Football in Turkey

[Satchmo Distel]

What happens in a state of Emergency? Foreign players to leave, suspensions from UEFA competition? Interference in the Turkish FA?

[steveeeeeeeee]

Football in Turkey

Based on Egypt's model, not much differnce at all. They dominated the CAF Champions League whilst the country was under a prolonged state of emergency with foreign managers and numerous players from other African countries.

[Janik]

Football in Turkey

France has been in a state of emergency since last November.

[Satchmo Distel]

Football in Turkey

Fair point. Ukraine got through the Euros despite its turmoil.

[tranmerekev]

Football in Turkey

All football in Turkey will go ahead as planned.

Been to Istanbul for football. Great city, great atmosphere (Though it was the old Ali Sami Yen)

Had a quick look at flights after the attempted coup, thinking people wouldn't want to go.

Found them to be pretty cheap.
Little gutted I've got a planned Foreign Footy trip in October, as I'd have been up for a trip to Turkey.

[slackster]

Just wanted to mention Trabzonspor are flying in the Turkish Super Lig this season. One of my foreign fancies that I keep an eye on, and it’ll make a change if they get to the finish line first instead of the Istanbul teams that usually dominate but are all stuttering at the moment.

[Antepli Ejderha]

Let's hope that Trabzonspor don't do a Trabzonspor and fuck it up. It's there's to lose.

[Levin]

https://twitter.com/DefectorMedia/status/1636077225937104897?t=OtQK_gZtJsJZziTU9QGnNQ&s=19

This article is really good.

[ad hoc]

https://twitter.com/DefectorMedia/status/1636077225937104897?t=OtQK_gZtJsJZziTU9QGnNQ&s=19

This article is really good.

Thanks. That is excellent

[Antepli Ejderha]

https://twitter.com/Turkish_Futbol1/status/1734301168128393534?t=Boc8tat2K0-phH8Frq8EBA&s=19

[Antepli Ejderha]

https://twitter.com/Turkish_Futbol1/status/1734303138767671710?t=-eWljLUrX2Twgp6glQavNw&s=19

[Antepli Ejderha]

https://twitter.com/Turkish_Futbol1/status/1734304471474225557?t=YbAXj_CSeXHpdyp9lEepkQ&s=19

And this is the most important thing.

When you stoke the fires off hate this is the result.

[Antepli Ejderha]

Referee punched: Turkish FA halts league football after club president hits Super Lig official - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/67688071

And now the season is on hold.

This has been brewing for a long time, the level of abuse of referees has always been bad but recently it's got much worse.

[ad hoc]

It feels like a good and strong response from the FA at least

[ad hoc]

I see Koca (the guy who threw the punch) is an AK Party politician. Figures.

[Sean of the Shed]

Appalling and inevitable. Governing bodies and national associations have never taken referee's safety seriously and this is the outcome. It's been happening in lower league and park football for years, decades even, as I'm sure imp and many other refs can testify.
Usually nothing changes, or occasionally when it gains media coverage the relevant FA spout some bollocks about respect for officials with a bit of fanfare and a few posters but not a fuck sight else.
Yes, the perpetrator will receive a ban and a fine and maybe even appear before a judge but then in the end the clock gets reset and off we go again. Same shit, different day until nobody wants to referee a game any more.
Maybe the fact that this has now happened at a high profile game might give some people a shake. Maybe UEFA or FIFA or whoever might finally realise that the attitude to referees throughout the entire game need to be protected properly. To be honest I have very little faith in them doing anything of any value.
Is there an international association for referees? Probably about time there was if there isn't. It seems to me that the only thing that might actually instigate some changes would be a referees strike. For a long period of time at every level of the game, maybe incorporating a European competition fixture round and forcing entire football competitions to be postponed.
Something needs to change, or the next attack we see might have an even worse outcome.

[Sean of the Shed]

Having been arrested, Koca has resigned as club president and issued an apology, but has still managed to insert criticism of the referee into it.

No matter how great an injustice or how wrong [the officiating] was, nothing can legitimise or explain the violence that I perpetrated.

[Antepli Ejderha]

I see Koca (the guy who threw the punch) is an AK Party politician. Figures.

Ex MP.

[Antepli Ejderha]

https://twitter.com/evrenselgzt/status/1734911830261432777?t=pJr5OkEjWH_U3ASJtWZhdA&s=19

Google Translate works well in this tweet and article.

[Sporting]

https://twitter.com/evrenselgzt/status/1734911830261432777?t=pJr5OkEjWH_U3ASJtWZhdA&s=19

Google Translate works well in this tweet and article.

I find deepL to be a far superior translation site.

[Antepli Ejderha]

https://twitter.com/NazlanEr/status/1735925098601677283?t=a3dhmk_r2IACwUdIfrm26w&s=19

[ursus arctos]

https://twitter.com/turkish_futbol1/status/1737181477056500202?s=12&t=xvOireV8JOIS_CpbTtDBow

[Sean of the Shed]

How very responsible after what has just happened. I hope they get thoroughly punished for it.

[Antepli Ejderha]

https://twitter.com/Turkish_Futbol1/status/1737183624590467581?t=4JgpY_eJ_PpemyYDial6tQ&s=19

This is the incident that leads to the players being pulled off.

[Sean of the Shed]

Turns out it was the club president who instructed the players to leave the field.