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Anybody else fucking despise international football?


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7 minutes ago, Numero Veinticinco said:

It’s a complete waste of time if you support any moderately decent club. It’s all so Milwall types can support decent footballers one of the most corrupt organisations in history, FIFA, can make lots and lots of money.

Fixed that for you. The Millwall fans getting to take a break from their Brexit-supporting idiocy and S*n-reading and support the (white) England players is just a side benefit to swelling FIFA's bank accounts.

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My heart and nails needed this 2 weeks off. Holland and Germany was a good watch last night too.

 

In fairness to those at the top of the game they have strides towards helping the club's. Virgil Gini and Robbo will already be back preparing for Sunday and the majority will join them tomorrow, definitely beats Coutinho getting off an 14 hour flight and straight into his Liverpool tracksuit.  

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Just now, Ne Moe Imya said:

Fixed that for you. The Millwall fans getting to take a break from their Brexit-supporting idiocy and S*n-reading and support the (white) England players is just a side benefit to swelling FIFA's bank accounts.

As long as we are criticising international football, I’m happy. 

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At its best, big tournament international football is great.

 

Friendlies and, increasingly, qualifiers are just a waste of everybody's time and patience, but I'd also argue that the same is generally true of the group stages of European club competitions.

 

Netherlands v Germany was a brilliant game of football last night. I'd take Depay in a heartbeat. Also, Arsenal selling Gnabry for a handful of magic beans looks a very silly decision.

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9 hours ago, El Rojo said:

At its best, big tournament international football is great.

 

Friendlies and, increasingly, qualifiers are just a waste of everybody's time and patience, but I'd also argue that the same is generally true of the group stages of European club competitions.

 

Netherlands v Germany was a brilliant game of football last night. I'd take Depay in a heartbeat. Also, Arsenal selling Gnabry for a handful of magic beans looks a very silly decision.

Part of the problem is the lack of competitiveness. The Czechs are shite, bulgaria are shite, romania are shite etc. The Republic are shite, scotland are shite. All countries that had top players in the past. Ten years ago, the czechs would have beaten England home and away. Now they get smashed 5-0.

Fuck it even Finland used to have Litmanen and Sami. 

 

To be fair, England are developing into a damn good team. Pains me to say that Sterling is world class.

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46 minutes ago, Ronnie Whelan said:

Part of the problem is the lack of competitiveness. The Czechs are shite, bulgaria are shite, romania are shite etc. The Republic are shite, scotland are shite. All countries that had top players in the past. Ten years ago, the czechs would have beaten England home and away. Now they get smashed 5-0.

Fuck it even Finland used to have Litmanen and Sami. 

 

To be fair, England are developing into a damn good team. Pains me to say that Sterling is world class.

All the money is being sucked to the big European leagues and this is where the best players gravitate towards. If the corrupt cunts at FIFA gave a shit they would be subsidising the poorer countries and strengthening their player development programmes but just like everything else in modern life the money is shared among the big boys. Even the likes of Brazil and Argentina are struggling bar their one or two star players who are expected to carry the whole squad. Nice to see the socialist enclave of Uruguay upsetting a few apple carts in among the capitalist greed of most others.

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12 hours ago, El Rojo said:

At its best, big tournament international football is great.

 

Friendlies and, increasingly, qualifiers are just a waste of everybody's time and patience, but I'd also argue that the same is generally true of the group stages of European club competitions.

 

Netherlands v Germany was a brilliant game of football last night. I'd take Depay in a heartbeat. Also, Arsenal selling Gnabry for a handful of magic beans looks a very silly decision.

 

How many decent games have we seen in the last 3 or 4 World cups? You don't see good games in tournaments anything like the regularity we used to see in the good old days. The World Cup AND the EUROS theses days bores me rigid. 

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It used to be that international football was the only way you could get to see the worlds top players.  It had a mystique about it because you didn't see them playing week in week out as you do these days with the advent of satellite TV and the internet. Plus you got to see our players too. Despite only being 7 at the time, I remember being thrilled to watch Kenny, Souness and Hansen playing for Scotland in the 82 World Cup.

 

International football is shite now. And so are Scotland. 

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A lot of countries who play in the world cup or euros for the first time are scared of being twatted by the bigger nations. Therefore they will play Allardyce/Mourinho football and hope to scrape a draw or get a goal from a set piece. I think Angola qualified for the World Cup in 2010 spending 3 games defending and being "well organised"

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2 minutes ago, Doctor Troy said:

A lot of countries who play in the world cup or euros for the first time are scared of being twatted by the bigger nations. Therefore they will play Allardyce/Mourinho football and hope to scrape a draw or get a goal from a set piece. I think Angola qualified for the World Cup in 2010 spending 3 games defending and being "well organised"

Bring back Zaire,1974.

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Everyone involved in the Premier League works assiduously to crank up tribalism so that there's real hate these days between rival fans. Then the same people affect bemusement that those same fans can't suddenly hang all of that on a peg and embrace all of those players in the national team. It's psychologically impossible. That's why most Engerlund fans seem to be from lower league clubs who are just excited come in from the sticks to see lots of famous names. 

 

 

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I'm ambivalent towards it but despise the fact there are about five International breaks every season. 

 

Have two International breaks a seasons and play all the qualifying games then. Fuck off all friendlies that don't take place within a fortnight of a major tournament happening.

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The branding makes me want to throw up. Calling a team of eleven 'The Three Lions' doesn't even make any sense. The only time England won something they managed to do it while just being called 'England'. And calling the women's team 'The Lionesses' - that really makes me feel ill. It's infantile.

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12 hours ago, Ronnie Whelan said:

Part of the problem is the lack of competitiveness. The Czechs are shite, bulgaria are shite, romania are shite etc. The Republic are shite, scotland are shite. All countries that had top players in the past. Ten years ago, the czechs would have beaten England home and away. Now they get smashed 5-0.

Fuck it even Finland used to have Litmanen and Sami. 

  

To be fair, England are developing into a damn good team. Pains me to say that Sterling is world class.

That's where the nations league malarkey should help. Fewer friendlies and teams of relative strength playing against each other more often instead. The WC & Euro Qualifiers (though impacted by the Nations League) will remain largely unchanged. 

 

Unpopular opinion alert, but I love International Football. Been going home & away for 15 years now and there's been some horrific moments (Luxembourg Away sticks out) but some great ones too (v Ukraine at the 2016 Euros; beating Spain at home). Could it be handled better in the footballing calendar, probably, but so many competiting interests, I don't see that problem fixing itself any time soon. 

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