I kind of thought they were like two slugs fucking, moving squishily in the same direction.
Brilliant!
Some number of years ago I read about a fantastic idea. Take a sporting goods company – Nike, Adidas, whatever – and have them arrange and sponsor a major international tournament. Call it the Nike Worldwide Trophy or whatever. And then hope that teams refuse to play in the FIFA tournament and instead play in the Nike one.
You think the big companies like Adidas or Nike are not involved in the tentacles of sports corruption by FIFA, IOC et al? That’s basically impossible, I’d want to know what Adidas pays FIFA every four years for providing the official ball for the tournament, underhandedly of course.
Hope in vain, because Fifa can be as corrupt as it likes, but the World Cup is the World Cup, nobody would care for an ersatz World Cup.
yes, the number of teams has increased from 32 to 48, meaning the number of qualifying teams from our region (as well as every other region) has increased.
I mean, why do you think this is underhanded? Adidas pays (a lot probably) to FIFA to be a World Cup sponsor and supply the official ball. There is nothing illegal or underhanded about that. Every professional sports league has ball manufactures pay to be the official ball of that league (Wilson for the NBA, etc.)
Because I can’t imagine any business that FIFA does going on without corruption, that’s why.
oh, I’m sure the people involved are enriching themselves unjustly, but my point was that the general arrangement of a ball manufacturer paying a sporting authority to be a sponsor and the “official” ball of a competition is completely acceptable, widespread and not really noteworthy.
Infantino is such a skilled suck-up it’s not surprising no one else thought of this first.
Is ANYONE going to believe this isn’t a predetermined, pointless exercise in just giving Donald something shiny?
Edit: I suppose it will be fascinating to see (although disgusting) how Infantino will present the trophy whilst being lodged somewhere up Trump’s back passage.
As I said they got this. Dealing with a narcissistic corrupt autocrat is a “don’t throw be in the briar patch” situation for FIFA. There is zero chance of them missing out on this pay day.
I’ve seen some suggestions that they should give that award to Obama, just to piss off Trump. We all know that they will give a nice shiny object to Trump, though.
Despite everything, Scotland are now in a straight shoot out with Denmark for qualification. We win we go through, Denmark need draw or win…
And McTominay with an overhead kick in to the bottom corner!!! Ya dancer!
Denmark score a penalty, because it turns out sitting on a one nil lead for 87 minutes isnt a viable strategy.
But then McGinn performs an effective but cynical dive to foist a secknd yellow on the Danish defender, and tbeure down to ten men. We sub on two strikers…
Lawrence Shankland you golden cave troll of a man!
All we have to do is not concede anoth…
FFS
goddamn this is some finish.
Congrats Scotland, well done! I was surprised to see that they as well as Norway have qualified for the WC the first time since 1998 in France.
Wow some of those Scottish goals tonight…
Sven Forkbeard, Harald Bluetooth, Brigitte Nielsen, Mads Mikkelsen, we have beaten them all. Her off of Borgen do you hear me, your boys have taken a hell of a beating!
Greatest Scots victory over the Danes since the Battle of Largs.