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It was supposed to be in the summer but unfortunately it clashes with the invaluable Club World Cup. And as the big clubs with big money and big power are playing CL games in late January/February, they've moved it so it doesn't have a huge impact on anyone the football establishment cares about

Not being convinced by him... which I am and you're not, despite us probably agreeing he's done feck all so far :)

When was it? Things like this sound silly today but its easy to forget that only 50 years ago there were lots and lots of white dots on the maps. Only about a 100 years ago the Komodo dragon sounded like a dumb fable but there it was... undiscovered by "civilised" humans for thousands of years...

While I agree Gruda has not achieved much yet, but I'm actually the opposite about the other part... through his ball handling, confidence and pace I'm convinced he is a VERY good player... like, one of our best. I would be surprised if he's not one of the first players on the team sheet by the...

Yup certainly a bunch of problems baked into it. Main concern might be Klopp video. In the future it will be VERY difficult to find referees if the requirement is "never said a bad word about a club, manager or player on any social media or in any recorded private conversation, ever". I'm...

King Aaron.

I knew a cryptozoologist called Jan-Ove Sundberg (now dead) when I was a kid. Maybe "knew" is the wrong word, but I visited his website ( https://web.archive.org/web/20010424085828/http://www.cryptozoology.st ) quite often and sent him a few emails about this and that. At some point he...

Has there been any word on international rights to this thing? Bit worried it will be very difficult to watch it from outside UK.

I only think Swedish coaches are doing this (Pia Sundhage and Tony Gustavsson in the cases of US and Australia). When women's football became popular here 25 years ago, there was a lot of arguments that I recognize in the current talk here about women's football. Lots of comparisons and wild...

I've said it before: any manager, player or pundit blaming referees for their own failures should be banned from football for a long time. During this time they should not only be banned from games, but also training sessions. During the ban, the manager/player/pundit will work as a youth...

Give me my f***ing cat video

Maybe this is subconsciously why you run the stay up-tracker every year. You want to give something back to the society after MURDERING it. Post-torture cuddling.

Yup, thats the general development of women's football, for good and bad. 20 years ago, women's football was dominated by clubs doing only or mainly women's football, like Umeå IK, Turbine Potsdam and so forth. Unfortunately the sport didn't grow as quickly as expected so a lot of these clubs...

Think we had quite a few injuries back on the previous occasions as well no? But sure, there may well be exceptions like in the Baleba case. I just think if we're able to make the choice, we'll go for the choice that didn't travel the globe. Certainly difficult to predict though, especially...

That would be great! For us. Problem is we're going to have a real hard time convincing him to sign a new contract and go on a six month loan to Umpshire Wanderers if Roberto calls and says "hello, come and play first team football for Marseille".

Like I said in another thread, counter-attack football suits him poorly. 188 cm and a haalandesque body shape... not made to make endless runs chasing loose long balls. As for Ireland... they did rather well until that penalty. It is a midtable Championship team that prevented England from...

Would imagine he returns in January. Ayari also struggled to get game time with Blackburn. Not quite sure I trust their ability to identify a good footballer. Don't think he made any minutes in competitive games for our first team before moving right? Meaning we could loan him elsewhere.

Right, bit of a brainfart there. But general thought remains... I think a lot of our long travellers will be on the bench.

I think Fabian learnt after the first international break that he needs to chill with the long travellers. He started many of them against Ipswich and then four days later against Chelsea, and they did not have the energy to do well in those. After the second international break, we went to...

I hate him.