Other - Rest of the World Club World Cup 2025
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Level: Jamie Brooks
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Level: Chris Maguire
(79 Apps, 22 Gls)
This is such a non event hosted by a country who still value 5 or 6 other sports ahead of football. Pathetic line up of teams which doesn’t even include 3 or 4 of the current best teams in the world. Certainly won’t be watching this drivel dished out by Infantino and his sportswashing buddies.
I really hope those taking part get absolutely rinsed in their domestic leagues next season as players hold a bit back for themselves to play in a World Cup which sees USA host for a second time and Mexico got a third time since we last had it here. Like the last World Cup it will be another tournament I won’t be arsed to watch.
I really hope those taking part get absolutely rinsed in their domestic leagues next season as players hold a bit back for themselves to play in a World Cup which sees USA host for a second time and Mexico got a third time since we last had it here. Like the last World Cup it will be another tournament I won’t be arsed to watch.
Exactly this. It's a farce of a competition.
Bayern are currently ranked sixth in Opta's Power Rankings - but Auckland are down in 5,074th, over 2,500 places below English National League side York City.
So the equivalent of us playing Saxton Rovers I guess
So the equivalent of us playing Saxton Rovers I guess
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Level: Les Phillips
(224 Apps, 15 Gls)
The only thing less interesting than the tournament itself is me taking the time to comment on it.
Sorry.
Sorry.
QR
Level: Paul Moody
(197 Apps, 75 Gls)
Always a difficult place to go.
Marked Ox
Level: Mickey Lewis
(351 Apps, 7 Gls)
Add in the other greased wheel as to how Saudi Arabia was 'awarded' the 2024 FIFA World Cup.
The 2030 World Cup couldn't go to North America or Asia since the previous two iterations had been so you'd expect a European, South American, African or Australasian World Cup, right? A joint bid comes in from Spain, Portugal and Morocco (that's UEFA and CAF accounted for) and - lo and behold - since it's 100 years since the first WC, let's have some matches in South America (CONMEBOL) too for some stupid reason.
That leaves the 2034 World Cup only allowed to be hosted by an AFC nation (You could expect a bid from an OFC member but Australia knew better than to put one in despite doing an excellent job for the 2023 Women's World Cup).
Aside from the Club World Cup, FIFA have the greatest football product and it's totally unique. Every nation has a domestic cup and league, and there are continental competitions every season. However, the WC is the best football tournament going and they had the best, most exciting format for it with 32 teams made special by it only coming around every four years. FIFA continue to f**k it up with expanding it, giving it to awful countries to reward despots or environmentally destructive regimes and making shedloads in cash with it. They'll go with Wenger's 'suggestion' (ie, paid to say it from an experienced manager with credence in the sport) of making it every two years in my lifetime, I reckon.
There's nothing anyone can do about it nor has the guts or desire to. I want the English FA plus anyone they can get to tag along to up sticks and leave FIFA and start the whole thing again but they won't. No one will. FIFA needs to collapse and fall to pieces before we can have some sanity to the game again.
The saddest part is that I know I'll try to watch whatever tawdry, diluted form of WC that FIFA has because they still have the WC. More fool me, I guess. I'm complicit in it continuing to be a success.
He is keen as if Bayern win this he will have the sole lead in most winners medals for a German player (currently joint top).
"Add in the other greased wheel as to how Saudi Arabia was 'awarded' the 2024 FIFA World Cup."
You mean the award by "acclamation" (be seen to be applauding on a zoom meeting) wasn't entirely open and honest? ;-)
No, that must be wrong in the lead up to the game it was claimed that the best 32 teams in the world were competing, Auckland would struggle in the national league.
Maximum an Auckland player can be paid is £66 a week apparently, don’t think you will find any players in the national league on that.
I have to say, I was getting quite confused as to why everyone was saying that Auckland were part-timers.....because I thought they were an A-League team, and had won it the season prior. And I know that the A-League is fully professional because I've been to a game, heard @chuckbert talk about it on here and read plenty of rumours about us signing their players.
Just realized that the team I'm thinking of is Auckland FC.....and the team playing in the Club World Cup is Auckland City FC. Because Auckland FC play in the A-League (an Asian Football Confederation league), they are not currently eligible to enter the Oceania Champions League.
It's basically the equivalent of having Thame United represent the county in the Championship because the organizers deemed us ineligible, and they did win the Oxfordshire Senior Cup after all!
FIFA have done a lot of very, very corrupt things over the years......but I don't think they've ever pulled together a competition quite as noddy as this one.
To give Infantino his due, it takes Trumpian levels of self-aggrandizement and delusion to organize a global club competition, and say with a straight face that it includes the 'best of the best' when your convoluted qualification criteria mean that the champions of England, Spain and Italy are not competing, but the second best sides in Austria and the city of Auckland are........
Just realized that the team I'm thinking of is Auckland FC.....and the team playing in the Club World Cup is Auckland City FC. Because Auckland FC play in the A-League (an Asian Football Confederation league), they are not currently eligible to enter the Oceania Champions League.
It's basically the equivalent of having Thame United represent the county in the Championship because the organizers deemed us ineligible, and they did win the Oxfordshire Senior Cup after all!
FIFA have done a lot of very, very corrupt things over the years......but I don't think they've ever pulled together a competition quite as noddy as this one.
To give Infantino his due, it takes Trumpian levels of self-aggrandizement and delusion to organize a global club competition, and say with a straight face that it includes the 'best of the best' when your convoluted qualification criteria mean that the champions of England, Spain and Italy are not competing, but the second best sides in Austria and the city of Auckland are........
Correct, still it is a lot of money compared with Harry Kane^s (who didn't score) alleged miserly £400k a week
Yeah, me too. In fact, I'll likely pay eye-watering prices to go and watch Uzbekistan play the Cape Verde Islands (or similar) in New Jersey next summer.
Because it's the World Cup, there'll only be twenty or so in an average lifetime, and it's too special to miss.....
The best thing about this Club World Cup is the fact that I can completely boycott a FIFA competition and not feel like I'm missing out on anything good!
Take 117 years for them to earn what Kane does in a week.
bazzer9461
Level: Joey Beauchamp
(428 Apps, 79 Gls)
- Year of First Game
- 1968
What a load of b*****s this is just turned it on you can tell the yanks are at it, each player has to walk out on their own when announced and the stadium looks half empty
Steve Gilbert
Level: Paul Moody
(197 Apps, 75 Gls)
I think you are being generous there mate saying half empty
bazzer9461
Level: Joey Beauchamp
(428 Apps, 79 Gls)
- Year of First Game
- 1968
Whose idea was this, matey boy who claimed the Qatar WC was the best ever and the Arabs
I have no words…
We can tick another modern day bingo box already - ref comms malfunction. I’m switching over, can’t believe I stuck with for 10 mins..
bazzer9461
Level: Joey Beauchamp
(428 Apps, 79 Gls)
- Year of First Game
- 1968
I’m bored so thought I would watch it but not Mrs has just nudged me to wake me up
bazzer9461
Level: Joey Beauchamp
(428 Apps, 79 Gls)
- Year of First Game
- 1968
You couldn’t make it up the ref has a player walking to the touchline seems to have a knock on the head then he stops the player and says wait them calls on the physio what a load of b*****s
OX14
Level: Les Phillips
(224 Apps, 15 Gls)
If football in this country ever turns to what I've watched tonight in this joke of a competition i'm going to take up knitting as a new hobby as it will be more exciting.
And apparently it doesn't matter - to the folks that run the stadiums anyways.
The US didn't bid to host this tournament - FIFA just told them they were doing it; but because it was last minute, and because it wasn't anything that anyone in the US had asked to host, FIFA have had to pay the stadium operators stonking amounts of rent to ensure that they don't make a loss even if noone turned up!
I'm actually a little disappointed that the crowds aren't even lower than they have been. There were a couple of good attendances yesterday.
top tier closed and the blue dots unsold.
The Voice Of Reason
Level: Chris Maguire
(79 Apps, 22 Gls)
NZ clubs turnover is 1.1 mil they get 2.9 for turning up good.business
But it is infantinos fantasy.
Empty grounds. Dazn paidna billion$ for TV rights that no one wanted but saudis bought it for billions before nuts!!!
FIFA another pat of the Saudi sports.empire
But it is infantinos fantasy.
Empty grounds. Dazn paidna billion$ for TV rights that no one wanted but saudis bought it for billions before nuts!!!
FIFA another pat of the Saudi sports.empire
If DAZN has the rights how come it’s on channel 5?
Kinda of enjoying watching it on channel 5 though, FIFA hyping up an event then it ending up on straight after “bargain loving brits abroad”.
Kinda of enjoying watching it on channel 5 though, FIFA hyping up an event then it ending up on straight after “bargain loving brits abroad”.
Steve Gilbert
Level: Paul Moody
(197 Apps, 75 Gls)
22137 attendance in a stadium that holds 71k!
