Vesper

2 1 NUFC Schär

Lamptey 2 yellow red

Gordon straight red misses the League Cup final

1 1 Minteh (who gave away the pen so redemption)

Maresca is the WORST manager in terms of judging GKers I can recall

Chelsea back away from player that was expected to join, with outlet giving reasons why By Simon Phillips - 14th Oct 2024, 01:00pm Chelsea have reportedly backed away from signing a player that was pretty much expected to sign in the summer, and the reasons why have been given out too. Chelsea were linked with many players during the summer transfer window, and they have been signing up many of them as well, especially the highly rated young players. However, they aren’t always going to sign them all. Although Chelsea’s links with wanting to sign Brazilian youngster Gabriel Mec seemed very solid and in fact, it looked like it was about to get done at one point. However, up until now at least, that deal did not get done, and the reasons why sound to be pretty smart from Chelsea. Mec raised concerns According to Brazilian publication Globo, Chelsea backed down on its intention to sign Gabriel Mec to observe him more technically. Some of the young player’s performances raised doubts about the investment. So it’s pretty unclear whether that is now that or not, but it certainly sounds like Chelsea held back a bit and it was probably the right thing to do. We don’t want to be just jumping on every talented young player, especially if we are unsure. Chelsea would have also had to pay about £15m for the wonderkid once all the add-ons were included. That is a lot of money to pay for an unproven youngster that you are not even sure about signing. Mec does look to be a very good talent, but you have to be sure before you go in on any new player really. It doesn’t sound like they were as sure on Mec as they were on other young new signings from South America such as Kendry Paez and Estevao Willian, who both look to be excellent signings and provide no cause for doubts.

against the run of play

1 nil Isak pen

Israel cuts off humanitarian supplies to Gaza as it seeks to change ceasefire deal Netanyahu wants Hamas to allow for release of hostages without troop withdrawal, in plan Israel says came from US https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/02/israel-cuts-off-humanitarian-supplies-to-gaza-as-it-seeks-to-change-ceasefire-deal Israel has cut off humanitarian supplies to Gaza in an effort to pressure Hamas into accepting a change in the ceasefire agreement to allow for the release of hostages without an Israeli troop withdrawal. The office of the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said on Sunday it was imposing a blockade on Gaza because Hamas would not accept a plan which it claimed had been put forward by the US special envoy, Steve Witkoff, to extend phase one of the ceasefire and continue to release hostages, and postpone phase two, which envisaged an Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. “With the end of phase one of the hostage deal, and in light of Hamas’s refusal to accept the Witkoff outline for continuing talks – to which Israel agreed – Prime Minister Netanyahu has decided that, as of this morning, all entry of goods and supplies into the Gaza Strip will cease. Israel will not allow a ceasefire without the release of our hostages,” it said in a statement. “If Hamas continues its refusal, there will be further consequences.” After the announcement, Netanyahu’s spokesperson, Omer Dostri, wrote in a social media post: “No trucks entered Gaza this morning, nor will they at this stage.” The existence and details of a Witkoff plan had not been confirmed by Washington by Sunday morning. A statement from Hamas called the suspension of aid a “war crime” and a violation of the ceasefire agreement. It said Netanyahu’s “decision to suspend humanitarian aid is cheap blackmail, a war crime and a blatant coup against the [ceasefire] agreement”. During the 15 months of the Israel-Gaza war, the Netanyahu government repeatedly denied claims from aid agencies that it was blocking humanitarian deliveries, blaming the very limited flow on other factors. Before the ceasefire, UN officials had warned that widespread famine was imminent. In the six weeks of the first phase of the truce, deliveries returned to the prewar levels of about 600 trucks a day, mostly carrying food. Aid officials said that even with the restoration of food deliveries, the lack of drinkable water, the near complete destruction of Gaza’s hospitals and clinics, the lack of shelter in the midst of winter, and the buildup of untreated sewage among the rubble could all be lethal to the surviving 2.2 million population. Netanyahu made his announcement, which his office claimed had US backing, after the breakdown of talks in Cairo aimed at maintaining the ceasefire as it approached the end of its first six-week phase, over whether the truce should advance to a second phase. The prime minister’s office said earlier on Sunday that it agreed on the adoption of what it described as Witkoff’s proposal to extend the first phase of the ceasefire through Ramadan and Passover, which end on 20 April, during which half of the living hostages and half of the bodies of those who have died would be released. On the conclusion of that temporary extension, the statement said: “If agreement is reached on a permanent ceasefire, the remaining living and deceased hostages will be released.” The first phase of the ceasefire chiefly involved the release of Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinians held in Israeli jails, an increase in aid deliveries and a retreat of Israeli troops from some positions. The second phase requires a complete Israeli withdrawal and a more enduring cessation of hostilities. The Witkoff plan as described by Netanyahu’s office appeared similar to Israel’s proposal for a six-week extension of the first phase of the ceasefire, with hostage releases, but it made no mention of the troop withdrawal that was part of the original truce agreement in January. Hamas said the proposal made clear that Israel was seeking to disavow the deal it previously signed. Hamas has not been directly participating in the talks in Cairo, but has been coordinating with Qatari and Egyptian officials who are at the negotiating table with US and Israeli delegations. The negotiators left Cairo on Friday night, and there was no sign of them reconvening late on Saturday. An Israeli withdrawal would first involve a pullback from the Philadelphi corridor along Gaza’s southern border with Egypt but such a retreat could trigger the collapse of Netanyahu’s rightwing coalition, which would in turn force new elections, in which his political future would be uncertain. Israeli political analysts have suggested that Netanyahu agreed to the ceasefire under pressure from Donald Trump, confident that the agreement would never reach a second phase. Since the start of the ceasefire, he prevented Israeli negotiators from discussing a second phase. Witkoff has, however, insisted that a second phase of the ceasefire deal should be implemented, to ensure the release of the remaining 59 hostages, only 25 of whom are thought to be still alive. Most Israelis also want the government to make a priority of freeing the hostages, but that position is opposed by the Israeli far right, without whom the coalition could not stay in power. The rightwing parties argue Israel’s priority should be the destruction of Hamas. The far-right Israeli finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, said the decision to halt the flow of aid was “an important step in the right direction”. Referring to Donald Trump’s earlier threat to open the “gates of hell” on Gaza, Smotrich said in a social media post: “Now we need to open these gates as quickly and deadly as possible on to the enemy, until complete victory.” There remains no agreement on who should run Gaza once an enduring end to the war can be agreed. Trump caused consternation and bewilderment early in February with the shock suggestion that the US should “own” Gaza, which would be somehow emptied of its more than 2 million Palestinian inhabitants to make way for a “Riviera on the Mediterranean”.

https://www.vipleague.pm/fa-cup/newcastle-united-vs-brighton-hove-albion-1-live-streaming https://www.vipleague.pm/fa-cup/newcastle-united-vs-brighton-hove-albion-2-live-streaming https://redditsoccerstreams.org/event/newcastle-united-brighton-hove-albion/1508006 https://new.soccerstreams100.io/event/eng-fa/brighton-vs-newcastle-live-soccer-stats/732568

that was a fucking missile

Real Betis is probably the 2nd best team (with Fiorentina 3rd) left who is most like to deny us the trophy in the Conference League

1 nil FT Atletico are now top of the table Gallagher was a monster once he came on the crowd goes crazy for him he must be one happy lad

1 nil Julian Alvarez

https://soccer-100.com/event/esp-1/athletic-vs-atlético-live-soccer-stats/704910

Atletico Madrid vs Athletic Club https://www.vipleague.pm/la-liga/atletico-madrid-vs-athletic-club-1-live-streaming https://www.vipleague.pm/la-liga/atletico-madrid-vs-athletic-club-2-live-streaming https://redditsoccerstreams.org/event/atletico-madrid-athletic-club/1506935

De Bruyne

3 1 Citeh done and dusted

HT 1 1

1 1 Nico O'Reilly, the lad we desperately wanted to buy from Citeh

https://digbysblog.net/2025/03/01/yes-im-horrified/ Russian dissident Gary Kasparov spoke at the Principles First conference in Washington last weekend, writes Michael Tomasky. Kasparov “uttered a very simple line that chilled the thousand or so people in the room: ‘The United States has changed teams.’ ” The hell it has. I resent being told the United States of America switched sides because the White House is in the grip of a band of lawless sociopaths. Donald Trump’s country-wreckers have changed teams, certainly. Most of the Republican upper echelons has. Many MAGA foot soldiers have as well. How many have aligned with Vladimir Putin’s “might makes right” geopolitics simply because Trump has is unclear. How many would snap out of it after he’s gone is even less clear. The lean toward Russia on the Christian right comes from the ludicrous proposition that there people live under biblical law because the nation is heavily white and Putin is hostile to LGBT people. One conservative Christian couple from Canada moved to Russia to be free from “LGBT ideology” and quickly found themselves free from being free. What is clear after yesterday’s world-shaking, Oval Office shouting match is that Trump and J.D. Vance are all in on Vladimir Putin’s brand of autocracy. “[W]elcome to the Putinization of America, comrade!” Kasparov wrote in The Atlantic Friday morning before the fireworks: Yesterday’s “appalling spectacle” [timestamp 9:03] did not arrive out of thin air. Tomasky writes: The New York Times’ reliably wrong Peter Baker described the “verbal brawl in the Oval Office” as Trump coming to Putin’s defense over Zelensky’s lack of diplomatic finesse: Asked by a reporter what he would do if Putin breaks a ceasefire, Trump haughtily replied that it had happened in the past because Putin didn’t respect the U.S. president. Then came this weird ramble: Trump taking offense on Putin’s behalf, as Baker sees it, appear more pathological from where I sit. Trump identifies with Putin. He looks up to Putin. The coward fantasizes about being like Putin: a strongman. He wants to be accepted in the exclusive club of world autocrats who wouldn’t have an easily manipulated whiner like him as a member. The wrongs Trump rattled off as done to Putin were done to Trump himself. Trump was not taking offense on Putin’s behalf. Trump saw Zelensky’s listing of Putin’s crimes as an attack on himself. Because in Trump’s fractured mind, he and his BFF are one in the same. Inseparable. We are in the grip of a madman. Madmen, to be accurate. Sociopaths, megalomaniacs, career grifters, and anti-democracy tech oligarchs. How we purge ourselves of them and heal our alliances, I don’t know. But I cannot believe real Real Americans™ have gone autocrat or worse. There are more of us than there are of them. We’d best start acting like it. In numbers. * * * * * Have you fought the coup today? Choose Democracy Indivisible: A Guide to Democracy on the Brink