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I will always hate that day as a neutral. Blackpool was such a refreshing side to the league and instead, had to suffer another year of fucking Wigan.
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Yeah but sometimes the gods smile upon us, and Sunderland fucking shits its bed enough for it to get relegated. Then they give us another gift and we get to watch them shit out of the Championship down to League 1. I just love watching the Mackem cunts getting fucking shat upon.
 
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Yeah but sometimes the gods smile upon us, and Sunderland fucking shits its bed enough for it to get relegated. Then they give us another gift and we get to watch them shit out of the Championship down to League 1. I just love watching the Mackem cunts getting fucking shat upon.
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Sunderland being the shit that wouldn't flush and now having a rivalry with Portsmouth of all teams in League 1 says a lot about them these days.

League 1 is slowly going to become the "International investment killed us" tier with the likes of Wednesday and Hull regularly making appearances.
 
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Sunderland being the shit that wouldn't flush and now having a rivalry with Portsmouth of all teams in League 1 says a lot about them these days.

League 1 is slowly going to become the "International investment killed us" tier with the likes of Wednesday and Hull regularly making appearances.
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Oh I work with some of the blue pop cunts, and they will tell you of the "Tyneside international conspiracy to defund and ruin SUNLAN! 5-in-a-row MARRA". I am supposed to hate Derby, but I honestly don't mind them at all. Fuck Sunderland.
 
Ronaldo got a lot of shit from Gary Neville for running directly into the tunnel after bad results so today he stayed to applaud the fans. The look on his face is priceless, lol.
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Fuck Flamengo, all my homies hate Flamengo.

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Nobody will care but got dammit I do. 5 years of Brazilian dominance has come to an end. ¡VAMOOOOOOOS!

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Southampton appear to be undergoing a shift in ownership. Serbian-born "businessman" Dragan Solak, most notable for his mafia links and his distant for local government TV-cable service "United Group" has brought out Chinese born "businessman" Gao Jisheng's 80% stake in the Saints. Should be noted that Gao had no real intent on doing much with Southampton, beyond appeasing the Chinese governments desire to invest into sports a few years back. Of course, the CCP blocking largescale investments later on halted his efforts to even establish a presence for the sea-side club. Others theorist he invested into the team as a means of leverage, to target the local docklands and turn them into a Chinese export hub. Get in good with the locals, extend your reach etc.

Speculated buy-out fee is £100 to 120 million, which is nothing when you consider the average Manchester transfer fee. lolSancho

Annoyingly this move does have at least one positive for Southampton. Rasmus Ankersen, former Director of Football at Brentford is said to be overseeing the transition and will be at the forefront of the business end for Southampton; operating under the newly established "Sport Republic" group. Expect a lot of Moroccan and Balkan talent to abruptly join the team in the coming years.

As a Bee's fan, I am somewhat annoyed that Rasmus went to begin with. Rumours had been circulating that he was posed to be moving to either Celtic and Newcastle during his departure.
 
One of the claims made by journo Romain Molina has been reported

The following is a non-exhaustive list of some of the claims made by investigative journalist Romain Molina (published in The Guardian, New York Times) in his most recent Twitter Space. It is important to note that while Molina's word is not to be taken lightly, as his work has influenced multiple FAs and officials in the past, this is not an official release on his part.
  • Elye Wahi (Montpellier striker) wasn't fired from SM Caen's youth setup for physically assaulting a supervisor at the academy. Instead, after physical threats, he brought over some secondary school friends in the washrooms to undress and masturbate in front of him.
  • 400+ players currently playing in the Premier League, Championship, Ligue 1, and Ligue 2 have been raped multiple times in their youth. Some of them have contracted anal injuries and/or diseases, and have gone to specialized clinics as a result. This is a two-decade-old issue, the first story will come out in December.
  • Megan Rapinoe wasn't bothered by Haitian girls getting raped. She prefers 'earning money' over 'defending these young girls'.
  • A Ligue 1 team covered up a pedophilia scandal in their youth academy by brainwashing the player by the time law enforcement was involved. Then, they sent the young player in question back to his country (he was a foreigner).
  • One of the largest academies in DR Congo is currently managed by a pedophilia ring.
  • An international coach was 'caught red-handed' after raping two 13 year-old girls in the middle of a tournament. His employer, a large media, fired him under other pre-tenses in 2017. This issue is especially concerning for 'us, as French people'. A famous, very well-liked personality participated in covering up this story as well.
  • Ferland Mendy hit a woman, knocked her to the ground, kicked her in the head, before showing her his genitals. She was taken to the emergency room after suffering head trauma. He also assaulted another woman. The player's club covered up the story in order to sell him the following year.
  • Some international games in Asia are fixed. Many players have stopped joining their national teams because of this.
  • Paris Saint-Germain has been conceding burn-out after burn-out. Over 100 employees have left the club in the last year alone. Leonardo is hated because of his behaviour/attitude.
  • The 'boss of Colombia's refereeing' is a pedophile. Molina has a complaint from a 12 year-old, which he can barely read in its entirety because it's 'gut-wrenching'.
  • Alexandre Benalla (French 'personality') has been trying to get involved in PSG for years. He fought with some of Nasser's entourage.
  • A consultant from L'Équipe has been involved in 'some shady stuff' in the transfer market.
  • Some very important people bend over backwards to get in touch with people close to Nasser Al Khelaïfi.
  • Most African FA presidents get paid prostitutes, or have their daughters' studies covered in other countries.
  • At Arsenal, all the players inhale nitrous oxide. A player came back to celebrate his birthday in Paris under the theme "nitrous oxide balloons".
  • A French international organized parties where he would defecate in women's mouths and film himself while doing it. He forced a girl, who later on sought to issue a formal complaint, to participate. Someone offered Molina a video, which he declined to see.
  • A Saudi consortium was never involved in the takeover of Olympique de Marseille.
  • The French FA pushes some of its people to coach national teams in Africa. They already did it with Didier Six, for example, and Guinea (note: he also coached Togo and Mauritius in the past).
  • Leonardo is hated in PSG. His signing of Icardi was not well-received by the coach at the time.
  • The massive media outrage surrounding the Qatar World Cup is political and financed by people/organizations who wish harm upon the country.
  • The son of Congo-Brazzaville's president is involved in the national team. In the Central African Republic, Kondogbia is friends with the president.
  • 80% of players smoke shisha. At one point in time, PSG players used to bring their shisha/hookah with them on away games. Blaise Matuidi regularly smoked shisha, but things still worked out for him.
  • The leagues in most Southeast Asian, Eastern European, and Latin American countries are fixed. Ireland, Malta, and Gibraltar also have 'lots' of matchfixing.
  • A former French international was involved in a 'go-fast' (smuggling drugs and/or other products in another country). His club's president 'saved his ass'.
  • FIFA claims to push for women's football, but does very little to protect the girls/women from abuse. It's rampant everywhere, on a global scale.
  • Morocco can 'shit on the ground' if they want, they have a large influence at CAF. They can 'do whatever they want'.
  • In the long-term, Tony Parker should take over the OL Group.
  • Kenya's FA has 16 bank accounts, including some 'hidden' accounts, when most FAs have one or two.
  • Amiens (Ligue 2) is [a circus]. On the way back from their away game at Ajaccio, everybody smelled like alcohol. The players love booze, shisha, drunken nights.
  • After Senegal complained against an overaged player in a U17 African team they faced, the national team declared the player as 'deceased'. He is currently continuing his career in the U21 national team of the same country.
  • A minor was raped and forced into an abortion at an "international center of FIFA".
  • East Timor eliminated Mongolia by paying Brazilian players to play for its national team.
  • Friends of the former Algerian FA president are waging war against the current leadership.
  • The Sierra Leone FA faked COVID tests throughout the entirety of the pandemic, most notably in its qualifier against Benin. Other nations and/or clubs are suspected to have forged documents as well, but this is not confirmed.
  • Mario Lemina received a handsome sum of money for representing Gabon. Other African players are also in similar positions.
  • EDIT: A player from Spezia has disappeared. The affair is linked with human trafficking issues and an academy founded in Nigeria by the club's president. Molina didn't have much time to expand on this one.
  • EDIT: Sexual abuse is rampant in the Mongolian FA, including players from the U15 girls' team. A coach even asked to sleep with a player's grandmother in exchange for a starting spot for the player.
Sources used for collecting the claims above: Twitter Space, transcripts from Instant Foot, Actu Foot, Footballogue.
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r/soccer - Megathread: Romain Molina's (The Guardian, NY Times) claims from Thursday's Twitter Space.

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President of Gabon league accused of sexually abusing young footballers​

  • Official alleged to have demanded sex to get players selected
  • Serge Mombo says accusers are ‘lying to dirty my image’

Serge Mombo, a leading football official in Gabon, has been accused of sexually abusing young players and demanding sex as a condition of them securing places in national teams.

Mombo was re-elected as president of La Ligue de l’Estuaire, Gabon’s senior football league, in June 2021. He is also set to serve as the kit man for Gabon’s senior men’s team at the African Cup of Nations in Cameroon, which begins on Sunday. Mombo, a former policeman, denied the abuse claims, made by alleged victims and witnesses to the Guardian.

He also denied claims he provided a Gabonese football coach, Patrick Assoumou Eyi, known as “Capello”, with boys to sexually abuse. Eyi, like Mombo a senior figure in the Gabonese football federation Fegafoot, is facing charges of raping minors and sexual assault after claims by alleged victims were reported by the Guardian. Two other coaches in Gabon are also facing charges.

Mombo said his accusers were “lying to try to dirty my image.”
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One alleged victim said he was abused by Mombo and Capello in 2014 at the Heliconia hotel in Libreville, the capital of Gabon, during a training camp. “He was there, choosing some boys. We didn’t really understand why he was so powerful. Some players had to call him coach but he was a kit man. It was very weird. He did his dirty game with Capello.”

The alleged victim said Mombo would give the first three pieces of watermelon to three boys they would then invite to a room to be abused. “The same night, Mombo came to my room and told me to go to Capello’s bedroom. He didn’t say more and didn’t give me the choice. It was almost 10 at night. Capello waited for me without a T-shirt. He told me that I was talented but in order to support the pressure, I would need ‘la présence d’esprit’ [presence of mind].”

He added: “Capello and Mombo worked together on this. Mombo came with us on the away trips, in the same plane. He came to see us, told he could help us. I remember after a game at home that he told me: ‘If you want to play, you’ll need to give me what I want. I can make your career, even with the senior national team.’

“I came from a poor family, I was thinking about it. I’m shameful but it was my only way to help my family, you know, so I accepted his first offer. I was selected the next time but I felt so bad. Physically, emotionally, they ruined me. When I refused to go further I wasn’t selected any more with the national team.”

Another former player who claimed he was abused by both Eyi and Mombo when he represented Gabon’s Under-17s in 2017 said the official attempted to proposition him with promises of a place in the starting lineup.

“In the national team, Serge Mombo was a predator,” he said. “He offered us sexual propositions in exchange for a place in the team in the future. They picked us, they gave us some advantages: money, gifts and also the privilege to play for our country.

“When you start to like it, to dream, they asked for sex. Basically, he told me: ‘If you want to stay with us, you’ll need to give me something.’ I asked what and he answered: ‘Your arse.’ He even offered me money if I wanted … I am a victim of both.”

Both of these alleged victims have said Mombo was also working as a kit man for all of Gabon’s national youth teams. This is denied by Mombo.

Mombo denied the claims of sexual abuse and said that he had “never worked with this Capello in a national team. I met him as a DTP [provincial technical director] when I was elected to the league”. “Never and never,” he added. “ Of course they are lying to try to dirty my image.”

The former Gabon international Brice Makaya served as assistant to Eyi with the Under-17s in 2014 and told the Guardian that Mombo regularly travelled with the squad and the Fegafoot president, Pierre-Alain Mounguengui, to tournaments.

“Mombo was the all-powerful kit man of the Gabonese football federation’s kit men. He managed the kits for managers of all age-groups of the national selections. In the under-17s when we had trips he was travelling with Mounguengui and acting as the law, and sometimes he was the decision maker.”

Makaya has claimed that on a trip to Ethiopia, he informed Mounguengui of his suspicions that Eyi had been abusing players but was told “you don’t have proof”. “When he told me to calm down and there’s nothing he’ll do, I understood that it’s a system,” he said.

Mounguengui did not respond to requests from comment from the Guardian.

Another alleged witness has claimed they heard Mombo asking a young boy to perform a sex act on him if he wanted to be selected for the national team. “Mombo was on the phone and I was 10 metres away,” he said.

The alleged witness has also claimed that Mombo confiscated the passports of players from Gabon’s Under-20 women’s team after they reported accusations of rape, abuse and sexual harassment. “He threatened them if they wanted to talk about sexual abuse,’ he added.

Mombo did not respond directly to a question about whether he had confiscated players’ passports. But he added: “I promise you that if I have information on the various predators that have killed the lives and careers of some, I will communicate it to you; together we must save our football. Especially young people. I am also doing investigations at my level. If I have news, I will share it with you some time.”
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Serge Mombo is alleged to have demanded sex from players seeking places in the national team, but says accusers are ‘lying to dirty my image’
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It's FA Cup weekend. Enjoy it while it still has interesting teams in it before it becomes a typical PL vs PL snoozefest.

In related news, Arsenal are playing in an all-white kit this weekend to raise awareness of knife crime. While I've no objection to the cause, between this and the Shelter away kit campain on Boxing Day I suspect we'll see a lot more one-off special kits for random games in the future a la the NFL with its regular use of throwbacks and other special kits on random occasions.
 
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It's FA Cup weekend. Enjoy it while it still has interesting teams in it before it becomes a typical PL vs PL snoozefest.

In related news, Arsenal are playing in an all-white kit this weekend to raise awareness of knife crime. While I've no objection to the cause, between this and the Shelter away kit campain on Boxing Day I suspect we'll see a lot more one-off special kits for random games in the future a la the NFL with its regular use of throwbacks and other special kits on random occasions.
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Grim and gay. Shan't be watching.
 
Can a football club as an entity count as a "lolcow"? If so, Oldham certainly fit the bill. They've come up before in this discussion, but what an absolute loltastic dumpster fire.

All dozen or so home fans who decided to actually show up staged a pitch invasion after the team get bent over and forcibly sodomized by (lol) Wigan:
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Angry Oldham fans clash with stewards during 6-0 loss to Wigan

Latics fans are desperate for their hugely unpopular owner, Abdallah Lemsagam, to leave the club and made their feelings known once more during tense scenes at Boundary Park.
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Official twitter account refers to a 6-0 arsefucking as "bowing out", gets sperged on by supporters.

Banned fans for criticizing club, reneged a few weeks later after getting roasted at a national level:
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Oldham ban fans for 'dislike' of club

Oldham Athletic ban three fans for three years for "promoting their dislike" of the League Two club.
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According to reports, Cristiano Ronaldo will take legal action against players who steal his goal celebration.

His lawyer told reporters, 'while we appreciate players desire to emulate Cristiano, if this continues, we are prepared to SIUU.'

Klopp apparently admitted that all but one of the covid positive players were false positives lol

EFL under pressure to investigate Liverpool postponement after Klopp admission​


The EFL is under pressure to investigate why Liverpool players who tested positive for COVID-19 before the postponement of their Carabao Cup semi-final first leg at Arsenal were subsequently found to have been negative, with the Anfield club facing questions over the scale of their recent outbreak.

The Athletic understands that the EFL has received complaints from some of its clubs over the postponement, following Jurgen Klopp’s admission that all but one of the club’s positive tests were ‘false positives’ — meaning later tests showed those players did not actually have COVID-19.

It is believed that confused clubs want clarity over exactly when Liverpool found out this information, as if it was before the Arsenal match, there is a chance the fixture could have proceeded as planned.

The upset clubs want the situation investigated because a number of them have requested postponements this season because of COVID-19 outbreaks only for appeals to be rejected.

The EFL is facing calls from clubs to open an investigation into the incident which could lead to Liverpool facing a severe punishment should it be found the club failed to fulfil a fixture without just cause.

The match on January 6 was rescheduled after Liverpool reported a “rapidly growing number” of COVID-19 cases to the EFL, who acted in line with government guidance by postponing the fixture.

The EFL said in a statement at the time: “Having now fully reviewed the circumstances involved, the league has accepted Liverpool’s request after determining, albeit reluctantly, that a postponement was the only option as the club looks to mitigate against the further risk of infection amongst its squad and staff alongside ensuring public health was protected by not travelling from Liverpool to London.”

Klopp has said, however, that later tests showed that only one player, Trent Alexander-Arnold, actually had the virus.

According to sources, Liverpool underwent at least two rounds of testing prior to the postponement.

The first round, involving the use of lateral flow device (LFD) tests, highlighted a number of positive cases.

The second round, involving the use of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests carried out by an independent laboratory, also highlighted a number of positive cases.

But a third round of tests conducted after the scheduled first leg indicated that the players in question were in fact negative. Liverpool did not comment when asked to confirm this and to explain when the results of the third set of tests were revealed.

‘False positive’ LFD results are considered highly unusual, with analysis by NHS Test and Trace showing LFD tests to have an estimated specificity of at least 99.97 per cent.

The chance of a succession of ‘false positive’ results is therefore considered extremely unlikely.

On Sunday, after the club’s FA Cup victory over League One Shrewsbury Town, Klopp said that Alexander-Arnold was the only player to actually test positive.

“We had last week a proper outbreak and it showed up that we had a lot of false positives but the rules are like they are so all these players who are false positives couldn’t play.

“The only real positive came from Trent Alexander-Arnold and all the rest were false positives.”

It is thought that EFL clubs want to be provided with greater clarity surrounding rules on postponements following Liverpool’s successful appeal to have their Carabao Cup tie with Arsenal pushed back and the questions now being asked about ‘false positives’.

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There are only 2 teams remaining in the FA Cup I give a remote shit about, my local team (obviously) and Kidderminster Harriers although they're probably getting knocked out of the next round as even West Ham's youth team could probably rout them at their level.
 
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There are only 2 teams remaining in the FA Cup I give a remote shit about, my local team (obviously) and Kidderminster Harriers although they're probably getting knocked out of the next round as even West Ham's youth team could probably rout them at their level.
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Dont be so downbeat. There is a great leveller kidderminster have and thats the home advantage. Typically non league pitches get absolutely bogged in wet conditions and prem players arent used to playing in quagmires that stop balls rolling. That and the hammers always find a way to embarrass themselves

It'll still be a hammers win because we're fucking massive but it wont be a rout
 
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