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What's this? He's posting a new Gloryhunter game when the other one is still sat there laying dormant and not updated in months? Correct. I'm working on the regular one's results but in the meantime let's get started on GLORYHUNTER - EURO 2024. This edition of Gloryhunter works in the same way as the regular versions, and exactly the same as the previous Euros and World Cup versions I've ran in the past. But, just in case we have any newbies, here's how it works: Getting Started / How Does It Work? Each player will be randomly assigned a team competing in Euro 2024 If your team wins, you will get 3 points and stay with them for their next fixture. If your team draws, you receive 1 point and get to choose which of the two teams you go to the next fixture with. If your team loses, you receive 0 points and go to the next fixture with the team who have just beaten you. If the team who have beaten you are out of the competition after that game (for example if a 4th place team happens to beat a 1st place team but is still out of the competition afterwards), you are also out of the competition. The difference is that it's a group stage competition and then a knockout so we will likely lose a few players at the group stage, and then it'll be a race for everyone else to the final. There will be a Euro 2024 winner crowned and immortalised in the Gloryhunter Honours thread, and there will be a Gloryhunter Euro 2024 Champion which is the player who is top of the standings in the table. So, if you're interested, let me know and once we've got a few players, I'll start to do the draw for the teams - once a team goes, it will not be allocated to anybody else. Anybody is free to take part, even if you don't take part in the regular season ones! (And yes, this is the exact same post as the other editions but with a few words edited and changed - I'm lazy - get over it)

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Does it say a lot that I didn't even know there was a showcase or show on?

@Coma might want to mind his own business . I plan to

So the clubs that were rich at the start of the 1990s or financially doped themselves before these rules came in should permanently be allowed to spend way, way more than everyone else regardless of how poorly they're run in perpetuity? Football is a sport. These aren't FTSE 100 companies we support. Man Utd have performed absolutely awfully relatively to their budget for well over a decade now. I get that people get all emotive about oil clubs and can't separate the ownership from the fairness of the rules so let's look at Aston Villa instead of Newcastle. Spent a bit of money, nowhere near as much as Man Utd, spent it better than Man Utd, finished well clear of Man Utd to qualify for the Champions League, they'll have more income from prize money than Man Utd. Villa will have to sell players to comply with the rules this summer. Man Utd will have a net spend of probably hundreds of millions. All because Man Utd sell more merchandise and shite than Aston Villa. This is not a sport. This is a two-tiered anti-competitive system. I get why you want these rules to stay if you support a rich club. You're basically saying that under the current rules, the richest clubs should just stay the richest forever and no matter how well clubs like Villa or Brighton do, they should never be allowed to get to a position where they'll have the same budget as Man Utd or Arsenal. For me, football is supposedly a sport and that should be a meritocracy. If you think clubs' chances to succeed should depend on how much merchandise they sell and how much they built their brand up 30 years ago then you're entitled to that opinion. Personally I think the clubs who actually do what they do well should flourish and clubs that are run like a circus like Man Utd and Chelsea should slip down the pecking order. I know that's dangerous talk to some people who have been conditioned to think that football should actually be all about marketing and spreadsheets because it means that they can confidently look forward to their club being able to dominate the sport for literally the rest of their lives.

About right unfortunately.

I think plenty only remember Hansen from MOTD, myself included, but from what my dad and older fellas say about him as a footballer, there weren't many better. I always get 'you think Van Dijk is good you should have seen Hansen'. Always amazes me he only got 26 caps for Scotland given he was a key member of a Liverpool side that dominated for 10-15 years

Alan Hansen seriously ill in hospital. Hopefully he's better soon but doesn't sound good

As far as modern day football goes, it sounds like Everton might actually be on the brink of the dream takeover. No state ownership. No multi-club bollocks. Just two genuine Everton fans who have succeeded in the world of business taking control of the club having found the financial backing to do so. Get it done.

@MUFC