Metal Reviews

Sergio Ramos has always been a bit of a prick.

it'll be interesting to watch how this develops when they play together in the Spanish team.

You haven't watched much football in your life have you?

Anyway, more or less proves that our reserves are on a pretty low level. In my opinion Kuzack, Evans, Brown, O'Shea and maybe Obertan and Bebe are not on the level they should be at.

Oh well, this was the fucking carling cup, couldn't care less to be honest. We're still unbeaten in the Premiership and looking at the table makes me happy.

Sorry, but they had like 32% possession and almost made it 5-0. I thought that was a great game. Slipping, sliding, beating the shit out of each other in the snow... Anyway, it made for a fun night.

Russia. What a fucking disgraceful and almost certainly corrupt decision.

Stop assuming everyone knows what you're on about. I don't keep Skyy Sports on next to me 24/7.

EDIT: Oh wait, is this about the World Cup hosting?

Yes Fridge, only the biggest football news that there is.

Kind of odd choices there.. Russia I can understand, but fucking Quatar? Do they even have a national team? Fuck.

It's a lovely place; Jews, Buddhists, Hindus and gays are banned. So is being drunk in public, so quite how Los Qataris will make that work for hordes of football fans is beyond me.

Quite obviously the two countries with the most money won.

Yeah well, football is big in Russia at least, and there's a bunch of quality teams and players from there. It's not like they don't have the recourses either, so I'm not all against that.. Agreed with Zad's points on Quatar though.

plus Qatar is really tiny, they're going to build more stadiums than the country could possibly absorb. probably building those easily deconstructed ones that you can just ship in containers somewhere else.

all this after in the Portugal/Spain bid they cut out Sporting Lisbon's stadium because the same city, a capital with two major clubs, already had Benfica's Estádio da Luz in the bid.

not to mention how hot it's probably going to be.. games at 9AM/9PM anyone?

Russia, they'll have to fly everywhere, but at least it's an actual football-playing country.

Portugal/Spain i don't know what to feel. on one hand it'd be great to host a World Cup, and we proved we can do it in Euro 2004, on the other hand the bid itself was beyond stupid. Spain had 18 in 21 stadiums, leaving only FC Porto's, Benfica's and Sporting's in Lisbon (with rumous like i said that Sporting would be cut in favour of Algarve in the south of the country). i know that a WC stadium needs a minimum capacity, but surely this is open to debate?! it's not like 40.000+ people will be lining up to watch fucking North Korea vs Cameroon! plus, building scores of massive fucking stadiums promotes massive projects with no chance of future returns. i bet the stadiums in south africa are mostly empty after the world cup!

This is based on the logic that the World Cup in a retrograde shitsville country like South Africa was so good, we need to go even lower!

Apparently Australia wasted 45 million dollars on our losing bid for the 2022 cup.

Sports

so these guys are hosting the 2022 world cup.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQLylizGmDs

2010, 2018, 2022, that's 3 in 4 world cups hosted by "non-traditional" countries, this after 2002 and 1994. i understand that it's important to bring football to other places and make the sport even more popular, and yes at the same time keep sponsors happy, but this is all being done at the expense of the people who really, really love football, and far too often.

BRUTAL!

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE?!

what the fuck?! seriously, how can Sneijder not even be in the running for player of the year after winning the italian league, italian cup, CHAMPIONS MOTHERFUCKING LEAGUE and reaching the world cup final WHERE HE WAS ONE OF THE TOP SCORERS?!

seriously FIFA, stop licking Barcelona's balls already. also ready to bet Guardiola will take manager of the year.

Eventually back top of the league and if we can win the Old Firm on Sunday we'll be right back on form, but tbh I would be happy with a draw.

Despite my allegiances and despite the humiliation of a month ago I will be cheering for Celtic on the 2nd. Should be a good craic.