R Baggio in that team photo.

how can you licence clubs until 2020? shouldn't they be assessed every year?

what makes it even worse is none of the Thai players had played football for a month since their league got cancelled

difference between IAAF and FIFA corruption is IAAF corruption is actually about the sporting competition itself, systematic state-sponsored doping, on the field integrity whereas FIFA corruption is about kickbacks from marketing deals and votes for political positions, off the field integrity. whic...

From my understanding, he's a lefty.

Bahrain is the most liberal of all gulf countries - the saudis drive there on weekends to go drinking and has the biggest iranian population of any arab country. I smell BS, no, wait, it's Old Master again.

Ref should be sacked immediately. That is disgraceful conduct.

great article by Roy Masters on the politics behind this. dollar amount had to be higher than the NRL / 9 deal after the NRL screwed Foxtel out of the State of Origin. Rupert Murdoch sticking it up the new NRL Commission.

hopefully this translates to football, but is unlikely.

can you say - on this forum yet?

edit: my post says T.om Z.ed minus the full stops !

they bowl a maximum of 10 overs an innings in a ODI!

cricket isn't a physical game. surely they could do alot of back-to-back matches rather than 3/4 days rest.

Japan
Iran
Australia
Uzbekistan

will be your top 4 (in order).

hypothetical - if Stevie G didn't slip over, would I be reading you guys having this conversation?

just goes to show how quickly the 'championship window' can shut.

tl;dr. skimmed it.

nothing that hasn't been written already in the past 4 years.

When will Ranieri go crazy in Malesani/Gattuso style? Ranieri won't have a chance to go crazy bcoz he'll be found floating somewhere in the Aegean in the next week or so I'd suggest. The guy couldn't coach a root in a macdonalds if his life depended on it. I called it from the moment he was appoint...

We didnt play Asian Cup Qualifiers = we didnt gain a whole bunch of points from those matches. The maths is simple, wish the media would actually report properly. Look at Brazil before the World Cup, they dropped from #1 down to the 20s.

This was the point of moving in to Asia, tougher competition. Time for the kids to lift their game.

Still no answer.

God is an Englishman wrote:

sephiroth wrote:define local?

learn some manners

avoiding a question. do I need to start a thread to get it answered?

define local?

filbert fox is available

Uzbekistan are the reigning champions from U16s two years ago so will be strong.

The other two is a mixed bag.

Your final sentence in brackets is the key. If so they'll all go down. If they dont however, I'm convinced people are still going to ask for a pound of flesh. Being fined $2m, loss of draft picks and being checked out of finals isn't book being thrown? How many times can you get penalised for the o...

Liverpool blew their chance. They really did. Had one of the best players (and headcases) in the world in the form of his life for a whole season, a league that struggled to adapt to their manager's tactics, the Moyes Man Utd season, and a 14 match winning run and were nominally 3 points (actually m...

notice he says FFA and not FFSA in his quote. this will go nowhere.

Why did Milan let himgo?

so who are the teams left in the Cup?

Old Gregg wrote:

sephiroth wrote:pretty much every kid in every country town in Australia plays cricket in summer.

Australia is one of the most urbanised countries in the world, only 10% of people actually live in rural areas. Who cares what the country kids do?

I'm sure the ABS does.

pretty much every kid in every country town in Australia plays cricket in summer.