Good riddance to Rodri

At least SOQ didn't compare football to seal clubbing.

comment by Devonshirespur (U6316)
posted 20 minutes ago
comment by son of quebec (U8127)
posted 15 seconds ago
comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 4 minutes ago
This country has been metric for 54 years, it's hardly a new fad.
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So you drink half litres of beer and the motorways are marked in kms? Half measures.👍
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We're trans-units you bigot. We can identify as metric or imperial. It's our right.
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Yeah. Sorry about that, dear.

comment by Kamikaze Blue (U7450)
posted 19 hours, 37 minutes ago
The true sign of an 24 carat plastic. Crowing about a rivals injuries. Utterly pathetic.

Rodri is right. There are too many shiite games both for club and country. No one wants them not the players, the clubs or the fans.
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OP is retaaarded

comment by Devonshirespur (U6316)
posted 1 day, 2 hours ago
They are saturating the game for financial profit and not even asking the players. What other sectors behave like that ?
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Can't tell if this is a serious question

That’s the problem with humans, doubling the workload rarely doubles productivity

comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 2 minutes ago
That’s the problem with humans, doubling the workload rarely doubles productivity
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Be thankful for that, or 99% of us would be working 16 hours a day.

Rodri is right. There are too many shiite games both for club and country. No one wants them not the players, the clubs or the fans.
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People will say this and then accuse Timber and Calafiori of cheating for cramping up. Both just back from injury, both on international duty, both new to the PL, both having to play in Italy on Thursday, return to England on Friday, and play a 3rd away game in a week on Sunday...

Almost as if people want to moan but ignore the effects when it suits their narrative. Hypocritical bores.

comment by Amanda Hugginkiss (U11574)
posted 1 hour, 47 minutes ago
comment by Devonshirespur (U6316)
posted 1 day, 2 hours ago
They are saturating the game for financial profit and not even asking the players. What other sectors behave like that ?
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Can't tell if this is a serious question
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Most employees have contracted hours.

My wife for example works for the NHS. Her area has historically been usual working hours, monday to friday but over the years they have moved to a 7 day a week service and now have moved to 7am to 7pm, 7 days a week service. Their contracted working hours are unchanged but they have to fulfill the 7-7, 7 day a week requirement

None of that has taken place without consultation at every level and contracts are changed accordingly to reflect the changing requirements.

They could not enforce such changes without completing the due process and in most other sectors, workers rights will reflect the need to make changes through agreement/negotiation/consultation. Nothing can be imposed unilaterally.

What due process do you think will have followed here, between FIFA etc and the clubs, the clubs and the players, the players (& union) and the authorities.

And what do you think of someone like FIFA's motivation for a club world cup during the summer. What is the justification? Do you think they will have done any research, an impact assessment of sorts, into what players are able to do in terms of games, whether inventing more games and adding it to the calendar will be harmful.

Or do you think they are just abusing their position of power and milking this cow as hard as possible without a consideration that the the cow may drop dead. Most employees are protected from such exploitation.

I don't disagree. It's more that basically every business milks its employees for maximum profit without offering them a say. It seemed a bit weird to suggest footballers are unique.

comment by Amanda Hugginkiss (U11574)
posted 20 hours, 7 minutes ago
I don't disagree. It's more that basically every business milks its employees for maximum profit without offering them a say. It seemed a bit weird to suggest footballers are unique.
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Football business generally is a bit unique to be fair.

I think your avergae employment contract is probably far more tightly written. I know that before i was freelance mine had contracted hours of 9-530 but i always worked way over that because i had to to get the work done and do a good job (& get ahead). I have seen plenty of staff who do not and know their hours & rights and will be gone at 531pm.

Seems like a footballer has no right to say No to anything. Clubs will not want to miss out on whatever competitions are being added or expanded, so they almost have no choice, and the same for internationals - Its a bigger longer WC and Euros like it or lump it, and no country will lump it.

Any footballer who, on their own, starts kicking up a fuss, demanding 6 weeks minimum holiday, or maximum games or whatever, would probably not get the transfer/contract they want. They are very well paid commodities, but are actually central to everything, so treating them in this way will come to backfire one day soon.

I guess my major irk on this is how bodies like FIFA think they own the game, how they exploit it to make money, how they are getting in bed with middle east oil nations to extract more and more money. It seems to be their only motivation and i do not think they act with the best interest of the game at heart, or anywhere near that. They have a huge social responsibility but are not really seen to act on it.