The main headline is that it provides Ancelotti with a headache as to where to play him and who to leave out Almost no real celebration at all Sums it up, really. Buys best forward in the world and has to leave one of the best forwards in the world out of his side. So what's the point? And they've ...

I find Mbappe to Real Madrid to be.... utterly boring. The guy is clearly one of the best players on the planet, but he is staring at a club career of little personal achievement, in my view. A few seasons at PSG in a league they would have won without him. Now he's moved to Real Madrid, a team beat...

Don't know if we've had this, but I find this super-impressive from young Jude, conducts an interview in very decent Spanish after the CL final.

https://x.com/totalcristiano/status/1797391391686791459

as Headingley still does, with Leeds Rugby League Ffs, how can I be as huge a cricket fan as I am and not have known this?! :lol: https://wikiwandv2-19431.kxcdn.com/_next/image?url=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/HeadingleyOblique.jpg/640px-HeadingleyOblique.jpg&w=640&...

Dear me. This was about the only way the clown show that is RFC could have got any more shambolic.

I thought Bowen was one of the small number of sensible heads at the club.

Pepe the Horseman

Winston Biscuit George Baldock joins Panathinaikos from Sheffield United

Greek grandparents.

And he has played 12 times for Greece.

To Vic's point, of course the stat doesn't really mean anything in the grand scheme of things, it's just an interesting one. The first match after Wembley's reopening was played 17 years ago this month, and one of the teams involved, Kidderminster Harriers, isn't even in the league any more. I was s...

Tangenital stat - according to SSN only four current league clubs are yet to play at the new Wembley. I was surprised that two of them were 'big' clubs, being Blackburn and Ipswich. The others are Accrington Stanley, and Colchester United. Crawley Town broke their 'Wembley duck' this season, winning...

Interesting stuff. If I'm reading it right, Blackpool have won 8 out of their 9 play-off semi-finals, that's some record. Lincoln City's record is particularly (un)impressive. Of their seven unsuccessful appearances in the play-offs, five of those were consecutive, from 2002-03 to 2006-07 inclusive,...

It's not a surprise to read this from Klopp, but remains refreshing to hear. From a Q&A hosted in Liverpool for fans last night, asked whether FSG held the purse-strings too tightly. Especially the final paragraph, which is a reference to Chelsea. “Can you imagine LFC as the club with unlimited ...

Meant to post this last week - went to Fulham's home game with City, and it appears that it is now a thing, at Craven Cottage at least, to remove lids from drinks bottles. So my Coke Zero was sans bottle top. What's this about? Yeah like Brobers said. Full bottle with lid becomes a missile, lid off...

It is relatively recent, but I really remember nothing about the time when Lyon were the best team in France and PSG weren't a factor.

Also hadn't perceived how dominant Ludogorets have been.

Meant to post this last week - went to Fulham's home game with City, and it appears that it is now a thing, at Craven Cottage at least, to remove lids from drinks bottles. So my Coke Zero was sans bottle top. What's this about?

depends what you class successful as tbh Well, anecdotally per Stranded, it's not perfect in the Bundesliga but works much better. I don't recall VAR making many headlines in La Liga, save for a couple of times when it dared to rule against Real Madrid. The 'problem' with the technology isn't reall...

Stranded The 2024/25 season will mark the 40th Anniversary of a side not called Celtic or Rangers winning the league.

And with the exception of the years in which Rangers were rebuilding after their financial issues, only Hearts have prevented either from coming first or second in the last 30.

I don't want VAR as it changes the game too much. Even if used to make all the calls correct, it would need to change too much about how the game is to be able to do that, and that to me is not success. get it in the bin There isn't a situation in 2024 where a multi-billion pound global football in...

my only issue with a post VAR removal world is that you just know the likes of Sky Sports will continue to use lines drawn on the pitch when an offside is not called, to try and push all the conversation towards a 'ooh you wouldn't have had that with VAR' If we can use it relatively successfully in...

my only issue with a post VAR removal world is that you just know the likes of Sky Sports will continue to use lines drawn on the pitch when an offside is not called, to try and push all the conversation towards a 'ooh you wouldn't have had that with VAR' If we can use it relatively successfully in...

Would it be going too far to say the 3 relegated teams from the PL this season are the 3 worst promoted sides (as a collective) we have seen so far? Yep. And that's wholly by design. The system is oxf*rd. Two of the teams that narrowly escaped the drop only did so by breaking 'financial sustainabil...

Would it be going too far to say the 3 relegated teams from the PL this season are the 3 worst promoted sides (as a collective) we have seen so far? Yep. And that's wholly by design. The system is oxf*rd. Two of the teams that narrowly escaped the drop only did so by breaking 'financial sustainabil...