Football Thread 2023 | April | Corden's Bleus

By FootbalIFan Go To PostWho else is hyped for women's world cup?!

By Shanks D Zoro Go To PostAre Italy in it?

By Shanks D Zoro Go To PostAre Italy in it?

By FortuneFaded Go To PostIt's a world cup so probably not

By Shanks D Zoro Go To PostIf you support the Spurs of countries then I wouldn’t be the first to make jokes.

By FortuneFaded Go To Post

https://youtu.be/lr78cb1vHJ0

By FootbalIFan Go To PostWho else is hyped for women's world cup?!

By Kidjr Go To PostArsenal Chelsea moved to Tuesday 8pm

By Shanks D Zoro Go To PostFuck off

Seriously

Fuxk

Off.

Edit: I don’t see anything about this.

By Kidjr Go To PostIt's happening for sure

By bone Go To PostWhy is the FA Cup on weekends instead of midweek like everyone else's domestic cups in the world? At this rate EcuaBrighton are going to be playing PL in July with all their damn games being postponed.

By Crusher Go To PostMbappe throwing a fit because PSG used his image to promote the club. This boy is wild, keep him away from Manchester.

By Perfect Blue Go To Post

https://twitter.com/ESPNFC/status/1644267558160171008?s=20

Would love Carlo back.

By Cleff Go To PostHow the fuck are all these managers we know aren't good enough still getting Premier League jobs?

https://twitter.com/TheAthleticFC/status/1644339153755152384?t=caSJ29DWsJFcaUin3tBK7w&s=09

The pressure is immense. But the pressure in society is immense. And because we are always on TV and because many people still love football…even though there are things in football that are catastrophic. Disastrous. But that goes hand in hand with society as a whole.

The pressure is enormous. Ask, if I may say so, the people who are responsible for cleanliness in hotels and clean the rooms. Ask them in what time they have to clean how many rooms.

Everything is individualised. There are hardly any chains of connections in many areas of life. By chain of connections I mean…in the past, hotels were often family-run. People you knew worked there. From the village, from the city. You knew them. There were connections. Over decades, through families. It's all different now. We live in a world of big corporations.

We have major issues. We always talk about the middle class. Small and medium-sized companies are having an incredibly hard time. Yet it is that middle class that has brought us this incredible prosperity and wealth. And not the big corporations. They are the ones who ruin it. They destroy prosperity. They have become independent. And in football you can see that directly, so to speak.

The way things have developed, it's extremely difficult. We have an incredible number of people with mental health problems. These people have mental health problems because they are totally overburdened. Because they no longer get any warmth. Because there are no more reference points. No connections. This is a problem for society as a whole. That's concerning from my point of view. It's scary too.

I don't want to speak for all coaches…I'm not directly effected by this issue, so I can't say anything anyway. You have to ask the coaches who do a good job and still get fired after eight months or after ten or after twelve or after four.

But football has always been an expression of society as a whole. The sport directors are also under enormous pressure. It's madness. Because the connections are missing. Social media…the club loses two, three games. And then people lose their minds and spread things on social media, it's terrible. That wouldn't have happened in the past. Not to this extent atleast. Not that people were any better before. Not one bit. We weren't better, not at all. And there were much worse times than now, 80 years ago and before. But the reference points are missing. If you know someone personally, you think about it before insulting them. Saying something directly to someone's face, that's becoming less and less. That's one reason why with us…(I mean we're also a comapny, if we are honest. That doesn't sound all that nice because we are a football club. But we are also a company)…that's one reason why with us it's not like that. Because we have continuity, because we have connections. But I've already said it. The crucial point in our club will be how we deal with this growth. Whether we are able to meet and mentally deal with each other.

In the areas where that is not the case, things are going downhill. Sure, there are huge corporations these days…the small companies pay all their taxes and that's of course right. Because they have to support society. But the mega-corporations hardly pay any taxes and when they are supposed to pay taxes, they change countries and blackmail the countries. This is the situation. This is neo-capitalism. We live in neo-capitalism. And neo-capitalism destroys. That is my personal opinion. Of course, I am only a football coach. But since you asked me, I am giving you an answer.

By Perfect Blue Go To PostAlways wanted to go to Brazil myself for vacation, but what's that got to do with him coming back to Chelsea.

By Meier Go To PostSeeing the US women play Ireland tomorrow. Should be fun, first time getting to see one of their games.

By Daz Go To PostNot kept up with the US women's in a long time.

Very excited to see how England now stacks up against the US, France, Germany and is Japan still a force?

By n8 dogg Go To PostReading in the bottom 3, yikes. QPR only one point off too. Ainsworth appointment not worked.

Colin Wanker doing bits tho

By Meier Go To PostUS women are in good form lately but the world has certainly caught up quite a bit. Still probably the best in general but not leaps and bounds ahead of the other big nations now. A lot of the old guard is gone for the US in terms of defense and GK and so it'll be interesting to see how some of those players come on.

England seem consistently to be a top 5 team these days.

By Pedja Go To PostAnd you're the English teacher?

By LFMartins86 Go To PostBecause Carlo has publicly said that he has been approached by Brazil and while he wants to stay at Real until the end of his contract because he loves the club, the idea of taking over Brazil is very attractive to him?

Carlo has nothing to prove in club football, managing Brazil has to be an interesting project for him, it's probably the biggest job when it comes to international football.

Managing Chelsea right now is only attractive to managers looking to make a lot of money or to improve their reputation.
It's not that good of a job. Yes, there's a lot of money but it has been poorly spent, it's an absolute shit show of a project right now and any manager who takes over will be far behind Arsenal, City, United and Newcastle.

By Xpike Go To Postpaul Tierney is our ref on Sunday so i consider the points dropped already