The quotes an American sports site and, on rereading, I noticed the yankification where free kick becomes rekick. ****ing septics bastardising proppa english.
Win home games and draw away is enough normally to get you auto spots. BUT that was a very second rate performance. Watford I can accept because they were decent. But Cov were crap, especially first half. I'm not bothered about the top two. But we need to make sure that we keep improving, so that by the end of season we can beat anyone. Today was definitely not an improvement. Wasn't a top 6 performance. Shows how vulnerable we are with even just one key player missing. And f*cking Adarma. Love him, but he needs shooting practise so badly. Never seen someone sky it so often.
Didn’t know this rule about club owners only being allowed to have one team in the Champions League. Not sure how likely Girona are to maintain their form and qualify but could cause a potential problem for the owners City Football Group. https://youtube.com/shorts/Eblx89F6i7s?si=EELDLvOYiygHnHd3
Ouch. Just when the Everton fans start to get their hopes up in life, they lose on pens at home to Fulham and miss out on a semi-final.
Been watching a fair bit of the Toon recently and Trippier is going through a really rough patch at the moment. I think that’s the 4th goal conceded, in the last 3 games, that he has been directly involved in. If the Champions League dock us a place as a result of the coefficient rating dropping, as a result of Toon and Utd going out at the group stage, the Carabou cup might have been Toons best chance of making European football next year, although they might hang on to top 6 if they can get their injured players back and keep them fit.
Fair play to Boro having a semi to look forward to. Proves that the "we wouldn't get much further anyway" narrative after Gillingham was utter tripe.
There's nothing wrong with the Champion's League for crying out loud. "Big" teams get to play each other in their own glory league, but they don't screw over their domestic league in the process. If a smaller team gets a good placing, like us or Leicester, they earn the right to enjoy the occasional sojourn in Europe.
Hopefully it happens and they take the obscene money and VAR with them. I might actually start liking football again.
This would be done as well as the domestic leagues. All it would mean is more matches and revenue for bigger clubs, so the gap between the top clubs and everyone else will get bigger. I think clubs shouldn't be able to have their cake and eat it. Either piss off to this new league or stay in your domestic league. I'd actually really like it if the top clubs and all state-owned clubs left the domestic leagues.
Lots of clubs - PSG, Roma, Dortmund etc - have issued statements saying they won't play in the Super League. Hopefully Saints will issue a statement soon to similar effect. Best to let the world know where we stand, in case they were wondering.
Be funny if the super league happens and the majority of clubs refuse to take part leaving the Spanish clubs and champions of Latvia, Turkey, Belarus etc. Some super league that would be.
Can't wait to see the pomp and fanfare of Real Madrid versus the English representative, Slough Town FC.
I wouldn’t care if the big Premier League clubs joined a new European league, so long as it was a total severing of ties with the English leagues. No having their B teams holding down a place in the Premier League to cream off any residual tv money or taking part in the cup competitions. And if they ever decide to rejoin the English leagues, then it has to be from the bottom league and work their way up. **** ‘em
