Today’s Football 2021/22 Season

[Rook]

Yes. Unfortunately. It is an abomination to play footy in it, although in this case I’m so delighted by the CONCACAF shithousery to make Mexico play in Edmonton on a glacier that I’m savoring it

its like 1980s artifical turf as well. This confederation is a straight up dumpster fire.

 

[TimHowardsBeardJuice]

For our Brit hosts on this board, the Canadian variety of American football is completely insane, the field is much larger, there are 12 men per side, and the rules are just mayhem- plus the snow- worth checking out on your local wierd-foreign-sports stream if you want to annoy whoever you live with

 

[wm02]

its like 1980s artifical turf as well. This confederation is a straight up dumpster fire.

Brings me back to watching Mets-Cardinals games at Busch Stadium on that nasty turf.
Cue announcer “It’s about 115 degrees on the field today”

 

[TimHowardsBeardJuice]

Second goal for Canada, the players jump in the snow to celebrate, this is fantastic. Mexico just does not want to be on this pitch

 

[Rook]

Mexico has just straight up quit. It could be 4-0 before its over.

 

[mmmmsnouts]

For our Brit hosts on this board, the Canadian variety of American football is completely insane, the field is much larger, there are 12 men per side, and the rules are just mayhem- plus the snow- worth checking out on your local wierd-foreign-sports stream if you want to annoy whoever you live with

Edmonton’s field isn’t even big enough to fit the full Canadian field on it. The corners of both end zones are cut off by the running track. The Grey Cup is coming up soon, which is their championship game. If it’s not on a British channel somewhere, it could turn up on some dodgy Internet stream.

It is at least modern artificial turf in Edmonton. More like Young Boys, not like QPR’s sheet of plastic from the 1980s.

 

[Melba Toast]

Tonight was beautiful! We beat Mexico. We didn’t get lucky. We beat them and we pissed them off and didn’t let them bully us like they’ve done for decades. We’re doing this!!

 

[Melba Toast]

Oh, and we jumped in snow banks when we scored. So much fun!

 

[Nymzee]

Why so many bad challenges this international break haha.

 

[Kantareller]

Why so many bad challenges this international break haha.

Frustrated they're not playing club footy

 

[TangerineToffee]

A recent Brazilian Cup game.

He's no Eddie Cavanagh is he lol

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

Gareth Barry charged by FA over alleged breaches relating to Swindon

The former England midfielder Gareth Barry has been charged by the Football Association over alleged breaches of intermediary regulations

www.theguardian.com

Naughty Gaz Baz

 

[emir]

Canadian/American soccer is already at a higher level than majority of European nations. Only the top 5 European nations can claim they are better.

 

[Martin Alvito]

Canadian/American soccer is already at a higher level than majority of European nations. Only the top 5 European nations can claim they are better.

Now there's a brave claim that I wouldn't make. Just a few short years ago, I was watching a washed-up Schweinsteiger warm up in Chicago among his MLS teammates, and it was like watching an alien or a superhuman alongside actual humans. The stuff he could just casually do with a soccer ball in warmups was absolutely insane.

Both countries have been on a massively upward trajectory for some time now, but there's still a ways to go.

 

[Billy Dean]

Italy's system that worked so well up to the Belgium game completely fell apart without Spinazzola as it relied on one fullback, him, playing as a winger while the other stayed back and formed a back three in possession. They can't replicate it because Emerson and Di Lorenzo aren't almost wingers and they keep trying anyway. It is a mess.

It has gotten to the point where winning the Euros as they did, rather fortunately in the end, has put them in danger of missing out on the next tournament. Just a wild turn of events.

At the same time they do still have enough talent to potentially win the tournament next summer with some tweaks should they make it.

I wonder whether they might try and snare Tino Livramento from England