Football

Chelsea, be afraid, be very afraid

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/may/24/football-transfer-rumours-mourinho-real-madrid

Read the article Graham. It's taking the mickey out of all the newspaper transfer speculation. If all of those players are reckoned to be aged has-beens, why would Mourinho want them anyway?

Is it nowadays so that it means fuck all whether or not you are under contract to a club if you are willing to move to another one? Wasn't this how it went with C. Ronaldo? And that the same thing could happen with the players listed in the article?

It boggles my mind the paper you have signed with a team might not be worth anything if there's a better offer on the table. Okay, the players are mercenaries and of course they should be allowed to purse other options when allowed, but if you've signed a deal for X years, I'd like to see you honour it.

The laws that forbid slavery also prevent an employer forcing someone to work for him.Football clubs should not have any different position under the law than any other person or business.

Country, but for the World Cup that just means supporting anyone who's playing against France...

This has nothing to do with an alleged handball incident, I hope?

club purely cause some absolute twats support our country.

The laws that forbid slavery also prevent an employer forcing someone to work for him.Football clubs should not have any different position under the law than any other person or business.

Yes, I remember seeing slavery likened to being under a contract to a football club. Didn't like it, even though I can, to some extent, understand what they meant.

Funny how the same thing hasn't popped up in NBA or NHL. (I don't follow NFL or MLB so I can't comment those.)

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I can understand your pride. I would feel the same way if I supported a team who's success was bought on the proceeds of gangsterism and murder, owned by a man who's wealth derives entirely from fraud and theft, money taken from ordinary Russians by mafia posing as entrepreneurs, a political lickspittle who helped ensure that his country would become corrupt and venal. I can well understand your pride Clive. My only hope is that Robert Mugabe, Rupert Murdoch and Ian Huntley will put together a bid for Wigan Athletic and I can join you on the sunny uplands of victory-at-any-price.

Club, I want England to go out in the group stages.
West Ham means more and more to me each year.

I can understand your pride. I would feel the same way if I supported a team who's success was bought on the proceeds of gangsterism and murder, owned by a man who's wealth derives entirely from fraud and theft, money taken from ordinary Russians by mafia posing as entrepreneurs, a political lickspittle who helped ensure that his country would become corrupt and venal. I can well understand your pride Clive. My only hope is that Robert Mugabe, Rupert Murdoch and Ian Huntley will put together a bid for Wigan Athletic and I can join you on the sunny uplands of victory-at-any-price.

Didn't Dave Whelan make his money from selling sweat-shop produced sports wear?

Still, good point.

^There's precious little 'clean' money around. But Abramovich's is especially dirty.

Different laws. The law here reflects the European ruling in the Bosman case.

Different laws. The law here reflects the European ruling in the Bosman case.

Yes, that would explain it.

Is is still like this:

"The case banned restrictions of foreign EU members within the national leagues and allowed professional football players in the European Union (EU) to move freely to another club at the end of their term of contract with their present team."

The "at the end of their term of contract" part caught my eye.

If you move before the end of your term, the club to which you are going has to pay compensation. What a club cannot do is to force a player to stay against his will. No injunction will keep a player at a club; only financial compensation. A club can, in some circumstances, withheld the player's registration until compensation is sorted out but not make that player play for them.

If you move before the end of your term, the club to which you are going has to pay compensation. What a club cannot do is to force a player to stay against his will. No injunction will keep a player at a club; only financial compensation. A club can, in some circumstances, withheld the player's registration until compensation is sorted out but not make that player play for them.

Gotcha.

Oi! Wetlip!

You owe me a pint :-)

Hairy muff. 23rd June? AUSSOS Vs SERBIOS?

Wonder if dos santos will be back with the mighty spurs this coming season, looks v. Threatening against englands back four, good left foot, some pace, could make a nice replacement for that show pony bentley

^ not a chance.

to dos santos appearing for spurs. he was being touted around earlier this season wasn't he?

This has nothing to do with an alleged handball incident, I hope?

Still hoping he gets struck down by a lightsaber a la Luke Skywalker/Darth Vader.

OFF WITH HIS HAND!!!

Different sports have different bias

Football is always club...
Rugby union seems more international based
Rubgy league is very much club orientated
No idea about monkey tennis
Cricket is possibly more international

From where I see it anyways

Good point CP. Football club defiinitly (Liverpool in my case)
Cricket- England way more important that my county (Happens to be lancs though happy also to support surrey since living in London)

^There's precious little 'clean' money around. But Abramovich's is especially dirty.

Mr abramovich wanted the company Mrs.w works for to providefinancial services etc for one of his yachts, they finally gave up looking for any reason not to take on the business (3 months) and told his lawyers that it was because they could find no financial dirt on him.

Horrible little man.

I'll certainly be supporting England in the WC but if/when we go out I wouldn't be as gutted as if my club had lost.

I'll also be supporting England while I'm in the bog.

I also watch it in the bog, that way when feel gutted I dont make such a mess.

There's really no better place to commit seppuku when your football team loses a game of football to another football team.

Oh no I always commit seppuku in my death shed.

The bog is for the diarrhea.