International sports bar

[StCapps]

Yuck.

You wouldn't care if it was the other way around. You whine about winning ugly because you lost, sore loser talk.

[Montegriffo]

Beginning of the year I'd have taken one world cup and one runner up.
What's next? 7 months till the European championships and 8 months till the Olympics.
Have to be domestic football until Murray's return to grand slam tennis in Australia.
Leeds are only 2 points off the lead.

[Montegriffo]

Yuck.

You wouldn't care if it was the other way around. You whine about winning ugly because you lost, sore loser talk.

Ugly whoever wins.
Their style of play won but it's never going to be pretty.

[Smitty-48]

Yuck.

You wouldn't care if it was the other way around. You whine about winning ugly because you lost, sore loser talk.

Perfidious Albion.

[Hastur]

Directed by Clint Eastwood.

[Montegriffo]

That 1995 Rugby World Cup photo of Nelson Mandela presenting the Web Ellis trophy to South Africa captain Francois Pienaar offered the promise that sport in that nation had witnessed the end of racial apartheid.

But twenty-two years later, via an unexpected and different sort of national sports proposal, the South African government has demanded racial quotas that increase the number of black athletes, coaches, and staff in rugby, cricket, netball, and other sports. These quotas must be met by 2019, or the sports organizations will suffer significant penalties.

In South Africa, blacks comprise ninety-percent of the population but have been historically underrepresented on all male and female national sports teams even after the cessation of apartheid.

The Minister of Sport, Fikile Mbalula, perceived that integration into national teams had proceeded at too slow a pace. The immediate solution was to mandate a new quota system with short-term deadlines for compliance.

By 2019, blacks must make up fifty-percent of the Springboks XV (also, four of 11 cricket players). If these racial objectives are not met, then the government can:

Eliminate funding;
Prohibit the hosting of international events;
Withdraw government sanctioning; and,
Stop its support for sponsorships.

In addition, objectives require blacks to be 60-percent of all staff positions, be 60-percent of all coaches, and, that female blacks comprise 80-percent of all national team athletes.

Traditionally, very few blacks in South Africa have played rugby, and currently, there are few on the Springboks' squad. (N.B. Many more South African 7s players are black, since wide open 7s requires less traditional rugby experience and training.)
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It’s questionable what the rugby outcome will be for the Springboks in two-years, or what effect these changes will portend in the Rugby World Cup 2019 in Japan. But what is certain for rugby is that the country will no longer endure that its dominant racial majority be barely visible on the world’s pitches.

These days you can't even keep a ginger out of the team.

[Hastur]

Romania Vs Sweden about to start. UEFA Euro qualifiers about to wrap up. If Sweden wins we are in the main tournament.

[Montegriffo]

Romania Vs Sweden about to start. UEFA Euro qualifiers about to wrap up. If Sweden wins we are in the main tournament.

Good luck.
We qualified yesterday by winning our 1000th international match 7-0 at Wembley. This means we go forward as group winners with a game to spare.

[Hastur]

Romania Vs Sweden about to start. UEFA Euro qualifiers about to wrap up. If Sweden wins we are in the main tournament.

Good luck.
We qualified yesterday by winning our 1000th international match 7-0 at Wembley. This means we go forward as group winners with a game to spare.

Good for you. We are in the same group as Spain so we are going for second place.

[Hastur]

Marcus Berg scores! Just the start we needed. The Romanian crowd is wild.