ScoRoss

In Scotland, they've had to move all of the League Cup games to weekends and have scraped the winter break to be able to fit in all the domestic fixtures amongst the expanded European competitions.

Champions League and Europa League expansion taking up more midweeks, and aren't always in the same midweek. Champions League first league stage fixtures are the week of 17th September. Europa League doesn't start until the next week. Seeding is to keep the teams in different competitions apart. Otherwise there is no day available to play the game.

Doing pretty well without him.

Mourinho was in charge for 10 away league games this season, and got 8 points. De Rossi has been in charge for 2, and they've already got 6 points from them.

An absolute cop out by FIFA. Either the South American bid was good enough to host it fully or not at all.

Monchi bankrupts the club and then fucks off. Second time he's done this...

Last time he left Sevilla, he ruined Roma. So hoping for Villa's sake it goes a lot better.

Anderlecht coach resigns, so he can become Queen's Park coach. From Europa Conference League to the Scottish Championship.

The season may have only ended on Sunday, four days ago, but the draw has already been made for the Viaplay Cup for next season. Starting on July 15th, we're only five weeks away from the new season kicking off. With Celtic, Rangers, Aberdeen, Hearts and Hibernian getting byes to the next round, due to European qualification, Viaplay are probably not ecstatic about their potential audience for the group stage games. However, they always seem to throw up a few surprises and manage to have a couple managers under pressure before we even get to August and the league season kicking off.

Can he do it on a cold, wet, Tuesday night in Columbus though?

What an ending to the game though!

Season is under a week away and the playoff format has yet to be decided. Not a great start to the season, and not a great look for the league.

Replacement incoming though.

We always do these days

Hilarious to see Rio Ferdinand and Roy Keane squirming over Ronaldo being dropped. What's the point of having these awful pundits, when they aren't even impartial to what they are asked to analyse.

Ideally hoping for some combination of Iceland, Faroe Islands and Gibraltar. Fully expecting Sweden / Norway, Greece / Turkiye and Slovakia.

Seems a very snide way of getting more votes from the Spain / Portugal bid. Just the very thing to gain popularity to just throw Ukraine in there. (Although nothing will be as bad as the Brewdog special Ukraine beer...) I'm accepting of the point of having multiple countries are going to have to be involved in hosting World Cups / European Championships from now on, because of the size of the competition. But at some point they need to make geographic sense. And this is about as ridiculous as it's getting, the previous best being the Argentina/ Uruguay bid with Columbia tacked on for some reason.