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England has literally won everything before

They don’t hate Indians, the Australian media are simply vultures that will pick at the corpse of any story till it’s dust and bones and then the rats fight over the bones. That’s why they all hang around disasters like hyenas waiting to pounce on a wounded gazelle.

Apparently Jadeja was caught ‘applying a foreign substance’ to the ball. I hope it isn't the case but I wouldn’t know if Jadeja is the character sort to do something like this. @Stan

Scotland is a country that needs some love. England has won everything before, so I want and like to see the other UK countries do well, and Ireland too Of course when Australia flogs everyone I don’t complain lol

The pace corps is mainly absent. Cummo and Boland are great but it leaves a lot to be desired when Starc, Hazlewood, and Green are missing. The subcontinent is known for spin wickets so maybe Cummo is trying to give his spinners a bit of experience on it, maybe sacrifice the first innings to find footing. I don’t mind watching Australia chase, especially after the SA series.

As expected India are too strong for Australia at home. Only day one but the tourists better acclimatise quickly .

Ah yeah, I remember keeping an eye on Frankfurt when Alex Meier was scoring heaps of goals!

What’s the general feeling around Bayern this season? Do Union and Dortmund have enough in the tank to push the title race to the limit?

@Stan don’t be sore about it mate, I didn’t think it would actually bother you. Don’t let it ruin your day xo

Because I knew you’d blow up about it. Come on mate, you know I’m just teasing

@Stan browsing TF355, posting, creating threads, editing thread titles, checking his rep score, and watching every game.

I disagree. That isn’t something that would have taken Pep that long to learn especially given his Barcelona team was considerably great at pressing in the midfield. I was more inferring learning how to counter other strategies, learning how Klopp sets up his team and how to neutralise it.

Learning isn’t the same as copying, mate. The best always learn from their peers and rivals, Pep is probably the best so of course he’d learn from his teams playing against other strong teams. There is always something to be learned, improved, tweaked.

I hope Scotland beat England today.

He is a fucking warehouse manager so he shouldn't have even been in the packing hall, he was just being a bludger and wanting to talk someone's ear off.

Today at work a buddy of mine was cleaning parts for kegging with a caustic chemical, a sort of lye. Another guy comes over and starts yapping abs taking paper collars off the kegs, I tell him to be careful because the bucket of lye was resting on top of the legs. And he knocks it over saturating his arm but when the bucket hit the ground it covered my face. I had fucking caustic chemicals splashed on my face, I wore my glasses today so I got lucky with my eyes but I had to sprint over to the eye wash station. I could feel it on my face, it covered my jumper and jeans. I’m so fucking mad I was shaking, I wanted to throttle him.

The Superbowl is nearly always awful

Fair enough. I thought that happened in Sydney, anyway that’s also true for every team in this league. Eagles had Michael Vick who ran an illegal dog fighting ring in his yard, Kansas City had Tyreek Hill who strangled his toddler, Bengals have Joe Mixon who kicked a girl in the head when he was at uni. At least the 49ers cut Hayne after everything, all the other players I listed have/had careers post incident. The Browns have a sexual predator USD$300 million guaranteed in the middle of a civil case.

Hayne being a rapist has nothing to do the 49ers, especially since he played for them years before

Yeah, to a degree. Eagles have more Aussies on the squad and I had Hurts as my fantasy QB, so I’m leaning towards them but SF also have Aussies and I had McCaffrey on my team as well.

That was Djokovic’s problem

Malo Gusto sounds like a fake name in Spanish

They wear protection because Teddy Roosevelt made them wear it in the 1900s. It used to be more similar to rugby but the entire sport was essentially a free-for-all maul, with few rules on how and what a tackle is, players often died. Instead of adjusting the rules and learning to tackle safely; the forward pass and helmets were added. What the players wear now is just the evolution of that.

Australia has boycotted Afghanistan to the ire of Rashid Khan, who is calling for ‘no politics in cricket’. So I can assume he would be against the 25 year boycott of apartheid South Africa

Alright, I think I'm going to Leeds @Lucas. For some reason Day 5 tickets are on sale, only a few pound each, if the match goes to five days, I'm dreaming and the flights are cheaper than London. I figured I'd just try the box office every morning to see if there are spare tickets on sale, failing that I'd just go to a pub and drink all day. Can you confirm if Headingly sells tickets on the box office? I know Lord's refuses to, so I'd like to know in advance. While the premium tickets are nice, I'm just not interested in corporate box seating at all. I'd rather not go.