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[Sir Andy Mahowry]

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Vertonghen, Lavia, Casteels
Van Der Vaart, Stekelenburg, Dost
Thatcher (0.8% :cool), Wayne Bridge, None.

[Shindig]

250. 9/9. All obvious apart from 2 Southampton players.

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Ken Monkou and Steve De Ridder

[Pen]

I got the lot today too, but was very annoyed that I couldn't think of anyone else than the most obvious one for the Soton Dutchman. Score 270 in the end and most of that probably came from that and the most obvious Wolfsburg Belgian that I had hoped people would've used bottom right.

[Dave.]

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Lallana - Jose Enrique - Pellegrino
James Wilson - Gillespie - Cruyff
Sidwell - Kenedy - Belletti

[Ben]

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Lallana absolutely fucked me (40%). All these kids playing making the likes of Blanc and Petit rare answers.

Lallana - Bellamy - Zenden
Kuszczak - Saha - Blanc
Sidwell - Babayaro - Petit

[wullie]

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Milner - Venison - Litmanen
Wilson - Simpson - Cruyff
Lamptey - Babayaro - Zenden

[Kikó]

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[John Arne]

Easy today, but Brighton stuffed up the rarity score.

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[Jimmy Floyd]

I got 4 right. Keith Gillespie didn't play for Liverpool, they claim. I claim otherwise.

[Waffdon]

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A massive fuck you for that Liverpool Brighton player for ruining the absolute perfect score.

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Adam Lallana 38%, Danny Guthrie 0.2%, Arthur 5%
Kuszack 1%, Louis Saha 3%, Laurent Blanc 1%
Izzy Brown 0.2%, Scott Parker 4%, Ricardo Quaresma 0.8%

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Adam Lallana 38%, Michael Owen 12%, Luis Garcia 3%
Danny Welbeck 91%, Alan Smith 8%, Gerard Pique 40%
Levi Colwill 7%, Damien Duff 17%, Marcos Alonso 18%

Fucked up Brighton as I assumed I couldn't choose any player from their pre-PL days. Should have done much better with Barca x Man Utd too.

[SincereTheRebel]

Robert Sanchez hasnt played for Chelski. Must be Shaka Hislop in the net right now.

[Pen]

This was far too easy. I got 64. Didn't accept Mark Hughes for whatever the reason though even if he did play for both United and Barca.

[Shindig]

Already fucked it. 318. 7/9.

Two of my guesses lacked Premier League/La Liga starts for the clubs IN THE VERY SPECIFIC TIME WINDOW THIS GAME USES. That's what ruled out Hughes.

[Ben]

This was far too easy. I got 64. Didn't accept Mark Hughes for whatever the reason though even if he did play for both United and Barca.

Football didn’t exist before the Premier League mate.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

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Lallana, Shelvey, None
James Wilson, Andy Cole, Jordi Cruyff
Colwill, Geremi, Bogarde.

I fucked the Chelsea/Barca one as I was sure Azpillicueta played for Barca.

[wullie]

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Babbel - Jancker - Hargreaves
Lehmann - Nope - Akanji
Berthold - Illgner - Rosler

Needed a second go at Man City + Dortmund as Jaden Sancho didn't count

[Waffdon]

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Sven Ulreich 7%, Claudio Pizarro 5%, Martin Demichelis 6%

Kevin Grobkreutz 10%, Neven Subotic 9%, Felix Nmecha 1%

Esswein 2%, Timo Horn 19%, Dietmar Hamann 7%

That was hard to think of non obvious answers. German football fans will have had ridiculously low scores

[Dave.]

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Babbel, Jancker, Hargreaves
Leitner, Modeste, Akanji
Hildebrand, Schwabe, Tarnat.

Modeste the big scorer but couldn't think of anyone else.

[mo]

Pleased to get Eike Immel in today as City's random German.

[Ian]

Not even trying today's. I don't need that kind of disappointment in my life.

[Kikó]

I managed to not cheat for most of them.

[Shindig]

8/9 240. Exhausted all my knowledge of CM2 data disc era Bayern. My lowest was a Man City defender who is old and bald now.

[Pen]

I couldn't remember any other Köln players apart from Podolski. I was trying for ages to think about one cb/dm whom I think got a few caps for Germany too. Taschi or something.

Edit: Taschi didn't play for Köln so that was a waste of time if it was him I had in my mind.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

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lol.

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None, None, Hargreaves
None, None, Gundogan
Mario Gomez, Lukas Podolski, Didi Hamann.

Shit day.

[Kikó]

Uwe Rösler was a good one for me. Then Kevin Kuryani came to mind, Elber and Riedle. (Not sure if they were even right answers)

[Ben]

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Gomez - Rensing - Tarnat
Lehmann - Modeste - Gundogan
Hildebrand - Hector - Hamann

Kicking myself with the mind blank on City/Dortmund and having to go for Gundogan.

[Shindig]

Today's was shite. 5/9. 548. A couple of well-known faces are surprisingly low.

[Ian]

My memory of ye olde football trivia (and that most of my last decade of FMing was the one save from FM15) really scuppers me for this. My best bit today was getting

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Joseba Etxeberria straight away.

Fuming I forgot Patrice Loko though.

Most of the ones I didn't get (I think I got 4? or 5? Something bad) I looked at the options after and wasn't even mad.

[Waffdon]

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My worst by an absolute mile. I could only think of the absolute obvious ones for Atletico Madrid players to have played for Bilbao and Sociedad and then Real Madrid/Bilbao. Didn’t think the 3 picks would all be 90% region though

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Griezmann 91%, Raul Garcia 94%, Kevin Gamiero 15%

Sergio Canales 2%, Kepa 88%, Lassana Diara 1%

Willian Jose 5%, Sancet 0.8%, Javier Pastore 0.8%

[Waffdon]

And having looked at the answers, I’m not even mad. Would never have got any of the Bilbao players. Seems mental only 6 players have played for them and both Madrid teams.

Suppose the Basque stuff plays a part

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

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Griezmann, None (couldn't remember Garcia), Motta
Odegaard, Kepa, Beckham
Isak, Aduriz, Cavani

[wullie]

Spain's such a blind spot for me I couldn't even place one of the badges, skip a day

[Ben]

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Griezmann - Aranzubia - Hugo Leal
Xabi Alonso - Karanka - Anelka
Nihat - Urzaiz - Robert

At first glance thought this would be hard so started to whizz through without much thought. Then I started knocking out low scores so annoyed I didn't take more time on the Griezmann option.

[Kikó]

Yep Spain and Paris are non entities for my brain

[Jimmy Floyd]

I'm the opposite (Italy is my blank) so thank you, Raul Garcia.

[Pen]

8/9 for me. Can't believe Xabi Prieto didn't get ten for Sociedad. He probably got that many against me per season in FM.

[Dave.]

Only 7 for me on this one. Spanish football a little bit of a blank spot for me. I've never really managed in Spain on CM/FM and didn't watch much Spanish football growing up so was too reliant on more recent knowledge of the bigger teams.

[wullie]

Italy, France and to a lesser extent Germany and Netherlands I'm good with. Your Spains and your Portugals, outside the main teams it's all a blur.

[Dave.]

Italy, France and to a lesser extent Germany and Netherlands I'm good with. Your Spains and your Portugals, outside the main teams it's all a blur.

I'm similar. My knowledge of Italy is good same with Germany. I get by with France and Netherlands. Spain is a blur and Portugal would be even more so.

[Ian]

Oh today's is gonna be a no-go for me I reckon.
@Pepe it's your time to shine.

[Shindig]

LA Galaxy II!?

Is that the reserves or did they make a sequel to themselves?

[Ian]

I think they've used the wrong logo. I guess it's the reserves one but it's the main team because I got one.

I've got two correct guesses and that might genuinely be all I can get. Pretty sure I know nearly zero about LAFC.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Whoever made today's grid is a cunt.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

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Went well.

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Donovan and Vela.

[Ian]

I also got two out of 9, Mahow.

And am SMASHING you so far with 732.
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Dunno why I'd know Alexi Lalas played for Galaxy but apparently I do. And got Hernandez for their Mexican.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I remembered him right after I used up my Galaxy/USA guess then tried him for all other combinations just in case. Bar the Mexican ones ofc.

[Shindig]

1/9. Would've been two if I hadn't misremembered a player's career path.

[Pen]

Same as Mahow plus Dos Santos. Columbus Crew can fuck off.

[Pepe]

Not sure how this works, but Mexico + Chicago Fire is the Legend Cuauhtemoc Blanco.