The Football Thread - 17/18 Season

[lestatdark]

Player2 said:

lestatdark said:

lestatdark said:
EURO qualifiers this weekend. Even though we're playing Albania and I wished I could say it was gonna be an easy match, I distrust Portugal's team quality so much that I don't really expect any kind of good result against them (or anyone in our group to be honest).

Sometimes I really wonder if it isn't for the best for Portugal to miss an Euro/WC in the qualifying round. It would give our decision-makers in the FPF something to really think about in how poor our team player's choices have been since Paulo Bento took over and the overall lack of Portuguese players with proven quality.

Quoting myself emphasizes what I think about Portugal's game today. 

Fuck Paulo Bento. Fuck the FPF allowing themselves to be dominated by Jorge Mendes as he sees fit and fuck all those bastards that don't deserve to be near our National Team's Shirt, much less putting it on.

And I thought Spain was in a bad shape... (The entire team must change because of Diego Costa? really?).

It's better now than later, hopefully something good will come out of this. Losing against Cyprus in 1998 was one of the best things to ever happen to us (so many great players like Guardiola and Fran wasted during the Clemente years, playing long pass with four centre backs (true story) instead...).

The main problem is that nothing good is gonna come out of this. You can see it in the speeches of the players, of the coach and (probably) on the staff (tomorrow).

"Everything is good, we just had back luck" "We can't question everything because of one bad game". "We have to win all of the other matches". "We understand people's complains but we know what we're doing".

It's the same tired old speeches that this Paulo Bento Era has given us and we continue to see the same shit football being played, the same shit attitude, the same shit players and nobody gives a fuck about it. They're just there for the publicity contracts, to get seen by the football world so that Jorge Mendes and his FPF cronies can count their extra € at the end of each match, fuck the rest.