Re: Football Chat Thread - Euro 2012 edition : Sat Oct 13, 2012 1:21 pm  

This Jen Chang thing is pretty weird / embarrassing

Re: Football Chat Thread - Euro 2012 edition : Tue Oct 16, 2012 6:18 pm  

Bit of trouble in the u21 game.Serbians kicking off after losing and fans racially abusing England players again,not to worry as i'm sure uefa will come down hard on them....or maybe not.

Re: Football Chat Thread - Euro 2012 edition : Tue Oct 16, 2012 6:37 pm  

This is a joke surely, didn't anyone think to close the roof?

Re: Football Chat Thread - Euro 2012 edition : Tue Oct 16, 2012 6:59 pm  

LFCPatriotRhino wrote:

This is a joke surely, didn't anyone think to close the roof?

They've just sent Rod Hull up there....oh, hold on

Re: Football Chat Thread - Euro 2012 edition : Tue Oct 16, 2012 8:08 pm  

DAR130 wrote:

Bit of trouble in the u21 game.Serbians kicking off after losing and fans racially abusing England players again,not to worry as i'm sure uefa will come down hard on them....or maybe not.

It looked horrible. Was it televised? I saw the highlights in the build up to the England game and it looked horrible. I can't quite tell why Rose and the other England players were moving round like that though, it looked as if they were all over the pitch instead of just walking off. It all looked an unholy mess, angry England players, the odd angry Serbian chasing those with a sea of Serbian players and officials trying to peace keep. What caused it in the first place? Just the fact that they lost or was something more serious afoot? The referee's contribution seemed pretty farcical, it was like a silent movie at one stage with the camp referee chasing the posse of players chasing the black England players.

There will be some serious bans handed out over that.

Re: Football Chat Thread - Euro 2012 edition : Tue Oct 16, 2012 8:16 pm  

Serbia v England u21

On YouTube for the end of match hassles. Looked pretty bad.

Re: Football Chat Thread - Euro 2012 edition : Tue Oct 16, 2012 8:23 pm  

Saddened! wrote:

It looked horrible. Was it televised? I saw the highlights in the build up to the England game and it looked horrible. I can't quite tell why Rose and the other England players were moving round like that though, it looked as if they were all over the pitch instead of just walking off. It all looked an unholy mess, angry England players, the odd angry Serbian chasing those with a sea of Serbian players and officials trying to peace keep. What caused it in the first place? Just the fact that they lost or was something more serious afoot? The referee's contribution seemed pretty farcical, it was like a silent movie at one stage with the camp referee chasing the posse of players chasing the black England players.

There will be some serious bans handed out over that.

Don't think you have to be Einstein to work out what's happened there - Culturally, these Baltic and Eastern European nations are about 30 or 40 years behind Western Europe and still view black people as targets for the type of treatment that was common over here in the 70's and 80's.....It is no excuse, but its simply that they are still very, very backward in comparison with us.

Unfortunately, UEFA will find a way to 'share' the blame and try to pin some of the blame on the English, whilst telling the Serbians to slap a few wrists and try to identify a few neo-nazi nutters who they can ban for life... - The sad thing is that most of them are racist, simply by the environment they are used to living in, so banning half a dozen skinheads won't make much difference.

What should actually happen, but won't, is that these countries should receive points deductions in their World Cup qualifying groups and make it impossible for them to make it to the money making showpiece events that every country strives to be at.

Re: Football Chat Thread - Euro 2012 edition : Tue Oct 16, 2012 8:35 pm  

Dita's Slot Meter wrote:

Don't think you have to be Einstein to work out what's happened there - Culturally, these Baltic and Eastern European nations are about 30 or 40 years behind Western Europe and still view black people as targets for the type of treatment that was common over here in the 70's and 80's.....It is no excuse, but its simply that they are still very, very backward in comparison with us.

Unfortunately, UEFA will find a way to 'share' the blame and try to pin some of the blame on the English, whilst telling the Serbians to slap a few wrists and try to identify a few neo-nazi nutters who they can ban for life... - The sad thing is that most of them are racist, simply by the environment they are used to living in, so banning half a dozen skinheads won't make much difference.

What should actually happen, but won't, is that these countries should receive points deductions in their World Cup qualifying groups and make it impossible for them to make it to the money making showpiece events that every country strives to be at.

I realise there was racist gestures and chanting going on, but that doesn't explain why Rose and a few others were moving around the pitch, over to the far side away from the tunnel? If you are getting abuse, walk off, they are professional footballers, especially when there is the threat of a pitch invasion. Players don't normally get that angry because people in the crowd are making monkey gestures. If there weren't any other incidents, it would appear the racist abuse was also happening on the pitch, but there were more Serbian players trying to peace keep than kick off. All rather messy and one hopes they have better footage to work with than that. I just hope the players weren't in on the racism.

Re: Football Chat Thread - Euro 2012 edition : Tue Oct 16, 2012 8:59 pm  

Lord God Jose Mourinho wrote:

I can understand why Chang would be peed off. When you're blowing nearly £10m on that donkey Borini that extra £300,000 is too much to take.

Seriously though, just like his initial transfer rumours were supposedly fake, so too could this be. It's not like he can be trusted when he set himself out from the start as a hoaxster.

And if it is all true, so what? It's not like his "threats" particularly amounted to much. They were just retarded BS trying to intimidate him. It's not like the transfer speculation business is anything more of a joke now than it was before. How many millions of times has a footballer supposedly been reported by an estate agent as looking at houses in the area?

If it is true, he must surely lose his job over it. It is not an acceptable way to behave for any professional, let alone such a high profile professional in such an important role. Liverpool as a club seem to have made a mess of just about everything they've done off the field in the last few years.

If it's not true, it's more than a little weird.

Re: Football Chat Thread - Euro 2012 edition : Tue Oct 16, 2012 9:19 pm  

Saddened! wrote:

If it is true, he must surely lose his job over it. It is not an acceptable way to behave for any professional, let alone such a high profile professional in such an important role. Liverpool as a club seem to have made a mess of just about everything they've done off the field in the last few years.

If it's not true, it's more than a little weird.

Chang's confirmed that he met him, but he denied making any type of a threat.

Unless there was a recording made of the conversation, there's no way that the word of a fake blogger will be enough to fire Chang over it. Chang will claim wrongful dismissal, point to the fact the bloke was an Internet wind-up merchant and say his word cannot be trusted.