Brainy

Get in Katie Price

In his defence he will come back after a few months and probably receive the same treatment again, then the cycle continues. Been there done that, I get why you'd rather remove all trace of your account even though it's easy to create a new account again in time.

Those leagues are poor additions except for Saudi (which doesn't tempt me but I can see the pull). To add those already mentioned, Azerbaijan and Georgia. Would love a Dinamo Tbilisi save. As niche as Latvia and Lithuania are, what's the point

Probably means Serbia have always been shit according to the doom mongers

I read the BBC run a poll asking if this is the worst defeat in their history. I'm not an expert on Irish football history however this current team are rubbish, and I imagine they think Armenia are on par with San Marino/Liechtenstein etc. They're absolutely not and I imagine it's a fairly hostile place to go as well as being long distance, I'm not at all surprised they lost. Surprised Ireland were even 1/2 to win

Yeah as much as we love an underdog, they have to have atleast earned it rather than getting lucky being placed in a group with other rubbish. It's not rigged at all in the current format. The 16 team Euros in the past was brilliant but the increase to 24 has allowed some newer countries to appear at the finals and not only did they qualify the correct way but they didn't embarrass themselves in the slightest (thinking Georgia and Albania)

Give them a chance of what... Embarrassment on the main stage?

He could easily do a fine job there.

I don't think Verstappens opinion on whether to play the team game is worth much tbh. If he was in Piastri's shoes today and Red Bull didn't order them to switch back (like that'd ever happen) every single toy from Max's pram would be on the floor, no "HA's" to be seen. Most teams would have done what McLaren chose to do today, more so when they are the only two in the title fight. The difference is most other teams wouldn't have the luxury of being able to simply swap them back without losing positions. The race was effectively over by the time they pitted, when it's out of the driver's hands I think them swapping cars is justified. It's not dissimilar to Hungary last year when again McLaren were trying to be too clever and that day Piastri was given preferential treatment in the middle of a Lando Vs Max title fight. Just doesn't help with this "British bias" narrative created by Red Bull in years gone by which has now stretched to McLaren for no great reason. Imagine Piastri's engine going up in smoke last week instead, the bandwagon would have loved that one. If Piastri was in Norris' position today and they switched them back around, it'd be all "sensible decision" from the same people up in arms today.

WTF are they thinking pitting Piastri ahead of Norris anyway?

Bears choking again

Told you we were signing someone today

You're making Asha seem sane with that take

Increasing international football for others.....

How do you suggest qualifying for international tournaments though where (most) games arent pointless? Not really fair to have a closed shop od 6/8 teams who qualify automatically and therefore don't really have to play because they're that much better than most. Also can't really have a tiered system like the nations league where some top nations miss out on the euros/WC but countries like Albania and Finland do. Don't disagree England Vs San Marino is never particularly exciting but there's not really a way around it.

In fairness when was the last time we signed 3 players in deadline day?

8.59 just post it, edit in the link after. Have some balls

@StanSP go get it big man, this is your time

Writing the thread out ready and then dumping the link in at the time it's announced probably goes some way to explaining it

Number of midfielders we have I think

I hope Rudkin knows the deadline shuts at 7pm this year and not 11pm... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

My favourite bit of deadline day is sky sports news showing big ben strike the top of the hour when the window is slammed closed for another term. Pure goosebumps

Are that many people here new to transfer deadline day to not realise transfers are always announced after the actual deadline?

I'm waiting for a video of Jules saying "are we ready for another signing, foxes fans?" 😎😎

@Bluetintedspecs told him to I suspect