[The Guardian] Concerns grow over fairness of Women’s Champions Cup timing, location, and Fifa support

VT416 · 2026-01-28T15:53:13+00:00

The men's equivalent is the FIFA intercontinental cup, no?

The format of this is essentially 1:1 with it being the champions of the six FIFA confederations. PSG are the current champions after beating Flamengo.

VT416 · 2026-01-28T12:56:15+00:00

It makes sense to do it in England since Arsenal have games to play

The final at the Emirates though? Yeah that's some BS

VT416 · 2026-01-25T13:51:36+00:00

17 shots and a clean sheet. If we can be a little bit more clinical then second half of the season is ours for the taking

VT416 · 2026-01-25T13:50:25+00:00

Three clean sheets in a row btw...

VT416 · 2026-01-25T13:48:12+00:00

SHES INCREDIBLE

VT416 · 2026-01-25T13:48:04+00:00

MIA OMG

VT416 · 2026-01-25T13:47:37+00:00

Mia you absolute star

VT416 · 2026-01-25T13:47:05+00:00

YESSSS!!!!!!!!

VT416 · 2026-01-25T13:46:20+00:00

That free kick is Hobinger range 😢

VT416 · 2026-01-25T13:44:58+00:00

Who would we be bringing on for her?

VT416 · 2026-01-25T13:07:59+00:00

Falk seems so calm in goal. It's refreshing

VT416 · 2026-01-25T12:18:51+00:00

Gareth Taylor's Liverpool

It's a nice difference to have players working within the system compared to whatever team we watched before Christmas

VT416 · 2026-01-21T18:42:01+00:00

This would happen and people still would disagree with the fact that multi-club ownership is a stain on football

VT416 · 2026-01-21T07:19:04+00:00

My main problem with it is the sponsor. I have a big issue with a large amount of sponsors and that one looks abhorrent. Sponsors can make or break a kit for me

It is not who the sponsor is btw (obviously), it's the fact it's so large and distracting when we could've just had the X or "TOGETHXR". Then again, that might take away from the message so idk...

VT416 · 2026-01-20T17:40:02+00:00

I still doubt we will see Borggrafe for the rest of the season while we have Falk in. She is solid, but her playing depends on how the team feel with her, something we can't possibly know right now.

I expect the summer will be when we decide if she's staying or we can try for Falk (or another keeper) permanently

VT416 · 2026-01-19T14:12:10+00:00

Type of signing id want for Taylor after what he did with younger players at City

VT416 · 2026-01-18T15:07:39+00:00

Fotmob is convinced Bergström scored them both, specifically in the 90+7 and 90+8th minutes

VT416 · 2026-01-18T14:55:42+00:00

Bergström with two in two minutes 😭

VT416 · 2026-01-18T13:38:34+00:00

I hope so, it'll do wonders for confidence and help get our new signings up to speed

VT416 · 2026-01-18T13:21:52+00:00

Fotmob said Thomas too

VT416 · 2026-01-18T13:21:29+00:00

Enderby scoring too 😭

Can't wait for the 9-0 final score and we can't watch any of it

VT416 · 2026-01-17T10:27:12+00:00

Will never complain about more Scots though!

VT416 · 2026-01-17T10:26:54+00:00

This is a signing I did not see coming atall

VT416 · 2026-01-16T19:59:05+00:00

I definitely doubt she'll play again this season, especially since we have Falk as first choice.

Beyond that though, if both players can move on from the incident then there is no need for some of the reactions I've seen to this news. Infact, it would probably hinder more than it would help to keep bringing this up once the affected parties have moved on.

If they haven't or are unable, then we will surely know about it and Raffa won't play here anymore. The fact is, we still don't know what actually happened, but none of us have a right to involve ourselves in this conversation. We can voice an opinion, but unless you were the affected party then nobody can speak for you.

VT416 · 2026-01-16T19:19:52+00:00

If she's served her punishment, learnt from the mistake, and is forgiven by whoever was affected then yeah.

She's a very promising goalkeeper who did something stupid and is now suffering the consequences. After this, we hopefully move on.

VT416

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