Essential The Official Football (Soccer) Thread - We are SO back, the Premier League returns!

[Ukbrotha]

I've just realised its the Super League and not the European Super League.

That's a very important distinction because these guys could literally add any franchise they want round the world.

 

[Yehuda]

One of the greatest things about football is just getting to kick back for 45 minutes at a time, without interruptions. I can't get myself to watch a live game with all the time-outs/ads. Gets me right out of the game.

Facts. One of the main reasons why I'll never even pretend I like American football.

 

[The axe murderer]

UEFA is a monopoly!"

"We didn't do anything wrong, we just presented a format to FIFA and UEFA!"
Stop the cap

 

[Roberto Firmino]

What is this sport ?

I think gaelic football or something

Yea it’s gaelic lol.

 

[The axe murderer]

Facts. One of the main reasons why I'll never even pretend I like American football.

I like the plays and the athletes are immense but it is absolutely dreadful in its pacing. Drags to an absolute crawl
The anthems on every game when it's not even national team
The constant ads
Nah they can keep that

 

[Roberto Firmino]

I thought that looked like Aussie rules football, could be wrong though

No it’s gaelic lol, they are similar they have a match between Ireland and Australia with hybrid sort of rules every other year.

 

[Yehuda]

it is absolutely dreadful in its pacing. Drags to an absolute crawl
The anthems on every game when it's not even national team
The constant ads
Nah they can keep that

I'm saying. And LOL @ the bolded... just a lot of theatrics.

 

[The axe murderer]

I'm saying.

An average NFL game: more than 100 commercials and just 11 minutes of play
I mean
Come on I respect the athletes but

 

[The axe murderer]

And this is what.... 3 hour coverage time total?

 

[Yehuda]

An average NFL game: more than 100 commercials and just 11 minutes of play
I mean

Wow lol... yeah that could never be me.

 

[The axe murderer]

Wow lol... yeah that could never be me.

Frustrating because I actually like the plays and the set up for the plays
Very strategic

 

[TobiOT]

When Man City take on Barceona in the ESL Superbowl in 2025

 

[Sukairain]

I thought that looked like Aussie rules football, could be wrong though

They use an oval ball in Aussie rules and there's no goalkeeper. And the goal doesn't have a crossbar, you can blast that shyt into orbit like Baggio at the 94 World Cup final and it still counts as a goal

 

[Yippee Ki Yay]

An average NFL game: more than 100 commercials and just 11 minutes of play
I mean
Come on I respect the athletes but

I think the half time Super Bowl show is just as long as each half

 

[Liu Kang]

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He's not wrong on this.

The Champions League has become stale. Same teams, boring matches. I don't know if this helps but I do miss the old days.

My man, are you playing devil's advocate ? Because the SL will make this even worse.


And Perez is an hypocrite. Him and all the big clubs lobbied for that boredom so they could secure their place in the KO stages and their TV revenue : the pot system, the "can't have 2 teams from the same country in the same group" rule, the club pairing rule to prevent tems from the same country to play on same day. I cant believe Perez has me defending UEFA

A breh said it already but the real fix for the CL is simple IMO : KO stage only with a seeding system like in tennis. 7 rounds/13 games tops like we currently have.

Seed system would allow some safety for the bigs but there should be some cracking games by round of 32 or even 64 in some cases.

But we already know the bigs would not want that. Some of them would get knocked out by the likes of Ajax, Porto, Zenit or Galatasaray by round of 32