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Jograves
Jograves

You're a frontrunner. That's why you 'support' that team. 

Firemans4Horn
Firemans4Horn

There’s still time to choose a different team. 

mdmost
mdmost

He gets in fist fights with his family just like you!

MoJames

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On 5/31/2018 at 10:54 AM, Schulz2.0 said:

Quick, someone page Wenger in the Madrid airport.

I don't want to start a new thread, but apparently an Ex-GK for Real Madrid suggests Wenger and all the other pundits leave the set.  I'm not a Wenger fan, but seriously?

 

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MoJames

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Here's this too, guy put together a grading system for the most successful teams.  It already is getting beat up a bit for not fractionating Europa and UEFA.  As well as giving the same points for 2nd in Champions as equal to winning your league. Oh and too much emphasis on Super Cups.

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Scoring in Spoiler.

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Competition Points
Champions League 5
Champions League Runner-Up 3
Europa League Champion 2.5
Europa League Runner-Up 1
UEFA Super Cup Champions 2
UEFA Super Cup Runner-Up 1
UEFA Cup Winner's Cup Champion 2
UEFA Cup Winner's Cup Runner-Up 1
Club World Cup Winner 2
Club World Cup Runner-Up 1
La Liga Champions 3
La Liga Runner-Up 1
Serie A Champions 3
Serie A Runner-Up 1
EPL Champions 3
EPL Runner-Up 1
Bundesliga Champions 3
Bundesliga Runner-Up 1
Ligue 1 Champions 2
Ligue 1 Runner-Up 1
Eredivisie Champion 1.5
Eredivisie Runner-Up 0.5
Copa del Rey 1
Copa del Rey Runner-Up 0.5
Supercopa de Espana* 0.5
Supercopa de Espana Runner-Up 0.5
Coppa Italia 1
Coppa Italia Runner-Up 0.5
Supercoppa Italiana 0.5
Supercoppa Italiana Runner-Up 0.5
FA Cup 1
FA Cup Runner-Up 0.5
FA Community Shield Outright 0.5
DFB-Pokal Champions 1
DFB-Pokal Runner-Up 0.5
DFL-Supercup Champions 0.5
DFL-Supercup Runner-Up 0.5
Coupe de France Champion 1
Coupe de France Runner-Up 0.5
Trophee des Champions Winner 0.5
Trophee des Champions Runner-Up 0.5
KNVB Cup Champions 1
KNVB Cup Runner-Up 0.5
Johan Cruyff Shield Winner 0.5
Johan Cruyff Shield Runner-Up 0.5

 

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Captain Ron

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Tottenham had requested all road games until the international break (early Sept). The EPL didn't grant them that, but did grant them a waiver for their first home game to be played at Wembley. This means their second home game will be the first at WHL 2.0.

Aug 11 - Newcastle v Spurs
Aug 18 - Spurs v Fulham (Wembley)
Aug 25 - Man U v Spurs
Sept 1 - Watford v Spurs
Sept 15 - Spurs v Liverpool (WHL 2.0)

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Here in Austin, we're doing a little World Cup fundraiser for the Upper Ninety Cup. 

https://www.upperninety.org/ is a community partner of ours at the Austin Soccer Foundation. They are doing incredible things in a very short existence.

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The Upper Ninety Cup is a brand new fundraising tournament taking place during this summer's World Cup. Every dollar raised goes directly to Upper Ninety, a local non-profit that uses soccer as an educational tool to help teens from low-income Austin communities thrive.

We know that when Austinites come together through activism and compassion, there is no limit to what we can accomplish. This summer, we invite you to participate in the Upper Ninety Cup and support low-income students through your love of the beautiful game.

The Upper Ninety Cup is a competition between Austin Gooners, Austin Spurs, and Liverpool Official Supporters Club to raise the most money.

If you want to throw a couple bucks at your favorite team, click on the club logo at http://upperninetycup.com/ and donate! You can also see the leaderboard there. Don't let those jackasses win.

 

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Cheeseweasel

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33 minutes ago, Captain Ron said:

Good luck Pep. 5 of the last 8 (7?) manager that took their team to an EPL title were fired before their 2nd year after the title only Sir Alex (10-11 and 12-13) and Pellegrini (13-14) left "on their own terms".

Dammit. That means we'll lose Klopp in 2 years.

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CFC's version of Conte

 

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It was the 10 days last summer during which Chelsea could not get in touch with their head coach that the relationship between the club and Antonio Conte was terminally eradicated. And there has been some sense of revenge about the way in which the Blues left Conte in the dark over his future after May’s FA Cup final success, even allowing him to return for the start of pre-season training on Monday. There were few congratulations from on high after Conte’s team beat Jose Mourinho’s Manchester United at Wembley. Instead, there was largely silence that lasted until the inevitable was finally conveyed after he had taken training on Thursday.

Some sources still believe Conte was last year considering an offer from Inter Milan, when he did not pick up the telephone, return messages or respond to emails. Whatever the exact reasons behind it, Conte’s disappearing act sent Chelsea into a state of panic and convinced them he wanted out. Peace talks were hastily arranged and a new contract was eventually signed as a reward for winning the Premier League title. But, tellingly, there was no extension. Nobody could be sure Conte would not pull a similar trick again and Chelsea did not want to be liable for more than one year’s money if, as has transpired, they decided to sack the Italian.

It was not just Chelsea who had become suspicious, however, as Conte also lost faith in his employers during a summer in which he felt none of his main targets were signed. Conte wanted Romelu Lukaku, Alexis Sanchez, Alex Sandro and Virgil van Dijk, but by the time Chelsea returned for pre-season on July 10 last year Lukaku had joined Manchester United instead and the Blues’ only outfield signing, Antonio Rudiger, was not ready to start training after playing in the Confederations Cup for Germany. With a Premier League trophy to use as a bargaining chip against club policy, Conte felt empowered to take on his employers. He warned people their jobs were on the line and that they would see ‘the real Antonio Conte’ if he did not get what he wanted.

He is still rated as one of the best coaches the club has ever employed, but there is a feeling that Conte’s judgement became clouded at key points by an obsession to prove he was right. There was bemusement from within the squad when he called a pre-season meeting to supposedly welcome Chelsea’s new signings and introduced Paolo Vanoli and Davide Mazzotta, who had joined his backroom staff. For a short while nobody knew whether or not Conte was being serious, but it quickly became clear that he was underlining the fact there were no new players for him to show off.

Former technical director Michael Emenalo is believed to have been in the room for Conte’s joke that highlighted the gap that was already developing between the 48-year-old and his board. Of course, one player who had not been part of the pre-season meeting was Diego Costa, who effectively went on strike in Brazil after being informed he was no longer part of Conte’s plans over text message. That move went down spectacularly badly inside the Chelsea boardroom, as Conte had acted without their approval and had risked damaging Costa’s value. The message was also forwarded throughout the Chelsea squad, who were astonished that the club’s top scorer in their title-winning campaign could be treated in such a way – even though he had been causing problems since rowing with Conte last January.

More difficulties with members of his squad surfaced during the season, as Conte dropped David Luiz after the Brazilian was perceived to have questioned his tactics during a stormy inquest in which Kenedy was given a dressing down for yawning. Injuries contributed to his absence, but Luiz only played five times after the thrashing in Rome, which took place in October and Kenedy was loaned out to Newcastle United in January. The 5-0 victory over Stoke City on December 31 meant that, despite all the angst, Chelsea finished 2017 in second place in the Premier League and still in all of the cup competitions.

But tensions boiled up again during a January transfer window in which Conte wanted the Blues to back him with bids for Sanchez and Sandro, both of whom he believed were available. He had not spoken with anybody more senior than Emenalo, who left Chelsea in November, between August and December, and his requests were unsurprisingly ignored. In the end, he had to be content with Olivier Giroud, Emerson Palmieri and Ross Barkley. Conte had nothing against Giroud, who proved to be a shrewd addition, or Emerson, but felt that, while United were pushing the boat out for Sanchez, Chelsea were trying to strengthen from the substitutes’ benches of Arsenal and Roma.

Once January passed and the transfer window had shut, Conte once again cut himself off from his employers and serious consideration was given to making a change after the embarrassing defeats to Bournemouth and Watford. Rather than sack him mid-season and land themselves with a huge compensation bill, Chelsea decided to see if they and Conte could ride out the storm together. But any hope of Champions League qualification was effectively eradicated by the successive defeats to Manchester United and City, when Conte’s tactics were widely condemned, along with his use of Eden Hazard as a false nine.

Hazard had been prepared to sacrifice himself for the supposed greater good up to that point, but sometime after the City loss the Belgian was pulled aside by Conte and had his commitment questioned. Chelsea have desperately been trying to convince Hazard to sign a new £300,000-a-week contract, but word quickly got round that he was becoming annoyed by his head coach and it showed on the pitch. More fall-outs were to follow, as Conte dropped Rudiger for giving a television interview in which he appeared to question the team’s approach and the former Juventus coach screamed at his squad that they were all “s***” during half-time in the Premier League victory over Southampton, in which Chelsea came back from two goals behind.

The FA Cup final success over United provided some consolation, but not even that could mask the disharmony in the background as Willian posted a picture on social media of the squad celebrating with carefully placed trophy emojis to hide Conte. Luiz and Willian would have never played for Chelsea again while Conte was in in charge and there is every likelihood others would have been frozen out as well. In his post-match press conference at Wembley, Conte repeated seven times ‘I can’t change’ which pretty much told Chelsea everything they needed to know and had Roman Abramovich reaching for the reset button once again - even if it took some time for him to press it.

 

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JimmyHoffa

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6 minutes ago, Cheeseweasel said:

Fuck you NBC. Fuck. You.

It's 20 less games over the course of the season that isn't a hell of a lot. The way I look at it the big clubs will still be on TV as much as they were last year and the lower table teams will be on less. If you are a fan of a lower table team you were going to buy the service anyway as it would be the only way to see your team play unless they were playing one of the top teams.

That said this is there way of eventually going to a "Sunday Ticket" type full season package. I still think it's funny we get better coverage in the US then those that live in the UK. 

 

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