Round ball code talk

[Grave Danger]

They managed a 1-1 draw with Argie giants Boca Juniors overnight and scored both goal themselves! Boca had already been eliminated from the next round, so probably couldn't give a Trump.

 

[Grave Danger]

Last trophy chance for Man City just disappeared with an extra time loss to Saudi side Al-Hilal in the Club World Cup. Still, Pep might be happy to be going home after having a whinge about the CWC "destroying" his players...

FIFA accused of player welfare 'massacre' as Guardiola blasts Club World Cup

Pep Guardiola believes playing at the Club World Cup has the potential to leave Manchester City players "destroyed" when it comes to the upcoming Premier League season.

www.abc.net.au

 

[dirty2]

Last trophy chance for Man City just disappeared with an extra time loss to Saudi side Al-Hilal in the Club World Cup. Still, Pep might be happy to be going home after having a whinge about the CWC "destroying" his players...

FIFA accused of player welfare 'massacre' as Guardiola blasts Club World Cup

Pep Guardiola believes playing at the Club World Cup has the potential to leave Manchester City players "destroyed" when it comes to the upcoming Premier League season.

www.abc.net.au

Poor man city... Anyways.

 

[dirty2]

EPL fa cup ect moving over to Stan sport.

 

[EskimoPAFC]

I don't understand this at all. Why does this suggest you should split them? It suggests the exact opposite no? The problem is that NZ and Auckland get free rides because they're in Pacific. They don't make it in if they have to fight it out for a spot with FC Tokyo.

 

[Duckimus Prime]

I don't understand this at all. Why does this suggest you should split them? It suggests the exact opposite no? The problem is that NZ and Auckland get free rides because they're in Pacific. They don't make it in if they have to fight it out for a spot with FC Tokyo.

Auckland City aren't qualifying throught the Asian Confederation, they're qualifying through the Oceania. So they beat the top clubs from Solomon Islands, Fiji. And it ridiculously even misses the top New Zealand players, because they'd be in the two A League teams.

Simon Hill's suggestion is to dump the Oceania Confederation entirely and then split Asia into two. So the Pacific Asian teams like Japan, Korea, China, Singapore, Australia.

Would also mean that Australia gets to dodge Iran etc...

 

[EskimoPAFC]

Auckland City aren't qualifying throught the Asian Confederation, they're qualifying through the Oceania. So they beat the top clubs from Solomon Islands, Fiji. And it ridiculously even misses the top New Zealand players, because they'd be in the two A League teams.

Simon Hill's suggestion is to dump the Oceania Confederation entirely and then split Asia into two. So the Pacific Asian teams like Japan, Korea, China, Singapore, Australia.

Would also mean that Australia gets to dodge Iran etc...

Ah thank you, the bolded is the part I didnt understand. I thought he was just suggesting to push Australia back to Oceania.

Id be pretty disappointed with this as I feel like we'd lose our rivalries with Syria and KSA in particular.

For mine there should just be Asia Pacific. The smaller countries like Vanuatu would all disappear in early rounds based on ranking.

 

[GremioPower]

You won’t see that other club in town posting about Ozzy. This is why:

 

[Grave Danger]

New manager, but same old Spurs - had a 2 goal lead over PSG late into the second half of the UEFA SooperDooper Cup, but conceded in the 85th and 94th minute, then lost the penalty shoot-out after leading that too!

 

[EskimoPAFC]

EPL being back reminds me that at least I support one successful club

 

[EskimoPAFC]

Szoboszlai is a god. That's all.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Had a quick look at the winners of top level of English football and including 2nd places its;

Man U 20-17
Liverpool 20-15
Arsenal 13-12
Man C 10-6
Evert 9-7

Man U won 13 titles in the first 21 seasons of the Premier League

1992–93, 1993–94, 1995–96, 1996–97, 1998–99, 1999–2000,
2000–01, 2002–03, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2010–11, 2012–13

Finished 2nd 4 times in those 21 seasons
1994-95, 1997-98, 2009-10, 2011-12

Liverpool won 11 titles in 19 seasons near the end of the old Division 1 League
1972–73, 1975–76, 1976–77, 1978–79, 1979–80, 1981–82,
1982–83, 1983–84, 1985–86, 1987–88, 1989–90,

Finished 2nd 6 times in those 19 seasons
1973-74, 1974-75, 1977-78, 1984-85, 1986-87, 1988-89

The last 2 years of Div 1, winners were Arsenal 1990-91, Leeds United 1991-92
Liverpool finished 2nd in 1990-91 and Man U in 1991-92

Its a classic case of when both Man U and Liverpool were hot, they were really hot for 2 decades.

With the amount of money involved and 4 or 5 other teams chipping away its highly unlikely a team will have such a dominate 2 decade run like these 2 teams had.

Man City have had a big 15 years but not nearly as successful as above 2. The next 5 to 7 seasons might say otherwise.

Won 8 titles in last 14 seasons
2011–12, 2013–14, 2017–18, 2018–19, 2020–21, 2021–22,
2022–23, 2023–24

Finished 2nd 3 times in those 14 seasons
2012-13, 2014-15, 2019-20

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Ange is back baby.







Independent Italian sports journalist Fabrizio Romano released the story 2 hours before Nottingham Forest's tweet above.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Ange had 2 things going for him.

1. He knows the owner Greek businessman Evangelos "Vangelis" Marinakis. Marinakis is a billionaire involved in shipping and media, as well as owning Greece's most successful football club Olympiacos.

2. Sacked coach Nuno Espírito Santo recently came out and attacked Marinakis. Nottingham finished 7th in 2024-25, so they are playing in the Europa League this season.

Not sure if that means 2026-27 is Ange's 2nd season to win a trophy or just his first full season, given Nottingham have already played 3 games and he didn't get to have a pre-season with his players and plays a different style to Nuno's counter attacking game plan.


As I type this Nuno was sacked 15 hours ago in this short and to the point official announcement.

Club Statement: Nuno Espírito Santo

The Official Website of Nottingham Forest Football Club: get the latest news, highlights, fixtures and results, tickets and more.

www.nottinghamforest.co.uk

And Nottingham Forest's official announcement was just over 2 hours ago.

Forest appoint Ange Postecoglou as Head Coach

The Official Website of Nottingham Forest Football Club: get the latest news, highlights, fixtures and results, tickets and more.

www.nottinghamforest.co.uk

 

[jac147]

Ange had 2 things going for him.

1. He knows the owner Greek businessman Evangelos "Vangelis" Marinakis. Marinakis is a billionaire involved in shipping and media, as well as owning Greece's most successful football club Olympiacos.

2. Sacked coach Nuno Espírito Santo recently came out and attacked Marinakis. Nottingham finished 7th in 2024-25, so they are playing in the Europa League this season.

Not sure if that means 2026-27 is Ange's 2nd season to win a trophy or just his first full season, given Nottingham have already played 3 games and he didn't get to have a pre-season with his players and plays a different style to Nuno's counter attacking game plan.


As I type this Nuno was sacked 15 hours ago in this short and to the point official announcement.

Club Statement: Nuno Espírito Santo

The Official Website of Nottingham Forest Football Club: get the latest news, highlights, fixtures and results, tickets and more.

www.nottinghamforest.co.uk

And Nottingham Forest's official announcement was just over 2 hours ago.

Forest appoint Ange Postecoglou as Head Coach

The Official Website of Nottingham Forest Football Club: get the latest news, highlights, fixtures and results, tickets and more.

www.nottinghamforest.co.uk

Tell me this REH, is the Head Coach still called the Manager? It appears in the EPL some teams have a manager who is the head honcho. So what is the Head Coach? So is Ange the head honcho?

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Tell me this REH, is the Head Coach still called the Manager? It appears in the EPL some teams have a manager who is the head honcho. So what is the Head Coach? So is Ange the head honcho?

As far as I know, Manager is the title in EPL that we give for head coach in AFL. He is the bloke that walks up his restricted area on the side lines and makes all the big decisions.

 

[SonOfKek]

Nobody will remember this but Martin Jol looked Super independent Chalmers. It was way back when Spurs were an absolute shambles and the laughing stock of the le..... Oh no.

 

[dirty2]

Forest with a big test against us gooners tomorrow night....

*At least Ange isn't coaching a club I hate this time.

 

[GremioPower]

After EIGHT games, Gremio has finally won a derby!



The ref gave them THREE PKs, the b*st*rd!

[Bonus] I know some here like this kind of stuff. A video on the derbies of my youth (we thought they were soft back then ):

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

I linked this report in the Burgess thread as the question was asked about how much Juventus would be paying him for his new job.

THE NXT LEVEL GROUP
Salary Benchmarking, English Premier League 2024-25

It looks at salaries for EPL managers and Euro National teams and then about 15 different job salary ranges for;

Premiership Football Club
Championship Football Club
Centre of Excellence
National Team

https://thenxtlevelgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/UK-Football-Salary-Benchmarking-2024-25-TNLG.pdf

 

[Grave Danger]

West Ham's Graham Potter has become the second EPL manager to be sacked so far this season. His possible replacement is touted to be the first one who was sacked - Ange's predecessor at Forest, Nuno Espirito Santo

 

[dirty2]

Potter should of stayed at Brighton... Oh well.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Another lose for Ange's side. That's 6 games across 3 comps without a win. He will get the arse soon if he doesn't start winning.

 

[Holden Hillbilly]

UEFA have approved these La Liga and Serie A matches to be played OUTSIDE Europe! Villarreal vs Barcelona in Miami, USA

Como vs AC Milan in Perth, Australia

Italy’s Serie A decided to stage the encounter between AC Milan and Como on February 8 in Perth, Australia, to avoid a clash with the Winter Olympics opening ceremony at Milan’s San Siro stadium.

 

[Grave Danger]

He's getting sacked in the mo-orning. Actually it's the early afternoon game, so he might not see out the day...