Random Football Musings

Potentially the biggest change to the transfer system since the Bosman ruling.

Coincidentally, the lawyer representing Lassana Diarra also represented Jean-Marc Bosman.

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Future WSW marquee.

Also, for those not clicking the link, you couldn’t make it up:

“The striker is also brother-in-law to Dutch volleyball player and convicted child rapist Steven van de Velde, whose participation at this summer’s Olympics caused a major storm”.

See the media needs to stop hyping up shit like this. The whole furore is about the prick that didn’t sign, rather than those that did. Ignore the arseholes that are against it, don’t give them a spotlight to shine and celebrate the fact that everyone else did.

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Yeah but he raped a girl, so that’s fine, not that gay shit.

Looks like Real Madrid’s “Investment” in Mbappe is “paying” dividends. He got caught offside 8 times against Barcelona when they got thrashed 4-0. He’s scored 8 goals this season, of which 3 have been penalties out of 14 games. In comparison, Lewandowski has scored 17 out of 14 games. So i’m assuming Mbappe will get the Ballon D’Or

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A cert after their little bitch routine this week

Hansie Flick is kicking arse over there at Barthalona.

So Mbappe is just a Klimala light

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Highlights of that game were atrocious. Like a league just played at 1.5x speed

Germany just announced their team for November fixtures. They called up Dario Sits for his German Debut. Sits is Latvian


He’ll have to stand up then.

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Finding out he’s ineligible will give the coach the ßits.

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Maccabi fans tried it on, they got done over. Hard.

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including what they have called antisemitic attacks, as well as inflammatory actions by Israeli fans.

So Israeli fans were inflammatory, but anything against them is antisemitic. They seriously need to go get fucked

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So scarred from the pogrom that there are videos of them singing the same songs on the flight and again back at Tel Aviv airport.

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“Tomorrow after the game in the night,” someone replies, “part two of Jew hunt.”

some attackers appear to have singled out their victims for being Jewish.

Interviews with eyewitnesses and local officials, as well as screenshots of text exchanges over social media and online videos verified by The Times, suggest that the attackers specifically targeted both Israelis and Jewish people. Some victims reported being stopped and asked if they were Israeli or Jewish. Videos verified by The Times showed others being asked to show their passports, or trying to escape harm by saying they were not Jewish.

By all means keep the rage at Israel for what it’s doing in Gaza, but shit like the above only serves to undermine that. It’s important to separate the two. Now there’s lots of “some guy sez” in a lot of what that article states, including the quotes I’ve pulled out, but if we’re looking for antisemitic incident’s there’s some right there.

But putting antisemitism as a specific allegation aside, thugs doing revenge in the street on randoms is not a great way of solving things. Even if we start with their stupidest broadest brush of looking for any Jews, or Israelis, or getting down more specific - any Maccabi fans. Sure Maccabi fans may be cunts, but if you’re just finding any to have a go at because some number of Maccabi fans acted the cunt then it’s a pretty slippery slope. “Hey you’re just like/ a bit like/vaguely like someone who did something bad, therefore I am hereby authorised to visit bad upon you.” Because most likely the worst offenders weren’t the ones who copped the retribution.

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Just adding I saw this in the article too:

Fearing violence at the soccer game, and furious over the Dutch government’s continuing support of what he calls a genocidal Israeli campaign in Gaza, a prominent Muslim member of the City Council, Sheher Khan, said he had pushed the mayor to bar visiting fans from the match.

I think this would have been a good approach.

While I won’t condone it, but the bit that I quoted is exactly what’s wrong with the current media. They tone down the horrible shit being carried out by Israel, while talk up everything else. All you need to do see the difference between reproting in Ukraine and Gaza. Ukraine attacks are always “Russian rocket hits Kiev, Russian bomb kills person” whereas Israeli attack: “bomb hits hospital, UN trucks shot” shit like that.

In terms of the other stuff, I mean the Israeli supporters seem to have brought it on themselves. If you consider that there was a big mob looking for them, and I would suggest the easiest factor to distinguish them, would have been their nationality. Is it smart? No, would it be effective? Probably yes. Mob mentality is never smart and you need to consider the fact that there’s already huge simmering tensions in Europe from the Muslim populations. Lighting a match is never going to end well. I can very much see their next matches in Europe going even worse after the way they’ve behaved.

I’d very much be hoping that UEFA is smart enough to ban Maccabi supporters from travel in future games.

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