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PleaseNotPoll said:
I was just doing my predictions for the week and was a little puzzled for a second.
"Arsenal are playing on Monday? But it's a Champions League week... oh!" <laugh>

I have to say though, I think it's wrong that they're playing that day, then they have a game on Thursday.
Fly back from Belarus and they've got a game midday on Sunday.
The Europa League scheduling is **** for teams in England
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I paused to ponder what you wrote, and started
laughing uncontrollably.
 
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PleaseNotPoll said:
I was just doing my predictions for the week and was a little puzzled for a second.
"Arsenal are playing on Monday? But it's a Champions League week... oh!" <laugh>

I have to say though, I think it's wrong that they're playing that day, then they have a game on Thursday.
Fly back from Belarus and they've got a game midday on Sunday.
The Europa League scheduling is **** for teams in England, then everyone complains when they don't take it seriously or do badly.
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I dare say the EL team will bear little resemblance to their Prem League team. Not the point I know and it is wrong. Didn't we play Thursday and then Sat Lunchtime against Chelsea once though.
 
SpursDisciple said:
I dare say the EL team will bear little resemblance to their Prem League team. Not the point I know and it is wrong. Didn't we play Thursday and then Sat Lunchtime against Chelsea once though.
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It was in the 2006/07 season. Sevilla on Thursday, Chelsea early on Saturday. ****s.
That was following the previous round, where we'd played Braga in Portugal and the game finished at midnight.
Early Sunday game in the FA Cup followed. Blew a 3-1 lead. The opponents? ****ing Chelsea, again.
Utter bollocks.
 
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PleaseNotPoll said:
It was in the 2006/07 season. Sevilla on Thursday, Chelsea early on Saturday. ****s.
That was following the previous round, where we'd played Braga in Portugal and the game finished at midnight.
Early Sunday game in the FA Cup followed. Blew a 3-1 lead. The opponents? ****ing Chelsea, again.
Utter bollocks.
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Add to that in 2010 we were away to Inter on Wednesday night and that was followed by a Saturday lunchtime kickoff against Everton. Thanks Sky!
 
The RDBD said:
I remember ENIC had to divest itself of stakes in
other clubs once they bought Spurs ??
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That's what makes the way the City Football Group stockpile clubs that much more cynical: they've got City in the Premier League, NYC FC in MLS, Melbourne City in the A-League, plus minority stakes in Yokohama F Marinos, Atletico Torque and Girona - and they're sniffing around a bunch of other clubs too.

What really sticks out about their stake in Girona is that it seems to be them testing the waters to see if they can flout the rules, given they're supposedly sniffing around Saint-Etienne and Boavista (among others), seemingly because they saw Red Bull got away with the obvious conflict of interest with their Salzburg and Leipzig clubs causing a potential conflict (and isn't it lucky that Salzburg got just far enough in the CL qualifiers that their losing saw them play in the Europa League instead?)
 
humanbeingincroydon said:
What really sticks out about their stake in Girona is that it seems to be them testing the waters to see if they can flout the rules
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I guess they are seeing how close they can get (while
already owning club 1) to having 49.9% ownership of
clubs 2-N, before FIFA/UEFA pile onto them.

ENIC appeared to basically not even bother to try
pushing the above, once they acquired THFC.
 
Huddersfield and then Bournemouth, let's get 6 points because after these two things get difficult. 3 points on Tuesday would be good too because then it's Real.
 
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Let's hope we THRASH Bournemouth to end this Wembley difficulty.

Unbeaten in 6, lost 1 in 8, GOOD.
 
Seismic tremors coming thru from football land :

The Poool are 2-0 up AWAY against the most
attackingest team ... in the world. Ever.
 
That was another pen that Leicester should have had after the first was missed, ManU, ManC and Chelski would have been given it - and I daresay Pool would have as well at home. The Leicester pen could have seen the keeper sent off too, it would have been harsh but how many "harsh" decisions regularly go against the opponents of those three clubs and the pundits just say something like "you can see why he gave that..."
 
vimhawk said:
That was another pen that Leicester should have had after the first was missed, ManU, ManC and Chelski would have been given it - and I daresay Pool would have as well at home. The Leicester pen could have seen the keeper sent off too, it would have been harsh but how many "harsh" decisions regularly go against the opponents of those three clubs and the pundits just say something like "you can see why he gave that..."
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no it would have just been wrong.
see double jeopardy rule which is now in place.

PS don't know if you watched the game but i did & the officials were bloody useless throughout the game - what decision was given was a bit of a lottery irrespective of which way it went.
 
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