Soccer/Football Thread Part 3

[Hollywood Cannon]

I just hope that this was a player decision to "win it for Christian" and not f***ing UEFA.

But would not surprise me...

Euro Super League was the hero we deserved.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

Supposedly the players asked to play and UEFA agreed. Whether that’s true... who knows.

 

[kudymen]

Finnish and Danish fans with some magic here

 

[Appleyard]

Supposedly the players asked to play and UEFA agreed. Whether that’s true... who knows.

We will know tomorrow for sure.

Guys like Kjaer, Schmeichel, Højbjerg and a few others are not exactly retiring violets and will speak to the Danish press if not their instigation.

 

[CanadianFlyer88]

Seems like it's true that the players on both teams requested to resume today. I can't imagine coming back on the field today.

 

[Jack Straw]

I can't imagine how anyone could play so soon after that.

 

[Appleyard]

Seems like it's true that the players on both teams requested to resume today. I can't imagine coming back on the field today.

I have thought about it and... even though my initial reaction is that it is crazy to restart... I have been involved in two games where players were taken away in an ambulance in scary situations and it was never a thought not to resume. So in the bubble of the game.

1. Rugby game at 16 years old. One of my friends took an awful hit to his neck/head and could not move. Went to hospital in a neck brace.

2. Water polo game at 17 years old. One of my only top tier appearances in an early round cup game. Opposition player literally just passed out and sunk to the bottom of the pool. Multiple people went to help and he came back round once they dragged him off bottom and out of pool and got him on poolside and did "initial" 5 breath CPR for water related shit... but then passed out again. Taken away in ambulance.

But yeh... not quite as serious as what happened today.

 

[Jack Straw]

Hard to believe that they're starting up again now.

 

[CanadianFlyer88]

I have thought about it and... even though my initial reaction is that it is crazy to restart... I have been involved in two games where players were taken away in an ambulance in scary situations and it was never a thought not to resume. So in the bubble of the game.

1. Rugby game at 16 years old. One of my friends took an awful hit to his neck/head and could not move. Went to hospital in a neck brace.

2. Water polo game at 17 years old. One of my only top tier appearances in an early round cup game. Opposition player literally just passed out and sunk to the bottom of the pool. Multiple people went to help and he came back round once they dragged him off bottom and out of pool and got him on poolside and did "initial" 5 breath CPR for water related shit... but then passed out again. Taken away in ambulance.

But yeh... not quite as serious as what happened today.

Yeah, I had a teammate knocked out with a check to the head, whereby his head then hit the ice as he fell. I had no interest in continuing to play that game even though we knew he wasn't going to die.

I don't get the desire to just get right back to it.

 

[Embiid]

Supposedly Christian talked to his teammates from the hospital and supported them continuing play...

 

[Appleyard]

Yeah, I had a teammate knocked out with a check to the head, whereby his head then hit the ice as he fell. I had no interest in continuing to play that game even though we knew he wasn't going to die.

I don't get the desire to just get right back to it.

Thinking back for me it was not even that I "wanted" to play anymore. It was just not a consideration not to if that makes sense.

Though in situation one tbh I was more (alongside worrying about friend) just shitting myself that we had used our interchanges and I knew I would have to go and play second row as I was the biggest kid in the backfield.

 

[Embiid]

Hopefully he is not one of the younger people on the wrong side of the vaccine that have experienced Myocarditis....

 

[Appleyard]

I am not sure that Fabregas and Richards are still okay to broadcast tbh... both really emotional and visibly.

 

[CanadianFlyer88]

Finland scores. Not surprised, honestly.

 

[Appleyard]

Finland scores. Not surprised, honestly.

Likely losing to a far inferior team after that... yeh... understandable but tough. Half the players look somewhere else.

But ofc nothing in grand scheme of things.

 

[CanadianFlyer88]

Penalty for Denmark! Slightest of touches, but probably the right call.


Oh my, what a brutal penalty.

 

[FLYguy3911]

Oofff.

 

[CanadianFlyer88]

Great tackle by Finland to spoil the equalizer.

 

[CanadianFlyer88]

An incredible victory for Finland, their first ever in a major tournament, overshadowed by the moment.

 

[Jack Straw]

Yeah, I had a teammate knocked out with a check to the head, whereby his head then hit the ice as he fell. I had no interest in continuing to play that game even though we knew he wasn't going to die.

I don't get the desire to just get right back to it.

It sounds like they weren't given much choice. UEFA told them they had to finish the game either today or tomorrow morning. It's pretty clear their heads were not in the right place. Even Finland's goal, Schmeichel should have stopped that. I think making them play was extremely unfair to the Denmark team.

 

[CanadianFlyer88]

It sounds like they weren't given much choice. UEFA told them they had to finish the game either today or tomorrow morning. It's pretty clear their heads were not in the right place. Even Finland's goal, Schmeichel should have stopped that. I think making them play was extremely unfair to the Denmark team.

Yeah, saw that later, that they only had two choices.

The Danish coach said that the players knew they weren't going to sleep well, if at all, tonight, so they just decided to get on with it.

 

[sabremike]

Some much needed levity for the thread:

 

[Curufinwe]

Hopefully he is not one of the younger people on the wrong side of the vaccine that have experienced Myocarditis....

Inter director says Eriksen did not have COVID and was not vaccinated

 

[BritainStix]

Inter director says Eriksen did not have COVID and was not vaccinated

I'm very glad they have come out and said this. It took seconds for fake news media machine to pump out that this was because of the vaccine that he had.

 

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

I'm very glad they have come out and said this. It took seconds for fake news media machine to pump out that this was because of the vaccine that he had.

it’s sad that this is where we are at. The media spouting off about anti- vax bullshit