Other European Leagues 2017-2018

Jack Lambert

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I figured I'd make a thread to talk about the rest of the European Domestic Leagues again this year, seeing the EPL and Champions League Threads up. I'll be trying to post a few Bundesliga breakdowns when I have the time to.
 

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I figured I'd make a thread to talk about the rest of the European Domestic Leagues again this year, seeing the EPL and Champions League Threads up. I'll be trying to post a few Bundesliga breakdowns when I have the time to.
Sounds good, Jack. I will enjoy reading them, but you gotta get crackin' on those college football write-ups! ;)
 

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Since there isn't a new Champions League thread I'll comment here about today's draw.

A team I'd never heard of until this week, Qarabag, is in the 2017-18 CL. They come from Shia Muslim Azerbaijan - a country that always comes to my mind when I think of Europe - and they look like they will be punching bags as they're in a group with Chelsea, Atletico, and Roma. Potential cricket scores ahead.

Juventus and Barca in the same group may sound exciting but their competitors are from Greece and Portugal.

Liverpool got lucky, relatively speaking, as the team from the top pool in their group is Spartak Moskva. Sevilla, who didn't look great against some smaller Istanbul club in the qualifying legs, are also potentially the only beatable Spanish team from a Liverpool standpoint but I wouldn't count on it given their defending. The other team are minnows, Maribor of Slovenia, so it couldn't have gone much better from a Liverpool.

Celtic in the same group as PSG and Bayern Munich has a future in Europa League, whilst Spurs, in with Real Madrid and Dortmund, may join them.

Man United gets Benfica, CSKA Moskva, and Basel of Switzerland.

Like Liverpool Man City got a seemingly weak top seed in Sh. Donetsk. Napoli look quite good though. No idea about Feyenoord but I'm guessing they're out of their league.
 
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Celtic can't catch a break. Last year they were grouped with Barcelona, and Man City. Now PSG and Bayern jeez. Celtic are a team to root for starting 9 whites, sometimes 10 when Leigh Griffiths gets picked over Dembele.
Celtic should at least finish 3rd in the group over Anderlecht.
 

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Wasn't sure where to put this but Germans gonna German:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/knee-comes-germany-hertha-solidarity-150935939--spt.html

Hertha Berlin nodded to social struggles in the United States by kneeling before its Bundesliga home game on Saturday.

Hertha's starting lineup linked arms and took a knee on the pitch, while Pal Dardai's coaching staff, general manager Michael Preetz, club officials and substitutes took a knee off it before playing Schalke.

...The action was intended to show solidarity with NFL players who have been protesting police treatment of blacks and social injustice in the U.S. by kneeling, sitting or locking arms through the anthem before games.

Last year, then-San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick started the movement, which has been harshly criticized by President Donald Trump.

"We're no longer living in the 18th century but in the 21st century. There are some people, however, who are not that far ideologically yet," Hertha defender Sebastian Langkamp told Sky TV at halftime. "If we can give some lessons there with that, then that's good."

Yes, giving lessons. My experience in Berlin involved many lessons, sanctimonious lectures actually, from German after German. You see, Brits and Americans have failed to shed our imperialist racist ways unlike the superior Germans who are so much more advanced than us. If there were a World Cup for smugness they'd win that as well.
 

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“"Hertha BSC stands for tolerance and responsibility! For a tolerant Berlin and an open-minded world, now and forevermore!" the club said on Twitter.”

Hahahaha, don’t these cucks realize how gay they sound?
 

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Watching Red Star Belgrade hosting Arsenal (Europa League) I think The "Serbian" team are as black as the "English" team. Red Star have three black Africans. It's not deterring their infamous Ultra fans though as they are cheering more wildly for their boys than any American football stadium full of DWFs. Serbia has fallen to multiculti. They even have a new lesbian Prime Minister. Sad.
 

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‘I don’t give a damn’ - Italian fans sing fascist chant during Anne Frank diary readings

Ultras of Italian football club SS Lazio reacted to readings from Anne Frank’s diary by singing a fascist Italian song before their game at Bologna on Wednesday.
READ MORE: Italian football fans in anti-Semitic storm over Holocaust victim stickers

A portion of away fans defiantly sang "Me ne frego", which translates as “I don’t give a damn”, as passages from the diary Jewish Holocaust victim Anne Frank were read before the game. "Me ne frego" also became a popular slogan in fascist Italy under Benito Mussolini, whose name appears in the lyrics.

The readings from Anne Frank’s diary were part of a series of actions in response to Lazio ultra stickers depicting her wearing a jersey of arch rivals AS Roma left at Stadio Olympico, which the two clubs share in the Italian capital, last weekend. The stickers were accompanied by anti-Semitic slogans.

Rome police later announced it had identified the 16 fans - 3 of them minors - responsible for the offensive material, each face charges of instigation to racial hatred, carrying a sentence of up to 4 years in prison.

At each game on Wednesday, every captain and referee handed out copies of Italian-Jewish writer Primo Levi's memoir of deportation ‘If This Is A Man’, and stickers which said ‘we are all Anne Frank’. A minute’s reflection was held after the readings, which turned into a minutes applause at some grounds.

Lazio players also wore t-shirts bearing the image of Anne Frank before their warm-up.

Upon learning of such plans ahead of the Bologna match, Lazio’s hardcore faction, ‘Irriducibili’, announced it would boycott the game at the Dall'Ara Stadium so as not to participate in what it perceived a “media theatre.”

“Lazio and its curva [end] comes first. For this reason the [Irriducibili] will not be present in Bologna,” the group posted, as well as referencing its “eternal hatred of modern football.”

Lazio were not the only set of fans to rebel against the pre-match rituals. In Turin, fans of the Italian champions, Juventus, opted to instead turn their backs and sing the Italian national anthem before their match with SPAL.

Ironically, some Roma fans attending their team’s match in Stadio Olympico, drowned out the readings with chants for ‘Giallorossi’.

As a further measure to prevent future reciprocal incidents, Lazio announced plans to organise educational trips to Auschwitz for its young fans.

https://www.rt.com/sport/407862-lazio-anne-frank-fascist-songs/
 

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As a further measure to prevent future reciprocal incidents, Lazio announced plans to organise educational trips to Auschwitz for its young fans.
It’s really easy to see (((who))) rules over us when (((they))) engage in stunts like this. Some goyim have escaped the gulag! Quick send them to the holohau....err caust site to re-educate them back into good goyim.
 
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