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Results - Gameweek One Not much you can say after that! PSG came from behind to salvage a 3-3 draw at home to Le Havre this weekend but it isn't enough to prevent @nudge, @Viva la FCB, @6666, @Michael, @RandoEFC, @Lucas, @Storts, @Stan, @Tommy, @Bluewolf, @...Dan, @Dan, @Redcanuck, @Rucksackfranzose and @DeadLinesman from going out in Gameweek 1 with zero points on the board. All there is to say really is see you next season and thanks for playing! Surviving into Gameweek Two are @Pyfish and @CaaC (John), who went a different way and successfully backed Lille ahead of their 2-1 success at Metz on Sunday. It's a duel now to see who wins this round! Preview - Gameweek Two The fixtures for Gameweek Two are as follows - a bit of a challenge presented as there are only actually seven fixtures over the weekend: Toulouse vs Montpellier Lens vs Lorient Le Havre vs Strasbourg Monaco vs Clermont Foot Metz vs Rennes Brest vs Nantes Lille vs Lyon As we're down to the last two, you will need to make your tie breaker picks so that we can choose a winner in the event that neither of you picks a match winner successfully, so please pick: 1) A match-winning team that you haven't already used before now. 2) An anytime goalscorer from any of this Gameweek's fixtures. 3) The time of first goal in the randomly selected fixture, Metz vs Rennes. Good luck!

Week 37 Results Jahn Regensburg 1-1 Dresden Bayern Munich 2-1 Frankfurt Edinburgh 1-3 Stirling City Fenerbahce 2-1 Besiktas Juventus 0-0 AC Milan Chelsea Women 0-2 Barcelona Women Amiens 0-0 Troyes Schalke 1-1 Dusseldorf Connah's Quay 1-1 TNS Real Betis 1-1 Sevilla Round-up The personally selected fixtures threw up some tough games to guess for, as there were 6 draws in total, and two of them being goalless. However, two members did predict those goalless draws, and interestingly all players who did predict all got 1 perfect score which doesn't happen too often. Highest score came from @CaaC (John) with 13 points, while @Viva la FCB in 3rd scored 1 fewer point.

It is possible to be a very important person with impressive achievements and a cunt of the highest order at the same time... and Hoeneß is a prime example of that Like you, I am enjoying this current Bayern a lot. Long may it last!

Back baby! Probably start off on a ridiculous points deduction but fuck it. Let the fun begin!

@Michael, @Bluewolf, @Viva la FCB, @Coma, @Tommy, @londonerlilie, @nawoo Your weekly reminder!

I think they were destined to come back up. They were pretty easily the best of the 3 that went down last season, and imo they only went down because they persisted for Rodgers for too long after he’d lost the plot. But congrats to @Stan & @Dan

Arthurs Seat, Edinburgh

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Was he fuck but if he was then he should put the ball out of play. Taylor called on the physio to cover himself. Anyway that's not the reason we didn't win but it's just yet more incompetence/cheating from Greater Manchester referees. Gakpo should have put the ball in the net to make more of an issue of it

This has been an average matchday for us as a group. Matchday 31 1) 6666 10 points 1) Michael 10 points 3) Viva la FCB 9 points 4) Rucksackfranzose 7 points 5) Bluewolf 5 points 6) Stan 4 points 7) CaaC(John) 3 points 7) Coma 3 points 7) Tommy 3 points How tight the table is is best highlighted with none of the shared last week's leaders being on a top 2 spot anymore. That means, you guessed it, we got a new front runner to hunt. Congrats 6666. Table after 31 matchdays 1) @6666 219 points 2) @Viva la FCB 217 points 3) @Stan 216 points 4) @Michael 215 points 4) @Tommy 215 points 6) @Bluewolf 214 points 7) @Coma 187 points 8- Rucksackfranzose 172 points 9) @CaaC (John) 160 points 10) @nawoo 149 points

Nobody scoring double digits, only 2 perfect scores, and more than half of the participants scoring less than 6 points. In other words: A matchday like many others. Matchday 31 1) Bluewolf 8 points 2) CaaC(John) 6 points 3) Michael 5 points 3) Stan 5 points 3) Viva la FCB 5 points 6) Coma 4 points 7) Rucksackfranzose 3 points 8- Tommy 2 points Michael lost a bit of his lead. Table after 31 matchdays 1) @Michael 194 points 2) @Bluewolf 189 points 3) @Viva la FCB 187 points 4) @CaaC (John) 183 points 5) @Coma 182 points 6) @Stan 181 points 7) @Tommy 178 points 8- Rucksackfranzose 155 points 9) @londonerlilie 130 points 10) @nawoo 130 points

Good on Tuchel for not taking shit and speaking out against Hoeneß. When Hoeneß was released from prison, people said he mellowed etc. but after some time he actually got worse than ever.

Hahahaha imagine if Lille don't win either. I don't think we've ever had everyone knocked out in the first week.

Apparently the Buli will continue to be a league never won by an unbeaten champion. Edit: Just,when I posted the sentence above Leverkusen equalised in injury time.

Congrats! Happy for you @Stan, @Dan, and LeicesterBran. Although the latter apparently never made the transition to the new forum.

Fair play to Leicester, got nothing but good words to say. They have proved to be the most consistant and got over the line when it counted. Can't really remember them being out the Top 2 long at any point over the course of the season and if you end the season with 100pts, it definitely proves you're worthy winners. I think in retrospect given how young and inexperienced our team are (2nd youngest squad in the league) it's shown at various times this season, especially in the games we've had lumps kicked out of us and teams have shithoused. We just haven't handled those niggly encounters too well. And also down the home straight, the lack of experience in our team has been evident in that they haven't quite been able to handle the pressure and expectancy levels our club carries. Leicester's team carry a lot more experience and know how for me and thst stuff cannot be underated in the Championship. The only thing that I find a little bit weird with Leicester has been the reaction of some of the players/club after promotion. I get the game is about a bit of fun and banter but it's come across that they feel a bit triggered by us, whether that was because we beat them twice or nearly pipped them to promotion, not sure. I get some of our fanbase (more so your typical social media one's) can be absolute gobshites so fans having fun, no problem. But the actual players and club using the 'I predict a riot' against us, a song we play after every home game, seems odd behaviour. Seen so many videos across social media mocking us in particular, even at Leicester's own players awards which feels odd behaviour, I just kinda feel in these moments, enjoy what you've achieved and don't worry about us. Maybe it's a back handed compliment, not sure but feels a bit weird considering there hasn't really been much words swapped between the clubs over the course of the season.

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Things like a wet room downstairs are in huge demand. They can increase value by between 5%-10%. The key for house maintenance in my opinion is to do repairs ASAP or stay on top of general maintenance like papering and carpet changes/new floors. Too many people leave a repair or issue. In most cases doing it early usually results in a cheaper fix. People leave it for ages and damage can spread causing further issues. Long run it usually ends up costing more.

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Congrats to both of you. Home ownership is quite the nice little journey and teaches you so much.

Real shame that Bayern didn't hold onto it there because at one point I thought they'd have been two up had Kane taken on Rudiger a bit better. Still, this is now going to Spain and Real have been tough at home in the CL.

Goalies feigning injury because they know theyll get treated on the pitch is a loophole that needs closing next season. Bernd Leno did something similar against us on Saturday. He went down and made such a fuss I thought he had dislocated his shoulder. He got treatment for two minutes, Marco Silva had a team talk with his players, Fulham changed their shape and we lost our momentum. I've noticed Wolves in particular being really bad at doing this in the second half this season. The Coventry quarter final being the most blatant. Quite ironic given how vocal O'Neil was about Brentford slowing down play with stoppages.

Thats what he said lol, you guys agree

Based on Kieran Maguire's projections on what a club can spend in comparison to last season you can see why the Manchester clubs and Chelsea voted against.

I would imagine the set-up at United in Fergie's latter years probably resembled the European model a lot anyway, but just that the specifics of it was that Fergie was essentially the DoF/Manager and then he had coaching staff to coach the team during the week and David Gill to help manage everything behind the scenes. With that level of control I don't think the structure at United was too dissimilar to what you see a lot of English clubs trying to put in place with the director of football method.

Put Shogun to bed yesterday and I quite liked it. Is it better than GoT? I'm not sure that's a good comparison but the acting is top notch and the way things unfold is superb. It's easily on my list of best TV for the year so far and its not even that hard of a watch because they keep you engaged throughout.

Anyone that sincerely uses SJW or political correctness should fucken kill themselves with their own hypocrisy. What do those terms means? Fuck all. They are just used to posture moral superiority while doing the exact same thing they accuse SJWs of, that is shaming people who differ. Smug wanker.

Taylor blowing up when Areola releases the ball is just blatant cheating. There's no reason for him to blow his whistle

Originally wanted to post this in our Uli Hoeneß thread. That is archived, though. Therefore more of FC Hollywood in this thread. Hoeneß made serious allegations against Thomas Tuchel on a press meeting.Shortly before Bayern's match versus Frankfurt the manager reacted in an interview- here's a report albeit in German: http://www.kicker.de/tuchels-heftiger-konter-fuer-hoeness-absolut-haltlos-1019510/artikel I'm fully aware Hoeneß was argueably the most important person in whole of Bayern's history, and the club hadn't that rich a trophy cabinet and the reputation as an absolute European giant without his work. It's even doubtful whether they would be German record champions now, if it wasn't for his time as a General Manager. Nonetheless Hoeness tarnished his good name in the later stage of his career , all by his own doing, through statements that were debatable to ridiculous. Also he declared he would withdraw from day to day business, when he retired as GM to become Honorary President. baring that in mind it would probably be wiser, if Hoeneß would stay away from such media events or at least just kept quiet about things that have nothing to do with his actual role, in my honest opinion. On the other hand am delighted Bayern return to their legendary "FC Hollywood" routine, that's usually very entertaining for a neutral spectator.

Its a nice evening thunderstorm here, absolutely loving it. That nice ocean smell during a storm. 4 more days until I can have wine.

SAF’s going away present was the next 10 years

They're both legends, but in this second half of the season they've both been dickheads too. Not really fussed about any of it. Klopp's out in a bit and who knows if Salah's going to keep being a Liverpool player after that. I just hope our dogshit form doesn't have us slip out of top 4 because of the shocking complacency that's crept into this squad.

Given they've ignored spending limits twice now its hard to see this as a positive.

@Rick @Tommy @Whiskey @Redcanuck @Storts @N U F C still got most games to choose from if you want to take part in this round.

Congrats!

Congrats @Stan!

Bayern will no doubt rotate against Frankfurt in their upcoming Bundesliga match, with an eye on the crucial 1st leg semi-final match against Real Madrid in Munich. I am personally hoping that Bayern get a win at home against Real Madrid, because I think that even a draw might not be enough for them to make the final. Real Madrid nearly always win on home soil in the Champions League.

If Arsenal beat Spurs away at the weekend i think they will win the rest leaving us no room for error. an injury or two or mad sending off could de-rail us so it's not over yet. on the flip side if they lose to Spurs we have one hand on the trophy ..a few weeks ago people was saying it's the best title race ever, now City are back in the driving seat it's a shit farmers league bet if Arsenal win it they will say it's the best title race ever again lol

Humble reminder, although it's been contextually obvious whom you were talking about- the term "Fußballgott" is used that inflationary throughout all clubs and leagues, sometimes even for more than one player of the same club, that it's completely inapproriate as an identification.

Wouldn't surprise me at all to see him at Ferrari. After so many banter years they finally seem to be making logical decisions.

One of the Liverpool fans in my work is a proper deluded gimp and argues till he's blue in the face that Nunez is on par with Haaland, that gets grief because it's fashionable to rip into him. Darwin's absolutely dogshite and is a real rare poor deal for you lot. It's genuinely like playing with 10 men, very much like Rashford at United but for different reasons.

With his income I'd expect him to choose a better holiday destination.

A midweek PL double resulted in only 1 winner, me! Game 125 had a 37th-minute solitary goal in the game. No winners here. Game 126's first goal was 10 minutes earlier, in the 27th minute: 1 point Table after Game 126: No change in the table but I'm now only one point behind @Lucas and @Bluewolf.

The most concerning thing for Liverpool last night wasn't the poor performance but the failure to match Everton's desire and commitment. That was a bigger game for Liverpool. Everton put themselves 5 clear of the drop zone at the weekend and still have Brentford, Luton and Sheffield United to come where they can target the last few points they need to make sure. We could have been forgiven for having half an eye on Brentford at the weekend. Liverpool HAD to win. Liverpool's players have been hiding in the last few games. I watch them a lot because my Mrs is unfortunately a Red. Against Atalanta, Palace and last night, they just crumbled at the first sign of adversity. Van Dijk giving goals away for fun and waving his arms at his team mates, Salah completely anonymous, Nunez and Diaz missing really good chances. Robertson must have fallen over the ball about 15 times last night. Long term servants and more recent signings alike have just hidden from responsibility which is very odd for this era of Liverpool. This defending from Alexander-Arnold for the second goal last night epitomises what I'm talking about. Literally just straight up pussies out of it and let's us score. I don't think the words pathetic or disgraceful are out of place here to be honest. That's not down to a lack of ability or a transition period, he just didn't fancy it on a night where Liverpool needed to win to keep the last slim chance of winning another trophy alive. It's just really strange.

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One of my favourites I took recently.