Guidelines explicitly mention this type of submissions:

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

You think it is an interesting submission, but it isn't even a particularly relevant step in the ongoing soccer drama.

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uncivilized 3 days ago | parent [-]

Sure. Feel free to repost this comment on 90% of HN submissions

	▲	bmacho 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		For front-page submissions it is rare to fall this directly into the off-topic submissions listed in the Guidelines. I'd rather not read all the non-front page submissions [https://news.ycombinator.com/newest] and paste this under them.