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As soon as I saw it, immediately thought he tore his ACL. That's awful.

Travis Kelce almost tackling Andy Reid is the highlight of this game so far!

Incredibly kind of you @JasonM to label Daniel Jones as a stud talent! 🤣

Unsure how I feel about this. He's on big money now, is soon 30, and despite 11 sacks this year, he tailed off HARD in the run in. ,

Honestly don't understand how our goal stood there. Feel like Burnley was hard done by.

Fulham 2 vs. 2 Bournemouth (Sat 3pm) Luton 2 vs. 1 Sheff Utd (Sat 3pm) Nottm Forest 1 vs. 1 Newcastle (Sat 5.30pm, Sky) West Ham 1 vs. 2 Arsenal (Sun 2pm, Sky) Aston Villa 2 vs. 1 Man Utd (Sun 4.30pm, Sky

In fairness, the deal isn't official just yet, but it's all done othery. Around $1m transfer. Muriel has still been a regular with Atalanta this season, but all but 2 of his Serie A appearances have been as a super sub role. 2 goals in the league but 4 in 5 in Europa League. He's definitely been on the decline the past few years, but would imagine he'll still do pretty well in MLS, especially for an Orlando side that has some really good wingers and midfielders.

Manchester City being evil shit bags? There's only one gif for this. To quote the great lawyer, Vincent LaGuardia Gambini:

McGuire's appeal was denied. He'll now go back to Orlando, where he'll almost definitely be a backup since Orlando already signed his replacement, Luis Muriel on a DP deal. Blackburn plan to send someone to Orlando to try and agree a summer transfer, but I don't know why either club or player should ever give Blackburn the time of day after all this BS.

Ivory Coast are now in the Finals, despite sacking their manager after the group stage. Seb Haller goal saw them beat DC Congo 1-0. They'll face Nigeria in the finals.

Apparently the paperwork they never submitted was because instead of hitting submit, they just saved it! 🤣

The story of Duncan McGuire's transfer window is a wild one full of disappointment. Kid just turned 23 yesterday, only played 1 year professionally in MLS after getting drafted in the MLS SuperDraft last year in round one (the draft hardly ever produces any MLS starting players nowadays) after spending 4 years playing collegiate soccer. Kid is somehow an instant sensation and scores 13 goals in 29 league appearances, 15 in all competition. His salary is only around $75,000 a year. Blackburn and Sheffield Wednesday both made bids for him this window. Blackburn had a permanent transfer accepted for a really low figure, around £3m plus 2m in add ons I believe. Kid leaves preseason in Mexico on a long flight to NYC, then England, to make the move official. Blackburn call Orlando while he's mid flight in the air and cancel the transfer because they couldn't afford it, despite just making the huge Adam Wharton transfer. Duncan finds out once he's in England, but stays there waiting a new deal to be made, most likely with Sheffield Wednesday now. Fans even go to the hotel he's at and get autographs and pictures with him! Transfer deadline day, Blackburn finally approve another deal with Orlando, this time a loan of £550k and a purchase option of £5.5m plus £2m in add ons. However, Blackburn screwed McGuire over AGAIN because they didn't submit all of the paperwork in time. EFL rejected the first appeal today, and EFL Board will hear the second appeal on Thursday. I know we got some Blackburn fans here, but holy crap this club is a mess. Will be awful if McGuire misses out on the transfer in some ways, but at this point he might be better off moving somewhere better in the summer.

Part of me is pissed that the USA is on the west coast the whole damn group stage because it means I'm not seeing them in person, but can still see multiple games with road trips to Philly and New Jersey. The MetLife Stadium is supposed to grow legitimate grass fields for the World Cup. They were the best place for a Final because Sofi Stadium wasn't approved for the final I believe, and JerryWorld has zero public transportation. Atlanta is the only other place I think would have been a good final location. With MetLife at least they can just have multiple trains from NYC going there.

I get that it's always going to be called a second yellow (especially with Havertz's simulation of the fake face injury) but the first one definitely wasn't. I just don't understand how Arsenal are allowed to get away with repeated hands to face and pulling and dragging back men. It was an embarrassing performance from Liverpool, absolutely deserve nothing from this game. Just a shame we didn't make Arsenal work for a single goal. Handed every single one to them!

This is one of the most one sided refereeing performances I have seen in well, since the Spurs match.

No idea what Virg is doing there letting the ball run. Could have easily headed that back to Alisson. Just baffling defending.

Yeah Diaz out muscling Saliba was a fun little moment, both for the goal and because I cannot believe how massively overrated Saliba is.

That is the most undeserved equalizer in the entire season of all leagues. 1-1 without even registering a shot.

Liverpool have been embarrassingly bad to start the Arsenal fixture again. They haven't even made Arsenal work for the lead. Just very very awful defending.

Reports are coming in that Mbappe is signing with Real Madrid this summer. Let's see if it actually sticks this time.

Ivory Coast are peak AFCON craziness. Playing Mali in the QF, and remember Ivory Coast are being coached by their assistant now after their manager was sacked after their horrible group stage. Ivory Coast go down to 10 men right before halftime. Mali score to go 1-0 up in the 71', but substitute Simon Adringa equalizes for Ivory Coast in the 90th minute to force extra time. Moments away from penalties, substitute Oumar Diakite scores in the 120+2' to put Ivory Coast up 2-1. Diakete is then immediately sent off for a second yellow for taking his shirt off in celebration after scoring the goal. Mali end up getting a man sent off at the end of the match too, and Ivory Coast are now somehow in the Semifinals!

Stuff like building a new stadium, improving the current one, upgrading youth/training facilities are all stuff that should be 100% not counted by FFP. I'm sure clubs would very quickly try to scam that and cheat, but would think it's something that should be easily identified if it's tried.

Really don't understand how the Newcastle equalizer was allowed to stand. That looked like a very clear foul on the Luton player with the ball right before Barnes grabs the loose ball and scored. Newcastle player very much appeared to hip check the Luton player.

Everton 1 vs. 2 Tottenham (Sat 12.30pm, TNT) Brighton 2 vs. 1 Crystal Palace (Sat 3pm) Sheff Utd 0 vs. 2 Aston Villa (Sat 5.30pm, Sky) Bournemouth 2 vs. 1 Nottm Forest (Sun 2pm) Arsenal 1 vs. 2 Liverpool (Sun 4.30pm, Sky)

First time in 8 matches beating Chelsea in 90 minutes. I know they're not great this year (or even good), but it's still a very important 3 points.