cosmicway

Conference league is against the likes of Agrotikos Asteras, Famalicao, Krasnodarsk. If we escape the FFP strictures by abstaining we should do that.

Our two objectively worst managers, Potter and Lamps, defeated all Europa level opposition with ease. I 'd like us to compete just for the fun of it and the cash - but that trophy it's not something for us to celebrate.

Neither United does and European fussball is easy -except champions league. Twice we played Europa, twice we won it against a modicum of opposition.

If Poch team was playing today it would be 3-0 against City, 5-0 against manure.

small things

Was their best player, scored the goal. Haaland was a lamppost.

Look, means nothing really for Pep. The match was fixed. How you legalize money for a fix ? Should n't be hard. Some phoney but legal transaction is cooked up and the money changes hand.

Why is that idiot Pep not starting Doku ?

The two m*f*kers fixed it.

United will score a third, it's going to end 3-1 to United.

We did that and we should have been above Spurs as well. But this final is a fix.

It's a fix.

He's likely to bring chaos and so destroy the republicans chances for 2028, but I don't see a succesful impeachment likely.

Bookies "certain" of Trump victory now, especially after Haley's supportive statement. Trump = 1.72, Biden = 2.37. In my view the wokes are to blame for this and the idiotic pro-Hamas demonstrators.

Come on. They have Christensen and Alonso, starting lineup. Both considered as "spent forces" by Chelsea. You can't say it's Xavi's fault. I like Real Madrid style of play much more than theirs but right now Barca is a second string team.

I did n't like Barca - overall. They managed to finish second in Spain and knock out PSG but they are a shadow compared to the old Messi-Suarez team. I can't say that Xavi is to blame for that however I have a feeling their passing game is a bit outmoded.

Is there a book "how to manage a football team for dummies" ? I 'd like to enter the short list.

Everybody misses big chances. Including Maradona and Pele. Those players who miss big chances all the time are those who don't have good sideways vision and lose confidence infront of goal. Examples are Werner and Mudryk. Jackson also but a little better, Only Diego (who also missed a few glaring chances in his time) was near perfect and Drog before him. One who was real bad was Morata but managed to correct himself back in Spain. Then some others like Aube, Higuain, Falcao, well -; those did not have the strengths needed to play for Chelsea. I don't really know if a coach can correct this in a player. Maybe but I don't recall many cases. Chance conversion is really a special talent. You know who was the deadliest I 've known ? Mitroglou (Olympiakos - Fulham - Benfica) ! Not much of a footballer but cool as an iceberg infront of goal.

Nobody transfer lists their cream players. Only the poor houses. With Rudiger it was a big contract issue. With Hazard Roman's experts anticipated he did n't have many years infront of him (turned out he had zero years !). The case of Kovacic intrigued me a little.

Second strings usually. About Palmer he was a substitute and Pep quite probably made a mistake.

Monstrous, to the point I find it difficult to believe. It is anestablished fact that the teams who sell players sink to oblivion. Some people pocket money but the teams sink. Watch this: Who is Greece's greatest player of all time ? It is Mimis Domazos undisputedly. Played from 1959 to 1980 for my rivals, Panathinaikos. In 1959-60 he won the league. My father's friends were teasing me thus: "your little team is hopeless, we have the big general" and it was only his first season. I remember this as if it was yesterday. So in today's world how long would he have stayed in Greece ? January 1960 ? Bust it - ok - maybe. September 1960 ? Unlikely. He was probably going to move to Roma or Eintracht Frankfurt - I 'm not saying Real Madrid or AC Milan. The same with all the other great icons of past years. Our football history would be some evzon players from the mountains ... We would n't even remember today that Mimis was once one of the greens. Some would say "he was one of the ... reds".

Last year, after Lamps departed, we were hearing about some really big names who were candidates for the job. Now ? Also if as is rumored Pochettino asked for reinforcements and they said no and decided to leave what does that mean ? Zero transfers ?

Shows how inefficient the rating systems are when comparing teams of different countries. According to the ratings Atalanta were -100 points from Leverkuzen. So it was like a Chelsea v. Everton match and Everton can beat Chelsea but only once in a long while.

How phoney are the right wing loonies ? Just answered a question in quora about guns in America. The Trump man above had posted a pic from Schindler's list, the one with Amon Goth trying to shoot Itzhak Stern but finds that his pistol does n't fire. He says "this is what will happen to the Americans when Biden takes away our guns". I tried to reason with him. I says "my good man if the nazis attack then only Jimmy Doolittle saves America - you can't do it with your toy gun". I go on and explain to him that private guns to combat common criime are likewise near useless and that guns are useful only if somebody is on his toes 24-365. Further I says "if you still think you have a point, tell us what to do about the psycho killers who are roaming America and represent the main danger. Must n't we address all problems ?" After that the man is in stitches. He calls me all the names in his nazi book: filthy inferior African specimen - antisemite (!) - commie ... Closes the conversation by heil hitlering me, disallows further replies. Similar things happen with me and the (true) lefties. Mercy !