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Thread: July Football: Five games

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    July Football: Five games

    After Mahow was getting moaned at because he was posting about a different sort of boring shite football to what they want to watch and post about I said this:
    Quote Originally Posted by Ian View Post
    Next month I'll pick five fixtures at random from across world football and those will be the only ones anybody is allowed to talk about, to save all this confusion.
    Using the scientific method of getting all the July fixtures from https://www.live-footballontv.com/ and putting them into Excel then using a RNG to choose from how many there were I have the five fixtures you're allowed to talk about this month without anybody moaning like a tedious wank at you.

    Wednesday 1st July 2020
    Real Oviedo v Mirandes - 18:30 - LaLiga SmartBank YouTube
    Rosenborg v Valerenga - 19:30 - Eurosport 2

    Sunday 5th July 2020
    Napoli v Roma - 20:45 - Premier Sports 2 / LiveScore App

    Sunday 12th July 2020
    AFC Bournemouth v Leicester City - 19:00 - Sky Sports

    Wednesday 22nd July 2020
    Krylya Sovetov v PFC Sochi - 17:00 - Russian Premier Liga YouTube

    I will allow that the RNG has left the back end of the month a bit sparse but this is what you get when you can't be civil to each other.

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    Don’t know where else to put this, but the state of that.



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    Can't decide if 'balls' is a typo or if FFT don't rate it either.

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    Went for Bournemouth v Leicester because GREATEST LEAGUE IN THE WORLD, but am also enjoying Bournemouth's impending relegation.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ian View Post
    Can't decide if 'balls' is a typo or if FFT don't rate it either.
    I'm not having the FFT being used as the short hand for FourFourTwo. It's 442. Sort yourself out.

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    Wigan have gone into admin. 12pt penalty applied this season if they finish outside the relegation zone (most likely relegating them - deduction now would put them bottom) or if they finish in the relegation zone, it’ll be applied next season.

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    First of many I suspect. Southend will be one of them.

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    I don't see how any club below about the middle of League One can survive if crowds don't come back very soon. In fact, anyone outside the top flight must be in trouble (I don't know how the FL TV money gets divvied but I presume the Championship clubs get most of it).

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    Quote Originally Posted by mo View Post
    Wigan have gone into admin. 12pt penalty applied this season if they finish outside the relegation zone (most likely relegating them - deduction now would put them bottom) or if they finish in the relegation zone, it’ll be applied next season.
    They’ve been the best team in the league since January so it may not relegate them. 8 ahead at the minute.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spikey M View Post
    I'm not having the FFT being used as the short hand for FourFourTwo. It's 442. Sort yourself out.
    Whatever, nerd.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    I don't see how any club below about the middle of League One can survive if crowds don't come back very soon. In fact, anyone outside the top flight must be in trouble (I don't know how the FL TV money gets divvied but I presume the Championship clubs get most of it).
    It probably does, but most of the Championship clubs are massively overpaying wages out of desperation for promotion. Without intervention this is going to fuck alot of clubs in multiple leagues.

    This isn't the article I read, but it's the general thrust of it.

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    I imagine crowds will just have to come back, for the same reasons that everyone else will just have to start getting on with other things. If not then within a year there simply won't be football played below the Premier League, or at all in Scotland.

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    If they can open up Primark, I think they might be able to spare enough of their pocket change to open up stadiums. Third of the capacity with stunted entry/exits and an extra few portaloos is hardly going to require Isambard Kingdom Brunel to be reincarnated.

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    I like that ball.
    I'm a twit

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    Chelsea United FA Cup semi at the friendly 6pm on Sunday 19th July.

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    Shouldn't be too hard travelling back across London on a Sunday night.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    I don't see how any club below about the middle of League One can survive if crowds don't come back very soon. In fact, anyone outside the top flight must be in trouble (I don't know how the FL TV money gets divvied but I presume the Championship clubs get most of it).
    L1 and 2 have been helped by not having to play BCD, but yeah it's going to be a rough old time.

    Quote Originally Posted by Waffdon View Post
    They’ve been the best team in the league since January so it may not relegate them. 8 ahead at the minute.
    I read that after, it's a hopeful indicator for them but you can never really anticipate the impact of this kind of news.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Don View Post
    If they can open up Primark, I think they might be able to spare enough of their pocket change to open up stadiums. Third of the capacity with stunted entry/exits and an extra few portaloos is hardly going to require Isambard Kingdom Brunel to be reincarnated.


    'If Denmark can do it'

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    Quote Originally Posted by mo View Post
    L1 and 2 have been helped by not having to play BCD, but yeah it's going to be a rough old time.



    I read that after, it's a hopeful indicator for them but you can never really anticipate the impact of this kind of news.
    Looks like they play two of the teams in the relegation scrap as well as Charlton who aren’t far off. Fulham last game of season who might not have anything to play for too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mo View Post


    'If Denmark can do it'
    They look better empty.

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    COVID's only weakness is that it can't move diagonally.

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    If the kung flu puts football on a more sustainable footing (kills a load of no-mark clubs) then I'm right on that hot take cunt politicising it for *everything I like* bandwagon. Universal basic income? Go on then, but we want hanging brought back as well.

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    What are you going? 16 team superleague with the sport otherwise banned and anyone non-ELITE attempting to play it hanged at dawn?

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    I think we should copy the German system, but with twenty teams per division if we go down the British [Isles] route.

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    Do we have to sew club badges onto our denim short-sleeves and drink mulled wine at half time? If so, I'm out.

    Scotland will never ever ever ever ever agree to join England, even if Celtic and Rangers secretly want to. Even having that one-off GB team at the Olympics was like getting blood from a stone.

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    The way to do it would be to offer Rangers and Celtic Premiership status, ideally with a three year relegation amnesty (the Union of the Crowns), and then, when ninety per cent of the money and interest vanishes within their first Glasgow-free season (the Darien Scheme), you could offer them 'generous' terms to fold their teams into a new combined system (the Acts of Union).

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    I can't imagine Celtic taking the bait to join Her Majesty's British Championship brought to you by the Duchy of Cornwall, all so their toothless fans can journey up and down the M6 constantly forever.

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    Celtic, Rangers, maybe three others. Then make one Belfast team to cover the whole of NI, the two big teams to cover Wales. And whoever survives in England. Job done.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    What are you going? 16 team superleague with the sport otherwise banned and anyone non-ELITE attempting to play it hanged at dawn?
    They've been wanting to convert the Champions League into an actual league for ages.

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    The English teams don't want to as the PL pays big, it's only losers like Milan and so on who are gagging for that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Giggles View Post
    Then make one Belfast team to cover the whole of NI
    What could possibly go wrong.

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    Leicester will be lucky to finish above Spurs at this rate

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    Two goals in 2 games from closing down the goalkeeper there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by phonics View Post
    Two goals in 2 games from closing down the goalkeeper there.
    We seem to have inherited Liverpool's special skill of causing the opposition keeper's brainfarts. Assume we are engaging a lot higher and more urgently under Arteta.

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    On topic please


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    Leicester in absolute freefall, and their run-in looks tough. Their form must be absolutely horrific since they played City just before Christmas.

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    4 wins from 12 games

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    Quote Originally Posted by niko_cee View Post
    Leicester in absolute freefall, and their run-in looks tough. Their form must be absolutely horrific since they played City just before Christmas.
    Is that since they were on about Rodgers moving on?

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    Nelson needs to sort his Jewish locks out.

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    Jordan Pickford is shocking.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Giggles View Post
    Is that since they were on about Rodgers moving on?
    Then gave him a bumper golden contract

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    Quote Originally Posted by Giggles View Post
    Celtic, Rangers, maybe three others. Then make one Belfast team to cover the whole of NI, the two big teams to cover Wales. And whoever survives in England. Job done.
    Rangers and Celtic into the Premiership, whoever the next four best teams in Scotland are into the Championship with Linfield and a left-footed adversary (possibly an Irish team backed with NORAID money), the next four... You have three fully professional leagues of twenty teams, and then whatever shite remains in the separate countries can be semi-professional regional leagues with some sort of convoluted system to take them into the national structure.

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    I like Tierney is old school kit wise and has it tucked in like his Sunday best. Fashion rebel.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewis View Post
    Rangers and Celtic into the Premiership, whoever the next four best teams in Scotland are into the Championship with Linfield and a left-footed adversary (possibly an Irish team backed with NORAID money), the next four... You have three fully professional leagues of twenty teams, and then whatever shite remains in the separate countries can be semi-professional regional leagues with some sort of convoluted system to take them into the national structure.
    We’ll go with the fourth tier of an EU league instead. You could take Derry City back and make them the Linfield rival for the other half though.

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    Man, we've been banging them in since the world ended. Bournemouth are done for.

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    Pals and I have a little bet club. Eight fold accumulator.

    4/4 last night. Chelsea tonight, Newcastle paid out and forest all winning.

    Guess who selected a draw in the Birmingham Huddersfield game?

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    Newcastle four points off Europe. Go on Brucey lad

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    Cedric lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by Giggles View Post
    We’ll go with the fourth tier of an EU league instead. You could take Derry City back and make them the Linfield rival for the other half though.
    Well whatever. The Irish can decide amongst themselves who goes forward (Home Rule, if you will). I am serious about this as well. Irish and Scottish football are only going to get worse in their own shitty systems.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewis View Post
    Well whatever. The Irish can decide amongst themselves who goes forward (Home Rule, if you will). I am serious about this as well. Irish and Scottish football are only going to get worse in their own shitty systems.
    We’ve no ambition for things to be any better here as we have the GAA and your soccer which means it’ll never be a big thing. All we need to concentrate on is produce a better standard of schoolboy player to ship to England and Scotland (or better yet branch them out to Holland, Belgium, Portugal, etc). The domestic league will always just be what it is.

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