Opening match tickets being sold to local students for $3.50, on a buy one get 4 free basis. Keiren Maguire also sharing a tweet yesterday that suggests the tournament is looking to be "expanded to 48 teams after pressure from European giants". So the financially screwed teams like Barca, ...

Look forward, not backwards. Taking the emotion out of it, is he the sort of signing we'd be excited about? 3 - 4 years since he was at his best, 29 and not much scope to improve, couldn't get in a team that finished bottom. We know he has the sort of character we want, but I don't think there are ...

I nearly suggested an "Azerbaijan team" but couldn't remember if they were in it or not.

Surely there should be some element of regionalisation in the qualifying rounds to prevent that kind of draw occurring

A team from the Azores qualified for Europe from Portugal. https://scontent-lhr6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/494726754_711372974613731_4564114592071410028_n.jpg?stp=cp6_dst-jpg_tt6&_nc_cat=102&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=833d8c&_nc_ohc=AtfcI40Ie7EQ7kNvwEaAYqw&_nc_oc=Adlq4Yb5YcmiTpgDZ85TQlL...

So an all white kit with floral blue hoops?

Rotherham's centenary kits look quite nice (sorry no pics)

In the last week or so we've had Sheff Wed not paying non-playing staff in full for May and Blackburn essentially binning their women's team, including apparently not giving them proper female kit and them having to use near fitting men's kit, including for the girls' teams. One of the Reading ladie...

I like Daniel Storey, read his work for quite a while back to his days at Football365 and have read some of his articles during his 92 odyssey. When this thread rolled round a few years ago, this was my answer then (July 2023): https://hobnob.royals.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=5403245#p5403245 +1 to t...

I didn't realise it was 6 a side. All the clips I've seen from it are one on one with players hoofing it from one half of the pitch to the other trying to score - what's going on there?

Lyon 75th Anniversary shirt https://www.soccerbible.com/media/169604/lyon-6-min.jpg Nice shirt, unusual for Adidas who I find are always obsessed about putting white stripes onto everything, esp. if they can fiddle with them enough to make them look a bit like their logo. The white stripes are ther...

Pinched from the League One Supporters Facebook group, but...

If Leyton Orient go up, then all 3 promoted sides will have lost at Shrewsbury this season. Shrewsbury won only 5 home games all season.

Serie B all set up for a stupendous final round of games tomorrow evening. Sampdoria beat Salernitana at the weekend to jump above them and out of the relegation spot and into the relegation play offs. 2 relegation spots are free and 2 relegation play off spots are free, and 6 teams are fighting to...

In Huang Kad we trusted.

Thank god it's finally over.

Not sure Luton are going to be quite the same sort of force as Brum - they're not going to blow 15m+ on a striker, and they're supposedly putting some/most of the Prem money into the new stadium fund. Plus they don't have the same pulling power as Brum either.

The celebrations at Basel with Xerdan Shaqiri going back to where he started out and winning the title with them are pretty special (apologies for lack of link, found on X).

If United win then their route to the CL will be: Rancid in the Prem, win FA Cup get to Europa League. Proceed to be even worse in the Prem, finish just above the relegation zone, win the EL and make the Champions LOLeague. Truly the peak the European football. And Chelsea in the Conference League i...

Contraversially, I'm going to go Wing vs Cambridge. It's not just spanked in, he's bent that miles round the defenders on the keeper's blindside to place it just nestling inside the post. It's pure skill. With second being Smith's banger against Cambridge where he has no right to even be thinking a...

WestYorksRoyal For any cricket fans, 2 more wins could make Birmingham finish on Nelson points. Maybe next season won't go so well for them.

Difficult to play stood on one leg

The sh1thousery involved in Everton fans switching out a whole load of red flares with blue ones in amongst the Liverpool title celebrations is absolute top drawer

National League South top 6 separated by 3 points going in to the last game, any of the top 6 could finish top still (as those in 5th and 6th although 3 points back have the best GD of the top 6)