The on topic thread 4.0

[TY24]

I would have Raya as the POTS. Had an amazing season.

Raya, Rice, Gabriel, Haaland, Semenyo all had better seasons and helped their sides lift silverware IMO.

I suspect Arsenal having 3 players in the running and taking votes off each other probably contributed to Bruno winning as well.

 

[glenferry23]

Raya, Rice, Gabriel, Haaland, Semenyo all had better seasons and helped their sides lift silverware IMO.

I suspect Arsenal having 3 players in the running and taking votes off each other probably contributed to Bruno winning as well.

I believe Rice has more wins this season than total games played for Bruno. Anyway, not too fussed about the individual awards. Arsenal won the league, that’s all I care about.

The conversation about the assists record though did remind me of about a decade ago with Ozil, the only thing to try and salvage from a season back then was for maybe Ozil to claim that assists record. And Arsenal fans were derided for how far the club has fallen that that’s the only thing to try and scrape. I remember that too, “at least Ozil got an assist” I used to think. How times have changed.

 

[RPCB]

It’s going to be frightening when he retires and is out of the football bubble and around strangers. Imagine how many people he’s going to go around biting.

 

[Cruyff14]

I would have Raya as the POTS. Had an amazing season.

This is the right answer.

 

[RPCB]

Bruno POTS... are they taking the piss?

He lifted us up to 3rd from where we were under Amorim. He certainly had a fantastic season deserving of the award and played out of his skin for the club.

But I can see why supporters of the winning club would be disappointed. As Chef said, Raya had a fantastic season and if not Bruno for us, then Raya definitely would have been a great choice. Anyway, one club won the league title and one came 3rd. I know which one you’d prefer even without your player winning POTS.

 

[TY24]

 

[Hamingja]

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They get to go to Coventry as well

 

[moomba]

Player of the season hasnt had a lot of value since Giggs won it imo.

 

[RPCB]

 

[CURVE]

Deportivo La Coruna have won promotion back to Spain’s top division after winning 2-0 at Valladolid this morning.



After 8 years in the lower tiers of Spanish football, and near administration, we're back. A great weekend for the Blue and White stripes.

 

[RossFC]

 

[RPCB]

Deportivo La Coruna have won promotion back to Spain’s top division after winning 2-0 at Valladolid this morning.


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After 8 years in the lower tiers of Spanish football, and near administration, we're back. A great weekend for the Blue and White stripes.

And still after all these years, I have never found a clip of Martin Tyler saying Deportivo La Coruna. And that makes me sad.

 

[RPCB]

It makes the season even more of a classic.

 

[ADL9798]

 

[moomba]

Just back from the parade after party. Was a really good occasion. Celebrations of the youf, women and mens teams successes and farewells to Stones, Bernardo and Pep.

Highlight was a player, staff member or fan bringing out a different one of the 20 trophies we won under Pep.

The likes of Kompany, Ederson, Fernandinho returning for the event. Not typically my thing bit I really enjoyed it.

 

[Jatz]

I absolutely love Cesc, will always be one of my favourite people in football.

 

[Frank Bunn]

Estádio Nacional is a strange stadium. Only 37,000 capacity but the fans are miles away from the pitch. No roofs on the stands and one side is completely open. It's where Celtic won the European Cup in 1967, the team becoming known as the Lisbon Lions.

 

[Bradesmaen]

Estádio Nacional is a strange stadium. Only 37,000 capacity but the fans are miles away from the pitch. No roofs on the stands and one side is completely open. It's where Celtic won the European Cup in 1967, the team becoming known as the Lisbon Lions.

I mean it's not strange, it was built as an athletics track, hence National Stadium. Wembley was originally built as an athletics track, as was Berlin's Olympiastadion.

 

[Frank Bunn]

I mean it's not strange, it was built as an athletics track, hence National Stadium. Wembley was originally built as an athletics track, as was Berlin's Olympiastadion.

It's strange to have a national stadium with only 37,000 capacity and one side completely open.

The original Wembley was always multi-purpose. Football, athletics, it later was used for dog racing. It always had a high capacity. Officially 127,000 for the 1923 FA Cup final but there are estimates of between 240,000 and over 300,000 at that game. Absolute crazy stuff.

 

[Bradesmaen]

It's strange to have a national stadium with only 37,000 capacity and one side completely open.

The original Wembley was always multi-purpose. Football, athletics, it later was used for dog racing. It always had a high capacity. Officially 127,000 for the 1923 FA Cup final but there are estimates of between 240,000 and over 300,000 at that game. Absolute crazy stuff.

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Lisbon's population isn't exactly huge now in comparison to Wembley now. Lisbon at the time of construction was 700k approx. London was 7.5 million. So the question becomes, why wasn't Wembley built to hold 370k.

 

[TheGreatBarryB]

Watched the Bundesliga playoff game this morning while getting ready. Second tier team Paderborn beat Wolfsburg who were relegated for first time ever.

Wolfsburg scored first after five minutes and then 10 minutes later had a guy sent off. Not one Paderborn player had Bundesliga experience and Eriksen leading Wolves. So Wolfsburg go ultra defensive after 15 mins with one man down. Paderborn equalise before half time and them score the winner 10 minutes into extra time. By this time they have 35 scoring shots to Wolfsburg’s two shots. 18 corners to one. Wolfsburg then decide to attack and nearly score 3 times. You are the far superior team and go into your shell being a man down. Don’t understand it .