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Other Football 2023/24

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21 minutes ago, sir roger said:

Read that Union go into the Conference after coming 3rd in our group, so do the teams coming 3rd in the conference go into the FA Sunday Cup with the Fantail and whoever ?

They get to play against a load of Somalis that wouldn't get off the pitch at Toxteth when we used to have TLW Footy there. We ended up starting at 10pm because they refused to come off. 

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Cancel culture strikes again:

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67723180

 

MKE Ankaragucu president Faruk Koca has received a permanent ban for punching referee Halil Umut Meler, says the Turkish Football Federation. 
 

Koca was arrested after he ran on to the pitch and struck Meler following a draw with Caykur Rizespor in the Turkish top-flight.

Ankaragucu have also been fined two million lira (£54,000) and ordered to play five home games without any fans.

 

All Turkish league football was suspended after Monday's incident.

 

The TFF has since decided that games will resume on Tuesday, 19 December after a one-week suspension.


Meler received several blows from others as he lay on the turf and suffered injuries including a minor fracture.

 

The 37-year-old is one of Turkey's top referees and officiates international games for Fifa. He is also on Uefa's elite referee list.

He was taken to hospital for treatment for his injuries before being released on Wednesday.


Justice Minister Yilmaz Tunc said Koca and two others were formally arrested for "injuring a public official".

 

Koca later issued a statement via Ankaragucu saying he had resigned as club president and apologising for his actions.

 

"No matter how great an injustice or how wrong [the officiating] was, nothing can legitimise or explain the violence that I perpetrated," he said.

 

"I apologise to the Turkish refereeing community, the sports public and our nation."

He added he felt "great embarrassment" for the "grave incident that I caused" but hoped it could help Turkish football address its "culture of violence".

 

Fifa president Gianni Infantino said the incident was "totally unacceptable" and violence had "no place in our sport or society".

 

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22 hours ago, Kevin D said:

Cancel culture strikes again:

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67723180

 

MKE Ankaragucu president Faruk Koca has received a permanent ban for punching referee Halil Umut Meler, says the Turkish Football Federation. 
 

Koca was arrested after he ran on to the pitch and struck Meler following a draw with Caykur Rizespor in the Turkish top-flight.

Ankaragucu have also been fined two million lira (£54,000) and ordered to play five home games without any fans.

 

All Turkish league football was suspended after Monday's incident.

 

The TFF has since decided that games will resume on Tuesday, 19 December after a one-week suspension.


Meler received several blows from others as he lay on the turf and suffered injuries including a minor fracture.

 

The 37-year-old is one of Turkey's top referees and officiates international games for Fifa. He is also on Uefa's elite referee list.

He was taken to hospital for treatment for his injuries before being released on Wednesday.


Justice Minister Yilmaz Tunc said Koca and two others were formally arrested for "injuring a public official".

 

Koca later issued a statement via Ankaragucu saying he had resigned as club president and apologising for his actions.

 

"No matter how great an injustice or how wrong [the officiating] was, nothing can legitimise or explain the violence that I perpetrated," he said.

 

"I apologise to the Turkish refereeing community, the sports public and our nation."

He added he felt "great embarrassment" for the "grave incident that I caused" but hoped it could help Turkish football address its "culture of violence".

 

Fifa president Gianni Infantino said the incident was "totally unacceptable" and violence had "no place in our sport or society".

 

 

Haven't seen any links on it but the political piece in Turkey is complex and made me wonder a bit about this.

 

When there was an attempted coup a few years back it started at Besiktas's stadium and Erdogan had dozens of football officials arrested.

 

He supposedly is very nervous about mass gatherings of football fans. So much so that he bankrolled the tiny Istanbul Basaksehir who get attendances of a couple of thousand up the leagues. When one of the big Istanbul teams win the league there are millions on the streets. When Basaksehir did nobody cared.

 

Then you read this club president is one of his MPs and the comments he makes about football violence. If he was wanting out anyway it's not much of a stretch to put a link between him punching the ref and Erdogan using it as an opportunity to clamp down further on football.

 

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3 hours ago, Turkish Delight said:

 

Haven't seen any links on it but the political piece in Turkey is complex and made me wonder a bit about this.

 

When there was an attempted coup a few years back it started at Besiktas's stadium and Erdogan had dozens of football officials arrested.

 

He supposedly is very nervous about mass gatherings of football fans. So much so that he bankrolled the tiny Istanbul Basaksehir who get attendances of a couple of thousand up the leagues. When one of the big Istanbul teams win the league there are millions on the streets. When Basaksehir did nobody cared.

 

Then you read this club president is one of his MPs and the comments he makes about football violence. If he was wanting out anyway it's not much of a stretch to put a link between him punching the ref and Erdogan using it as an opportunity to clamp down further on football.

 


How wonderfully Justinian, I like it.

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