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Wordle 202 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Happy with this first attempt.

I can understand Sean Dyche wanting to kick Covid's arse but what did Pep do to him?

I think you're forgetting World Cup winning Didier Deschamps... Dan Petrescu seems to have a surprisingly good managerial honours record on Wikipedia, considering he's only lasted three years in a job once.

I know he isn't a 90s Utd player but Carrick seemed to have something decent about him. I reckon he'll end up getting a job with a mid/low table Premier League side, perhaps even as low as the Championship, and do a better job than Lampard seemed to.

Once I was playing as Ballymoney Utd (Northern Irish 1st Division) on FM12 and was forced by my parent club, Coleraine, to loan them my star left winger for a season. I can't remember exactly what the game said but I certainly didn't have the option to prevent it.

Looking forward to the U23s getting another opportunity against Chesterfield. Hopefully Senegal do awfully in the African Cup of Nations so we get Mendy back swiftly.

Similarly the hoo-ha about these shit Ladbaby songs every year.

Ipswich losing 2-0 to Barrow on ITV4 right now. Oh dear.

What was he actually asking? Something about how well Villa did against Norwich?

I tuned in to see the final result but there were 6mins of injury time. Usually when I watch Chelsea games they underperform. Zenit scored the equaliser in that time I was watching. Sorry @stokeriño

I wouldn't be surprised if Carrick gets some lower league teams begging him to join them after that impressive caretaker run.

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Very interesting that one of Italy or Portugal won't be making it to the World Cup.

I've seen an edit that kept the black outline around the shield, which I rather liked. The yellow and green touching each other without a separator or fade irks me, which is why I've disliked the last 2 kits. Interestingly, the guy who runs a marketing agency that let me go in January for "not being good enough" (when they didn't provide any of the training and support they promised for a job I had no experience in) is complaining on socials that the club didn't work with a local agency on this. Pretty sure I've read an article saying that the London-based agency they did use have worked with numerous other PL clubs, so that was probably more of a factor than "hurr durr location".

I only saw that the tweet above was from Newcastle Utd while reading the earlier piece about Eddie Howe wanting to build the team around Shelvey, and assumed that it was an "Eddie Howe has left the club by mutual consent" announcement.

Watched Shang-Chi tonight and it may just have cracked my top 5 MCU films.

Bit closer to home than Glasgow though.

Spurs should've waited for Poch to leave PSG and then offered him whatever he wanted to come back.

There's no chance Spurs get Conte when they couldn't get him at the start of the season. Any viable long-term replacement for Nuno will be a lower quality manager who's prepared to accept that the opportunity comes with a broken team, poor business management, and a good chance of being sacked before getting a chance to improve the squad.

I'm from Norwich so, despite not being my main team due to family loyalties, I have much more of a vested interest in how they perform than another team based more than 150 miles away. Knowledge and understanding also factors in, I couldn't tell you a single thing about the West Brom squad for the last decade, other than them having Ivanovic last year.

I imagine that Angus Gunn was signed as a long-term replacement for Krul. Sargent and the Greeks seem like the most likely new players to bring in the money after next season, even if it's only one of them. Then there's Aarons and Cantwell, who should both bring in at least £20m when sold. The only question mark is around who replaces Pukki when he inevitably stops being able to deliver. Perhaps Sargent can deliver in the Championship, or maybe Adam Idah will be developed into the new talismanic forward (though I think he should've been loaned out to a Championship or League 1 side for development this season). Hugill will also likely be back after a season on loan at West Brom to pad out the options. The Norwich model is clearly working financially, if not so much on the pitch when it comes to the Premier League. I imagine the long-term goal is for that financial stability to eventually result in a team strong enough to stay up, it's just a case of how long that takes, and the Norwich board clearly don't mind yo-yo-ing in the meantime. I'll be shocked if Farke makes it through the entire season but, if he does, it shows that the club are committed to something along the lines of what I've outlined above.

To me, the signings they've made have been with a mind to dominating the Championship next season and then selling someone for £30-40m, exactly what they've ended up doing with Buendia.

Covid doesn't even factor into that, it just means they haven't scored an away goal this season. Norwich are playing with everyone behind the ball except Sargent and Pukki, so hopefully it stays that way!

Has Chris Wilder been talked about as the next Newcastle manager? I reckon him or Eddie Howe would be the best choices. Whoever it is will be the Mark Hughes (at best) of Newcastle's rise in stature, so I certainly don't expect them to get anyone like Conte. Looking forward to Bruceball finally coming to Carrow Road when Daniel Farke gets sacked after 0 league wins by the end of the season.

Not interested in a World Cup every two years as I quite like the Euros. Might as well just declare football over at the end of 2022 at this point.