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orangehorizon liked Joe4th's post in the thread Soccer Men's Soccer (Football) Thread.
Inzaghi going to Saudi is such a waste
Jun 3, 2025 at 1:22 PM -
orangehorizon liked Nick's post in the thread Soccer Men's Soccer (Football) Thread.
the financials around football are so fascinating and a prime example of money not actually being fucking real.
Jun 3, 2025 at 1:20 PM -
orangehorizon liked SamLevi11's post in the thread Soccer Men's Soccer (Football) Thread.
Respect to Fernandes for saying no to those obscene wages. I saw something saying like he was concerned it wouldn’t be right for his family. I wonder who United will have to sell instead to fund further transfers then. They don’t have a whole lot of easily sellable assets it seems?
Jun 3, 2025 at 1:17 PM -
orangehorizon liked KrisArronNev's post in the thread Soccer Men's Soccer (Football) Thread.
RE: Kelleher. I've just read that his local club in Cork (Ireland) will get £3m due to the 20% sell-on clause. That should set the club up for decades
Jun 3, 2025 at 1:15 PM -
orangehorizon liked Thrillcollinz's post in the thread Soccer Men's Soccer (Football) Thread.
Not being disrespectful to Jobe but is he a €40m player? Admittedly I haven't seen much of him play for Sunderland, but that much seems a bit steep for an attacking midfielder who scored 4 goals in 40 games in the championship this season? Is it the Bellingham name tax?
Jun 3, 2025 at 1:14 PM -
orangehorizon liked SamLevi11's post in the thread Soccer Men's Soccer (Football) Thread.
Gonna be a change to dislike Spurs because they became a scummy oil despot team, and not just cause they’re Spurs.
Jun 2, 2025 at 12:36 PM -
orangehorizon liked KrisArronNev's post in the thread Soccer Men's Soccer (Football) Thread.
[MEDIA] Americans on the socials not knowing who Klopp is lol. To be fair, I wouldn't recognise any high profile NFL coaches!
Jun 2, 2025 at 12:28 PM -
orangehorizon liked KrisArronNev's post in the thread Soccer Men's Soccer (Football) Thread.
[MEDIA] Just some casual laundering going on between Forest and Textor. Nothing to see here. Apparently, all 3 of the players are crap lol
Jun 2, 2025 at 12:28 PM -
orangehorizon liked Garrett's post in the thread Soccer Men's Soccer (Football) Thread.
Unrelated to the larger conversation as a whole, but related to this particular post: that’s why college athletics are bigger in the US than most pro sports. So we do have that cultural, “my place” connection with sports. It’s just the collegiate level. I remember telling @Nick about that in a pub in Dublin a few years back after a huge Tennessee-Alabama game I’d just attended.
Jun 2, 2025 at 12:25 PM -
orangehorizon liked AFoolsGlory's post in the thread Soccer Men's Soccer (Football) Thread.
Apologies in advance as I won't be able to word my post as eloquently as some of the above, but I don't think the divide between American and European/ Rest of the World points of view on the topic can be overstated. And I truly don't mean that in a 'lol yanks' kind of way. I don't think a lot of Americans truly understand the direct connection many people have with sports teams in other countries. They are, historically, working class institutions. Many owed by the fans, for the fans. Even those that aren't or weren't, they are community assets. Each owner is a custodian for the future. I won't pretend to fully understand it as it's not as much of a thing in Britain, but the European Ultra mindset also. That culture is alien to many in America. Where a sports team can be picked up and moved overnight. Where all teams are owned by greedy billionaires getting the town council to pay for their vanity project, a billionaires boys club. Billionaires that abuse their workers due to minimal employment rights. The leap from accepting those sorts to state actors and human rights abuses isn't so far.
Jun 2, 2025 at 12:23 PM -
orangehorizon liked SamLevi11's post in the thread Soccer Men's Soccer (Football) Thread.
Also, this proves why sportwashing works. This is a very left leaning website, with accountability threads in several parts of it, and yet when it comes to sports teams suddenly everything is forgiven if they make your team win. And we’d probably all be guilty of doing it if it was our club. Look at how City fans defend their owners, how Chelsea still sing Abramovich’s name, and PSG players lifting their owner up on their hands on Saturday. Terrible people, but all is forgiven because they made their clubs successful out of nowhere.
Jun 2, 2025 at 12:22 PM -
orangehorizon liked SamLevi11's post in the thread Soccer Men's Soccer (Football) Thread.
I’m sure for a small minority of people, race plays a part. But that’s also a convenient shield to hide behind. The main problem is obviously that these nations have awful human rights records involving modern slavery, mass executions, murder, imprisonment of LGBTQ members, etc. but ultimately, people don’t like them because it ruins the leagues. Look at the domination of PSG in France and, to a lesser extent, City in England. More so, the money they put in essentially unbalances the entire sport. It’s well known that PSG bought Neymar for such a huge amount of money largely because they wanted to destabilise the market and ensure only clubs like them could afford to buy superstars in the future. American capitalist investment groups, like those that own about 12 PL teams, also suck and would ideally not be involved, but it’s a different sort of evil. But, one that also needs to be monitored because it’s not far from them having the 14 clubs needed to force through changes.
Jun 2, 2025 at 12:21 PM -
orangehorizon liked KrisArronNev's post in the thread Soccer Men's Soccer (Football) Thread.
Very true. Even English ownership groups like Tony Bloom's should get a fair dose of criticism.
Jun 2, 2025 at 12:20 PM -
orangehorizon liked bigmike's post in the thread Soccer Men's Soccer (Football) Thread.
I think there’s a case to be made that European football fans (world football, really) should feel pretty similarly about American ownership groups scooping up teams as they do about nation-backed groups.
Jun 2, 2025 at 12:20 PM -
orangehorizon liked robbieberns's post in the thread Soccer Men's Soccer (Football) Thread.
It hasn’t exactly brought these competitions to an untenable standpoint, but we can’t go on pretending it isn’t an insult to the integrity of the game. World Cup 2022, World Cup 2034, the acceptance of the Saudi league as a whole and the money they’re spending. Not asking anyone to give up support for a club they’ve got an emotional attachment to, just asking that we don’t bury our heads in the sand and refuse to engage with the uncomfortable aspects.
Jun 2, 2025 at 12:19 PM -
orangehorizon liked robbieberns's post in the thread Soccer Men's Soccer (Football) Thread.
You support City and the trophies they’ve won in the last decade and a half, you have to be ready to face the music. City, PSG, Newcastle, Chelsea, Red Bull, fuck em. Most importantly, you can’t compare the sports washing done by nations with putrid human rights records and oil empires built off the backs of slave labor and try to make it comparable with your run of the mill billionaire ownership. Turn around to try and make it a race issue as well, fucking coward behavior. Grow up and have a word with yourself, pathetic.
Jun 2, 2025 at 12:18 PM -
orangehorizon liked Thrillcollinz's post in the thread Soccer Men's Soccer (Football) Thread.
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Jun 2, 2025 at 12:12 PM -
orangehorizon liked robbieberns's post in the thread Soccer Men's Soccer (Football) Thread.
watching PSG dominate a UCL final while playing beautiful football and just feeling a cold vast soul sucking nothingness just like i’m watching City win premier league title after title absolute death of the game stuff once these state owned teams took over
May 31, 2025 at 7:17 PM -
orangehorizon liked paythetab's post in the thread Rise Against Announce New Album.
And it's their top-streamed song on all the platforms...lol
May 31, 2025 at 4:54 PM -
orangehorizon replied to the thread Soccer Men's Soccer (Football) Thread.
Lol, I haven't heard that comparision before. He is definitely one of the most promising German talents at the moment. But difficult to evaluate yet. On one hand, it would be cool if he went to Everton, on the other it would probably be the best to stay in the Bundesliga for some more time.
May 31, 2025 at 4:05 PM -
orangehorizon liked SamLevi11's post in the thread Soccer Men's Soccer (Football) Thread.
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May 31, 2025 at 2:42 PM -
orangehorizon liked AFoolsGlory's post in the thread Soccer Men's Soccer (Football) Thread.
My girlfriend just said she went to an elder emo club night the other week, the DJ put on the new Linkin Park and the crowd booed haha. So, I'm gonna say no.
May 31, 2025 at 12:47 PM -
orangehorizon liked KrisArronNev's post in the thread Soccer Men's Soccer (Football) Thread.
[MEDIA] Port Vale'e new kit. I don't even think a sponsor could ruin it.
May 31, 2025 at 12:44 PM -
orangehorizon liked robbieberns's post in the thread Soccer Men's Soccer (Football) Thread.
Such a shame to see a top European coach in his prime fuck off to Saudi
May 31, 2025 at 12:30 PM -
orangehorizon liked SamLevi11's post in the thread Soccer Men's Soccer (Football) Thread.
And yes, at this point I am a broken record but when we stop talking about it, the sportswashing has fully worked.
May 31, 2025 at 12:28 PM -
orangehorizon liked SamLevi11's post in the thread Soccer Men's Soccer (Football) Thread.
Gotta be Inter for me. Fully respect Enrique and his story but I’m not backing a team owned by a regime with such widespread human rights issues like Qatar.
May 31, 2025 at 12:28 PM -
orangehorizon liked Swoos's post in the thread Soccer Men's Soccer (Football) Thread.
It’s insane that clubs have friendlies on the other side of the world as soon as the season ends.
May 31, 2025 at 12:16 PM -
orangehorizon liked TheGuyfkaFringeofLunacy's post in the thread Soccer Men's Soccer (Football) Thread.
Detroit City just released a new rendering for the stadium downtown and it looks fucking awesome.
May 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM -
orangehorizon liked cricketandclover's post in the thread Band Taking Back Sunday.
Mark is two years sober and Eddie got married [MEDIA]
May 29, 2025 at 10:38 AM -
orangehorizon liked Atticus5143's post in the thread Band Taking Back Sunday.
Easy solution is just have Will Noon as the new drummer for TBS and have Michelle pop in when she wants! Everybody wins.
May 29, 2025 at 10:35 AM -
orangehorizon liked Shams's post in the thread Band Taking Back Sunday.
The opening with the computer voice goes so hard. Speaking of news, TBS and Straylight Run are dropping new songs for another UCLA compilation album out this fall so that's something to look forward to!
May 29, 2025 at 10:34 AM -
orangehorizon liked KrisArronNev's post in the thread Soccer Men's Soccer (Football) Thread.
I saw some footage of the parade where a Malaysian man trolls them in a Man City kit haha. It never ends.
May 29, 2025 at 10:32 AM -
orangehorizon liked SamLevi11's post in the thread Soccer Men's Soccer (Football) Thread.
United ending their worst season in the PL era with an Asian tour, where they lose to a random “all star” team, have to endure a depressing “parade”, and now Amad is in the news for being filmed swearing at fans… It just won’t end for them.
May 29, 2025 at 10:32 AM