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For all the criticism of Southgate, he's clearly given newcomers a chance to impress for the Euros.

Branthwaite, Gordon, Palmer, Gallagher, Konsa, Bowen, Toney are all in the "will their good form get them into the squad" conversations at the moment.

From what I read, Edwards turned down the Sporting Director role in January and has come back because Liverpool offered him to be the boss of the Sporting Director instead.

Liverpool should be happier than Man City with the point, I'd say. Especially with the players out injured.

I can see the argument either way for the Doku foul at the end, I'm not too surprised it wasn't overturned.

Who has the harder run-in, on paper, out of the top three? Going to be an interesting end to the campaign.

I checked also @Chris2K and Pourchaire starts his Super Formula season this weekend, so he is in Japan at present and thus completely unavailable for F1.

1 hour ago, Chris2K said:

True, but Nyck de Vries wasn't a Williams reserve driver when he replaced Albon in Monza in 2022, and took over the seat at the same time that Bearman has here.

This may just be part of my ongoing annoyance that F2 champions like Pourchaire and Drugovich have so many restrictions placed on them through a combination of them not being allowed to race in F2 again, and F1's refusal to allow any new teams in where these young drivers can get a shot. Or in Drugovich's case, being behind the boss's underperforming child.

That is true, but De Vries had much more racing experience and was Formula E World Champion. Whilst Pourchaire has won F2, he's got a similar experience level to Bearman, plus Williams did have the engine tie-up with Mercedes, who De Vries was contracted to.

Also worth noting that Bearman is seen as a prodigy in the sport. It's like giving a rookie Verstappen or Piastri a chance when it presents itself.

I do agree that it's a shame the F2 Champion has something of a bottleneck after winning it, but there's literally no point staying in F2 once you've won it. There are so few race seats into Formula 1 that you have to basically come off as a can't-miss prospect or else have lots of sponsor money to appeal to a backmarker, like Sargeant and Mazepin did, otherwise you're out of luck.

17 minutes ago, Chris2K said:

It feels a bit weird that Ferrari's reserve driver is an 18 year old Brit, but good luck to Ollie, even if I fear he might be a bit out of his depth with such little prep time. I would have thought Theo Pourchaire would have made more sense given his links to Vasseur, and being the reigning F2 champion, but maybe Sauber have him locked down.

Pourchaire isn't a Ferrari reserve, and Bearman has the advantage of already being there and already used to the track out of the Ferrari reserves - he qualified on Pole for the F2 race earlier.

What an opportunity for Bearman - he is considered along with Antonelli as the next big prospect out of the juniors so he has a chance to cement that here.

Hope Carlos gets well soon and is back for Australia. He did Practice yesterday with appendicitis which is pretty tough of him.

2 hours ago, TheWho87 said:

 

It looks really faithful to the universe, I will say that. I'm hopeful it'll be decent...but then I love Walton Goggins so it's already appealing to me.

24 minutes ago, FestiveJack said:

Those are AI images and it almost definitely will look nothing like that.

Obviously I knew they were AI images - it was more just that the actual track rendering was hideous and had loads of hairpins, notoriously slow and overtake-averse turns.

And that the link was dead anyway.

Needs more hairpin turns, it only has about 8 at this stage.

(If it's real - the article link goes nowhere)

I wonder if all of this might intensify talk of F1 trying to break away from the FIA again. Hasn't been too many years since that was mooted regularly.

Or you can just play Football Manager 2008 itself.

His entire tenure in charge has been a complete disaster, he seems a nightmare for the governance of the sport.

All F1 is getting is bad headlines at the moment.

Error or not, wasn't it 1-2 minutes between the drop ball and the goal? The carry-on over this is ridiculous.

Red Bull in crisis as Jos Verstappen warns Horner must leave

Jos has essentially gone to the press after falling out with Horner in Bahrain, to say that Horner needs to go and that Red Bull is being torn apart by the scandal. What a mess.

"Nottingham Forest referee analyst Mark Clattenburg" has objected to the Liverpool winner.

Since when did clubs have their own "referee analyst"?

I am enjoying watching Carlos Sainz attack and overtake Charles Leclerc multiple times already.

The ATP has sold its soul to Saudi Arabia and the PIF now.

51 minutes ago, Chris2K said:

Christian Horner set to be cleared of all charges of improper conduct.

I'm sure this won't be the end of it.

 

The quote from the Chief Executive of Ford in that article suggests that it certainly isn't the end of it.

The most brutal game in English football history - recollections on the 1970 FA Cup Final Replay between Chelsea and Leeds, ahead of their clash tonight.

Enjoyed reading this!

Good, it's the least we deserve. The second charge complicates matters because I don't think it's as straightforward as presuming we'll get another 6 now.

The second charge partially covers a period that we've already been deducted points for. So maybe it'll be 6, maybe it'll be 2-3. I doubt the Premier League even know.

For now I'm going to treat it as that we need to stay above Forest in the current table and then we'll be safe, because they're surely getting at least 6 deducted now and Burnley/Sheff Utd are miles adrift.

No? Ajax are nothing special, it's not a long trip and it won't be a particularly hostile one either like it may have been had you drawn a side from, say, Turkey or Greece.

Ajax are only two points better off than the Go Ahead Eagles in the Eredivisie.

I do wish we'd stop being subjected to Romano's posts here, he's rather irritating.

The Bear is fantastic, and while it can hit hard at times, I'd say as far as content goes it's a pretty safe watch.

And it's set in Chicago!

36 minutes ago, Lineker said:

 

They posted that when Norris went top of the leaderboard, I think.

I dunno, the best leagues have had their fair share of absolute howlers before.

Peter Enckelman, Lee Dixon, Tony Popovic, Jamie Pollock and many more have pulled off astounding own goals in the same vein as Glesnes here, and all at or near the top level of English football.