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

[Max B]

Meanwhile our U-20 just beat Russia in a knock down drag out 4-3 contest

England

We coming for that concacaf u20 ship nikka

 

[Max B]

That pitch invader with teh canadian flag

 

[Max B]

Looks ok, could be decent back up as an inside forward to Beister

Hes ripping it for me in my sporting lisbon save dudes a beast. Aymeric laporte is a gem to if you want young for the future CB

 

[bigmanting]

That pitch invader with teh canadian flag

Not sure if we have improved, or England is just shyt. I;m going with the latter.

 

[Ari Gold Bawse]

Not sure if we have improved, or England is just shyt. I;m going with the latter.

if it was vs our U21s i would understand the excitement

 

[Max B]

if it was vs our U21s i would understand the excitement

We dont have u21 like the euros do. After u20 there isnt any other youth squads. But the future superstars james wilson and jordan ibe were playing

 

[dennis roadman]

:whosmans:

:grimupnorth: :tsktsk:

 

[Grams]

:grimupnorth: :tsktsk:

My man nearly flew off the screen :omgih:

 

[dennis roadman]

My man nearly flew off the screen :omgih:

he has no regard for framerate or turkish dignity

 

[Grams]

How do broke people afford to smoke weed everyday? Are they broke cuz they smoke weed everyday?

 

[Big Blue]

:whosmans:

If only he could finish

 

[Roaden Polynice]

Well, this was all rather anticlimactic

Fifa’s ethics committee judge will on Thursday deliver his summary of a long awaited investigation into the controversial World Cup bidding process but is not believed to have uncovered evidence that would justify stripping Qatar of the 2022 tournament.

Individuals who are no longer involved in football – including Jack Warner, Mohammed bin Hammam and Reynald Temarii – are expected to be criticised but the summary of the report does not at this stage name any other names.

Nor is there believed to be a “smoking gun” that links the behaviour of Mohammed bin Hammam, the Qatari former Asian Football Confederation president who was banned for life for offering bribes to officials during his challenge for the Fifa presidency, with the Qatar 2022 bid.

Russia, which won the right to stage the 2018 tournament, is understood to be criticised for its failure to co-operate with the investigation and is believed to have claimed that its computer systems were wiped in the wake of its victory so few email trails exist.

According to sources, the “plague on all their houses” nature of the summary makes it even less likely that the investigation will lead to either Russia or Qatar being stripped of the tournament.

The Sunday Times uncovered evidence that Bin Hammam had made a series of major payments to football officials during his presidential bid that amounted to millions of dollars, which coincided with the Qatar 2022 World Cup campaign, leading to genuine concern in Doha that Fifa would strip them of the tournament.

Australia’s bid, which cost taxpayers $40m and received just a single vote, also came under scrutiny for development funds paid and gifts distributed in parts of the football world in which influential Fifa executive committee members had votes.

Garcia was compromised from the start by the fact that he had no power to seize phone records or email traffic and those corrupt former Fifa officials who are no longer involved in the game could not be compelled to talk.

Despite limited powers, Garcia has been determined to investigate as best he can, travelling to each of the bidding nations to gather evidence. Garcia is banned from Russia under a tit-for-tat response to US sanctions and the reports into the Russian bid and the USA were compiled by Garcia’s deputy, Cornel Borbély, to avoid conflicts of interest.

With whistleblowers interviewed by Garcia having been promised anonymity, Eckert has insisted that he will only publish “a summary of the main findings, conclusions and recommendations of the report, as well as a brief evaluation of the same”.

Others, including Garcia himself, have pushed for the full publication of the report with names redacted. The investigator is understood to have made a number of recommendations about how the bidding process could be improved in future, as well as recommending sanctions against certain individuals.

You had one fukking job Garcia

 

[Diddly Drogba]

your boy lewis being domesticated

 

[Ari Gold Bawse]

your boy lewis being domesticated

let him live

 

[SmarkMero]

#KillaSeason