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Absolutely man, thank you. I will definitely reach out when the trip gets closer. Since we have such a limited time in England, we're trying to do as much as we can Wednesday night and Thursday before the match. Very much appreciated.

Very happy to report back that after hours of effort, was able to get everything scheduled how we need to still make the trip! My girlfriend got incredibly lucky that the schedule coordinator hadn't released the schedule yet, or else she would have been pretty much screwed out of getting off and either would have not gone, or would have had to wake up probably 4am UK time for us to take the first flight out of Manchester, land at JFK 1330 EST, get through customs, and have pretty much just enough time to get to the hospital for a 13 hour night shift (essentially be up for 34 hours straight outside of hopefully getting sleep on the plane/car). Yesterday was way too freaking stressful but very, very happy to say we somehow got everything changed, and the plane company didn't even charge us to rebook our flights. We're losing a day in England which sucks, but at least we're getting to make the trip and see the match!

Liverpool game got changed from Wednesday to Thursday. We had to fly back Thursday because my best friend couldn't get the whole week off and neither could my girlfriend. Now have to have a miracle of them both getting their schedules changed and getting flights changed (while being fucked there money wise because airplane companies are criminals). If we don't all go to the game, we can't get tickets through our supporters club for 3-5 years. I want to cry and break everything. This was our nightmare scenario.

I don't care if it's at Everton's or Forest's expense, I just want Luton Town to stay up.

The explanation given was that Endo influenced the play coming back from an offsides position. He was offsides when the ball was delivered, and then essentially stood in place which blocked off Colwill from marking Virg. It's one I could see going either way most times, but totally understand why it was ruled out.

Gravenbach and Endo both left Wembley on crutches and in a protective boot. Luis Diaz also looked to have injured his groin late on in extra time as well. Wednesday FA Cup match going to have to be Academy Lads only at this rate!

I don't care if people here don't like Klopp, don't like Liverpool, or any of the other condescending jabs I always hear. This was the stuff of legends. Played 7 current or former Academy players, finished with 3 teenagers on the pitch, our backup Keeper putting in a man of the match performance, and our captain scoring the game winning goal, in our manager's last season here. I absolutely love this club and am so happy we got this trophy ❤️❤️

HE'S OUR CENTER HALF! HE'S OUR NUMBER 4! HE'LL SCORE A GOAL, CALM AS YOU LIKE! HE'S VIRGIL VAN DIJK! HE'S VIRGIL VAN DIJK!!!

These substitutions are either going to make or break us. Huge gamble by Klopp.

Ridiculously selfish from Enzo to try and back heel a shot on goal instead of the simple layoff to Palmer. We are very, very lucky to not be behind.

Oh I for sure don't think it's a red card or anything, but one of those it's a flagrant yellow card (despite no intention by Caicedo, I know it was accidental). Somehow, though, it wasn't even a foul!

Yeah I know they didn't give us an angle where you can see straight on, but that absolutely looked onsides. Think you guys were hard done by there. Calling it justice for Caicedo injuring Gravenbach with orange card type challenge.

That was nasty looking. Caicedo went studs first into Gravenbach's ankle. He definitely had no intention of doing so and was accidental, but still just so nasty looking. Somehow the ref couldn't even tell it was a foul.

Definitely helped playing Austin. They are my pick to finish last in the West. Terrible last season and made no real improvement. I think Minnesota is going to be so fun to watch this year. Reynoso having a whole year with Pukki to create chances for and Bongi is definitely going to breakout this season I think!

Counter point: 5 of the starting XI from that match are injured today, with a 6th player on the bench. That's a very substantial difference.

Injuries have definitely been huge for a lot of teams this year, but I think the difference is clear between us and Chelsea. Outside of Bajcetic, all of our injuries are guys who you would expect to be starting today. For Chelsea, it's 2 - with an argument for a 3rd - guys who would be starters. It's an absolutely massive difference.

All the questionable guys miss out. 6 of our 8 subs are 21 and under. 2 I believe could make their debut, including 16 year old Nyoni. We're cursed this year.

Minnesota actually hired Eric Ramsey as their manager this week. He's been a coach at Manchester United and turned down opportunities at Blackpool and Swansea. He's supposed to be a highly rated coach at Manchester United, or at least that's the reporting, but he's incredibly young at I think 32.

Aston Villa 3-1 Nottm Forest (Sat 3pm) Crystal Palace 2-1 Burnley (Sat 3pm) Man Utd 2-0 Fulham (Sat 3pm) Bournemouth 0-2 Man City (Sat 5.30pm, Sky) Arsenal 2-1 Newcastle (Sat 8pm, TNT)

In fairness, I was absolutely exhausted when I made this thread. Also, Jakob Glesnes scored an own goal in the Union's first game last year...in the same exact minute apparently. Someone's about to investigate him for match fixing! Yeah this is one of those where I can't go "this shit happens in bigger leagues in Europe too, MLS gets so much unfair criticism from people." It was the most bizarre own goal I have ever seen. It's just one of those freak moments where the first match in 3 months meets torrential downpour and wind meets losing composure. These are two of the best players in their position in MLS, and are pretty much consistently mistake free players. But oh boy this own goal will be played a lot this week!

So my beloved Philadelphia Union opened their season in CONCACAF Champions Cup a few thousand miles away down in Costa Rica. Went from 1-0 down to scoring a huge 3-2 win, plus the 3 away goals on top of it. Excellent result given the travel, it was played in a torrential downpour and extreme winds, playing in Costa Rica is always hard, and it's vs a team in mid season form. ... However, the Union also scored an own goal for the century for Saprissa's opening goal. Just...my goodness. Make fun of MLS, I understand, totally deserved.

This thread is objectively hilarious.

Glasner is a great get for Palace. I thought he was incredibly impressive with Frankfurt. He developed and improved so many players there, and overachieved there, especially in Europe. Europa League win, Round of 16 in Champions League, and also a German Cup final to go with the solid league success. Crystal Palace are definitely a mess right now, so it'll be interesting to see how they do under him. Palace's recruitment has been pretty terrible when it comes to attacking quality, they're so reliant on Eze and Olise, but both are so injury prone

Holgate with the most obvious of red cards this season. Players are seeing reds for studs into the shin regularly. Holgate went in twice as high, studs into the thigh of Mitoma.