Men's Soccer (Football) Thread [ARCHIVED] Soccer • Page 2035

ref was predictably abhorrent

both teams finished with 9 men

match called with 5 minutes left of 12 minutes of stoppage due to homophobic chants

 

defining image of the match

 

At some point, they gotta kick out Mexican fans for 6 months or something. Clearly the one home game without them did nothing.

You also clearly can’t host a World Cup with that sort of constant behavior… oh wait, Qatar etc

 

Seems Berhalter is back in the driver’s seat.

 

Wow. A lot happened after I fell asleep around 65th minute and saw a rash of 3 yellow cards given in 40 seconds or something

 

Balogun thrown head first into concacaf madness

 

The De Gea thing is really fucking weird. Out of contract in two weeks but supposedly he agreed to a reduced terms contract months ago. Just waiting for the manager(?) to sign off, but also we won’t sell Henderson till De Gea signs, and we won’t buy a keeper until De Gea leaves???

 

Neco Williams (the Spanish one) turned down Villa. Good on him, he'll get better offers sooner than later.

 

Inaki’s brother? Or the other one?

 

With the caveats of his replacement Tim Ream was our best player at the last World Cup and that I’m sorry to be sharing Alexi Lalas…

I wish I could’ve seen our Qatar squad with Miles starting. His ACL tear was so brutally timed, it’s hard not to feel for him.

 

Triple post, but having now seen the red cards, Weston and Sergino can swing those punches all day long and become legends in the US. Yeah, it’s a straight red every day and doesn’t belong in the sport, but if you’ve got 3-7 players dangerously fouling/swarming you and don’t back down? Fine by me. CONCACAF refs are never gonna protect our team, so might as well protect ourselves.

 

Must realised the Joselu who was scoring goals left and right for a dogshit Espanyol side this season, has broken into the national team, and is moving to Real Madrid this summer, is the 33 year old ex-Newcastle player lol.

 

More DDG weirdness. Not on the retained list, usually players who have contract offers on the table are put on the list with an asterisk.

And Stoke!

 

Yeah Iñaki’s brother Nico.

 

Joselu and Choupo-Moting doing Stoke-on-Trent proud.

 

Like his brother, he should stay his entire career at Athletic Bilbao imo. Keep some romance in footy

 

Re: dest

 

I’ve had the feeling that all the talk from the manager about DDG signing an extension and United wanting him to stay was just so he wouldn’t have to deal with another distracting storyline. Same way he kept banging on about how important Maguire is, all the while he was obviously 4th/5th choice CB all year.

 

Pickford? United on a mission to make me delete all my posts.

 

Sources: Man United fears grow over De Gea exit

 

I fully support Mexico being removed from hosting the World Cup. USA and Canada can more than swing it. Fuck their FA and their supporter culture for not removing the bigots that infest their supporters. Tired of these weak ass statements that change nothing, need to have significant action to force change.

I also want the USSF to ban the Mexico team from playing friendlies in America which would cut off a giant portion of the money their FA makes.

 

He'd be an upgrade on De Gea, particularly if he keeps his head together. Most of our fans don't want him to leave for a reason, he's been very consistent for awhile now.

 

Probably is but I’ve too many Pickford hate posts to accept that.