International Football thread

[Aidan11]

Good win for Scotland tonight.

[yuppie]

Rashford scores a hatrick in the under 21's against Norway.

Scored in the only 20 minutes he has had during the League this season.

Perhaps needs some more game time, and maybe should be in Big Sams plans.

[budgetmeansbudget]

Erna Solberg, your boys took one hell of a beating!

[Gingerfinch]

Watched the goals earlier. Second one took a fortunate deflection, but took the first well. He really needs to start for England, given his form. Saying that, when do we play next?

[sussexpob]

Rashford scores a hatrick in the under 21's against Norway.

Scored in the only 20 minutes he has had during the League this season

He scored the winner against Hull for Man United.... so that cant be true.

[Aidan11]

Good point for the Faroes last night. Didn't see the game but I gather they could easily have won it.

[yuppie]

Rashford scores a hatrick in the under 21's against Norway.

Scored in the only 20 minutes he has had during the League this season

He scored the winner against Hull for Man United.... so that cant be true.

? Am i missing something here?

[sussexpob]

? Am i missing something here?

I read the OP as meaning that he scored last night in the only 20 minutes he played since the league season begun.....

I misread it, apologies.

[yuppie]

? Am i missing something here?

I read the OP as meaning that he scored last night in the only 20 minutes he played since the league season begun.....

I misread it, apologies.

Nai bother, I thought i had missed a joke or something.

[Aidan11]

Sam Allardyce may be in trouble with the FA after being caught by a newspaper sting.

[Aidan11]

I think Sam's name also came up during a Panorama investigation on football transfers a few years ago as well.

[sussexpob]

A case of the press using a rather languid point to sell a story that has no real depth? Im not a fan of Big Sam and hate the idea of him being National team manager, but has he really dont anything wrong here?

All Sam is really doing is potentially making money on an advisory basis by telling someone what is pretty much 100% obvious..... that you cna buy a player who is third party owned as long as the transfer ends with 100% ownership in the new club. Nothing dodgy about that, its perfectly above board and legal. He is just trying to sell the fact he has insider knowledge to make money from people he assumes are rich and throwing cash at him for his superior knowledge. Rather than say "seriously, are you stupid", he makes the point out to sound like he is really clued up and knows how things operate. In short, he sees 400k in cash to sound intelligent, and does his part to come across as worthy of that payment.

As soon as the conversation turned to darker matter that were illegal, Sam clearly becomes embarressed and comments that he doesnt want to hear anymore on the matter, and asks the people to save the discussion for when he isnt around. He also calls the person involved an idiot for raising the topic, and in no uncertain terms makes it known he has no desire to discuss such things.

The only thing here is the fact that Sam drinks his wine in a pint glass, which I personally celebrate him for, and the fact that is it wrong to sell your skills to someone else without your employer knowing?

If you think it is wrong, then fine.... but no more than a slap on the wrist.

[sussexpob]

Rmours circulating in last 30 mins that Sam is going to be sacked

[Aidan11]

Rmours circulating in last 30 mins that Sam is going to be sacked

I must admit I didn't want him as manager but I didn't expect this.

[yuppie]

Surely to quick to sack him.