European Leagues Thread 2012/2013

[Winston Biscuit]

Was looking for which leagues have runaway leaders already and saw that PSV's good form sees them currently on a 12 game winning streak and they are 16 points clear in Eredividie! As it stand they are on track to equal the all time points record

Porto have dropped just 2 points all season. currently 7 points clear.

[Stranded]

Eintracht Frankfurt fire Dino Toppmöller after a run of 4 games without a win dents their chances of returning to the Champions League next year.

The issue isn't so much the run but the manner of it with the 3 games after the Xmas break ending 3-3, 2-3, 3-3. With one 3-3 finishing with a last minute Dortmund equaliser and the other with a last minute Frankfurt equaliser.

In 18 games this season, there have been 77 goals in Eintracht games - over 4 goals per game. Going forward, they are often fantastic, defensively, an absolute shitshow - hence the firing.

[Winston Biscuit]

Presidential election at Barcelona called for 15th March

[Winston Biscuit]

Bayern Munich's attempt to go through a Bundesliga season unbeaten is over. lost 2-1 at home to Augsberg

[Winston Biscuit]

Roberto De Zerbi resigns from Marseille.

Doing fine in Ligue 1 but went out of the CL this week (after Benfica's last second goal)

[Winston Biscuit]

Former Athletic Bilbao player Mikel San Jose has won a significant court case in Spain where it ruled in his favour that his back problems can be classed as a disability and the win means he gets a monthly disability benefit payment for life

He had 2 herniated discs aged 21 and continued playing, making 458 club appearances, and 7 national team appearances in his mid 20's, retiring aged 33 in 2022, claiming this retirement was earlier than planned.

Lawyers in Spain arguing that this means any sportsperson who now retires even slightly earlier than they hoped and can get a medical professional to state that the retirement was because of some kind of physical discomfort can claim they have been forced into retirement through disability and can claim disability benefits from the government for life

[Winston Biscuit]

Roberto De Zerbi resigns from Marseille.

Doing fine in Ligue 1 but went out of the CL this week (after Benfica's last second goal)

owners refuse his resignation and so he stays on, for now

[Winston Biscuit]

Cremonese goalkeeper was hit with a flare thrown by an Inter fan at the weekends game. the fan also had a firework in his hand which went off and he lost 3 fingers, then his fellow fans reportedly beat him up.

Inter fans have now been banned from going to away matches until the end of March

[Winston Biscuit]

Rayo Vallacano match postponed today as the club relaid the turf last week and heavy rain means its turned to mush.

The Vallacano players have put out a collective statement to the supporters saying its just one of a number of things to happen that show the club is not being run professionally. Training ground filthy, a fungi infections means they had to train at different temporary places for 3 months, hot water turned off at training ground.

The pitch was relaid under orders from the Spanish FA who said their pitch had got so bad it no longer met the standard required to play games on.

The side story is the owner wants to build a new stadium, the fans are massively against that and have protested to let him know, the players have said they are backing the supporters. So the owner has stopped spending money on the upkeep of the stadium, with supporters saying he is trying to run it down to justify a move to a new place

[Winston Biscuit]

Roberto De Zerbi resigns from Marseille.

Doing fine in Ligue 1 but went out of the CL this week (after Benfica's last second goal)

owners refuse his resignation and so he stays on, for now

and now he has gone

[Winston Biscuit]

***Non Europe***

Andros Townsend on playing in Thailand
https://youtu.be/TQNJ_3TW0Do?si=8rvFHjHfIre0u_Bw

[Winston Biscuit]

Athletic Bilbao given a transfer ban covering 3 transfer windows, due to non payments of compensation to other clubs.

I assume they'll pay up and it will be back to normal

[Winston Biscuit]

Raheem Sterling came on in the 61st minute yesterday to make his Feyenoord debut

[Sanguine]

Might just be the angle, but Raheem looks like, well... like, he hasn't been playing too much football.

Sir Harold of Kane got two more goals at the weekend. Now has 43 goals in 36 games for Bayern this season, one shy of his season best (44 for Bayern in 2023-24). And Bayern have at least 14 games left this season, and up to 20.

Kane has 90 Bundesliga goals in 86 games. The player fastest to 100 goals in any of Europe's top 5 leagues is Cristiano Ronaldo, who got to his ton in 92 games for Real Madrid.

[Winston Biscuit]

Kane also has 28 league goals this season, which means he needs to get 13 more in 11 games to equal the record, which would be slower than the rate he has been scoring at so far this season

[Winston Biscuit]

Harry Kane officially in his best goalscoring season of his career

[Winston Biscuit]

23 red cards issued in the Brazilian match between Cruzeiro and Atletico Mineiro

https://youtu.be/hG5FE-Hifvg?si=m0q7o7oWnOL2RWgC

[Sutekh]

23 red cards issued in the Brazilian match between Cruzeiro and Atletico Mineiro

https://youtu.be/hG5FE-Hifvg?si=m0q7o7oWnOL2RWgC

Presume that it was impossible for the officials to work out just what the hell was going on so they just sent everyone off

What sort of punishments do clubs in Brazil get for this sort of thing?

Be great to have a PL game end up in that state. Imagine the hours of fun VAR would have.

[Pepe the Horseman]

Arda Guler with a goal from well inside his own half. https://x.com/i/status/2032939197653291482

[Uke]

Harry Kane officially in his best goalscoring season of his career

Just think of what he could have achieved had he stayed at Spurs…