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It won't fix anything but just on principle he has to go.

just don't bother coming back out after half time, ****ing hell

Mavididi considering a swap to DR Congo - wonder if that will stay true if they don't win the WC play-offs.

It's 4 more. Those 16 teams will play 4 mini tournaments of 4 sides each. Edit: Just to add: there's also 2 inter-regional playoff spots up for grabs outside of UEFA. These have been pretty cut-throat to even qualify for (Nigeria and Cameroon both missed out through the first stage of the CAF part). That'll be 2 teams from: Bolivia, DR Congo, Iraq, New Caledonia and 2 CONCACAF teams which will be decided tonight. The CONCACAF qualifying is insanely tight where basically every group can be won tonight, and then only 2 of the 3 second placed teams get to go to these playoffs.

Could be a mad set of play-offs. On paper you'd be picking the 1 seeds (Italy, Denmark, Turkey, Ukraine), with Poland and Wales as outside shouts, possibly Sweden if they get their shit together (doubt they will, they look a mess). Really hope another one of Wales/Ireland/N. Ireland make it though.

Medium spicy: Losing Kasper when we did was a bigger loss to the team than losing Vardy has been. Extremely spicy: Even though he was still a very important player for us and scored a lot of goals (and clearly we struggle to score them without him), Vardy was an overall negative for the long-term health squad from around the time we won the FA cup onwards. He had far too much influence on the dressing room and was also on so much money that the rest of the squad's wages warped around him. This isn't to say I blame him and I truly think he was the best player we've ever had. A better board probably could have worked around those issues, too.

You reckon if this had ended 1-1 both managers would have been sacked? It's what that game would have deserved.

This must be the first time in well over a decade that all three of Coventry, Derby and Forest were above us in the league.

No good free agent managers that I can see coming to us (or honestly, just generally). No money and total shitshow means no chance we attract somebody from another club (see: some Southampton fans deluding themselves that Lampard will leave Coventry for them). No nous left at the board level to pluck a relative unknown that will make things happen. Not an easy position for us and it's 100% self-inflicted. Not to mention I have no idea if we even have the money to fire him - I'm sure that the money he was owed by QPR that he paid himself will be coming back to him in some way.

Even if we'd have won it was a pathetic match, hanging on for our lives like we were playing Real Madrid or something.

He's shite but I'd be genuinely surprised if we a) got rid of him before Christmas and b) got somebody able to turn this lot into something even slightly serviceable.

Just pisses me off that he didn't think it necessary to resign here. Sure he'll pop up at wolves or something soon.

That seems by design, anybody capable of thinking outside the box is going to be smart enough to not come here.

Cannot stand the things, they're a menace and they're almost exclusively used by people who have no regards for the rules that come with using them. Paris has banned them and it was honestly so pleasant being in a city and not having to navigate around them. Here in Berlin you have a lot of teenagers taking the piss on them with an app that basically lets you ride for free. A friend of mine is in a wheelchair and has regular problems getting into U-bahn and S-bahn stations because people have just abandoned them at the entrance.

Excellent comedic timing if nothing else

surely the greatest single game performance by a player ever?

I was just thinking how funny it is the way English fans are treated re: hooliganism but when a foreign club with a long history of hooliganism is banned from attending a match it's a different story

ABDULLLLLLLLLL

Never a penalty, sorry. I know Faes is a donkey but that is pure bullshit

tell you what, this james has a ****ing rocket on him

wow he was a permanent? not even seen him in training photos yet

What's the deal with the keeper we signed on loan?

Just seen somebody claiming that her and Ruskin weren't on speaking terms for the past three years - surely not? Also, is this likely why we're still without a sponsor?

Thought it was a fair result but was quite impressed with Aberdeen, was a bit worried based on their league form. Lived in Aberdeen for 11 years and have very fond memories of the city and Pittodrie.