Emmet Road on a Friday evening for a Pat’s home game is a magical place cc @Ralphie
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You sound like a cunt
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24 hours later this is even more exciting
The Johnny Logan song is unreal. Really adds to the occasion.
Dont worry, I’ve been to Tallaght Stadium a few times too.
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Marco Bielsa
“One of the reasons football is the most popular sport in the world, is because the weak can beat the powerful”.
There’s a man you’d go out and earn 300k a week for
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Chelsea, Real and City going to be fucked out of the Champions league on Friday.
PSG winners by default
That’ll void a lot of tv deals and cost the remaining clubs a lot of money.
I’m not sure fifa would be against this idea either. They hate the champions league and this fucks uefa so potential banning for international footballers seems far fetched to me.
The whole thing is completely mental. It seems sky and the other tv companies had stalled on their tv deals in recent weeks which may have kickstarted it.
You’d have thought legally uefa would have ring fenced things as well.
There is no way FIFA want this to happen. They’ve a hard time as it is negotiating with clubs and the regional organisations. Last thing they want is a different group of clubs outside those structures ready to sue them when players get injured in international games.
I was listening the guy from the New York Times who broke the story and he seemed to think privately fifa either don’t care or are happy to see uefa go bust as they were not happy with champions league being a bigger event than their World Cup.
Fifa already tried an expanded world club cup as well.
UEFA is under the jurisdiction of FIFA, what the fuck are you shiteing on about?
I heard that too. He said Infantino is keen to be a major power broker in club football, that he misses that from his time at UEFA.
As I said it seems fifa aren’t happy with the prominence of the champions league. Was it corona virus that stopped the expanded world club cup fifa organised?
because of a tournament that’s played once every 4 years during the summer when there is no other soccer on?
Fifa aren’t competing with UEFA, UEFA are part of the confederation that makes up FIFA.
Is the 15 +5 structure to avoid being classed as a cartel or could it be classed as being the cartel, ie. different rules for different clubs?
The UK apparently have a provision in their law that any company who is classed as acting against the public good can be put under compulsory purchase order, but it’s very hard to see that happen.
MP’s in Manchester have wrote open letters to the owners of both clubs to reconsider their decision
the 15 founders are the cartel - the 5 are the good boys who may or may not be allowed dine at the top table.
They are competing with them in a way though. I guess in the same way that smaller leagues in Europe are jealous of the bigger leagues, the other confederations are jealous of UEFA’s dominance. That was the coalition that kept Havelange and Blatter in charge at FIFA for 40 years and diluted the previous European dominance of FIFA. Blatter’s constituency was very much outside Europe, despite him being Swiss.
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