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Man Utd looked like a team already relegated there. Shocking. Can't see how ten Hag stays.

GET. IN.

First race I've watched in nearly a year. Thank God I did.

That safety car at least gives us a restarts worth of hope.

Tidy.

Will be salty if Spurs continue to spurs and Newcastle finish 5th after missing out on that 5th UCL spot (in large part due to our/Man U's failure to progress to the knock outs).

Jeremy Renner at Burton!

1 hour ago, Lineker said:

Hopefully Leeds can win the playoffs. Southampton, WBA, or Norwich going up would be very boring.

Most uninspiring group of playoff teams imaginable.

With the Mark Stone situation, does the NHL not independently verify injuries that have cap cost implications?

9 minutes ago, Baddar said:

Has it even been determined what's actually needed for 5th to be good enough?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68553886#:~:text=The Champions League has four,%2C Italy%2C Spain and England.
 

This has a good explainer. But basically it now depends on performance between English and German teams. If West Ham progress (against Freiburg) it does the world of good but still depends on future results in all three competitions. For instance if Bayern and Dortmund both made the UCL final it would likely go to Germany, same if it was Arsenal/City for England.

I really enjoy the little nugget that MetLife has hosted more NHL games than NFL playoff games.

On 18/02/2024 at 18:39, Gazz said:

Apparently there's an exploit/bug where if you offer £0 upfront, six monthly £200 installments and £2.5m after 50 league appearances, the AI will accept the offer on any player.

It works.

9th goal for Hojlund and it's the 6th that was unassisted.

Would suggest that what he's seen of the Mercedes in the tunnels hasn't filled him with confidence so far if he is going.

1 hour ago, Bobfoc said:

BBC might like a Blackburn/Newcastle match for the Alan Shearer factor.

If Blackburn do win it'll mean Newcastle will have played Blackburn in 4 of our last 10 5th round matches. Which is wild.

The last two of which we went on to play at Wembley in (final in 99, semi in 00).

On 22/01/2024 at 17:22, The Buscher said:

Winning really does cure all the pain when you look at it from a big picture perspective.  The last decade as a Giants fan has been miserable for all but two seasons but I still can only get so mad at them.  Those Super Bowls can't be taken away.  So that team has given me by far my highest highs as a sports fan, well ahead of the Mets who gave me a couple of near-misses wrapped around a bunch of joke years, the Islanders who gave me two decent playoff runs in my lifetime, and the Knicks who are the Knicks.

Random question but as a NY sports fan is it generally Knicks, Mets, Islanders, and Giants or Yankees, Rangers, Nets, and Jets?

Or do people mix them up? Is there a geographical element?

Ive always assumed at least the Knicks, Mets and Islanders come as a package deal due to the colours.

19 hours ago, Lineker said:

 

Bunch of fucking wankers.

Shoot that Tyne-Wear derby straight onto my veins!

The new functionalities for selling players makes a huge difference.

I've got through 8 seasons on my beta save (no, I don't have a social life) and it's definitely a great version of the game.

I spent 5 years at PSV, won the league each year. Went to Lille, finished second and runner up in the league after they'd finished 14th the year before.

I then went to West Ham (who'd by chance also finished 14th the year before) and it turns out they'd just had a tycoon takeover. Won the league two years in a row. As a result my manager profile now has 'Known for winning league titles' which I've never seen before.

I used the Your World start so Declan Rice was still at West Ham when I got there but was demanding a move. Sold him to PSG for £60m, so big Harry Kane vibes that he left and we won the league. However, they only signed him to a one year contract so I brought him back for free in the summer!

Couple of interesting notes - Sweden won the 2028 Euros and then defeated Norway in the 2030 World Cup final, off the back of two outrageous striker regens (both of who I had at PSV).

St Johnstone had a tycoon takeover and won the SPL in 2031 after Celtic had won it every year before then.

The Carabao Cup had 7 individual winners in the first 7 years. Torino won the Conference League and then the Europa League the following season. They shit the bed in the Champion's League after that.

Just seen the Bruno challenge and he should not have been left on the pitch. It wasn't just reckless, it's brazenly obvious he intends to elbow him in the head.

Havertz was also lucky to stay on the pitch. Completely out of control, studs up, contact could have ended up being a lot uglier.

Antony, £ for £, has to be one of Man U's worst signings. My head would explode if he played for my club.

Rubiales suspended by FIFA for 3 years.

2 minutes ago, Baddar said:

Sir Bobby Charlton has died.

I met him once when I was maybe 13. We were on a school from Belfast and went to do the tour of Old Trafford. He was in the car park as we were leaving and took the time to shake every single hand (there were 40+ of us). Always came across as a decent man.

Enjoying thinking of all the Bournemouth fans that joined in with the Kenilworth memes when Luton got promoted opening that article and realising where they were ranked.

Jordan Henderson is so full of shit.

I'm in the lobby and ready to go!

I can play, any time.