LRD Posted August 29, 2018 Share Posted August 29, 2018 Has he no shame? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinho lad Posted August 29, 2018 Share Posted August 29, 2018 I bet he wouldn't say it to Shearer's face. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LRD Posted August 29, 2018 Share Posted August 29, 2018 Says a lot about the personality and lack of character for Buffon, Pirlo, Zlatan, Gerrard et al that they walked out on their countries. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoveItIfWeBeatU Posted August 29, 2018 Share Posted August 29, 2018 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45347238 Udinese's Rolando Mandragora suspended for 'blasphemous remarks' It is not unheard of for players to be suspended for head-butting, drop-kicking fans, or even biting - if you're a certain Luis Suarez... But being suspended for "blasphemous remarks" might just be a first. Former Juventus midfielder Rolando Mandragora has been suspended for one Serie A game after he was caught on television cameras shouting "Porca Madonna, Vaffanculo, Dio Cane", an insult to the Virgin Mary, while also referring to God as a dog. The outburst from the Italy international came after Sampdoria goalkeeper Emil Eudero saved his shot in a game which Mandragora's side, Udinese, won 1-0. The remarks initially went unnoticed by officials during the match, but the Lega Serie A - the competition's governing body - later took the incident to review and suspended the 21-year-old. "After acquiring and examining the relevant television images, the player, while cursing without referring to anybody around him, was nevertheless clearly seen by the television images to make blasphemous remarks, visibly identifiable from reading his lips without any margin for reasonable doubt," a disciplinary report from the Lega Serie A said. Mandragora, who won the Serie A and Italian Cup with Juventus in 2017, has spent last season on loan to Crotone before signing for Udinese last month. He has one cap for Italy. "Mandragora is a good person, the most he deserved was a warning," said Udinese coach Daniele Prade. There is a strict ban on taking God's name in vain in Italy, and since 2010, the country's football association has disciplined players and coaches heard doing so. Former Juventus captain Gianluigi Buffon has been forced to apologise in the past for uttering the word "Dio" (God). Although, he did once claim that he had in fact said "Zio" - which means uncle. "I apologise. If one day I will have the good fortune to meet God, he will be the one to decide whether to forgive me," Buffon said at the time. Two years ago, Italy rugby captain Sergio Parisse was forced to apologise after being filmed uttering a blasphemous phrase before a Six Nations game against France. And, according to the Italian FA's rules, players who wear t-shirts with personal messages to their family, or which make a reference to their religious beliefs, will also be punished. It's not unusual for European countries have blasphemy laws on the statute book, but it is rare that they are invoked. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
newsted Posted August 29, 2018 Share Posted August 29, 2018 First Italian words I learned. The middle one isn't blasphemy, like, but they love bestemmiare. Harsh, though, everyone does that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoveItIfWeBeatU Posted August 29, 2018 Share Posted August 29, 2018 "There is a strict ban on taking God's name in vain in Italy" In this day and age that is ridiculous. I thought only the countries stuck in the dark ages had laws like that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Village Idiot Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 From wikipedia: Legal status Until 1999, uttering blasphemies in public was considered a criminal misdemeanor in Italy (although enforcement was all but non-existent), while nowadays it has been downgraded to an administrative misdemeanor. Some local administrations still ban the practice. For example, after the curate complained about the frequency of blasphemous profanity in the parish recreation centre, the comune of Brignano Gera d'Adda banned the practice in the civic centre and in all places of retail business, be it public or private.[51] As of July 2011, the laws in force in Italy identifies as a bestemmia only the profanities related directly to God. Any insult to Mary or the various saints do not actually represent a bestemmia or any violation of existing laws and rules.[52] We still have some questionable anti-blasphemy laws in our books, but not at that level! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elric Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45347238 Udinese's Rolando Mandragora suspended for 'blasphemous remarks' It is not unheard of for players to be suspended for head-butting, drop-kicking fans, or even biting - if you're a certain Luis Suarez... But being suspended for "blasphemous remarks" might just be a first. Former Juventus midfielder Rolando Mandragora has been suspended for one Serie A game after he was caught on television cameras shouting "Porca Madonna, Vaffanculo, Dio Cane", an insult to the Virgin Mary, while also referring to God as a dog. The outburst from the Italy international came after Sampdoria goalkeeper Emil Eudero saved his shot in a game which Mandragora's side, Udinese, won 1-0. The remarks initially went unnoticed by officials during the match, but the Lega Serie A - the competition's governing body - later took the incident to review and suspended the 21-year-old. "After acquiring and examining the relevant television images, the player, while cursing without referring to anybody around him, was nevertheless clearly seen by the television images to make blasphemous remarks, visibly identifiable from reading his lips without any margin for reasonable doubt," a disciplinary report from the Lega Serie A said. Mandragora, who won the Serie A and Italian Cup with Juventus in 2017, has spent last season on loan to Crotone before signing for Udinese last month. He has one cap for Italy. "Mandragora is a good person, the most he deserved was a warning," said Udinese coach Daniele Prade. There is a strict ban on taking God's name in vain in Italy, and since 2010, the country's football association has disciplined players and coaches heard doing so. Former Juventus captain Gianluigi Buffon has been forced to apologise in the past for uttering the word "Dio" (God). Although, he did once claim that he had in fact said "Zio" - which means uncle. "I apologise. If one day I will have the good fortune to meet God, he will be the one to decide whether to forgive me," Buffon said at the time. Two years ago, Italy rugby captain Sergio Parisse was forced to apologise after being filmed uttering a blasphemous phrase before a Six Nations game against France. And, according to the Italian FA's rules, players who wear t-shirts with personal messages to their family, or which make a reference to their religious beliefs, will also be punished. It's not unusual for European countries have blasphemy laws on the statute book, but it is rare that they are invoked. Jesus Christ. *ban* Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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joeyt Posted August 30, 2018 Share Posted August 30, 2018 Liverpool v Chelsea, Forest v Stoke and Spurs v Watford 3rd round League Cup ties. Spurs have asked to play their game at MK Dons' stadium Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wullie Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 Found the info about possession stats on the Totally Football Show pretty interesting. Didn't know the stat is based purely on how many passes have been made by each side. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 Found the info about possession stats on the Totally Football Show pretty interesting. Didn't know the stat is based purely on how many passes have been made by each side. So when Clark’s 50 yard long balls take 5 seconds to arrive at Joselu and Chelsea make 4 passes in that time, the stats show 80-20 in Chelsea’s favour? That explains Sunday then. Really it’s 50-50. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest firetotheworks Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 Found the info about possession stats on the Totally Football Show pretty interesting. Didn't know the stat is based purely on how many passes have been made by each side. Was just gonna post about this. I didn't know this either. It seems pretty flawed to me. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colos Short and Curlies Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 Liverpool v Chelsea, Forest v Stoke and Spurs v Watford 3rd round League Cup ties. Spurs have asked to play their game at MK Dons' stadium So from a rule of one home ground per season Spurs are going to have 3? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LRD Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 Just switch Watford to the home team. Why must everything be in consideration of Spurs? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimburst Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 Found the info about possession stats on the Totally Football Show pretty interesting. Didn't know the stat is based purely on how many passes have been made by each side. So it's purely a ratio of passes made? Interesting. The relative time spent on the ball doesn't come into it then. I don't know how I imagined it was worked out, tbf, and that seems like the easiest way. Does someone actually count the number of passes in a game or do they have a computer doing that these days? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimburst Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 I always thought it was calculated by how long you had possession of the football, surely that's easy to calculate. How would you do it? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paully Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 ‘I’m still the greatest’: Jose Mourinho comes out fighting https://dailym.ai/2LJO3Kx Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infinitely Content Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 Get em, Maureen. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeyt Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 Unless I'm missing it nowhere in that article does he claim to be the greatest Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinho lad Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 He's no Nigel Pearson, is he? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fugazi Posted August 31, 2018 Share Posted August 31, 2018 "I'm closing the Bureau...for an hour" https://twitter.com/chrismorrisbits/status/998930512310915072 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
duo Posted September 1, 2018 Share Posted September 1, 2018 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-6121303/Britains-richest-man-Jim-Ratcliffe-hints-make-offer-football-club.html Newcastle? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
toon25 Posted September 1, 2018 Share Posted September 1, 2018 Get Stiffler on the case. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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