FIFA have now announced 3 minute drink breaks (regardless of temperature) during every half of every game at the world cup. Obviously just to allow ad breaks, effectively playing quarters now...

Clear pen early surely.

Seems they knew what they were talking about.

Yeah he's going home. Big loss for the game, really no media left.

Yeah be interesting, just read they would plan to have a separate squad to the one competing in the A-League.

Huge win for Kawasaki, Ronaldo had a few late chances to equalise. Seemed a decent match.

Auckland FC and Wellington Phoenix have now confirmed submissions to enter.

Central Coast not looking great either. Rumours on social media today saying that until they are sold they are no longer allowed to renew any contracts or buy any new players. As well as more budget cuts across the whole club.

Looked bad, non contact knee injuries never good. Just hope not ACL, we will know tonight i assume.

Should still be close to 50/50 from here. The first goal next week is going to be massive. The small fishing town of Bodo Glimt the likely opponent now in the semi final for the winner as well.

I assume the AFL was only shown into Sydney on Seven as it's meant to be Foxtel/Kayo exclusive on Saturday now. Not sure the Super Rugby. It really should be a huge opportunity for the A-League to market itself on FTA on Saturday nights with the other major sports only on pay TV.

Tottenham games used to be fun to watch at least. It's actually painful now even as a neutral. The Angeball days are long gone, it's hard to see anyway they win the Europa League. I assume they will heavily rotate the squad against Southampton, could easily lose that as well.

Lol Kiwis 4-0 up after 30 mins in their hardest game to qualify for the World Cup against Fiji. They host New Caledonia Monday, winner is in and loser is into inter contintental playoff. I assume they will win 10-0 or something, surely Oceania has to merge with Asia.

Surely he'd be way below 50% now, they have only won 10 games this season, think it was 20 last year.

Their squad is better than a lot of teams above them including Fulham. The first half yesterday was awful, but the first 20-25 mins of the 2nd was the best Spurs have played for a while. Then the game got stretched and there were gaps everywhere, Tottenham always concede as soon as games look...

Massive win, that goal they conceded though LOL, how do they give up those same chances every single game? I've coached under 12s and if we were giving up goals like that every week I would just quit. Frankfurt wont be easy in the quarters, they won it a few years ago and will be a big step up...

Danso has now done his hamstring and is out of the AZ game lol.

I think it's best for everyone that it ends straight away if they cant get past Alkmaar. At least last year and early this season they were fun to watch even if they lost. Now it's nearly unwatchable. They don't bring any energy to press and they create SFA going forward, whilst their own...

Was hard to watch, they had no idea how to play out from the back through the Bournemouth press that everyone knew was coming. Also look awful going forward now as well, atleast when they were losing early in the season they were creating lots of chances.

That was an awful performance, they finally have a decent squad available and were fresh as well. If they can't turn it around in the 2nd leg, he couldn't possibly survive after that.