Palemeiras come back from a 3-0 defeat in the first leg to win 4-0 in the 2nd leg against LDU Quito in the Copa Libertadores semi finals They play Flamengo in the final. The 2 of them are 1st and 2nd in Brazilian Serie A right now. It means Brazils recent dominance of South American football contin...

Liverpool 1-4 PSV

Liverpool losing

1st Vs 2nd in the Champ last night. Cov went away to Middlesbrough and put 4 past them.

The top four seeded countries will not be able to meet each other until the semi-finals of next year's World Cup for the first time in the tournament's history. Fifa has announced that Spain (1st seed) and Argentina (2) will be 'paired' and placed into groups in opposite halves of the draw. France ...

Silver Fox FIFA have discovered that 3 match suspensions for violent conduct red cards don't actually apply if you're Ronaldo, which must be nice for him

Least surprising news ever

The laws of the game don't dictate that he had to get a red either. If the ref deems it violent conduct, then it is a straight red. The situation from Monday is written out explicitly. In addition, a player who, when not challenging for the ball, deliberately strikes an opponent or any other person...

Stupid decision to send him off IMO. The laws of the game don't dictate that he had to get a red either.

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Bids to host Euro 2036 currently being explored:

Denmark/Norway/Sweden/Finland/Iceland (joint)
Poland
Serbia/Romania/Greece (joint)
Belgium/Netherland (joint)
Spain


Massively IN! for a Nordic Euro's!!

in the summer Aleksander Ceferin was highly critical of Italian football stadiums being old and outdated, and the promised work to modernise them by 2032 was being delayed or cancelled: "I think Italian football infrastructure is a shame. You are one of the biggest footballing countries, you ha...

4 host nations currently exploring the idea of hosting:

USA/New Zealand/Fiji (joint)
China
Turkey
United Kingdom

3 of these would obv mean breaking FIFA's rotation rules on hosting, but I think they have backed themselves into a corner with their silly shenanigans on 2034

ICH!

Love a quirky stadium, but thats just way too try-hard quirky for the sake of it.

Investigation by the Turkish FA finds that 371 of the countries 571 football refs and linesmen have betting accounts, with 152 of those accounts being active. Included in this are 7 refs and 15 linesmen that are currently officiating in the top 2 divisions, with one of them having placed over 18,00...

Winston Biscuit They also held a vote on bringing in anchoring salary cap (clubs could only spend 5 x what the 20th placed club brings in) but only 7 clubs voted in favour so its not happening

5 of the 7 teams to vote in favour of a wage cap were:

Arsenal
Aston Villa
Everton
Liverpool
Sunderland

The 6 teams to vote against SCR:

AFC Bournemouth
Brentford
Brighton & Hove Albion
Crystal Palace
Fulham
Leeds United

Premier League clubs have voted to replace PSR with SCR & SSR from next season https://www.premierleague.com/en/news/4467022/new-premier-league-financial-system-explained https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/13473576/premier-league-clubs-approve-new-squad-cost-ratio-rules-to-replace-psr...

Paul Pogba making his comeback for Monaco this weekend, 26 months after he last played.

A Polish football journalist has released a biography on Robert Lewandowski and in it he claims that with 2 games left of the 22/23 season Barcelona asked the player to stop scoring goals as any more would trigger a bonus payment to Bayern and they couldn't afford it