Yay! International week! (feat. u17 world cup) [5/10 - 10/10]

[-james-]

Thursday 5/10

Asia

13:30 - Syria - Australia

Europe

17:00 - Azerbaijan - Czech Republic
17:00 - Armenia - Poland
19:45 - Northern Ireland - Germany
19:45 - San Marino - Norway
19:45 - Montenegro - Denmark
19:45 - Romania - Kazakhstan
19:45 - England - Slovenia
19:45 - Malta - Lithuania
19:45 - Scotland - Slovakia

South America

21:00 - Bolivia - Brazil
22:00 - Venezuela - Uruguay
00:30 (fri) - Colombia - Paraguay
00:30 (fri) - Chile - Ecuador
00:30 (fri) - Argentina - Peru

Friday 6/10

Europe

17:00 - Georgia - Wales
19:45 - Austria - Serbia
19:45 - Republic of Ir… - Moldova
19:45 - Italy - FYR Macedonia
19:45 - Liechtenstein - Israel
19:45 - Spain - Albania
19:45 - Croatia - Finland
19:45 - Turkey - Iceland
19:45 - Kosovo - Ukraine

Africa

20:00 - Mali - Côte d'Ivoire

Saturday 7/10

Africa

14:00 - South Africa - Burkina Faso
14:00 - Uganda - Ghana
17:00 - Nigeria - Zambia
17:00 - Cameroon - Algeria
18:00 - Guinea - Tunisia
18:00 - Libya - Congo DR
18:30 - Cape Verde Islands - Senegal
20:00 - Morocco - Gabon

Europe

17:00 - Sweden - Luxembourg
17:00 - Faroe Islands - Latvia
17:00 - Bosnia-Herzegovina - Belgium
17:00 - Gibraltar - Estonia
19:45 - Belarus - Netherlands
19:45 - Bulgaria - France
19:45 - Andorra - Portugal
19:45 - Switzerland - Hungary
19:45 - Cyprus - Greece

North America

00:35 (sun) - United States - Panama
02:30 (sun) - Mexico - Trinidad and Tobago
03:00 (sun) - Costa Rica - Honduras

Sunday 8/10

Africa

18:00 - Egypt - Congo

Europe

17:00 - Denmark - Romania
17:00 - Kazakhstan - Armenia
17:00 - Poland - Montenegro
17:00 - Lithuania - England
17:00 - Slovakia - Malta
17:00 - Slovenia - Scotland
19:45 - Czech Republic - San Marino
19:45 - Germany - Azerbaijan
19:45 - Norway - Northern Ireland

Monday 9/10

Europe

19:45 - Moldova - Austria
19:45 - Serbia - Georgia
19:45 - Wales - Republic of Ireland
19:45 - Albania - Italy
19:45 - FYR Macedonia - Liechtenstein
19:45 - Israel - Spain
19:45 - Finland - Turkey
19:45 - Ukraine - Croatia
19:45 - Iceland - Kosovo

Tuesday 10/10

19:45 - France - Belarus
19:45 - Luxembourg - Bulgaria
19:45 - Netherlands - Sweden
19:45 - Hungary - Faroe Islands
19:45 - Latvia - Andorra
19:45 - Portugal - Switzerland
19:45 - Belgium - Cyprus
19:45 - Estonia - Bosnia-Herzegovina
19:45 - Greece - Gibraltar

South America

00:30 (wed) - Paraguay - Venezuela
00:30 (wed) - Brazil - Chile
00:30 (wed) - Ecuador - Argentina
00:30 (wed) - Peru - Colombia
00:30 (wed) - Uruguay - Bolivia

North America

01:00 (wed) - Trinidad and Tobago - United States
01:00 (wed) - Honduras - Mexico
01:00 (wed) - Panama - Costa Rica

[-james-]

U17 world cup groups are here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_FIFA_U-17_World_Cup

They feature the delights of India (hosts), New Caledonia, and Niger. The last one, in 2015, was really enjoyable, though I gather this is being held at the tail end of monsoon season which seems a tad questionable.

[John Arne]

Tuesday 10/10

2019 AFC Asian Cup Qualifier

19:00 - Vietnam - Cambodia

[Jimmy Floyd]

The African group featuring Burkina Faso, Senegal, Cape Verde and South Africa is an absolute mess.

[ItalAussie]

We get to play-off for the right to lose to Honduras. Good times.

[ItalAussie]

The African group featuring Burkina Faso, Senegal, Cape Verde and South Africa is an absolute mess.

I'd love to see Cape Verde at the World Cup.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I don't really know how they do it, their squad is a mish-mash of utter shite from the Portuguese second division with journeyman 32 year olds, all with silly names like Gary Rodrigues and 'Nhuck'.

Probably something to be said for keeping the same band of inadequates together at international level so it has a club feel. Northern Ireland have done the same.

[Spoonsky]

I swear we had one of these two weeks ago.

[Jimmy Floyd]

3-4 weeks ago, I would have thought.

I don't get the moaning about these, there are about 4 in a 9 month season and at this point in the qualification cycle there are more games of interest than you'd get on an average club weekend.

I guess we could be like baseball and play every day with 80 man squads.

[-james-]

I like them too. This one should be particularly good because there is potential for plenty of lolling at Chile, Holland, Scotland, Australia etc

[Byron]

We certainly don't need an international weekend to lol at Scotland.

[Jimmy Floyd]

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/footb...res-tv-rights/

The 'Big Six' should piss off. They're using the bullshit BCCI argument that because they produce more revenue they should therefore be paid more money. That's not how economics works.

[Kikó]

I love how the hunt for greed makes them forget competition is why companies are willing to pay so much for the game.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Apparently Everton, Leicester and West Ham are voting with the six. Are they mental or do they just want to be in the good books to get crap loan players?

[Lewis]

Isn't that basically how the domestic revenues are already split? People ought to be more concerned about Tottenham thinking they are part of some 'Big Six'.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Poor old Everton were in the 'Big Five' when we last did this in 1990. What went wrong?

[Lewis]

The MASSIVE Two (City and United): 50% of the revenue
The Big Three (Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool): 30% of the revenue
The Zionist Entity (Tottenham): None of the revenue
The 'Big Clubs' (Everton, Newcastle, West Ham): 15% of the revenue
The Shit (Everyone else): 5% of the revenue
Sunderland (Sunderland): Whatever the Shit teams receive, paid for by the Zionist Entity

[phonics]

They've (and I'm not joking here, this is the official language) "Unanimously agreed to disagree" and will shelve the thing for their next meeting.

[Jimmy Floyd]

lol, as soon as Sir Henry Winter did a twitter THREAD about it this morning it was always doomed to fail.

[Lewis]

Jupp Heynckes is back at Bayern until the end of the season. If he wins the Champions' League...

[Raoul Duke]

Jupp totally donning Pep

What happened to that Dortmund guy? I guess they're gonna get that young guy in next year then.

[Baz]

Jupp Heynckes is back at Bayern until the end of the season. If he wins the Champions' League...

Man’s a machine.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Look Who's Back.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Aussie Aussie Aussie are playing Syria. Their first XI looks absolutely putrid, and Tim Cahill is still on the bench. Nevertheless, Robbie Kruse has just given them the lead.

[phonics]

To cheer us up in this time of need (International Football... gross) here's some good ol' Peter Reid in his new book

‘I had been asked to take charge of an England legends team which played Germany at Reading’s Madejski Stadium in May 2006,’ Reid writes.‘One of my players was a certain Boris Johnson. As most people have now realised, Johnson is – as Nick Clegg once referred to him – a mop-haired buffoon but the people of Liverpool had already come to that conclusion, having been on the receiving end of his brand of politics.

‘Regardless of the reason why the game was taking place, I knew I wasn’t going to be in a charitable mood towards him.

‘As soon as he walked into the dressing room I went for him.

‘”Hello Peter, Boris Johnson, pleased to meet you,” he said. I wasn’t in the mood for pleasantries, though.

‘“I’ve been meaning to have a word with you, you t**t; having a go at Scousers, who the f**k do you think you are?”

‘You could hear a pin drop and the likes of John Barnes, Richard Ashcroft, Nigel Benn and Sean Bean were all open-mouthed. I could tell he couldn’t work out whether I was pulling his leg because he was half-smirking and half-shocked but I wasn’t messing.

‘“You are a f**king disgrace,” I said, and the tirade continued. He s**t himself.”

[Jimmy Floyd]

Love that. A swearing-induced victory for the Proper Football Man, complete with quadruple name drop from the worlds of football, boxing, music and film respectively.

[Lewis]

It was actually Simon Heffer who wrote it (plus it was true), so lol at ol' monkey head.

[-james-]

Iranian referee doing Syria a solid there with that penalty decision.

[phonics]

It was actually Simon Heffer who wrote it (plus it was true), so lol at ol' monkey head.

That bit's in there, I just pasted the funny bits.

[John]

Commentator on the Poland game has just responded to Lewandowski scoring a hat trick by constructing an argument for Harry Kane being better than him.

[Giggles]

Another couple of years of that northy shitebag

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[-james-]

Joe Hart lol

[-james-]

Good take, this

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[SvN]

I've just seen that Sturridge is on the bench.... how? Are we really that lacking in talent?

[Lewis]

Obviously.

[SvN]

I was trying to think of someone I'd call up instead, but couldn't.

[SvN]

I've cracked it.

During a run of good form in September 2017, Crouch said in a television interview that he was not officially retired from international football.

[John]

There's just been a boy of about six on the build up program to the Scotland game talking about how Slovakia play a high press and Scotland should hit them on the counter.

[CJay]

Another couple of years of that northy shitebag

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I’m shocked they’ve done this before we wrap the qualifiers up.

[Magic]

There's just been a boy of about six on the build up program to the Scotland game talking about how Slovakia play a high press and Scotland should hit them on the counter.

Reg?

[ScousePig]

http://www.express.co.uk/sport/footb...n-Richard-Keys

Not sure if this is the right place to post this. There have been rumours that Sunderland might have been looking to move part of their setup to London, and now Richard Keys has suggested it as a genuine possibility.

Sunderland fans with mixed feelings from what I've read.

[Magic]

Darren Anderton: Kanes almost as good as Messi.

What.

[Giggles]

Levy must be creaming himself with all this. He'll end up paying for a quarter of the stadium with him.

[Kikó]

Red card to the mak.

[-james-]

Can't wait to see how Scotland cock this up.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Have I really just watched Kyle Walker have a pop at goal from a well placed free kick 23 yards out?

[John]

Wembley should probably stop hosting helmetball games.

[Max Power]

Scotland so negative at home to ten man Slovakia. Basically Griffiths against five defenders at all times.

[-james-]

Scotland just aren't much good. James Forrest makes my eyes bleed.

[niko_cee]

England are so, so wank.

Meanwhile, the jocks are playing in pink at home, so there's that.