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Shining Wit said:
Dont be so downbeat. There is a great leveller kidderminster have and thats the home advantage. Typically non league pitches get absolutely bogged in wet conditions and prem players arent used to playing in quagmires that stop balls rolling. That and the hammers always find a way to embarrass themselves

It'll still be a hammers win because we're fucking massive but it wont be a rout
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I think my main concern is that Moyes is usually a competent manager, I don't think he's going to choke it the same way Howe has at least, a 3-0 win seems fairly reasonable to me.

Although I do agree the non-league pitch may help Kidderminster out if they get hit with bad weather beforehand.
 
Marcus "Jesse "Theo Walcott" Lingard" Rashford MBE, Bringer of Taxpayer-Funded School Meals, is really getting a hammering these days eh?

Shit player. I won't lie, he looked a real talent when he first burst onto the scene but he's just gone downhill. Started sniffing his own farts and thought he was the finished article just off comparisons alone. If Utd are serious about competing for anything again, they can't afford passengers like him. Pace merchant.
 
AFCON has been crap so far. I know tournament int'l football is rarely a showcase for the best of the game but there's been nothing truly riveting thus far.

Not even half-full stadiums don't help either. May as well have free entry, it's not like these tournaments are held and get expanded to cash in on gate receipts.
 
Fernández with yet another awful performance for Brentford. The loss of Raya continues to haunt them but they've done enough to stay up this season it seems
 
Paulo Dybala will be leaving Juventus for free this summer, making the club look like complete retards for not selling him when they had the chance. He's a fun player to watch at times but is made of glass and doesn't deserve the money he's demanding. I really thought he'd stick it out with Juve, he seemed to love the club but I guess he loves money more. Good riddance.
 
The immense contrast in views in the Chelsea fanbase is endlessly hilarious to me:

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Rooney and Derby seem to living a real life "challenge mode" save on Football Manager, because they are certainly fighting against extreme odds to now be 9 points adrift from safety. They've experienced two separate point deductions, just had a fresh transfer embargo placed upon them and yet the Ram's continue in spite of EFL's efforts to erase them.

For those not following the ongoing drama at Derby, the EFL has blocked three different takeovers from happening this month due to "uncertainty" on how the funds will be used. It should also be noted that the EFL has decided to contribute towards ongoing lawsuits from both Middlesbrough and Wycombe against the Ram's. Why? Both sides are claiming "loss in revenue at the expense of Derby" over the two prior seasons. Yup. Both teams want an estimated £40 million in "damages" and fittingly have members from the board also affiliated with said clubs. Clearly no agenda ongoing here, no sir. Don't be surprised if the UK parliament is dragged into this mess.

As for survival odds? Higher than expected! Reading's point deduction I mentioned in prior Championship discussions happened, so that's a non-issue now. Hull's "Turkish" buy-out seems to be delayed for the Summer. I look forward to a repeat of Doncaster with the Tigers, considering his agenda. Whereas the Ram's? Derby still have to play fellow strugglers Barnsley, Peterborough United, Hull City, Birmingham City and both fixtures against Cardiff City within the next few months. Amusingly with one of those duel fixtures against Cardiff will be the final game of the Championship season.

Of course, the EFL could do a repeat of what happened to Wigan a few seasons back and just deduct extra points on the final day.

I don't even support Derby! But at this point fuck the EFL and may they survive out of spite.
 
LetterlandMafia said:
AFCON has been crap so far. I know tournament int'l football is rarely a showcase for the best of the game but there's been nothing truly riveting thus far.

Not even half-full stadiums don't help either. May as well have free entry, it's not like these tournaments are held and get expanded to cash in on gate receipts.
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I'm not even entirely sure why we are supposed to give a damn about the African Cup of Nations.

Though I will defend the Zambia title is one of the sweetest moments in all sports history. I mean, they weren't even underdogs - They were group-phase fodder, and they managed to reach the finals. They won it in Gabon, where their NT suffered their infamous plane crash in 1993. And it was at a stadium built almost right next to the accident site. And they beat Drogba's Ivory Coast for it. Fuckin' A. Sadly, the Chipolopolo slipped back into irrelevancy since then...
 
My main takeaway from AFCON at the moment is the people who care most about it are diaspora born in North London who've never been to Africa and only ever watch the Premier League.

Other than that, I like the look of Cameroon and Nigeria so far.
 
Best result of AFCON so far imo
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Comoros have a population just under the size of Birmingham and they've not only knocked out one of the big teams of the tournament Ghana by beating them but they've also advanced to the knockout stages being one of the best 3rd placed teams in the group stages having just enough points to take the last spot in their first major tournament to boot, big props to them honestly.

Also lmao defending champs Algeria getting knocked out in a group with Equatorial Guinea and fucking Sierra Leone :story: .
 
Dusan Vlahovic, arguably Europe's best young striker after Haaland, was originally supposed to play out his contract at Fiorentina and leave for greener pastures in the summer. But now Fiorentina have decided they'd like to sell him this winter and a few clubs are scrambling to sign him. So far the frontrunners are Juventus, Arsenal and Man City. If he does wind up being sold, it will be the biggest signing of the transfer window.
 
KokoroKoroki said:
Also lmao defending champs Algeria getting knocked out in a group with Equatorial Guinea and fucking Sierra Leone :story: .
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They only won the title via a fluke deflection and the only "shot" the entire cup final.

As much talent as the "Arab" nations in this cup have, collectively they just don't work together.

Subject of nations with talented players and underperforming international cohesion, the US national team selection today has seemingly passed over most talent playing in the European system. Including a certain Norwich player that put two past Watford tonight. Is this a case of the MLS getting preference or can some other American kiwi's explain?
 
Lmfao, watching Inter vs Venezia now and I just noticed that Inter has their players names written only in Chinese letters on their jerseys. In a purely domestic league game - in Italy - you know the country where the latin alphabet was invented. Say what you want about Juve, but at least the club doesn't deepthroat Xi like Inter does 😄
 
KokoroKoroki said:
Best result of AFCON so far imo
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Comoros have a population just under the size of Birmingham and they've not only knocked out one of the big teams of the tournament Ghana by beating them but they've also advanced to the knockout stages being one of the best 3rd placed teams in the group stages having just enough points to take the last spot in their first major tournament to boot, big props to them honestly.

Also lmao defending champs Algeria getting knocked out in a group with Equatorial Guinea and fucking Sierra Leone :story: .
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To be fair all but two of the Comoros squad are actually French, as are I suspect most of their fans. As someone put it better you could play AFCON in Britain and France and get better attendance.

Topgallant said:
Lmfao, watching Inter vs Venezia now and I just noticed that Inter has their players names written only in Chinese letters on their jerseys. In a purely domestic league game - in Italy - you know the country where the latin alphabet was invented. Say what you want about Juve, but at least the club doesn't deepthroat Xi like Inter does 😄
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Why I laugh when big club fans make fun of smaller teams like mine. Yeah we’re shit, but it’s our shit. Have fun being prostituted out to foreign businessmen and your seat sold to Chinese and Indian tourists.
 
Kevin Friend is an absolute fucking mong, VAR is a farce and Diogo Jota is a opportunistic cheater. Fucking robbed today with two terrible VAR decisions that Alan Shearer called wrong, pathetic and stupid. If this isn’t proof that the refs favour the big clubs, I dunno what is.
 
This Is Serious Mum said:
Kevin Friend is an absolute fucking mong, VAR is a farce and Diogo Jota is a opportunistic cheater. Fucking robbed today with two terrible VAR decisions that Alan Shearer called wrong, pathetic and stupid. If this isn’t proof that the refs favour the big clubs, I dunno what is.
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Was an absolute bullshit decision, but I knew as soon as it happened that VAR would give it. Any sort of contact, no matter how exaggerated or sought after, is given. It’s getting a bit ridiculous.

As an aside, what did Chelsea mean by this?

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LetterlandMafia said:
To be fair all but two of the Comoros squad are actually French, as are I suspect most of their fans. As someone put it better you could play AFCON in Britain and France and get better attendance.



Why I laugh when big club fans make fun of smaller teams like mine. Yeah we’re shit, but it’s our shit. Have fun being prostituted out to foreign businessmen and your seat sold to Chinese and Indian tourists.
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This is why I was done with top-level football years ago. That and the tacky, sterilised, plastic wokeness. It might not be nearly as good on a technical level, but I unironically find non-league to be more interesting than the prem.
 
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