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@cornelius_blackfoot
Not to get shirty, but the constant merging of every different football thread into The Football thread is getting a bit fucking tiresome. So some don't like football, fair enough, but if people want to create different threads for different tournaments, then who are they harming.
Currently there is a 2012 Pro-Cycling thread, there was a Tour de France 2012 thread, there is an Olympic Road Race thread, I'm sure in due course there will be a Vuelta 2012 thread, if there isn't already. But no one feels the need to merge them into one almighty Pro Cycling thread.
The European Championships, World Cup, and Olympic Games football are different tournaments/events that to a certain extent being national rather than club based, draw different people/fans to them, that might not participate in the football thread as it meanders along its seasonal way. And as such are deserving of their own thread so comments can be left and discussion entered into..
If you don't like football fine, but lets not get dislike confused with order and an ongoing ghettoisation of football into one thread, because you know it's like all the fucking same. Which we all know it isn't... Just as the classics are different from stage races, grand tours, world championships and olympics.
Unmerging is difficult and messy to do, so a bit of fucking forethought before the merging commences would be appreciated.
many thanks