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Results - Round Three We have a winner! Last night's draw between Bologna and Cremonese means that @nudge and @Bluewolf failed to pick a fourth consecutive winner, and @Lucas is the Last Man Standing in the Serie A leg for this season courtesy of Roma's 2-0 win at Spezia on Sunday. Congratulations! Final scores for this round: 7 points (4 correct picks + 3 bonus points) - @Lucas 5 points (3 correct picks + 2 bonus points) - @nudge and @Bluewolf 3 points (2 correct picks + 1 bonus point) - @Beelzebub 1 point (1 correct pick) - @Whiskey, @Stan and @...Dan 0 points - @Dan, @Michael, @Redcanuck, @DeadLinesman, @Viva la FCB, @Tommy, @RandoEFC, @Rick, @Rucksackfranzose, @Pyfish, @CaaC (John) and @6666 Next round takes us to La Liga. I will launch tomorrow and the first game for Gameweek One will be on Friday.

The first one you pick hopefully.....

Which team will make my cunt list next week? Stay tuned!

We've booked a family holiday in Peak District for October. Found a cottage for only £560 for 4 nights!

I love the contrast between Nagelsmann and Baumgart. Nagelsmann with a big puffer jacket and gloves, and Baumgart in a short sleeve T-Shirt.

@Lucas enters the Hall of Fame for a 4th time following his victory in the Serie A 2022-23 round.

@nudge extends her lead to a commanding one at the top after a third consecutive top-two finish in Round Three, while her previous closest rivals, @Dan and @Michael, failed to score, leaving our leader with almost twice as many points as even her closest competitor.

Unprecedented for sure. What he’s done surely puts many to shame imo. It’s not as if he’s on his last legs either. The guy has played at elite level and before he made this decision he was a vital part of the Cádiz game. Really hope this can be the start of Depor’s recovery. You guys belong clashing with the big guns in Primera.

I can't see Bielsa being anything but a disastrous appointment at this stage. Not that I think he's a bad manager, I just don't see how he gets that group of players doing what he wants if he's walking in at the end of January.

Yep, still extremely dumb from Ahameda. Getting booked for moaning, and being rightfully (according to the rules) booked again for climbing the fence 5 minutes later. If I were his employer he'd get a hefty fine for that. That said climbing the fence after a goal shouldn't be a bookable offense, in my opinion.

That was a silly second yellow for Ahamada to be honest.

They couldn't hold out with the 10 men. It's probably a satisfactory draw for both sides in the end, although Stuttgart will feel a bit gutted for going so close to clinching the 3 points.

I am going to Thailand in about a month

Within 15 minutes of that Guardian article where Moshiri has effectively put the club up for sale, the club has released a 25 minute interview with him. Moshiri states in the first 5 minutes that he's totally committed to the club, the stadium and joining the footballing elite. This simply cannot be real.

Is this in reference to your neighbours activities I'm not going Thailand but there is a lads trip to Benidorm in June I'm seriously putting consideration to. I've never been myself but I've been told it's a good laugh with a group of lads so might give it a whirl.

He can play there, he's done it for us before, infact on Sunday just gone. One of the best facets of his game is he's two-footed. Good on his right as he is with his left, and he can play centrally too so he's very versatile, any position across the front three behind the striker. But I agree, I'd be disappointed if I was in your position looking at players like Jack who isn't necessarily first choice for us anymore. You could get better abroad for less no doubt. I'd probably sell him given the emergence of Gnonto, Summerville stepping up from the U23's and Sinisterra being our best winger when fit anyway. Ideally, Newcastle would come back in for him and that would be good business for us.

I sense the timing, league position & perceived strength of the squad make it unlikely the next man will be a fancy headline name. But Hassenhuttl & Bielsa would both seem like mistakes to me. Dyche could feasibly decide he's not got much to lose from it. In fact I sense he would bizarrely have an incredibly enhanced reputation if he keeps Everton up rather than Burnley (..?) If not Dyche, then surely it could make sense to look at Duncan Ferguson properly. Or even Rooney, if he wouldn't be a Benitez style mistake. Dean Smith never actually got relegated with Villa. Did plenty of Brentford groundwork. Play off chasing Norwich got rid of him harshly. Buendia. Paul Lambert. There's recent Villa-Norwich issues IMO. He has a longer track record than Bielsa. If I was Everton owner/board I'd be thinking 1) Dyche, 2) Rooney &/or Ferguson 3) Dean Smith All could decide to risk it. All could be motivated to stay on however it goes.

Looking forward to the next explanation, how all these mass shootings have fuck all to do with lax gun laws. In the meantime it's becoming news when there's no mass shooting in the USA.

RB Leipzig's Konrad Laimer joins Bayern on a free transfer next season.

Big step towards the upcoming orbital test flight - potentially next month already.

Nuno has a seven-figure release clause at his current job out in the Middle East. A complicated deal apparently. I wouldn't want him at all though. On Bielsa though, you could watch any of our games for about 3 minutes and come to the same conclusion, he could have completed that analysis this morning over a bowl of weetabix .

'chunky monkey blubbernaut' is what you said, not the above. It's judgmental and quite frankly, just rude. Nothing about 'victimhood syndrome'. You can be a proponent of body positivity and make changes to your own body. But for all you and I know, Trainor might have made changes for health reasons? Therefore, you've been judgmental in thinking she's a hypocrite just because, in your words, she 'now looks really good' after being overweight. She looks good in your mind because you clearly don't like bigger women. Otherwise I doubt you'd have called them 'chunky monkey blubbernaut'. They're proponents of body positivity, as in feeling confident and happy in your own image. Maybe it's stress-related, or health-related that their body has changed. You don't get to decide what to call them just because you didn't like how they looked.

I don't see how it is obnoxious to point out that former proponents of overweight and unhealthy have now become healthy and look and feel better. body positivity should mean looking after what one is given and everyone can do more but it's often a choice. as a society we needed to go back to 2000s, drop this victimhood syndrome, I think Trainor and Adele are inspiration that if you are unhappy, you need to make the changes.

Reverend Kane from Poltergeist 2. I saw just this scene as a kid (my brother was watching it) and it freaked me out for years. Especially the first part where he just casually walks singing. Apparently the actor (Julian Beck) looked the way he did because he had terminal stomach cancer while filming this movie.

Bruno Guimares and Bruno Fernandes are big offenders.

100% If Bielsa was taking over in the Summer to get a full pre season (or even before the World Cup break) then as an Everton fan I'd be very excited. But Bielsa's methods need time to bear fruit. The intensity of his training sessions, the players learning his system which let's face it, won't be like anything they have learned before because of how fluid and interchangeable it is. I just don't think the timeframe allows for it. What Moshiri sees is what Bielsa did at Leeds. He used the same crop of players, got them ultra fit and thriving in his system which led to us playing exciting football and winning games. It not only lifted the club, but a city too, out of a depressed state and the relationship between the club and it's fans was like nothing I'd experienced supporting Leeds. He'll feel Bielsa can do that at Everton and there are similarities, but it doesn't feel like the right time for them to do it. What pisses me off is we caught Everton when they had just got Lampard in around this time last year and that game rocked us. Guess where we go in a few weeks time. Sod's law.

Haha yeah, he is a legend. Massive improvement for the team on the offensive end, Lucas alone scored 4 goals in the last 3 games.

The most curious of those points that I was always quite bemused with was the point on Roy Keane finding it seemingly impossible to criticise Cristiano Ronaldo. I say this when we consider his career long opinions on that sort of attitude with others. A bit cowardly there and it doesn’t hit with his natural persona. But yeah, the harkening back with nostalgia infused nonsense to have a reason to criticise with any constructive point of view is ridiculous.

It's probably not bullshit that this board and owner are delusional enough to think that Thomas Frank would consider it just because Everton are a "big club". It's a serious push for Bielsa by the sounds of it.

Me, on that diet (replace woman with man & 1 glass with 2 bottle's)

It is one of the rotten aspects of football culture. I’d say it is the only team sport that has the players and managers actively abusing and harassing the match officials.

Not as creepy as these things... If you ever watched the film 'Dead Silence' you would know what I mean...

Seriously, they are not even funny at this point. Take Roy Keane for example, such a miserable cunt that tries too hard to have opinions. No wonder 99% of these players failed miserably as managers with their non-existent managerial knowledge and dinosaur tactics that they only get hired to spout shit on TV. Then you have Paul Scholes, the guy that couldn't even make a sentence with more than 3 words throughout his 20-years career but nowadays he has opinion about everything. And their excuse to stay relevant "ye in our days we were a winning team, the players now are soft.". These are the same clowns that were defending their friend Ole even at his worst games and licking Ronaldo's butthole.

Damn, I love this diet

I think it's also up to the players to not con officials into making that decision in the first place, and not bringing the game into disrepute. Maybe if they didn't act like absolute twats, it might take the heat off officials too. Time-wasting isn't cheating as such, at least nowhere near feigning injuries where players writhe around as if they need immediate and urgent surgery in a hospital.

Week 19 Results Coventry 2-4 Norwich St Johnstone 0-1 Rangers Grasshoppers 1-2 Young Boys Fiorentina 0-1 Torino Sevilla 1-0 Cadiz Wellington Phoenix 2-1 Central Coast Sunderland 2-0 Middlesbrough Feyenoord 1-1 Ajax Hibernian 0-3 Hearts Juventus 3-3 Atalanta Round-up Like last week's draws book-ending the fixtures, this week it was two 6-goal thrillers that did the job! Very good scores all round though, the highest of them being @Mel81x who closes the gap to @nawoo. @CaaC (John) scored 16 to swap places with @Rucksackfranzose and go level with @Pyfish, and @nudge scored the same amount to go 1 point behind @The Liquidator. The gap between the top 5 narrows to just 6 points, as @N U F C just about keeps hold of top spot by the smallest of margins. Likewise I keep 2nd place by 1 point with @Bluewolf just behind.

I hate AirBnB with passion. You pay as much or even more, without the ease and service of a hotel. Often unreasonable service + cleaning fees, poor cancellation policies and shitty customer service, in most cases. I am also not a fan of paying in advance for a privately owned accommodation; it's a bit too risky for my liking, especially when you are looking to book for long stays. I am definitely not going to pay thousands in advance before even seeing the place... to some shady host, nonetheless. On top of that, it has completely fucked up the housing market in many places.

Nothing I'd love to see more than Depor back in La Liga.

This is the thing with big players of the past, many of us don't want to let go. "Nostalgia is a seductive liar" fits in so many times for so many of us... He's not a very good coach tbh. But it's about shaking off the 'mea culpa' psychosis and coming to terms with the fact it's not really all that important except for the clubs that fell into the trap and lost the time they invested in the nostalgia infused cloud.

"City view"

@Viva la FCB, @Michael, @Bluewolf, @nudge, @Coma, @6666, @nawoo, @londonerlilie, @Relling Next matchday starts tomorrow!

@CaaC (John) @Bluewolf @Pyfish @Bluebird Hewitt @Viva la FCB @JoshBRFC @Foxc1 @Rucksackfranzose @Tommy @Dr. Gonzo @Mel81x @nudge @Michael @N U F C @The Liquidator @nawoo

Like ladies feet

Absolutely no chance we are signing a 33 year old forward with the injury record of Reus. We've been down this road before and we've learned from it. Sorry but that story is completely fake.

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Thank you for everything Rab, you gave us this platform from the ashes of TFF. Thank you for what TF365 is, and for being such a sound guy off it.

Didn't he also scratch his balls and then sniff his fingers afterwards?

Ever done it in front of dozens of TV cameras when hundreds of millions were watching while you were coaching a national team?