Saudi footballers to be penalized for heavy defeat by Russia - Sensationalist Headlines

http://tass.com/sport/1009649 This is some DPRK level shit. Also: https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/65qgXDRZ4SA8kEoS1tQUBA--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjtzbT0xO3c9NjAwO2g9MzM3/http://media.zenfs.com/en/homerun/feed_manager_auto_publish_494/17c26a388da3e571d1bf377f7b52ceed

I mean, were they expecting to do well? I genuinely expected more than 5-0.

didn't even know saudi's played football

By penalty do they mean a financial penalty or more of a hand-cutting-off type penalty

literally was put against russia just so that russia had a team to win against

You have failed me for the last time!

Countries that do shit like this should be banned from ever competing again, it goes completely against the spirit of sport.

idk if you count the history of corruption with FIFA, this is right up their alley.

Oh I'm well aware, but if they weren't garbage they'd be banned, same with the likes of NK.

from what I know (very little about football) is none of the arab nations are any good at football. I could be wrong though.

I don't know what the penalty is, but knowing Saudi Arabia, its some medieval shit. Not even FIFA with its unholy corruption can reach that height.

man, does anyone know what the penalty is? I feel sorry for those poor fucks...

Are you guys sure they're going to be tortured? It might just be that they have to attend extra practice sessions while they're supposed to be resting

Extra practice sessions under the blazing sun with no water and a whip to the back maybe

God damn, having to return home should be enough punishment

If it's anything like Saddam era Iraq they're fucked >As head of the Iraqi Olympic Committee, Uday oversaw the imprisonment and torture of Iraqi athletes who were deemed not to have performed to expectations. He would insult athletes who performed below his expectations by calling them dogs and monkeys to their faces.[22] One defector reported that imprisoned football players were forced to kick a concrete ball after failing to reach the 1994 FIFA World Cup finals.[23] The Iraqi national football team were seen with their heads shaved after failing to achieve a good result in a tournament in the 1980s. Another defector claimed that athletes were dragged through a gravel pit and then immersed in a sewage tank to induce infection in their wounds.[10] After Iraq lost 4–1 to Japan in the quarter finals of the 2000 AFC Asian Cup in Lebanon, goalkeeper Hashim Khamis Hassan, defender Abdul-Jabar Hashim Hanoon and forward Qahtan Chathir Drain were labelled as guilty of loss and eventually flogged for three days by Uday's security.[

guilty of loss

i mean no one really needs them bar the goalie.

Evidently, they don't.

The Saudi Arabian Football Federation has refuted reports about possible reprimands which may await certain members of the kingdom’s national football team after the defeat at FIFA World Cup in Moscow. The Saudi Arabian Football Federation has refuted reports about the kingdom’s Minister of Sports Turki al-Sheikh singling out certain players for an alleged disciplinary action, stating that such act would’ve humiliated some footballers in front of the others, and that the defeat displayed the skill level of the entire team Saudi Arabia Denies Players Punished After Defeat at World Cup O..

Nonono, we're not gonna whip anyone, he said with a whip badly hidden behind his back.

is this loss?