The Football News Thread 2014/15 - Everything not Wolves News Related

[Langers]

What charming 'people'.

 

[Kenny]

Scum

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/feb/18/racist-chelsea-fans-push-black-man-paris-metro

 

[Kenny]

Saturday 7 March - Bradford City v Reading - 12.45pm kick-off - Live on BT Sport 1 (BT making this free to watch on Sky and online via btsport.com as well)

Saturday 7 March - Aston Villa v West Bromwich Albion - 5.30pm kick-off - Live on BBC1 (amazed the police agreed to this time)

Sunday 8 March - Liverpool v Blackburn Rovers - 4.00pm kick-off - Live on BT Sport 1

Monday 9 March - Manchester United v Arsenal - 7.45pm kick-off - Live on BBC1

 

[Kenny]

Also interesting how the BBC are again getting stick for ignoring Bradford.

TV picks went -

BBC First.....Man U v Arsenal, then BT took the Liverpool game and BBC had the Villa game. So BT were left with Bradford, so neither of the TV Stations were having a fight to show that game but the BBC get the shit again. BT must have some awesome PR staff.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

The Bradford game is clearly the most unattractive one though?

 

[Kenny]

The Bradford game is clearly the most unattractive one though?

It is and neither broadcaster fell over themselves to show it but for some reason BBC get all the shit and BT are the saviour of the FA Cup and all it stands for by showing it.

 

[Langers]

The two that are on BBC 1 are the two ties I want to watch the most.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

It is and neither broadcaster fell over themselves to show it but for some reason BBC get all the shit and BT are the saviour of the FA Cup and all it stands for by showing it.

I think the BBC have done a pretty decent job with their coverage this year, not sure why so many people habitually fall over themselves to slag them off.

Probably an outside chance anyway but I'm hoping the police don't make us move our game vs Watford on the 7th due to having to lamp more resources towards Villa Park that evening.

 

[Sniffer]

I slated the decision not to show the Bradford game as by beating Chelsea and being drawn at home to potential Premier League opponents I thought that they deserved live coverage and the riches that comes with that. The BBC excuse of replays meaning that they couldn't make that decision (strange really because the tie that they chose had two replays involved in it but hey hoe one was Manchester United) was just a cop out really.

I have no complaints about the choices this time except why the hell would BT Sport want to pick Liverpool v Blackburn ahead of Villa v Albion is beyond me.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Liverpool are the second biggest audience draw behind Manchester United. Advertising revenue no-brainer to pick them.

 

[Sniffer]

Liverpool are the second biggest audience draw behind Manchester United. Advertising revenue no-brainer to pick them.

I was thinking of the football decision rather than the business one but you are correct.

 

[Langers]

I was thinking of the football decision rather than the business one but you are correct.

Aston Villa playing at home against a side managed by Tony Pulis? I can see why it wasn't their first choice.

 

[Sniffer]

Luis Figo is looking to expand the World Cup to 48 teams if he becomes FIFA President.

 

[Sniffer]

Figo, the 2001 Fifa world player of the year, also proposes:
Spreading half of Fifa's $2.5bn revenue over four years to associations to fund grassroots football.
Redistributing $1bn of Fifa's $1.5bn cash reserves to the 209 national federations.
Increased use of technology in the game, using sin-bins for unsporting behaviour.
Reverting back to the previous interpretation of the offside rule, "where a player is judged offside whether directly involved in the play or not".

 

[PuntsWolf]

All seems pretty good. Not sure on technology, I'm not sure it is going to help. Yes it can be used retrospectively, I'm all for that (whether the referee has seen it or not!). But for decisions during the game, I'm not sure it will solve anything. Take the Rooney dive, some think it was a penalty, some say it wasn't. Technology still doesn't give you a definitive answer. (It wasn't a penalty by the way...)

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

http://www.safc.com/news/team-news/2015/february/an-open-letter-from-gus-poyet

Poyet really is losing it.

 

[Kenny]

Man Utd v Arsenal

Any Arsenal fans travelling by train would have to leave the game early to get home. Arsenal have charted a train for the return trip to ensure fans can get back and selling tickets at £20 (compared to around the £80 that Virgin would charge apparently). Top work .

 

[FrankMunro-371]

Man Utd v Arsenal

Any Arsenal fans travelling by train would have to leave the game early to get home. Arsenal have charted a train for the return trip to ensure fans can get back and selling tickets at £20 (compared to around the £80 that Virgin would charge apparently). Top work .

Absolutely. Though surely there should be trains for the fans anyway. Why arrange the kick off at such a time that makes it so inconvenient for fans to get home.

 

[Kenny]

Absolutely. Though surely there should be trains for the fans anyway. Why arrange the kick off at such a time that makes it so inconvenient for fans to get home.

Because TV stations don't really care about travelling fans. That said, we get fixtures for Boxing Day and New Years Day where train travel is either non existent or rarer than a good word about Matt Doherty from Deutsch

 

[PuntsWolf]

You're always going to struggle to get back from an away game on a weekday match. So I don't get the issue