African Cup of Nations

[Sweep]

Starts 22 December , finishes 18 January

Our games which are potentially affected;

20 Dec Manchester City (a)
27 Dec Fulham (h)
30 Dec Brighton (h)
03 Jan Wolves (a)
06 Jan Forest (h)
10 Jan FA Cup 3rd Round
17 Jan Spurs (a)

[Gank]

Ok let's hold the FA Cup every four years as well. We'll ask the Saudis if that's ok seeing as it's nothing to do with them and that seems to be the rules on here.

[El Scorchio]

should be held the same time as the euros

I'm inclined to agree, however, I am sure someone has worked out that the revenues and commercial appeal of both tournaments would probably suffer. If they can squeeze both in, one after the other, in one summer that makes a lot of sense.

[Takashi Miike]

should be held the same time as the euros

[Eerie Decent]

It's not about the tournament existing, good luck to them.

The point is, why every 2 fucking years? It will always be seen as 2 bob unless it's every 4 years, like every other proper football tournament that exists.

[El Scorchio]

I'm sure I've seen it was originally scheduled for last summer, but then was moved for the club world cup.  

That is true. One fucking stupid mickey mouse tournament impacting another stupid mickey mouse tournament.

Theirs isn't Micky mouse is it, they're entitled to have a tournament like we're entitled to have Euros, the club one definitely as just another way to make the rich clubs richer. 

Ah stop spoiling my fun with actual logic and facts! I do agree they are entitled to the tournament and it's important to them but I do feel it should be standardised at every four years if possible and not clash with anything else although that's not their fault in this instance. I guess it must be a real money spinner for someone, to have it held every two years. I suspect a lot of brown envelopes get passed between government and federation officials.

Their attempt to move it to summer was very sensible as well. Thank fuck this stupid meaningless cash grab club world cup is only once every four years. It just needs to not be held in the same years as AFCON.  

[Gank]

So the European Championship is fine but the African Championship isn't okay, and Europe should dictate how often they hold it? What an entitled view! If your issue is that you lose your African players for a load of games, maybe English clubs shouldn't sign African players.

Not long ago we had people on here saying smaller European nations shouldn't have the opportunity to try to qualify for the World Cup by playing qualifiers against other European nations. The same spastics who opposed the European Super League.

[fraser]

I'm sure I've seen it was originally scheduled for last summer, but then was moved for the club world cup.  

That is true. One fucking stupid mickey mouse tournament impacting another stupid mickey mouse tournament.

Theirs isn't Micky mouse is it, they're entitled to have a tournament like we're entitled to have Euros, the club one definitely as just another way to make the rich clubs richer. 

[El Scorchio]

I'm sure I've seen it was originally scheduled for last summer, but then was moved for the club world cup.  

That is true. One fucking stupid mickey mouse tournament impacting another stupid mickey mouse tournament.

[zico]

So that's our two full backs out.

[Rossal]

Should be every 4 years 

They also need to play it on decent pitches, wasnt the last one only a handful of the group games went over 2.5 because the pitches were so shit neither team could string two passes together.  was an absolute shambles 

[THUNDERCLINT]

Why the fuck is this bollocks every 2 years?

To encourage all the detritus the continent has exported to Europe to stop raping  women for a month and return home with their benefit cheques to boost the economy?

[fraser]

I'm sure I've seen it was originally scheduled for last summer, but then was moved for the club world cup.  

[Mad Ferret]

Two bob tournament for a load of third world hellhole countries.

Should cancel the whole fucking thing.

[El Scorchio]

Why the fuck is this bollocks every 2 years?

Agree. It's mental having it so frequently, and in World Cup years. Don't understand why it can't be mandated to be each four years like the Euros, especially as it obviously can't be held in the middle of an African summer.

Probably wouldn't care if it didn't affect us but it's a substantial chunk of the season. Hopefully AWB will be back reasonably soon but Senegal will probably go deep into the competition so Diouf will probably miss all those matches. Got to hope neither pick up a significant injury either.

[Come On You Irons]

Starts 22 December , finishes 18 January

Our games which are potentially affected;

20 Dec Manchester City (a)
27 Dec Fulham (h)
30 Dec Brighton (h)
03 Jan Wolves (a)
06 Jan Forest (h)
10 Jan FA Cup 3rd Round
17 Jan Spurs (a)

Could be an idea to not sign African players and actually give our youth a chance.

[Eerie Decent]

Why the fuck is this bollocks every 2 years?