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For sure. They got to two Champions League Finals in a row. Lost one against Real Madrid and the other very unluckily against Bayern Munich. They had a golden generation plus hand picked world beaters from all over the place. But they overspent and didn’t invest the money they were earning wisely. They ended up owing a Spanish bank (Bancaixa) an extortionate amount of money and started to sell all their assets (top players) all over Europe. Then when they should’ve been solvent, the then President Juan Bautista Soler (who was gifted the club by his father who was a major shareholder) absolutely ruined the club 5 fold. Enter the auctioning of the club by the creditors (Bancaixa) whilst it was being protected by local government who were paying the interest rates (to be returned). Then came Peter Lim who paid the debt but has never really cared about the club and here we are unfortunately. It’s a HUGE club with immense support. But it’s never recovered its former status.

I wouldn't say they've forgotten about it as much as it was a false dawn. Lim made a lot of promises and Valencia fans were anxious to be able to compete with the likes of Super League Club 1 and Club 2. It worked at first... but I think that was in spite of Lim and not because of him. As the years have worn on so has the resentment that he's not lived up to his promises. Now he just sells any inkling of talent to keep the club afloat.

Yep, read that this AM. For those that haven't and don't want to, here's the scope. Lim sees Valencia as a toy, and hasn't been to Spain in years to watch a Valencia match.

Linkin Park released a song today which had Chester as lead, but was previous not released and from what I read, was somewhat forgotten. Today it was released.

They play some good football. Pass the ball really well. They deserved to beat us last year. Not sure if they will beat psg though

Found on my old youtube playlist. Still love it.

Fucking hell

Did anyone hear about this? https://www.football-espana.net/2023/02/09/la-liga-exclude-real-madrid-and-barcelona-officials-as-superleague-gains-traction Reports are that La Lia president, Tebas, is trying to exclude Real Madrid and Barcelona from being apart of the discussions about the leagues future, thus giving them basically no say on the direction of the league. This is large part because the two clubs (along with Juventus) are the driving factors for the new Super League discussions.

I agree with the lament many Valencia fans have been vocalising. But they DID march on the regional government building back in the day (I witnessed it as I was living there at the time) to push local government (La Generalitat Valenciana) into giving up their protection ownership of the club and hand it over to Peter Lim. They’ve conveniently forgotten about this particular detail.

Women's Champions League draw Bayern Munich v Arsenal Lyon v Chelsea Roma v Barcelona Paris St-Germain v Wolfsburg

Braunschweig 1-2 Holstein Kiel Paderborn 2-3 Kaiserslautern Furth 1-2 Düsseldorf Magdeburg 2- 2 St. Pauli Regensburg 1-2 Hannover Rostock 1-3 Darmstadt HSV 2-1 Bielefeld Heidenheim 2-0 Nürnberg (and Weinzierl is sacked) Sandhausen 2-2 Karlsruhe

I'll be leaving for vacation this weekend and will be out of town next weekend so I'm sending you my predictions early. Augsburg 1 - 2 Hoffenheim Gladbach 2 - 2 Bayern Bochum 2 - 2 Freiburg Stuttgart 1 - 1 Koeln Wolfsburg 2 - 3 Leipzig Frankfurt 3 - 1 Bremen Union 2 - 0 Schalke Dortmund 3 - 1 Hertha Leverkusen 2 - 1 Mainz

He looks like a school teacher, but someone has to replace megamind eventually.

No.

After been gone for 200 years, beavers have been sighted in my city.

Giving belly rubs to a wolf... https://gfycat.com/organictidyallensbigearedbat

Like 3 peas in a pod

Since the WC, our league top scorer is Wout Faes…

30 years old.

I hope they let him use the pictures for his Instagram.

In the massive forests surrounding my grandma's homestead when I was a kid. They generally avoid people, but through all the years, I managed a few sightings, one we saw even had pups... Now all those forests are more or less gone, it's a shame. And yes, it's the same in LT - people are pissed that wolves are attacking their livestock, but they conveniently forget that by destroying their natural habitat they've literally taken their home and their food away from them, so what choice do they have? Another thing that happens is falsely reporting higher number of wolf sightings so that the annual hunting quotas get increased.

OMG, I just saw @Dr Boris Gobshite in the online list