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The Footie Thread

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IanM said:
Letter of the law its a pen.

But, Pointless in context of the game. Decision took ages too.
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Got to give it, if it is letter of the law. Especially in this day and age of football betting. Somebody could lose a lot of money if the ref decided to use empathy instead of applying the law, as is his job
 
How bad do you think that San Marino are in Football League terms? They'd definitely struggle in the Championship and I'm not even convinced they're good enough for League 1. This game is achieving nothing and is why I think that teams like San Marino shouldn't be playing in World Cup qualifying. There should be a second tier competition for the weaker teams with the opportunity to get promoted to the tier above. Matches like this are pointless and a complete waste of everyone's time.
 
ColchesterFC said:
How bad do you think that San Marino are in Football League terms? They'd definitely struggle in the Championship and I'm not even convinced they're good enough for League 1. This game is achieving nothing and is why I think that teams like San Marino shouldn't be playing in World Cup qualifying. There should be a second tier competition for the weaker teams with the opportunity to get promoted to the tier above. Matches like this are pointless and a complete waste of everyone's time.
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As an independent Nation they have every right to be included, just think of the financial gains they receive playing the biggest European Nations, it would be wrong imo to deny them the opportunity and treat them as 2nd class.
 
ColchesterFC said:
How bad do you think that San Marino are in Football League terms? They'd definitely struggle in the Championship and I'm not even convinced they're good enough for League 1. This game is achieving nothing and is why I think that teams like San Marino shouldn't be playing in World Cup qualifying. There should be a second tier competition for the weaker teams with the opportunity to get promoted to the tier above. Matches like this are pointless and a complete waste of everyone's time.
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They are not even National League level.
 
ColchesterFC said:
How bad do you think that San Marino are in Football League terms? They'd definitely struggle in the Championship and I'm not even convinced they're good enough for League 1. This game is achieving nothing and is why I think that teams like San Marino shouldn't be playing in World Cup qualifying. There should be a second tier competition for the weaker teams with the opportunity to get promoted to the tier above. Matches like this are pointless and a complete waste of everyone's time.
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Is this not just the same discussion that is regurgitated each time England play a team like San Marino, Liechtenstein or Gibraltar?
 
Swango1980 said:
Got to give it, if it is letter of the law. Especially in this day and age of football betting. Somebody could lose a lot of money if the ref decided to use empathy instead of applying the law, as is his job
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Football betting shouldnt even come anywhere near his thinking/justifying giving the correct decision.

Although i see a few "blue" MP's were given freebies aswell as a wage for working for/with betting firms. That's not a bad thing one may say, you're entirled to do more than one job i hear from another.

Then, just by coincidence i may add, those same people argued against change's to the gambling legislation........?? and people swear blind they're not corrupt?
 
pauldj42 said:
As an independent Nation they have every right to be included, just think of the financial gains they receive playing the biggest European Nations, it would be wrong imo to deny them the opportunity and treat them as 2nd class.
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But they clearly ARE second class (at best). They're not good enough to be able to compete. In 9 and a half games they've scored one goal and conceded 41. They're not gaining anything from playing in this match apart from financially. They'd be far better off in a competition with Kosovo, Gibraltar, Lichtenstein etc where at least the matches would be competitive.
 
ColchesterFC said:
How bad do you think that San Marino are in Football League terms? They'd definitely struggle in the Championship and I'm not even convinced they're good enough for League 1. This game is achieving nothing and is why I think that teams like San Marino shouldn't be playing in World Cup qualifying. There should be a second tier competition for the weaker teams with the opportunity to get promoted to the tier above. Matches like this are pointless and a complete waste of everyone's time.
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Run that past Harry Kane, he just may disagree with you.
 
ColchesterFC said:
But they clearly ARE second class (at best). They're not good enough to be able to compete. In 9 and a half games they've scored one goal and conceded 41. They're not gaining anything from playing in this match apart from financially. They'd be far better off in a competition with Kosovo, Gibraltar, Lichtenstein etc where at least the matches would be competitive.
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Not far from Yerniteds recent run ??
 
ColchesterFC said:
But they clearly ARE second class (at best). They're not good enough to be able to compete. In 9 and a half games they've scored one goal and conceded 41. They're not gaining anything from playing in this match apart from financially. They'd be far better off in a competition with Kosovo, Gibraltar, Lichtenstein etc where at least the matches would be competitive.
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Something like a Nations League, perhaps?
 
Stuart_C said:
Football betting shouldnt even come anywhere near his thinking/justifying giving the correct decision.

Although i see a few "blue" MP's were given freebies aswell as a wage for working for/with betting firms. That's not a bad thing one may say, you're entirled to do more than one job i hear from another.

Then, just by coincidence i may add, those same people argued against change's to the gambling legislation........?? and people swear blind they're not corrupt?
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That was just an example of where his decision could have a knock on effect. The point being, he has a job to apply the law. I doubt they are told to ignore certain rules if the game is already too one sided?

The yellow card was strange though, but maybe that is letter of the law as well, handball in box? Don't like that if it is the case, not if it was a complete accident.
 
ColchesterFC said:
But they clearly ARE second class (at best). They're not good enough to be able to compete. In 9 and a half games they've scored one goal and conceded 41. They're not gaining anything from playing in this match apart from financially. They'd be far better off in a competition with Kosovo, Gibraltar, Lichtenstein etc where at least the matches would be competitive.
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So should we bin the League 1 & 2 Clubs from Cups which PL Teams enter and non-league Clubs from the FA Cup?

They may never get there, but they can dream and what right does anyone else have to deny them that.

They can play the Countries you list anytime, but how would they improve?
 
pauldj42 said:
So should we bin the League 1 & 2 Clubs from Cups which PL Teams enter and non-league Clubs from the FA Cup?

They may never get there, but they can dream and what right does anyone else have to deny them that.

They can play the Countries you list anytime, but how would they improve?
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As I've previously said, if the FA Cup had a group stage and the group was Man City, West Brom, Cambridge, Colchester, Wealdstone and Guisley for example, then yes we should bin it. Four teams simply there to make up the numbers and then maybe one time in a hundred the second team in the group will cause an upset and qualify top of the group.

And how are they going to improve when they're getting humped every time they play? Let them play in competitive games where the teams are more evenly matched and then play friendlies against teams from the next level up for them to improve.
 
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