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queen-mabs-revenge · 10 months
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for ted lasso fans who aren't football fans, the akufo league subplot was pretty directly inspired by the april 2021 announcement of a proposed european super league founded by 12 of the richest clubs in europe competing in a closed group against each other plus 8 other teams tba.
the enterprise was cancelled very quickly after its announcement, but the differences between how that played out in ted lasso and the story as it played out in real life are.....hmmmm interesting choices to say the least.
the esl wasn't proposed by a cartoonishly villainous ghanaian billionaire. it was launched by a c-suite of white european and united states billionaire businessmen/team owners. - real madrid president florentino pérez spearheaded the proposal and claimed CEO position with andrea agnelli (owner of juventus), joel glazer (owner of man u), john henry (owner of liverpool), and stan kroenke (owner of arsenal) making up the rest of the proposed executive board. -these five are worth $2.3B, $13.5B (agnelli family), $4.8 (glazer family), $4B, and $12.9B, for a total of 37.5 billion dollars.
the esl proposal was formally announced on 18 april 2021 and by 21 april all 6 epl founding clubs had publicly announced their planned withdrawal from the league. this wasn't because of a rich white lady giving a heartwarming speech to a room of other rich people, it was because of a mass movement of working class fans denouncing the move as the capitalist greed and exploitation that it was, with some calling for fan ownership of clubs entirely:
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i get using real events as inspiration and adapting them to fit a narrative purpose within the story, but i think it's worth it to know what the story line was based on, especially considering the specific racial and class changes that were made reframing the villains and heroes of this particular story.
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pedripics · 3 months
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hi! may i ask you something about this Super League? im confused because im new here. and what about that 1 billion euros for? thank you
Hi, of course 🫶🏻
The Super League is a rather complex topic, so I'm gonna give you a short summary and a longer version with the history and stuff under the cut.
In short, the Super League is a proposed football competition for football clubs in Europe that is aimed to rival the UEFA competitions, such as the Champions League, Europa League, and Conference League.
Format (this is the new version they just released):
It would include 64 men’s (spread across three leagues) and 32 women’s teams (spread across two leagues) playing midweek games in a league system across Europe. All clubs would play in groups of 8 – home and away – resulting in a guaranteed minimum of 14 matches per year. At the end of the season, a knockout stage of 8 clubs will be played in each league to determine the league champions. There would also be annual promotion and relegation between the three/ two leagues. The idea is that it would not interfere with domestic leagues.
History:
Proposals of Super Leagues in European football have been around for decades with the earliest ideas dating back to 1968. There were attempts to create a 'Super League' in 1987 and 1990 but they were abandoned after UEFA and FIFA threatened to sanction all involved clubs. In 2009, Florentino Pérez (president of Real Madrid) began planning a 'Super League' because the Champions League, in his words, was too "obsolete and problematic for the quality of the sport and an obstacle preventing clubs from growing their businesses and developing infrastructure." That idea resurfaced in 2020 when big clubs started suffering financially from the Covid-19 pandemic and ongoing debts. That got American investors interested who pledged US $5 billion towards its formation. In January 2021, FIFA and all six football's continental confederations (AFC, CAF, CONCACAF, CONMEBOL, OFC, and UEFA) issued a statement that rejected the formation of any breakaway European Super League and that they would ban any club or player involved from any competitions organised by FIFA and its six confederations.
Current 'European Super League':
In April 2021, Pérez announced the formation of the 'European Super League' (ESL) via a press release signed by twelve clubs that signed up to be involved (Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United, Tottenham Hotspurs, Inter Milan, Juventus, AC Milan, Atlético Madrid, FC Barcelona, and Real Madrid). The aim was a new competition that "provides higher-quality matches and additional financial resources for the overall football pyramid, provides significantly greater economic growth and support for European football via a long-term commitment to uncapped solidarity payments, which will grow in line with league revenues, would appeal to a new younger generation of football fans, and also would improve VAR and refereeing." Real Madrid, FC Barcelona, and Juventus were the three leading clubs. There is much more to the financial aspect of it (like solidarity payments, welcome bonuses, participation payments, commercial revenue, etc.), but that's rather complicated and depends on what newspaper you wanna believe.
Reception:
The announcement led to a joint statement from the governing bodies of the Premier League, La Liga and Serie A condemning the formation, with all governing bodies declaring to prevent the ESL from proceeding any further. Football governing bodies from Germany, France and Russia released similar statements. UEFA reiterated their statements made in January 2021, warning that any clubs involved in the Super League would be banned from all other domestic, European and world football competitions and that players from the clubs involved would also be banned from representing their national teams in international matches. (The Premier League and their governing body FA ruled out barring the six clubs from domestic competitions and preferred to not take legal action.) Numerous politicians expressed their opposition to the proposal of the ESL. Amongst commentators, footballers and managers, the ESL sparked contrasting opinions. Media companies were mostly opposed to the idea (which does not come as a surprise as ESL promises free viewing of all live matches). Many football fans, including the fans of the involved clubs, were not in support of the idea of the ESL. The backlash led to nine clubs (all clubs, except FC Barcelona, Real Madrid, and Juventus) announcing their intention to withdraw from the project in April 2023. However, eight of these nine clubs remained involved as stakeholders. In June 2023, Juventus announced their decision to leave the Super League project after facing a rumoured 5-year ban from all European competitions if they went through with the project. (That only leaves FC Barcelona and Real Madrid)
Legal issues:
In May 2021, the Super League filed a complaint to the Court of Justice of the European Union against UEFA and FIFA for their proposals to stop the competition. UEFA had opened disciplinary proceedings against FC Barcelona, Juventus, and Real Madrid, which were threatened to be excluded from all UEFA competitions, in order to sanction them but these measures were stayed until further notice as a result of the rulings from the Spanish commercial court and Swiss authorities. In June 2021, the Swiss Department of Justice and Police and the Spanish Commercial Court referred the issue to the Court of Justice of the European Union to question whether UEFA and FIFA have violated two articles of the Treaty of the Functioning of the European Union. Article 101 prohibits cartels and other agreements that could disrupt free competition in the EEA and Article 102 aims to prevent businesses in an industry from abusing their position or taking action to prevent new businesses from gaining a foothold in the industry. On 21 December 2023, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that FIFA and UEFA's rules, which banned clubs from joining rival competitions, such as the Super League, are contrary to EU law. UEFA's and FIFA's rules making new football projects subject to their prior approval are also unlawful.
What does the ECJ's ruling mean:
The ECJ's ruling is binding and not subject to appeal. The ECJ's decision on UEFA's rules does however not rule on whether the Super League should (or is allowed) to exist. UEFA needs to change and clarify its rules now to comply with EU law. Once the regulations are updated, the Super League will still need to acquire authorisation to set the competition up. The ruling basically gives companies like A22 the right to pitch a new football competition and for their application to be judged on criteria which are "transparent, objective, non-discriminatory and proportionate".
Revival of the project:
In December 2023, A22 announced a new, updated proposal (which I already explained under format). However, many clubs have issued statements opposing the idea (including clubs, who were once involved in the ESL). As of right now, Real Madrid, FC Barcelona and SSC Napoli have issued statements in support of the ESL. There are reports about various clubs from Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal and other European leagues who are keen on joining (but no official statements from the clubs).
Why could Barça and Real Madrid receive €1 billion?
I believe this has not been confirmed by A22, but it has been reported by various newspapers. They would receive €1 billion as a reward for their loyalty, as they are the only two clubs who remained firm on their decision to take part in the Super League. That would obviously only happen if they find enough teams to set up the ESL.
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justinssportscorner · 3 months
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Paul MacInnes at The Guardian:
Uefa has been found to be “abusing a dominant position” in the way it applies its rules, leaving the potential for a revival of the European Super League project. In a long-awaited ruling by the European court of justice, Uefa and football’s international governing body, Fifa, were found to have rules relating to the establishment of new competitions that were not “transparent, objective, non-discriminatory and proportionate”. These rules have been declared “unlawful” by the court. The judgment also found, however, that its decision “does not mean that a competition such as the Super League project must necessarily be approved”. The ruling has been awaited by football’s stakeholders as potentially offering sign as to the future of the European game and whether a project such a Super League could happen again.
Bernd Reichart, the chief executive of A22, a consultancy hired by the Super League Company, said on X: “We have won the right to compete. The Uefa monopoly is over. Football is free. Clubs are now free from the threat of sanction and free to determine their own futures.” A22 swiftly revealed its plan for men’s and women’s Super Leagues, with 64 teams in the men’s competition, 32 in the women’s and promotion and relegation across the divisions in each. It said the initial selection of clubs would be based on merit, there would be no permanent members and clubs would continue to play in their domestic leagues, with Super League matches scheduled midweek. Ejection from either competition, however, would happen only for clubs that finish at the bottom of the last tier. Clubs would be placed in groups of eight, guaranteeing them 14 matches a season. Reichart said of the project’s plans, which would in effect replace Uefa’s Champions League. “For fans: We propose free viewing of all Super League matches. For clubs: Revenues and solidarity spending will be guaranteed.”
Javier Tebas, the president of La Liga and a staunch critic of the Super League, which continues to be backed by Real Madrid and Barcelona, accused Reichart of behaving as if he had been drinking “until 5 in the morning”. He said the ruling had not stated that Uefa and Fifa must admit the Super League. “On the contrary,” he said, “it points out that the criteria for admission to competitions must be transparent, objective and non-discriminatory. Principles precisely incompatible with the Super League.” Uefa said the ruling did not “signify an endorsement or validation of the so-called ‘super league’” but addressed a “pre-existing shortfall” in Uefa’s framework which it said it had subsequently corrected in June 2022. It outlined its continued opposition to the Super League project. “Uefa is confident in the robustness of its new rules, and specifically that they comply with all relevant European laws and regulations,” it said. “Uefa remains resolute in its commitment to uphold the European football pyramid … We trust that the solidarity-based European football pyramid that the fans and all stakeholders have declared as their irreplaceable model will be safeguarded against the threat of breakaways by European and national laws.”
In 2021, immediately after the announcement of the breakaway tournament, Uefa took disciplinary action against the 12 Super League clubs, with each sanctioned and banned from European qualification for joining a competition unauthorised by the governing body. The Super League company brought legal action in response, its arguments focusing on whether Uefa should have the power to decide what is authorised. Uefa’s disciplinary processes were suspended as part of these proceedings, with nine of the 12 clubs also walking away from the Super League. An opinion published last year by an advocate general at the ECJ found Uefa had not acted against European competition law by sanctioning its clubs. Real Madrid’s president, Florentino Pérez, said after the ruling: “Today will mark a before and after; it is a great day for the history of football and the history of sport.” Pérez said clubs could now be “the masters of their destiny” and the Super League would give football “the new impetus it so badly needs”.
The European Court of Justice rules that neither FIFA nor UEFA can legally block the formation of the Super League.
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kingjaffejoffer · 1 year
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I watch NBA league pass religiously and have noticed a disturbing trend- a lot of teams regional announcers are fucking racist and it manifests in wildly inaccurate criticisms of good players. Best example being former Player and elite dumbass Wally Sczerbiak calling Tyrese Haliburton a “wannabe allstar” and basically a fraud. Wally should know a good player when he sees one. So when he says something like that about a guy who is widely accepted as one of the best young players it’s telling. The comment also sounded weirdly personal so there’s that too. Another thing I’m noticing is that the same announcers that make weird inaccurate comments about players also ALL favor Jokic as this year’s MVP. Jokic is unbelievable, and for what it’s worth if he keeps on this trajectory, niggas are going to forget about Dirk as the best European player ever. BUT- MVP is a political award and you have to be on a top 4 team to have a chance at winning it because white Nerd writers with MVP votes said so. Denver is in first in the west but any of the 5 Western conf teams behind them could EASILY turn their lights out in the playoffs because after Jokic, Denver relies too heavily on players that are overrated (Murray, Gordon, Hyland, and especially Porter). Denver certainly isn’t better than Boston or Milwaukee… which brings me to my final point- Giannis and Jayson Tatum are the actual front runners for MVP, but white voters/ regional announcers are just waiting for an excuse to remove them both from the race. Watch how this shit plays out…any and all excuses will be made for Jokic despite Denver’s inevitable collapse and soon to be exposed short comings. I fucking hate how the NBA allows for history to be altered via unrefined, outdated MVP voting. It’s got niggas acting like Steve Nash was a better player than Kobe, Shaq, Olajuwon, Malone, etc.
unrelated and random- Jordan Poole in his final form is gonna be so fucking crazy! He has Dame’s tool bag (range, confidence, ability to finish at the rim)+ more height that keeps Dame from advancing to the next tier of super star. He also has a Kyrie-esque counter package that very, very, very few other players posses. When Klay finally goes to another team or becomes 6th man permanently shit is gonna get really fun.
Messages like these are right up my alley! I watch the NBA every day. I don't have league pass officially but I've been pirating since I was a literal child so it's nothing.
I agree with you about just about everything. I hate how the MVP race has turned into this year-long media event / content machine. There's no fucking reason an "MVP Ladder" should even be the subject of conversation in December. Journalists and media personalities craft narratives for whoever they want to win and spend the year rallying a base. I hate it.
Most local team Homer broadcasts are unlistenable, have you ever heard the Celtics? 🤮🤮🤮
As exciting as Poole is offensively, until he can significantly improve on defense and decisionmaking he will be second fiddle to Klay in crunch time when it matters. Kerr values experience and trust more than anything when it matters. You can see that by the short 8-man playoff rotations.
But yeah Pooles creativity with the ball is amazing. This really is his time to shine right now with Steph out. I'm rooting for him.
Also... Only 4 teams are actually competing for a title this year: Golden State, Boston, Milwaukee, and with luck the 4th slot can be Brooklyn or Philly.
The rest of these teams are completely unserious to me. Especially Phoenix and Memphis.
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elishamanning · 2 years
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on this day one year ago the european super league was announced
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alexbkrieger13 · 1 year
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it was true, interesting to see how much the teams earn from wins and stuff
English champions, Chelsea Women are set to earn the largest amount in prize money after emerging from the group stage of the UEFA Women's Champions League with the best record of any of the sixteen teams taking part.
After surprisingly being eliminated at this stage of the competition last year, the west London side topped a four-team group ahead of the previous season's semi-finalists, Paris Saint-Germain, and quarter-finalists, Real Madrid, with a record of five wins and a draw from their six games.
When the European governing body, UEFA, announced the introduction of a first-ever group stage in their showpiece women's club competition last year, they ensured each of the sixteen qualifying teams would earn a minimum of €400,000 ($424,700) prize money generated by a new centralized television deal with DAZN Group and a set of new sponsors specific to the competition.
Furthermore, the new deal awards prize money to each team based on results, Chelsea will eventually earn an additional €50,000 ($53,090) for each group-stage win and €17,000 ($18,049) for their draw in Madrid, amounting to an additional €270,000 ($286,658).
As one of the four group winners, Chelsea, along with Arsenal, Barcelona and Wolfsburg will be given a bonus payment of €20,000 ($21,235) and each team reaching the last eight are guaranteed to receive €160,000 ($169,884) even if they are eliminated at that stage in March. In total, Chelsea have so far earned €847,000, just under $900,000, in prize money so far.
Last season, Spanish champions Barcelona and French champions, Paris Saint-Germain earned the maximum amount of prize money available from the group phase of €880,000 ($934,295) by winning all of their six matches, something no team managed in this campaign. Barcelona and Bayern Munich qualified from the same group with five wins each, guaranteeing them prize money of €830,000 ($881,119) and €810,000 ($859,887) respectively.
The other Barclays Women's Super League side, Arsenal, also qualified for the quarter-finals as group winners with four wins, one draw and one inconsequential defeat, earning them €797,000 ($846,065).
Chelsea went into last night's match at home to Paris Saint-Germain having already secured their progress into the quarter-finals. Their 3-0 win earned them an additional €70,000 ($74,309) in prize money as group winners and, perhaps more importantly, ensured they will have home advantage for the decisive second leg of their quarter-final tie in March.
Chelsea moved last night's match to the club's main stadium of Stamford Bridge, attracting a crowd of 10,129, the second largest home attendance for an English club in the competition. Barcelona also played two of their matches at their Camp Nou stadium drawing the largest crowds of the group phase of 46,967 and 28,270 respectively. The additional gate receipts generated by both clubs are likely to push the team's earnings from this season's competition through the $1 million mark.
While the guaranteed revenue for women's team competing in the UEFA Women's Champions League is welcome in a competition where no prize money whatsoever was awarded to the first winners in 2002, there is a concern that wealth could increasingly be concentrated in certain nations. For the second season in succession, the eight quarter-finalsists will hail exclusively from the same five counties - England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain - a repetition unprecedented in the 21 previous years of the tournament.
While UEFA hopes to alleviate these discrepancies by holding back almost a quarter of the competition's revenue to award to top flight clubs not taking part, so-called 'solidarity payments', these amounts are also weighted towards the more successful leagues. The amount distributed to each national association is based on the performance of their clubs in the competition and must be shared equally among the clubs in their top domestic league not competing in the competition.
In the quarter-final draw on January 20, each of the four group winners, Arsenal, Barcelona, Chelsea and Wolfsburg will be paired with one of the group runners-up, Bayern Munich, Lyon, Paris Saint-Germain and Lyon, with the only stipulation being a club cannot be drawn against the team they already played in the group phase.
The winners of the competition could potentially earn prize money totalling €1.4 million ($1.486 million) from a prize pot of €24 million ($25.5 million).
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thewebbloghouse · 1 year
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FOOTBALL | ANN-KATRIN BERGER INTERVIEW
Ann-Katrin Berger: Playing football helped me beat cancer – twice
Chelsea goalkeeper’s love for the game helped her through darkest times
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Berger has her eyes set on winning the Champions League.
When Ann-Katrin Berger walks out of the tunnel at the Emirates stadium in front of more than 44,500 fans tomorrow lunchtime, the Chelsea goalkeeper will be covered in goosebumps and have the same nervous anticipation she gets at the beginning of every match.
Nothing has changed for the 32-year-old in all her time spent playing football, and — as the Women’s Super League returns from its winter break — a north London derby against title rivals Arsenal is as important as ever. While this season has been a “rollercoaster”, the past six months have featured far more dips than most professional footballers endure.
On July 31, Berger was part of the Germany squad that lost to England in the final of the European Championship. On August 1, her worst fears were confirmed; the thyroid cancer first diagnosed in 2017, from which she thought she had recovered, had returned.
“The only negative was that it was my last appointment to get the full clear [when the blood test came back abnormal],” Berger says. “Obviously cancer can come back at any time, but you can say after five years normally it is all done and dusted. That was the negative because it was so close to being finished. The positives were I knew what to expect and what to do and it wasn’t like the unknown like before.”
When Berger first had thyroid cancer diagnosed while she was at Birmingham City, she played throughout her treatment, and she has done so again this time. The only match she has missed this season was the opening Women’s Super League game against Liverpool.
“I needed that aim to get rid of the cancer,” she says. Having finished her treatment, Berger’s tests results have come back clear, but she is understandably cautious in her optimism. “Now we just have to hope and wait,” she says, explaining it can take up to two years to feel more confident the cancer has gone.
Berger’s statement on social media announcing that the cancer had returned has more than 25,000 likes. Her openness and strength moved Paul Green, the Chelsea general manager, to describe her as an “inspiration”, although it has taken Berger a while to adjust to the spotlight.
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Berger is grateful for the motivation and discipline that being a professional footballer has given her.
“I had to learn it over the years,” she says. “I know I am in a position where I can help people. If I can only affect 1 or 2 per cent of people that is good enough for me. Even after the diagnosis I looked after the people around me, I didn’t allow them to look after me.
“Too many people came to me, texting me. I’m not a social media person so I had to get my nieces and nephew and Jess [Carter, her partner and Chelsea team-mate] to explain how to work it out. It felt crazy because I never saw myself as a role model. How I did that, I don’t know.”
Berger is grateful for the motivation and discipline that being a professional footballer has given her, reflecting that her fitness as an athlete played a big role during her treatment. “You can’t tell me one athlete that likes to give up and I think that helps me quite a lot,” she says. “Even though I had cancer I feel like I still have a healthier body than anyone else.”
While the ever-positive Berger admits her second round of treatment “hit her quite hard”, it was the emotional toll she found difficult. Sarina Wiegman, the England manager, gave Jess permission to attend appointments with her throughout the Euros.
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Berger with her Chelsea team-mate and partner Carter after winning the FA Cup last season.
“It was during the Euros and Jess was allowed to come with me to two appointments so we were always together,” Berger says. “It was easier for the tournament to be in England because I knew if something happened she was not far from me, our hotels were not far from each other. It sounds crazy, but my main focus was being as good as possible in the Euros. The doctor’s side and the appointments was almost next to it. I took it seriously, but I didn’t want the thoughts to overcome me and the game be affected.”
Another difficult moment was having to break the news to her Chelsea team-mates, although Berger was relieved it had gone better than when she delivered the same news to her Birmingham colleagues.
“It was the hardest to actually tell them . . . not to feel sorry for me,” she says. “I learnt from the first time and how I came across. The first thing when I told them was that everything should be normal, treating me normal. That helped me.
“As good human beings, obviously it affected them a little bit and I could see that but I tried to say to them they could talk to me, because we are process driven. Any questions they have, I don’t feel uncomfortable, even to Jess because she has been through this with me twice now so she probably knows even more than me.
“My aim is to get healthy, but how do I get there? To be as normal as possible and do the things I always did before. If I don’t do the health side I can’t play football and if I can’t play football I will be miserable.”
Her health scare has left her even more determined to improve, personally and collectively with Chelsea. “I want to be one of the best goalkeepers in the world again. Off the pitch if I’m not healthy enough I can’t reach these goals so having a good balance between both is important for this year. Everyone at Chelsea knows we are going for all the trophies this year. The biggest aim is to win the Champions League. I feel like nobody can stop us, only us.”
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hopexhappiness · 10 months
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Okay, I have THOUGHTS about Richmond’s Women’s team
In my mind, there needs to be a spinoff about them.
I am actually a fan of European women’s soccer/football (I’m from the US so I call it both) and I think that a show like that being created would not just be good television, it also would be incredibly important for the real-life women’s game. And I have a lot of thoughts and feelings about what this show could cover.
To start, I honestly don’t believe for a second that Richmond wouldn’t have already had a women’s team. They may be in a lower league than the top league, the Women’s Super League (WSL), but I don’t believe that they don’t exist already. In my mind instead of Keeley and Rebecca creating a women’s team they should be investing more resources and money and promotion into the team. Which makes sense since Keeley is the PR person. Maybe they are trying to put more support into the women’s team (both financially and in terms of promoting their existence) and trying to help them get promoted from the Women’s Championship (or WSL 2). 
A show about Richmond Women would honestly probably also be a really good way to give more attention to real-life women’s soccer, which is currently going through a huge rise in popularity that has started over the last few years (especially with last summer’s Women’s Euros). Game attendance numbers are going up, records are being both set and broken all the time, and The Women’s World Cup is this summer in Australia/New Zealand. It’s the perfect time.
There are also plenty of topics that this show could cover, and inequities it could shine light on. Such as:
The ACL injury crisis
The differences in quality of pitch (matches getting canceled for dangerous pitch conditions that would not be problems if they were of better quality like the men’s)
The general amount of aggressively present and not subtle sexism everywhere on the internet surrounding the sport
The sport’s LGBTQ culture and how different it is in the world of women’s sports
The two biggest topics in my opinion would be the differences in representation of queer players and ACL injuries. 
A show like this would be both important and fun from the angle of discussion of LGBTQ topics. In women’s professional soccer, especially in Europe from what I’ve observed, so many players are openly queer that it sometimes feels like there is a culture of reverse heteronormativity. It is more surprising when a player announces they are in a relationship if it is with a man. They also never seem to come out officially, they just start posting pictures with their girlfriends. Additionally, the players are often dating their teammates which leads to a lot of drama (which would be very fun to watch a show about).
The other big topic that I would hope a show like his would cover is the extremely high frequency of knee injuries in women’s soccer. I’m not well enough informed on the medical side of these injuries, but the fact of the matter is that women are extremely more likely to rupture their ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) than men, and an incredibly high number of professional players have gotten this injury. It has become even more noticeable lately since so many high-profile players have gotten this injury within the last year. If you actually look into the details and the numbers it is truly absurd. If a player goes down and does not get up, we as fans start praying, but we also all already know what it is and we just have to hope that we will be surprised by never being given that horrible announcement. These are long term injuries. They will pretty much always take at least a year of playing out of an athlete’s career and they become more vulnerable to it happening again. Players have been speaking out and calling for more research specifically on how to reduce these injuries in women, as people who are biologically female are simply more vulnerable to these injuries. It has become taxing to watch the sport as every player who is having the best season of their life is always one unlucky step away from being benched for a year, and it is happening all the time. Seriously, even if it isn’t related to Ted Lasso, look this shit up.
All of that intense stuff aside, I would really fucking love to see a show about a Richmond Women's team. I bet it would be fucking rad and I hope it happens!
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bluemoonstonesy · 8 months
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the queen dying and the european super league announcement were the 2 funniest days on social media
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The soft deadline to buy United is tomorrow. Saudi and Qatar are both bidding. States can blow any individual rich idiot out of the water, so it'll be one of them that take over.
I feel a bit like I did when the european super league was announced; sick and a bit of grief. Not as bad as the ESL but it's there.
I think I'm about done tbh. I'd say I'd pull my money out but I haven't given the club a penny for over 10 years. Since the Glazer takeover 17 years ago, probably about 100 quid.
It's just shit now, football, it's properly shit
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toffoliravioli · 1 year
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Hi for the European new fan in your inbox, I am in Europe as well and I do not know where the person is from, but there are some possibilities depending on where you live. You can watch on like illegal streaming sites [but you can watch back NHL games on those as well, you can find options with a quick Google search] But there are some fun leagues that you can watch legally live.
The Liiga is a very good league. It is in Finland. and quite a few NHL prospects [and even guys that retire and still want to play] play there. They stream there games and you can watch on-demand but unfortunately only if you have a Finnish bank account. I do not have much experience with this as I have only watched it while I was on holiday in Finland and I watched it TV there, but it's very fun. Though only Finnish commentary
I personally watch the DEL which is the German league. The league has every game televised and you can go back and watch them on demand on their official streaming partner. They have it on Magenta Sport. Maybe not quite NHL caliber, but I personally enjoy watching this quite a bit. I also like seeing the sport grow in Germany. There are some good NHL prospects there right now. Again only German commentary.
You also have the SHL which is the Swedish league, lots of Swedish players come up through here. I like it quite a bit as well, though I only watched it while I lived in Sweden for a bit. They have announced that they are going to do a partnership with ESPN+ to have the games (I haven't seen if this has been implemented yet but maybe next season?) They used to have it on a British network called ViaPlay but as of recently it's not there anymore.
There are some more leagues like the KHL [which is Russian and kinda corrupt so I tend to stay way from that], you have the National League (NL) in Switzerland which is becoming pretty popular and the Czech Extraliga. But I have no experience with these, but you can try and check them out.
Hope this was helpful!
This is super helpful ty fellow nonnie!!
A lot of good players come out of these leagues it’s definitely something to check out, old fan or new
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Antalya, May 5 – Champions League Super Finals in Türkiye!
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CEV officially announced the venue of 2024 CEV Champions League Volley Super Finals! The event that will crown the queens and kings of European Volleyball will be taking place on May 5 in Türkiye, more precisely at the Antalya Sports Hall, which has a capacity of 10,000 seats. The women’s final will be an Italian derby between 2021 winners A. Carraro Imoco Conegliano and their compatriots Allianz…
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This is what happened in sports during 2023
By Sam Joseph, CNNCNN  —  
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2023 has been a year unlike any other in sport.
Records were broken, torches were passed, movements were started and tears were shed as fans experienced every emotion possible.
Here’s a look back at the biggest stories this year from all over the sporting world.
January
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Bills players gather as an ambulance parks on the field at Paycor Stadium, while CPR is administered to Hamlin. The game was suspended with suspended in the first quarter.
11th: Hamlin is discharged from hospital.
28th: Aryna Sabalenka wins the women’s singlesat the Australian Open.
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Djokovic celebrates after winning in Melbourne.
February
1st: Tom Brady announces his retirement from football for the second time.
6th: The Brooklyn Nets trade Kyrie Irving to the Dallas Mavericks.
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James fades away to make NBA history.
9th: The Brooklyn Nets trade Kevin Durant to the Phoenix Suns.
11th: Real Madrid wins the Club World Cup.
12th: The Kansas City Chiefs beat the Philadelphia Eagles 38-35 in Super Bowl LVII.
March
4th: The NBA begins an investigation into Memphis Grizzlies point guard Ja Morant after a video emerges of him displaying a gun at a Colorado nightclub.
17th: Three people finish the Barkley Marathonsfor only the second time in the 37-year history of the ultra-race.
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FDU guard Grant Singleton shoots during one of the all-time March Madness upsets.
21st: Japan wins the 2023 World Baseball Classicwith Shohei Ohtani winning tournament MVP.
April
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Reese gestures to Clark during the game.
3rd: World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and Endeavor (the majority owner of the UFC) announce that the two companies will merge.
6th: European champion England beats South American champion Brazil on penalties, 1-1 (4-2) to win the first ever Women’s Finalissima.
9th: Spaniard Jon Rahm wins the Masters.
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Welcome to Wrexham - striker Elliot Lee celebrates during the match that confirmed his team's promotion to the Football League.
26th: The Green Bay Packers trade Aaron Rodgers to the New York Jets.
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Griner fights back tears at the news conference.
May
14th: Ja Morant is suspended by the Grizzliesafter being seen with a gun for a second time, this time on Instagram Live. He would later be suspended without pay by the NBA for 25 games.
20th: Manchester City wins the Premier League.
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Vinícius was visibly upset during the match.
June
3rd: Manchester City wins the FA Cup, defeating bitter rival Manchester United 2-1 in the final.
6th: PGA Tour and Saudi-backed LIV Golf announce that they will merge.
10th: Iga Świątek wins the women’s singles at the French Open.
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Rúben Dias and the Manchester City squad celebrate their historic treble.
11th: Novak Djokovic wins the French Open and becomes the all-time leader in men’s grand slam titles.
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Denver's Bruce Brown drives to the basket in Game Five.
13th: The Vegas Golden Knights win their first Stanley Cup in only their sixth NHL season, beating the Florida Panthers in five games.
22nd: French teenage sensation Victor Wembanyama is selected first overall by the San Antonio Spurs in the 2023 NBA Draft.
July
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Messi celebrates after scoring a 94th minute game-winning free kick against Cruz Azul, only six days after signing.
15th: Markéta Vondroušová wins the women’s singles at Wimbledon, the first to do so as an unseeded player.
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Alcaraz lifts the trophy on the Centre Court Balcony.
24th: Bronny James, son of NBA legend LeBron James, suffers a cardiac arrest while at USC basketball practice.
August
6th: The USWNT is knocked out of the Women’s World Cup on penalties by Sweden in Megan Rapinoe’s final international match.
15th: Soccer superstar Neymar Jr. signs for Saudi Arabian club Al-Hilal, the highest profile name amongst a slew of international players to move to the burgeoning Saudi Pro League.
20th: Spain win the Women’s World Cup for the first time, defeating England 1-0 in the final.
20th: Royal Spanish Football Federation President Luis Rubiales is accused of multiple instances of inappropriate behavior after Spain’s victory, most notably forcibly kissing midfielder Jennifer Hermoso during the trophy ceremony.
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Richardson celebrates with the flag after being crowned world champion.
24th: Magnus Carlsen defeats 18-year-old Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa to become Chess World Cup champion.
25th: Rubiales defiantly refuses to resign at a press conference and condemns the rise of “fake feminism.”
25th: Spain midfielder Alexia Putellas posts on X (formerly Twitter) in support of Hermoso and kickstarts the #SeAcabó (#It’sOver in English) social movement.
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Biles competes in the uneven bars on day four of the championships.
September
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Gauff kisses the trophy after claiming victory at Flushing Meadows.
10th: Novak Djokovic wins the men’s singles at the US Open.
10th: Luis Rubiales resigns as RFEF president but does not offer an apology in his statement.
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Rodgers is sacked by the Bills' Leonard Floyd at MetLife Stadium - injuring him only four plays into his New York career.
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Swift, the girlfriend of Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce and the world's most famous football fan, watches on at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City.
27th: The Portland Trail Blazers trade Damian Lillard to the Milwaukee Bucks.
October
1st: Damar Hamlin returns to the Bills active roster.
6th: Simone Biles wins her sixth all-around world gymnastics title in Antwerp, Belgium, to solidify her status as the greatest gymnast ever. She would end up winning four golds at the event, taking her to 23 world titles – the most in men’s or women’s gymnastics history.
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Verstappen celebrates after winning the Qatar Grand Prix - he had already sealed the World Championship the day before in the sprint race.
16th: The IOC announces that flag football, baseball/softball, cricket, lacrosse and squashwill be included at the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
18th: The Las Vegas Aces win the WNBA Finals 3-1 against the New York Liberty, becoming the first repeat WNBA champions in 21 years.
28th: South Africa wins the Rugby World Cup with a 12-11 victory over New Zealand.
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Tributes to Johnson are laid outside the Motorpoint Arena in Nottingham, England.
30th: Luis Rubiales is banned from all soccer-related activities for three years by FIFA.
30th: Lionel Messi wins a record-extending eighth Ballon d’Or award.
30th: Police confirm that they are investigatingAdam Johnson’s death.
November
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The Rangers celebrate after taking Game Five on the road at Chase Field.
1st: The Philadelphia 76ers trade James Hardento the Los Angeles Clippers.
6th: Iga Świątek wins WTA Finals and regains the world No. 1 ranking after thrashing Jessica Pegula, 6-1 6-0.
19th: Max Verstappen wins the inaugural Las Vegas Grand Prix.
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Australia's Glenn Maxwell celebrates after winning the Cricket World Cup.
19th: Novak Djokovic wins the ATP Finals, defeating Jannik Sinner with ease, 6-3 6-3.
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Woods tees off at the Hero World Challenge in Nassau, Bahamas.
December
3rd: Florida State, undefeated in the regular season, is controversially left out of the College Football Playoff.
7th: Jon Rahm announces that he is leaving the PGA Tour to join LIV Golf.
9th: Shohei Ohtani announces that he is signing with the Los Angeles Dodgers, reportedly on a 10-year, $700 million contract, the largest deal in professional sports history.
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Nurkić lies on the ground hurt while Green reacts after being whistled for a foul.
21st: The EU’s top court decides that FIFA and UEFA’s rules which blocked the creation of the controversial European Super League were unlawful, potentially removing obstacle for the controversial soccer competition to be established.
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🚨 European Super League organisers A22 Sports have announced that Manchester United and other Premier League clubs have been made new offers to sign up despite their statements that they remain committed to UEFA competition.
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(via Super League promoters unveil ambitious Plans for 64-Team Tournament)
In the wake of a European Court of Justice ruling that UEFA breached EU law in blocking the European Super League, A22 Sports Management, the promoters behind the breakaway league, have announced groundbreaking plans for a new 64-team men’s tournament.
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Ann-Katrin Berger: Playing football helped me beat cancer – twice
Chelsea goalkeeper’s love for the game helped her through darkest times
When Ann-Katrin Berger walks out of the tunnel at the Emirates stadium in front of more than 44,500 fans tomorrow lunchtime, the Chelsea goalkeeper will be covered in goosebumps and have the same nervous anticipation she gets at the beginning of every match.
Nothing has changed for the 32-year-old in all her time spent playing football, and — as the Women’s Super League returns from its winter break — a north London derby against title rivals Arsenal is as important as ever. While this season has been a “rollercoaster”, the past six months have featured far more dips than most professional footballers endure.
On July 31, Berger was part of the Germany squad that lost to England in the final of the European Championship. On August 1, her worst fears were confirmed; the thyroid cancer first diagnosed in 2017, from which she thought she had recovered, had returned.
“The only negative was that it was my last appointment to get the full clear [when the blood test came back abnormal],” Berger says. “Obviously cancer can come back at any time, but you can say after five years normally it is all done and dusted. That was the negative because it was so close to being finished. The positives were I knew what to expect and what to do and it wasn’t like the unknown like before.”
When Berger first had thyroid cancer diagnosed while she was at Birmingham City, she played throughout her treatment, and she has done so again this time. The only match she has missed this season was the opening Women’s Super League game against Liverpool.
“I needed that aim to get rid of the cancer,” she says. Having finished her treatment, Berger’s tests results have come back clear, but she is understandably cautious in her optimism. “Now we just have to hope and wait,” she says, explaining it can take up to two years to feel more confident the cancer has gone.
Berger’s statement on social media announcing that the cancer had returned has more than 25,000 likes. Her openness and strength moved Paul Green, the Chelsea general manager, to describe her as an “inspiration”, although it has taken Berger a while to adjust to the spotlight.
“I had to learn it over the years,” she says. “I know I am in a position where I can help people. If I can only affect 1 or 2 per cent of people that is good enough for me. Even after the diagnosis I looked after the people around me, I didn’t allow them to look after me.
“Too many people came to me, texting me. I’m not a social media person so I had to get my nieces and nephew and Jess [Carter, her partner and Chelsea team-mate] to explain how to work it out. It felt crazy because I never saw myself as a role model. How I did that, I don’t know.”
Berger is grateful for the motivation and discipline that being a professional footballer has given her, reflecting that her fitness as an athlete played a big role during her treatment. “You can’t tell me one athlete that likes to give up and I think that helps me quite a lot,” she says. “Even though I had cancer I feel like I still have a healthier body than anyone else.”
While the ever-positive Berger admits her second round of treatment “hit her quite hard”, it was the emotional toll she found difficult. Sarina Wiegman, the England manager, gave Jess permission to attend appointments with her throughout the Euros.
“It was during the Euros and Jess was allowed to come with me to two appointments so we were always together,” Berger says. “It was easier for the tournament to be in England because I knew if something happened she was not far from me, our hotels were not far from each other. It sounds crazy, but my main focus was being as good as possible in the Euros. The doctor’s side and the appointments was almost next to it. I took it seriously, but I didn’t want the thoughts to overcome me and the game be affected.”
Another difficult moment was having to break the news to her Chelsea team-mates, although Berger was relieved it had gone better than when she delivered the same news to her Birmingham colleagues.
“It was the hardest to actually tell them . . . not to feel sorry for me,” she says. “I learnt from the first time and how I came across. The first thing when I told them was that everything should be normal, treating me normal. That helped me.
“As good human beings, obviously it affected them a little bit and I could see that but I tried to say to them they could talk to me, because we are process driven. Any questions they have, I don’t feel uncomfortable, even to Jess because she has been through this with me twice now so she probably knows even more than me.
“My aim is to get healthy, but how do I get there? To be as normal as possible and do the things I always did before. If I don’t do the health side I can’t play football and if I can’t play football I will be miserable.”
Her health scare has left her even more determined to improve, personally and collectively with Chelsea. “I want to be one of the best goalkeepers in the world again. Off the pitch if I’m not healthy enough I can’t reach these goals so having a good balance between both is important for this year. Everyone at Chelsea knows we are going for all the trophies this year. The biggest aim is to win the Champions League. I feel like nobody can stop us, only us.”
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