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I will miss his famous catchphrase as the action begins: AND IT’S LIGHTS OUT, AND AWAY WE GO

Her first three albums are right up there among my favourites of the 2010s so I was a bit disappointed that this one was merely “good”. I’ll give it another go.

Let’s keep tabs on Nkunku’s scoring for Leipzig in the 204/25 Bundesliga then

I guess he’s been banging the goals in by Chelsea’s standards but nine in the league isn’t really anything spectacular.

Linkolor please keep last season’s premier league thread open because I haven’t finished reflecting on it yet

Why’s he wearing the completely unique special edition Italy shirt?

This is quite fitting because Italy didn’t qualify for World Cups in the 19th century either.

Does he actually like football or is he only interested in business to business sales?

I hate kids ALSO “When we look at the history books nobody ever mentions the losers” That’ right cause nobody ever thinks about the 1990 England team or the 1982 Brazil team and we just can’t stop talking about the 1990 Argentina team and the 1982 Italy team.

To be fair, being the first ever English team to win the treble of FA Cup, Champions League and Premier League is still pretty impressive. No one will forget any team that achieves something like that.

McManaman already has his own Champions League medals, he doesn’t need to bother with this vicarious celebration nonsense!

BT Sport are vastly overestimating my level of interest in the emotional state of Jolson Lescott.

Three finals for Italian clubs and three defeats. That’s tough.

"Coverage and pre-match build-up begins from 6pm with kick-off at 8pm. Rio Ferdinand, Owen Hargreaves, Joleon Lescott, Michael Owen and Steve McManaman are among the pundits with Jake Humphrey presenting." 🤢

The one alternative database I’d like to see for FM is one that adjusted the ridiculous disparities in prize money and other positive feedback loops - perhaps even implementing some kind of salary cap or something - to restore some competitive balance. The trend towards clubs dominating the league for years is even worse than real life.

Benfica is a great place for a young American player because as we all know this is where Freddy Adu blossomed into the best player the world has ever seen.

But Spurs are not a strong powerful team.

I live right across from the Oval and I had no idea cricket could be so loud. India fans go absolutely wild whenever they think they’ve got a wicket. But they’re not actually getting too many of them lol

All this “first European trophy in 58 years stuff” is doing West Ham’s 1999 intertoto cup winning team a major disservice.

Wonder how Messi will adjust to the step up in quality after two years in Ligue 1

Omg he was born in the same week that Crank That Soulja Boy was released

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I wonder if it was the family connection with his dad playing for them that did it

There are plenty of other examples. But let’s just limit ourselves to managers who have left Celtic for the English Premier League relatively recently then. The last time a Premier League team hired a Celtic manager was when Brendan Rodgers went to Leicester City, and sure, it didn’t end too well but it was a solid start and in winning the FA Cup (more than Spurs recently lol) he is the second most successful manager in their history. Last manager before that to go from Celtic to Premier League was Martin O’Neill to Aston Villa who saw them to three consecutive sixth place finishes: comfortably their best spell of the century so far. By managing Celtic you have experience of intense media scrutiny, highly demanding fans, an expectation to win all the time, dealing with possibly the most intense footballing rivalry in the world and playing European football. Seems like a decent enough apprenticeship to me. In many ways you will learn things that are invaluable for a job at a top club that you’re not going to learn from a couple of good seasons at, say, Brighton. Sure you’d rather get someone with a top CV at the top level but this is a Tottenham team who finished mid-table last season. Taking a punt on a guy who did well in Scotland is their level now.

That’s true. Managers who have done well in Scotland have famously not really been able to cut it down in England. Like the guy this thread is named after, for example.