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Man Utd news: Club divided over David de Gea future as Anthony Martial slammed
Fuming PSG fans protest after Messi ban and chant ‘Neymar f*** off’ outside star’s HOUSE amid fury at club ownership
FURIOUS Paris Saint-Germain fans turned up outside of the club’s headquarters to PROTEST after Lionel Messi was suspended for two weeks.
The footballing superstar was handed the suspension following an unauthorised trip to Saudi Arabia.
Paris Saint Germain’s supporters protest outside of the club’s headquarters[/caption]
They called on the club’s leadership to resign[/caption]
The protest saw flares set off in the street[/caption]
With fans critical of PSG’s recent failures[/caption]
There were even calls for the Qatar owners of the club to leave[/caption]
The latest protest came after a 3-1 defeat to Lorient[/caption]
Lionel Messi is set to leave PSG after his suspension[/caption]
Messi, 35, became a tourist ambassador for the Gulf State last year after agreeing a £25million deal to promote the country.
The forward reportedly missed PSG training on Monday, with the club’s Qatari bosses coming down hard on Messi as a consequence of his trip.
But PSG fans arrived in their droves outside of the club’s head office following the ban and after the club suffered a 3-1 loss to Lorient at the weekend.
The protest saw fans ignite flares while holding up banners calling on the club’s management to resign.
One banner said: “Leadership resign.”
A second read: “PSG who are you,” while a third had on it: “Where are you going?”
PSG fans also protested outside Neymar’s house[/caption]
The club’s superstars were not spared from the protests either with one chant outside of the club’s HQ going: “Messi, son of a b****.”
A group of PSG Ultras also turned up outside of Neymar‘s house.
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In a video taken at the scene, they could be heard chanting: “Neymar casse-toi” which translates to go away but in slang and general use means “f*** off.”
The club released a statement slamming the actions of the supporters.
It said: “Paris Saint-Germain strongly condemns the intolerable and insulting actions of a small group of people, which took place this Wednesday.
“Whatever the differences, nothing can justify such acts. The Club gives its full support to its players, its management and all those affected by these shameful behaviours.”
Messi is now set to leave the club after two underwhelming years in Paris, following the move from the French league leaders.
Spanish football expert Guillem Balague told the BBC that “neither club nor player” want to renew Messi’s expiring deal at the end of the season.
And reports suggest his trip to Saudi could be indicative of his future, with the Argentine heavily linked with a transfer to a club in the nation.
This could likely see him reignite his feud with Cristiano Ronaldo, who currently stars for title-chasing Al-Nassr.
However, many teams remain keen on the World Cup winner, including a host of Premier League and European sides.
Pep Guardiola could be in line for a reunion at Manchester City, while cross-town rivals Manchester United would also be keen to get their hands on Messi, though this may depend on the club’s new ownership.
Money spinners Chelsea and Newcastle have been linked too, while the door is open for Barcelona to bring their best-ever player home with Inter Miami also linked in the past.
The RPS Game Club pick for May is Citizen Sleeper
After an excellent discussion about dice and pizza making last week in our Betrayal At Club Low liveblog, we’ve decided (that is, I have decided) to stick with the dice-rolling theme this month to crown the excellent Citizen Sleeper as our next pick for the RPS Game Club. We named Jump Over The Age’s dystopian RPG one of our favourite games of 2022 last year, and seeing as the game is also celebrating its first anniversary this month, it’s the perfect time to return the rag-tag world of Erlin’s Eye.
London club Printworks to reopen in three years
European Club Association was created to appease the richest clubs after failed Super League plot
THE fallout from the nuclear explosion which could have destroyed the unity of European club football is changing the game again.
Drastic action taken by supporters of the Premier League clubs who wanted to join it effectively sank the European Super League.
Uefa has initiated another attempt to appease the self-identified elite six of England[/caption]
One or two further attempts to appease the self-identified elite six of England were aborted.
Then along came another, this time initiated by Uefa with a body named the European Club Association — which they arrogantly describe as the “Heart of Football”.
My immediate reaction is that their heart already requires a transplant.
No question, Uefa were spooked by the discovery that ESL clubs were about to wreck their structure.
And with Fifa also sniffing around the multi-billions of our continent’s leading leagues, the ECA was born.
The motto should have been “More for the few”.
And last week an antidote to the ECA was introduced, the Union of European Clubs, which quickly brought applause from hundreds of neglected also-rans.
Sorry about the rash of ‘E’ initials. Only the mobile phone company EE have more.
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In their case they stand for “Everything Everywhere” which is rather appropriate for Uefa and Fifa, people who have plans for dictatorship of the people’s game.
It’s no accident that Manchester City and United, Arsenal, Spurs, Liverpool and Chelsea, six promoters of the aborted Super League, are the only full English members of the ECA.
They have the votes to make the important decisions. The rest could simply be referred to as ‘observers’ but are politely called ‘associate members’.
Some Prem clubs outside the top six have agreed to be ‘associate members’, as have other clubs throughout Europe.
Among their ranks are mighty Valletta of Malta, average crowd 1,000; Vikingur of the Faroe Islands, average about 400; and Kairat of Kazakhstan, individual plastic seats for a 23,000-capacity crowd.
On a geographical note, 85 per cent of Kazakhstan is in Asia and has a border with China. In my book, that is not Europe.
Vikingur, Kairat and Valletta, and many others among the 110 full members, are not the kind of opposition — or should I say allies? — the Glazers or Abu Dhabi signed up for.
They expected Juventus, Real Madrid or Barcelona.
But this trio are absent from the ECA, presumably keeping their powder dry while hoping for a miraculous ESL rebirth.
LaLiga president Javier Tebas, fast becoming the voice of the thousand-plus clubs outside the ECA, said: “I’m fed up with hearing that the ECA represents the European clubs. It represents the elite clubs in Europe.
“We try to defend solidarity but that is not just ten per cent of the clubs. It has to be everyone.
“Is the ECA open? Not to vote and not for decision-making. Which is what is really necessary.”
The ECA was created to appease the richest.
They signed a ‘memorandum of understanding’ with Uefa and have a say in how the money from competitions is dished out.
And surprise, surprise, it’s not distributed fairly!
The Champions League will expand next year and Fifa have announced an overblown Club World Cup in 2025.
And guess where both finals are due to be held.
You got it, the USA, one of the host nations for the 2026 World Cup.
All for the same reason millions of the ‘huddled masses’ first arrived in New York: money.
And that is what the ECA are all about.
Thirty per cent of Champions League prize money is based on a club’s historical European performances, enhancing the already huge financial disparities between and within leagues.
I doubt this will change, no matter how worthy the Union of European Clubs is.
Chat Betrayal At Club Low with us in RPS Game Club
The RPS Game Club returns for its second liveblog session, this time about the weird and wonderful Betrayal At Club Low. Join us from 4pm BST today, April 28th, where we’ll be chatting all things pizza and our best disco moves. Lots of the RPS Treehouse have had a great time with Club Low this month, and we hope you’ve been playing along too. So why not come and join in the discussion with us? See you at 4pm, folks!
Betrayal At Club Low is an RPG that actually respects your fleeting time on this earth
Confession time, everyone: I’m still only about 2.5 hours into Disco Elysium. Games journalism sin or what? Somehow, despite being primed by the excellent time I had with its demo five years ago, I just bounced off this one. I very quickly got stuck in a frustrating loop of fatally ballsing up no matter what I did – presumably I badly biffed my stats right out the gate to get soft-locked in the first area – and despite deciding I’d restart in a day or two, several years later my play-time hasn’t extended past that first session. Sad times all round, I’m sure you’ll agree, but what’s it got to do with Betrayal At Club Low?
Well, when I picked up Betrayal At Club Low for the RPS Game Club this month, I was transported back to my abortive run at Disco Elysium. It’s not that I’ve never played a stat-check-heavy RPG before. Far from it. But somehow, each game’s presentation resonated together in my weird brain mush. It must have been something to do with the combination of a surreal, seedy, not-quite-our-world-but-still-very-recognisable setting, and the constant presence of numbers reminding me of my character’s strengths stacked up against their many, many weaknesses.
Bored Ape Yacht Club creator wins lawsuit over copycat NFT collection
A judge has ruled in favor of Bored Ape Yacht Club creator Yuga Labs in a lawsuit against conceptual artists Ryder Ripps and Jeremy Cahen, whom Yuga Labs accused of trademark infringement over a parody of BAYC’s non-fungible token (NFT) collection. On Friday, a California court said that Yuga was entitled to protect the BAYC trademark and that Ripps and Cahen’s project, known as RR/BAYC, isn’t artistic expression protected by the First Amendment. “Defendants’ sale of RR/BAYC NFTs is no more artistic than the sale of a counterfeit handbag,” wrote US District Judge John Walter in a summary judgment.
Ripps and Cahen released a set of RR/BAYC NFTs last May featuring duplicates of BAYC artwork and selling them for less than a high-priced…
Join us for the next RPS Game Club liveblog this Friday
As the month of April draws to a close, it can only mean one thing. It’s time to announce when we’ll be liveblogging this month’s RPS Game Club pick, Betrayal At Club Low! Well, it’s not the only thing, of course, but listen, our secret pizza delivery agent only has an hour long window to spare us before they’ll be whisked away on another top secret infiltration / flamingo thigh stew tasting mission, so make sure you mark your calendars for Friday April 28th at 4pm BST (that’s 8am PDT / 11am EDT) to join us for our real-time liveblog chat.