The Rolling Football Thread: Season 2025/26 - thread 3

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Max has just scored and he did the assists for the other goals.

We are winning 3 nil. Portugal were favourites to win.

where are you following @MustTryHarderAndHarder ??

I feel like Huddersfield have spent at least that alone on firing managers. It's all we seem to do 😂Definitely the Watford of league 1 it feels like.

I think De Zerbi’s track record of backing rapists is less than ideal.

Mind Arteta protected Partey for long enough despite knowing of the multiple allegations. Although at least he had the protection of them just being allegations at that stage, still a bit unsavoury though. We’ve all seen the pictures and heard the audio of Greenwood’s scumbaggery however so De Zerbi has less plausible deniability.

How would Spurs fans feel if he tried to bring Greenwood in come the Summer?

It was not being supportive of a player already at the club.

It was signing one who would have faced trial had there not been court delays, who may only be free because of that.

Very different in my view.

In what way?

I'm just following the score on websites such as Sofa Score.

We won six nil in the end. Max went off after 70 minutes.

Ivory Coast are hosting Scotland in our new stadium

On De Zerbi, supporter clubs ae voicing their unhappiness. You really don't want to lose your fan base when battling relegation.

Nwaneri just scored for the under 21s

Unfortunately he has been a really good signing for Marseille. He has scored over 20 goals so far.

I am so sick of people in men's football being apologists for abusers and rapists. Kai Havertz swapped shirts with Thomas Partey after the Germany v Ghana game last night. Fucking grim.

It’s gross isn’t it.

De Zerbi is a rape apologist and there’s too many people involved in professional football who have similar views, ie if these men are good enough at kicking a ball around then nothing else they do matters. No matter how many women get hurt in the process.

Nwaneri just scored again with a great assist by MLS.

I would like to quickly add when I said I like De Zerbi this was an issue that had completely passed me by some how. I take back what I said!

Eww no thanks.

Why did they swap shirts? Sorry if it’s a silly question!

But what is Kai supposed to do? Snub him in public? Partey hasn't been found guilty yet. Surely it is innocent until proven.

It's just something players used to do, especially before Covid when it died out.

Victor scored Sweden's goal to send them to the world cup.

5 charges of rape and 1 of sexual assault from three different women, that’s an awful lot of wrong places at the wrong time. I’d probs just give him a wide berth tbh. Rather than hunting him out for a shirt swap. It’s just all a bit grim. But as I said, there is at least the fact that Partey is not yet a convicted rapist. And whilst the same can be said for Greenwood, we all saw the evidence. So de Zerbi with his ‘everyone deserves a second chance’ can get straight in the bin.

So he hunted Partey out rather than the other way round?

🙄 all I did was add a link.

But yes. That’s the way it’s being reported.

Was it a link to an Arsenal blog? We have had problems with those before. (Or anything with the word cry pto)

It was tribuna I think. May well have been by an arsenal blogger in any event. I’m sure it will turn up eventually.

there is video of him leaving the dressing room with the shirt in his hand in multiple other places.