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Two things to take home from today: Honesty flag from the seat next to you Complimentary crispy coconut roll, larb-flavoured biscuit sticks and coconut drink

starting vs Juventus

There are still people clapping the players ffs

Didn't realise you could do this in FM24 I want to try it in 26 if it's still in the game 😂 https://www.reddit.com/r/footballmanagergames/comments/1oii6n9/going_back_to_my_long_term_fm24_save_and_being/

I don't doubt at all that Rodgers has once again proven to be a first class tosser (divisive, misleading and self-serving are perfect words to describe him) who deserves all the flak he gets, but for what it's worth, Celtic fans distrust their board (Desmond and the CEO Michael Nicholson) as much as we distrust the Aiyawatt and Rudkin calamity duo. Desmond is a control freak who fancies himself as a Billy Bean-style moneyball savant, and, despite being non-executive director and a minority shareholder, required that their board individually approve each transfer decision. Nicholson is inexperienced with it being his first CEO role, and has reportedly been absent in crucial times in the transfer market not answering his phone. They've been messing around with chronically lowballing other clubs when bidding for players until they finally pay the asking price on deadline day. They haven't signed a right winger because although Brendan (with his dreadful record of talent identification and all) had a final yes/no say on signings, the board didn't allow his input into who is on their list of targets to begin with and only go for who they think can be "good value for money". They ended up signing left wingers to play out of position after giving Brendan an "we buy these players or we buy nobody" ultimatum, while the South Korean winger who looks hopeless even in the Scottish league they signed a couple of years ago is somehow still one of their best options. All the while, only a fraction of the income generated from selling their good players and the CL run has been reinvested. I think it just finally clicked for Brodge that he had a perfect opportunity to preserve Brand Brendan™, because the board aren't suddenly going to develop a new-found competence when the Lawell/Desmond regime remains, they've just been flattered tremendously by Rangers' self-destruction.

I think he'll be dusting off his Spanish Learners' edition of How to Win Friends and Influence People and aiming for a job in La Liga

I'll give him another chance if he plays Nelson, Aluko and Evans with Page on the bench against Blackburn But I'm not holding out hope

Harrison Miles from Man City is supposed to be quite the talent too

15 touches in the opposition box to their 23 touches in ours embarrassing!

Thomas

Thinks he's at Welford Road with that conversion kick/drop goal attempt

Ricky already booked, oh dear

Fat Frank does what he wants mate winning 6-0 with 0.48 xG or being held goalless with 5.27 xG and there's no in between

The BLM movement pre-existed George Floyd (started in 2013, and in 2014 there were protests in Ferguson and New York against two people killed by police) – his death was just the straw that broke the camel's back in terms of it sparking massive protests and getting so much media attention, probably made easier by the fact so many people were furloughed/laid off during the early covid months.

Danny Röhl withdrew from the Rangers job interest too, I hope that wasn't because he saw the writing on the wall for Ange

Already ruled himself out, he's only been at Brondby for about a month!

Yeah, I won't make light of that at all; the attack by people from Amsterdam/surrounding areas on the Maccabi fans was pre-organised (court proceedings showed whatsapp chat logs and such, and was referred to as a "Jew Hunt"), but from reading the Dutch news coverage of it they mostly failed at confronting the Maccabi hooligans who were their actual targets – I believe most of the people they ended up attacking were the Maccabi fans who were trying to avoid getting caught up with the hools, as well as some locals who refused to show ID to thugs who were indeed looking to attack anyone with an Israeli passport (or as being Jewish, as there were at least several of them using the Arabic words for Jew rather than the words for Israeli so there was definitely anti-semitic motivation there, I won't deny), and one Ukrainan refugee they mistook as being Israeli. But AFAIK the anti-Arab chanting, ripping down Palestinian flags, vandalising property (trying to kick down doors and break windows) and attacking an Arab taxi driver (breaking his windscreen with a metal pole) happened before the attacks by the locals. A lot of Maccabi fans avoided being arrested by covering their faces and getting on the flight home before the police could identify them, conveniently helped by some CCTV footage being wiped.

That's only because De Boer had a full preseason. His first competitive game to the day he was sacked was 30 days.

"Notts Forest" 😂 Must be a Derby fan doing the BBC graphics

Cooper had 12 PL games and 3 cup games

19 minutes after the final whistle 🤣🤣🤣 Nice little payday for Ange

They weren't banned by UEFA because their recent incidents of violence were outside of the stadium, and in UEFA's eyes (long-established precedent) if it wasn't in the stadium they didn't see it. This ban was initiated by the council, informed by a risk assessment (or some such) from the wider policing network. France for example has regional prefects who routinely issue bans to away contigents they believe will cause trouble; same with Italy's regional councils who have previously banned fans from German teams whose home address is in the same city as the team. I'll quote one of the articles I linked in my previous post that you obviously haven't bothered to read: "The Frankfurt fans were excluded on Sept. 22 when Italian authorities issued an order to Napoli denying the German club the usual ticket allocation for visiting teams because of the risk of violence between rival fans."

It's not Jews being banned, it's away fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv, because policing intelligence suggests they're likely to need significantly more resources to police than a typical away contigent (and they don't want to put their officers or stewards at risk) and their fans' prior behaviour has repeatedly been violent, causing property damage and chanting racist slogans. Away fans of a club being banned from attending a European fixture because police/security deem to be them a significant risk is nothing new, nor is it exclusive to Maccabi Tel Aviv — ask fans of Legia Warsaw (whose behaviour at Villa Park earned them a ban) Frankfurt, Feyenoord, West Ham, Barcelona, etc Aston Villa's Jewish fans (I believe they have a small Jewish Supporters Group?) aren't banned from attending, nor am I aware of any Aston Villa fans being banned on the basis of their religion.

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What a goal, made muscling Diomande off the ball look easy