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12 minutes ago, Happy Blue said:

Hmm, we got 700million prize money alone last season  you might want to stick to the truth  ..issue with the fake chargers you say? more lies that will be cleared soon 

As long as you have debts of over 0 cents you're living off money belonging to others, that's the cold truth.

6 minutes ago, Happy Blue said:

Think Wirtz is destined for Munich but we will try 4 sure  ..money isn't an issue, we got over 500million to spend plus players sales like Bernardo, Phillips, Cancelo etc

Please stick to the truth, you wanted to say the UAE got over 500M since the only thing Man City got are about 170M Pounds debts and issues with the FA/Premier League for over 100 FFP breaches.

1 hour ago, Happy Blue said:

Every dog has it's day ...we need to buy more Germans in the summer  Kimmich, Wirtz & Musiala ..not even joking, these are our targets 

Good luck with getting Wirtz! He extended his contract, his agent and father said he wants to and should stay at Leverkusen for at least one more year; and the asking price is allegedly 150M Euros.

On 17/04/2024 at 10:17, Stan said:

Nurnberg 2-1 Paderborn
Elversberg 1-0 Schalke
Dusseldorf 2-0 Furth
Kaiserslautern 2-1 Wehen
Osnabruck 1-1 Braunschweig
Hamburg 2-2 Kiel
Hannover 1-2 St Pauli
Rostock 0-1 Magdeburg

You missed the match Karlsruhe - Hertha BSC.

4 hours ago, OrangeKhrush said:

Deutschland Uber alles was banned due to its connection to the national socialists party,  it was however just the Uber alles was removed/replaced. 

All for Germany or everything for Germany is a tough one to sell as endemically nazi, civic nationalism is not illegal.   I will read up on SA but may need a bit more accuracy for Google as SA will throw up a metric ton of other results

If a politician uses any symbolism to destructive regimes be it nazism or leninism maoism the individual should be banned from the party

Are you really going to try to teach a German what is banned in Germany as Nazi symbolism and what isn't? -In other words what you wrote here is absolute nonsense. You never came to the idea an opinion you hold without really knowing the background should perhaps being kept for yourself since it might have no connection to reality. May I guess you don't know, who "SA" were, indeed? Then you shouldn't have tried to teach me my country's history and legal situiation?

Never to late to learn just google "Sturmabteilung".

36 minutes ago, Stan said:

Gets in the way because of money elsewhere? 

Why not just withdraw from the competition if it gets in the way? Just because it gets in the way for one club (or 5 others) doesn't mean it gets in the way for others. 

We all know the answer. FA won't carry on with a competition meant to be for the best teams without their best and, from FA's point of view much more important, most profitable teams. English, first and foremost, football teams made their bed with uninhibited commercialization- now lie in it.

5 minutes ago, Michael said:

Leverkusen are playing much better in this 2nd half.

Now that a bit more than an hour is played I've to admit West Ham are not as bad as Ratingen. Am still quite confident Leverkusen advance here, though.,

18 minutes ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

Those google workers were fired for defacing the google cloud offices and shouting threats at their coworkers, more than they were fired for protesting. Columbia University had to send in riot police because pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian protestors were kicking off and the school had to close it's campus because it couldn't guarantee safety of students. The commencement speakers thing is probably the most egregious of those 3 things... but really is a graduation ceremony the appropriate avenue for making highly political statements on an issue that's incredibly divisive?

Either way, none of those examples demonstrate anything the US is doing because 1.) google isn't the US government, 2.) Columbia and USC aren't the US government, 3.) even the state funded universities in the US aren't the US government - they're funded by the states they reside in.

Is there any limit to the sort of bad behavior the zealots amongst the "globalise the intifada" crowd will tolerate for their cause? Is it not enough to call for perpetual bloodshed in the Middle East?

Hey! Since when would propaganda care about reality?

3 minutes ago, Michael said:

I told @Rucksackfranzose that this game wouldn't be easy. West Ham are really up for this, but it doesn't help that Leverkusen have rested some top players and left them on the bench.

Let's wait and see the match hasn't been played for half an hour yet. Will reserve my comment until at least double that time has been played.

Know it's 12th tier and won't probably interest anybody, stilla father as well as both his sons and his niece all scored, when St. Augustin won their Kreisliga C match. Mentioning it since it be flubbergasted to learn something like a father and his sons scoring for the same team in the same match has happened that often, especially if you add a women from their wider family also scoring for this men's team to the mix.

58 minutes ago, Stan said:

It probably is, yes. But this is the oldest cup competition in the world being totally devalued. One of the highlights is non-league clubs potentially hosting big giant clubs, or at least the chance to. 

We all know the motive here - protect the wants and needs of a small percentage of bigger clubs and ignore that of the majority of other clubs that are involved. Managers like Klopp, Pep, Arteta constantly moaning about fixture congestion has influenced this. 

 

I think a suitable compromise would be to do it like they do in France - if a team is drawn at home to a side 2 (or more) divisions below them, then the tie is automatically switched to a home tie for the lower league club. It keeps the 'romance' of the cup alive and it's what fans enjoy a lot about the competition. 

 

Do it like Germany a team from top 2 tiers always play away if they face a lower league team.

10 minutes ago, Stan said:

But the extra income from a replay is such a big thing for lower-league clubs. The biggest point here is what @Lucas mentions too, why are PL clubs getting to orchestrate what goes on in rounds they're not even involved in.

It just smacks of more shady deals that the PL are willingly and knowingly involving themselves in because they have the clout and financial means to do so. But it's at the neglect of clubs that it actually impact more in a negative sense. 

Isn't reaching the next round of FA cup more lucrative than the than the extras entrance income in England? Genuine question because Germany got rid of the replays because that was the case., me being not imaginative enough to envisible significant extra income from entrance for a club from Midsussex Football League, if they have a replay at the Ettihad aside.

Already agreed not consulting EFL was disrespectful.

5 hours ago, Pyfish said:

Ridiculous decision made with only the 'elite' clubs in mind who moan about having to play the extra games when they can't get the job done in the first legs. Replays in the FA Cup have provided lower league teams with chances to go to stadiums they wouldn't usually get to see their teams play at, they've provided lower league teams with chances to go on magic cup runs, and they've brought in revenue for the lower league teams that helps them stay afloat in some cases.

Why were the Premier League consulted but not the EFL? 

Not necessarly, since replays might have provided the lower league teams with the opportunity to play in a bigger stadium- the penalties provide them with a better chance to go through than the replays, though. Wouldn't bet on the lower tier teams always preferring the former over the latter.

Edit: Not consulting EFL is disrespctful, nonedtheless.

9 minutes ago, Spike said:

We know all about South Africa mate 

Checked it, you don't have colour me surprised. Although Salvation army, South Australia, South America and your suggestion did pop up on the first page, as well to be fair.

Just read news, I'd missed when they were more highly current. Leading AFD politician is brought to court for "using symbols of unconstitutional and terroristic organisations" because the infamous SA slogan "Alles für Deutschland" (translates to "Everything for Germany") in a public speech. Thought that might interest you @OrangeKhrush since you said there were no fascist tendencies in the AFD whilst repeatedly calling the governmental parties Nazi without any calms.

PS: In case you don't know who SA were, just google them. You can colour me surprised, if the English speaking first research site wouldn't suply them given foreigners obsession with that part of German history.

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1 hour ago, Michael said:

Well a German can afford to say something like that.)

Well, if we're look at it a penalty will ever be goal, even in case the keeper jumps to the side of the goal it's shot to, if it's only shot hard and well-placed enough.Also it's laughable, people earning millions a year with nothing more than training a few hours a day and playing 90 minutes of football once or twice a week, get excused with bad luck, if they fail to hit an area as big as a goal from the distance of 11 meters, either they are completely exhausted, absolutely nervous, or undescribably incompetent if they do so; in no fucking way they're unlucky, yet.

4 hours ago, Mel81x said:

Think the Arsenal game was always going to end the way it did. I had some hope that City would beat Real and progress but when you get to penalties you really are at the mercy of the lottery. 

This is a misconception, in my honest opinion. You're at the mercy of your own nerves and realism rather than that of a lottery. Bernardo Silva was a victim of arrogant overestimation of themself yesterday, not that of bad luck. This lottery talk is an invention of these nations bad at penalties to play down their own shortcomings.

1 hour ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

Yeah but now you're pulling for Bayern Munich, which is weird and at least a little bit unclean. Meanwhile, I get to laugh at City being unable to buy a second CL title - and the pain of last week has subsided and I've come to terms with the fact our season is likely over unless I get a very nice surprise.

And my reaction to the possibility of there being 1 less English team in the CL next year is: lol, good - fuck 'em.

Not pulling for Bayern, have to say comparing them to City is very disrespectful, though. Just a reminder City are state-owned, and oil-money doped, still got the glorious total of 1 European cup, as many as German 2nd tier club HSV, while Bayern are member-owned and have 6 CL titles to their name. Or to do compare Tranmere Rovers to Real Madrid, as well?

8 minutes ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

I can't be alone in not giving a shit if we have less teams in the CL than other leagues, can I?

To be fair, think I misinterpreted @6666, since overseeing that little word "anyway."

9 minutes ago, 6666 said:

Going out on penalties will hopefully prove to be too traumatic for the rest of Man City's season.

What does the "Top 2 gets 5 champions league places" table look like now anyway? How far ahead are Italy & Germany?

Depends on tomorrow's results. Still if Liverpool and West Ham go out, especially the latter at the hands of Leverkusen that ship has sailed for the Premier League.

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Nürnberg 3-3 Paderborn

Elversberg 1-2 Schalke

Düsseldorf 3-2 Fürth

Lautern 1-2 Wehen

Osnabrück 2-2 Braunschweig

Hamburg 0-2 Kiel

Karlsruhe  2-1 Hertha BSC

Hannover 1-1 St Pauli

Rostock 3-1 Magdeburg