OT: Association Football Thread III (All Soccer Talk Here!)
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Machinehead
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This is a bad hockey team.
Machinehead
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They can beat Real Madrid and I’ll still be mad at Man City.
Just think not winning the league is coming up short.
Machinehead
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Anyone watch the MLS action today and the US Open Cup this past week? The Open Cup is riveting! Unfortunately Detroit got bounced.
Did see my new Charlotte FC team bombed Richmond 5-1 in the Open Cup.
I didn't think Charlotte FC was capable of any more than 2 in any game. I know they're an expansion team, but they are frustrating to watch in front of goal.
Support your local club!
Tomorrow at 3pm! Anyone going to Smithfield's Pub to watch the game?
tlk
hARry kane comeS homE
Exclusive | Mayor Eric Adams to approve NYCFC stadium for Queens: sources
A new stadium for the reigning MLS Cup Champions could be built by 2025, a source said.
nypost.com
post running a story that adams will approve a 25,000 capacity nycfc stadium next to citi field at willets point.
That would make me a supporter of the club.Exclusive | Mayor Eric Adams to approve NYCFC stadium for Queens: sources
A new stadium for the reigning MLS Cup Champions could be built by 2025, a source said.
post running a story that adams will approve a 25,000 capacity nycfc stadium next to citi field at willets point.
Id rather have it in the rumored bronx sites but at this point anything thats permanent in the city is welcome.
About 10 or so years ago they sent out a survey asking where people wanted them to play and a location by citified was one of the choices. But once the coupons backed out and the Yankees became involved I figured it was no longer a possibility.
MLS has to be hands down the most incompetent league in the entire world.
Went to the scheduled Charlotte FC - Columbus Crew match in Charlotte on Saturday.
10 minutes before kickoff - weather delay. Anyone who had any access to a weather app could see that Charlotte was going to be getting hit with storms until 3 AM. Baseball - come back tomorrow. NASCAR - come back tomorrow. If MLS had any concept of intelligence or could read Doppler radar, that's what they should have done. Come back tomorrow - 1 PM.
Bank of America Stadium wasn't seeing any lightning, but the idiotic weather rule is if lightning is within 8 miles...how that can be accurately measured is beyond me, but it is what it is.
MLS just delays and delays and delays. By 8:15, we're getting a deluge, but there looks to be a window around 9:30 of about 45 minutes.
We are allowed into the seats at 9:40. Of course there's an extended second warmup and pre-game nonsense. Kickoff finally at 10:18 PM (originally a 7:08 kick). There's lightning, but they play 16:42 before another delay. If they could have done this, they could have played the first half, and then used the window to play the second, but no, the rules only seemed to apply haphazardly. Now, the stadium has burned through the concessions and players have gotten in a short run, tomorrow is no longer an option.
This time, there's absolutely no window. Nobody at the stadium knows anything. I'm only sticking around to find out what happens to the tickets. All the concession stands are shut down. Employees are going home, staff can't give anyone any information about anything. I was lucky. I spent a few extra bucks and had club level access. We were at least air conditioned and had food available.
By 11:45, MLS finally announces the game is postponed.
I get an email from Charlotte FC telling me my tickets are good for the makeup.
The league cannot find a makeup date because of too many conflicts. and the fact the idiotic league didn't schedule in possible make up days, even though half the league is in cities where summer storms are normal.
Obviously, they kept everyone waiting around while they knew the game couldn't be played, BUT they also knew that rescheduling the game is going to be a logistical nightmare.
As a soccer fan, I want this league to be successful, but when it does asinine things like this, it alienates people who want to like it, but can't because of the abject stupidity of it.
Went to the scheduled Charlotte FC - Columbus Crew match in Charlotte on Saturday.
10 minutes before kickoff - weather delay. Anyone who had any access to a weather app could see that Charlotte was going to be getting hit with storms until 3 AM. Baseball - come back tomorrow. NASCAR - come back tomorrow. If MLS had any concept of intelligence or could read Doppler radar, that's what they should have done. Come back tomorrow - 1 PM.
Bank of America Stadium wasn't seeing any lightning, but the idiotic weather rule is if lightning is within 8 miles...how that can be accurately measured is beyond me, but it is what it is.
MLS just delays and delays and delays. By 8:15, we're getting a deluge, but there looks to be a window around 9:30 of about 45 minutes.
We are allowed into the seats at 9:40. Of course there's an extended second warmup and pre-game nonsense. Kickoff finally at 10:18 PM (originally a 7:08 kick). There's lightning, but they play 16:42 before another delay. If they could have done this, they could have played the first half, and then used the window to play the second, but no, the rules only seemed to apply haphazardly. Now, the stadium has burned through the concessions and players have gotten in a short run, tomorrow is no longer an option.
This time, there's absolutely no window. Nobody at the stadium knows anything. I'm only sticking around to find out what happens to the tickets. All the concession stands are shut down. Employees are going home, staff can't give anyone any information about anything. I was lucky. I spent a few extra bucks and had club level access. We were at least air conditioned and had food available.
By 11:45, MLS finally announces the game is postponed.
I get an email from Charlotte FC telling me my tickets are good for the makeup.
The league cannot find a makeup date because of too many conflicts. and the fact the idiotic league didn't schedule in possible make up days, even though half the league is in cities where summer storms are normal.
Obviously, they kept everyone waiting around while they knew the game couldn't be played, BUT they also knew that rescheduling the game is going to be a logistical nightmare.
As a soccer fan, I want this league to be successful, but when it does asinine things like this, it alienates people who want to like it, but can't because of the abject stupidity of it.
Brutal, Sounds like the Wilpon era mets. There is an easy low-tech way to determine how far away lightning is using the speed of sound.
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Chelsea really shitting the bed this transfer window, eh lads? At least they did it by being inactive, rather than by spending on overpaid busts that remind me of the NYR dark ages.
KirkAlbuquerque
#WeNeverGetAGoodCoach
tlk
hARry kane comeS homE
Synergy27
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Um. Are my Spurs legit contenders this year? Saints are a young, middling team but Tottenham looked awfully impressive yesterday. Exciting times.
will1066
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I stumbled upon this article. Great read.
www.gq.com
Inside Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney’s Great Wrexham Gambit
What happens when two Hollywood actors who know nothing about soccer buy a middling pro team in Wales? GQ’s Tom Lamont spent a season following football's newest fans to find out.
