Non-UK and General Other Football

[SuperBacon]

Should win the Puskas IMO.

 

[SuperBacon]

My Name Is Francesco Totti premieres on Sky Documentaries tonight at 9pm.

It is well worth watching/taping.

[thevestofdeanambrose]

Some baller

[SuperBacon]

A FIVE minute clip of Fabregas? 

Edit: This on the Basque Country football team is well worth a read.

 

Edited November 21, 2020 by SuperBacon

[SuperBacon]

Haaland still being a machine. The way he pounces on the mistake for the 3rd is just ridiculous, he must be a nightmare to play against. I've never seen anyone run like him, it's so weird.

 

[SuperBacon]

This on Bodo/Glimt's first title in Norway is an excellent read. A genuine underdog story.

 

[KingofSports]

This might have done the rounds before, but I hadn't seen it until relatively recently, when a Japanese guy directed me to it. Classic Stojkovic.

 

[Devon Malcolm]

3 hours ago, KingofSports said:

This might have done the rounds before

Considering it happened 11 years ago, you might be right.

[SuperBacon]

Great thread of free to view football leagues from around the world.

 

[Tennessee Moltisanti]

51 minutes ago, SuperBacon said:

Great thread of free to view football leagues from around the world.

 

Not sure if the bloke mentions it in his thread, but you can watch live Serie A on the LiveScore app, which is free to download. 

[Keith Houchen]

You can open a Bet365 account with a penny and get access to a ton of leagues. 

[SuperBacon]

5 hours ago, Keith Houchen said:

You can open a Bet365 account with a penny and get access to a ton of leagues. 

You can't make it full screen though, can you? Its been ages since I used it, can't remember. 

[tiger_rick]

Apologies if this has come up recently and I've missed it but I was researching the Cup Winners Cup for a quiz earlier this week and it reminded me that UEFA were supposed to be bringing back a third tier European trophy. It's going to start from next summer and is the awfully named Europa Conference League. Apparently it was known as Europa League 2 as a working title and I think while still bad, that's better.

The workings of this thing make the Nations League look simple. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_Europa_Conference_League

It's going to be a level below the Europa League but the EL is going to be smaller so it's not going to mean additional places in Europe. For the bottom half of Nations in UEFA's rankings, their cup winners and 2nd and 3rd placed teams will be going into this comp instead of the EL. Same with 3rd and 4th placed teams and cup winners from the middling Nations. For the top ranked Nations, only 1 team will go into this automatically (EFL Cup winners from England). But teams will drop into it from the early CL qualifiers and the EL qualifiers. Then after all the teams have gone through a group phase, the 3rd placed EL group phase teams will drop in for the knockout round. One nice feature is that the group winners will jump a round which the other comps should follow to give a bit of life to the group stages.

Apparently the point of this comp is to keep Europe alive longer for some of the smaller nations. Can't see it being a big TV draw though.

[SuperBacon]

1 hour ago, tiger_rick said:

Apologies if this has come up recently and I've missed it but I was researching the Cup Winners Cup for a quiz earlier this week

Would be interested in seeing said quiz, if you could share it afterwards?

Also, have you read A Tournament Frozen In Time, which is about the CWC? A cracking read if you haven't and the same author has just had one published on the UEFA Cup as well.

I can't see that Europa Conference League lasting long. Like you said it needs to be a TV draw for it be anywhere near meaningful for the clubs involved (but football is all about trophies right?) and it surely won't be.

[Devon Malcolm]

3 hours ago, tiger_rick said:

Apologies if this has come up recently and I've missed it but I was researching the Cup Winners Cup for a quiz earlier this week and it reminded me that UEFA were supposed to be bringing back a third tier European trophy. It's going to start from next summer and is the awfully named Europa Conference League. Apparently it was known as Europa League 2 as a working title and I think while still bad, that's better.

The workings of this thing make the Nations League look simple. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_Europa_Conference_League

It's going to be a level below the Europa League but the EL is going to be smaller so it's not going to mean additional places in Europe. For the bottom half of Nations in UEFA's rankings, their cup winners and 2nd and 3rd placed teams will be going into this comp instead of the EL. Same with 3rd and 4th placed teams and cup winners from the middling Nations. For the top ranked Nations, only 1 team will go into this automatically (EFL Cup winners from England). But teams will drop into it from the early CL qualifiers and the EL qualifiers. Then after all the teams have gone through a group phase, the 3rd placed EL group phase teams will drop in for the knockout round. One nice feature is that the group winners will jump a round which the other comps should follow to give a bit of life to the group stages.

Apparently the point of this comp is to keep Europe alive longer for some of the smaller nations. Can't see it being a big TV draw though.

I can't wait. I live for these secondary continental tournaments and they cancelled the AFC Cup this year so I've been missing out. A tertiary tournament is definitely doomed to fail but while it's going on, it will also be way better than the Champions League especially.