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What won't happen is politicians getting their act together and also politicians of different countries working together I 'm afraid.

They would disappear with the Thatcher method. But the politicians don't dare to. Here is a funny story for you. In 2005 Olympiakos fans set fire to a stadium. The match never started and Olympiakos had points deducted. But they wanted the sentence to be repealed. That was January 2005 and some weeks later -after the deduction of the points- I 'm invited by some crowd to attend a certain function in an orphanage in Piraeus. It was for the new year and in Greece we have belated new year celebrations for up to February. The folks who invited me was a local club of race goers (horse racing fans) so nothing to do with football, I went there and nobody knew I was even a football supporter or anything. So I sit on a table, they offered us candy and waited for the mayor to make a speech, mainly about the activities of the orphanage I expected. To my surprise I noticed various pieces of small paper on every table and out of curiosity I picked some of them to see what they were. So what do I read ? It was poems with lewd verses about the other teams ! I did n't make a comment, sat and waited for the mayor. So the mayor comes, there was a small band playing music as well and he made his speech. What he said was "Pireaus port will burn if this sentence is not repealed - I came here to warn the government minister and everybody !" The govt was New Democracy and what sort of mayor was that ? He was a New Democracy mayor who the year before managed to defeat the left wing former mayor. So -in effect- if New Democracy wanted to win in Piraeus again they had better behave ! True to form the sentence was repealed, the match was played, Olympiakos won 2-0 and at the end of the season won the league by the narrowest of margins - thanks to the reprieve.

Be sensible. It would just peter out.

Dynamo - 5 yrs out of Europe PAOK Salonika - 3d division Will they try again ? Would you place a bet on it ? Those are the recent events - if we talk about the past I may expand to more cases.

HOOLIGANS - GREEK, CROATIAN AND OTHERS Football hooliganism is an old thing. Not as old as football itself but old enough. In Greece they started life at around 1972. This is when for the first time moving masses of supporters were noticed, causing trouble. Greece was still under the junta but that did n't play any role. In the years to follow hooliganism took hold but in other countries it was already known from before. In England from the midsixties. It is in a certain way the projection and the natural continuation of football fanaticism. Before the hooligans the rage of football supporters was extinguished on the referees - or the bad referees if you like. We also had isolated incidents. Two rival supporters seating side by side - the one says some words and fighting ensues. But things became a lot worse as we know. It is not a small matter for someone who enters strong arguments from time to time to move into a phase where he wakes up in the middle of the night, moves from suburb to suburb to burn the offices of the rival club. Here some analysis is required. Many talk about nazis or, depending on which club we are talking about, for maoists-anarchists. Basically this does n't hold ground. The UK nazis for example were calling themselves the party of racism, colonialism, iron fist rule should they ever came to power. But they were not calling themselves the party of ... Leicester City, or the party of ... Luton town FC, or the party of ... Arsenal. The two kinds of logic don't fit together. It is true that nazi instructors are getting involved, to school the youngsters. It is also true that a football hooligan may become a nazi of his own free will, since nazism and hooliganism are similar states of mind. But it's not true that the nazis, anarchists etc created hooliganism. It's a football phenomenon and -unfortunately- the teams themselves have created it. They have collected all the low life elements of society and made them into supporter clubs. Could they have chosen doctors-lawyers-scientists to do that ? Rather not, they could n't so they engaged the low life elements. This is the truth. There is nothing else besides. So therefere if for every 100 fanatical supporters we have 15 hooligans, it's enough to cause a big problem. Is there a cure ? There is and it is called Margaret Thatcher. Margaret Thatcher was a politician who was disliked by many but what she did, to practically eliminate hooliganism from the UK was an achievement. How can it be done ? Five years out of Europe, 4-5 relegations plus the penalties imposed on the individuals who are arrested. But are we going to see this ? Or perhaps we won't ?

Daily Mail backs Croatians ! https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-12402151/UEFA-concerns-hosting-Europa-Conference-League-final-Athens-footage-shows-AEK-hooligans-pre-arranged-fatal-fight-Dinamo-Zagreb-fans-saw-29-year-old-stabbed-death.html

In Ukraine - Greece - Romania ... the pace of football is slow. So it turns out players who are legends over there cannot really make it in the premier. There may have been exceptions but it's an old story and it is the case with Mudryk I 'm afraid.

Jackson impresses me rather favourably. Also RJ was fantastic today. But the rest of the attackers no. We don't see slow motion Potterball anymore but they cannot score.

Liverpool will lose to City by 5-0, to Arsenal by 3-0. Also to United and scores of other teams.

There are harder obstacles up ahead. And Mudryk is worse than Sterling, that says it all about Mudryk.

Imagine us having Hazard and Eto'o today. What would be the score ?

Even Saleh was replaced by Klop for being a spectator.

There are excuses.

Well if you think they are the team of Keegan and Dalglish that is so. This Liverpool won't qualify for Europe this season.

Jackson is guilty for the chance he lost in the first half. On some other occasions he did what he could.

Pool played well for the first twenty minutes as usual. This counts as a defeat for me - pool won't play in Europe next season.

After James left we collapsed. Yet a super chance fell to Mudryk and he bottled it.

They were no better than Crystal Palace and we could n't score a goal. Is there a way this could have happened in the old days ???

We left some huge gaps. Saleh fractionally offside for the 2-0 then had another one blocked by a defender with Sanchez beaten. Pool are nothing special and they are beatable, there are stronger opponents down the road.

Why we slipped from 2.70 to 3.00 at the bookies ?

I believe in AI. But it has to be pre-programmed for every task. How else is it going to work ? Suppose we are the German high command in 1944 and we want to know where the allies will land. To do this using AI first we have to feed it with data: The coastlines of France, the defenses, the strength of the Luftwaffe and the concentrations of allied troops in England - if we can. Then what sort of algorithm will AI use, to produce better results than those of Runsted-Rommel and anticipate the invasion ? In retrospect it looks like the solution was to move the division "das reich" to the coast of Normandy in time and not after the event which is what the Germans did. But we say this with the post-posterior information we have so it does n't count. Will AI in a simulation solve this problem for the German high command ?

The ides of March are here. Today I 'm going to back CFC x Brentford. Yesterday the hypsters put me on Everton - a meeeh team as usual.

Does AI obey Isaac Asimov's three laws of robotics ?

No, not really retired. I bought my first machine in 1983.

Kepa is the goalkeeper of Spain as well as Chelsea. Apart the horrible seasonn 2019-20 I think he was a good keeper for the blues. People don't like him because before him we had Cech and it's difficult to step into the shoes of a giant but they are wrong. I never heard of Bayern Munich and Real Madrid going after has been players.