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  1. Don’t forget one of the first things Lim dod was sack the entire staff, with some of them being a part of Valencian furniture. If the club had some sort of ego and not the whims of a disinterested business then maybe they’d still have players like Ferran Torres, Dani Parejo, Carlos Soler, Juan Bernat, Paco Alcacer, and going back further maybe they didn’t need to sell David Silva, Raul Albiol, Juan Mata, David Villa, and Isco, Nolito wouldn’t have been kicked out of the academy. Other talented players like Portu, Ruben Garcia, Rafa Mir all were in the academy as well.
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  2. Just as I have started re-watching The X Files as well....
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  3. For UK NFL's popularity has sky-rocketed over last 5-10 years. The London games have helped massively with that I guess. But you're right, there's not many other sports predominantly played in one country that garner such a big audience away from that country. Even NBA finals don't get this kind of coverage.
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  4. Will probably record it & watch through it Monday evening here. I think I like the neutral entertainment I can get from American sports. Consciously decided never to pick a team in it. When I have played Madden games, I've gone with Dolphins, Steelers, Giants, Jets, Packers, Rams & Cowboys.
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  5. If I played for Kansas City Chiefs I think I'd genuinely struggle every match not in Kansas, to not be pointing out that we're not in Kansas anymore. And it would be funny every time.
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  6. Loving seeing Damar Hamlin and Miles Sanders. Apparently friends since high school. Regardless it's good to see Hamlin recovered/recovering and be able to watch this game.
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  7. I hope the Eagles win. Their QB, WR, and OL man all went to the same Uni as I, and Jalen Hurts has to be one of the most humble and hard working athletes in American sports.
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  8. One of the most poignant events in all of that was when he appointed Francisco Rufete (a past Valencia star) as technical director for sport and the club saw improvement. But the players Rufete was bringing in were being sold on within the following transfer window. Rufete went public when the fans started to place the blame on him and then a month later he was fired. we’re talking about a personality (Peter Lim) that doesn’t understand all of this and tbh, the Valencia CF fan club were told by both Bancaixa and local government that they’d done their due diligence on Peter Lim and that he was the worst possible option. In the end they gave into fan pressure and the rest is history. This guy is using the club as a guarantee for authenticity in Europe. It’s not unusual. The same is occurring on a much larger scale with Man City and PSG, the difference being that the Qatari consortiums are a lot cleverer and more in tune with the stupidity of us football fans.
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  9. That's an insane amount of people for a demonstration. Good for them, now we just need to hope that Lim is tired of his toy and moves on.
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  10. There were also two UFOs shot down in Alaska and Canada earlier today, and one flew over Montana but then disappeared, apparently. I would really laugh my ass off if it turned out that we're now up for an alien invasion
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  11. Having a wee drink after watching Scotland thump Wales in the rugby home nations, the wife celebrates too as Liz loves watching rugby, especially when Scotland wins.
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  12. 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.
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  13. 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.
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  14. 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.
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