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I'll just be deleting him from the database before I start to be honest.

The former tends to swing a little from version to version as SI strive to find the right balance for how effective Long Shots should be. Although a certain amount of it will be about your tactics and the way you set your team up. The latter is definitely going to be your tactics. Look at us last year. You've basically just described Leicester under Rodgers. Have you gone for a possession based style?

Surely this is meaningless data? It only really works as a total at the end of the year when everyone has done every away trip and even then you'd need caveats like if Plymouth play Sunderland mid week for example they're going to take less than if it was a weekend? It wants to be represented as % of allocation sold really. If Sunderland have been to, say, Leicester, Leeds and Wednesday away while Blackburn have been to Rotherham, QPR and Millwall then they're not going to have had the opportunity to take more by raw numbers purely by virtue of potential allocation?

He isn't is he? I took that to mean basically "I don't like him but I can't argue with the red card."

You'd imagine being a Remainer that all the other Remainers hate for causing the fvcking thing has got to make you about as popular as a Sun journalist on the Anfield Kop. It's a weird choice. What's also depressing is the sensation of being relieved to see David Cameron because at least he's not an ACTUAL fvcking fascist.

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We're a quarter of the way through the season and we've lost three games. Think he's doing OK.

Ricky working his way round the pitch. Looking forward to his turn in goal.

Miami and the MLS in general celebrating Messi's Ballon D'or win like it had absolutely anything to do with them or is any reflection on them at all is really quite tinpot

I was gonna make a Megson joke Gary Megson is our ultimate butterfly effect moment. If he doesn't leave he probably keeps us up. Without relegation we probably don't have the Pearson era and without it, well.

@moore_94 @kingcarr21 I liked the last episode.

Yeah he's been phenomenal. Mentioned it quite a few times but the trio of Winks, Vestergaard and Hermansen are the biggest differences makers for me. They make us so hard to press its insane.

They go wappy for a place called Murgatroyds up here. In true Yorkshire fashion it's pretty overly elaborate with a big restaurant bolted on the side and everyone will tell you it's the best chip shop in the world. Don't have the heart to tell them there's probably five better in Charnwood alone.

I went to our Copenhagen away. Their fans are fantastic, really liked their end. Liked the stadium as a whole to be fair. Great city too.

I dont think the two things are mutually exclusive though. It just means the majority of people are apathetic about politics in general and don't have extremely strong left or right convictions and just float around the middle being non committal voting for the "opposition" when sentiment against the government gets strong enough. We kinda know that about the British public anyway don't we.

Tbf, whilst it's true that Millennials and Gen Z are consistently more progressive and anti capitalist than previous generations and it will start to significantly impact voting, it's always been a bit of a myth that a significant number of people become conservative as they age. Less idealistic and more pragmatic maybe but I remember reading a study fairly recently that was making the point that the majority of people don't drastically change their voting habits in their lifetime.

Apparently VAR is "out of control" because in the Champions League it doesn't just give Manchester United everything they need to hide the fact they're shit. Absolutely nothing wrong with the decisions yesterday. Maguire's arm is up doing the okey cokey and Rashford full on stands on some guy's ankle with a full leg breaker. The fvck are they moaning about. Just bottle merchants that went in to panic mode whilst beating a pub team 2 - 0. Can you imagine Man City or Bayern or someone collapsing from there, even with 10, against FCK?

I really, really hope the British public turn en masse against the Tories in a significant landslide and they step back from the edge. This American style culture war bullshit cannot be allowed to dictate our politics for the foreseeable future. Political discourse in the USA doesn't exist anymore, it's just white trash and Christian fundamentalists screaming "woke" at everyone while moustache twirling billionaires sit laughing counting their money unnoticed. I really, really hope we don't get dragged fully in to that rubbish. It's bad enough now as it is. But Suella's going full American. You never go full American.

You can tell there's a new version of Football Manager out can't you.

As others have said, absolutely do not buy. But loan sure.

Don't think I agree with this. I'm a firm believer that, by and large, an area tends to get the football club its people want and "deserve." If there's enough of a population in an area that wants to support their local team, that team will exist. Look at Leicester, football will always be played here, even if the football club folded a phoenix club would just rise in it's place and always be a club worth owning and investing in. Leicester will always exist in the top three-ish flights of professional football and given long enough I'm sure any phoenix club would get back to, at very least, the Championship and ~15/20k gates minimum. There as many clubs as there needs to be and the fact the pyramid is so massive and so deep sort of proves that. Look at somewhere like Boston, population of 45k, in the absolute arse end of nowhere, haven't been in professional football in over a decade, play in 6th tier of the pyramid. In any other country in the world that'd basically be pub football. Even football mad countries like Spain, France, Germany and Italy - you go down to their 6th tier and there's probably nobody watching except family and friends of the players and whichever livestock happen to share the pitch with the club. Boston get 1.5k people on average to their home games. That's more than plenty of clubs in the third tier of Spain, France and Italy. AlbinoLeffe used to bounce around Serie B for ages a few years ago, their average gate in the third tier now is about 500. Pro Vercelli are seven time Serie A winners who average a gate of about 800. AC Trento are the major professional club in a city of 120,000 people, the capital of a province of 540,000 people. Their average gate? 1,325 in a ground smaller than the Jakesmans Stadium. They're all in Serie C Girone A (tier 3) at the moment.

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It's OK mate you can acknowledge that Leeds just aren't what they used to be, that Leicester are by far and away the most massive club in this league and that it's basically a cup final for all you other Also Rans that are making up the numbers.

Certainly nobody is going to outplay us this year. There's essentially two ways a team can realistically beat us at this level and both involve a massive amount of effort. You either do what Hull did, park the bus and try and keep us out for 90 minutes and hope we don't have the quality to break you down (this has obviously not worked for the likes of Rotherham and Bristol) or you do the opposite, you press us high up the pitch, disrupt and try to stop Winks and Co playing out (you can ask Norwich, Southampton, Sunderland and Blackburn how that worked.) You're probably the best team in the league at the high press because, let's be honest here, like us you aren't playing with a fair hand - you've also got a significant amount of Premier League quality in the side. And even you only won because you got lucky from a set piece and your keeper made a wonder save, there wasn't exactly a lot in the game was there. We'll be fine. I appreciate this might sound like arrogance but I assure you I'm self aware enough (as most of us are) to know it just isn't fair. We made 80m selling two players alone, on top of parachute payments and the fact we already had a decent amount of Premier League quality still on the squad that was meant to be top half last year let alone just top flight. Nobody's pretending it's a level playing field. It'd take the biggest bottle job in this leagues history for us not to win it.