Bayern were the only team who had a bye and the advantage* of having their second leg at home to win. After what happened to Liverpool last year maybe bossing the group stages isn't the most important thing?

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Silver Fox Greater Manchester's Chris Kavanagh doing his thing again

Peter Bankes might be on crack!

Sends Ramsey off for soft AF second yellow.

Only just got round to seeing this

Dreadful performance, although I did appreciate they're commitment to the traditional standards of football by actively trying not to score from corners

Greater Manchester's Chris Kavanagh doing his thing again

For anyone clamouring for Pereira to be run out of town who would you have liked in goal for that one on one in the 2nd minute? Chances are we wouldn't have been hanging on to a one goal lead in the 95th without him

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BRO_BOT Utd, Chelsea & Sun look most likely for 5th spot,

Leeds?

He said after their game yesterday "i was brought here to be the manager, not the coach" which pretty much sealed his f8 I reckon

Brobby's going to be really confused that he's gone before Slot

Watched the Villa v Arsenal game. You wouldn't have known Arsenal were playing anybody else the amount of gushing that the commentator did about them. He kept on about their movement when through midfield Villa's movement and creation of space was better IMHO. On the balance of play I thought Villa...

General fixture question - does anyone know why there is always a club that someone plays twice in a few weeks, around Xmas? For Villa, it's Arsenal, who they play twice in December. Liverpool host Leeds on New Years' Day having played them yesterday. Surely the fixtures could be run in broadly the...

It'll be a shame of they beat our previous best, but will they break the record?

FIFA have discovered that 3 match suspensions for violent conduct red cards don't actually apply if you're Ronaldo, which must be nice for him

I can't find any confirmation of if this will be on Paramount+ (currently free to SKy Cinema subscribers) or if Paramount will be creating a new channel? Presumably the latter

I don't think they will do any good next Summer because of their defence but credit to Steve Clarke and his players for getting there. Our defence has been shocking. Can't imagine someone like Grant Hanley will be playing internationally after the World Cup (probably shouldn't've been featuring in ...

European play off draw at midday tomorrow Pot 1: Italy, Ukraine, Turkey, Denmark Pot 2: Wales, Slovakia, Poland, Czech Republic Pot 3: Kosovo, Republic of Ireland, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Albania Pot 4: Romania, Northern Ireland, Sweden, North Macedonia Pot 1 teams drawn against pot 4 teams, pot 2 team...

https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yv00!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3bcc3cad-1623-4115-8616-90c06c80af4d_1098x480.jpeg So, if the Beers beat Detroit and Denver beats Atlanta in the American Southwestern Divisio...

8 more teams added in, that's 42, which seems like a lot 42 + 4 x Euro playoffs = 46 Do we know what the permutations are for the last two spaces? Bolivia, Congo DR, Iraq, Jamaica, New Caledonia and Suriname are in the play off tournament 4 teams play in semis and the two winners play the 2 other t...

8 more teams added in, that's 42, which seems like a lot Canada Mexico USA Japan New Zealand Iran Argentina Jordan Korea Republic Uzbekistan Australia Ecuador Brazil Uruguay Paraguay Colombia Morocco Tunisia Egypt Algeria Ghana Cabo Verde South Africa Qatar England Senegal Cote D'Ivoire Saudi Arabia...