The Football News Thread 2022/23

[Alan]

Wonder if they'll change both?

Apparently it's something that was raised by a Maori group in NZ. Which makes pretty decent sense to me.

 

[Kenny]

A rare sight of a ref knowing he has fucked up and showing he knows it!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1429761228398866442

Also enjoy the "defending"...

 

[MARKakaJIM]

What does he even blow for?

 

[Sniffer]

They won't change the All Blacks name. Rugby is a religion in New Zealand and the shirt is what every kid dreams of wearing.

Wonder if they'll change both?

Apparently it's something that was raised by a Maori group in NZ. Which makes pretty decent sense to me.

 

[Kenny]

What does he even blow for?

I think the blows for a foul by the defender that gave the ball away. He is leaning on the player, thats about the only foul I can see. Think he blows thinking the next defender has the ball.

 

[MARKakaJIM]

I think the blows for a foul by the defender that gave the ball away. He is leaning on the player, thats about the only foul I can see. Think he blows thinking the next defender has the ball.

Soft as fuck!

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Wonder if they'll change both?

Apparently it's something that was raised by a Maori group in NZ. Which makes pretty decent sense to me.

Why would they? The rugby team wasn't called the "All Blacks" because it was made up entirely of black players.

I'm all for changing terms that are a bit out of kilter these days, but this is stupid. Are we stopping Liverpool fans from calling themselves "Reds" then?

 

[PuntsWolf]

A rare sight of a ref knowing he has fucked up and showing he knows it!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1429761228398866442

Also enjoy the "defending"...

Like Mark I don’t see the foul. But then he blows when he’s about to pull the trigger.

It’s like he wasn’t watching the game, but must have been as he knew straight away. Very strange

 

[Donegal Wolf]

Their Rugby Union team plays in an all black kit and is known as the All Blacks.

Their football team chose to play in white and was then known as the All Whites.

the badminton team are known as the Black Cocks

 

[Derby Wolf]

Why would they? The rugby team wasn't called the "All Blacks" because it was made up entirely of black players.

I'm all for changing terms that are a bit out of kilter these days, but this is stupid. Are we stopping Liverpool fans from calling themselves "Reds" then?

We better had, the gammons will cry else. Nobody protects them waaaaah

 

[sycophantia]

New Zealand's FA is looking into changing the official team nickname away from the "All Whites".

Probably the right thing to do, although admittedly I've no clue about the origin of the name.

Wtf, why? the colour of the kit and the related nick name has no basis in race

 

[Alan]

Easy for messages to get lost in translation.
Not harming anyone to come up with something different, is it?

You wouldn’t keep using the F word for cigarettes if you came over to the US, despite the British etymology being totally benign AFAIK.

 

[White Wolf]

Aren't Tranmere called the Super White Army?

 

[Tredman]

You must have miseheard, surely its the ‘super shite army’?

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Easy for messages to get lost in translation.
Not harming anyone to come up with something different, is it?

You wouldn’t keep using the F word for cigarettes if you came over to the US, despite the British etymology being totally benign AFAIK.

The All Blacks is purely due to the kit that they have worn since the team was first created and is the most marketable brand in world rugby by an enormous street.

If they tried to change it there would be riots in the land of the long white cloud.

 

[Tony Towner]

All White in a certain context clearly has a racial superiority undertone. In this context it obviously doesn't and actually any debate does more harm than good because it gives the sort of people who boo taking the knee something to latch on to

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Quite right. The All Whites is equally kit related. An odd decision this and probably makes more problems than it solves.

 

[Alan]

Guess we'd need to get a Maori perspective on it.

Which I mean legitimately, not as a copout.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

New Zealand Maori proudly play in All Black with a different badge.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

I tell I lie. They play in All Black with red shirt cuffs and a Maori tattoo motif throughout the shirt. It’s a fucking brilliant shirt.