Love a quirky stadium, but thats just way too try-hard quirky for the sake of it.

Investigation by the Turkish FA finds that 371 of the countries 571 football refs and linesmen have betting accounts, with 152 of those accounts being active. Included in this are 7 refs and 15 linesmen that are currently officiating in the top 2 divisions, with one of them having placed over 18,00...

Winston Biscuit They also held a vote on bringing in anchoring salary cap (clubs could only spend 5 x what the 20th placed club brings in) but only 7 clubs voted in favour so its not happening

5 of the 7 teams to vote in favour of a wage cap were:

Arsenal
Aston Villa
Everton
Liverpool
Sunderland

The 6 teams to vote against SCR:

AFC Bournemouth
Brentford
Brighton & Hove Albion
Crystal Palace
Fulham
Leeds United

Premier League clubs have voted to replace PSR with SCR & SSR from next season https://www.premierleague.com/en/news/4467022/new-premier-league-financial-system-explained https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/13473576/premier-league-clubs-approve-new-squad-cost-ratio-rules-to-replace-psr...

Paul Pogba making his comeback for Monaco this weekend, 26 months after he last played.

A Polish football journalist has released a biography on Robert Lewandowski and in it he claims that with 2 games left of the 22/23 season Barcelona asked the player to stop scoring goals as any more would trigger a bonus payment to Bayern and they couldn't afford it

Leicester's PSR breach case being argued over next week. Talksports PSR expert man says Leicester will lose and he predicts a points deduction of around 6 points

3 week court case started this week where Mbappe is suing PSG for €263M in unpaid bonuses + 'ill treatment', while PSG are counter suing him for €300M as they claim he renaged on an agreement to transfer to the Saudi league for that amount

Premier League vote tomorrow on whether to bring in club salary caps

PSG's Achraf Hakimi wins African Player of the Year for 2025 https://cdn.vanguardngr.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/hakimi.jpeg (I was on holiday in Morocco in 2022 and bought myself a national team shirt and made sure I got one with Hakimi on the back. The lads working in the restaurant absolutely ...

Indeed. Can't think of another non-tournament international match watched as a neutral that I've enjoyed as much as last night. What a way to qualify. was more excited watching Scotland last night than I have been watching England for a long time I can absolutely assure you, watching Scotland isn't...

come on the 'çao!

Yes maybe there are more long throws right now, but there have also always been some long throws in the game, and so we dont need every long throw accompanied by a commentator telling us 'long throws are back' I was tempted to start an (Un-)Athletico FC thread. Were you put together the most unathl...

'Matchweek Twelve' just feels like some kind of americanised video game phrasing What would you call it? I wouldn't call it anything. before people started stating what matchweek it was, we never needed to be told it, and we all did just fine. its just another NFL style americanism that grinds my g...

'Matchweek Twelve'

just feels like some kind of americanised video game phrasing

Indeed. Can't think of another non-tournament international match watched as a neutral that I've enjoyed as much as last night. What a way to qualify. was more excited watching Scotland last night than I have been watching England for a long time Qualifying for teams of England's ilk is rather poin...

Watched the Scotland game from about 75 mins onwards. Fantastic end to the game, very pleased for them. Seemed to be one of those nights where you just have a feeling (as a neutral at least) that something would break for them and they'd do it. Incredible scenes, and some top quality goals too Inde...

8 more teams added in, that's 42, which seems like a lot 42 + 4 x Euro playoffs = 46 Do we know what the permutations are for the last two spaces? Those are for the Intercontinental play-off winners. Draw is tomorrow Iraq and DR Congo as the highest seeds move directly to the 2 "finals". ...

any beefy tensions between these nations that could make games interesting?

The only one that jumps out to me is Bosnia & Kosovo, but I think they are unlikely to play each other.