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Originally Posted by HANZO

Well another World cup missed for us. Losing 3-0 at HOME to Iceland. Shit manager, shit federation, shit players. This is what you get. Omer Toprak plays first 11 at Dortmund but cant even get into the Turkish team. In his place in defence the manager plays a central midfielder. Same manager brings back fucking Emre Belezoglu, convicted racist, scumbag and cunt. Arda Turan doesn't play a second for Barca, spends most of his time in Istanbul partying with whores, yet gets an automatic place on the national team, the guy has a gut, cant even fucking run. Enes Unal, Cengiz Under, good young players who atleast get playing time at Villareal and Roma, aren't in the squad. But players who don't play for their own team get an automatic starting spot just because they are fucking 'friendly' with the President. We have fucking turned into Saddam's Iraq. Fucking cunts the lot of them.

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Wow, seems like a lot of corruption going on over there. Agree that guys like Turan shouldn't have played this game. He's possibly one of the worst players ever at Barcelona. Never understood why they bought him (but Barca's transfer policy can be weird as hell at times)
That being said, I'm still amazed we won yesterday, Turkey away is always a rough game. Hopefully it's better times ahead for your team, you sure have the quality players to field a good team, just have to get rid of the manager, turkish FA and whoever else who's responsible for the corruption.

This group is insane , if we win Kosovo we're through to our first ever world cup, meanwhile Ukraine host Croatia in a huge battle for (at least) a playoff spot.

Emre Belezoglu still plays?? I remember that guy like 20 years ago at Inter

Yeah Emre Belezoğlu still plays, 37 i think now. He just walks around the pitch and argues with the referee.

With the Turkish team, It all really unravelled during the Euro's last year when captain Arda went to Fatih Terim and asked the player bonuses to be bumped from 400,000 euros to 600,000 euros per player. Terim got angry and had a fall out with his boy Arda Turan. The team played shit, everyone wondered what happened and Terim threw Arda and a few other players under the bus. Terim didn't pick Arda for a few games but media pressure forced him to re-select Arda Turan for the team. Then just before the summer during the national teams trip to Kosovo, Arda Turan punched up a 70 year old journalist on the national teams plane. Next day he has a press conference says he would do it again and retires from the national team mentioning what a 'man' he was. During the press conference some players are there but only the ones in this clique.

During the summer Fatih Terim the manager gets caught gathering his boys to go raid a rival restaurant. This has been dubbed the Kebab shop wars, Terim goes to fight a mafia type figure and is caught on cameras running away. This is the last straw and the media can no longer protect Terim as he also has a press conference and talks about how he would fight again if need be. Terim is sacked a few days later after huge pressure from social media and the fans. People weren't happy with his 3.5million euro contract anyway so he goes. They bring in Mircea Lucescu as the saviour and he straight away recalls Arda Turan and even Emre Belezoglu to the team. This all results in us missing out on another World Cup, thanks to all these cunts, the pitifully useless Federation, the media for always sticking up for these players.

These stories about Turkish football are just wild it sounds more like a soap opera than a professional sporting organisation lol the manager is fighting against kebab shops? :lmao: I can't believe Fatih Terim was recently the manager as well hasn't he managed Turkey like 5 times already?

Emre Belezoglu was great at Inter, I forgot all about that guy. Inter had a few Turkish players at that time.

so..........ICELAND WENT TO THE WORLD CUP!!

THIS SHIT IS UNREAL!!

Struggling against Syria is embarrassing

Robben only needs to score five more and we're good.

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Originally Posted by The Hound

These stories about Turkish football are just wild it sounds more like a soap opera than a professional sporting organisation lol the manager is fighting against kebab shops? :lmao: I can't believe Fatih Terim was recently the manager as well hasn't he managed Turkey like 5 times already?

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Terim is the go to go for the national team and Galatasaray. Only because he has connections everywhere. The guy has incredible influence and could pretty much get away with murder. The only reason he got the sack after Kebab shop wars was because he had a fight with another well known mafia type guy who just happened to be a member of the Turkish football federation. Some fans erected a statue of the other guy, hailing him as a national hero as Terim isn't actually liked that much, everyone had enough of his giant ego. The guy had press conferences which lasted hours where he would spew absolute bullshit and lecture journalists. If someone asked him a good question he would get mad and talk about how great he was for the next hour, then order the journalist not to attend press conferences again. Sadly cunts like him are a lot in Turkish football, I won't even get into the biggest cunt the Chairman of Fenerbahce. A man who has his own fans beaten up in the stadium, goes to a basketball game and slaps the opposing teams chairman for signing players Fenerbahce wanted. Its all nonsense but iv said before theres simply too much money in Turkish football and it attracts the most idiotic people.

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Originally Posted by Rame

Robben only needs to score five more and we're good.

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Really sucks that you didn't make it through. A tournament without the colour Orange just doesn't seem right to me. Now you can join me in finding a team to support. Have North Korea qualified?

USA are out too lmao

Australia v Honduras. Honduras will easily win.

Peru v New Zealand too.

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Originally Posted by HANZO

Really sucks that you didn't make it through. A tournament without the colour Orange just doesn't seem right to me. Now you can join me in finding a team to support. Have North Korea qualified?

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Ireland always gets my support.

lol at the USA, everything that had to happen for them to go out happened, some questionable refereeing in the Costa Rica - Panama game and incredibly shit goalkeeping from Tim Howard. Also how Argentina are struggling is a mystery, such firepower and they struggle to qualify.

George Weah becomes President of Liberia. Can't wait for the day Wayne Rooney becomes Prime Minister.

Italy get knocked out to! fucking hell this world cup is going to be dry. Its all opened up nicely for an England win lol.

Its just the luck of the draw, there were a few piss poor weak qualifying groups yet Italy get matched up with Spain. Sad to see Buffon go out like this. Italy were playing the best football at the Euros 2 years ago, they shouldn't be getting knocked out.

It’s all opened for Germany to repeat

Unfortunately Italy are their own worst enemy, you can't play chicken shit football and get away with it anymore, especially when you no longer have a Baggio, Del Piero or Totti to bail you out. Having said that, Italy do ALWAYS get fucked over with the draws, not just with the national team but also at club level. Why did they decide to change the qualifying process so 1 team per group only qualifies.

When wasn’t it the top team only progresses and the second place had a playoff?

Your right, its always been that way, I was thinking of the Euro qualifying that they changed for the last Euro. However how are Romania, Wales, England & Croatia seeded ahead of the likes of France & Italy. I mean, France made the last Euro final.

EDIT: Nevermind, just realised UEFA did the seeding before the Euro 2016 tournament.

Lol Ireland got thumped 5-1 at home by Denmark; for all the bullshit about how good the ‘home nations’ are only one is going to Russia and that’s because of the easiest qualifying draw possible.

They took the lead too

Adios World Cup. This time last year we were top of our qualifying group. A few poor draws against Georgia and Austria where we were set up to draw, despite having bet the likes of Germany and Italy only a while previously, is what put is in the play off positions. Denmark were the far better team today, a few shocking individual mistakes and substitutions made at the wrong time.

We have been poor at home the last few months so I thought we should have went for it more in Denmark as they really didn't offer much there.

The tournament wont be the same without the Irish fans. At least Northern Ireland didn't make it through..

Lol I can’t believe we’ve beaten Honduras; how did the yanks fail to shit teams like this?

Jedinak with the hattrick, always remember him being a solid player when he was playing in Turkey.

Surprised the Yanks didn't qualify, surely its more difficult not to qualify. Atleast we won't be hearing the U...S...A chants for 90 minutes.

Sad for Ireland but can't really say anything, the Danes were better.

France look legit contenders but they just seem like the team that will crack under pressure.

Iv never seen England play so negatively before, the past 2 friendlies both 0-0 draws. Incredibly boring games against Germany and Brazil but I actually see this as a good chance for England. Parking the bus as we have seen before wins tournaments. England are going to be incredibly tough to beat just like Greece in 2004 and Portugal in 2016. Well atleast this is what Im hearing from the media.

I think the first goal off the free kick has been credited as an own goal. Now we just need a coach lol is Aussie Guus still available? If the sheep fuckers somehow beat Peru there will be more Asian teams at Russia than South American.

It shows how far England has fallen off that they’re celebrating 0-0 draws back to back at Wembley. That Iceland game must still burn badly.

Looks like Guus works for Chelsea now. He might consider if you ask nicely.

Too bad about Ireland. Not too much to look forward to now.

Its just bonkers that Poland are a pot 1 team yet Spain are pot 2.

Lmao wtf Poland pot 1 and Spain pot 2? How does that work? I love it tbh there will be a crazy group of death; no doubt it’ll be our group too.

lol crazyness all round

Cant wait for Cahill to come and train with Everton again, maybe he can get into our first team!! Cahill > Rooney

Tim Cahill I think is just ahead of Harry Kewell for our greatest ever but fuck it’s bad we still rely on him when he’s pushing 40.

Is he moving to Everton? Is he popular with Everton fans?

He was here for a big part of his career, had for 6 almost 7 seasons, Moyes was his manager, he scored many many late goals, what kinda mate him into a cult hero, (we had a few at that time under Moyes) Besides shit in his personal life, ive never seen or heard any Everton fan not rate one of our best players since the 'premier' league era began.

Cahill > Kewell.

i rated Kewell at Leeds, scored some very sick goals. but i dont think he progressed his career, i know Cahill didnt do shit with Everton but, he seems to have inspired your national team repeatedly ...

World Cup Draw.

Group D is a group of death, Nigeria playing Argentina again. Group B is a tough group to Iran is gonna get fucked.

No surprise Russia get an easy group, opening game Russia - Saudi Arabia lol.

Germany also in an easy group. I think Brazil got a pretty tough draw with Switzerland and Serbia.

England shouldn't struggle with Tunisia and Panama but expect Belgium to top that group.

No group of deaths this time around, infact it should be pretty predictable.

Australia with France, Denmark and Peru. There’s a bit of 2006 about this group if we can get a good manager in, nothing to be scared of in Peru and Denmark we just need to make sure France don’t sodomise us like Germany did in 2010 which sent us packing on goal difference.

LOL!! Benevento Calcio get their first point in serie A thanks to their goalie and AC Milan being shit.

I honestly don't know what AC Milan is doing bringing in Gattuso.

lol @ Milan

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After 5 years of going back and forth, Roma finally got their stadium approved, massive for them. It will be open 24/7 and will generate over a hundred million a year on non match days.

About time Roma got a new stadium. The Olimpico is past its sell by date.

Napoli out of the champs league, Benfica out and they didn't even get a point don't know what the fucks going on there. Monaco out to. Thats 2 top seeds out and both finishing bottom of their group. Atletico & Dortmund out to, the Europa league is gonna be good this season.

Besiktas fucking THROUGH!! first time ever we made it out of the group stage, beat Leipzig in Germany with our B team. I am shocked at this team I didn't think we would make it out of this group cause we are just a team with washed up old players like Babel, Quaresma, Pepe and Negredo, mixed with some semi talented Turkish ones. We like a rehab center for players past their prime.

Oh hey HAN it’s Bayern v Besiktas, very interesting game I hope none of the FCB have vertigo.

Klopps spasm at the penalty decision..lol

Yeah we are fucked. Was hoping for Basel or Sevilla. fucking first time out of the groups, we win our group and draw fucking Bayern. Doing absolutely shit in the league to so probably won't make it to Europe next season. We won't be able to mount any type of challenge to Bayern, we just don't have the tools for it. In fact Besiktas is best described as a poor mans Bayern. I just hope its like 2-0 victories and Bayern don't go overboard and score 7 or 8.

Not gonna lie i was hoping for besiktas. It’s funny that PSG get Real Madrid I hope they knock PSG Out