Football : Season 2011/12

[Kymmy]

Originally Posted by Media Boy

Why not?

It will mean no more games being call off (Even after 37mins)

Also more money for the Club as they can let the park out to fans or other sports and still play on it the next day.

For the lower leagues it'll be ideal.. Few have under pitch heating..and don;t have an issue with various regulations for playing foreign teams..

For Championship/Premiership though I think a most have underpitch heating and reinforced pitches (artificial matting which natural grass grows through) so would still ban them for them leagues

Originally Posted by Kymmy

For the lower leagues it'll be ideal..

City will be preparing for the future then

[denphone]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17070220

Manchester City plan to complain to Uefa about the alleged racial abuse suffered by some of their players during the Europa League game at Porto.

City won 2-1 at the Estadio do Drago , but after the game the club revealed that Mario Balotelli had complained to officials about chants from the stands.

BBC Radio 5 live reported that, at half-time, Manchester City media officers had informed them that they suspected that midfielder Yaya Toure and attacker Mario Balotelli had been the subject of racial abuse from certain home sections of the crowd.

Shocking but not a surprise as racism in certain parts of Europe are even more entrenched then in this country.

[Kymmy]

Portsmouth is back in administration

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/16943651

[denphone]

Originally Posted by Kymmy

Portsmouth is back in administration

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/16943651

Yes very sad news and my brothers one of them who lives in Portsmouth is a bit down in the dumps this morning.

[Saaf_laandon_mo]

Originally Posted by denphone

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17070220





Shocking but not a surprise as racism in certain parts of Europe are even more entrenched then in this country.

It's even more disgusting because Porto have black players too.

I think players should simply walk off the pitch when this happens. And I'm not talking abot just the player being abused, but all 22 players on the pitch.

[denphone]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17078084

Arsenal defender Per Mertesacker has undergone surgery on his ankle injury and will be a "long-term" absence, according to manager Arsene Wenger.

Mertesacker suffered ligament damage during Saturday's 2-1 victory at Sunderland and could be sidelined for the rest of the season.

"He has had surgery and we have lost him for a while; how long I don't know," Wenger told the club's website.

"He had reconstruction of his ligaments, so it will be long-term."

[thenry]

no good but theres positive news regarding Koscielny... he needs a weeks rest

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what do people think of this... I think its a great idea....

Should Copa America 'Vanishing Spray' be introduced globally?

The spray, which has been designed to stop defensive walls from encroaching closer than 10 yards to the ball at free-kicks, is set to be discussed at next month's IFAB meeting

http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2873/...duced-globally

[gazzae]

Originally Posted by thenry

no good but theres positive news regarding Koscielny... he needs a weeks rest

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what do people think of this... I think its a great idea....



http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2873/...duced-globally

A good idea, that therefore rules out the IFAB introducing it.

[colin25]

Originally Posted by thenry

no good but theres positive news regarding Koscielny... he needs a weeks rest
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what do people think of this... I think its a great idea....
http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2873/...duced-globally

It is a good idea, i always thought so (can't remember where I seen it first)

[Alan Fry]

Originally Posted by denphone

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/16990214

Can we support Ireland if they are still in Euro 2012 and England are knocked out?

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Originally Posted by devilincarnate

Theyall should be done?

This has become as big a mess as the John Terry saga!

[sherer]

the spray is a good idea and seen it mentioned before. We see it every week, first of all the ref marks out 10 yards and the players don't even walk back that far and then when the ref turns around they all move forward as well

[denphone]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17084388

Neil Warnock has been appointed manager of Leeds United, promising fans he has "one big challenge left in me".

Leeds have been without a manager since Simon Grayson was sacked on 1 February.

The former QPR boss, 63, said: "I feel I have one big challenge left in me and believe Leeds is a club that should be in the Premier League.

"I want to be the man who is able to deliver this for a set of fans who never cease to amaze me with their numbers and loyalty."

Warnock, who was sacked as Queens Park Rangers manager in January after a run of eight Premier League games without a win, has signed a deal until the end of the 2012-13 season

[Alan Fry]

Originally Posted by denphone

Yes very sad news and my brothers one of them who lives in Portsmouth is a bit down in the dumps this morning.

I just gets worse and worse from them, they will end up like Bradford City!

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If Rangers (the biggest club in Scotland, along with Celtic) can got bust, what do it say about the other Scottish Football clubs (including Celtic)?

[denphone]

Well its seems to be getting worse for Arsenal as they go a goal down at Sunderland.