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Bochum's 2. Bundesliga fixtures: 1. 02./03.08.2025 – SV Darmstadt 98 (A) 2. 08.-10.08.2025 – SV Elversberg (H) DFB Pokal 1st Round – 16.08.2025 – BFC Dynamo (A) 3. 22.-24.08.2025 – FC Schalke 04 (A) 4. 29.-31.08.2025 – Preußen Münster (H) 5. 12.-14.09.2025 – SC Paderborn 07 (A) 6. 19.-21.09.2025 – 1. FC Nürnberg (A) 7. 26.-28.09.2025 – Fortuna Düsseldorf (H) 8. 03.-05.10.2025 – 1. FC Kaiserslautern (A) 9. 17.-19.10.2025 – Hertha BSC (H) 10. 24.-26.10.2025 – Holstein Kiel (A) 11. 31.10.-02.11.2025 – 1. FC Magdeburg (H) 12. 07.-09.11.2025 – Eintracht Braunschweig (A) 13. 21.-23.11.2025 – SG Dynamo Dresden (H) 14. 28.-30.11.2025 – SpVgg Greuther Fürth (A) 15. 05.-07.12.2025 – DSC Arminia Bielefeld (H) 16. 12.-14.12.2025 – Hannover 96 (A) 17. 19.-21.12.2025 – Karlsruher SC (H) 18. 16.-18.01.2026 – SV Darmstadt 98 (H) 19. 23.-25.01.2026 – SV Elversberg (A) 20. 30.01.-01.02.2026 – FC Schalke 04 (H) 21. 06.-08.02.2026 – Preußen Münster (A) 22. 13.-15.02.2026 – SC Paderborn 07 (H) 23. 20.-22.02.2026 – 1. FC Nürnberg (H) 24. 27.02.-01.03.2026 – Fortuna Düsseldorf (A) 25. 06.-08.03.2026 – 1. FC Kaiserslautern (H) 26. 13.-15.03.2026 – Hertha BSC (A) 27. 20.-22.03.2026 – Holstein Kiel (H) 28. 04./05.04.2026 – 1. FC Magdeburg (A) 29. 10.-12.04.2026 – Eintracht Braunschweig (H) 30. 17.-19.04.2026 – SG Dynamo Dresden (A) 31. 24.-26.04.2026 – SpVgg Greuther Fürth (H) 32. 02./03.05.2026 – DSC Arminia Bielefeld (A) 33. 08.-10.05.2026 – Hannover 96 (H) 34. 17.05.2026 – Karlsruher SC (A) Some nice stadiums in there

Sunday according to the EFL website

Preston away for the second fixture?

Centrebus #27 from Loughborough to Sileby from Mon-Sat stops at Seagrave https://www.centrebus.info/media/4502/le_27-27x_2024-01-08.pdf edit: it was renamed to LC5/5X a few months ago https://www.centrebus.info/media/5098/le_lc5-5x-tt-17032025.pdf

I saw rumours when Cifuentes was put on gardening leave that it was because he interviewed for or expressed interest in the West Brom job, but more recently I've seen some comments from QPR fans on social media that it was because he had a falling out with their 27-year-old CEO Christian Nourry over recruitment/player sales and the West Brom job coming up was just a convenient excuse for their board to get rid of him

The current FIGC president Gravina is quite bad at his job and I think becoming the NT manager is increasingly being seen as a poison chalice Pioli rejected the job too

Guy Branston is that you?

The media spent a lot of pre-match buildup talking about how their manager Czeslaw Michniewicz saw Rodgers as a role model too, which made it outrageous, almost offensive, that Brendan got completely schooled by him

I'd started to sour a bit on Rodgers in early 2021, I think the Leeds defeat, both West Ham losses, getting knocked out by Slavia Prague and bottling 4th place again really grated me, and I thought that since we'd won the FA Cup the only way was down and we wouldn't be able to keep upsetting the big six anymore. But I wasn't anywhere near brave enough to say that I wanted him out, I felt the results/FA Cup were still too good to justify that Then the first half of the 2021/22 season was bad yeah, bottling Europa group stage, ultra inconsistent league form (the win-loss-draw-loss-win-loss-win-draw-etc sequence felt like it would never end), and the Tottenham and Forest losses sealed it for me as wanting him gone ASAP, especially when we went 5 league games without a win twice, but he still got 7 wins from the last 15 to keep his job safe and the fanbase happy. Lost all faith in Brodge that season

thanks that just made me throw up in my mouth

assuming El Khannouss leaves, Daisuke Yokota from KAA Gent might be an interesting player for the #10 role He was on loan at Kaiserslautern (team I also follow) in the 2. Bundesliga this past season as he wasn't in the Genk manager's plans, but I was impressed by him. Great dribbling ability and shielded the ball well, and wasn't afraid to press and track back either. Must be something about Japanese attacking midfielders playing in the German second tier, as I wanted Ao Tanaka from Fortuna Düsseldorf before Leeds signed him 😂

Who's running a botnet to rig the BBC match rating polls? 😂

if yours was anything like Everton's 17/18 kit, it would just look like pit stains

"Personal reasons"

He went on strike at Genk to force through the transfer to us, if his agent has told him there's a bid incoming from a top flight team or Rudkin has rejected a bid that BEK's agent thought was fair value I wouldn't be surprised if he's doing it again

That's Bilal leaving

"So-called Premier League charging us with so-called alleged breaches of so-called Proft and Sustainability Rules for a season when we were in the so-called EFL Championship"

Would be a very good appointment imo

The Ajax squad was third-best, he had only one left winger for the first half of the season because two were sold without being replaced, their DoF refused to sign the players he wanted and demanded more attacking football, promised reinforcements in the summer but he didn't get any until the very end of the January window The fact he had them challenging for the title at all is impressive

or Schwarzer I believe

Ranieri's final match as Roma manager, winning 1-0 against Milan currently

I think that RvN's clamour for increased professionalism and higher standards around the club has been a huge turning point for him, and that he's applying himself a lot more as result. Really happy to see his turnaround, this is the player we all saw in him when he was first blooded into the team.

Yes (edit: it might have been Neil Danns actually, couldn't get a good look at who it was. Moore has the same braids as him now 😂) And Nathan Dyer there too