Kaiserslautern summon the devil: The two-part banner says: Exaudi nos, Lucifer, et surge ex abysso, sume animas nostras (Hear us, Lucifer, and rise from the abyss, take our souls,) ad lucem nos trahe, orbem mundi regna, surge ex flammis et appare (draw us to the light, reign over the world, rise from the flames and appear.) The 2. Bundesliga is a bit mental!
Selling parts of your business to... yourselves - is apparently a legitimate business model. Bent as **** IMHO...
You're always going to have people trying to game the system. The problem is that the league allows it. What's the point in rules that only some people have to follow? It's a feature, not a bug.
And this is the biggest part of the problem: if the Premier League somehow don't know clubs are always looking for ways to game the system, which was abundantly clear by the time the Mansourites bought the naming rights to their own stadium, they're just enablers Especially at this point when the Mansourites have gotten even more blatant with nakedly paying their own sponsorships, for example a couple of years ago one "sponsor" was tracked to a mailbox in Watford
I don't think he's that good. But Nuno has successfully created a system and style whose whole is far greater than the sum of its parts, something our manager appears determined not to do.
The benefit is that, unlike someone like Leicester or Brighton, that likely won't be the dinner bell for other clubs to dismantle their team in short order The downside is CL football will likely crater their league form next season, which allows pundits to do their usual of patting them on the head for a season before telling them to piss off back to midtable where they belong
Bottom 3 looks done and dusted. Can't remember the last time it was over this early. All three have been awful. Of course two of them have beaten Spurs
As mental as being able to speak latin? Don't pretend that you used Google translate. Or do you just remember it from, er, rituals you are familiar with?
Remember Bayer Leverkusen's unbeaten domestic campaign last season? They won't be retaining the German FA Cup equivalent, as they went out in the semi last night. They were eliminated by Arminia Bielefeld, who are in the third tier of German football. Bielefeld are 4th in the 3. Bundesliga and have also knocked out 3 other top tier sides. They also beat Hannover, who are 6th in the 2. Bundesliga. Union Berlin, Freiburg, Werder Bremen and Leverkusen are 13th, 7th, 9th and 2nd. It's the equivalent of Charlton beating West Brom, Man Utd, Brighton, Villa and Arsenal.
Tarkowski’s challenge on Sloboslai (or however you spell it) was so much worse than Romeros v Chelsea last season where he got sent off. It’s such a joke there is no consistency
When I saw the replay I said "he's off". Granted he clearly won the ball but he's lucky Szob's leg wasn't fully planted, would've snapped it in half otherwise. Very surprised they didn't even send the ref to the monitor.
