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Real announced it officially, Alonso is their new coach. Leverkusen is allegedly close to announce Ten Hag as new coach.

Edit: Ten Hag officially new coach at Leverkusen.
 
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¡Que chingue su madre el América! Toluca beats America in the Liga MX final to deny them a 4th consecutive short tournament championship. If there’s a god, he will also deny America of a stolen Club World Cup spot from Leon this Saturday vs LAFC.
 
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Onni Kalsarikännit said:
Someone plowed with a car through the people at the parade for Liverpool. Thread: https://kiwifarms.net/threads/liverpool-fc-parade-attack.220446/
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Man, Liverpool really can't lift a Premier league trophy without some sort of awful situation happening (winning it in an empty COVID-stricken stadium, and now this).

As a United fan caring member of society thinking about the safety of the general public, we really should just ban them from having any form of success for the foreseeable future.
 
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These incidents follow them because they're unreasonable people, but they can always crawl back to being a victim with the ordinary families that support the club. Heysel was all their fault, and they got away with it. Hillsborough was nuanced, but it's been twisted into none of it being their fault when the fact is many of their fans turned up without tickets with the exact purpose of overwhelming the ticket booths so they could all get in for free. The poor families at the front who paid up were crushed because of the selfish people at the back. What was going to happen? They did the same thing at the Champions League final against Real Madrid, but were stopped before it started, and boom, they act the victim because some families got caught in the crossfire.
This incident isn't the same, but it does have familiar themes: idiots surrounding a car that goes the wrong way and trying to get in and attack them, then the dude panics and just tries to drive somewhere and hits a bunch of people. No other fans in the world have had these tragedies happen, and it isn't a coincidence.
 
Out of nowhere Werder Bremen and their coach Ole Werner are parting ways.
Werner took over in Bremen in November 2021 when Bremen was still in 2. Bundesliga and after their coach resigned (bc he lied about being vaccinated and presented faked test results). Werner led Bremen on 2nd rank and got them promoted back to Bundesliga directly. In their first season under him Bremen ranked 13th, in the 2nd second season they first fought against relegation back to 2. Bundesliga but then ended the season with missing the Euro cup rankings only scarecly and this season the same but with a better overall ranking. So he was pretty succesful given the circumstances (Bremen has basically no money for transfers). Yesterday Bremen announced that Werner wouldn't sign a new contract with them (his current contract only runs for another year) and today say announced that they part ways with immediate effect.
 
DSP's Tax Lawyer said:
So what is the fucking deal with Aston Villa bitching about their game against United? They had no business winning that game
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It's when the ball came into Bayindir (United GK) where the ball was between his hands but not fully holding the ball, and a Villa player kicked it away from him and scored, but before it went in the net the referee blew his whistle. Since the referee blew the whistle before the goal could be counted it couldn't go to VAR for review, so it stuck as a foul although Villa are complaining that Bayindir wasn't fully in control of the ball so it wasn't a foul. And then minutes later United got their first goal.

They're using the excuse that it would've shifted the momentum of the game if the goal but they were bad all game regardless. The referee definitely fucked up by blowing the whistle early and not letting it go to review but it's not like Villa were any good other than that one moment. They're also annoyed that losing the game lost them a UCL spot and the money that comes with it but they had all game to make up for it and didn't.
 
Officer Barbrady said:
It's when the ball came into Bayindir (United GK) where the ball was between his hands but not fully holding the ball, and a Villa player kicked it away from him and scored, but before it went in the net the referee blew his whistle. Since the referee blew the whistle before the goal could be counted it couldn't go to VAR for review, so it stuck as a foul although Villa are complaining that Bayindir wasn't fully in control of the ball so it wasn't a foul. And then minutes later United got their first goal.

They're using the excuse that it would've shifted the momentum of the game if the goal but they were bad all game regardless. The referee definitely fucked up by blowing the whistle early and not letting it go to review but it's not like Villa were any good other than that one moment. They're also annoyed that losing the game lost them a UCL spot and the money that comes with it but they had all game to make up for it and didn't.
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I got back from the Newcastle game and, of course, had no idea what happened in the Villa game bar the result, tense as fuck for 10 minutes while at the game but I was in the safe standing which was mint because we could crowd around someone's radio (the cell reception is shit) and nobody gave a fuck (every stadium should have 90% standing to save the atmospheres)
Looking back at the Villa incident, and honestly, if the referee had whistled after the ball went in the net for a foul and disallowed the goal, it's still a foul on the keeper and not clear and obvious. It's just like when a defender is the last man, turns his back on the attacker and goes down without contact. Just because the Villa player continued after the whistle means fuck all, being 1v1 with the keeper is like a 99% chance you score anyway in the defender scenario.

I think it shows a huge flaw with VAR that I pointed out earlier in the thread, if you stop the play too late, then you might as well not have a referee on the pitch, or an incident could happen that shouldn't have. If you blow too early, you might've got it wrong, like in that scenario, even though it might look like a clear offside/foul, which removes the need for VAR. If you go to games at all, you must be against VAR too, because I've been there with key decisions, and it's totally detached from the thing you see in front of you to become something that just serves people sitting on their sofa. I don't give a fuck if the referee makes a mistake anymore besides the obvious banter of calling him a wanker or whatever because the downside is too great of having VAR where it's nitpicking and not really what the sport is about as a physical spectator.
 
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Sorry if this isn't the best thread but surely someone here knows.
Football manager 2024 is on sale and I'm thinking about buying it but i'm hesitant because they removed some shit due to licensing and added female clubs & leagues (lol).

Is it good/bad and worth the punt? I've a lot of hours in previous versions but stopped in 21.
 
skunt said:
Sorry if this isn't the best thread but surely someone here knows.
Football manager 2024 is on sale and I'm thinking about buying it but i'm hesitant because they removed some shit due to licensing and added female clubs & leagues (lol).

Is it good/bad and worth the punt? I've a lot of hours in previous versions but stopped in 21.
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Depends on if you enjoy playing it or not. Tbf I have wanted to play the game but never got into it
 
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