Futbol thread.

[Amin Yasister]

Shoulda stayed at the Boleyn. Smh.

Yes, and fans should have attended the matches in their Austin 7 car, wearing a suit and flat caps, and twirling wooden rattles.

The faclities (or lack of) were 50 years out of date. The only good thing was the seating was closer to the pitch. It was a shit place to get to, and the council introduced unnecessary parking restrictions on match days.

I had a season ticket there for 30 plus years, and going to away games sshowed what a hole it was.

Problem is building a new one, Boleyn is already houses so we have no real estate to use (and no assets to sell to fund it). I honestly think the best way forward would be to buy the stadium and have full control on adapting it into being better for football usage

I remember all the rumours (for years) of a new stadium being built on Wansted Flats. That all came to nothing.

I thought that the plan was to make changes to the stadium by redeveloping the seating areas to get tyem nearer to the pitch

With the lease you guys got, I wouldn't think of building a stadium until the last 15 years of the lease tbh

Totally in agreement with this.

Stratford is really good for transport (compare to White Hart Lane), and whilst the Olympic park and Westfields do drag the 'local' atmosphere down, Hackney Wick and Stratford High Street are close enough for a pre-match pint

Transport is excellent to Stratford, although parking is a bit hit and miss.

I used to go to a pub/micro brewery in Hackney Wick (who's name escapes me) before and sometimes after the game for a while, then I used to go onto the barge on the canal close to the ground.

Now I live elsewhere in Europe, live just 20 minutes drive from a team in the top division, and have a season ticket there.

Can never change my allegiance to West Ham theirs is ALWAYS the first result I check (5-0 win away to Stevenage tonight)

 

[Registration]

Not sure people outside of spanish speaking circles knows but before the Argentina and Spain game Messi and Scaloni discussed harshly. Messi knew that they would lose this way but Scaloni said that there was no strategy left otherwise so they were on bad terms.

The source for this is Kun Aguero, that said that Messi told him that. But seriously Messi was right, but even then I still don't see them defeating Spain if they were more open anyway, so both of them are right and Scaloni was using the safer option.

 

[janer]

Not sure people outside of spanish speaking circles knows but before the Argentina and Spain game Messi and Scaloni discussed harshly. Messi knew that they would lose this way but Scaloni said that there was no strategy left otherwise so they were on bad terms.

The source for this is Kun Aguero, that said that Messi told him that. But seriously Messi was right, but even then I still don't see them defeating Spain if they were more open anyway, so both of them are right and Scaloni was using the safer option.

To be fair scaloni's gameplan would've worked had enzo not gotten sent off, they almost went to a shootout where argentina would've definitely won.

 

[OJ Simpson]

To be fair scaloni's gameplan would've worked had enzo not gotten sent off, they almost went to a shootout where argentina would've definitely won.

I felt confident throughout that it was going to pk's. Game was only ever going to be a 1-0 scraping by or going to penalties if Enzo never gets sent off, at which point Argentina were heavily favored in my eyes.

On a side note I think most the tourists have fucked off which feels great.

 

[DSP's Tax Lawyer]

Not sure people outside of spanish speaking circles knows but before the Argentina and Spain game Messi and Scaloni discussed harshly. Messi knew that they would lose this way but Scaloni said that there was no strategy left otherwise so they were on bad terms.

The source for this is Kun Aguero, that said that Messi told him that. But seriously Messi was right, but even then I still don't see them defeating Spain if they were more open anyway, so both of them are right and Scaloni was using the safer option.

Clearly Spain had a better squad and game plan than Argentina. And Argentina were really frustrating Spain all game. Enzo really fucked things up

 

[Timothy McGay]

SPAIN WINS!!

Very sad result. I wanted Messi to win and have Trump crown him as the GOAT, but Spain smothered Argentina defensively. Also, the halftime show felt like one of those buffets where they try to fit too many different types of food in it, like Mexican food, Chinese food, and Italian food that ends up being frozen pizza, and only like two of the food groups are good, but Shakira should win the World Cup MVP for her performance.