European Club Football 18th-20th September

[SincereTheRebel]

There is now 6pm UK kick-offs for Champions league now too.


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[SincereTheRebel]

Fellani up to his old tricks again

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6179695/Manchester-Uniteds-Marouane-Fellaini-sends-Love-Island-star-23-private-messages-Instagram.html

[Jimmy Floyd]

Those CL kickoffs are evil.

[John Arne]

I fancy us to get a bit of a dicking tonight. 4-0 PSG.

[Gray Fox]

I'll be happy losing 20-0 if it means Vrigil breaks Neymar in half.

[niko_cee]

Don't give a flying fuck how this goes with the caveat that it would be nice to take an early season dump on Neymar's hopes.

[phonics]

Those CL kickoffs are evil.

They're a godsend to anyone further west than Grenwich, 9pm kick offs are a joke.

[John Arne]

They're a godsend to anyone further west than Grenwich, 9pm kick offs are a joke.

East.

[phonics]

My compass is in metric.

[Giggles]

Two games in a row is disrupting telly too much. One is about bearable.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Kane :harold:

[mugbull]

Should've been a red for Perisic

[phonics]

Messi has scored a very nice free kick. I want to slag off the keeper for being too far to the other side but I don't think he's getting it either way.

[niko_cee]

Firmino hasn't recovered from having his eye-gouged, which is a shame.

[mugbull]

Oh mama. Icardi with the goal of the season.

[phonics]

Oh mama. Icardi with the goal of the season.

Dembele scored a tasty one as well.

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Seems like a night of good goals.

[Mike]

Liverpool win tonight

[Baz]

Spurs' kit is minging.

[SincereTheRebel]

Managers should be required to wear a suit at all times. Wearing a tracksuit and a hat on the sidelines is unacceptable.

[Magic]

Spuds. :lol:

[Pepe]

Are they in crisis yet?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Are they in crisis yet?

Less so than Arsenal.

[Giggles]

Are they in crisis yet?

Phonics is scouring Twitter as we speak.

[Boydy]

Is that the PSG fans you can hear in the Liverpool game with the really monotonous chants?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Is that the PSG fans you can hear in the Liverpool game with the really monotonous chants?

Yeah.

French 'fans' only ever seem to say 'Allez ...' or hum seven nation army.

[Boydy]

They're actually singing now tbf. Just before I posted that they just seemed to be chanting the same five syllables over and over again.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

He'll probably get injured within 20 minutes now.

[Mike]

Studge!!

[Boydy]

Henderson's so up for it now he just took out Gomez. :D

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Bernat is so shit.

[Gray Fox]

These are there for a smashing. Make it happen lads.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Great timing, Fox.

[Gray Fox]

As always.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That was a lovely finish too.

[mugbull]

Are they in crisis yet?

We've been in crisis ever since the transfer window started, haven't you been keeping up? Everybody's leaving next summer because we didn't sign a central midfielder.

[Lewis]

It's just easier for the media to push a general CRISIS line than to row back on years of chewing him off and admit that Daniel Levy is a tosser with no idea.

[Baz]

Poch basically slagging off Levy (we buy no players, all money go to stadium) is pretty spectacular.

[Magic]

Jesus christ we're going up.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Naldo has given up two penalties.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Salah :harold:

[Serj]

Liverpool were begging for that. So many sloppy passes and so much terrible decision-making up front. Like against Spurs, they should have been out of sight by now.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Mbappe you twat.

[Spoonsky]

Yes. :cool:

[Alex]

Jesus christ we're going up.

Kemar Roofe out for the short term and Bamford out for the long? Not a problem. Say hello to Tyler Roberts, the new messiah. :cool:

I think my favourite thing about all this is that we're achieving it with the effectively the same squad that limped over the line last season, plus Barry Douglas and some lads on loan. Obviously Bamford was a big signing, but we had no real cause to even use him properly prior to the injury.

[Mike]

Liverpool win tonight

Easy

[SincereTheRebel]

Neymar doing some dumb shit near his own box cost PSG the third.

[Baz]

Amazing result, really.

I can sense another final. :huhu:

[SincereTheRebel]

Amazing result, really.

I can sense another final. :huhu:

And liverpool will do what liverpool does


Choke and lose.

[Pleb]

Did Inter troll Spurs into thinking they were going to beat them?

[Jimmy Floyd]

If you mean 'conceded the first goal and came back to win', then yes.

[Giggles]

Are Inter fashionable again? Have we come full circle to 'Serie A, mate'?

[Jimmy Floyd]

I do believe we have. Largely based on the permanently marketable nostalgia for when current 35 year olds were 13. I can't wait for the Miss Dynamite revivals in a few years, aimed at me.

[phonics]

I do believe we have. Largely based on the permanently marketable nostalgia for when current 35 year olds were 13. I can't wait for the Miss Dynamite revivals in a few years, aimed at me.

Where've you been? She already came back and went.

[Pepe]

Also Ronaldo.

[phonics]

Where've you been? She already came back and went.

I ended up listening to some Ms. Dynamite and YouTubes autoplay followed that with Kelis - Trick me and Sean Paul/Blu Cantrell - Breathe :cool:

What a time to be alive.

[Disco]

Surely those are all as terrible as they were the first time round.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Surely those are all as terrible as they were the first time round.

:face:

[niko_cee]

PSG are wank, but both that game and the one against Spurs at the weekend would have ended as massively disappointing draws last season (or worse). What a time to be alive.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Where've you been? She already came back and went.

That was a failed bid for her own ends. Society at large will revive her in the year 2024. 22 years is the absolute sweet spot for nostalgia. Look at all the 1996 stuff coming back this year: the Spice Girls, Three Lions, crappy away kits.

[phonics]

Sonique was back in the charts recently.

[Mike]

PSG are wank, but both that game and the one against Spurs at the weekend would have ended as massively disappointing draws last season (or worse). What a time to be alive.

Got so used to it last season that at 2-1 you just knew it was going to become 2-2. It also meant I was totally not expecting One Eyed Bobby to score a winner, making it all the sweeter.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I can't deal with so-called 'Ayek Athens'. I've been calling them Ay Ee Kay all my life.

[Disco]

22 years is the absolute sweet spot for nostalgia. Look at all the 1996 stuff coming back this year: the Spice Girls, Three Lions, crappy away kits.

Funny you should say that...


https://i.imgur.com/cIv0PM2.jpg

[Shindig]

Full fucking circle.

[SvN]

I think Jimmy is onto something here.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-45574301

23 years this month

[bruhnaldo]

Damn Ms. Dynamite references :drool:

[John]

I don't think I've seen anyone but Floyd mention Ms. Dynamitee-ee since she done that song on the FIFA soundtrack.

She seems to be a real touchstone in your life, Floyd.

[John]

I'd hoped Sky losing the Spanish football would mean a long overdue escape from the reach of Guillem Balague, but there he is, plebbing it up with James Richardson.

[Jimmy Floyd]

For some reason she embodies the 2001-3 period for me, for some reason, which is also the period when I was 13-15, my time of minimum life stress (as it is for most people) and therefore my permanent nostalgia touchpoint for marketing professionals to target.

Other cultural touchstones of that specific period: CM 01/02, reverence for Sven-Goran Eriksson as a genial professor figure, lolling at 'Dubya' being stupid, Rhona Martin winning the curling, the Dowler/Huntley murders (a real golden age for British child murder), Iain Duncan Smith, and The Office.

I think it ended when Outkast released 'Hey Ya', or possibly the decline of Craig David.

[Baz]

The rise and fall of Craig David, you mean.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Lyon :drool:

Delph is horseshit.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Ronaldo sent off :lol:

[John]

Ronaldo is an absolute trumpet.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Crying down the tunnel too, lol.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

That's fucking lovely by Pogba.

[randomlegend]

That's a ridiculously harsh penalty.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Pogba's run ups are so crap but he always seems to score.

lol at City.

[randomlegend]

Ronaldo seems to have been sent off for quite literally no reason at all in the other game.

[Waffdon]

That Juventus kit is stunning. Ronaldo’s winning the tournament again so he’ll get the last laugh as usual.

[Waffdon]

Man Utd’s midfield and attack tonight should be their starting line up for the foreseeable. Sanchez for Rashford at a push.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Sanchez is going to turn into Albert Pujols, coming off the bench in the Checkatrade Trophy in 2023 for a quarter of a million a week.

[Giggles]

Is Sanchez still shit? He can't still be tired can he?

[Mike]

City are buggering up my 6 game bet here

[Lewis]

Ronaldo just wants the group stage off to model professional his way through another tough season. Was Diego Dalot any good?

[Ian]

Was Diego Dalot any good?

He didn't have an awful lot to do but I thought he was pretty solid.

[Ian]

Damn it, should have made that a "d-alot to do" joke.

Sigh, missed opportunities.

[Lewis]

Let's go again: Was Diego Dalot any good?

[randomlegend]

From what I saw, he's got Dalot.

[Lewis]

Die.

[randomlegend]

...go Dalot!

[Ian]

You're ruining it for everyone.

[randomlegend]

Are you Shaw? I think you just need to look at this from the other side.

[Lewis]

I'm sorry about this Webly.

[Ian]

This is all revenge for that time in the food thread nobody cared about his boiled sweets or whatever it is he makes.

[niko_cee]

Good to see City following in PSG's footsteps and stinking things up. How can they only get 40,000 to come and watch? Can you genuinely not buy fans?

[Jimmy Floyd]

You can't buy midweek fans. Liverpool specialise in that because it's that or another night of rooting through the bins. Bigger cities, less so.

[randomlegend]

This is all revenge for that time in the food thread nobody cared about his boiled sweets or whatever it is he makes.

If Jose so.

[Mazuuurk]

On the topic of Sanchez I traded him out in FPL for a -0.3 loss yesterday, so he will without a shred of a doubt score a hattrick this weekend.

[Spikey M]

PSG are wank, but both that game and the one against Spurs at the weekend would have ended as massively disappointing draws last season (or worse). What a time to be alive.

If the Referee had eyes the Spurs one still would have.

That said, if he had eyes he would have spotted that Vertonghen was carrying one around with him, so swings and roundabouts.

[phonics]

https://www.constructionnews.co.uk/projects/inside-spurs-stadium-ive-never-in-my-life-worked-like-that/10035311.article#.W6OMdfZ6Gm8.twitter

This story about Spurs stadium construction is quality. People drinking cans and doing coke in the toilets first thing in the morning and getting in fights with each other :D

[ItalAussie]

F91 Dudelange of Luxembourg hosting AC Milan in a ~10,000 person stadium. That's what the Wafer Cup is all about.

Apparently they're going to surpass their annual revenue from last season based on this group alone.

[SincereTheRebel]

I like stories like that as long as they don't have to play their home games in some neutral stadium.

[Giggles]

7 of these on simultaneously and they're all shite. Why are Marseille having to play with no fans?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Their fans left a trail of destruction throughout Europe last season. Got off lightly really, should be banned from Europe along with a number of other clubs.

[Giggles]

I see there's a Red Bull derby on in an hour too. One for the purists.

[Lewis]

Is Steven Gerrard a decent manager or something?

[phonics]

I think the goalkeeper has genuinely got lost inside his own box for that 3rd goal. He's standing in the middle of nowhere.

[Waffdon]

Is Steven Gerrard a decent manager or something?

He’s doing well in Europe but the leagues over already.

[John]

He’s doing well in Europe but the leagues over already.

Yep. Hearts have won it.

[Waffdon]

Exactly.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I think Jimmy is onto something here.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-45574301

23 years this month

OH LOOK

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/9952061b-8917-4cd7-afbe-3f71253a0acd

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Macarena is also being released again.

[SincereTheRebel]

I mentioned previously, all these classic cars that sell for stupid coins. The manufacturer should just start making them again in small quantities.

[Pepe]

You mean like:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Fiw0ZAkCU6o/ViWupnor80I/AAAAAAAABn0/Vp_IQVHGnqw/s1600/2016%2BFord%2BGT40%2BPrice%2BNew.jpg

[Pepe]

There is also this lol one:

https://www.hippoprestige.co.uk/aston-martin-db5-relaunch/

[Pepe]

Or you can pay six figures for a "new" Mini (http://www.davidbrownautomotive.com/mini-remastered/), which does look great.

[Spikey M]

Unless the six figures are in Yen, you’re alright.

[SincereTheRebel]

There is also this lol one:

https://www.hippoprestige.co.uk/aston-martin-db5-relaunch/

Exactly this.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Unless the six figures are in Yen, you’re alright.

Prices from £75,000. All prices are exclusives of taxes, duties and charges. Available to order for deliveries in 2019. Click here to get in touch to find out more.

Fucking hell.

[Lewis]

To bring those threads together, David Brown Automotive make probably the worst car money can buy in the 'Speedback'. It's like a bespoke version of when people used to make Toyota MR2s look like nineties Ferraris, except somehow they cost stupid money.

[Disco]

You mean like:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Fiw0ZAkCU6o/ViWupnor80I/AAAAAAAABn0/Vp_IQVHGnqw/s1600/2016%2BFord%2BGT40%2BPrice%2BNew.jpg

They made another, more recent, racing version as well so they could enter it into Le Mans. John Cena got in trouble for selling his before he was 'allowed' to.

There are also plenty of people who will make you a DB5 or an E-type if you want one.

[Shindig]

I often wonder how the classics get into circulation. Like some wannabe mechanic landing himself a six-wheeler Tyrell or something. I imagine when Caterham and Manor went tits up, someone probably drove a one out the backdoor. And they'll sit on it for 20 years until they can drive it at Goodwood.

[Pepe]

Like this:

https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/buying-maintenance/a23341172/two-plymouth-superbirds-barn-find/

[Lewis]

They (below Formula 1 at least) seemed to just get passed down from works teams to various levels of privateers until they were obsolete. You read about people that couldn't give Jaguar D-Types (for example) away in the sixties, where as now you would do well to get your hands on one for less than five million quid.

[Waffdon]

The touch from Pogba for that United goal was beautiful.