Soccer Discussion

Postby **count2infinity** » Mon May 13, 2019 4:52 pm

364, baby

Better than Pompey... @Freddy Rumsen

Postby **Gaucho** » Mon May 13, 2019 4:56 pm

I see the ratings are in part based on data from Transfermarkt. That site is a clown car.

Postby **willeyeam** » Mon May 13, 2019 5:00 pm

Nice to see an MLS team at #14..

Postby **Dickie Dunn** » Mon May 13, 2019 5:14 pm

Spurs seem too high and too low.

Postby **RonnieFranchise** » Mon May 13, 2019 5:53 pm

Top 80!!!!!!! #COYI @willeyeam

Postby **Tomas** » Mon May 13, 2019 6:23 pm

Yinz ever see this from fivethirtyeight?

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/gl ... id=irpromo

It's the global club soccer rankings. It's interesting to scroll down and look once you get into the 100's

Probably the worst crap I have ever seen to come up from 538.com . They randomly rank teams from meaningless leagues like Scotland (20th ranked league out of Europe), but omit everybody from, say, Ukraine (No. 9 in Europe, which features, say, Shakhtar Donetsk that regularly competes in the spring rounds of CL or EL), Czech Republic (No. 13; Slavia Prague just made it to QFs of EL by eliminating FC Sevilla) - buy yes, go ahead and rank powerhouses from China and effin Yeovil from League 2!

Anyway, the ranking that - somewhat - makes sense is the official UEFA Club Ranking. That's this one:

https://kassiesa.home.xs4all.nl/bert/ue ... k2019.html

Postby **Gaucho** » Mon May 13, 2019 6:40 pm

UEFA set to recommend Man City UCL exclusion for rule breaking

https://en.as.com/en/2019/05/13/footbal ... 23015.html

Postby **willeyeam** » Mon May 13, 2019 7:06 pm

Top 80!!!!!!! #COYI @willeyeam

Championship

Postby **count2infinity** » Mon May 13, 2019 7:38 pm

Yinz ever see this from fivethirtyeight?

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/gl ... id=irpromo

It's the global club soccer rankings. It's interesting to scroll down and look once you get into the 100's
Probably the worst crap I have ever seen to come up from 538.com . They randomly rank teams from meaningless leagues like Scotland (20th ranked league out of Europe), but omit everybody from, say, Ukraine (No. 9 in Europe, which features, say, Shakhtar Donetsk that regularly competes in the spring rounds of CL or EL), Czech Republic (No. 13; Slavia Prague just made it to QFs of EL by eliminating FC Sevilla) - buy yes, go ahead and rank powerhouses from China and effin Yeovil from League 2!

Anyway, the ranking that - somewhat - makes sense is the official UEFA Club Ranking. That's this one:

https://kassiesa.home.xs4all.nl/bert/ue ... k2019.html

Southampton is 84th in both, so.... I see no difference.

Postby **Freddy Rumsen** » Mon May 13, 2019 8:26 pm

364, baby
Better than Pompey... @Freddy Rumsen

They ought to be 1,000 after that performance Saturday.

Postby **Gaucho** » Mon May 13, 2019 8:28 pm

Postby **count2infinity** » Thu May 16, 2019 7:32 pm

pOmPeY aNd SaInTs WiLl Be In ThE sAmE dIvIsIoN...

Postby **Dickie Dunn** » Thu May 16, 2019 8:08 pm

Looking forward to the Spurs buying someone for the first time in forever.

Postby **Freddy Rumsen** » Thu May 16, 2019 8:08 pm

I couldn't bear to watch.

Postby **Freddy Rumsen** » Fri May 17, 2019 9:18 am

I watched it on ESPN+.

What a terrible performance.

Postby **count2infinity** » Fri May 17, 2019 11:37 am

Video: B+
Home Kit: D
Away Kit: A-
3rd Kit: B+

Postby **Gaucho** » Fri May 17, 2019 11:43 am

Like.

Postby **Gaucho** » Fri May 17, 2019 5:02 pm

Charlton vs Doncaster is great entertainment.

Postby **Freddy Rumsen** » Fri May 17, 2019 5:07 pm

Charlton was super hot to end the season.

Postby **Freddy Rumsen** » Fri May 17, 2019 5:30 pm

That's rough for Doncaster.

Postby **willeyeam** » Tue May 21, 2019 10:52 pm

Pulisic to Chelsea. Cool

Postby **Gaucho** » Wed May 22, 2019 5:30 am

Well done, UEFA.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/20 ... elsea-baku

Postby **Freddy Rumsen** » Wed May 22, 2019 6:02 am

I just watched the Bourdain episode on Armenia.

Postby **Gaucho** » Wed May 22, 2019 6:44 am

https://twitter.com/openStadiums/status ... 6569735170

Postby **Dickie Dunn** » Thu May 23, 2019 3:22 pm

Well done, UEFA.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/20 ... elsea-baku

The Europa League final is the debacle that keeps on giving. After Arsenal confirmed that midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan would not be playing the final in Baku, Azerbaijan due to his Armenian heritage, reports are coming out that the stadium might be half-empty for what is ostensibly the second biggest European soccer match of the season.

First, a report by Sky Sports said that Arsenal and Chelsea are both sending back thousands of tickets to the final that they could not sell due to its remote location in far-Eastern Europe. Earlier the clubs had complained about the small allotment of tickets they received in the first place (only about 12,000 of the 68,700 capacity at the Baku Olympic Stadium were reserved for the involved teams’ fans). Since then, Arsenal and Chelsea have realized that not even 12,000 of their fans are interested in traveling 5,600 miles round-trip and paying the exorbitant hotel fees endemic to these kinds of events.

You can understand the lack of interest from London-based fans in traveling so far and spending so much money to watch the final of Europe’s JV tournament, the result of which really only matters to Arsenal. The more damning reports, though, are that sponsors are now looking to return tickets as well. The main reason most big soccer matches (and big sporting events in general, for that matter) make so few tickets available for the competing teams’ fans is that tournament sponsors get a large allotment as part of their deals. It’s why the European finals almost always have terrible atmospheres, and it’s another sign of the soulless avarice that animates soccer at the highest levels.

However, due to both the Europa League final’s remote location and concerns over the Azerbaijani government’s human rights violations towards Armenians (the reason Mkhitaryan is not playing in the final), these same sponsors are finding it hard to find enough people willing to make the trek to Baku.

Really feels like UEFA deserves this disaster.