The soccerball thread

[Marie Monday]

@Marie Monday just wondered if you were aware of this. Hopefully you will feel the rage I felt when reading it and will join me in my hate campaign against Manchester City.

Doncaster Belles were one of, if not the biggest clubs in women's football. They dominated it in the 80s and 90s and only lost two league games in a period of 15 years (yes you read that right).

In 2013, when expanding the Women's Super League, the were forcibly removed and demoted to the lower division (WSL 2). They were replaced by Manchester City. Since then it's been downhill and they're now in the 4th tier of English women's football.

I always thought it was very convenient that the WSL's top teams align almost perfectly with the male counterparts, well now I can see partly why. They engineered it that way, presumably in an effort to increase the viewership and fan base of women's football (I'd imagine some brown envelopes were exchanged too).

Sickening imo.

yeah I'm not surprised but that's gross. Have always hated man city as a club too. Unfortunately their women's team is actually nice and quite sympathetic so I still prefer them over many other wsl teams (fuck Chelsea). Even worse is that Viv Miedema will allegedly transfer to city so I'll be forced to cheer for them to some extent 🤢 I get her decision though, as an absolute top player in the wsl only arsenal, Chelsea, and city are options. Viv's goodbye today was emotional, I'm glad I got to be there

(Not my pic my camera is rubbish)

Anyway COYG tomorrow <3

[Marie Monday]

also to add to this, promoting city at other teams' expense for popularity is extra dumb because I can tell you from aexperience that a LOT of women's football fans don't give a shit about men's football. Popularity of women's football is its own thing, smaller for now of course, but not dependent on the men.

I don't really care much either but I'm manifesting that the premier league ends in this spirit

[jimmy jazz]

Seeing quite a lot of backlash about this latest title win. #115charges trending as soon as the whistle was blown. A few journalists speaking up, as well as Paddy Power.

https://twitter.com/sportingintel/status/1792238883565900016



Note the asterisk 

[jimmy jazz]

@Trollheart

Man City have sued the Premier League.

They're arguing sponsors should be able to inflate the value of sponsorships and pay what they want. Basically they're admitting to what they've been accused of.

They're going for the 'the rules weren't fair' approach rather than 'we didn't break the rules'.

[Trollheart]

Ah, the old Kobayashi Maru idea, eh?

Incidentally, City were shite in the FA Cup Final. I hate Man U of course, but they were by far the better team. Looked like Pep's boys felt "hell, we've won the title, who cares?" Very poor respect for their fans.

[jimmy jazz]

Paddy Power are the best in the world for this.

Funny cunts.

[Trollheart]

Fucking hilarious. "Can you look into the Henry thing lads? Might be something in it?"
"Oh, just get over it. Got to block that number."
    

[jimmy jazz]

Fucking hilarious. "Can you look into the Henry thing lads? Might be something in it?"
"Oh, just get over it. Got to block that number."
    

So many jokes in it.

This is vintage Irish craic 👍

[Trollheart]

"Suppose you'll be off to Goodison next?"
"What for? You don't get trophies for NOT being relegated!"

"Here's your invoice: I'm sure you can well afford it."
 

[Psy-Fi]

Fans sentenced to prison for racist insults directed at soccer star Vinícius Júnior in first-of-its-kind conviction