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Thread: May football: THE RUN-IN!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sir Andy Mahowry View Post
    So are England now Kings of Europe?
    A definite theme anyway.

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    Pussyhole higuain isnt part of the penalty five.

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    Remember about 2 years ago when England didn't get any teams past the quarters and it was pronounced that English football was dead?

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    So

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    Chelsea always have their defenders taking penalties in shoot outs. Pedro would have missed, but what’s Higuain’s excuse

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    Chelsea v Arsenal in Baku, an Arsenal fan I know was looking at travel options including a flight to Tbilisi and a 13 hour train from there, or a flight to Turkmenistan and a 17 hour ferry back across the Caspian Sea.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Waffdon View Post
    Chelsea always have their defenders taking penalties in shoot outs. Pedro would have missed, but what’s Higuain’s excuse
    Why did he even come on if he wasn't going to take one?

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    Quote Originally Posted by SincereTheRebel View Post
    So
    The constant short-termism of the media is fucking dumb and leads to literally every team being labelled 'in crisis' despite clubs with 'deep-rooted isssues' finishing third and being in 2 finals.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    Why did he even come on if he wasn't going to take one?
    Say what you like about Kim Kallstrom but at least he took a penno.

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    #Brexit mate

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spikey M View Post
    #Brexit mate
    Please no. I've always been one of those 'you can't remove politics from sport' people but I think Theresa May invoking Liverpools 'togetherness and fight back in Europe' followed up by people with #FBPE in their display name tweeting "JURGEN KLOPP IS AN IMMIGRANT" changed my mind.

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    Shame all that time learning how it works won't matter anymore.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/09/s...ructuring.html

    Officials from the domestic leagues were shown the proposal for restructured European competitions this week. The new tournaments would, starting in 2024, allow the top 21 teams in a 32-team Champions League to qualify automatically for the next season’s event, effectively guaranteeing them annual participation and tens of millions of dollars more in broadcasting revenue than their domestic rivals. Those rivals would most likely be unable to match the rich clubs’ spending power, and would find it prohibitively difficult to play their way into the Champions League on the field.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    Chelsea v Arsenal in Baku, an Arsenal fan I know was looking at travel options including a flight to Tbilisi and a 13 hour train from there, or a flight to Turkmenistan and a 17 hour ferry back across the Caspian Sea.
    Direct flights from Liverpool to Madrid are £700+ on EasyJet hahahah. It’s a joke.

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    Quote Originally Posted by phonics View Post
    Please no. I've always been one of those 'you can't remove politics from sport' people but I think Theresa May invoking Liverpools 'togetherness and fight back in Europe' followed up by people with #FBPE in their display name tweeting "JURGEN KLOPP IS AN IMMIGRANT" changed my mind.
    Brexit means European domination

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    Quote Originally Posted by phonics View Post
    Yeah but I think Aubameyang + Lacazette is better than him and whatever cohorts they surround him with each week.
    Disagree. Hazard is better than them both. He is miles better on the ball. You want Laca abd Auba on the end of things while you want hazard to start shit. Different type of players but Hazard is the better player .

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    Quote Originally Posted by phonics View Post
    Shame all that time learning how it works won't matter anymore.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/09/s...ructuring.html
    I genuinely don't think that will happen, I can't think of any more direct way of harming football at its very core.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Waffdon View Post
    Direct flights from Liverpool to Madrid are £700+ on EasyJet hahahah. It’s a joke.
    If it's Madrid then I would simply drive there if I could get the requisite days off work. Baku, there's no way out really unless you have personal friends in the Iranian navy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SincereTheRebel View Post
    Disagree. Hazard is better than them both. He is miles better on the ball. You want Laca abd Auba on the end of things while you want hazard to start shit. Different type of players but Hazard is the better player .
    I said that the combined output of both outweighs Hazard and the wasters they put around him. Not that either of them are better than Hazard.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Waffdon View Post
    Direct flights from Liverpool to Madrid are £700+ on EasyJet hahahah. It’s a joke.

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    Liverpool got us chucked out of Europe indefinitely, so they're better than Theresa May.

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    Lol 3rd and Europa Cup winners. Sarri.

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    Arsenal will win unless Hazard plans on going out in style. He’s been a bit shit recently.

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    Quote Originally Posted by phonics View Post
    The constant short-termism of the media is fucking dumb and leads to literally every team being labelled 'in crisis' despite clubs with 'deep-rooted isssues' finishing third and being in 2 finals.
    I hear water is wet as well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by phonics View Post
    The constant short-termism of the media is fucking dumb and leads to literally every team being labelled 'in crisis' despite clubs with 'deep-rooted isssues' finishing third and being in 2 finals.
    Football is short-termism. On the flights, Baku doesn't seem as bad as reported. From London, you can land in Istanbul and then fly on to Baku. For the scousers, just train it down to Heathrow and cut Easyjet out of it for half the price.
    Last edited by Shindig; 10-05-2019 at 06:37 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shindig View Post
    Football is short-termism. On the flights, Baku doesn't seem as bad as reported. From London, you can land in Istanbul and then fly on to Baku. For the scousers, just train it down to Heathrow and cut Easyjet out of it for half the price.


    Also they're only giving out 6,000 tickets per team in a 67 thousand seater stadium.

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    Is that an official gooner press release? It's almost like they want to keep numbers down.

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    Yeah it's from the supporters liason team.

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    I had no idea that Markle was mixed race.

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    News to me too.

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    I also didn't know until I heard Danny Baker had been sacked.

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    This clip doing the rounds of Geoff Boycott slating Man Utd and the management live on MUTV, as the corporate fluff presenter shits his pants, is quality. Do they not know who he is?

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    Is he a United fan??

    Also that story put me onto this:
    https://metro.co.uk/2019/05/09/manch...y-cut-9445838/

    Sanchez's paycut.

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    That makes the downturn in form even more bizarre.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    This clip doing the rounds of Geoff Boycott slating Man Utd and the management live on MUTV, as the corporate fluff presenter shits his pants, is quality. Do they not know who he is?
    I read a very misleading headline for that story yesterday and thought I'd only seen a bit of the video when he'd said fuck all really.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Manc View Post
    That makes the downturn in form even more bizarre.
    I mean it wouldn't surprise me if the players were oblivious but you'd have thought their agents would have been going "Erm, guys..."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ian View Post
    Is he a United fan??
    Yep, like the true born Yorkshireman he is.

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    Speaking of Azerbaijan, I saw the Euro 2020 calendar today, and which absolute idiot gave that the go-ahead?

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    Looks like Mkhitaryan won't be going due to them being at war with Armenia or whatever. Just an excellent choice of venue.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lewis View Post
    Speaking of Azerbaijan, I saw the Euro 2020 calendar today, and which absolute idiot gave that the go-ahead?
    Its across multipe counrtires so its not as bad as it could have been.

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    Quote Originally Posted by phonics View Post


    Also they're only giving out 6,000 tickets per team in a 67 thousand seater stadium.
    That's genuinely shit. 50,000 'friends of UEFA' or some daft North Korean scenario where they invite thousands of locals to fill seats.

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    These shouldn't be picked til the finals are set.

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    UEFA are saying the reason that the clubs got so few tickets is because Baku airport couldn't handle more tourists than that. And it's been confirmed that UEFA can't ensure our 200 grand a week midfielder won't be arrested upon arriving in the country.

    Excellent choice for a final, presumably they expected an Azerbaijani team to make it to the final to lighten the travel load.

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    As soon as I think I've mastered the requisite amount of cognitive dissonance to enjoy football within the corrupt world of the Premier League, UEFA and FIFA, something else comes along to annoy me again. I almost want it to go full EUROPEAN SUPER LEAGUE just so I can finally sack it off, and get well into Belgian arthouse cinema or postmodern literature or something.

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    Quote Originally Posted by phonics View Post
    UEFA are saying the reason that the clubs got so few tickets is because Baku airport couldn't handle more tourists than that. And it's been confirmed that UEFA can't ensure our 200 grand a week midfielder won't be arrested upon arriving in the country.

    Excellent choice for a final, presumably they expected an Azerbaijani team to make it to the final to lighten the travel load.
    An interesting choice of lie on their behalf, to be fair.

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    Quote Originally Posted by igor_balis View Post
    As soon as I think I've mastered the requisite amount of cognitive dissonance to enjoy football within the corrupt world of the Premier League, UEFA and FIFA, something else comes along to annoy me again. I almost want it to go full EUROPEAN SUPER LEAGUE just so I can finally sack it off, and get well into Belgian arthouse cinema or postmodern literature or something.
    I can relate to this. Tottenham's comeback annoyed me because I could really do without every Champions League game being unmissable.

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    United apparently signing Daniel James from Swansea. Any Swansea fans, he any good?

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    It's a sop to the fans - YOUTH, PACE, WINGERS - before wasting loads of money on better-known whoppers.

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    Quote Originally Posted by randomlegend View Post
    United apparently signing Daniel James from Swansea. Any Swansea fans, he any good?
    He was really good against Man City in the cup. Probably why they've gone for him.
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