General Football 23/24

[Leyton388]

Looks like a Germany kit.

[RichC]

new scotland away kit

That's awful

[ChesterDave]

Dexter Blackstock is to sue some guy who put him out for a year. £50,000 he alleges in lost bonus payments.

Can't see him having the slightest chance of winning unless he can demonstrate that it was willfully negligent/malicious on behalf of his opponent. Surely the court would consider an understood/inherent risk that comes with the sport rather than a black and white finite result from an action?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-26355985

Also, 4,000 teenage girls die-hard Donny fans turned up to watch the reserves play

[Leyton388]

****ing tit knows the risks of playing the game. Injuries happen and are part of the game. Hope he gets told to **** off. He got his basic wages which no doubt will be big money and he's pissing and moaning about bonuses?

That's a heads gone there.

[ChesterDave]

I could understand his point if it was a deliberately malicious tackle. I seem to remember a Bristol City player punching an opponent in the FA Cup game breaking the jaw. But then it was deliberate so he was criminally prosecuted. For a part of the game challenge it really is a cockish move.

[Bender]

Newcastle United manager Alan Pardew says Steve Bruce is "the manager of the year" after guiding Hull City to 11th in the Premier League table.
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[Gibbo]

I don't think he meant it literally Bender.

It's a fair point, they're nine places better off then most people presumed they would be.

[Roboklopp]

Even the name Steve Bruce mings me out.

[Alex]

Found out today that Steve Bruce was the player with the most Premier League titles and no International Caps.

[RedReet]

Found out today that Steve Bruce was the player with the most Premier League titles and no International Caps.

I imagine he is well ahead in that poll. Who would even come close (assuming they don't count squad players who barely played a game, but still picked up medals)?

[john316]

barcastuff: UEFA investigates 76 Champions League and Europe League clubs for potentially breaking Financial Fair Play rules. First sanctions in April.

[ChesterDave]

Im sure they will a lot harsher on the clubs who champions enter at the earliest rounds compared to the massive overspending teams like PSG/Monaco/Man City

[Le Chef]

Im sure they will a lot harsher on the clubs who champions enter at the earliest rounds compared to the massive overspending teams like PSG/Monaco/Man City

As if Platini would punish French clubs-duh, City yes not the french though

[Liverpel]

Laurent Koscielny has donated €600,000 to a Romanian orphanage, which is a really nice touch.


Oh, hold on. I meant to say accordion factory.



French footballer Laurent Koscielny has not forgotten his roots.

Even the bustle of London, where he has lived since signing for Arsenal in 2010, has failed to drown out the gentle strains of the accordion he would hear as a boy growing up in the French countryside.

Now the international defender has dug deep into his pockets to help save the country's oldest accordion factory in Tulle in the Correze, his home town and president François Hollande's constituency.

Maugein, founded in 1919, was threatened with closure and the loss of 20 jobs. French media reported that Koscielny is part of an investment group that had put up €600,000 (£495,000) to save the factory from closure.

The local mayor, Bernard Combes, an adviser to Hollande, had contacted the player to raise the plight of the factory.

Hollande made his first speech in Tulle after being elected president in 2012. He and his then partner Valérier Trierweiler were serenaded by an accordionist playing La Vie en Rose.

The Maugein factory makes the accordions from scratch and had a turnover of €800,000 in 2012. However, hit by competition from cheaper instruments made in Eastern Europe and China, it went into receivership last December. In 1939, it employed 300 workers.

Combes told Le Monde in December that the Maugein accordion was a symbol of the region's industrial heritage.

Koscielny, 28, whose family is of Polish origin earns £2.6m a year with Arsenal.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/28/laurent-koscielny-arsenal-player-accordion-factory-donates-tulle

[Liverpel]

Sunderland’s Capital One Cup Final suits for this Sunday will be supplied by Mike Ashley, owner of their bitter rivals Newcastle United.

The Mackems have signed a contract with clothing company Cruise, which was bought up by Ashley in 2011. They will supply the club with formal wear until the end of the 2014-15 season.