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Very interesting that so many English clubs are paying homage to the national team by getting knocked out in the quarter finals. There's still time for Aston Villa to join them!

Surely the penalty for not complying with the UEFA cap will just be "sorry, you can't come in" and the slot goes to a team that does?

So do those charts mean that Chelsea need to sell £71.5m worth of players to avoid a points reduction and £153m worth of players to play in Europe (even if they managed to qualify)?

It was nice of Pochettino to send Badiashile and Casadei on just in time for them to both contribute to Sheffield Utd's late equaliser

Scoring in every game since January 26th (except the League Cup final) doesn't sound as impressive when you realise that we haven't kept a clean sheet since then either (including the League Cup final).

Candid pics of the aforementioned secret meeting:

Quite an EDM heavy month as it helps me get stay focused at work. Last month I think I had Alestorm at #1 artist because I was refamiliarising myself with their newer albums. That's Marshmello, Hollywood Undead, Sebastian Ingrosso, Avicii, and Fall Out Boy represented in the top tracks. Spotify kept serving me Bullet (Hollywood Undead) on basically every mix playlist possible, including both happy and moody!

@stokeriño I did recently see a LinkedIn post that Chelsea are looking for a new Head of Performance Medicine, so hopefully they'll finally sort it out.

They inducted Ashley Cole without a vote so I wouldn't be surprised if they do that again, particularly if anyone hangs around on the shortlist without ever getting voted in.

Not because it's West Ham but because it would mean Man Utd would be the only English team in the top 7 not in it

I fully expect that draw to result in a Liverpool vs. Leverkusen or Milan final, but pulling for West Ham to go back to back in Europe and into the Champion's League!

What does Ben Chilwell's knee have to say about his inclusion in the squad?

Just spotted this on an FM14 save:

Hopefully it means we don't have to sell Gallagher just to balance the FFP books now.

This bit is disingenuous (if not entirely false) because the linked statement clearly explains that Seniors will still get a 25% discount on season tickets, phased down by 5% a year until 2030 to bring it in line with the same discount Young Adults currently get.

Men in Black II

Has anyone played Marvel's Midnight Suns? It's currently on sale as part of the 2K sale and I'm intrigued by the concept. Turn based strategy using Marvel characters sounds like Lord of the Rings: The Third Age, which was an awesome game.

I turned it off after Gary Neville's "blue billion pound bottle jobs" comment. Absolutely unnecessary stuff in a game where I'd already had to have the volume on low to avoid the ~3 hours of Liverpool love stories the broadcast has been.

"Is he a good guy or not" No, there's recorded evidence that he isn't... what a silly statement.

Maybe he's eyeing up the Klinsmann role of reasonably well-liked/sympathetic to English tendencies studio pundit.

Those would be fine if they were market stall counterfeits for Man City and Chelsea that cost £5.

As well as what @Baddar mentions above (although 20 years ago is more accurate), there was also a 2004 remake of Alfie starring Jude Law. I did my work experience with a Reception class who were born in 2004/05 and there were four boys called Alfie in a class of 30ish kids. Pretty sure we only had a max of four, maybe five, with a shared name (Oliver) in an entire high school year group that was 8x bigger.

It's what PL officials will say to Man City when they finally get around to assessing those 115 charges.

This is unexpectedly really good.

Brighton signing a promising new left back? I look forward to him stinking up Stamford Bridge next season after paying triple whatever this fee was.