Official Football Thread

Yeah I watched it, Arsenal actually played well for a change hehe . It's official then no English teams in the quarters, will this prevent the idiocy of the British media saying that it's the "best" league in the world? Probably not.

OLD_SCHOOL wrote:

Yeah I watched it, Arsenal actually played well for a change hehe . It's official then no English teams in the quarters, will this prevent the idiocy of the British media saying that it's the "best" league in the world? Probably not.

Not for sure. But it was a pretty good game tho'!

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European Football - Greek player banned for life over Nazi salute

AEK Athens midfielder Giorgos Katidis has been handed a life ban from all national teams by Greece's FA after he appeared to give a Nazi salute to supporters during a match.

Katidis, 20, a former captain of Greece's under-19 team, made the alleged salute in celebrating his winning goal in a 2-1 Super League victory over lowly Veria late on Saturday.
"The player's action to salute to spectators in a Nazi manner is a severe provocation, insults all the victims of Nazi bestiality and injures the deeply pacifist and human character of the game," the Greek FA said in statement.
Katidis was heavily criticised by political parties and fans on Twitter and Facebook following the incident at the Athens Olympic Stadium. Sunday marks the 70th anniversary of Greek Jew deportations in Nazi concentration camps in the Second World War.
AEK have asked Katidis to explain himself and will then decide his future at a board meeting next week.
Katidis denied he gave a Nazi salute. "I am not a fascist and would not have done it if I had known what it meant," Katidis said on his Twitter account.
The player said he was simply pointing at Michalis Pavlis in the stands to dedicate the goal to his team mate as he continues to fight health problems.
AEK's German coach Ewald Lienen backed Katidis.
"He is a young kid who does not have any political ideas. He most likely saw such a salute on the Internet or somewhere else and did it without knowing what it means," he said.
"I am 100 percent sure Giorgos did not know what he did. He was crying in the dressing room seeing the reaction."
AEK are languishing in 10th place in the table with 29 points from 26 games. Veria are fourth from bottom.
Katidis joined the club from Aris Salonika last year after impressing in Greece's run to the final of the European Under-19 Championship where they lost to Spain.

OLD_SCHOOL wrote:

Quote :

European Football - Greek player banned for life over Nazi salute

AEK Athens midfielder Giorgos Katidis has been handed a life ban from all national teams by Greece's FA after he appeared to give a Nazi salute to supporters during a match.

Katidis, 20, a former captain of Greece's under-19 team, made the alleged salute in celebrating his winning goal in a 2-1 Super League victory over lowly Veria late on Saturday.
"The player's action to salute to spectators in a Nazi manner is a severe provocation, insults all the victims of Nazi bestiality and injures the deeply pacifist and human character of the game," the Greek FA said in statement.
Katidis was heavily criticised by political parties and fans on Twitter and Facebook following the incident at the Athens Olympic Stadium. Sunday marks the 70th anniversary of Greek Jew deportations in Nazi concentration camps in the Second World War.
AEK have asked Katidis to explain himself and will then decide his future at a board meeting next week.
Katidis denied he gave a Nazi salute. "I am not a fascist and would not have done it if I had known what it meant," Katidis said on his Twitter account.
The player said he was simply pointing at Michalis Pavlis in the stands to dedicate the goal to his team mate as he continues to fight health problems.
AEK's German coach Ewald Lienen backed Katidis.
"He is a young kid who does not have any political ideas. He most likely saw such a salute on the Internet or somewhere else and did it without knowing what it means," he said.
"I am 100 percent sure Giorgos did not know what he did. He was crying in the dressing room seeing the reaction."
AEK are languishing in 10th place in the table with 29 points from 26 games. Veria are fourth from bottom.
Katidis joined the club from Aris Salonika last year after impressing in Greece's run to the final of the European Under-19 Championship where they lost to Spain.

What a cocksucker lol. Got any -real- source though? Like an actual article?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21822165

Any thoughts about Real's shape the last few games?Anyone here seen how amazing Modric is?

I got to admit, It's Reals winning season, some pro shit right there.

Croatia <3 vs serbia .Goooooo Croatia
1:0 Mario Mandžukić.

GOOD JOB ARSENAL

latvia is shit at football, fucking hate to watch them lol

The new world rankings are an absolute mess. Colombia are 3rd, Bosnia are above England. It's funny to even think about

Thought I'd take this topic back  

But damn, Arsenal! We had really alot of rumours about Higuain stepping in but no, he had to go to Napoli. I hope we actually spend some money on quality players, because all the time we have rumours but nobody arrives. We've had some links with Suarez though.

But nonetheless, Arsenal has been playing pretty good in Asia. Zelalem is seemingly pretty fucking awesome along with Rosicky being amazing aswell.

NK Čelik Zenica 1:1 FK Borac Banja Luka

Čelik played awesome yesterday..!

limVo likČe nicaZe !!

In terms of our upcoming season, we're kinda fucked.

Arsenal best buy some striker indeed if they want to compete this season. Napoli formed up their squad pretty good for the CL, will be interesting to watch them.

Arsenal are shit anyway.

LOOOL

OLD_SCHOOL wrote:

Arsenal are shit anyway.

Explain me why are they shit?

Transfer rumors anyone?
What do you think the odds of Bale getting to Madrid this season are?

They haven't won a trophy in 8 years.

DaParasite wrote:

Transfer rumors anyone?
What do you think the odds of Bale getting to Madrid this season are?

Won't happen, only people reporting it are Marca and they are incredibly biased to Real Madrid.

Well, Real Madrid wasted its budget this year, and bought alot of players, so I think Bale ain't going to Real Madrid this year.