The 2015-16 World Fitba Thread!

Newcastle can't compete. Even liverpool can't fucking compete. It's over. Soon enough there will be one team owned by the grandchildren of Steve Jobs and they'll own all the roads, oxygen & the human genome.

 

Emirates World Premier League 2032-33 Standings

1.Google Madrid
2.Facebook Barcelona
3.Alibaba Group Chelsea
4.Microsoft Munich
5.eBay Manchester City
6.Apple United of Manchester
7.Wal Mart New York Red Bulls

 

I didn't say 'compete'. I asked for someone who 'tries'.

MTF

 

the players will be covered head to toe in ads

 

Someone quipped that they should do that in US congress. Like nascar. The bigger the contribution the bigger the Ad.

 

Like Leeds United and Rangers? :crying:

 

They practically are now. We are literally weeks away from players having company logos tattooed to their foreheads, providing exceptional marketing opportunities as they bullet home a header from a right wing corner.

Cunts.

MTF

 

Ah, the 'Leeds Myth'. Tossed out by every single Ashley apologist for the last six years.

Ashley has PROVEN, without doubt, that you can make a profit as chairman of a football club. He is up about sixty million in the last three years alone. If he spent the money he's creamed off the top on players, instead of sticking it in his fat back pocket, then NUFC would be far less likely to be sat bottom of the league and in pretty much open turmoil. Look at Southampton for another example. Swansea, League Cup winners two years back, for a third.

You don't need to go bankrupt to try and compete. It is a lie to say that you do.

MTF

 

I can see it as well. Right after every game there will be a live interview with a player saying how happy he was to score the "McDonald's goal of the match. That was a tough game, i really built up an appetite and feel in the mood for a McChicken and a Coke".

 

"Coming next - today's post match interview with Jose Mourinho, sponsored by Mars Bars - the nutritious fuel of champions!"

MTF

 

In North American sports it's already that way. We don't have advertising on the uniforms but it exists just about everywhere else you can think of. Watch an NFL game and try to count them all. "The half time show brought to you by ..."

And there are a pile of products that are the official (whatever product) of the NFL/NBA etc.

 

Football is a perfect microcosm of society. Haves and have nots, with the have-nots being scorned for not having and the haves being worshipped for having. To support a have-not is to be a have-not, a loser, a moron.

 

I knew it was over when they built in action-replays in Fight Night, which were brought to the viewer "By Dodge"....

 

Ugh

 

Yeah, I've seen that. It's grim viewing.

MTF

 

I've heard that one, too and it's absolutely right on

 

The "official sponsors" to me are really stupid if they have no relation to the game at all. I can see an offical equipment manufacturer, or something along those lines, but when i hear something like "the official toothpaste" or some shit like that i cringe. Every sponsor is official if they have a deal with the league, doesn't mean the fucken product itself should be listed as one.

 

It can't last forever... eventually it's got to explode once the whole of Europe resembles the Old Firm and the SPL and the same two teams swap the champions league title each year

You could start by not only implementing more stringent financial constraints but also by ripping apart the Champions League and the Europa league and re-introducing the big three cup competitions of the past

Right now, winning the FA Cup guarantees you a spot in Europa and an opportunity to win a trophy about 1/16 as prestigious as the CL

There was a time when the distance in prestige between the EC and CWC was a small stream and the difference between the EC and the UEFA Cup was a modest river... The EC was always the big one, but the other two were major, major trophies that teams fought hard for... Now they have been merged into one mediocre cup

 

:bears:

 

I've been banging on this drum for years but the FA Cup winners should get a CL place. This 'top four' thing is absolute horseshit. Reward WINNERS, not 'the team that gets closest to the podium without actually getting on it'. Alternatively, just write the UEFA Cup off as a bad lot, scrap it and expand the CL to include both competitions. Couple of early KO rounds to thin the field, one group stage and then KO to the winner. Perfectly feasible.

The CL is worth too much money to the same dozen clubs in a cartel now. It's too far down the road to just rip it up and start again - the elite clubs would just pull out and run their own gig. Either the whole thing implodes in a ball of greed and boredom or the game is perpetually fucked.

 

I guarantee this happens some time in the next 30 years

 

Two classic Verhoeven satires. That man is a genius.

MTF

 

Should be the current official slogan of the right wing.

 

Yeah it's heavy gay

 

I really fucking hate dawdlers. You're trying to run to make the tube and there's some cunt just strolling around aimlessly, right in your path, looking at his iPhone and not paying attention. They need shooting.

 

Next time that happens, run up to him, tap him on the shoulder and slap him very, very hard.