season
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Yeah there would have been injuries if the tournament was held in June, but they would have also had like a month to recover and maybe play in the world cup

If you pick up an injury now or at the weekend which is going to keep you out for 2 to 3 weeks, your world cup is over because it starts a week after all these games have been played


And most of these injuries what they are picking up are muscle injuries like hamstrings etc .
This has all been caused by them putting the world cup in November.
If there was no world cup we would only be on like game 4 of the CL which would still be being played in December, it finished last week though
 
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