Stan

Had to be Rice and Grealish scoring

Great goal from Italy last night

Fuck it

Dropped from 16th Week 1 to 23rd.

That's quite big...

all kick-offs 19.45 (BST) unless stated GROUP B1 Saturday 7th September, 2024 Georgia vs Czech Republic, 17.00 Ukraine vs Albania Tuesday 10th September, 2024 Albania vs Georgia Czech Republic vs Ukraine GROUP B2 Saturday 7th September, 2024 Republic of Ireland vs England, 17.00 Greece vs Finland Tuesday 10th September, 2024 England vs Finland Republic of Ireland vs Greece GROUP B3 Friday 6th September, 2024 Kazakhstan vs Norway, 17.00 Slovenia vs Austria Monday 9th September, 2024 Norway vs Austria Slovenia vs Kazakhstan GROUP B4 Friday 6th September, 2024 Iceland vs Montenegro Wales vs Turkey Monday 9th September, 2024 Montenegro vs Wales Turkey vs Iceland

all kick-offs 19.45 (BST) unless stated GROUP A1 Thursday 5th September, 2024 Portugal vs Croatia Scotland vs Poland Sunday 8th September, 2024 Croatia vs Poland Portugal vs Scotland GROUP A2 Friday 6th September, 2024 Belgium vs Israel France vs Italy Monday 9th September, 2024 France vs Belgium Israel vs Italy GROUP A3 Saturday 7th September, 2024 Germany vs Hungary Netherlands Bosnia Tuesday 10th September, 2024 Hungary vs Bosnia Netherlands vs Germany GROUP A4 Thursday 5th September, 2024 Denmark vs Switzerland Serbia vs Spain Sunday 8th September, 2024 Denmark vs Serbia Switzerland vs Spain

Week 4 Results Burnley 1-1 Blackburn Toulouse 1-3 Marseille Sporting Lisbon 2-0 Porto Valencia 1-1 Villarreal Portland Timbers 1-0 Seattle Sounders Celtic 3-0 Rangers Club Brugge 3-0 Cercle Brugge Copenhagen 3-1 Brondby Feyenoord P-P Ajax Independiente 0-0 River Plate Round-up A total of 7 rivalries/derbies to contend with for Week 4, albeit due to a police strike the Der Klassieker between Feyenoord vs Ajax was called off. Nonetheless, it still didn't put off @6666 from attaining the highest score of the week, getting 17 points from the remaining 9 games. That meant he shot up to 1st place and now leads @nawoo by two points. The other 2 players in the top 4 swapped places too - @RandoEFC overtaking @Rucksackfranzose after outscoring him by 3 points and getting the 2nd highest score of the week (16 pts). There's a little bit of a gap forming after the top 4, with 3 players - @Viva la FCB / @Azeem / @Spike - all now on 46 points. Just one behind them is @Tommy who got 14 points. @CaaC (John) takes up the impressive feat of not getting a single outcome correct and the only points he gained were for actually just getting some predictions in...

What does that do for a club, out of interest? Improve facilities, help with wages etc?

all that faff and they've still come unstuck:

Reminder @Coma @Pyfish @6666

Saturday Nigeria 1-0 Benin Republic of Ireland 1-2 England Germany 3-1 Hungary Netherlands 2-0 Bosnia Sunday USA 1-0 Canada Columbus Crew 2-2 Seattle Sounders Chicago Fire 1-0 DC United New York RB 3-1 Sporting Kansas Luxembourg 1-2 Belarus Denmark 1-0 Serbia

Whether we gained an advantage from exposing this loophole is very much an argument to be debated

To have no regard for rules that don't work? Usually rules are foolproof and rigid. PL's rules clearly weren't. I think clubs that have done things differently have done it in spite of the rules, not because the PL can turn around and say well done.

I agree.

Would also just like to point out that I have no love for the fact my club did probably break the rules. But I do love the fact that the sham organisation that the PL have currently become are unable to enforce their own rules because of their own technicalities and loopholes. We're no saints in all of this, but being able to hire a decent lawyer to fight our case has worked wonders in showing the PL up for the amateurs they purport to be.

We've won our appeal against PL charging us with breach of PSR threshold. Sounds like we got off on a major technicality and rely on PL's wording of their rules.

all kick-offs 15.00 (BST) unless stated Saturday 14th September, 2024 Southampton vs Man Utd, 12.30 Brighton vs Ipswich Crystal Palace vs Leicester Fulham vs West Ham Liverpool vs Nottm Forest Man City vs Brentford Aston Villa vs Everton, 17.30 Bournemouth vs Chelsea, 20.00 Sunday 15th September, 2024 Tottenham vs Arsenal, 14.00 Wolves vs Newcastle, 16.30 Please get ALL predictions in by SATURDAY 14th SEPTEMBER - Topic will be LOCKED at 12.30pm (BST)!!

I'm just messing about

A 3-2 away win involving Leverkusen getting prediction of the week. Interesting.

Yeah it needs to be nipped in the bud before it gets going, at least on these shores. Football clubs are known for fleecing fans these days so it wouldn't surprise me if clubs are already thinking of incorporating it. Put simply, it just cannot be allowed to start. There's already categorisations/banding of games for tickets for most clubs - but at least the fan knows what they'll need to pay at any point before the fixture. It just cannot be fair that the closer the event or more demand it has, then you have to pay more. Football clubs should be serving of the fans and looking out for their best interests, not to mention during a cost-of-living crisis or where money is tight for the average match-goer. Take Dusseldorf for example - they are looking at making ways to be resourceful and making home games free of charge (is this still a thing @Tommy?). Once again a German club showing the way to be protective of the fans' interests, not seek out to exploit as much money out of them as possible.

I've overtaken @Dan's mantle of being completely shite at this game

3 for me. Get hammered vs Palace, then beat Everton. Cooper has to start Mavididi, Buonanotte and El Khannous. Ndidi can not and should not ever be played as a 10 again. Bizarre to attempt it let alone stick with it after half time when it clearly wasn't working. To hang on to the subs until after they scored their 2nd was poor management. Should have been proactive and influenced the game when we weren't creating any real chances but had 3 creative players on the bench. Two of which made an instant impact when they came on. After watching highlights I can say I was wrong about Coote for the Vardy penalty incident. But everything else was dogshit from him. While he didn't lose us the game, he definitely lost control of it early on. Seemed to end up guessing for most decisions.

@RandoEFC @CaaC (John) @Tommy @Bluebird Hewitt @Azeem @Viva la FCB @nawoo @Rucksackfranzose @Coma @Spike @Pyfish @6666

all kick-offs 15.00 (BST) unless stated Saturday 7th September, 2024 Nigeria vs Benin, 17.00 Republic of Ireland vs England, 17.00 Germany vs Hungary, 19.45 Netherlands vs Bosnia, 19.45 Sunday 8th September, 2024 USA vs Canada, 00.00 Columbus Crew vs Seattle Sounders, 00.30 Chicago Fire vs DC United, 01.30 New York RB vs Sporting Kansas, 03.30 Luxembourg vs Belarus, 14.00 Denmark vs Serbia, 17.00 Please get ALL predictions in by SATURDAY 7th SEPTEMBER - Topic will be LOCKED at 17.00 (BST)!!