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[Scum]

Celtic, pls.

Football is BACK TODAY BITCHES

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We signed ex Stevo winger Filipe Morais. Foreign name, must be good.

YES! Blackburn vs Cardiff, isn't it?

 

[King_Moc]

The Daily Mail have a full article about Wes Brown's wife using coupons for Legoland.

I've never seen such incredible scraping of the barrel...

Why shouldn't she? Ridiculous story.

 

[DBT85]

Only just realised that they weren't even just chucked out, Celtic were given a 3-0 win as per the rules and Celtic won on away goals.

 

[Linius]

The Daily Mail have a full article about Wes Brown's wife using coupons for Legoland.

I've never seen such incredible scraping of the barrel...

Why the fuck should anyone care if they use coupons. Holiday season is the worst for papers.

 

[kmag]

I'm not a Legia supporter but lol, that was an absolutely ridiculous decision by UEFA. Especially that something EXCATLY like that happened some years ago (Debrecen vs Litex) and then it was just a financial fine. If I were Legia I would sue UEFA ass into oblivion. An just another insult to injtury that it all that talk from them about Fair Play. Fair Play my ass.

The Debrecen player was an ineligible player, he hadn't been included in Debrecen's UEFA Cup squad, he was not suspended. The last example of a suspended player being played was Arsenal Kyiv vs ND Mura 05 and that ended up a 3-0 forfeit as well (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19179117)

And if you want to know why, it's because that's the actual rule

Article 21 - Forfeit
If a match cannot take place or cannot be played in full, the member association or club responsible forfeits the match. 2
A match is declared forfeit if a player who has been suspended following a
disciplinary decision participates in the match. 3
A match may be declared forfeit if a player who is ineligible under the regulations of the competition concerned participates in the match, as long as the opposing team files a protest. 4
The consequences of a match being declared forfeit are as follows:
a) the team forfeiting the match is deemed to have lost 3-0 (5-0 in futsal
competitions), unless the actual result is less favourable to the member
association or club at fault, in which case that result stands;
b) if necessary, the UEFA administration amends the member association or
clubÂ’s ranking in the relevant competition accordingly. 5
If a match is declared forfeit, offences committed during the match remain
punishable.
http://www.ecaeurope.com/Legal/UEFA%...ons 2013.pdf

There's no wiggle room for playing a suspended player, there is for playing an ineligible player. You can't play a player who is suspended even for a couple of minutes. I think if people take a breath and have a think about it you'll understand why. It's the club's responsibility to keep track of player suspension.

Shitty for Legia in this case that the forfeit punishment (which is set in stone as above) just happened to put them out the tie.

 

[Sviatoslav]

Great draw for Liège. Russia vs Belgium part 2.

Liege would get worked over by all 5 possible opponents. No such thing as a great draw here.

 

[BlindCommunication]

Zulte played against a team from Belarus. Bruges played against a Danish team and Standard against Greeks.

Am I missing a Belgian team here?

Nope that's it, I was referring to the World Cup game.

Liege would get worked over by all 5 possible opponents. No such thing as a great draw here.

Wait until Witsel scores 5 own goals!

 

[Ushojax]

Only just realised that they weren't even just chucked out, Celtic were given a 3-0 win as per the rules and Celtic won on away goals.

And Legia missed two penalties in the first leg, both by the same player. He must want to kill himself right now.

 

[Mac_Lane]

Well, Porto isn't the worst draw for Lille.

Hope they make it through, just to have a 3rd French team in the group phase and to better our UEFA coefficient versus Portugal's.

 

[Lightning]

And Legia missed two penalties in the first leg, both by the same player. He must want to kill himself right now.

Why? Not any players fault the club broke the rules. Club only have themselves to blame.

 

[Sviatoslav]

Wait until Witsel scores 5 own goals!

That's still not enough to cancel out the two upcoming Kerzhakov hattricks.

 

[CrashBandicoot]

Vladimir Weiss @VladiW7 · 31m

Un fuckin believable.. Got raped 6:1!!! Should never be allowed to play champions league after that.. Embarrassing #fuckceltic #watp

Pls come back Vlad

 

[Salvadora]

Travelling to Turkey and then away beyond the wall to Everton in the same week will be tough.

 

[Ushojax]

Why? Not any players fault the club broke the rules. Club only have themselves to blame.

If he had scored one of those penalties then Legia would go through. They weren't expelled from the competition, they simply forfeited the second leg 3-0 having won the firt leg 4-1. Celtic go through thanks to the away goal, 4-4 on aggregate.

 

[Scum]

Why? Not any players fault the club broke the rules. Club only have themselves to blame.

If he'd score both pelanties, Legia will still be in it. 6-4 on agg.

Travelling to Turkey and then away beyond the wall to Everton in the same week will be tough.

You'll face a worse atmosphere at Everton than in Turkey.

 

[Lightning]

Travelling to Turkey and then away beyond the wall to Everton in the same week will be tough.

Yeah. I'd leave Ozil and co out of the trip to Turkey though and save them for Everton. The home game against Palace I don't believe our German players are playing anyway so gives good rest,

 

[Mr Cola]

Travelling to Turkey and then away beyond the wall to Everton in the same week will be tough.

Some clubs would dream of it

 

[Labadal]

Besiktas vs Arsenal
Standard Liege vs Zenit
FC Copenhagen vs Bayer Leverkusen
Lille vs Porto
Napoli vs Athletic Bilbao
Maribor vs Celtic
Red Bull Salzburg vs Malmo
Aalborg vs APOEL
Steaua Bucharest vs Ludogorets
Slovan Bratislava vs BATE

Oh fuck, I need to go to the Malmö game. It's embarrassing that Swedish hasn't showed their games on TV.

 

[Facism]

shiiet Arsenal got Besiktas? Play your B-team and win 3 - 0.

 

[Kosma]

Nice for Arsenal.

 

[Lightning]

Well, wooden buddy, going to back your team against Neverkusen too. Knock them out.

 

[Clegg]

Still time left but no-one on LvG's list has been bought yet and a few have slipped the net.

Wooders playing for his future here.

Woodward wouldn't get sacked if he fucked up.

The Glazer's love him.

 

[Broder Salsa]

Thanks! She'll need Office when doing group jobs and stuff I believe, for easier sharing and editing between members, and the equation editor in it. It's "only" €70 for four years for students anyway.

You think photo editing/Photoshop works well with the trackpad?



Fuck PCs right now. I hate Apple too and worked my ass off finding a PC laptop that has a good screen, i5 CPU and SSD. With SSD you're up at €600, but those screens are giant pieces of shit, shit brightness and no angles. Then you need to get up to €800-900 for an Asus Zenbook that has an almost acceptable screen, but then there's some other issues. I'm pissed off, how hard is it for HP, Lenovo, Samsung Asus etc to get some logic behind their product lines. Half of the sites tries to sell you on 2 year old models, it's a jungle.

Students can currently get the new 13" Macbook Pro for ~€1000, they have some good offer right now (not sure if worldwide).

I'm looking for a new laptop atm too, I just want it to be able to run photoshop decently and maybe FM. But it is a fucking jungle. I would like a windows pc but it looks like Apple is the best way for my budget, yoga 2 looks pretty slick (and dat resolution), but battery time doesn't seem too hot which is one of the more important things for me.

Well, wooden buddy, going to back your team against Neverkusen too. Knock them out.

Thanks. I hope we can do it, but at the moment it's doubtful we can even field a team as the players seems to be going on strike from monday lol.

 

[Tc91]

Still time left but no-one on LvG's list has been bought yet and a few have slipped the net.

Wooders playing for his future here.

Time will tell, I have faith in the Wooders-Gahl partnership.

 

[Mr.Marston]

BBC Sport ✔ @BBCSport

.@Arsenal agree a fee of around £15m with Barcelona for the sale of captain Thomas Vermaelen

Holy shit 15 million haha

 

[Kosma]

Seriously fuck the Uefa and Fifa guys

I'm so gutted

 

[Salvadora]

Holy shit 15 million haha

I'm still in disbelief.

Injury prone, last year of contract, rarely plays, desperate to leave.

 

[Vivalaraza]

Mathieu and Vermaelen. At least they’re signing CB’s, I suppose.

 

[Mastadon]

Fuck that means we have to keep Agger

 

[L1NETT]

15m?

Wowza

Forget Mccormack, that is the maddest transfer of the window

 

[Feorax]

Fuck that means we have to keep Agger

He'll go to Napoli in the next couple of weeks.

 

[KidA Seven]

KidA - apparently the United coaches are expecting big things from Harrop this year. Started to impress towards the end of last season. They think he's the most gifted player in the u21 squad this season.

I didn't watch him much last season - gonna try to see more games this year. Wilson has made it. Need a new kid to muppet out on.

I'm on it bro.

@ManUtd 52s
#mufc reserves vs Manchester City: J Pereira; Vermijl, McNair, Thorpe, Varela; Janko, Pearson, Rothwell, Lawrence; A Pereira; Wilson.

Subs. Harrop. O'hara. Goss Willock. C. Evans


Harrop and Goss are talented players too who just made the step up to the u21s. I see both as potentially being squad players in the future if their development goes well. Goss is basically another carrick. He's slow, but can score long range goals and has games where his passing is great like Carrick in his best years.

 

[phaze]

Holy shit 15 million haha

Well, all the best to him.

 

[Lightning]

I'm still in disbelief.

Injury prone, last year of contract, rarely plays, desperate to leave.

Basically same price as Chambers. Chambers was SOOOO over priced. NOT.

 

[Mastadon]

He'll go to Napoli in the next couple of weeks.

Yeah but Napoli are broke.

 

[Feorax]

Yeah but Napoli are broke.

They're selling Fernandez to Swansea though.

Edit: our back line in training today was Manquillo, Skrtel, Lovren, Johnson. Interesting.

 

[TeddyBoy]

Fuck that means we have to keep Agger

Agger to Arsenal for £20m.

Apparently our defenders in training today are

Johnson - Lovren - Sktrel - Manquillo

From left to right.

Johnson is still playing, Rodgers why? :'(

 

[sohois]

Agger to Arsenal for £20m.

Apparently our defenders in training today are

Johnson - Lovren - Sktrel - Manquillo

From left to right.

Johnson is still playing, Rodgers why? :'(

Flanno and Enrique both picked up injuries in preseason and Moreno isn't here yet.

 

[Godan]

So we are getting back like half of what we paid for sanchez.


Put another £10M to that Arsene and get Hummels pls

 

[CrunchyB]

FC Twente - FK Qarabağ

Allrighty then

 

[Mr.Marston]

So we are getting back like half of what we paid for sanchez.


Put another £10M to that Arsene and get Hummels pls

Absolutely no chance of that.

 

[Frank the Great]

Is @barcastuff reliable? He says we are about to sign Song. That comes out of fucking nowhere.

Loan with option to buy of course. I guess he can't be worse than Messien.

 

[Salvadora]

Graeme Bailey @GraemeBailey
Man United covering themselves over Vermaelen by saying they pulled out, strange they did that only after learning of Vermaelen's decision..

 

[brokenbeans]

Hummels it is then.

 

[El Topo]

Hummels it is then.

You better prepare £40m then.

 

[TeddyBoy]

Flanno and Enrique both picked up injuries in preseason and Moreno isn't here yet.

The season hasn't even begun and it feels like half the team is injured. At this rate we'll end up keeping Borini to make up the numbers >.>

 

[brokenbeans]

You better prepare £40m then.

I would be fine with that.

 

[K1LLER7]

Arsenal wanted Smalling included in the Verm to United deal. United refused.

According to Tanc, United bid €18m, which caused Barca to up the bid to €19m. Arsenal getting a good deal.


Other rumours that Cuadrado/His Agent will meet United today and things will be more concrete over the weekend.

 

[Mr Cola]

Hummels it is then.

I hope our war chest is big because our current linkage puts us over 200m :S

 

[LNBL]

It seems Bakkali wants to extend his contract after all and PSV is close to signing Rekik on loan for another season.