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I'd love to see what he can do with the seniors. Some of the football played in the u21 Euros was special.

I swear people focus way too much on wingers and their decline. Maybe it's selection bias but I'm starting to notice when midfielders decline, THEY FALL OFF CLIFF WITHIN MONTHS. Like I've seen it Matic, Fabinho, Brozovic, and Casemiro. One more they're good and 3 games later they're shit and never recover.

The stick was confined to social media and barely lasted a week, they had more support than negativity. Not comparable to what Beckham had

James Rodriguez with a 2014-2015 throwback performance.

Tears in my eyes!

Scotland have a good all round time right now don’t get me wrong but since the turn of the 21st century the quality of Scottish player has definitely dropped somewhat.

Which is a huge asset in international football

Maybe allocate more minutes for teams in comps, or limited to just the league rather than cup comps too.

Far better than any statement our government would come up with, which is depressing.

Proud of Scotland tonight. Few things go our way there and we get a better result. Played 6 games, won 5 and performed well in all 6. Mental stuff. Hopefully Haaland does us a favour on Sunday, secures a point for Norway and then we qualify on Sunday + have a chance to win the group. Mon eh fucking Scotland.

I mean, outside of football, isn't it completely normal?

How have Gabriel Pirani and Calegari been doing at the MLS?

Sancet could half pass as a proper name in Basque or some other regional dialect of Spain, but Oihan?? That’s a high elf carpenter or something

Yeah there is a chance that would be the case.

I think it would prevent big 250k contracts and a more level wage structure which isn't a massive issue imo, but could mean big teams abroad could offer contracts if it's only a rule in England

Gotta blast propaganda about him being good for five days before hating him again.

I think I will die if Boca signs Messi even for a short loan. Probably bs but I don't think my mind would comprehend it and I would just get a stroke.

Eh, "presumably from" is doing a lot of heavy lifting the

Did remind me of a spectacular dumb post I saw in a different sub celebrating the Spanish WWC win over England because the (very American) poster didn't want to see a nation of colonisers win 😂🤷‍♂️

James Rodriguez had so much talent to be the clear greatest Colombian footballer of all time, yet his lazy ass makes it so people put Radamel Falcao over him when it shouldn't be like that.

What a waste of talent.

I do love the history lessons that come out in a vibrant match thread.

I think any team out of the group stage in cup competitions get 0 restrictions on minutes for that competition, and also it shouldn’t be a full season cap I would probably break it up into 2 halves or maybe even quarters like 900 minutes per 12 games for example

fucking hell just watched the Beckham documentary and the overaction to the red card was absolutely insane. what do you reckon happens if it was 2023?

Colombia is a bigger underachiever than Mexico

Lionel Messi is still the main man for Argentina

Marcelo Morelo Martins is still the main man for Bolivia

Alexis Sanchez and Arturo Vidal are still the main men for Chile

James Rodriguez is still the main man for Colombia

Enner Valencia is still the main man for Ecuador

Paolo Guerrero still a vital figure for Peru

Salomon Rondon still a vital figure for Venezuela

When will CONMEBOL finally move on man? It is the year of our lord 2023

The future generations are in trouble

Rugby is mostly played by private school kids or in certain areas like the borders. It's not really a detriment to football. Football's problem is primarily a coaching issue which is something that Rugby also suffers from.

They weren't jeered around the country though?

Bielsa in the mud? You love to see it.

Is this text you wrote yourself or from a newspaper? I dig it tbh

IT WAS 50 YEARS AGO TODAY - October 13th

First Division

Leeds remain unbeaten after suffering a scare at Filbert Street. Leicester City went 2-0 up courtesy of Frank Worthington and a thunderbolt by Alan Birchenall, but Leeds fought to draw level: Mick Jones and a controversial free-kick parried into the net by Billy Bremner helped the Whites to continue his march on top of the table.

The gap between first and second is reduced to two points. Burnley beat QPR 2-1 thanks to the goals by Geoff Nulty and Ray Hankin, cancelling Dave Thomas effort. Coventry couldn't snatch a win at Norwich, ending all square at 0-0.

Liverpool's shaky start of the season continues, virtue of a 1-0 defeat at The Dell, with an effort by Mick Channon, settling the points for Southampton. A crowd of 25,111 at Stamford Bridge saw one of the most entertaining games of the day - Ipswich defeated Chelsea thanks to a brace by David Johnson and a Bryan Hamilton goal. 3-2 for the Anglia team. At White Hart Lane, a North London Derby with 2 teams in search of a victory which can give a bit of fresh aire was decided in favour of a Spurs side which really needed the points: a crowd of 41,000 saw Martin Chivers and Alan Gilzean score the goals.

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CONTROVERSY AT OLD TRAFFORD. United's woes continue after another dire performance against now 3rd place Derby County: the biggets crowd of the day (43,000) saw Kevin Hector score the only goal of the match. But the real trouble started at the end of the match. Sam Longson, the Derby chairman, claimed that Brian Clough v-signed Sir Matt Busby, in attendance today. This really aggravates the atmosphere between the board and the manager. We shall see if the situation improves or not.

To finish with, it's good to see Birmingham City's first victory of the season: goals from Trevor Francis and Kenny Burns obliterated John Richards' effort for a Wolves side who lie only one point above the relegation zone. Said relegation zone is also shared by West Ham, who is rock bottom after Colin Harper's goal gave Everton the win at Goodison Park.

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Second Division

Middlesbrough earn another valuable home win to keep themselves top of the table: 1-0 against Hull - Malcolm Smith the scorer. An overhaul of the promotion places has happened: both Fulham and Forest lost today - Don Masson scoring a brace to sink Fulham at Notts County and the Gordon Fairbrother-Ricky Heppolette duo partnering to beat Forest at the Orient - leaving Luton Town to pick the rewards. A penalty scored by John Aston and a goal by Peter Anderson gave the Hatters a 2-1 win against Swindon. Preston's purple patch continues, as they move to third - Neil Young with the penalty to beat Sunderland in front of 21,000. In all, up to 8 teams are in a 2-point gap.

At the bottom, Malcolm Allison's Palace are still winless, although they can boast their third draw of the season - 1-1 at Oxford, with the goal by Don Rogers to show. But they have 3 points from 11 matches. This draw helps Oxford to lift themselves from the danger zone - a place in which Swindon and Millwall enter.

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Third and Fourth Division

Bristol Rovers' immaculate start of the season continues with a 1-1 draw against shaky Port Vale at Eastville with the biggest crowd of the day in the division - 8,882. The two promotion places remain unchanged - Oldham beat Rochdale in a regional derby 3-1, and Bournemouth could only muster a draw at Shrewsbury (1-1). Bolstered by BBC's Match of the Day cameras, Hereford's 8,552 crowd could only see their side draw 0-0 against Cambridge. At the bottom, Aldershot goes back to last position after a dissapointing day at Roots Hall, Southend. 2-1 for the Shrimps, who are now outside the relegation zone. Brighton (lost 1-0 at home to Halifax), Shrewsbury and Rochdale, follow the Shots at the bottom.

In the fourth division, Top 4 remains unchanged. Colchester 3-0 drubbing against Darlington on Friday helped them to keep the top of the table one week more. Meanwhile, Bury in second place suffered a 3-0 beating by Gillingham, with a brace of in-form Brian Yeo (9 goals so far). The top of the table is very crowded - 4 points separating the Top 10. The goal-fest of the day was at Millmoor, where Rotherham beat Exeter 4-0. And for the highest attendance today we go to London - Brentford's 6,100 crowd saw a gallant home side go down 1-0 against in-form Peterborough. Sadly, the lowest crowd could only muster a thousand crowd, who saw Workington beat Barnsley by 1-0, helping them to distance themselves from the re-election bunch.

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Outside of the League

Next Wednesday, England faces a daunting prospect in order to be in West Germany the next year - they need to beat Poland in order to qualify for the World Cup. There was great talk on newspapers to postpone this week's matches, but Alan Hardaker, Chairman of the Football League, was adamant on a radio interview:

It is a football match, not a war. Let us keep our sense of perspective, everybody is getting hysterical. If we do lose, the game is not going to die. It will be a terrible thing for six weeks and then everybody will forget about it.

Lest not forget that the sold-out match will be covered LIVE on ITV starting at 7.30. Highlights will be shown at Sportsnight at 10.30.

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FOOTBALL ON TV TODAY.

BBC - Liverpool v Southampton and Hereford United v Cambridge United.

ITV - Tottenham Hotspur v Arsenal (London Weekend - Brian Moore), Leicester City v Leeds United (ATV - Hugh Johns), Norwich City v Hull City (Anglia TV), Sheffield Wednesday v Plymouth Argyle (Yorkshire TV) and Middlesbrough v Hull City (Tyne Tees TV).

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Link with all results and scorers (1st and 2nd Division only)

Ter stegen and your defense right? Shocking how fast all of your starter fall one by one

Nah, City's 100 points is much more impressive

In arsenal's invincible season, they only got 90 points. They could afford to go easy in a few games and not risk counters but because points tallies needed are higher nowadays, City need to go for the win a lot more can't really have days off until they've won the league

Honestly the more points the more impressive you are

I hate 1230 kick offs and now they're moving another liverpool game to a 1230 kick off

Why can't other teams get them as regularly as we do, we have 13 more 1230 kick offs than the next two combined over the past season.

For those who think Bellingham is overrated, what exactly are his weaknesses? The only glaring one that I can think of is he's not really a controller like a Kroos or Xavi, but that's probably due to the position that Ancelotti is playing him this season. If Madrid sign a world-class striker next season, and Bellingham goes back to his usual midfield position, we'll probably see him focus more on controlling the game. Maybe you can argue his technique/eye test is overrated, but technique doesn't really matter if you're producing results on the pitch

Because like most things everything apart from England and the English is an afterthought in the ‘United’ Kingdom

They've formed some sort of psychic connection in that summer where they went to United and Chelsea, after each was supposed to go to the other club. Never cross streams.

I just remembered about Patrick Schick’s existence, where has he been for the past year? Feel like I haven’t heard anything about him in forever

Leicester catching strays from Trent 😪

my neim is, hames. updetofis

How do I know for what team I am applying for tickets in the UEFA app? I chose E1 vs E2 but I’ve no clue what that means… any help would be appreciated.

Morata now has 33 goals in 66 games for Spain, that’s honestly a much better ratio than I expected.

yeah it was like they're actively looking to eat him alive

The Israel/Palestine topic being banned is great. Those threads are pointless and impossible to moderate

The same goes for most points which actually matters much more.

Why does it matter more when both teams won the league

The "lol fuck around and find out" comments that permeate every thread about the Gaza bombings are so incredibly callous. It's a tragedy when innocent Israelis are killed and it's a tragedy when innocent Palestinians are killed.

None of this should be cheered for and yet there's a vocal contingent of reddit who are treating this tragedy like a sporting event.